Show brightening FUTURE FOR FOB PROVO provo is to be favored we rejoice in the prospect odthe of the improvements which are to be made in that city the removal of some of our leading and influential 1 citizens from this city totham point will give a new anew impulse to business and improvement there the presence and ex example in pi e of presidents young and kimball bil bit and the spending of a portion of their time at that city will of themselves be of great benefit much depends in in every city gity and country upon the the example of the leading men of the community and that is especially the case with us an acquaintance with a president or presiding bishop enables abood judge of character to come to a correct decision respecting the settlement or ward 1 I over which he presides if he be a man of enterprise and public spirit and wise withal the settlement with which he is connected will be a a thriving live place but if he be a careless indolent man destitute of energy and and public spirit the settlement will plainly show in the condition of its dwellings public buildings and streets that enterprise and thrift are needed outside of our territory probably DO no more prominent Ul illustration can be given of this thia than the late prince albert the husband of victoria of bf england it is universally admitted now that he is gone and the living have no longer reason reason to be jealous of him that his example made an impression on the nation the benefi benefits tp of which are felt feit in every corner of the empire when he became the husband of the queen of england he h e was a young poor and obscure prince his principal distinction consisting in the fact that he was the cousin of the woman whom he marr married led yet by his wisdom and judicious example he did more than probably any other person in the realm to develop manufactures and al art to give an impulse to agriculture stock raising to improve houses for farm laborers ac and to elevate and purify the court and to make the reign of his wife up to the time of his death more glorious and prosperous than any in the annals of the nation the development of this i improvements which we everywhere I 1 see the fine residences the beautiful orchards the wide streets with their shady and delightful walks the public buildings and the manufactures which are stringing springing into existence on every harnd hannd a all ali I 1 I 1 bear the impress and are the result of the energy and enterprise of our leading men under god they have been the means of setting the tho example and laying the foundation of the well regulated well governed orderly society and the material prosperity which wo we have here salt lake city was surveyed in a desert yet it was vas laid out with forecast every advantage was seized to make it what it is ig today to day one of the most charming and beautiful cities on the con continent and what it will be in the not distant future a city of first class importance provo i po possesses assesses great advantages for ti L city especially ford forn for a great manufacturing centre Natu fa vor edher in many respects ancher fierreo people I 1 have hate loot riot been blind to her merits ee but ut the example and influence of president young and those who accompany him there can not fail to be attended with beneficial results provo will take a great stride in addan advance ce we certainly feel that her citizens haye have cause to congratulate themselves on the prospects that are tire before them one of our correspondents writes us from there that the people are jubilant over the visit of president young and hi his s company and their own hopes of the future they have reason to be cheerful yet in j justlee justice u stice to those who have been acting in authority at provo a word ought to be said we heard it remarked a few days since by hon geo A smith whose acquaintance acqua ln with affairs in provo makes pim him him an authority in alluding to this subject that out of the number of trials which had been held before the high council at provo for the years bishop william miller had presided there in one case only had an appeal been taken and in that case the tho presidency had sustained the decision this is a splendid record for forthe northe the presiding bishop and the high council |