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Show UTAH'S REPLY TO NEW YORK- A Ball taker WrilM aa Interesting letter lo a Mew York leaporter. One of Salt Lake' business men received re-ceived a letter from on: of tho large Importing home of New York, in which the passage of the McKinley bill was deplored as a national calamity. The fellowlug answer cu sent the gentleman: Regarding the McKinley bill, I would suggest that you do not worry over the outcome of the same. It I eminently built upon American principle, and must eventually result In benefitting the people. If Individuals bere and there have to suffer until matter properly prop-erly adjunt themselves, their loss mutt be home and offset by that feeling of patriotism which should guide and control con-trol u from day to day. The average New Yorker la to thoroughly thor-oughly absorbed in the accumulation of wealth that he sees nothing but hi own elf-Interest, without taking into eon-sideration eon-sideration that within tea mile westward west-ward from hi Immediate surroundings an empire extends of great and mag-nilieent mag-nilieent proportions, la comparison with which kngiand, France, Germany and Spain sink Into Insignificance. Thai empire is America. You In New York, a it were, re prow tit the Interest of Germany, France and F.ngland, whose Interest are not the interests of this country. Knowing the school lo which you have been raised, I must make due allowance for all such ditferent thought as you exprcs in your kind letter, nor do I aim to convert yon by tho argument argu-ment advanced. There I but this to It, that when ueh Issue are brought up from time lo time, my patriotism I stronger In mn than all the instinct of the merchant, and from thlt high plain I have tried to grasp the aituation. |