Show A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK Election will be over in three weeks more and some of its effects are already being discounted For instance the clothing men are counting upon a great winters winter's trade and as spring goods are made in early winter we are informed that the manufacturers are preparing to produce unusually heavy stocks for fornest next nest year This of course is anticipating a year without without without with- with out clouds in the business sky and the making up inI in I trade what f failed to be realized last spring Trade J over sea is depressed but the reliance upon the United Unit- Unit j I ed States for food and textiles is unchanged We Ve still are the outside worlds world's dependence for both food and textiles which in itself is a mighty guarantee of peace But this fact is also a notice to us that weare we weare are not husbanding our resources as they should be husbanded Three or four foreign nations have to tomake tomake make up to us annually a deficit of What if wo we were in that fix how long would we h have ve any money left 1 It would worry the old world if in our own lavish extravagance we did not pay all that vast balance back In fares and freights our country pays to foreign ship owners an an- Our tourists expend across the tho sea more By American corporations railroad and manufacturing some more is sent away and find that explains how it il was with a mighty balance of trade in our favor for a dozen years past last ann au an- autumn I. I n it was as found that there was not money enough in our country to go round Would great Britain o or r I France Erance or Germany permit such a drain 1 The tour tour- expense cannot be he stopped until the passion seizes our people to take in the wonders of our own western country but surely we wc might do our own ocean carrying car car- trade If there is no po other way wh why cannot the government make th the carrying ng of American freights and ond passengers an adjunct of the navy There arc enough educated officers to do the work the tho government government govern govern- ment meat needs heeds the ships and it would bo be the best besL way to supply the war navy with recruits and with it done clone we wo should no longer have to charter foreign ships to supply our navy on foreign stations with coal Then too all our ship yards would be alive I with skilled workers building and repairing ships I and the mone money thus paid out would be kept at home But this is a digression We Ve were speaking of the trade outlook If the clothing men Dlen are confident then the boot and shoe men shot should d be and the same causes ought to give a hopeful vie view to every ery branch of trade Just now the money for the harvest as well at home as for that sent abroad ought to be piling up in great deposits in eastern cities and making glad the homes of the farmers and planters If there is a little flurry and the threat of confusion just after election it will soon be quieted and trade will seek normal channels In the meantime Utah's great mineral mineral min min- eral fields a are e steadily yielding what is easiest convertible convertible con con- into money and the news from the mines in all all directions is full of encouragement We believe that Utah can confidently count on a prosperous year jear And as Salt Lake City is to Utah and a large portion of Nevada and Idaho what Paris is to France and London to England the outlook for this city is altogether al- al altogether altogether al al- together rosy It is going to grow and grow brrOW and grow Its future was never neer so bright as it is right now its business was never better the foundation for its increasing business was never before so firm Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving day daJ this year jear should be hailed with joyous and grateful hearts for the blessings received for the still other blessings in store for the city |