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Show A CASE FOR LOVE MAKING. A great many aristocrat coine to America every year, their tfcret miaaion being to marry aome old man's money through the medium of hia ' (TailghteraTridearihat a' yomair-ahcmld never marry a man unleaa ahe ia so fond of him that she fecla willing to lend him her tooth brush does not prevail in Europe to any great extent. There they ieok after the coin, and when an earl or a baron or a count or a no account European comes to this country and begins to pay special attention to aome young woman it ia possible that he is sincere, but it ia just possible that hia real intention is. if possible, to tet a portion of her fataer'e fortune. This is preliminary to aaying that if it is true that Mrs. Harriman ia coming wcat to apend the summer on the Bancroft-Burley ranch, we would not fcdv.se any individual love making to Mrt- Harriman, especially not with Mr. Burley, because be-cause Mr. Burley ia kind of flirt. Give him a free pasa over all the Jinea that lead to matriaiony and he would accept, but the trouble with him ' thf-t he ia like one of those circular railroads that have too terminal points at all. What we mean is that a 'general lov mlting .to Mrs. Ilarriman would be excusable under our customs, if not under un-der our laws. The object would aot be to carry Mrs. Harrimar off her feet and make her conclude tbaf some Individual in the west waa a? the world t her, but a general love making so that she would get in love, not with any man, but with Utafl, and the motive for thia ia juat aa selfish aa that which avtaatea the foreign lord when he comes here to marry, the native lady v It is ao to prepare her mwd that ..whet), y the. eourae of time if .s,he decides. tQ endow a university that she will pick; Utah for .he site'. The University of California was founded by one of the most magnificent scholars, one of the loveliest men that ever came to thia coast. He gave to the university a sort of sacrednesa, so capable wase, so gentK, ao strong, ao learned. When he gave up hia work and folded his arms in the last sleep it waa a riayof mourning all over Walifomis. Now, aa we understand it, Mrs. lit ..rst has that university uni-versity under her eye and partially under her care, and it ia expected that a great part of her fortune will go to it. Down Palo Alto way the Stanford . university ia dedicated to the memory of the Stanford Stan-ford family. Utah is right in the center of. the Harriman system of roads, both the steam roads and the electric roads, and if a university ia to be built anywhere it ahould be in consonance with the purpose behind it, and the Ilarriman university in Utah would perpetuate the Harriman name more than it would in California. . . There ia another thing about it which should be considered. A three-year-old California colt is ef)uai to a four-year-old Kentucky colt, and it take aix or seven yean to bring out in Tull a Kentucky horse, but the Kentucky horse outlasts the California Cali-fornia horse. And it is ao with boya The writer knew a celebrated professor once who insisted that while the youth of California would be most precocious, preco-cious, the climatic condition would make it impossible impos-sible to raise there a auperior race of men. The object of a university is to perfect a race of men, and if the reasoning is correct in that case Utah s . a superior place; to California, and hence the pcoplu t. Utah ought tn make love to Mrs. Harriman when ahe comes west; make love thia far; they oi ht to make her feel that there is no people mo'ii appreciative, no people with more generous hearts and gentle courtesy than those of Utah, and while sii may not now have any idea of building a university uni-versity anywhere, later it might come to her thdt it would be good to perpetuate the Harriman naisy in the ststt which holds one end of a road that was the biggest factor in creating hia fortune, and i .demonstrating hia auperior abilities as a far a.-' itg man and railroad magnate. |