Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1891-07-12 | Page 4 | The Citizens' Meeting

THE CITIZENS MELT1KO Without any particular effort at advertising adver-tising the citizens meeting at the theater on Friday night was perhaps the largest that ever assembled in this city The big building could not have contained any moro people in any part without inconvenience t all It was an earnest and deliberate meeting too in which business men workingmen and professional men united in a vigorous protest against the infamous attempt of the bosses t discredit this city abroad because the peoplo dar t act independently ently of them in their adjustment of local differences That the speeches were direct and forcible is but naturalsmca the speakers had but t give vent t their feeling of Indignation i In-dignation to be effective The resolutions arc a model of brevity and AngloSaxon Wore tho press agency in this city not in tho bands of a hireling of the bosses the action of the citizens meeting would have been heralded all over the country on tho wings electrlciiy As it i it receives less notice than a curbstone parley of a job lot of Liberals would For all that the great meeting will have one immediate effect it will shut up the mouths of the prophets of evil The bosses will not dare again to spread libels upon the business prospects of Salt Lake Wo say they will not care dolt Once before through the Illustrated American they tried the scare policy to influence in-fluence the weakkneed and were brought to a sharp turn by an indignant public opinion I Salt Lake is all right i tho bosses are all I wrong