Show I f THOSE EMPTY HOUSES The Salt Lake Tribune is i s an angy 1 any angry as a wet et hen because the tho il standard reproducing an article from the t e Salt Lake lican Bean made comment on the Heralds Herald s statement that Salt Lake City was being deserted with empty houses to be seen s seen n on every street The Tribune says The shameful presentation made by the Smoot organ of decaying conditions vacant houses lack of manufactures etc falsely claimed to bo be present here has been seized on with glee by Salt Lakes enemies The Ogden Standard of Thursday evening emits a yell of triumph quoting the Smoot papers showing and considers it ii a frank confession that the boom has fallen flat and that Salt Lake is a city of empty houses The Standard points to Salt Lake City as a bad example denounces the building of the skyscrapers here as one of the greatest blunders made in Salt Lake II and says that Salt Lake has been guilty of false booming and lis is suffering for its folly And all this based on a false text taken from a rascally newspaper that emitted the falsehood in its chagrin and rage at the failure of its scheme to blackmail the coal companies The Standard is not an enemy of Salt Lake City This paper is not rejoicing over the decadence of that city but is drawing a wholesome J from the disastrous results of the boom to support its contention that an inflation based on false hopes and andin andin andin in response to unscrupulous booming cannot have other than one ono ending This paper is justified in accepting the lugubrious utterances of the Salt Lake paper as truthful statements of conditions in that city The ican in its editorial of Wednesday said The truth behind these empty houses in Salt Lake is just that We Ve are as energetic as the citizens of any other community in the nation our business faculties are just as acute and well trained they respond readily to any proposition proposition proposition tion for personal or civic advancement yet Salt Lake Lale is not doing the business it ought to be bc We Weare are arc disposed to commiserate and not grow exultant over Salt Lakes empty houses and the Tribune is rather harsh in ing us with enmity because we have seen fit to accept the stories of utter desolation which come out of Zion |