Show WHAT THEY VOTED FOR The Provo Enquirer seemingly delights de-lights in the fact that there is no general gen-eral prosperity in the state It says the question is often asked But why do we not see prosperity in Utah 1 Then it answers the question in these words 1 We answer that the people are getting I just what they voted for and ought not I to complain I The sheepmen voted for prosperity and got it but the people I generally voted against the railway ftegth ierhr jCe Z I projects and other enterprises that were under way with eastern capital and they ceased Senator Cannon told the people of Eureka last fall that the capitalists who were to furnish the money to build the road that his brother Abram was out locating had threatened to withdraw their money if the people voted for W J Bryan The senator himself he said had received such letters but he had answered that the peoples promise to pay gold was < I one thing and their politics another that they would fulfill the promise but would never sell their politics Well the people voted for repudiation repudia-tion in the eyes of the eastern capitalists capital-ists and where are our projected railroads rail-roads today 7 The Utah company is disorganized and no capital is coming to our state Eastern bondholders are afraid of us An evidence of this was had the other day The state land board had some surplus money that it thought best to invest in Utaji bonds An order was placed at Boston and at once more Utah bonds were offered for sale than the state could purchase But the people of Utah voted for these conditions and we are not complaining com-plaining Prosperity will be a little slow in coming to us but it is coming Utahs resources will make us prosper with therest of the country and with time the peoples credit will be restored re-stored Just now they must be patient The people of Utah are not getting what they voted for They voted for Mr Bryan and free silver and they got Major McKinley and the gold standard stand-ard But even those parts of the country I coun-try which voted for McKinley and against free silver are not getting the predicted prosperity Why is it being withheld from them If Utah is getting get-ting no prosperity because of the way + + + I ilex eieuiurui uie uus C U > IL tiiut aiaica which voted for McKinley and the single sin-gle gold standard should be getting a double portion of prosperity when the fact is they are not receiving a single portion How will our Provo contemporary contem-porary explain this The intimation that the Boston holders hold-ers of Utah state bonds sold them when the state land board made a bid because they are afraid of us is ridiculous ri-diculous They sold simply because they knew where they could get a better bet-ter return on their money just as holders hold-ers of government bonds do at times That state Institutions are buying state bonds is one of the best possible evidences evi-dences of their desirability as well as their safeness as an investment No one can successfully dispute the j Enquirer when it says prosperity will be a little slow in coming to us We must be patient seeing that we cannot be Drosoerous |