Show PAY TRIBUTE salt lake city wants alie world ogden to be obliterated and the standard editor put to death A proclamation that leaves nothing unsaid the following has been handed to us as a proclamation issued by the royalty of salt lake it is document which talla of the devouring all man cf that city and an appetite which can oaly be appeased by the destruction of ogden and the sacrificing of those of ita citizens who have stood in the way of salt lake when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for salt lake city to make known why she alone has the right to give a crand midsummer carnival we hold these truths to be self evident that salt lake is the only city in utah that she has enjoyed all the fat af the state for years and is therefore entitled to it by well known right of continued use that salt lake is a jealous city and permits no rivals within its power to prevent that salt lake city has received for years millions of dollars from the united states government through the location of the federal offices within its confines that salt lake city has received all the pat of fort douglas amounting to a quarter of a million annually which is a vested right not to be assailed that the state officers are by law forced to spend their salary in salt lake city in keeping with the needs of the city that the annual expenditure of great sums of money by ibe legislature and its officers is enjoyed hy salt lake city exclusively that the state university which the people of this state are taxed to maintain is a dignity which the state owes to salt lake city only the tax should be doubled that the bringing in of hundreds of of dollars each year through the state fair which enriches the people of the capital city is a privilege for which they should feel grateful that the grand privilege of permitting the quarterly semiannual semi annual and annual conferences to be held at salt lake city thus permitting the brethren of the state to purchase their wares in salt lake be made perpetual and everlasting that in permitting the various political conventions held in salt lake city this city is entitled to the congratulations of the people for the royal method adopted by salt lake citizens in permitting members of such conventions and their friends to pay their own way as long as they have any money and then allowing thema to depart in that by reason of having so well and faithfully received the foregoing arduous duties and sacrifices salt lake city is entitled to a grand midsummer carnival by which it will bo enabled to get the remaining remain inc loose dollars in the state all of which being the legal and lawful prize of the capital city therefore be it I 1 resolved that notwithstanding the foregoing self evident truths the city of ogden has dared to interfere with the rights and privileges of this city there tore we the great king and queen of the midsummer carnival do hereby forbid the name of ogden to be mentioned by our children and proclaim ogden our deadly foe until wiped off the map of the world be it further decreed that buffalo bill ho fame be hereby condemned to death for treason to the midsummer carnival at salt lake done the queen colburn prime minister |