Show I HELP w THE 0 F STATE SATE SOLDIERS r r I TH THE NATIONAL N GUARD GUAD Of Utah J wants want the legislature to to appropriate ate from the public treasur treasury for forUs Its Us use and benefit during the next net two years year and the National Guard GUad is un unquestionably unquestionably questionably entitled to every ever dollar dolar that It asks Of the It i Is pro proposed proposed posed to use in the erection of ot an au armory armor In Salt SaI Lake City That the building is sadly needed Imperatively necessary In fact no one acquainted with ih the situation will deny But or that later The first point The Herald decides to make with wih reference to the appropriation is that this year the soldiers of ot the state must be placed at the high highest highest est eat possible standard of efficiency Text Next Net September the greatest mobilization mobilization tion ton of troops ever seen in the west will 1 be held on the Fort Douglas res reservation It I Is conservatively esti estimated est estimated mated that not far from men in uniform will ivill wl be here They will wl include several regiments regiment or of regular army men and the national guard gard of half halt a dozen western wester states A brigadier general geneal of the army of the United Unite States will i be assigned to com corn command command mand the troops and the encampment will viiI wi be the most magnificent spectacle of ot Its is kind that the west has ever known Now Utah Uth will wl come into com corn competition petition with Its is neighbor states California Oregon Washington Idaho Wyoming Colorado and Mon I tana will wi send thousands of their best bt t soldiers solder armed and and drilled to t a point approximating per perfection p perfection Utah cannot afford to make a cheap and tawdry display We may m y not bave as many soldiers as a some someo of the te others but we Went Want want those we have to measure up to the highest standard standrd The credit of the state will wU be beat at stake Money Is needed The legislature has the power to make soldiers es esteemed e esteemed teemed and an respected and honoree honored or orto orto orto to make them them i laughing stock for the visitors As A a plain business proposition tion ton can the lawmakers reasonably re refuse re refuse I fuse to accede to the moderate request of home defenders Certainly not not We believe beleve the appropriation will willbe willbe I be granted without hesitation and It I should be granted As to the armory armor For the benefit of ot those who may may be uninformed The I Herald Herld will wl say say that in a leaky leak shabby old building on Market street some someI worth of government property I for the te use of the National Guard Is Js stored today The structure is alto altogether alo altogether gether unsuited to te the purpose for which it i is used Ordinary OrdIna re respect respect respect for the United States govern government government government ment demands that its property be properly housed The sum of is not too much for an armory building which should be a credit to the state If I the legislature Is Js wise the desired allowance will wl be made without a word of unfriendly debate or criticism |