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Show The Newliouse Statement THE STATEMENT of Mr. Newhouse in the daily papers ought to arrest the serious attention of the Utah Legislature. It Is a business man's protest against fanaticism. It cannot be said that Mr. Newhouse has ever Interfered In-terfered in either the politics or religion of Utah It cannot be said that in every public manifestation manifesta-tion he has not sought for the best interests of the city and state. It cannot bo said that he has not revealed himself as a public-spirited man, anxious for the well-being of everybody. He employs labor enough to make an army division, and whenever he undertakes to inaugurate ana carry through an enterprise, he makes it rest on labor, and tho more laborers he can make places for the better is he suited. If he likes to make money, no sooner does ho get it than he puts it in channels where it becomes a providence to those around him; and when his own fortune is not realized fast enough to carry through what he wants to in the line of progress, he enlists others to join with him in the work. He says in his statement that if tho mad, if not tho vindictive legislation now threatened is carried through, those associated with him in building up Utah will recoil before tho outlook and refuse to go further. And what he says is but putting In words what nine out of every ten business men in Utah feol; the men who employ labor; the men who pay the taxes; the men whom tho state leans upon for its revenues and its progress. Can the Utah Legislature afford to ignore such men and their opinions? |