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Show REASONS AN0 THINGS. The News has recited eighteen things n hi. h BhOUld make Sail Lake blOSf Into gorgeous metropolitan life, and make Utah tower like an oak among the young commonwealths To these might be added many other things. Salt Lake ought lo be at least three Mines her present size of population; and the state of T"ta should bt of proportionate strength. Why with all these advantages, do the villages slumber as they did forty years pko, thi capital city languish as one In morning slumber, waiting to be roused, and the whole State linger for the trump of I labrlel f Why do all other States and cities "west of the big Mississippi" race past Bait Lake and Utah as If these were standing still? The answer Is that Salt Lake and the State have the Deseret News and the Mormon church ruling all legislation legisla-tion State, county and municipal affairs af-fairs And the city and the State will only grow rapidly and gloriously when c;n-tllism c;n-tllism shall have shown that It can overcome eccleslastlt Ism. An Eastern correspondent writes: When Salt Lake wants to have a big growth let It change Its scheme. Let It be run by twenty-six thousand men, with twenty-six thousand wives and one hundred thousand children, Instead of being run by twenty-six men, with as many wives as they can get and as many children as they can bear." |