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Show h . COMMEMORATING A MAN.''- a In the current issue the following editorial tribute is paid a late citizen of the state of Utah: From a slab-shantied and poverty-ridden section of the south, in the days of reconstruction, there went into the west a young hotel clerk. For the want that had blighted his early life he blamed Lincoln Lin-coln and the north. The far west, with its new horizons, made him look upon Lincoln as the greatest of our heroes. lie came to wish that all our people might go west and see things in his new way. and into the phrase "Sec Europe if you will, but sec America first," he put lasting and devoted fervor, lie proselyted until his voice failed, and then lu wrote letters until he died. A hundred men in -Salt Lake City formed a commercial club around his idea. He preached in the east his doctrine of sojourning westward insteatTof oversea. lie preached such definite means as hotels built, scenery preserved and canyons boulcvardcd. He summoned governors of a dozen western states into consultation and started in towns a propaganda of tourist-luring. tourist-luring. To his funeral services in the Masonic temple at Salt Lake there came more Mormons, Jews and Gentiles than in that warring community ever united in any common sorrow. Now, after a lapse of two years, there is being completed in the city whcr.c he labored what its builders believe is one of the finest hotels in the United States. The Mormon, Jew and Gentile friends and admirers of the late Fisher Harris, who put their money into the enterprise, overshot over-shot the mark of profit for many years, and they did it purposely. Editorial in Collier's for July 1. |