The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-26

If every man who deals in real estate, every
man woman who has real estate to sell, every
landlord and business man, as we'll as the toilers
of the city will consult their own interests,
they will strive to do everything in their power
to increase the population of this city county
and state.
And they cannot do this unless they reg
lister protest against the calumny of the local
Smoot machine, and the reactionaries who sup
port that machine.
Only last night the Deseret News had a
wall about public improvements. 1t said in its
protest against the paving of its city streets,
Street paving does not produce anything. It
is dead investment. It does not add to the
real value of property" Further on, in the
same screech against American enterprise, it
declared that street improving "is luxury that
is all right when people can afford it, but it
does not add anything to the capacity of the
city to sustain population, as do investments
IN factories, farms, mines etc"
1t is just such wall rs this that kept Salt
Lake City in the background for half GEN.
tury. There was never time in all its history
that the News supported the enterprising cit
liens Of Salt Lake in their endeavor to improve
the clty's physical condition. It was always a
mossback, and that is because an orthodox Nor
mon does not believe that this is to be the per
manent headquarters of his church He is
taught that improvements of substantial and
permanent character represents so much wasted
effort. He believes that in time, if he lives ne
will be set apart to help establish beautiful
city and temporal kingdom in Jackson coun-
ty Missouri which God by revelation, COM
manded the Saints to do at the earliest Dos
sible time He also believes it is sinful to beau
tify Salt Lake and make it attractive to "out-
sIders F." whom he believes are enemies of the
kingdom of Cod
The Deseret News has pursued this line
OF policy ever since the Gentiles came into the
valley ltsfollowlng grows less with each year
as independent, thinking Mornons come to
realize that the News has never been their
friend 81: -" a. 1e'''
1t opposed water system, public schools,
sidewalks and sewers. Until a little more than
twenty years ago, there were none of these
here. The reign of the reactionaries was com
plete. Meetings of the city council were held
IN the offices Of the first presidency. The first
awakening was under Liberal control, and
when the Liberals disbanded the city passed
into condition best characterized as stdry
rot 1t continued so with but slight sign Of
an awakening until American methods were ap
piled to local government, since which the city's
growth has been marvel to all.
Americanism has not hurt Salt Lake II
has benefited Mormon and Gentle alike. It is
feared only by the officeholding gang under the
leadership of Reed Smoot, by bgots of the
dominant church, and by the mossbacks and re-
actionaries, who would rather see the city grow
up in weeds, the teams mire in the streets. the
people wade through the mud going from and
returning to their homes, dip water from the
irrigation bitches, stock browse on the streets,
and homes be connected with cesspools rather
than with sanitary sewers and accessories.
American spirit is transforming this city.
It is doing it without special hardship to any
one. Every dollar expended in permanent i'm
provements enhances every piece of property
in the city in just that proportion which it
bears to the whole.
Defeat of the American party means to re-
lard the growth of the city and county, and an
Endorsement Of the ISLANDERS of the reactionar-
es and clique of conscenceless politicians
whose leader is the unspeakable Smoot