| Show communicated ACCURACY AND TRUTH ALWAYS DESIRABLE there is a remarkable inclination in society of all grades to exaggerate in statement t no matter how commonplace or how serious the topic everything whether of i joy ay or sorrow borrow is spoken of in private or public matters become equally tinged as tuti mood ot of duale or the public craze may determine many a black FriL friday lay many a panic many a fail ure u re has been the result of undue and u comment and even when the sun has been shining overhead the extremist as a grumbler lo 10 determined on controversy anyhow either cai claiming ming intensity of heat beat ur or averting asserting it was excessively cool mischief is wrought whether tibal or not by this mistaken habit une ulle which bids fair to be a naL national lonal it this van can be gauged by preiss dispatches or by the avidity with which such statements lire are received never an accident or calamity in ID any lorm form but its ita black blackness nebs and sad badness is first enlarged if it should nave fauve to be ba contradicted almost before he ink is ury which gave it public currency never a re rejoicing juicing that did nut not have its couleur de rose modified by ater thought and sober tion lion why should this inflation of facts be BO 0 o tar lar beyond the reality so prune prone to spread and make senst sensational iLlonal lim ine crime the conditions and con elisions elusions elu clu as to the real or the probable wuen a bank falls fails when a firm meets rt re verses when dull duill times bitnes prevail and when business is not exactly m mke ke things worse than they are anil and why asart that thai all the trade of a community Is going to bow wows bows because mccause here or there irom from causes not understood of the onlooker oui men in business cannot at a moments notice pay one hundred cesita on the dullar dollar 1 here never was a community that fired su rd more from thid spirit of exaggerated misstatement than this sate utah her social political aud religious status have scarce ly ever had an unbiased or a truthful word persons star afar offee off be eved that treason anarchy ignorance and sensuality prevailed here that life w wad as near valueless and that danger turned in ih every bush and at the corner of every street the facts acts were all aam agm against dinst this representation but lies had bad their influence and mountains of at prejudice 1 re judice have for or years yea been accumulating which only nu now begin to melt away the rho 11 raw bead and bloody obes 11 specialists have partially lost prestige tige with the increase of travels travel and it is now being understood that there is so as much sal safety lety content contented and nd an all the virtues here as iu in any uther other 8 section of the country while general iu in bality ranges equal to the best beat rutih jn in common with the rest refit of our coultry is today detling the pressure of what is called hard times pa money is none too abundant aud and considerable sid erable of the labor of the territory is unemployed but the elasticity of the community is unimpaired the heartened disheartened dis are few very few indeed yet there are extremists who with apparent earnett truth lutness make the most and worst of everything because there la Is tut but little sale eale for real estate and boom prices have been knocked endways it is ie asserted that tar star is setting heverto ne never verto to rlee rise again so in regard to bubines buB inee sf if there is one hillure or more the optimist and pessimist pee are equally at work and usually the truth of the matter la is midway between the two extremes extreme the one would give a black eye t ty business would awaken distrust and suspicion among amoda creditors would destroy confidence and nd precipitate a panic while the other ignoring common conservatism would so overestimate conditions and prospects as to bring about the same results resul taby by an overweening hope and trust rival guardians of financial and commercial interests at least lease approach uniformity in regard to face with which they are supposed to deal their representations should be clear out cut and with tanal opportunities there should not be a disparity of vue oue albird in regard to the number of failures in any gi given ven month of the year nor choul I 1 the re bort of assets sod and liabilities of firms or individuals involved vary so much as filix eix times difference in published reports e ports representations which mislead are of no value j iu u either case they can not do good but may lead to evils of aoh duch magnitude as implies almost irreparable reparable injury u ry at home and abroad the he al alar armint or special pleader riot not infrequently by his very audacity gives given that shook to individual firm or community credit which but fr the intervention ot of a more candid and honest onest representation would jeopardize some interests almost beyond redemption demp tion ion prosperity to is not sub served by y this representation mal for or against to is worse than none and neither aeration our nur discount abdula be wable in the cold cola statements of business however much thoy they may obtain elsewhere it is highly proper perchance that B world shall hear bear and know of utah tah it is ie necessary that her status it 0 o all directions shall be well her citizens are not never have ave been opposed to this thip but they are weary of exaggeration they are sick ck of misrepresentation and or are according t th their influence noe reprehensible when ali fat s and currency to any og but the he plain varnished unvarnished truth yet el it a busin business ag craze crae or panic is in evitable sri if circumstances or schemers wing bring to pose pass paralysis of the serve nerve oberg sih of trade and add finance nn 0 if bank ah a failure in w cumulative and firms go down before foe a mob of unthinking and un tass fearful ding depositors depositor if there is 18 a clear t 0 boding I of disaster let the 1 1 heads conservative ads the kars utah b toe the leading men of trade in hv tee to it i that they are e not carried away by iteld the whirlwind for fa lf if they lh are stead y the masses will calmly look on also aw A if men engaged in public letain their equilibrium and self possession exercising dis SE criminative the great pub will he c infected by the same spirit or S if oue here and there is affected by associations abroad w there will be left elasticity enough in all our settlements as to business flairo flair 8 simply imply to bond bend before the storm anu and then regain in ift stant acanter erthe the erect position before the nolle noise thereof has baa passed beyond the ear critical and crucial as the times way may be the home outlook la is healthy after all crops never were mole moie full of promise prom lB and in a little while trade which is ig somewhat automatic will regulate itself into undeniable prosperity io in increased volume and harmony with our oar increased population |
