The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-09
Prominent Salt Laker Gives The
Stroller Some Interesting
Facts on Subject.
WHO ARE ERECTING THE
GREAT SKYSCRAPERS HERE?
Who Have Faith in Zion, and
Show That Faith by
Work?

"Whan the American party took con-
troll of Salt Lake City eighteen months
ago and the world at large learned that
the city was to be managed by Ameri-
cans and in the interest of the people
and not in the interest of church, as
had been done in the past, an immigra-
tion to Salt Lake was begun and it has
kept up ever SINCE said a wei" known
Salt Laker to The Stroller yesterday.
'lt is safe to say that Salt Lake City
now has a population of 100000 These
newcomers are largely American free
men, not the kind that the dominant
church brought in, and is still bringing
into Utah.
"'The advent Of the American party
was the beginning of an era of i'm
proyement of all kinds, both of A pub
lie and private character. Nothing like
it was ever before known and the re-
suit is city that is being rapidly mod
ernlZed.
''The knockers, the church crowd
aided by the Jack Mormons, have done
everything in their power to retard the
growth of the city. They have ham.
mered and pounded III every way pos
sible to keep people away from Salt
Lake, Having done nothing while they
controlled the city except TO waste III
most eXtravagaut way the funds
which the people paid in the way of
taxes, they hoped and prayed that the
American party would trail along In
the same way.
''Their hopes. however, were not
realized. The American administration
at once applied business methods when
they took possession and those methods
have prevailed since and will so con
tinue while they are IN control of city
affairs.
Big improvements
Gas was said in your columns yes
terday. never before in the history of
Salt Lake has there been improvement
on such a great scale in Salt Lake as
now. This applies to private as we'll
as TO public Improvement. On the
streets an army of men are at work
undermining Zion and that. too, with
out running the city into debt a single
dollar This is where the business meth
ods of the administration are shown.
"The knockers during the last ses-
sion of the Legislature sought to tie
the hands of the American party by
having legislation enacted that would
stop public improvement Laws were
enacted with this end in view. But the
knockers miscalculated Improvement
still goes on Taxpayers are not howl
ing: they are not making objection. The
hue and cry raised against the Amerl-
can administration comes from the
knockers, made up of the Federal bunch
from the organ of the church. the Deseret
News. and from the Smoot 'mouth -
and the hierarchy. This quartette is
bowling but the march of Improvement
still goes on and will continue. You
can t keep a. good town down
"And by the way who is it that Is
building and making Salt Lake City a
modern city-not the knockers7 Who
then9 Why Americans are doing it.
Men and women who believe in law and
obey it. Not by persons who support
a gang of law-breakers, law.deters and
polygamists. That is not the class of
people who are building up Salt Lake,
''Show me, and ! am not from Mis-
souri, either, what Improvement, what
great building, what small building has
been erected or is being erected IN Salt
Lake by the crowd who control the
Smoot Emouth - Where is the improve
ment going on that Is backed up or the
money furnished by the Federal bQnch'
You II have to show me-
.'Who expended two million dollars
in Salt Lake City the past year in put
ting in a great gas plant? Not the
Knockers Not the Federal bunch. Not
the hierarchy. But il was done by
American citizens who have faith in
Salt Lake.
"Who is expendlng millions of dol
lars in rebuilding and reconstructing
traction system for Iion9 Not the
Federal bunch not the hierarchy. not
the l1nocker. No; but by Americans III
the East who have faith in Salt Lake
Building of skyscrapers.
''Wbo is expeuding three quarters
Of a million dollars in great sky
scrapcr on the corner of Third South
and Main street, Not the Federal
bunchl Not the gang who peel us for
the Smoot "mouth'il Not the knocke
Not the band of twentysiX headed by
the hierarch Who is doing ite why
an American woman, whose wealth
came from Utah mines developed and
worked by Americans who show their
faith in Salt Lake along with this good
woman by investing millions IN up
building and improving Salt Lake City.
"Who is building great siy.scrapers
on Main street between Third and
Fourth South streetsl Who is opening
up blocks of ground? Who is making
streets7 Who is to build great hotel
on the southwest corner of Main and
Fourth South streets7 Who is aiding
in the modernization Of Salt Lakc2
Well, not the Federal bunch; not the
gang who contribute to the fund TO
Keep the Smoot "mouth' going; not
Che Knockers; not the hierarchy. Who
is doing it9 Why, n man who made
his wealth IN the mines of Colorado,
Utah and Nevada and who has faith in
Salt Lake
"You don't hear any howl from the
class of people who are building up
Salt Lake They are content, They
do not believe that the American ad-
ministration will bankrupt Salt Lake
City or that it is running Salt Lake
City into debt. OF course, you don IT,
Nor you Will not They know what
they are doing. They have faith in the
American administration. They have
faith in Salt Lake City and they show
their faith by their works.
Ono, no. These calamity howIers
who have no interest in Salt Lake City
except what they can graft, so to
speak, III the way of salaries or tithes
make me -dreadfully tired,