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Show HOTEL MEN INDIGNANT. Hotel men. nnd those who furnish supplies to hotels, hnckmon who haul tourists, nnd all those who aro Interested Inter-ested In the ontertnlnniont of visitors who como to tho city, nro Indignant nnd up In arms because of tho distribution distri-bution of tho matter Issued under the auspices of "The Gentile Information Bureau." It appears thnt this matter printed has boon distributed through tho oast, very extensively nnd thnt it Is lnllitnting against t.ils city nnd stato. Pcoplo do not want to stop hero on their way to tho const becauso they havo read this stuff and believe it. They rognrd the pcoplo of Utah as being be-ing bad and think it is not snfo to drop off hero for a few hours. Salt Lake City, nnd Utah, aro discriminated dis-criminated against enough nlready. Stopover tickets aro not issued for a long enough period, nnd the attention of tlio railroads has been directed 0 this condition more than once by this paper. Instond of tourists being given n fow dnys here, they nro not allowed moro than twenty-four hours, nnd when connections nro delayed visitors do not have a chance to see nil they want to. Now to add to tho discomfort, of thitf situatiqn, (ho ."Gentile Information nureau" comes, with its unsavory, docu incuts warning pcoplo against Utah as a plnco to visit or a. spot for . Diyqst-" ment; , ..... ! Vi.: I The trouble breeders may iiott; understand un-derstand thnt tourists aro a sourco of revenue to this city. Every person stopping off ono day in Salt Lake may bo counted as having added flyo dollars dol-lars to:tho circulating medium; somo of t.heni ,mor.e,. some. perhap3 less, but thpy vijl average that, In the judg; ment; of . the hotel men who ought to know.. Each, bn.e hundred tourists means $5,000.00. When the stay Is prolonged pro-longed tp two days, double the amount is received. Thousands of people cross the continent ach year. We ought to get ten dollnrs apiece, from them and would, If proper efforts wore made Although the hotels are tho greatest beneficiaries, the city ds a wholo profits by it, for the butcher, tho baker, tho merchant, and the help employed em-ployed assist In putting tho money Into tho arteries of circulation. ,Any method used that tends- to .chock, people coming hero is damaging to-tlje cit.y. It must bo remembered that plenty of tourists visit the coast and are Induced to Invest money thoro. Those same people might bo Induced to invest in JJ,tah. Ergo, each time a man Is deterred from stopping here to look over the sltiid'tibfi'wo losd the cost of entertainment and ' tho possible chance of securing an investor. , It Is hard to understand why those malcontents ' persist, In ttaklng tho action ac-tion they do take. Becauso if they arc want to Improve conditions here, they sincere in their assertions that they would surely want to Increase tho population pop-ulation by adding members of their pwn belief to tho inhabitants. Tourists Tour-ists aro not Mormons; they aro Gentiles. Gen-tiles. Every time one Is kept away, just so often aro tho chances of Gen-til Gen-til nscondnncy depreciated by one. Unless Un-less better reasons nre offered, wo cannot can-not help but assign the following a? tho chief: It looks as if tho malcon tents wanted to keep Utah back in order to make capital out of an alleged condition hero and fear tho day when Gentiles will be in tho ascendency, be cause then their occupation will be gono. |