Show TIlE THC BOOK nOOK CALLED UTAH tJ Sinco Since seeing the tho Tribunes Tribune's condemnation condemnation nation of or It we wo have read moro more carefully care care- fully tho the book called Utah And it It St Impossible to see reason for that papers paper's tempered Ill-tempered Judgment on the little volume The book is 1 Issued by the tho Utah commission to the Alaska exposition at Seattle and It seems fairly to state stall tho the case CaBe of ot the tho people of or Utah Hero Here culled are ara a n number of ot paragraphs from the forty eight pages pageR It will hardly be claimed that there Is warrant warrant war war- rant for tor the Tribunes Tribune's repeated and angry declaration that that From From first to last InErt no one ono could gather from this work that anyone except Mormons ever over did anything worth while In Utah It Is Mormon this and Mori Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- i mon that and Mormons everywhere Mormon concerns are Lire put to the front and everything else elle is minimized or Ignored altogether Utah extends a cordial welcome to the stranger stranger- within her gates In Ia all communities everywhere there are all kinds of or people oven to tJ those who dolI dolight dolight do- do lI light ht In the recital of or h hobgoblin stories about their neighbors and who are prone to see spooks spooks' themselves Occasionally Occasionally Oc Oc- Oc- Oc C you may meet one of or these but the tho people of ot Utah of ot every creed recd will compare favorably In kindness 8 courtesy Intelligence hospitality and business ability with those orf at f any part of ut the Union The They arc are proud of or Utah and are energetically developing her Iter resources better church people fairer and more upright business men brighter bright bright- er school children and moro more capable Instructors are not found anywhere there I Is everything In tho the people for a happy happ abiding place In Utah for all who will V During 1908 thirteen Utah mines paid n aggregate dividends of or anthis and an this Is but hut n a fair tall beginning which willbe willbe will willbe be eclipsed In 1909 That the c commercial transactions of Utah give gl indisputable evidence of the marked prosperity of ot tho the people Is shown by the tho banking business and by bythe bythe the regular dividends dl paid vald b by commercial commercial commer commer- cial and Industrial corporations The bank clearings In the past live five years years years- S C S 5 aggregate over 1300 r tho the savings deposits of ot the people at the end of ot 1908 exceeded 16 1 or nearly 42 per capita and have been augmented considerably In 1009 1909 Upon this showing arid farms were taken up and dry land which five Ove years e rs ago was waa a drag upon the state land boards beards hands hanus at per aero acre cannot now v be purchased from the dry f farmers farm tarm- arm arm- ers eu at ot 25 23 nn an acre In ono one field of this kind In Juab county In 1908 acres of ot land produced an average yield of ot thirty five bushels of ot wheat per acre a field of ot acres produced an average average average aver aver- age yield of ot thirty one bushels of ot wheat per acre acro and In thousands of ot acres cultivated by the tho new dr dry farming process process pro pro- cess have varied from eight to thirty five bu bushels heLs 0 of wheat per vcr acre acro Utah Is b Quito quite as well provided with 0 church buildings both In quality and number as any pIneo In the tho United States Slates and all the orthodox churches are Bre well represented The Catholic cathedral ca ca- thedral In Salt Lake City Is ono one of ot the thi 0 finest nest buildings In tho the state and the th First Presbyterian church building In Salt Lake City ranks close to It The Theother I other denominations are all provided with Ith beautiful and commodious edifices edifice In which to worship and tho the utmost utmos freedom exists as t to to- church membership membership membership member member- ship or affiliations A while ago tho the Tribune made a alike alike like attack on Mr Ir O. O F. F Whitneys Whitney's little history of or Utah prepared for use In the public schools of oC the state stat and elsewhere The same charge that It is solely a bit of ot Mormon propaganda propaganda H ganda was mado made in that Instance Really wo we can find no reason f for r ry y i the criticism In either case Mr WhIt Whit- ney's nors little book boole seems exceedingly fair and Impartial There Is an utter 1 absence ot of of argument In It as there 4 lf Is In ln tho book caned called Utah gotten i out for distribution among the expo expo- 0 visitors i. i Surely one ono can make that complaint complaint com com- plaint only onh when one ono is lit hunting h for fora f a grievance And surel surely that Is not nota a means for happiness I One cannot write the history of oC Utah without mention of or the Mor- Mor ms mops nor without giving them great grea credit So long as one handles the subject Impartially and fairly there should be no complaint And we do donot not think either of ot the tho books mentioned men men- violates that sound rule In fact we wo think the they are both very t conservative and very ery valuable |