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Show A CONVENTION CITY. Tills paper is in receipt of an invitation invi-tation to attend the annual convention conven-tion of '"The State Horticultural Society," So-ciety," in Salt Lake City. This Is the fifth or sixth invitation to attend a convention In Salt Lake City, received within the last six weeks. Only lately there has been a commercial clubs convention con-vention and a good roads convention. There Is something more back of these conventions than appears on the surface. At each convention Salt Lake City expects to gather in the surplus sur-plus wealth of the stale. Fisher Harris Har-ris lost his voice shouting for Salt Lake as a convention city and now he lies awake nights planning for others who are doing the shouting. There la a well organized movement in the capital to draw the crowds to Zion that the people from the country may do their marketing and spending in that city, and Ogden will be placed at a great disadvantage if this city allows this continual drain to go on without making one effort to offset Salt Lake's special temptations coupled with reduced re-duced railroad rates. Salt Lake City does not pretend to entertain at these conventions. The city simply invites those at a distance to meet there on a certain date, offering offer-ing reduced railroad rates, and when the 6trangers are gathered within Its gates, tho places of amusement and the business houses proceed to go through the pockets of tho visitors. with a courteous assurance that In climate cli-mate and scenery Salt Lake furnishes compeusatlng benefits equal to whatever what-ever of wealth Is dropped. It is about time for Ogden to become a convention city. These business tricks should be acquired by our business busi-ness men, if they are to keep up with their competitors. |