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Show MORE PRAISE FOR AMERICANS. Not long ago. the morning Morris organ of the ecclesiastical push made a VlcloUB assault on the renl estate dealers deal-ers of this city because they WOUld not all concede that Morr's has1 done all that has been done In the way of sidewalk side-walk construction the past year when the property owners themselves did the Work and paid the o.st. Later, it undertook lo Bhow that tht re was money In buying real estate, and raised a slllv shout about "knockers hut was Obliged to undergo the humiliation humili-ation of the showing that those whoso names It paraded as heavy and fearless Investors In Salt Lake realty are the very men whom It assailed as "knOCk-I "knOCk-I its.' At the same time, It was not able to show investments or improvements by Its own or the Morris crowd. Its position, then, was that those who buy ahd pay big money for Salt Lake property, prop-erty, improve It al heavy cost, nnd pro- lalm their fnlth In Salt Lake b large-Investments large-Investments of money, are the city's "knockers" while those who show no faith In the city, buy no properly, make no Improvements, are the hue friends Of the city. And It certainly ranges It-self It-self by tin side of these, '.meting them ms its own pa rt and opposes thi isi who put In the-lr money, buy, and improve. im-prove. That same organ made an effort against the "knockers" yesterday morning. Ami again it was the "knoek-.rs" "knoek-.rs" whom it had to praise, the Hon. Ezra Thompson In parti, ular. the American candidate for Mayor, who was the hero of Its tale. He was the man who had made heavy iii vestment In Salt Lake realty, and he was the man who-.- faith ami Judgment was splendidly splen-didly Vlndlt and it Is a remarkable thing' that the Herald has thus continually, while un-d un-d ri.iklng to curse the Americans Individually In-dividually and as a party, been obllgeel to Illustrate Its point by praises for the very men It set out to cure. It i- i n-other n-other case of Balaam, who was hired to curse the children of Israel but was withheld, and again as In ancient times It Is the ass w ho spoke the right words, while Its master was full of cov-etousness. cov-etousness. deceit, and guile |