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Show THEY ARE UNNERVED. Further referring to the fact that Salt Lake is a city of empty houses, the Salt Lake Herald-Republican says : The cold fact is, and the sooner we recognize and cor-- cor-- rect it the better, Salt Lake has not now the means of livelihood liveli-hood capable of attracting homeseekers. To the man of family who has no capital, who must earn a livelihood for himself and his dear ones by the work of hand or brain. Salt Lake is not holding out the opportunities that she should. The -mistake Salt Lake has made is in bringing about an inflation infla-tion by following the lead of adventurers. There was no demand for the big buildings erected last year and the year before. The structures struc-tures went up in response to the schemes of the boomers. Now those buildings are being vacated, just as office buildings in other parts of that city were vacated when it was popular to get into the new structures struc-tures about a year ago. But the surprising feature of this disconsolate cry of the Salt Lake Herald-Republican is that those who were so bold and daring in the period of boom, have so completely lost their corn-age and have fallen so deeply into nervous collapse. The story told by the Salt Lake paper is a pitiful recital of a whole citr unnerved by a sudden crumpling of the gew-gaws which so thoroughly pleased and were so exultingly exhibited to everybody who visited that place in the past three years. The best lesson to be drawn from the wreck and ruin in Salt Lake is that of the danger in an unnatural, false growth, brought about by crafty, unscrupulous boomers. A solid, meritorious, though comparatively slower, advancement, such as Ogden has experienced, carries with it no crisis or reaction, but assures a long-continued progress and a prosperity to be enjoyed by the permanent residents and solid citizens of the community. Had Salt Lake held to the same policy as that adhered to in Ogden, Og-den, the Salt Lake Herald-Republican would have been saved the ex-.cruciating ex-.cruciating embarrassment of putting on sack cloth and ashes and dejectedly rehearsing the misfortunes of its people. O temporal O mores! |