Show FAIR TO THE RAILROADS I In all this agitation of railroad matters The Republican does not I want to be understood as hostile to tc c the corporations This paper has thc the strongest possible Je of ot the value alue of railroads to he the community to the state and fa to to the nation millon We Wi the debt the people owe to thi the brave e men who ventured their mono money i in building these transcontinentaL trans And we full fully appreciate the the benefit of the excellent service that is rendered b by the owners today today- 4 where they do render that sort of service er b Our contention t I is th all their merits do not hot entitle entitle them to discriminate dis dis- dis criminate against Utah that all their I virtues do not constitute a license to destroy Salt Lal Lake e. e It is a a. proved fact that business businessmen men hero suffer suITer in comparison with the advantages afforded their competitors com corn In Chicago and other Easiest East East- est cities clUes and anti that these advantages are arc at the despotic disposal of the railroad companies Rates into anc and out of Utah and within within the state will have bave to be fair Our people will wiH have to l 13 granted precisely as good traffic co conditions as are arc enjoyed b by anybody else on tarth earth They shall not bo be discriminated atee against And we say this as much in the interest of the railroads as of tho the I local business men inca Salt Lake Lale is a a. abig big city and Is getting bigger It has hns a long start to be he the distributing In ing point for foi all this mountain inter region It can bo ho held back by tho railroad companies But Dut 1 If It is s pre prevented vented realizing its Hs possible destiny that fact tact will not benefit the railroads Some city Is going to distribute the the constantly increasing merchandise lse of or the region It If not Salt Lake Jake it will be another pInt and no other point can be built up so easily as can this If It the companies are fair fall to Utah Salt Lake Lal will gro grow mightily If TC It Itcan Itcan Itcan can get cheap coal it will m increase Its manufacturing plants I If It can J r t f ij p get right rates across tho the continent It will greatly increase the number of or people who live here bore And every cry added family moans means more business for the tho railroads railroad H Railroad companies can caD not strangle Salt Lako Lake without hurting themselves The bigger the they make mako tho city the more business the they will do do- Nothing will more moro surely double the tracks of oC these established roads as the tho development of Salt SnIt Lake to the point where Its and the needs of or tho the region have havo destined it It Is a n. sighted short railroad policy I which neglects n region where so much freight originates where so much merchandise Is consumed In favor of a distant lot of or jobbers who can neither Delther help nor 1101 hurt tho the rail mil roads I Be fair to th tho people That is all aU that is r required of or tho companies companie And that all aU tho tile people have a right to demand demand and secure |