The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-30
FOR THE GOOD OF THE STATE.

FOR THE GOOD OF THE STATE.
A very extensive campaign Of getting
acquainted in Utah has been arranged
by members of the Commercial club.
One effect of it is going to be the Gull
tivation of unity of sentiment among
the people of the state; better famili-
aFity the one with another; the closer
knit allegiance of every Titan interest
10 every other Utah interest before and
beyond all the rest of the world.
And of that there shall be no criti-
cism here.
But
The money to be spent in exploiting
in the next five years, outside of such
necessary cultivation Of friendships as
immediate demands compel, should be
directed TO that territory outside of the
state. Whether the move in that grand
campaign Of teaching the rest of the
world what is Utah, or whether il will
have to be done by other-or others; or
whether it will have to be left undone
entirely, are things which The Herald
Republican doesn't propose to declare
But the work of value to the state
must be done outside the state. And
it will take a lot of money.
1t will take the best ability the peo-
pie of Utah can assemble; the best sa-
gacity they can produce; the best
courage they know-and there should
be no trouble in that direction; the best
personalities. and the best showing Of
truth that the good God gives into the
hands of men TO advance.
Listen.
The rest of the United States doesn't
Ike Utah.
or course. the rest of the United
states doesn't damn everything ano
everybody and by every god, as once
was the case. OF course, the nation
has named a battieship for the state.
OF course, the nation has permitted
Utah to send to the Senate the man of
its choice, and has left him there. OF
course-and of course.
But the average people of the United
States do not like Utah. Get that into
your consciousness strong.
You talk TO an average eastern man
on the train. You say good word for
Utah, and he looks at you doubtfully.
You say a fair word for the Mormons,
and he gets out of the conversation as
soon as he can and goes back to his
wife, and tells her again the story Of
his life, rather than listen to anything
farther in simple justice and kind ap-
probation of a great people
Thinking men and women Of the
United States. it is fair TO say, have a
better idea of Utah than they even
have had before. The battleship and
the Senator mean something to them.
There is a break in the wall of an
tipathy. That break, il is the duty Of
the people to widen. They must make
the people know the Utah we have
here. When they do know it, they viii
not fly to arms against everything or
anything in the state at every mention
of Utah. The area of calm estimate
will broaden. The sea Of kindly Sldg- !
ment viii deepen. And out of the wider
and deeper flood win come the thou |
sands of good men and good women OF |
every church and no church. of every |
state and from beyond the states, to /
make of themselves fellow citizens Of
Utah.
You all remember the inaugural adj
dress Of Governor spry. There was
paper that should stand among the /
great state documents of all the COM
monweaiths. 1t spoke so broad a eiti-
zenship. so profound a patriotism. so
spacious a brotherhood and so splen-
did hope for the whole people Of the
state, that its fire should kindle the