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Show B U, riff AGITATION AND BUSINESS. B M! "This agitation will hurt businessjj' says the B ' '(iff 1 ! careful man who is trying to get along and make B Uf ail : i an inheritance for his children. "We suspect that I'llllljf' Is true. "When a state Is kept a perpetual storm H !'! Jilrl center, the result is naturally hurtful to business. B ''! I But witlx ail the losses' DUsIness win be oetter I i li'ji I tuan Ifc Is In any land that is dommated ky a '' ! ! 'Ill I I church. Had there been no immigration here in H W If .. 3W?;rlzza?iiiG:Iliscc remained unbroken save by H I! ' i I ft " " tne cytes until the locomotives touched noses at Mb nlf Promlntory in 1869, the chances are ten to one IB ( jjjjlfll 1 that this city would then have been founded and H1 iB that y-"1118 tIme ifc would have contained quite B mmKti 200,000 people, for with its site and surroundings B 1 if Sfi it' would have swiftly drawn public attention to it, B wiim public attention and people by the tens of thou- ! I ands. Since that date of 18G9 two sets of peo- H ' I pie have been trying to build a city on this site 11' I and the clashings between them have resulted in j H a halting and tardy growth. That growth will HI continue to be halting and slow until the clash- I S ings cease. We know of no way to insure peace j 11 and progress except that the people reach a com I 1 v mon basis on which they can all agree, and upon I ll which they can work in harmony. The only basis I w that we can conceive of Is for men to subordinate III their own opinions to the spirit and S 1 righteous laws of this Republic. They 1 1 1 open every opportunity of this country ll tb all citizens alike; they protect every m HI 1 man in his just rights; they permit every citizen H IS 1 1 to do any legitimate thing he may desire to do. SB 1 Being a free country with no guarantee of safety HjB If j except in the enlightened and patriotic wisdom jI 1 of the units that make up what we, in the aggre- flflf I gate, call the. American nation, it follows as a K" ! liB fl natural sequence, that the people in their thoughts BbHI Ims' ' I must e untrammeled. That they have not been 1 in Utah is sufficient to account for the slow growth of this region and It will continue to be so until the state rests upon the best thought, not of some priest or combine of priests, but upon the honest thought and patriotic endeavor of the people, Until this conclusion Is reached and acted upon, there will be repeatea agitations and heart-burnings and the consequent uncertainty which retards prosperity and which at present makes Utah a reproach to the nation. |