Show THAT ECHOED IDEA The belated Morning Church Echo has actually shown itself capable of grasping an idea when it is placed in black and white A recent issue of THE DEMOCRAT contained an editorial in regard to the future position of Salt Lake City as a great railroad centre The coming of the Union Pacific the Central Pacific and the Midland roads was spoken of and the selfevident fact was referred to that the coming of one of the three great lines would bring tho others The Morning Church Echo succeeded in catching onto on-to the idea and proceeded to elaborate it with all the eager enthusiasm displayed by axjhild in the manipulation of a new and extraordinary plaything But even then our belated contemporary could not handle the subject The idea was too large for it It must apply its usual backaction methods and make its usual botch It falls foul of the Union Pacific for not coming here long ago and berates Charles Francis Adams for noother reason apparently than a hazy notion it seems to entertain that as he is President of tho Union Pacific road now he must have been president of it eighteen years since But there may be method in even the madness of the Morning Church Echo Its jumbled up assault on Mr Adams may be capable of justification Let us see Mr Adams was not the president of the Union Pacific railroad eighteen years ago but if he had been he as a man of business would like the official who wa j really at tho head of the road at the time have taken no Salt Lake chances At that time Salt Lake was a hotbed of polygamous treason trea-son It was the headquarters of Church retrogression and repression Small encouragement en-couragement was there for a transcontinental transcontin-ental railroad to enter Salt Lake eighteen years ago American enterprise in those days could not afford to be clogged by Church policy Consequently the Union Pacific did not come to Salt Lake and consequently from this standpoint Mr Adams is open to the assault of the Morning Church Echo Now however things are radically changed Salt Lake City has received an infusion of business life and energy to which she was a perfect stranger eighteen years ago Gentile blood and enterprise is here in force and is emulated by the Mormon businessmen business-men of the city Salt Lake points out her own future and now the Union Pacific Pa-cific will be glad to come and with it must come the Midland and Central Pacific Pa-cific |