Show 1 BETTER there was a time between 1897 and laoo when a mental strabismus affected nearly every democratic editor in ithe united states and made him incapable ol 01 seeing things as they were and caused him to laugh uproariously when a republican dared to point out any signs of prosperity but bhare has como a change since tho democrats have discovered that their optics were deceiving them and have put on glasses through gj which they seo tt right for instance there was the editor ot the salt lake herald artio was thrown into a spasm every time the standard told ol 01 the return ot good times and the disappearing of the adversities versi ties which had inflicted the herald editor was not altogether mean and perverse in refusing to acknowledge the triumphs of republicanism he was simply made squint eyed by trying to harmonize the inconsistencies ot democracy which republican papers had been running in parallel columns and be therefore could not see anything naturally it must bo a miserable state 0 o body and mind to be in and no one has more sympathy than we tor the honest political writer who is thus temporarily when a democrat is cured ot ina disease and the affliction baa passed he with the rest ct mankind and svery night on bended prays to ae spared a chastisement so severe the gloom haa theon dissipated tho veil ot borrow lifted and ho in alte mad wa senac that is why the herald of late had a more cheerful tone and has acen capable ot appreciating tho ot tho editor no longer goes around pining for some his hand and bewailing hla ing a time in the worlds history when everything was going by contraries con traries I 1 no he Is now a natural man from an attack of political cross aad and Is capable writing cheerful honest editorials such as the following in this mornings issue of that paper the preliminary report of the census bureau showing the tremendous increase that the manufacturing industry has made in utah and salt lake Is gratifying in the extreme the number of and the amount of capital invested in manufacturing have more than doubled since asso instead of aso plants there are now 1400 and the amount of money invested aias increased from to these plants employ men paying out in wages dur ing the year against employed emp loyes and a total annual wage of in 1890 in salt number of plants has increased from to the total amount of capital invested in them ils more than 4 an increase ot nearly 1000 in ten years aney employ 2978 men instead of 1986 da 1880 and the amount paid in wages each year has risen from to the value of manufacturing products in both state and city has also increased in like proportion the gain in the entire state being per cent valle inot 01 toaia lake iss per vein these figures will be surprising even to people ot this state by reason of the wealth and variety of its natural resources utah Is destined to become ono of the great manufacturing states but the development of natural resources Is still in its infancy and these offar so many inducements to capital and labor that it would not be strange it manufacturing did not as yet show any phenomenal growth that the contrary has been the case and that manufacturing Is advancing with giant strides shows how general and on what broad lines utah Is developing the growth of the state is not dependent on any one industry or locality the entire state Is prosperous and Is developing along such varied lines of industry that the time is not far distant when so far as the necessities of life and many ox the luxuries are concerned utah will tw independent of the rest of the world |