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Show DISBAND THIS SOCIETY. "What ails this town." There is a certain society that alls this town. The man who wrote the editorial under the above caption and allowed it to be published in a powerful journal, and distributed dis-tributed throughout the country belongs to that society. The men who wander about the streets from pillar to post asking that question of everyone every-one they meet belong to that society. The men who make a business of besmirching and defaming defam-ing this city every day of their lives are active members of that society, which for want of a better bet-ter name may be known as the Royal Society of Utah Knockers. Most communities have their own troubles. Usually they are of a political nature, and no sooner Is one question settled than another is ready for debate. Perhaps we have more troubles here than the people of other places, and we may have a long fight to make Utah what we want it to be, but in that fight It isn't going to help things in the slightest to allow your zeal to go so far that you state falsely that hundreds are moving away, that It Is unsafe to invest here, and the rest of the rot that makes corner conversation conversa-tion for a class who have been pessimistic since birth and would be just the same, no matter what the conditions. It is unjust and unfair to the thousands of men who Intend to live their lives here, to spread such falsehoods, for the repetition of them has the same effect on the timid that the chicken pox had on the Yonowsky twins. It' becomes "a taking sickness, somethin' fierce." There is one thing that a lot of people often forget. The old flag is overhead all the time, and there Isn't one little corner in the land that it does not protect. So go ahead and build your house, or your terrace. ter-race. Get your six, and seven and eight and ten and twelve per cent on your Investments, and your Income will not decrease as the years go by. Ask any merchant of any creed how his business busi-ness compares with that of a year ago, and he will tell you it has increased. This with the possible pos-sible exceptions of the coal man, and the mortician, morti-cian, for the climate Is such that both are seldom needed. It may take a long time to adjust our peculiar political conditions, but while we're waiting don't decry the town. The future of the city and the state have never been brighter, and every man who has his own interest at heart as well as that of this city should constitute himself a member of a hundred thousand club for 190G, and with united effort the directory a year from now will reach that mark. If somebody trie's1 to start something which will be of benefit to the community, help It along. Don't listen to the fellow who says that the scheme was tried in the summer of '79 without success. Many a thing which failed In the long ago Is going some now, notably the locomotive. Salt Lake Isn't half bad, and there are thousands thou-sands of places so much worse that you ought to make it your business to assist in the disbanding of The Royal Society of Utah Knockers. They themselves would thank you for It in the future, and nothing then would ail this town. |