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Show H MONOLITHS. Public Ecntiment has been growing rapidly of late in favor of the mono-lithic mono-lithic columns (for the new capitol. It is realized that tho fifty-two monoliths will mnko of tho capitol a motlumcnt uniquo in tho world. It -will attract to Halt Lake thousands of tourists who otlicrwiso might pass tho city by. It will havo n romnrkablo publicity value wherever man aro intorostod in noblo works of arcliitocturo. Year after year Salt Lako has been increasing its beauty and impressive-Hess impressive-Hess by tho construction of splendid HLj 1-ui'dings. This city must always rc-Bt rc-Bt mnin a center for sightycers, and it Ki wll ho a paying investment for tho B city to mako all of its public buildings B-i gool to look upon. . The advertisuig value, howcx'cr, of B k ii-h a etrttcturo its, aftor all, a hiinor Bf consideration. Fntttro goucrntionB will H thank the people of this day in Utah K, if tbev construct such air epic in mar- B: Mp Those who ?pnd hours in and K, Rboul tho great cathedrals of France K. ami Italy and who arc inspired to lofty R! tho'ightg by the capitol nt Wnthington Hi n"d i'.v tho various rongnincont state rapitols that have been built In tho last Br tnrnty or thirty years, look back with Bj esteem and nlTnclion upon the generos-Ki generos-Ki itv of tho !K?ople who bcliovod that Bv brantv n qiiit essential to the Fj WOlij - I ntif r- ).-jrrfv ,t lif4 worker dies in a dny." The world doe-not doe-not lonjr lomcmbcr thoso who havo performed per-formed its routine work and performed that work devotedly and willingly, but it wishes novcr to forgot tho ''bards sublimo whoso distant footsteps echo down the corridors of time. 11 Tho monolithic mon-olithic cplumns will nialec of tho capitol capi-tol n poem ns august and as thrilling ns Milton- "Paradise Lost," or the 'Hyperion' of .John Keats. Tho p'eoplo of Utah mn3 bo suro that its capitol commission will givo thorn tho monolithic columns if possible. They havo every contidonee in tho commissioners com-missioners and know tlint they will tlo all tho3 ran p crcato this great monument. monu-ment. Jt may not bo ons3 to obtain tho money noccsanry to secure tho col-unius. col-unius. but we are convinced that the people of Utah will sanction a very largo expenditure above the appropriation appropria-tion if thoy can but obtain this monolithic mono-lithic marvel. |
