| Show 1 OM ittsn OP nut TIMIS i The Jomn Journal MS it Jon i Is generally coneeded to bo the most beautiful little city In the State ns neh no lottE one of the mITt IrOB tennis Hut It Ii I n notable act tEnth h I when it cornea to public I enterprlie nt fP I I ognn Is deficient The Journal ClinT n list of Instiincen In which the lack 0yk ot public spirit nnd enterprise uhloh t it allege e Into has been manirested nnd urge n reformation particularly It In the way of thing more encouruge mcnt to alnumnl oRlb or 1 chcstru choirs fast horses banclnll 11 llaiers football experts etc eannot le given a fair opportunity to display J their various excellencies without the encouragement of tEn general public ot i JCot alone In dearth of amusements Is Logan ehlnd the times but nina In mutton of Inn mnrn nontonent to the I I tJ masses of the people Its financial I I J mercantile nnl manufacturing inter I tsts lack a gnat deal of that development I develop-ment they ought to have achieved by W4 this time considering everything It Is I the center of one of the loveliest nnd 44 most fertile nod populous vallejs In the jj4J Intcrmountaln region cod Judging by I F I rtm a traveler moo nndotjh clutch i 11 of towns similarly located It ought 4 to be a Iuy thriving prosperous I raplellj growing elf One would naturally suppose tint It would be an Ideal location for a general merchandise l merchan-dise Jobbing house but It has no I wholesale stores It Is I the county p seat of a county whose djlrj products nmount to nn enormouB um nnnulIJI I yet It has no creamer > It Is I nn Ideal location for a woolen mill but owns no vmtlue of tunIc a thlngi the nearest i I ku J approach thereto being a small knit I P2f1 tlog factory Its facilities for manufactures IJI manu-factures of various kinds nre first elasn 1 tj hut the only manufacturing Interest cl I that has been fostered In a degree worth mentioning is I the llourlng mill l business In this particular line It 1 must be confessed the town has done V 1r well p Probably more than one cause has 1kA contributed to prevent combinations of the capital that exists In plenty In the iI town for the building up of Its sub slantlal Interests but among them I i11uj undoubtedly figures the Intense political J l34 politi-cal partlsanlsm for which the 4 metropolis ot Cache uncnvHbly l I noted So strong Is political feeling I 1i there that Ills not confined to politics I l44 but It enters Into the closest and most i L Important relations of life It keeps I rjj men apart not only politically and during a campaign when political enthusiasm I en-thusiasm may bo more or less excusable 1 ex-cusable but In social business and i r even religious relations and between rccnpolgnsnheneetctllolo iieople elsewhere < tiT else-where lay aside politics anl give attention atten-tion to the more substantial and Important Im-portant affairs of life For pram the spirit of political par tlsanlsm has hong like a pall over the r 1 j fair town of Logan The visitor feels It as he would a ehlll In the nlr and the resident surfers from It ns d he might I from malarial ellluvla It depresses de-presses the spirits of the Inhabitants I ellscourages enterprise prevents concerted 1 con-certed effort for the building up of the place and Is u veritable curse And i 0IacalprennItdnlnadoftlPlngtu neutralize and remove It Is I engaged In a constant effort to foment strengthen l be dim en and Intensify It I would cult perhaps to name a town whose best and highest Interest have suffered suf-fered more at the hinds of Its local t1 lr0s > thnn have lEone of logan If the evil eloud l ot political patti Biinlsm that lowers over the town f could be dlsslplted and thei ohlou y of fraternal feeling could be macc to take Its plaee there would be a wonderful O won-derful lighting up ot the future and t brightening up of i reeent etmrtltlons 1 throughout Its I rders New Ills aMt aM-t f activity would be dlspl1 > d I not only 111 f il noclal nod religious but In Mian fc1e I I clal matters and the town v ouli J grow and thrive as It cainot do undo II existing I conditions I The removal of the evil lnndvoek that must accomplished I If nt all 1 > I IW tho people acting ns Individuals lhn men nnd women of the bacon mann 1 Ir an Individual capnclt rOam to i Jleld any longer to u spirit of parti i nanism In IoHtLcn that will effect un l ivorobly their esteem of or thlr con duet towards their fellow clllrea 10 any relation I In life The people must j refuse to suppert harbor or listen to 1 any agency cchoeedctlect In I tho fo 4 irentatlon of strife and did Inlaid and Ii put in jracttee those precept of union under whleh thell town grew throve and profepvrod for the first thirty yearn j ot Its existepte If the local trees Is really I earnest 11 In deploring I u lack of cnturpilae and I In desiring to ceo actlvltv Odd prosperity pros-perity take tin place of tho 11 resent apathy It will case the Kill cnn > cat quarreling that has eo long been goIng go-Ing on lu Its columns and will tlent I public matters with some tluw of patriotism If not statesmaurhlp rather I than with narrow porUsnnlslll and Instead of working to tear down and destroj It will endeavor to tOll up 1 and create |
