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Show SUPPOSE. Suppose that no Gentilo had ever been permitted to buy on inch of land from a Mormon In Salt Lake City. Instead of the palaces on Brigham street, wo would still have a lot of adobe houses; Instead of the big mercantile mer-cantile blocks, still the one-story shacks for llttlo shops; Instead pf the splendid city and county building', still the old city hall and the tumble down courthouse; instead of the Knutsford, Kenyon, Wilson and tho Cullen, still tho Continental and the Salt Lake houso; Instead of the Deseret News block, still that noisome old barracks across the way; Instead of Mormon homes, comfortable, .healthful and many of them palatial, still most of them the unsanitary and 111-llghted houses of thirty. y.oars ago; Instead of school- houses tho admiration of all citizens and visitors, still the old battered structuro used indiscriminately for church meetings, meet-ings, schools and dances; instead of the magnificent University and other State schools, still one small shabby structure like the Doremus hall. And instead of having a block of homes, so tasteful in their architecture that they havo been photographed for all the magazines of the world, President Presi-dent Smith and his family might still havo been crowded Into a few adobe houses. |