Salt Lake Evening Democrat

"ALAS! POOR YORICK."
In a late issue of our Republican contemporary there appears an article under the caption "Foreign Capital Seeking Investment." Under this enterprising head is presented a group of local facts stolen from the Democrat of the previous evening, and after it had thus feloniously obtained facts of vital importance to the welfare of the city in which it is published, our Republican contemporary with its chronic asinine egotism, could not let these facts speak for themselves. It must breath upon them the blight of its comments. After reciting the lesson from the Democrat "that a St. Louis man had invested $15,000 here; that he had $25,000 more to invest as opportunity offered; that every day eastern men are calling upon real estate agents here to inquire about local investments, and that Salt Lake real estate generally was finding a magnificent market," our Republican contemporary proceeds to thus knife our city's boom: "In the minds of Eastern capitalists the Edmunds-Tucker law has put a quietus upon Mormonism and put the Territory in a shape to be opened up, and perhaps it has; but the Eastern people are beginning to learn that the Mormon Church is fighting tooth and nail against anything and everything savoring of progress, and to retain the political power necessary to show any front against local investments by Eastern capital, will take any oath possible of formulation." Here we have an apt illustration of the peculiar and boasted wisdom of our Republican contemporary-the journal that arrogates to itself the divine right to guide the fortunes of Utah. Fortune's favors are not for the blind. Neither is the hour of golden opportunity recognized by egotistical stupidity. Further on in these comments of our Republican contemporary, we find the words, "considerable capital has been frightened away by local Jack Mormon croakers who are ever looking on the dark side of things." The croak of the Jack Mormon (if he ever made any) can not be heard in the louder croak of our Republican contemporary. But the end approaches. Our Republican contemporary is on the eve of being taught the great lesson it has so long invited. The people of Salt Lake, and of Utah, are fast realizing that arrogant assumption alone does not fill the journalistic field, or constitute a public guide, counselor and friend. Our Republican contemporary will soon be but a Republican contemporary. Nothing more.