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Show THE CITIZEN I WHAT PRICE SALT LAKE. HE LIVETH ON. THE SURROUNDED with the greatest mineral, iron and coal wealth in America, the resources that make big cities, yet here we find Salt Lake City the smallest city of the leading western cities. There is no city in the nation that can reach out and touch such rich deposits of wealtWQ ' as found within a few miles of this city. When strangers come here and look about them and see what we have, they exclaim, Good heavens, what has held you back? When all the facts are known people ask why this city is not much greater than Denver. Here we have the richest silver mines in the world and the biggest dividend payers; the biggest open cut copper mine in the world, the largest smelting plants, coal enough to supply the entire nation for many years; the best iron ore in America; the best asphaltum beds known of on the continent, and yet, here we are groping about in a blind, haphazard way, apparently satisfied witl just enough to live upon. Why is it that whenever seme big business tries to enter this city there comes so much pro- AND THE KING said unto his servants: Know ye not that there is a prince and great man fallen this day? March the seventh, eighteen hundred two, at Eberstadt, in Germany, was bom a lad. His mothers life made him a little son; her love, a man. At thirteen he crossed the sea. .On to Missouri, for a few years sojourn. Then the lure of the Great West! Aye, in purse the boy was poor, but in vision, will and energy, he was rich. A pioneer! The Union Pacific had climbed the Rockies. Soon came the young man, burning his bridges behind him, casting his fortune with this then wild region, for ever and a day. He had faith, and he had courage. A humble beginning, a clerkship in the postoffice at Salt Lake City. But not for long. Mining fascinated and held him. Centennial Eureka became a living thing. The smelting business recognized his genius. Other mining enterprises engaged Ontario Silver, Daly, and him: Daly-Wes- t, Braden Copper. He opened Sanpete county, building the first railroad from Nephi to Wales. One triumph after another. Success but spurred him on. Success is the hardest to master. He mastered it. And thus he mastered himself. He learned that life was give and take. He 3aw that love was greater than wealth. He sought not fame nor power, but frendship, among the lowly no less than the high. Of himself he gave much, and rich was the harvest he reaped. The friends he made he kept, to his earthly end. Jacob Bamberger is not dead. Love is is rearing monuments in the hearts of the men who knew him. His spirit hovers near. fifty-- A Thinking Paper for Thinking People' Published by THE GOODWINS PUBLISHING COMPANY 420 Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Entered as second-cla- ss matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months. Subscrptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. FRANK E. SCHEFSKI, Manager and Editor JOHN L. KOEPPLER, Editor ED S. DIAMOND, Advertising Manager MAE MURRAY A fairy, a bird, a butterfly, flitting across the stage! Salt Lake City is honored this week. An artiste is dancing in her midst, of rare charm and beauty. Her public she loves no less than her art. She is groping for an adjective to express her sublime feeling, but, alas, no word like that is ever coined! Mae Murray is the incarnation. adjective. She is the word. Grace, the quintessence of it! She is the Other cities bid for business, but here we try to kill it. There ought to be no less than half a million people in this city today, and there is a good reason why we have not that number. The first greeting a big business gets when it proposes to come into this dty is a solar plexus punch for the count. The Ohio Oil Company wants to pipe natural gas into all the larger cities of Utah. It is met with opposition. It will bring in a cheaper fuel and as a result many industries will immediately spring up which will result in increased population. Surely, increased population means more business for everybody, yes, and for the coal and think dealers, too. He may be near-sightthat cheap gas would greatly effect his business, but cheap gas never affected the coal business in Pennsylvania, and the combination of the two has produced the largest steel works in the world. The Citizen is hot so narrow as to believe that cheap gas will affect or kill business in this state. Cheap gas will make it possible for industries to come in here and compete with the east. Isnt ed HARMONY AND STRIFE. ALVARO OBREGON. FOR THIRTY years, under Diaz, Mexico had a strong mans peace. Then rose the cry of No and the cry. of Land and Liberty. Revolution broke out. The muddy waters of that tortuous stream havent settled yet. Madero fell by an assassins hand. Huerta failed of recognition. Carranza stepped into power, only to be killed in a revolution led by Obregon. The de la Huerta revolt subdued, voluntarily handed to Calles the reins of government, a rare event in that unhappy country. Calles term expires next December. Last year Gomez and Serrano contended with Obregon for the presidential office. Charged with fomenting revolution, Gomez and Serrano were shot. Now, Obregon, after carrying an election at which he had no opposition, meets with the same Re-electi- test against it? on Ob-reg- on fate! It would be hard to count the revolutions and assassinations that have taken place in Mexico during her one hundred three years of independence. Thirteen million people, practically landless, clothed mostly in rags. Will another revolution now come? If one does come, it will not last long, for there are not the accumulations with which to carry on long internal strife. MORE than the bad, the good has always been the enemy of the best. Mediocrity and complacency are wholly more dangerous to idealism than the recognized bad things in life. Dr. James Luken McConaughty. JUDGE LOOFBOUROW hit the nail squarely on the head when he said at a recent meeting of the Young Mens Republican club: It does no good to knock the other candidate for nomination. that what we want? Adopt a course which makes it unnecessary to apologize for misstatements when the convention is over. The real campaign does not start until after the nominating conventions, so nothing should be done in preconvention campaigns to cause strife and friction when the party goes to the polls. In order for the party to win in November, there must be harmony and no misleading statements. Fanning of prejudices against prospective candidates can only bring strife and ultimate discord. The rank and file of the party, the district chairman and workers, these men and women who fight the battle on election day on the front line believe in action and constructive work. It is therefore hoped that nothing will be done in this preconvention campaign to make wounds that cannot be healed. To succeed we must build in a constructive manner and not tear down. Beware of the slandering politician. All good Republicans are for harmony in the party and sacrifice personal aspirations for the good of the party. The knocker should be discredited. A good, clean and unbiased fight for the nominations on the ticket is most essential for a solid front against the enemy. Dissension in the rank and file of the party is invariably responsible for defeat and why dissension if victory we are after live. able-bodi- ? DONT part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to Mark Twain. Those who protest the entrance of this gas company, will they cite one instance in this country where gas injured any industry. What we want in this city are more smokestacks and more payrolls. Right now when every man should be employed, there are hundreds of them looking for jobs and outside of a few buildings going up in the residential district, there is nothing doing. At least two or three office buildings ought to be going up every year. Since when have we built one ? Check up in other cities and see what is going on. Our Main street looks the same year in and year out. People are beginning to taltQt about it and. the younger generation wants to know whats the matter. No city in the United States has a better foundation for a metropolis than Salt Lake. Instead of knocking business trying to come in here, lets go out and beg it to come in. Of course, if we do not want the state to grow, all we have to do is to keep up our present policy of knocking every big business enterprise which tries to enter this state and it wont be long before we can purchase a headstone and some crepe to complete the burial. There may be an alarmed feeling that cheap gas would injure some lines of business in thiA7 state, but we cannot see it. Industries will not come in here and pay the present coal prices. We also claim that if the population was doubled, the coal dealers would nearly double their business. . ed |