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Show itics across t lit- sea There is no especial incentive for her to invite immigration from other states or from foreign lands because she now contains within her borders population nearly or tiuite sufficient suf-ficient for attainment of the greatest susceptible degree of development. Not so with Utah, ns the contemporary will admit, for there- is no analogy in the case as regards that old populous and wealthy state and this undeveloped and comparatively new territory. Illinois has appropriated a larger sum for the fair than has any other political division of the republic 1800,-000. 1800,-000. Hut with her it is largely a matter of statu pride, for tho location of the fair is fixed at tho great metropolis metrop-olis within her borders In the case of N'ew York it is a matter of national na-tional pride. That metropolis was a rival of Chicago for the location of the fair, and it could not of course he anticipated an-ticipated that the Empire State would contribute as largely as did Illinois, with but two-thirds of the population of the former. I'm: Times hopes that I'tah and her sister states and territories of the great but undeveloped west will not for a moment consider the so-called dispro. portion herein referred to, because as it has shown tho conditions are so widely varied. UTAH AMI TtIK VOHI.I'S FAIIt. A few da;, s ajo the evening ronton porary in commenting upon the proposition propo-sition for an appropriation of 9100.000 for Utnh's represfntation at the World's fair, expressed the opinion that the sum was disproportionate as compared with tho 300,00ii given hy the state of New York and the eoiitrihulions of other old slates. The contemporary figured out the, amount per capita involved in-volved in the tax upon New York's 0.000,000 people and th" same upon the ,25,000 inhabitants of Utah, and of course the figure! exhibited a wide m variation. But is it not most proper to consider the proportional tax in another anoth-er light? New York has an area of 47,000 sijuaro miles, and eon-tains eon-tains a population of 0.000,000. She is one of the original thirteen stales and the time of her settlement dates hack more than 200 years. Moreover, More-over, her resources are neatly ns well developed tis aome of the old Rational tw. |