Show i VISITORS AND VISITORS If tho Nebraska editors and their charming charm-ing ladies did not enjoy their visit to Salt Lake it must have been their own fault for all that could be done for their entertainment enter-tainment with the mercury bubbling up toward the hundreds was cheerfully done by our people But our visitors did enjoy themselves They said they did and that they were pleased that they came We also have reason to believe that many of them go away with ideas regarding this city and its people entirely different from those they brought here They return with the firmly fixed impression that Salt Lake is a pretty and prosperous city destined to become be-come one of the foremost centers of wealth and population in the great west They also go off convinced that tho Utah peoplo are not the vulgar semicivilized folks they have been represented to be but are so much like tho good and refined people of other American communities that it would be difficult if not impossible to distinguish between them Many of our late guests confessed to their agreeable surprise at the pleasant discovery made by them and we are inclined to believe that all hope to renew their acquaintance with Utah and Salt Lake One of these days we shall hear from the Nebraska newspapers news-papers if our impressions aro correct Too many of tho visitors to Utah come with very pronounced prejudice which they are determined shall bo firmly fixed before leaving They insist that the people out here are little better than barbarians that we live in hovels and adopt the customs cus-toms and practices of the halfcivilized and bestial Having formed their ideas from imagination or reading they will not permit per-mit themselves to be convinced to the con 1rYThlwmake the city dirty and un health and will not have it otherwise they see only vileness and bestiality in the countenances of the people and are ready to quarrel if anybody dissents from their views they bear cnlyvulgar and profane talk and regard it as an insult to be told that there is asmuch refinement in Salt Lake as in Boston Those who are willing to see and to learn no matter what their previous prejudices preju-dices were are the strangers wo like to come here and being here it is a pleasure to show them all there U to be seen and tell them all there is tobo told These visitors vis-itors look through undimmed eyes and learn through lair minds and when they go away it is with pleasant impressions and dispositions to help rather than hurt Utah Wo are having a good many such visitors nowadays morothan ever before and fewer of the other kind u |