The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-18
HOW THEY HATE THE CITY!

How the organs of the Mormon priest
hood do hate Salt Lake City! We called
attention yesterday morning to the ras
cslly course of the main church organ
the Deseret News, in stating that the
name of every transient and every hobo
WIS counted To swell the figures for
Salt Lake City, and its sneer that IN
order to get the population the city
had to annex part OF the surrounding
district on The south with some thou
sands OF Inhabitants. the truth being
that this annexation WIS not sought by
the city but by the districts that were
annexed; the people there seeing the
benefits of American rule in the city
wished to ENJOY their portion of them
limits. In every ease this was so. In
no ease did the city seek to annex any
outlying territory. And so this dis
poses of one calumny of the chief
church organ.
That organ does not seem TO sense the
fact that when it alleges that the cen
sus of this city was padded by the in
clusion of hoboeS and transients. it is
moi only lying, but is directly assailing
the work and character of Mr.. McMil-
lin, superintendent of the census. We
do not believe that Mr.. McM:lln is
Justly subject to any such assault as
this. We believe that his enumeration
was honest and fair, There is no reason
why it should not have been right, for
the law and instructions under which
ward. plain, and lust. His work was
SUBJ iect to the criticism and revisisn of
the census office, and from the Wig
lance of that office as displayed in the
fact that II has challenged the census
results whenever they seemed TO be
questionable, and has ordered rc.enu-
merations in the case of several cities.
ii is rs uDwarrantable as 1T is
unjust TO bring this sort of accusation
against Mr.. McMillin. We do not be
or of fair character and honesty would
bring any such accusation as this
a gainst Utah s census superintendent.
None would do so except professional
and liar like the editor of
the Deseret News.
The other church organ. the morning
Smoot paper, is quarreling also with
the census and undertaking 10 show
that the city did not show marked gain,
but that the county is especially to be
l,I h, Inn, g., ,th ha-
apparently than that il defeated the
American party in the recent campa ign.
Of course, it is known that always and
everywhere the region around a great
and fast growing city also progresses
fast bv reason of that city's growth. A
always invites a heavy subur-
ban population and stimulates activity
and accelerates growth in the territory
Immediately around about it. This is
true not only of Salt Lake City, but of
every growing city, So that what ger
is claimed for the county is Justly and
fairly to be credited chiefly 10 Salt
Lake City on the general rule Indicated,
that metropolis always attracts and
the country Immediately around it al
ways grows.
1t is astonishing TO sec how eager the
church organs are to tear down Salt
Lake and to show that its growth was
nothing TO brag about; that it ought to
have been more and that some other
locality shows better and more salts
factory progress. The church writer's
and organs were entirely satisfied here
tofore when Salt Lake City gained only
a few thousands in the decennial peri
DDS. There was nothing In the least to
complain of, from their point of view,
when Salt Lake City gained III the de-
ccnpnial period between 1890 to 1900
only S6SS, or from 44.S43 to 53 ,53l But
when il gains IN the next ten-year peri
od between 1900 and 1910. the total of
SO .246, or from 53 ,53l to 92,777, what an
outrageous roar is set up! All sorts of
grumbling, criticism. and complaint is
made. and silly claims are set up either
in behalf of what might have been or of
some other unit of population.
All of that grumbling and complaint
oiulpIN anu SPONTANEOUSLY the OUT
growth Of political partisan mendacity
and discomfort. The American admin
stration sof tbs city, which was de-
nounced. as disastrou and destructive,
turns out to have been most splendidly
beneficial. Nothing in the whole history
of the city in the least compares with
it. American administration not only
has gained for the city 1873 per cent in
population in the ten years, but it has
pulled up the county along with it in an
sppreciable degree, Just as would natur.
ally be expected. and as always is the
case in a large and growing city. 1t
is impossible that a city should grow
and become great without the region i'm
mediately around it partaking in that
growth, SO that so far from the growth
of the county detracting from the
growth of the city, even from the biased
and malignant standpoint of the Smoot
organ, that very growth of the county
is a credit to the city and is the re
suit Of the city s splendid and vital