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Show T .KEEP YOUR HEAD LEVEL. At the risk of being designated as a etc., Truth "knocker, a .croaker statefew a make to pertinent desires of benefit the the people. ments for It has been, and is ' still being, am noUnced with grdftt Juice, Unction, eclat and space, that W. A. Clark has purchased from the Oregon Short tine, all its lines south of the city and that he will build from the lower terminus to a point where the road thus Lob Angeles ends, from Salt a connection between forming California. and southern Lake City Although we have been told times without humbCrj during the past few years) that aUch a line was to be built; although we have been disappointed as many times as we have been told, it looks now as if our hopes and wishes are to be realized, and with 'Comes, an epidemlfc bf inth. news. sanity both on the part of the press and the people. Although the railroad is not to be completed for two years, we hear men babbling about the city growing to double its present size in the next four years, while even such a staid and conservative man as the distinguished W. S. McComick is quoted as saying that property values will soon go up fifty per cent, while others with no reputations for candid statements such as he enjoys set up a chorus of delight and rant and rave about this great advance in prices until one would think that Salt' Lake . RU City, compared with New York or Philadelphia, was as an elephant to a flea, instead of the reverse being the case. The papers are as bad as the realty dealers and they echo and reecho the silly assertions with evident relish. Out of all the din which has arisen, but one sensible voice has been heard and that is1 the one controlled by Adolph Richter, a real estate man on West First South, who boldly declares that prices are high enough already. For this assertion the balance of his clan are ' already condemning him. It is easy to understand how the imported writers on the syndicate newspapers can whoop and howl about increase in prices, but how a sensible writer; one who remembers the boom of 1889 and 1890-9can shout for inflated prices under existing conditions is indeed ft mystery. There is nothing in the news that this railroad will be built to warrant any great Advance in the price of Salt Lake realty. When property on East Third South, close to the First Methodist church, is held at $700 per foot; when prices on Main street are as at present there is ho use in raising them. It looks as if all this talk concerning an increase in real estate prices was being made simply as an excuse to raise rents, etc., in order that those who are carrying all the burdens they are able may be additionally oppressed, and Truth is of the opinion, that, it should be stopped. Rents are scandalously high now and how men working for $2 per day can live and support and clothe families is a mystery. What this city wants is manufacturing enterprises Where men work from day to day and at the end of the month their wages go to the butcher, the baker and the grocer and are in turn handed round from one to another. It is not the big deals which constitute prosperity, because the checks are drawn on one bank and deposited in another. But when the man who works cashes his check and distributes it among many, that puts coin in circulation. Get manufacturing; get seven or ten or fifteen thousand working men employed and that will be progress. Do not put property values up to points where men cannot buy or rent. That holds down Increase in population. Salt Lake has had enough of that These boomers are no good to a town. Look at the record of the past find take warning. We had one boom here and men went broke by the score. A boom is an 1 excuse for the mortgage mans existence and prosperity ; it is a time for scheming money changers to get in their work. But steady, conservative times are when homes are built; when the laborer erects his own cottage and digs his own garden and plants his own trees. Those are the kind of men T H- 9 - Twenty good hard working mechanics who would come here and settle down, make homes for themselves and spend their money rearing families, would beat an equal number of boomers who might swell the bank clearings by swapping checks. Theie is no need of this citys going insane. Thiate a time when the ihe city may derive benefit if conservative action is taken. All this yellow screaming is nonsensical drivel and will do us no good abroad. Truth believes this railroad will be built and that with proper action Salt Lake City will become greater than at present. That the population will increase to a greater or lesser extent, depends upon our own actions. If we do what is right we will get a large Increase in population; if we do what is wrong our population will be augmented by a much less number. The question of increase raises another and a grave one. Are we prepared to take care of an increase? Is the water system adequate? That is something for the city council to determine and consider. It is high time this little ten cent proposition concerning the chief of police was dropped and something of moment un- this city wants. Some people are wondering why a coolness exists between Herman Bamberger and Harry Joseph. It Is all on account of the actions of the lat- ter at the dertaken. If predictions are correct and we are going to double in size, or even increase by 15,000 or 20,000 in the next few years, something must be done. If this city council does not undertake the solution of the problem, then the people must elect one that will. The time for quarreling and caviling and snarling at each other; the time for Daveler to call Femstrom a liar and Fernstrom to allude to Daveler as a yentleman has passed, and a serious condition confronts the city of Salt Lake. . If the council will not, or cannot, do this work the citizens should go to work and aid it by counsel and advice. Then if they decline to act, at the next election every recalcitrant should be retired to the oblivion he Harry literary. touched Herman for his watch and then sent another fellow around to Herman ask what time it was. for ticker his had lost he good thought and he kicked like a horse until the time piece was returned. Mrs. Joseph Enzensperger was oper- ated upon at the Holy Cross hospital on Wednesday for appendicitis. The lady is doing nicely since the operation and her friends are hopeful of her speedy recovery. j Jit County Clerk James, who was confined to his room for four or five days with a severe affection of the throat, is so much better as to be at his office again. o - . B. B. GOING EA8T? If so, it will pay you to secure complete information about the new overland service via the Union Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. A postal card to the undersigned will bring it to you. C. S. Commercial WILLIAMS, & St. Paul Milwaukee Agent, Chicago, 106 West Second South St., railway, Salt Lake City. WINDSOR EUROPEAN HOTEL CENTRALLY LOCATED. RATES 50c, 75e and $1.00. Everything New and First-ClasJ. Q. SCOTT, Manaqsr. s. justly merits. o The Utah Homebuyer's Union buys homes for its members on very easy and safe terms. The payments on $1,000 homes is only $2.50 a month until contracts mature, then only $8.50 a month, until paid for. That beats paying rent. The money you pay is applied on the purchase price of the home. On this plan you will own your home in a very few years. Office 214 Dooly Block. 4L o Colonel I. A: Benton is the recipient of a fine box of cigars direct from Havana. They were sent Cuban fashion; wrapped up in husks instead of being boxed. The colonel shared with the boys and especially with the press. A. C. CIAUQUE. i RESIDENCE PHONE 1670 Ic. ixth South i .. w PHONE 048. J S.- -' V. . , fdsei . |