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Show 1 POLITICIAN IN A REMINISCENT MO ' 31c Tells About the Long Ago; j Likewise About the i- INCIDENTALLY HE REFERS : TO FUTURE OF UTAH r AVheii Real Progress in Zion Began, and Who Is Responsible. "I have been mixing nniong my people peo-ple today," said the Prominent Politician Poli-tician to The Stroller on Friday, "and ! as I talked with the older ones their ' thoughts, as did mine for, 3-011 know, j 1 am a pioneer went back to that I morning on the 24th day of July, 1S47, ; when JflO souls gathered in this bcauti-' bcauti-' ful Salt Lake valley on the site of Salt j ' Lako City and celebrated Pioneer day j for the- first time in this great intcr- mountain empire. Two of that number 1 -were colored people. Of the original ( band there are perhaps not more than I fifteen living today, for the first Pioneer day was sixty-one j'ears ago, and sixty-one sixty-one vcars is a long time. "Ami while my .thoughts wander "back into the loug'ago, and it is necessary neces-sary for mc to wipe the mist from my glasses occasionally in order to see good, for I came here in the early fifties. 1 - marvel nt the wonderful transformation B hat has occurred. And then I marvel H that this transformation did not occur HJ manv, many 3'curs before it did. H "You were here" (addressing The H Stroller) "in tho seventies. S.i.'t Lako H City village hniulet, for had none of the H of days H other frontier towns Suit H Lake City outfitting point for a tremendous territory, and it could have H lind at of tho H that it did not have. You H Progressive Element Here. H) "Later on returned. H boon The clement that Hl to develop tho State hud B delved into the fastnesses of the great H Pock' range of mountains. This olo- H menthad uncovered the mineral wealth R of the State, had demonstrated that Hf llicrc were untold millions and millions H of dollars secreted the H mountains of Utah. This element had, H as I said, made progress did it in dcli- H ancc not the masses, but band H twenty-six men who then dominated H I7tah, both spiritual' -and temporal. A H it was then, today, except B that in temporal affairs today uxor- BjjBjjBjjBjjBjjH political and commercial power. BjVjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjH "But in face of great obstacles the BjVjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjf progressive element which had come to BjjBjjBjjBjjBjjB Utah to develop it continued its work. BjVjVjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYA It hard, uphill work, but the pro- BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjH grcssivc clcmcut persevered. But little BjVjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJ Tiublic improvement had made. BjjBjjBjjBjjBjjH The ciL.v councils were composed of men BjjBjjBjjBjjBjYjM knew no duty to the people its BjjBjjBjjBjjBjYM duty to band of twenty- BjVjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJ six. . There had been a water system BjjBjjBjjBjjBjjH stalled because such a s'stem was nbso- BjVjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJj lutcly necessary, but it was a crude svb PPPPPPPSj being of wood. Tho BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJj sewerage bad, the streets were un- PPPPPPPB improved; there sidewalks. BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjV and these sidewalks oulj in the business PPPPPPH portion the and these' walks PPPPPpHI made H When Improvement Began. PPPPPPBH n campaign for the BjVjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjH the city of Salt Lake, made in 1590, BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjH eighteen years ago, marchers in BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJ procession paraded Main street whou BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJj the' waded in mud almost up to their BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjV knees, when there nfot a square BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjH street in the city. But PPPPPPPV there was a progressive clement then PPPPPPH iii Salt Lake City, as there is today, PPPPPPPJ despite the band of twenty-six men, do- BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjH spite the hue and cry the Dcscrct PPPPPPH ows, now, 'the organ PPPPPPPJj band of twenty-six. which organ howled PPPPPPPS itself hoarse declaring that the success H. of the progressive clement meant high- PPPPPPPHki untold misery the PPPPflPsPPPPBPJHkHttses . PPSPPPPPPPPPPPsLhcu news PPPPPPPPPPPPHB' in Lake was PPPPPPPPPPPPPPHlic an PPPPPPPPPPPPPpSplc People PPPPPPPPPPPPPPH 0 PPPPPPPPPPPPPPKv i 1 1 PPPPPPPPPPPPPpSba k e PPPPPPPPPPPPPPJrday in tho PPPPPPPPPPPPPpffra 1 PPPPPPPPPPPPPPJ! 's HB Dawn P Immediately began to hum PPPPPPPPPPPPPV Zion. Public h e PPPPPPPPPPPpVvith which Salt Lake blessed PPPPPPPPPPPPj was There boom BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjF begun PPPPPPPPPPPP mining, which has down BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYj Great BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjY' menced and tho Territorial Lcgisla-BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYj Lcgisla-BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYj ture BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJR Utali. Pioneer day of 1S90 was a da' BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjBr which marked the beginning of a new BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJT era for Salt Lake City and for Utah. BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjH "With tho advent of the progressive BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJ Moment in control, instead of bringing BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJ the misery, the great increase in taxa- BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJJ tion which tho organ of tho band of BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjSt twenty-six had prophesied, came pros- ) pority, progress, came paved street's, sidewalks. sewerage system, a bettor water system; name everything modern, everything that would build up a great citj- and a great State. Aud BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYH Statehood, tho boon -so long sought,' BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjH "And this progress continued and a city has been buildcd up and a creat State has been developed. And it has been done despite tho howling BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJ and raving of the organs of the band BjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYjYJj of twenty six. True, it has cost money, but this is insignificant when compared j to the the value of H property which today, in Salt Lake Citv alone, amounts to approximately B Must Completo Improvements, H "Now, improvements which Bi have been started must be completed. v To do (his will cost money. But it BjYjYjYjW 1 -If- will have to be expended. Those who BjYjYjYX ft ffo 1 were told in the past that: public im- BjYjYjYjJ j yjk' f provemcnt would ruin them know bct- BjYjYjYjJ ( ter now. They have had ocular dem- .' (JR i onst ration of what public improvement BjYjYjYjf I; If, i does for them. And I know whereof BjYjYjYjj jT X speak when I say that the money i vBH ' m- 't 1 nocessary to complete public improve- I BBBBH B menta now under way will be appro- I BBBBB ' priated by the people when they go to I BBBBB :M the polls on Wednesday next. BBBBB j :B. "Pioneer cluy has given, my people BBBBfl ' ft a day to hold conferences and to ais- BBBBV j il; cuss mcusures and ways and means. It BBBB1 'II- is a holiday, Thw havo visited each ri. BK !ln BBBBH I 1'-' BBBBhEv 1 m i other, have. broken bread together, havo talked of tho lonjj ago, havo talked of ! tho progress made iu the past few years, of tho brilliant future for Salt Lake City and for Utah. Thoy are independent toda3r. The band of twenty-six docs not rule them as of old. There is neither politics nor religion in the question of public improvement. The howl of the organs of the band of twenty'flix, tho mouthings of the Cranes and the Tuttles and the .Jo- ! scphs tind the Fernstroms and their ilk i will cut no figure beyond their own vote. The $(100,000 bond issue will carry. Pioneer day has helped it alocc."- ' |