The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-16
THE TRUTH ON THE CENSUS.

some business.
THE TRUTH ON THE CENSUS.
Speaking Of the growth Of Western
states during the past decade, the Dee
eret News peevishly remarks;
Utah is below all hcr Western neigh
| bors. We have not had our share OF tho
| Increase There is only ono reason for
this, and that Is the insane warfare that
ms been wsgod by one class upon an
! other. under tho leadership OF the owners
! or The Salt Lake Tribune.
Nonsense, Granny. nonsense, The
census returns for Utah show that
where The Tribune exercises its great
est influence the growth was greatest.
| The percentage of advance in Salt Lake
City was highest of all. and in Salt
Lake county, which is naturally affected
IN the city's growth. by reason of jux.
tapositIon. and that same Tribune in.
hucncc, came next. Wherever the pow.
cr of the Mormon priesthood was most
abundant, there the progress was least.
What is the use in trying TO lie in
the face Of the figurcsl Why not be
honest about it. and give to The Trib.
upe and the American party the credit
that rs due ia them Cor the great prog
ress that has been made here? Not a
dar passes hut visitors TO Salt Lake ey.
press admiration for the beauty Of tbe
city. as that has been dey yeloped mud
enhanced under American admiuistra.
ton. Men who either passed through
or lived here years ago, and who return
for visit, give voice to their wonder
mcnt at the magnificent progress that
has been made. Amerlcanism holds
sway in Salt Lake; Tho Tribune is pub
lisbed here, and its influence is greatest
here: and civic beauty and municipa n
growth are most abundant here. That
ought to he sufficient answer TO the
News,
What the church organ really should
do is to hclabor the Mormon hicrarchs.
who advise their followers not 10 sell
land to Gentics. They arc the men
who obstruct progress in Utah, as tho
entire history OF this common wealth
proves beyond any question.
But TO the record: That will show
where the progress was in this State.
and where it was not IL will show
whether Amoricsnism injured the 10.
callty in which il prevailed, or whether
priesthood rule injured the localities
whore that prevailed.
The population of the State in 1000
was 276.1i9; in 1910 the population is
373.35l gain Of 96,602. or 3t.9 per
cent
Salt Lake City had a population in
1900 of 5S.5$l Now it .has popula.
tiou Of 9o.717, a gain of 39,246. or "a
per cent.
The State outside of the city had a I
population in 1900 of 223,2lS. This |
year the State outside of the city has
population of es0.571. The State out
side of the city has, therefore, gained
81 ,35s. or 25.7 per cent.
In Salt Lake City Americanism pre-.
walls. The city's gain under the FIVE
years OF American control, (Which real f!
" represents the only gain that has |
been IN the ten vcsrs.l was three times
as great proportionately as the gain
in the State at large. This does not |
look as though Americansm had hurt !
where it prevails. On the contrary, it |
is positive proof that Americanism is |
good for business, helps growth and |
progress. and is, in fact. the vital ele- |
ment of such advancement as has been |
made.
,,te 1f Salf o1z h,,r, ,rI
in complete control everywhere, with |
the comparatively pitifu results which |
the census shows.
If the State had gained in the same
proportion that the city has gained in
the ten years. its population would be |
row 4sl .543. instead of 373,35l.
If the city had gained only at the
rate that the State outside of the city /
gained. its population would he 81 .2sS, !
shortage of 25.fS9 as compared with /
the actual figures.
1t is manifest, therefore, that the !
State outside the city. which is com
pletcly under church control. has suf !
fcred dry-rot BY reason Of that control.
II has gained only the difference be-
tween 223,2lS and 2S0,571, or 81 1856; |
whereas. at the city's rate of increase,
the whole State should have gained the |
difference between o76,149 and 4sl .J43, /
or 204. .7a4; so that the State has lost |
in the ten years, by church rule, l0I,- |
992 population which it ought TO have !
received That is. the State is 80 per
cent worse of by reason Of the church |
rule, outside Of Salt Lake City, tnan
it would have been if American rule
had prevailed throughout the State as
it prevails in the city,
In view of the facts and figures, |
which are indisputa bic. what "A wretch
ed, shocking case OF perversion and i'm.
moral presentation it is that appears
in the statement of the church organ
ouotcd aburc' And how complctp1y |