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Show I NEW YORK A SLUMBERING VOLCANO Having had two years' residence in New York City, an Ogdenite Bays he is nOt disposed to have members of his family make their home there. "What, is wrong with New York1" he was asked. "If yitfevor have seen a strike in New York ami have beard the angry mob howl.'- he anl "you will realizi iin-iv is an undeivurreut in that might) city which is dangerous. There are millions Of for j eigners, a percentage of whom know nothing of our institutions. are nothing, and their minds can he inflamed We an- going through b period of unrest and uncertainty, it may all work out without an npheaval, but their are bo manj potentialities in the direction of lerrible clashes tha' I am apprehensive In one minute of destruction the City Of Nen York could 1- cut off from supplies and Yew York cannot remain KG hours isolated without suffering. A week of interrupted inter-rupted traffic, and starvation would st;iik through Ihe streets, and , if to that should he added fire, the horror would lie complete Yon see what I fear?" No doubl in the greal commercial and industrial centers, in the' melting pots where the people are not homogl neon, their ;ir dangers of which We have no intimate knowledge, and living Ihere is not the) same as in Utah, where, come what will, the people are devoted to stability of industrj and committed to reapeot for authority. |