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Show A TALE OF TWO CITIES. 1 1 i M The visit here of the Los Angeles business 1 1 men ought to give them some serious thought, especially what they saw on their visit to the j I j mines and smelters. They could not help noticing ! that with that mighty and steady outpouring of (jJ treasure, of which this city is the clearing house, the result must be the building up here of a great j H inland city. About all the land where water can be 9 obtained for irrigating is already under cultivation i 9H around Los Angeles. Though the product of those j j HJJ land's is most valuable the area is limited. Hence- ' ' ' i j Kfl forth the progress of Los Angeles must depend j I upon her commerce, her manufactories and her ' ,1 9 climate. There is room there for heavy manu- t '! factories. She may be able to draw away a little ' J of the commerce of San Francisco, that is, divide .1 j ( BH the subsequent increase of that commerce with i ' her northern neighbor, and she will always have 1 1 i vM a good climate for people in the decline of life. 1 1 j j II But what money she makes must be second- fl hand money; money that others have accumu- 4 J9 lated. Her business men saw when here how , '! gfl money is created. Hence the difference between ,9 the future gains of the two cities will be that 91 the wealth here will be created while in Los j I 90 Angeles it will be absorbed and concentrated t ' Bfl from money already in use. Around Salt Lake 1 9 some millions are annually created, a part of j 9 which will materialize in stately structures; in . 9 Los Angeles from the millions already accumu- . 1 9 lated, Los Angeles will absorb a portion. To keep ! 1 9 up her present progress Los Angeles will have to , ' ' H resort to new devices, for the native resources J 9 around her have already been utilized, while 9 around Salt Lake the utilizing of her greatest re- 9 sources has but just commenced. Los Angeles 9 has one great advantage. She is near the sea ( 9 shore and cannot be discriminated against by the j 9 I9I99H99HS19E?9IIIKN9Hh9H I railroads. Salt Lake has always been handicapped by those discriminations, and probably always I will be until the whole present system of railroad ing is revolutionized. But summing up all the factors this city has naturally decided advantages over her sea coast sister, and if the men in con-. con-. j trol of the dominant church here would eliminate i the trust features from their business operations i i and would keep their priestly hands out of poli tics, this city would catch up with and surpass Los Angeles in the next five years, for let it be but once understood that Utah is in truth an Ameri- j j can state, and nothing can prevent her advance ' j by leaps and bounds, j ' i These church magnates ought to sec that, and i they ought to realize that they are endangering j i their own positions by the course they are pur- i suing, for so sure as the world if their people ever take up the idea that their church is after all I nothing but a big commercial and political ma" j : chine, just sucl rs it presents itself to the world today, the whole structure will tumble into ' ruins and disappear like a rotten iceberg when it I floats into the warm currents of a sun-lit sea. |