Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-25
CONCERNING PROGRESS.

The Tribune hopes that Salt Lake
City will be sold once more 70 the little
clique OF party manipulators who in the.
past have made the City the scene of
religious strife and hatred. who have
dotted the business portion with dram
shops and dens OF infamy. and filled
the streets with scarlet vice, and pros
pered on graft II hopes TO c,ttch votes
for a continuatiaa OF this deplorabIe
condition, by telling people that tho
city did not progress under Church
control" as under American" rule.
Let us say, In the first place, that the
City never was under Church control"
That Is an expression which the Tri-
bune the organ OF the father OF false
hood. has used so frequently that It's
dope-soalSed dupes have almost taken
II for granted. The Church is an &C.
clesiastieal Organization and has never
attempted to control the city or the
State. II Is true the first organization
in this Valley was ecclesiastical. and It
necessarily took some time before the
City could BE- Incorporated. but after
the organization OF the municipality the
Church never tried TO dominate. or con-
troll the City. II Is true. also. that for
years the greater majority Of the c.tl-
zens were members OF the Mormon"
Church, but they recognized the dis
tinction between their duties as Church
members and citizens, and the Church
did not coNtrol In civic affairs That
Is the truth that viii have 10 De rooog-
nized in the interest Of harmony and
good viii.
Salt lake city was incorporated I'm
1851. and IN the ordisance OF incorpora-
ton IL was expressly provided that the
mayor and aldermen shall have cxclu-
sive jurisdiction In all cases arising
under the ordinances OF tho corpora
| ton" That excluded both Church ana
an other improper control The Tu-
buno Is simply lying 10 catch VOTES.
when II speaks Of Church control OF
municipal affairs
let us say. further that this city
progressed with almost miraculous ra-
pidity during the FIRST Is years Of It's
existence, under the rule of the enter
prising empire builders whom she Trl-
bune scurilously refers 20 az "nross
backs" 70 ~ true they could not be-
gin by laying cement sidewalks and
sewers but they did what they could
rhov built "a fort and raised over II
thc stars and Stripes They went back
10 toe Missouri river 10 fetch now set
tlers And hv and hy they went 10
the eastern states ana EurUpe for homo
seekers They fought savages and
| grusshoppors Tho divided their scany.
ty provisions Of bread with one another
until an abundant harvest brought
plenty 10 Am They organized a gov
eminent and they spread ont from salt
Lake valley 90 Davis county Weber
county Utah county. Tooele county
sanpote COUNT etc. They built iniga.
tion bitches and roads. school HOUSE.
and houses Of worship. and planned N,
Temple the Theatcr ana other puhli,
buildings ON magnificent scale. On
1865 they had constructed 211 canals
a13 s62 rods in length, al "a cost of a..
l66,s59. "A tho same time there wen,
under construction canals 10 the yalu,
Of ss11o. IN 1859 they had ii6 saw
and 90 grist mills bon operation. Amonl
tho public buildings were the Dessert
State House built in 1880. the Uial
Territorial House az Fillmore. the Tab.
efnaclo ln This city the Court Hous
the Cty HAN and tho Thoator The
organ On tho Tabernacle is another
monument 90 iho enterprise OF The carls
settlers. whom the Tribune honors b,
calling thom "mosshacks Talk of
improvements The work done iho lasl
! fen years is very Insignificant com.