| Show n n n nIN IN COMPETITION PETITION WITH OTHER STATES UTAH LEADS THEM ALL 1 I Continued from first column c cIn In contemplating the features of Utah Ulah and her resources of which I have made mention I have hac often asked myself the thc ques question question I tion What good thing has arr ar state in time the Union to offer that Utah lacks I Comparing the time advantages item by item I have hae concluded that Utah has every good feature that the sister states have to offer olTer unless it be bc peace anc ane has ha none of the bad ad 7 features unless it be intolerance And I regard this condition as a most grave and serious drawback to our rapid growth and red resulting commercial prosperity It is not my m purpose to sermonize sermonize nor is it my m intention nuon to tc particularize The strife mak meek makers makers F ers the time quarrelsome the time community slanderers the thc fault finders the time commonwealth assassins and prosperity y im imm arc too well known within our borders to be named The influence of this type within the time state is a t minus m i II h but hut 1 their continual tirades can eau never destroy the time resources of Utah even een though they have hindered and may continue to re rc retard retard I iI i tard their development clop Where 11 hearsay is the time only criterion for forming opinions op the time influence i of this t class is power powerful 1 ful against the time state in in the time promotion of whose interests their efforts and influence rightfully should be directed It is is i x i m this influence that makes stakes of Utah a resting place in the westward march of oC instead of a stopping slopping place 1 HERITAGE OF AMERICANS J p pas The spirit of intolerance b bon has as grown grows in our midst until in in many man quarters to honestly differ with a man in his views on a public question is but to make of him an enemy The Time day da has long since since passed when men can be deprived the right righta to think on public questions and voice an opinion thereon so long as the expression of that opinion is is not contrary a to 3 r law and order The right to lo opinion ib is is the thc heritage of inertia American 1 1 citizenship I decry the lime spirit of cramming down a amans amans I i mans throat whether he will or no time the opinions and beliefs of another and my lilY contempt for the men who are arc always i ready to question the motives of those who differ with them simply because they do differ is supreme A difference of i 4 opinion should not breed hate hale and a desire to lo crush and ruin by questioning the honesty of those tho e who chance to differ No community ever made rapid strides in mil development with wilh such a wrecking influence abroad Utah will never neer develop rapidly and realize on her resources to any an great extent until this spirit is is overcome and a unity of purpose grows on 2 the time ruins ruins of these structures of hate which have been reared on her soil We Ve have hac within our borders everything that thata a generous Providence affords to make our state one of tie lie 11 greatest realest if not the t lc greatest in the Union for we can produce by drawing upon the most diversified products ts he time earth carth affords To that end cud I 1 have hae cried Peace on ou every public oc occasion Z casion cas ion I have plead for the burial of differences and amid the time dawning of oC an aim era cra of united unit cd effort to bring Utah into inlo her own OWl w POPULATION COMING WEST WESTI I am thoroughly familiar with the eastern idea of the western man I know that the westerner is designated a booster A few days since I saw the time westerner referred to as time the optimist This classification may probably t be accounted for in two ways way jealousy and nail lack of information The frenzied optimism of the time west if our spirit is to tobe t be so designated is at least gradually bringing the time center of population in the time United Unit cd States toward the Pacific The Thc i booster of the time west is providing the time drudging clerks of the thickly populated sections with fresh air and independent i means of gaining a livelihood Who Vho could make even cven a superficial examination of the time possibilities of the thc west and be y anything but a booster Who Vho could examine closely into our resources and not feel proud to be called a frenzied optimist because of his enthusiasm And when I t r refer efer to the thc west I speak of the time intermountain west and particularly of Utah for Utah is the time metropolis of the west Location natural advantages as a distributing point railroad facilities 1 everything mark Utah as a great commercial center And every voice that is raised to retard Utah in in her strides to toward toward toward I ward tand the time occupancy of that position is the time voice oice of an enemy every elery obstacle that is placed in the time way ay of oher her progress isa is isa isa a monument nt to disloyalty 3 PLAIN WORDS x xe It is far from my intention to convey coney th the e idea that the citizens of Utah are arc arc a j quarrelsome people 1 i to glasses classes who may be found in every ever and properly called radicals men who are arc always alas crying wolf with ith varying degrees of success in attracting attention The peculiar thing with regard to Utah is that this class takes advantage of popular prejudice mounts a senseless bugaboo bu which did yeoman service serice in days das of old when civilization c 1 It was held together by h the time dusty dust Overland Trail and distorted facts fats could go unchallenged and continues to shout in inthis f this enlightened enli day clay canards from the musty past This class by b its naggings misrepresentations and in iu intolerance ing tolerance has aroused resentment tand and intolerance u is becoming infectious as well as chronic Utah Ulah has long been famed amed for it its hospitality and no more peace loving people ever eor gathered together than the thc founders of this commonwealth My lf concern is for the time emulation of that spirit which bids us bury differences put intolerance behind us set our faces to the time future fu and work and an speak night and amid day as one man for Cor the time hastening of that time when Utah shall be bc judged not by f misrepresentation but lu for her ber b worth and aud producing ability as a State Stat II I 1 e 1 |
