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Show Evil Premonitions THE NEW YEAR opened filled with promise for Salt Lake City. Reasoning from every business standpoint, there was not a cloud in the sky. The resources from which the city draws Its natural strength were all in superb form, and yielding revenues as never before; the work under way, which in three years has transformed trans-formed the city, was being supplemented dally with new work and new enterprises; the rhythm of the mighty chorus of industry was swelling in volume every day, and every friend of the city was exultant. No cloud has yet come except the meeting of tho legislature and the apprehension of what It may do before It adjourns. We still have hope that the natural business Instincts of the members mem-bers of that body, and the restraint which their oath of office should place upon them, will prevent pre-vent any legislation which on Its face would show that it was aimed specifically at Salt Lake City, and was enacted for tho purpose of slaughtering slaugh-tering its material Interests. Wo say this because there are premonitions usually of both the cyclone and the earthquake, and so there are premonitions In the moral and political world when some specific deviltry is intended, in-tended, and somo of those premonitions are being manifested already, not In the Legislature, but on the outside, and wo greatly fear that they will grow Into alarming proportions 'n the next sixty days, and that the intention is that the storm, when it comes, shill strike Salt Lake City. 1 |
