Show noted writer gives strong praise to salt lako is given recognition as one of the most attractive centers of the entire west in an article by elberic hubbard in alie current aue of the fro more than eight pages of the magazine are devoted to praises of salt lake and her people outlining the progress of sixty three 5 ears of history A large part of the article is riven over to a commendation of the mormon people their life and their habits extracts follow the patience that the mormon people have shown hs been one of their chief claims to the respect of the world no one cm visit utah now and see the cities farms schools and colleges some far remote from railroads without being with the worth 0 the moral qualities of these people the death rate in salt lake is eleven per thousand chii is less than any other city in the united states of an equal or greater lation in the country districts it averages aa low as eight per thousand in the days of polygamy no woman over by man there were no heartbroken women no suicides no outcasts no insanity unworthy men who forget the rights of other people never found a footing such men never had any inclination toward mormonism strong drink and tobacco were always tabooed and are yet the mormon women had big families they brought their children up to work and be useful they had a firm hold on the few virtues for winch civilization has never found a substitute they were industrious economical temperate honest these virtues still abide in utah they are the rule and not the exception the mormon people need node fence schools colleges parks hotels good roads paved streets happy homeland home sand great smiling stretches of fertile farms well tilled are tongues that tell their own story utah has really not yet been discovered her resources have not yet been tapped less than 10 per cent of her available tillable land is under the plow and the extent of the wealth stored in her mountains is incomputable what is to the piano mcclellan is to the pipe organ is the manner in which hubbard refers to prof john J mcclellan tabernacle organist the particle outlines the early struggle of the pioneers and contrasts with them the agricultural opportunities the civic beauties and the educational system of the present day herald republican |