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Show WHAT MADE THE CITY GROW. As is well known to all of our citizens, it has only been since the progressives hero orgauized the American party that Salt Lake has leaped forward in growth to an extent never before experienced hereabouts. There is a reason for that, and the reason is that the men who formerly had control of the muuioipality refused to join in with any but their own kind in any enterprise. There was a system of ostrncism practiced that constantly retarded Salt Lake and Utah aud built up the Mormon church at the expense of the commonwealth. -This is how thoy used to talk: The Gentiles arc coming among us to buy our homes and land. We should not sell to thum, as they arc enemies of tho kingdom of God. Said he had not sought to bu a vast land owner, but had never sold an inch of ground to an cnomy of God's work.-rKrom Dixie Advocate's report re-port of a sermon by Joseph F. Smith, delivered de-livered at St. George In September. 11(04. Probably there never was. another prominent ecclesiast of the Mormon church who was quito so filled with enmity against the Gentiles as was and is Joseph F. Smith; but they all occasionally occa-sionally talked in a similar strain. And it aoems to run particularly in the blood of the Joseph F. Smith family to rail against and ostracize Gentiles, for it was but a short time later that ApoS' tic Ilyrum .M. Smith, at the Alpine stnke conference, gave vent to a similar malevolent male-volent expression. There was n time, too. in the earlier days when the senior Smith used to tell the people that God would cursa any and all of them who sold laud to the hated Gentile. It was that sort of cvij work that stunted Salt Lake, and it, was only when it was rendered harmless by the American Ameri-can parity that this town began to thrive. And that h a good thing to remember when dociding as to winch party it is .best to support. |