Show t c-t i oi 0 LET tHE FACTS BE PUBLISHED S S I I 5 f i I It is only fair S to emphasize e the fact that by the returns returns of the census Salt Lake City shows almost 1 greater rat ratio of increase o in the Uc last d decade cade than than 5 I as i j t other othor cit city in the union It is only fair fail to stateS state S TI it d.-it ought to be he published generally that this in- in ill ill-i 5 crease Y r ase is not the increase of ten years Jears but of live five five o years and when men nien ask the reason to have hac it t them that up to five years oars ago this city was under the control of f a power which h had held it c for forty years rears that the present population 1 should have bejm here at least thirty years ago and andS S t J ld have been had this been an au American city 1 It should be mentioned that Salt Lake Lak City was wast wasi t i Ild I hel back by a government which is seeking to tol 5 l 1 S 'S Jasten ten 5 its foundations on the soil of this republic v I s such ch a lJ wa way that they cannot be removed but S X 3 which in its Hs essential features feature is the tIie very opposite oppositeS S VY of of free fre government such as our countr country expects i in A sovereign state such state such as th the fathers father provided provide S S should should prevail in every sovereign state tate That gov- gov T c eminent no now has two senators a ad d one representative 5 tive in congress Mid the allegiance of the whole 5 delegation is not to the government of If the United States save in a secondary way Wy The Thc allegiance is Ov given to n this is hostile power yer that is growing is-growing here M V ind nd which lIas to this date late h hold held ld Utah in iu such a i 5 P P. i jon 11 tha that if every other th l state stab in ih the union was vas j S t the public v c S. S u I would would- lt 1 las away away- ny 9 in in ina n a aS t 1 1 f 0 b L L S I- I 5 5 S S 5 month and wo would pass ss too by bythe the vote ot the majority ma ma- of the people And when lien hen men con come o here stay two days clays despicable scrubs bs like the editor of the Philistine men all and women and and are taken in ard done for wined and feasted basted and given a SI small retainer just as a mark of esteem and they go east and get a p place ace in distinguished publications to tell that if it were not for some lawless and revolutionary revo revo- l and rascally interlopers ers that have gone gonet t tt Utah and have havo tried to make trouble in their sovereign state it would be at once buce once the most moral among the most intellectual the most mosi happy an and contented population in all the union the answer answer ought t to be that the worst enemies that these people peo peo- plo complain of never insisted upon anything more severe against the Mormon l people than that they me C within the laws of or the United States and of civilization and that when they put their hands handson i on the free ballot of our republic they shall not nt taint trint that ballot by holding in reserve for another hostile power their best and allegiance And that one proof of the tho truth of the f fore fore- re- re going is that the moment the iron hand was was was' broken that had held Salt Lake in tl thralldom ra om so o. o long and the rule became that of a free American rule the city began to grow and has increased in swifter ratio during the last five years than in any other spot over which the tho sun of the republic shines |