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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING C0.f INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United States Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year, $1.50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Union, $4.50 per year. 8ingle copies, 10 cents. Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas-s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah Phone Wasatch 5409 311-12-- 13 SALT LAKE CITY SHOULD BE BOOMING Salt Lake City is in the heart of the great mining and coal industry of the west. It is in the center of the cattle and sheep industry and is about centrally located in the agricultural district. It is the first city of the west and was founded before the gold discovery in California, which came two years later, in 1849. As to climate, winter and summer, fall and spring, it defies comparison. For scenic surroundings, many of them within walking distance of the city, it has few equals if any. The inhabitants are furnished with the purest of mountain spring drinking water, and as for a healthful city to live in, our large birth list and small death list is our best recommendation. If there are other advantages possessed by any other city or locality we would like to know what they are. Considering all these things, then why is Salt Lake not the largest city west of the Mississippi river, or at least in this region? What has kept us back, or in other words, Whats the matter with Salt Lake City? Let us go out on the street and meet the average man and talk it over. Let us interview the eastern capitalist and see what he has to say. What has the outside world to say about us? We are human beings like the rest of the people, then what seems to be the matter? There appears to be a lack of something. In big write-up- s about the country, Utah is seldom mentioned. Does this isolation come as a result to our relative position on the map or ignorance, or is it caused by some undue influence for purposes to accomplish some future result regarding which many of us are kept in the inter-mounta- in dark ? The business interests have been carrying a heavy load ever since January 15. A majority are complaining for the reason that there has been no business. A great many are talking of selling and getting out, but few of those who leave will ever be satisfied. It would be better to remain here and help to make this city the metropolis of the intermountain country. The time is coming, and coming soon, when this city cannot be kept in the rear any longer. Some say that they have been waiting for forty years for this same thing to happen, but it never happens. The spirit for progress is with us. All we need is some one to set of! the big firecracker and Salt Lake will come into its own. We do not care so much what is said about, us but we do not like people to shun us. A missionary who has just returned from Germany says that Utah comes in for a great deal of humorous What criticism because we do not allow people to smoke here. kind of a country is it, they ask, and what race of people live O there? Another receives a letter from Paris from an American who has now made his home there since the war. Writing to a friend here he says that seldom a day passes when several Frenchmen. ask him if it is true that they arrest prominent business men on the streets and in public places just for smoking. They cannot understand it. i The impression created in our own country is that Utah is a very religious place to which people are not encouraged or welcomed to come. It is being favorably compared with Zion City, near Chicago, and for that reason only the curious pass through to get a peep at us to see what kind of animals we really are. Facts are set out that from the smallest office to the highest office the governor, are filled with religious teachers, and all subordinate positions are filled with followers of their faith, and no others can enter except in rare instances. It is reported from time to time that even the public schools are used for religious classes. We then deny these charges and come back by stating that the population is at least 65 to 70 per cent Gentile in this city. If that is the case then why do the Mormons hold nearly all of the city offices? It is a queer situation where the majority fail to rule, but we must admit by direct evidence that if the figures of the religious population is based correctly that the minority rules here. The answer can only be that if the majority have no ambition for political office, they should not find fault with the minority because they see fit to take every advantage tendered them. The state is strongly Mormon and no one can blame the Mormons for taking the best offices. Any other religion would do the same thing. A friend is invariably preferred in case of employment than a stranger and no one can find fault with such a course. Those of us who have lived here for many years do not realize the outside prejudice and ridicule there is against this state. There is no denying that it does not exist and that such feeling is injuring the state. We stop the stranger at our gate. We invite him in and many of us try to talk him into locating here, but nine times out of ten he will come back with the answer: Too much religion in If that is the prevailing opinion on the business and politics. outside of our state it is then time to provide a remedy and to correct such impressions and not try to hide it. The enaction of sane laws, the election of none but progressive business men to office, and the giving of the community a business administration which will keep taxes down to a minimum and keeping public improvements up to standard. The hiring of men for efficient qualities and not because of their religious belief and fair business dealings among the merchants will overcome every obstacle. Our city election is coming on. There is no more opportune time than the present for the business interests of this city to get together and to select three men of good moral standing in the community and submit their names to the people, with the slogan, Reduction in taxation and a business administration, and such a ticket would go in with a whoop and a hurrah, and would greatly tend to correct the present evil outside impressions regarding our mode of living and government. Provide laws suitable for the building of factories, and furnish the land if necessary and donate it to payroll builders. What arc we going to do with the sagebrush flats west of the |