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Show I f I Knicrtsl at ih JW Office t Salt Luke City, for truniilslun through the wall. a MwnJ cla a aticr. Subscription Rate: o year vru lly In advance Six ntnutha.Mrlcily In altut.ce To all c nmtrlcK rtulrictd In the Union. one jeur, stric tly In advance fl.03 t'nlurl Postal fi.W Discontinuance: If the paper la not dlred beyond the dW subscribe I for, notice by letter ahotil I be a'lven at least two week? before the term expire. All nrrear must be paid. Advertlalng Rate: The Ike has the larmM circulation of any weekly newa-pappublished In Utah, and la therefore an adcertlaln medium of recornlml merit. Hates will be made known er " on application. Remittance: ( Post Office or Express money orders and Registered Letters should be addressed and made payable to All Drafts, . BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 67 Commercial St., Salt Lake City. Bualneaa Manager NEWMAN LIEN C. M J CK50N EJItor EDITORIAL. Trjth is When the present proprietors M'ghty. qIIE 13 KK assumed control there was a mutual agreement between them that the paper should hew to the line and if any one was hit in the eye with a chip it was his or her fault, as the case might ' be. We have drifted along in our own weak way until this time, telling a few truths, but not all. It is now high time, if this city is going to amount to anything and that is a homely phrase to get down to business. There isnt a daily in the city that dare state facts, so this little weekly will venture a few assertions. Salt Lake City is a village. A rural; country town'.' A place where no enterprise exists. A vicinity of dead men. A graveyard if you please. Imprimis, as they say in other languages. We claim we are the geographical center of the region; Granted. What good does that do the people? With hot springs which can discount those at Glenwood for medicinal properties, that valuable piece of realty known as Becks is ' idle and covered with old sheds and a few mortgages'. With another nearly, as Warm goodsome say better thelessees to Springs.are .starving the to get rid of them, death. They-wanare right in their desires. With the Great Salt- Lake at our doors; with two of both great resorts, the management depend on the local traffic to keep them advertis up and that too when proper inter-mountai- n t - ing would make this the sanitarium of banks of ihe Big Muddy is a city of the United States. With all the re- 200,000. The west has been settled up sources which could be laid at the feet right alcn 4 while this old place g of a people We sit down and wait and plodding along in a sort of mud turtle wait and wait, hoping for some on.; to manner, like Micawber, waiting for come along and spend something. Isnt abotr time something to turn. In a city which claims according we did a little turning up uursel s? Now it is barely possible; a f .v turthousand peoto the directory-seve- nty tles aforesaid may not like the nor of ple, there isnt even a chamber of commerce. There is'nt anything or any this tale of woe. because Tin: Bee has a body, except a few mining brokers, who circulation outside! of this city; quite exskin the cash out of every old person tensive, especially on the exchange list. 'File editor of this sheet worked who lands here, to welcome the strang er with his cash. The man who comes in several places before he landed in here seeking a place for his money finds this old town, where they put bill boards what? The same old story of the on top of the restaurants on the east man with, two, three, four, five, or six side of Main s', reet and paint signs of eastern tobacco houses on the walls of wives. We fight, quarrel, spit, scratch like a lot of midnight cats. We chew the principal wholesale establishments, linen over the man who shall speak at and no matter how unworthy he may be, the celebration. It is quarrel, scrap, put what he says will have weight enough to ho quoted. How long do you want up your hands all the time. this kept up? Lord of Israel what a mess! Lets illustrate. Ten. years ago Ast0 Mercur was considered by the monied The B 1:1: is in receipt of a No Gambling, men of this city a dead card. j n qU j r n nr J f , n the CVCnt one would invest a cent; every banker an effort is made to suppress gambling in the city declared it was no good. A in this city, it will lend' its suppoit to lot of German farmers; fellows who the movement. Certainly. Provided raise cabbage and mke sauer kraut, the effort made is an honest one and came here from Nebraska, seeking re- goes to the root of matters. The Bee will not support any movement which pose from the toil and turmoil of hoeing sugar beets, spuds and cauliflower; tends to make fish of one and fowl of and made the. Mercur Mine a dividend another, to cpiotc a homely expression. paying institution. Men.,. who knew If the man who deals faro is to be supabout as much of mining as a cat does pressed, then the fellow who runs the of Christmas. private poker room must be sat upon And all the bankers said What If the fellow who runs the private pokluck. er room is suppressed, the man who Then De Lamar came in. And deals in margins, futures, plays the what is he doing? Oh Nothing. markets for rises and falls, sells long And thats the way it goes. and short must be abolished. Its pretty near time the people of Deliberately speaking, Tiie Bee this city and state were waking up. We does not believe gambling can be suptell about the. Mormons coming here pressed entirely. It ha$ existed ever and making the desert blossom as a since mankind was wise enough to draw rose. Rose blossoms neyer kept any straws. It is born in us and wepractice one from getting hungry. Salt Lake it from infancy. The children gamble was settled in 1847 while Denver was with their eeny, meeny, miny moe to laid out many years later. Yet, see who will be it in the game of tag; while Salt 'Lake is a sort of curio, where the boys gamble when they play marpeople come looking for Mormons with ' bles, As timO goes on they indulge in horns, Denver is a city with 175,000 other methods. If they dont go and people. Did you, gentle reader, ever buck the tiger they buy real estate, exthink of that? Three miles south of pecting a rise in the market. They where the pioneers stopped on the plank down their money on a certain J ' . |