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Show I MEN OF MONEY LOOKING THIS WAY A real estate dealer says he has tad more queries as to Ogden property prop-erty within the past two months than in any equal period this year. He' has had many letters from the east, inquiring as to the prospects for investment In Ogden. and one man In Philadelphia writes that he has $30,000 to put Into any prom Ising Ogden enterprise This city presents tbe best front oi any plac of equal size In the west, and investors are looking to Ogden as a most Inviting field This should remind us that now Is the cportune timp to push our city ahead so thai when the national currency bill Is out of the way and the entire country begins to regain business stability, which will be f-ome time tuoon not later than the middle of winter Ogden may be In the vanguard of progress Ogden has passed the 30,000 mark In population and soon should reach 400n. Once that higher point is attained, tbig city will bp in a posi- Itlon to outrank any other inter mountain commercial center. No city in this region is so favor ablj located In relation to all the elements of bigness oo THE STANDARD REJECTS THE APPEAL. The following letter is frdm 1 Amen can Induetries. the organ of the Man ufacturers Association of the United States, under date of New York, De cember 6: "Editor Standard. As is well known Mr. Woodrow Wilson, having spent the greater part of his 1 if o in the classroom, has had no opportunity ol gaining a practical knowledge either of business or of governmental affairs. af-fairs. Mindful of this fact, the newspapers news-papers ha1, e kindly Informed Mr Wilson Wil-son that he should not have for sec retary of state a man who appears with vaudeville performers. "It is alto the dut of the pres6 to Inform Mr Wilson that he 6hould not appoint to office members of law leas bands. With a view to doiug our part of this good and needful work, we shall send to Mr. N ilson a copy of the December Issue 'of American Industries. This copy will contain a marked article referring to band6 of men who disregard the law " The Manufacturers Association would be more discreet, if it kept out of the limelight until 6uch time as the Mulhall disclosures are forgotten by the general public The testimony testi-mony presented before a coagies siona! committee by the former lobbyist, lob-byist, unmistakably points to the Manufacturers Association as having Its full share of lawless men. These repeated attacks on Bryan have won for that gentleman the sym pathy of the American people Every group of designing men, seeking to break down confidence In the administration, admin-istration, has Btruck at WilBon ocr Bryan's shoulders The object is plain. In the 1896 campaign, there was great prejudice aroused in the East against the silver champion, and crafty men, who have no belter per suaslves with which to present their complaints, today labor to revive that bias hoping thereby to advance their cause. The Standard tees gome things to criticise In the Wilson administration but it will not lend Itself to the scheming schem-ing and trickery of those who, like the authors of the foregoing letter, having nothing more than personal animosities with which to make an appeal to public sentiment. I will not expire automatically until ! January, 1916 Asquith has a sub stantiHl majority, and rs ho has re fused the suggestion of u genor.c' elcc tlon to settle the question, it is prob able that he will have the honor or seeing home rule carried Into law dining din-ing his incumbency. In holding out the olive, bfanei to the Ulsterites, It Is evident that he is endeavoring to steer between the devils of northern I sedition, and the deep sea of southern south-ern dissatisfaction, but that he will carry out his promises to the Irish majority Is Indicated by the act ol forbidding the minority to Import th implement;- 01 civil war." |