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Show there are in Ogden men of the same calibre and disposition. Wheuovcr they hear an Ogden man say anything complimentary com-plimentary of Salt Lake they proceed forthwith to jump u llim witu both feet. The Standard itself has at times published uncalled for flings at Salt Lake, and uatiiraily this lias cause retaliatory re-taliatory measures. The Standard has been anxious to learn why it is that the Ogden carnival has not been more extensively noticed or advertised in the Salt Lake papers. That is easily explained. Tho carnival is a show a'great big show. Now it is th custom to employ press agents for all show who go in advance and see that notices and advertisements appear in the newspapers. The fact is that no press agent of the Ogden carnival has ever called upon the Salt Lake papers. No matter has been presented for publication, and no request has been made for any uotice of tho carnival. The people of Ogden cannot reasonably reason-ably expect tis to attend to matters which they themselves ought to take caro of. Ve have every reason to believe be-lieve that tho carnival will be treated in a fair and liberal manner by every paper In Salt Lake, but that it has not yet received extended notice is, as we have shown, the fault of the managers of the affair. The following extract from Judge Powers' interview iu the Ogden Standard is to the point: There seems," said the reporter to Judiie Powers, "to he a reticence on the part of Halt Lake papers In reference tothe 0den carnival which Is to be held July I. What in your opinion opin-ion Is the canne of thin non-committal policy!'" "That is rather hard to annwer. I take It, that it arises mainly from the fact that tho people of Oitrten have made no effort to advertise, adver-tise, the carnival iu Halt Lake, and until recently re-cently there was an Impression abroad that the whole scheme was mainly an advertising dodfte. I think you will find the press of Bait Lake ready and willing to do its part. This Timks and Tribune have both spoken very generously gen-erously iu your behalf. It Is certainly to our intercut to aid you, for if wo adver- linn uuu uuiiu iii mio icuiwij , v will of necessity build more than one prohiiemun and progressive city. Whatever What-ever helps Ogden helps Salt Lalte. Whatever is detrimental to the latter city will injure Ogden. Og-den. Hence 1 have felt that those who have thoiiH'it it wiHe to advertise abroad that real estate is too high in Halt Lake, were tutting otl their own noses to spite their f vti. I presume pre-sume that rivalry between two growing cities is Inevitable, and whenever it is generous aud broad Hl'li'ltrd, it is beneficial to both. Hut, petty bkkerlug and back-bltliiK, the resort of narrow and envious minds, ought to be set down upon. I have no patience with the professional pro-fessional boomers of Ogden and Salt Lake who would have the towns sit upon their haunches II ks HiiorllnK coyotes aud built nt each other, when they should be working hand in hand. You have no doubt observed that the people of narrow minds, whose heads are of the Gothic style of architecture, while they are never the most numerous In a progressive community, they are always heard. They have voices as deep toned and as penetrating as the fog horn. They have an Idea that to be generous with a sinter city is to Injure their own town. Possibly this class may have Influenced our editors ed-itors somewhat. For such people will always make themselves numerous around newspaper olllces. If an editor says nnytlilng generous and takes a broad view of the business busi-ness situation, they rry 'now Is the time to kirk,' threaten to stop their paper und to take oul their advertisements. The people of broad views are usiinily quiet and modest citizens, and remain quiescent. When they make themselves them-selves heard, as they will in time, Ogden will learn that Halt Lake desires her success, and will aid you in your carnival." ' What In your opinion is the proportion of those who feel that the Ogden carnival is going to hurt Halt Lake llnauclally or progressively!" progress-ively!" 'I don't think there Is one lit tweuty. A man of sense will readily see. Just as as soon as he stops to think, that these cities are so situated and so intimately connected that whatever advances ad-vances t he Interests of ono advances the interests inter-ests of the other. What is a benefit to oue is a benefit to the other; likewise, what is au Injury to the one is . an injury to the other. . I have for two months watched the real estate sales as reported in the papers, and have observe! that whenever sales were large at Halt Lake they were also large at OgUeu; when they were small tt Ogden they were small at Salt Lake. Those two cities are commercially Siamese-Twins, and what the Almighty has Joined, as be has thesj towns, no petty jealousy or strife can pull assunder. I think if the Ogden people will extend to the citizens of Halt Luke an Invltatlou to join with them and help to make the carnival a success you will find t hat our people will be ready to take hold and do their part. OGUEX AM SALT I.AKK. The Ogden Staudard of Sunday published pub-lished several interesting interviews with leading citizens of Salt Lake regarding re-garding the coming carnival. Tho object, ob-ject, It seems, was to discover the roasouforan alleged indifference on tho part of Salt La.ke as to the success of the Ogden festival. These lutor-views lutor-views show that thero are in Salt Lake numerous liberal-minded and public-spirited public-spirited citi.ens who honestly want to see the carnival made a grand success, On the part of the great majority of Salt Lakers thero is no petty jealousy of Ogden. Such men as Judge Powers, Scott, Goodwin, Judd, Wells, Kaybold, Roberts, Teasdel aud Auerbach, in their Standard interviews, represent rep-resent the majority suntlinout of Salt Lake regarding our sister city In- ctueniauy, we wisn 10 onu mo attention of the people of Ogdcu to the fact that The Salt Lake Timks has endeavored all along to treat their city fairly. Thk Times, let it be understood, is devoted not only to the interests of Salt Lake, but to the interests of tho whole territory terri-tory of Utah and tho west generally. The sentiments expressed by tho gentlemen gentle-men above named aro in acoord with what The Times has published again and again. It is true that thero are some narrow-minded narrow-minded men iu Salt Lake who fly into a passion whenever they hear a word of praise uttered in Og-den's Og-den's behalf. Some of these men have damned The Times for this reason, and two or three have threatened to stop their subscriptions and tnko out their advertisements. However, The Timks has pursued its own independent coure i lod has paid no attention to suvh would- ; be iiuut editors. On the other hand, i |