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Show T - t . WK CANNOT S3TOP. With the exception of the captious Herald, we have not sei4 nr ae opposed op-posed to tho sale of the Fort block on Mr. Bacon's terms. It is agreed that we need railroads, especially to our mining districts, in order to develop the chief industry of the territory. Here is ono which asks for little aud promises much. It is said that a prophet must go away from home to be appreciated. So, too, railroads, manufactures, and other enterprises en-terprises must go away from home to receive fair treatment. If some men representing an industry not one fraction frac-tion as beuelicial to Salt Lake as the Deep Creek railroad wilt be, should come here and ask for a bonus in land or money, or both, we would give it to him unhesitatingly. Why should a proposition vastly more liberal and far-reaching far-reaching cause the least hesitation because be-cause it corners from home? We don't know why Mr. Bacon has amended his original offer, and neither do we care. He probably sees some advantage in it for himself nud his associates as-sociates w hich is absent from the other. The question with tho city can be only this whether the granting of it subserves sub-serves at the same time the best interests of the people. And if we could got a vote upon it the proposition would bo carried car-ried unanimously. The project is ono that touches directly aud immediately the nerve center of our industrial life. About a year ago the peoples' gov-; gov-; eminent disposed of the city's real estate es-tate at public auction by the wholesale. Land on the north bench was knocked off to tho highest bidder for whatever it might bring. It was not the fault of the government that the receipts were favorable. But we are not aware that the Herald raised any objections. It was just and proper enough then to dispose of the public domain for the cash it would bring, so, as to make a good showing for the j people's party when it went out of of- ' tiee, but now that a single square is to be disposed of in a wav I hat will result in the return of millions of dollars, in the quickening of every artery of commerce, com-merce, tho Herald t rios, stop ! Salt Lake cannot alfonl to stop at the bidding of every croaker. The chango in government signilies quite the reverse, re-verse, and the building of the Deep Creek railroad will mark the longest stride in the line of advance wo have yet attempted. |