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Show THE LESSOR OF EXPERIENCE. In claiming that the capital should be located at Provo for the reasons that it is more central and therefore more convenient to all parts of the territory, and that in no case should the capital and the metropolis be at the same place, we have the experience and judgment of all the principal states in our union, as the following list will Ehow: STATES. CAPITALS, METROPOLIS. N. Carolina, Raleigh, Wilmington. S. Carolina, Columbia, Charleston, Georgia, Atlanta, Atlanta, Florida, TalUhassee, Jacksonville, Alabama, Montgomery, Mobile, Tennessee, Nashville, Nashville, Mississippi, Jackson, Vicksburg, Louisiana, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Texas, Austin. Galveston, Arkansas, Little Rock, Little Rock, Kentucky, Frankfort, Louisville. Ohio, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indiana, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Illinois. Springfield, Chicago, Michigan, Lansing, Detroit, Wisconsin, lludison, Milwaukee, Missouri, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Kansas, Topeka, Topeka, Iowa, Des Moines, Des Moines, Minnesota, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Nebraska, Lincoln, Omaha, N. Dakota, Bismarck, Fargo, S. JJakato Huron, Sioux Falls, Oregon, Salem, Portland, Washington, Olympia, Seattle, Montana, Helena, Helena, Idaho, Boise City, Boise City, Wyoming, Cheyenne, Cheyenne, California, Sacramento, San Francisco. Nevada, Careon City, Virginia City, Colorado, Denver, Denver, Utah, Salt Lake city, S. L. city, N. Mexico, Santa Fe, Santa Fe. New York, Albany, New York city, New Jersey, Trenton, NewarK, Penneylyania,Harrisburg,Philadelphia, , . . Deleware, Dover, Wilmington, Maryland, Annapolis, iialtituore, "jr Maine, Agueta, Portland, Virginia, Richmond, Richmond, W. Virgina, Charleston, Wheeling, N. Hampshire, Concord, Manchester, Vermont, Montpelier, Rutland, Massachusetts,Boston, Boston, Rhode Island, Providence, Providence, Connecticut, Hartford, New Haven. Here we have thirty-two states that have found by years of experience that it is the best and safest, policy to have the capital removed from the metropolis metropo-lis as against thirteen whose capital is the metropolis. And among the latter we find the state "that burned witches, banished Roger Williams and produced 'the gentleman (Mr. Morse) from Massachusetts,' Mas-sachusetts,' " and also the state that produced and elected the sockless Jerry to the senate, and surely our proud avaricious and wealthy neighbors of the Utah metropolis would not follow fol-low the example of these states. inere are many reasons why all the wealth of a state should not be gathered gath-ered into the lap of one city, and why it should be distributed. The first and most important reason is that in time that city, in consequence of her numbers num-bers and wealth, controls the com-merce,politics com-merce,politics and legislation and every thing in the state, and makes it impossible im-possible for the balance of the state to get proper recognition in any way. We have forcible and ample illustra tionsofthe power and idanger of large cities such as New York city and Chi- j cago, with the capital of the state far removed, and it is brought forcibly to our attention right at home by the daily press of our own New York and Chicago Salt Lake city when they tell us that because they pay sixty-five per cent, of the taxes of the territory they should have the university, the capital and any and every thine else. "What meat is this upon which our Ceasar feeds that he has grown 60 great?" Has the Tribune forgotten the lesson it has been teaching us in reference to the way we in the west have been building up and enriching the east by givinr i m our trade and illustrating illus-trating more ic-c.bly than we are able to do, that wLt-i she farmers, the stock raisers, the ou growers, the miners, the producer if yo-i please, are pr os-perous, os-perous, that :a t business men at thecommerci.U i.-.i? are properous, but not otherwise? Is it possible t, :it cur worthy and esteemed teacLo-. tU editor of the Tribune, is dea" a,id blind to his own teacmngs wnen they are brought direc -ly home to him, or,in other words, when he is forced to look at them from th other end of the telescope Can he te.l whence Salt Lake city gets her support from? Has he eter thought of the fact that the lonely sheep-herder on tlie farthest bills, at tha extreem head waters of the Sevier and Virgin rivers, when he buys bis supplies for the winter of the nearest merchant, is indirectly in-directly contributing to Salt Lake's prosperity? Has he ever co nsidertd the fact that the lumberman on the extreem head waters of the Prov o or Weber riyers is contributing to Salt Lake's proeperity in the purchase of every ax or other implement that be aM mm aw aw Mwwaww uses? Has he forgotten that the lonely and hardy miner in the far off Ferguson district is assisting Salt Lake to be able to. pay sixty-five per cent, of the taxes, when he buys the powder, drills, picks and shovels for the purpose of developing his promising, but often unprofitable, prospect in that lonely desert7 And in conclusion, let us ask our Salt Lake friends if the extreem wealth that they boast of isn't the accumulation ac-cumulation of the profits from years of trade with the people of the surrounding surround-ing country? In fact Salt Lake is to Utah what Wall street in New York city is to the United StateB. and Lorn bard street in London is to the world. Yet we do not go so far as our friend, the Tribune, and say drive the money changers out of our Wall and Lombard streets Salt Lake city. All we ask of our money changers chang-ers on Main street is to give us a part of what belongs to us. We ask them in all earnestness to re-read the lesson that they have been giving the east, and apply it to the cause at iseue here at home, and then in all fairness withdraw any and all. objections to the seat of government being located at the county seat of the most beautiful valley val-ley in all this intermountain country. |