Show Against Strong Reasons Why It Should Not Be Built in Near Future i The following vigorous article from the pen of Paul of the University was crowded out of the last for which it had been written in ample It contains matters of such vital moment that it is now printed after instead of before the Sentiment in even this city is somewhat divided about building the Capitol at this and we shall presently have something more to say about Editor To the Editor of The Independent Before this protest shall have reached your the people of Utah will in all probability have fettered themselves financially by voting to to build the state Thereby they will effectually rob most of their children of the possibility of securing a first class high school on even common school will of the millions that be practically thrown away on a mere will cast aside the present ability of their state to build and good will effectively put an end to carrying out the idea of reclaiming their dry valleys through extensive water storage by the state and and will literally reject the present magnificent opportunity of reforesting the Wasatch canyons and higher And all for To erect a ridiculous stone palace on Capitol Hill a building that we shall twenty years to be better off and by that time the increase in wealth and population will enable us to build a suitable capitol without cutting off our power to do something worth while in the development and conservation of our resources and in the reclamation of our vast and valuable des- ert Party Not that I imagine that the people can be led through any words of mine to pause in the mad beginning of extravagance recommended to them by the Are the people party-ridden They pay little attention to what their politicians are doing with their They seem to think that somebody else really pays the and hence that there is no occasion to worry about how they are But nobody else pays the and there is no more waste of mon- ey than governmental Even at its says a reliable economic dollar that the Government throws away is a dollar taken from productive It means a dollar's work for a-dollar that can no longer contribute toward the general economic progress of the The Indifferent An Eastern paper calls attention to the fact that while Congress is considering a tariff bill that will raise a year in and during its lifetime will probably take no less than in public revenue from the pockets of the the indifferent people scarcely notice what Congress is The indirect taxation for the profit of protected industries will amount to more than the public treasury is safe to say that this bill means not less than of taxation in one form or and as Speaker Cannon not one letter in fifty makes any objection to Practically the only organized on the part of consumers was made by the who objected to the duties on gloves and The average American seems content to let the newspapers fight the battle for the protection of his is true in the National Government is true in State and city Hughes of New York has just hacked from the State budget a very respectable sum of money but no organized protest against the appropriations of either the New York Legislature or of on-own has yet been Only recently has any considerable ment the population come to appreciate the meaning of such waste and Utah's Yet there are some who actively disapprove of unnecessarily and flippantly increasing the present load that is being piled upon the hack of that patient and uncomplaining beast of whom the politicians call the public when speaking openly but dub and treat as an ass when they are vot- ing And this hasty presentation of a well considered truth will serve to voice the pro tests of those who are convinced that this capitol building proposition is at the present day an actual menace to the prospective development of this rapidly growing Governor Spry's Says Governor June 8 there will be submitted to the people of the state a question which I regard as one of the most vital business importance Shall the state proceed to erect a capitol The real question is this Shall the State of Utah proceed to devote two million dollars that ought to be at work in the of the vast and almost untouched resources of the state to the building of a costly and relatively worthless ornament on Capitol The Governor's argument to prove that the location of the state was definitely and finally settled under the provisions of section 3 of article 19 of the which permanently located the seat of government at Salt Lake seems to be and I have nothing to urge against that part of his The other parts of the Governor's argument for the immediate erection of a state capitol building do not impress though he has well stated the facts and has put the case as strongly as its inherent weakness He with the which is biennially convened at the seat of and continuing through every co-ordinate branch of state the accommodations are entirely inadequate to the growing demands of the scattered location of state officers renders the of business sw i and the volume of UA business lt iterative be M to speedy That L course there w certain amount of m J having more J which the legislature for 60 days once to transact the which the foS er act during the last In tut for the nest increasing state business can be just and far mn cally transacted in j apartments than ia For the rent urn by the state to Salt Lib qT for offices and for tie ings of the legislature be sufficient to pay the and firemen in the it would not par I coal The supposition M the state could save u by moving the offices into i is a speculation till nores present facts and i all of which Id show that the expenses pain and otherwise faking gigantic state house than all the rent at paid by the state f its this A Better How much better is way of the state of in the manner the final disposition a state buildings than is idle proposal to tk money for something il rather than to i to use proposes it state building exploit and to fc marks o I bear the sight and ZA I asking oft J federal capita to per j that productive asset tc I Building to According to f i the the f the campus and j on of the University of After the of the the S and a buildings will t University at the to the S f Df the Six hun- G dollars has been 5 that will be ad- h to those already owned by 'S giving it a pi aid and housing badly and which it would have j fa many years to acquire This will be the W time that permanent hive been erected for exposi- And Also f k of the Exposition build- the Fine Au- Machinery f State Arctic and Woman's Building are to be permanent the first three of these of brick and and feted so as to be near and con- with the present engineer-Jk jj buildings of the m Jle Auditorium and the Fine Arts are two of the largest buildings on the Exposition grounds The Fine Arts will be the permanent chemistry and the Auditorium will be used for all university public with class-rooms and offices on the first The Auditorium has a seating capacity of persons and has iu all seven so arranged as to make good provision for escape in case of It faces on Alaska just inside the entrance The front facade consists of a Corinthian which makes the dimensions of by feet appear smaller than they really The Auditorium cost Engineering and now used by the engineering department of the is the third building of permanent brick and mill architecturally treated as a modern design of the Spanish The United States Government has had a complete timber and building material testing-station and plant in Machinery Hall since its completion six months Arctic is built out of logs and is typical of the homes in Alaska and the north of surrounded by landscape decorations representative of the gardens of the At the close of the Exposition it will be used by the University of Washington as a museum of history and a fraternity house for students from Alaska attending the university permanent building of value to the university is the Forestry a city block one of the largest log-houses ever built and one of the most conspicuous structures on the The forestry apartment of the university will be housed in this building the Will Utah Do As How do the people of Utah like Seattle's The breadth of view and magnificence of statecraft manifested by a sister commonwealth will contrast strongly with our own pitiful temporizing with the State University and our sinful proposition to rob the public school and the high o school Why seek to get on our hands for the next twenty-five years a costly white elephant in the shape of a gigantic toy for state officers to Why not put up buildings that will serve some useful The development of the the advertisement of its the display of its the preservation of its the collection of its natural the bringing together iu and mountain parks of our wonderful species of plant and animal our minerals building and other valuable artistic and industrial suggestion for progress and prosperity do not the people of Utah care more for these things than for a suitable place for the state officers to I fear but the election figures will tell the A Few Of Our With almost every town or county suffering today from floods and not a dollar in the treasury to do anything permanent to prevent the recurrence of these nual with twenty million acres valuable land lying idle simply because we have state money with to build with roads of mud that tax every farmer enough in ten years to make them solid and and the state without the means of improving them in the face of these and other similar pressing needs will it not be folly to expend every lar we can raise in twenty years for something that we can easily get along But state needs a but it needs modern good orchards and and these can be had unless we waste our as certain states have f on the building of monuments of folly and false pride when we cannot afford such Almost every man an but he also needs a house to live and which does he choose high and the reclamation of 20 million acres of good dry land then the capitol and no one will object to Tours for progress before |