Show talks the spirit of prophecy is wonderfully rife considering that borew are believers in it indeed at present the chief objectors seem the most imbued with that spirit so far ag our local growth and increase is concerned to be sure the forces set afoot so far have not appeared to be adequate to the design or to its fulfillment whether we look at successes athe polls at the overestimated over estimated boom at the building of government buildings or the chamber of commerce we do not see much yet from north from terrace heights from the exposition car sewerage street railroad extension or change and the division of our blocks do not go on with any too much rapidity now it is known who must pay the piper tor do our lake resort ff attract much more than the local traffic in spite of ballooning or the bar attractions of the most enterprising and pushing of the series anavo are not sorry that the poo pie ahei supine or that these varied projects fail to act as was intended we personally should be quite satisfied to leave territory to a legitimate growth that which consists inan in the natural and inevitable increase of the of outlying than in a growth which at spasmodic might become an undesirable permanence ma nence can any good reason be given why we should insist so strongly upon the growth of this city why all the world should be invited to come here whatever its resources or whatever the result even while we yield to none ia our desire for greater opportunities tuni ties for labor for the establishment of mills factories foundries or other industries may we not question the wisdom of making this the hub of the territory the centre for all desirable things are not water powers af provo logan beaver an dother places just as effective at home for all enterprises and all needs or if steam is to be the motor is not a plant of any kind in proximity anywhere to our miles of territorial rit orial railroad just as much in the line of trade as this far famed city or are cities so conducive to morality virtue religion that they of abnormal growth while industrious hands elsewhere are subject to enforced idleness because of their overshadowing greatness Is it not statesmanship to build up the extremities the da well as what tho head and is not a distribution i of industries the localization of progress and wealthy ve althy more carmoni ous development thai the fashions eleand suggested course for the his bread by labor is thore abess de location are not chef chantiles chan ties of sustenance of independency co of salvation to his family greater even in the crudi st and least progressive of all our settlements have not hosts lost their faith their families their all in these cities who in the agricultural districts might have continued to enjoy these blessings with all that they imply Is not life here to the laborer or mechanic more arduous more continuous more superficial than it is elsewhere Is it much more than one remove from the conditions which the majority in other lands to improve upon in this can a home be as easily secured can the auxiliaries to a trade for family support such as a cow a pig chickens or garden be as easily secured hoie as there if those questions are met in the negative why all this hubbub about the value of property the lack of water the swelling of taxation the difficulty of living when a widespread wide spread territory invites the patient the tireless the ambitious man to take and enjoy for himself and bis the resources which in most places are more reliable than in the so called cities we shall never cry or rave even if this city came to a standstill if the entire elements of social industrial and religious pro gross were by standing quickened in every settlement from arizona to idaho and from our eastern to our western border good homes good markets a healthy and virtuous population and freedom from many temptations are just as much needed elsewhere as here and if the full tide of our emigration was turned into the rural districts if drought and dullness could relieve this city of much restless hypocritical po critical opposition element may be the moral spiritual social and industrial du atmosphere would be so purified and enduring progress might be seen by oven a casual observer everywhere along the lino G M L advocate |