White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-22

years, has corroborate0 in almost the
exact words the things that were re-
Gently said in the White Pine News
about the decline of the Utah city.
After the News editorial was pub
lished letter was received from the
Commercial Club secretary denying
the News statements in toto, claim-
ing a rapid increase in population
and otherwise asserting that pros
perity was returning to the city, with
daily evidences thereof. The letter
was mislaid and since then has net
been found, hence a refutation and
answer had not been published. Mr..
Newhouses speech will be even
more convincing, as no Commercial
Club secretary will undertake tc
deny that especially that the facts
are so fragrant that the Tribune has
been forced to print what Mr.. New
house said.
The great mining man was given
a banquet upon the event of his re-
turn from France, where he has been
living for the last five years. He was
showered with encomiums of praise
by various speakers and in reply he
delivered an address that had been
carefully prepared and was intro
duced by words of gratitude and in
recognition of the rendered ameni-
ties, but after a paragraph or two he
turned loose on the subject Of the
city's decline, and here is what he
said:
But all of this pleasure has not
been wholly without adIlteration
the fairest rose you know comes
not without it's thorns-and l am
sorry that do not find here upon
my return, in full measure, a re-
alization of the hopes I had for
Salt Lake when / left it five years
ago. I say this not in criticism,
but say it I must, if l am to give
you a truthful expression of the
impressions the city makes upon
me upon my return. There seems
to be something here that lacks
some of the want of the spirit
which promotes-that l cannot un-
- derstand.
Why is it that this, the oldest OF
western cities, is not in the pro-
tOooAOA VI "a O6A Cco. oiCdi 8Niooo
the continent cities have been and
are growing as though under the
touch of n Aladdin, while Salt
Lake, on her throne of beauty and
in the midst of resources so varied
and valuable, and attractions un-
matchable, does not throb and pnl,
safe with any of the growing life
of the nation
l notice put few material i'm
provements since my departure and
particularly no advance in your
population. Indeed, l am shocked
at the discovery that many of your
rich men have removed from the
state and transferred their activ-
tiles to California and elsewhere
and l am told that many more
have that move in contemplation
Why is this? Why should anybody
go anywhre to find anything better
than Salt Lake offers to energy and
capital? What is the invisible
something that has brought stag
nation here? What deadly sleep
ing gas has settled upon this beau
titul city and taken away from it
the energy which should give it
commanding place among the pop
ulation centers of the west?
l do not undertake to answer
these questions, but have no
doubt that you, who are lockers
upon this state of apathy, could
answer the questions If you would
Was it for no better than this that
Brigham Young, the greatest fig
ure in your history, and the pio-
neers who toiled that you might
achieve. laid the foundations of
this city? Do you suppose that
their foresight of seventy-five years
comprehended no greater city here
than you have? In the distinction
Of brains Salt Lake is surely not
wanting.
You have senators of the United
States that command national re
spect. You have justice OF the
supreme court that ranks among
the great lawyers of the land. You
have sculptors, writer's and artists
whose fame has gone afar and you
have wideawake press that does
you daily honor and which have
been proud to exhibit as in the
very forefront of American jour
- nalism. But of that one thing,
~ that push and energy which makes
cities, you seem to be greatly lack
ing. beg you to bear with me
kindly upon these words. They aro
not uttered with any other thought
than that they may be part of tho
forces which I believe your clear
vision will marshal to your aid
Readers of the White Pine News
have not forgotten that one of the
points made was that the wealthier
residents of Salt Lake in large num-
bers had removed to California and
many others were contemplating sc
doing Also that the city in the last