| Show S Thomas Kearns and the Salt Lake Tribune I They All Exclaim and a Bear i and the The poem column reminds me of claims that are made by May- or Bradford and the Tribune ia to Salt Lake City's pros- The is a h ted statement of fard's Betty and the dm rejoice also with you in of the splendid city sa jre live I also rejoice with Americans in the splendid im- fj that we have been to make since we have had of the municipal affairs of Salt Lake I am glad to be to call your attention to the skyscrapers on the Wall street of Salt Lake That Salt Lake City has been very prosperous no one will but her prosperity was not caused by Mayor the or the so-called American quite the Samuel During the first year of the so-called when stagnation and script currency affected the country and business in Salt Lake City was practically at Newhouse came to Salt Lake City's is a Democrat and he has no ase for the so-called and its Kearn's Tribune than a traveler for a Newhouse until after the so-called were defeated in county before he started to the that would try to make the believe that the party I we built Ila the year 1906 business of all b throughout the United P was at its very The factories and were working fa fd Ver time meet the f prosPerous The J J works in I I worked day and night emPloyed over It locomotives dur- mg hat Cramps ship yards enjoyed Ut s-eel woolen and silk factories and in fact every that manufactured goods was at its All at once a great industrial and money panic struck this The Baldwin locomotive works discharged over t men and put the remaining employees on short ship yards did the same and many large factories closed their doors to Banks would not honor script was used instead of alms houses did a flourishing business and the police stations and many public buildings were used for lodging houses and were nightly filled with the poor unfortunates out of These conditions prevailed in Salt Lake although the so-called party had been in control for over a Hard times would have continued so if Newhouse had not opened his purse strings and turned many Sail Lake pessimists and started our city on an era of prosperity not even dreamed of by the most The Right in the face of hard script currency and business stagnation Samuel Newhouse broke the depression spell by purchasing several acres costing one million in the heart of Salt and announcing that he would start at once to erect two office buildings whose equal could not be found between the Great Lakes and the Pacific The jack-knife philosopher and the said it was a pipe dream fo sell mining and they did not believe the truthfulness of the story until they saw the foundations laid and the arrival of the structural Mary Mary Judge scented prosperity in the air and built the substantial and fireproof Judge which was soon filled from top to bottom with William H. general manager of the Oregon Short saw the white dove of prosperity circling around r old depot got busy with the wires leading J E. H. office in ew York and today we have a railroad passenger Large apartment buildings sprung up Jibe magic and cottages and homes appeared almost in a night in all parts of the Instead of groping along and howling Polygamy and Ecclesiastical as the Tribune and the so-called party the progressive hustlers of Salt Lake set an unparalleled prosperity He Turned on the Newhouse has not done it but when the of prosperity stopped he had nerve enough to open his pocket-book and turn on the steam which set all of the industrial wheels of Salt Lake in He did not stop with his two beautiful office buildings but started the erection of a million dollar hotel on the corner of South and Main which awoke several other hustling Salt Lake citizens who are now changing the historical corner of Main and South Temple streets from an old adobe newspaper office to a twelve million modern Many a losing battle has been won by a brave lie saw the drooping and depressed spirits of his rode to the front of the ranks and cheered them on to Not one of the new expensive buildings in Salt Lake City can be laid at the door of the so-called Thomas Kearns advertised all through the states the following we copy it just as we found it in the York New York and other Eastern Kearns man of the hour in Utah is ex-Senator Thomas who organized the and to whom credit of victory is a popular citizen during his years of residence in has become a If a simile may be applied to so mundane a thing as a political Utah Gentiles regard the former senator as a Moses who has delivered the people from Again it was was a close but the ticket won and were it not for Kearns' native he could have accepted congratulations of every Gentile in the State as a personal And yet with all of Kearns and the bragging and with all of his boasted he did not dare to announce that he would erect his ten-story building on Main St. during the supreme reign of his so-called hut waited until it was hopelessly defeated last both in Salt Lake City and County before he decided to Yet Mayor Bransford and The will puff themselves up and exclaim and we killed a Boss Tweed As far as municipal improvements in Salt Lake are the so-called party has been a disgrace to the civilized With Mayor Brans-ford's boasting that the so-called Americans had spent upwards of on street sidewalks nearly of that amount came from special assessments of the abutting property while as Mayor Bransford claims the city has spent less than What a great showing for the so-called to gloat over when it is known that retiring Mayor Morris left them nearly a million dollars in cash and they have borrowed and raised all the taxes in Salt Lake City nearly 33 Today they have out-standing over-drafts running into the hundreds of thousands and they exclaim and we killed a Other Cities' There is no so-called party in Brig-ham City or and yet these cities have made just as many if not more municipal improvements according to the population than Salt Lake The greatest factor in Salt Lake's prosperity during th four years is Bingham That wonderful camp has grown during the past four years beyond the expectations and most optimistic dreams of New-house and the other Bingham no hard times or script currency in Her payroll today is upwards of per month and a great portion of that is spent in Salt Lake There is only one enterprise in Salt Lake City that we can give Bransford and the so-called party entire credit and that is the West Side yet the so-called all and we killed a |
