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Show I OUR HIGH SCHOOL CADETS. We desire to heartily commend the public spirit displayed by Salt Lake City's citizens in raising means to defray the expenses of the cadets' trip to San Francisco to participate in the reception to be given there in honor of the arrival of the fleet in that port. This trip will not only result in everlasting benefit to the boys who make the journey, jour-ney, but it will also, in numberless ways, prove beneficial to our city and state. The boys will profit by the sights and wonders they behold and will return feeling more proud than ever of their native land and its achievements. The state will be benefitted by the advertisement it will receive by having sent such a worthy specimen of its coming manhood to represent it in the vast multitude of people who will assemble as-semble in the "Golden Gate" city. It is just such things as this that Utah needs to place her people in their true light before the citizens of the Nation. We have had altogether al-together too much injurious advertising that has brought us notoriety ; what we need is to spend more energy and devote more time in demonstrating demon-strating that wc arc not different from the inhabitants of any other state in any respect, unless it be in that we have more golden opportunities, oppor-tunities, more undeveloped resources and brighter promises of a brilliant bril-liant future than any other community in the world. The people of California and every other person when they see this splendidly drilled and disciplined battalion of boys; see their bright intelligent faces, their ruddy cheeks and manly bearing, must be impressed with the fact that after all Salt Lake City's people must , compose a progressive, prosperous and intelligent community. |