| Show correcting OWN RECORD A A WEIGHTY significance attaches to some remarks alleged to have been made by mr M J fornan to it a representative senta tive of a local newspaper which are reproduced in its issue of this thin morning the gentleman named as Is generally known among our oar citizens is connected in an official capacity with toe the chamber of commerce and tor for more than a year has hag devoted himself in a lively and energetic manner to advocating by means of printed matter scattered all over the continent the advah advantages which utah etab offers to home seekers and investors few men in this territory have made i themselves better informed regarding its resources and attractions and few are more fully aware of the reas reasons ong why capital is reluctant to come here than is mr fortino forhan he as paid a salary with the understanding that his time shall be largely devoted to acquiring and disseminating financial information regarding the territory hence the respect to which frank statements of f fact t efroin from him are entitled the gentleman has just returned i i from a trip to denver and on en being interrogated in regard to the feeling in that city respecting salt like lake mcityre plied they take great interest in our progress but in urging salt SaIt lakes advantages I 1 was met on every hand with the objection that there was no room here tor investment invest meat grid and no chance to make money so long as the mormon question remained unsettled I 1 pointed to thi th i fact that gentile merchants in salt lake do us as well as elsewhere and told them while the city and territory had been advertised for more than forty years as a hotbed of mormonism as a terror to the nation and a danger to investments its vast resources and attractions had been d for only a year rast past and in spite of this and the little effort put tort for hwe nave made more progress in those twelve months than had ever before been made in as many years it is needless and useless to abeny the fact i hat bat we have been handicapped in the lil h story of the tae past and that population and capital will not come here un until nc I 1 we remove the impression which e exists x ests my opinion I 1 ii that the reform in must coma from our people themselves and unless they unite in i s some effort to create a different impression upon the outside world from the one they now have of us we may have to wait many years before i any marked I 1 change takes place in our condition it is quite reasonable to infer that the personal pronouns we have italicized in this statement of mr for haus hauls refer to the class who have prin cipully interested themselves in booming I 1 the territory and I 1 in bringing hence a population of no non mor or boons in 0 us sufficient cleat to obtain political control in short mr forhan was evidently speaking in the interest of and in reference to the a antl ti alor 17 element in utah who bu but fa have advertised utah as a iff terror r to t the h e nation and a danger clanger to investments hence the appropriateness of mr forhans remark my opinion is that the reform must come from our people then them selves and the subjoined sub joined advice that they unite in correcting the impressions which exist abroad respecting utah if a turn in the history of utah has been rea reacted cried when a pressure is being brought to bear upon the class which has so foully slandered ner her to induce them to make an attempt at al correcting the falsehoods they have circulated respecting her the inscrutable wisdom aud and justice fustice of divine providence will receive a vindication for more than forty years the mormons cormons Mor mons have been engaged in devoting vast sums of wealth and in sending abroad thousands of truthful honorable and zealous men in the effort ty remove impressions which exist respecting utah and her people but all this effort has been nullified to a great extent by a clique and anci a press here in the territory whose fertility of slander and falsehood has only been matched by the mall malicious cloud industry with which they have sent forth their wicked fabrications when the world shall see the clique and the journal which have sent forth so many bloodcurdling blood curdling fabrications of th 11 secret assassination etc devoting their energies to the work of correcting the impressions which this method of advertising utah has rooted in the public min mind of the nation and toe cie world who can deny that there exists an element of poetic justice in tas tae economy of him who rules the affairs of men it is meet iq an eminent degree that those who have made a false record for utah should be required to cor carrett rett it mr forhan and his excellency governor west have worked like brot brothers yea like twins to boom it the territory but a lead feud between them is suggested by the words of the lormer quoted above A more severe rebuke ot the misrepresentations misrepresent ions contained in the governors annual report has not been uttered nor written than is couched in the milu language used byn by mr forhan to state that thai a church controls tont rols corporations organized under the laws to represent that non members of that church are not permitted to hold bold stock in the most profitable commercial institutions to aver that a conscienceless despotism of holds complete sway over the political eal leal commercial and industrial du interests of this territory is a poor way to remove existing impressions abroad concerning it or to induce capital or population to cometo come to it the governors last report to the secretary of the interior is one of the poorest pieces of 11 boom 4 literature 21 we have hav seen and we are of opinion that in his capacity ct cf secretary of ton of commerce mr orhan will question we toe adels ability of giving givina to the document as extended a circulation as he liss baa some others which treated upon the statistics resources and advantages of utah |
