Show TOO MUCH PRAISE experience has Is t tausha au V ht tile the western J people to beware of boonis ho oniS J the easiest way to sink money is to invest it in a buom boom the most uncertain fortune is that which is built upon a boom NV western estern men lave have found this out and a i highly C colored picture na naturally y r excites their suspicion Ext extravagant gant descriptions of a place are never beneficial they lead to expect more lore than they are arc able to find and they convey to the wise a su suggestion of paid advertising mattor matter we read i a modest with sonic some degree of confidence in the writer but there issach is such a thing as spreading b it on oil too thick for human credulity at the cost of time and money nien men have learned that a mine niina is is not necessarily the richest because bebau e it has received received the most attention that a town way may exist only on paper although M its pamphlets contain tile the cuts of ma massive sive buildings 0 that places pictured out as 0 gaiden aiden spots are arc often bairen deserts Je AertS and in short that all that tiuis 0 glitters litters is not gold boid consequently when they reat read I 1 an overdone di of a place or parson person the questions naturally arise I ilow how much did the writer recede for an all article like that and what is the public expected to do now for this person or place I 1 1 towns are boomed for the purpose of trapping en 0 an all investor men are boomed boomed fo for r other pur purposes pubes sometimes we read of men with the wisdom of pericles the eloquence of demosthenes the statesmanship nimis bip of cicero the ambition of yo wa the lace face and figure baure of apollo the personal magnetism 0 of don juan and the belvery voice of a siren such quell men have an ax to grind they wish to go fio on exhibition in congress at other 0 times wo we read of men who control our national leibla le legislation as with a ma magic ic wand who slap our 0 greatest statesmen on tile lie back and keep keel on oil familiar terms with all the leaders of our land who glide in and out of their carefully guarded offices like a streak of sunshine such men are not working M for their health alone they fain would serve their country in the senate and then again n we read of men who are arc described as being mightier than the mightiest braver than the bravest holier than the holiest hollest ho liest smarter than the smartest wiser than the wiest wi estand and better than the best and such a description even of an excellent man cannot fail to do lihn him harm and cause an inquiry as to its object and intent we have heard men praised till they might with propriety ask to be delivered from their friends when we hear a man jorn compared pared with tile the leaders of his people as bing being a greater prop prophet liet than their greatest a greater statesman than their greatest a greater poet than ther their greatest a greater orator than their greatest a greater philoa ophar than their greatest and in short ellort a greater man mail than any one ever suspected him of being C we begin 0 to enquire what office lie is 21 bout about to ask for nothing short of governor would satisfy so 0 great a man in the meantime it would lie be well for the people of U utah tali to watch the leading C organ of both political parties as well as ionic iome of ou r alleged aion nonpartisan non partisan periodicals if they wish to determine tile the candidates in tile the coming 0 state stale campaign camo we ve are a peculiar people aud and if power plants make iman irrigation schemes may develop governors let us tic watch the bacs for highly colored pic altur es and begin to turn the grind stone for the originals may have axes to 0 giand |