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Show discredit and failure upon this coinniu-uity. coinniu-uity. As a rule a substantial and bona fide enterprise will not begin with an inquiry in-quiry "how much of a bonus will you give us?" but it will rather investigate the Held and the resources first, and, becoming satislied as to both, see next what privileges it can obtain from us. Where the advantages are mutual there will be no dillieulty in coining to an agreement. Millions for promising industries, but not a penny for financial wrecks. CONCERNING BOXISES. Both the secretaries of the real estate exchange and . the chamber of commerce com-merce are plied with letters from alleged alleg-ed eastern manufacturers asking what bonus this city would offer to those concerns if they removed hither. Now The Times has a loyal and material interest in the prosperity ot Salt Lake and desires as much as any one to aid in that direction. Moreover it realizes that the operation of a number of factories fac-tories giving steady employment to labor and utilizing tho raw material of this region w ill tend more toward the desired end than any other agency, not only in its immediate but also iu its prospective effects in opening new avenues of commerce and in compelling new railroads to run in here and compete com-pete for the large volume of our trade. Hence this paper is not averse on priueiple to the granting of generous inducements to the right kind of industries. indus-tries. On the other hand it would be folly to jump at every bankrupt concern con-cern that offers itself and bolster it up with our money because such concern could not stand alone and would in the end bring |