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Show The City's Forward March. Let it be heralded that within the past few weeks building permits havo been issued for a thousand new structures in Salt Lake City, and that there is not now one modern structure for rent in the city. It is a most striking assurance of the present splendid progress toward greatness great-ness that the city is making. And these permits were obtained befoie the vote on the bonds was submitted. The result of that vote is an assurance assur-ance that the city government will be able to keep up with the work of the citizens. The water wa-ter system will have added facilities, to give better bet-ter service to the people, to secure added facilities facili-ties for fighting fires, to have the sewer system perfected and the flood water disposed of; and at the same time to keep up with needed grading grad-ing and paving. It ought to be an object lesson to such Gentiles as still cling to the hope that by debasing their Americanism they "may sometime some-time reap a pecuniary or political reward. They may just as well understand that there will be nothing for them in this city and that the Saints will not permit them to obtain anything worth having in the country. This city has passed altogether beyond their control. By rallying and uniting all their forces on one ticket, they could not win a point in this city. The onsweep of the past year and the incoming host that are coming to reap their part of the advantage that is sure to be great in the building of the city on new lines, has taken their last hope from them. It will take a good while to Americanize Utah, but Salt Lake City is already redeemed. It is growing grow-ing as never before, it is going to continue to grow until very soon it will be apparent to everyone every-one that it is soon to be a very great city, and then it will need no more advertising its upward way will outrun all expectations. That one thousand houses are being constructed now is in itself a pretty good sign of progress; that the combined forces of the church and the obstructionists obstruc-tionists could defeat the bonds needed to enable en-able the city government to keep up with the advancement of the people, is conclusive that the present progress is altogether legitimate, and that there is not one apparent embargo upon the advance that is moving with constantly accelerating ac-celerating momentum. |