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Show It Is With the people. Mr. Harriman is reported as predicting a population for Salt Lake of 200,000 in the near future. Salt Lake ought to have had that number of people years ago. It would except that a prejudice existed against it, and a fear on the part of the country that it was not a good place to invest in-vest money in. The prejudice and fear have nearly passed away, but a little of it remains. They are renewed every time the members of a certain creed in the city council vote solidly for some measure, that the organized business men of the city protest against; they are renewed every time there is a pro- nounced exhibition of the selfish power of a controlling political machine. Whether Salt Lake increases rapidly in population during the next few years will depend entirely, not upon the resources of the State, for they are ample, but upon the people, mostly of this city, and the way they handle public affairs. |