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Show Ibv hmb " flHB BIHW BBW Hi hb MBkHR SAMUEL NEWHOUSE i 0, As to finance Salt Lake stands Al. It has had only one bank failure In the last twenty years and that was only a small affair. In financial matters mat-ters Salt Lake is solid. In the commercial com-mercial panics which the- country has experienced Intermittently Salt Lake's financial houses and Salt Lake's merchants and manufactures stood calmly by unscathed, while ruin and disaster held sway on every hand. Salt Lake is the center of culture and refinement in all this western country. It excels in music, painting paint-ing and poetry. The glorious mountains, moun-tains, the crags and peaks, the great lakes and the pure invigorating air such as can bo found nowhere olso are inspirations, breaths from heaven, which touch the lips and the souls of our artists, and give expression in painting, sculpture, poetry and song. Religious Advantages. Religion, do you say? Yes, Salt Lake has representatives of all kinds of religious thought and all aro abso lutely free to worship God as they please or not worship at all If they so please. Mormons, Catholics, Episcopalians, Epis-copalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, Campbell! tes, Methodists, Unitarians and every other kind down to the Holy Jumpers aro hero and all enjoy equal rights and privileges, not only In theory but in actual practice. Nobody No-body cares what bo the religions proclivities pro-clivities of his noighbor as long as ho accords the other fellow tho same privilege as ho claims for himself and conducts himself decently and decorously. decor-ously. , . Thero is less drunkenness in Salt Lake than in any city of its size in America, fewer saloons In Utah by half than in most states In tho Union on a basis of population, fewer gamblers, gam-blers, less crime and only CO polygamous polyga-mous men in all of Salt Lake City. This latter fact may bo doubted by some in view of misinformation that peoplo labor under, but it is an absolute abso-lute fact just tho same. |