The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-29
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Certain Article

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"~iconociasf Shows up the Beauties Of a
Certain Article
10 the Editor Of the Leader:
1t Is not the greatest pleasure Of your
correspondent to be an iconoclast-a
breaker Of images. But when images
are false and inimical to the best inter-
ests Of a community, and especially of
wyoming, l, as a citizen and taxpayer,
consider 1t a duty to endeavor, at least,
to smash those grinning idols. Some
OF these 1 found set up In the Sun of
Wednesday evening last, In a lengthy
article on the want of energy in wyo-
ming. One sentence shows the writer
to be Mr.. Slack. for he says: SIN our
recent trip through the territoryu etc.
So 1t will be borne In mind that no
novice Is responsible for the utterances
against certain people In this territory.
The SUMS plant is that there Is a
lack of energy and enterprises In deyel-
oping the Of Wyoming terri
tory. Granted. But does this fact
justify the San in gratuitously insult
ing a large class of citizensp The Sun
would have no emigrants from the east
to populate and develop the territory.
1t makes no distinctions. The heavy
real estate and cattle owners, who are
most Of them eastern men, are all
classed with those who are Choking
for soft jobs" or "a chance to swindle
somebody" The Sun may not mean
this, but 1t says 1t as plain as language
can indicate. According to that paper
this territory is full Of "drones," who
retard its progress, and they all came
from the east. Let me quote:
In conclusion, we ask the east to quit
sending us shiftless, lazy tramps. This
is no place for them. Our jails are full,
our institutions for paupers are small
and o~yercrowded, aud there are more
than enough here to Hll county offices.
or go to the legislature. There are
already too many drones In this hive,
and that's what's the matter.
What! does the Sun mean to say that
there are more than enough here
(paupers) to fill county offices, or 20 to
the legislatureP" Or that the legisla-
ture is a hive Of 'dronespn Yet one
is plainly led to believe that these posi-
tions are already filled by paupers,
and that there is too much material
here now. Does the Sun admit of such
an intentionp If 1t does not, it must
necessarily plead guilty to gross inabil-
ity in stating its case. In either light
the Suns editor is incompetent for his
position and should give place to brains.
The Sun offers an apology: "Per-
haps we have not expressed these
thoughts in a classical fashion, but this
don't concer u.s." Admitted; and
not only that, but the Sun fails to ex-
press its thoughts properly, as I have
shown above, or grammatically, as 1
propose to prove. Don't" is a word
not found in the dictionary. 1t is a
vulgarism, being an abbreviation of the
words ''do not" "But this do not
concern u.s." A weird sentence truly.
Perhaps I may be pardoned by the
reader and thanked by the erudite Sun
if l should point out a few other
''eccentricities" of the Suns language.
''Territory's total capacities;' rich, to
say the least" "They have set
around, what, hens? "He didn't get
elected to Office" 1.-THE peoples ideas
must be set into commotion.n Says
Webster 'Commotion: Excitement;
agitation; perturbation; disturbance;
tumult; disorder; violence" The San
has a remarkably queer recipe for i'm
proving the condition of things.
WANT Of life is indicative Of decay
Want, is ''to be without" We're the
Sun man to be without life 1 should
say that the indications of decay were
very strong. He would also back up
his ideas with giant p~owder.ns 1
might suggest that their fallacy makes
them self-explosive. "Petrifed fossils"
is as good as frozen ice or wet water.
"Lifeless manikins," Il. e., anatomical
fgures) is equal in power of expression
to u dead corpse.
But enough; l might go on and fill a
column with ''some mistakes of the
Sum-" 1t all proves, however, that the
treatment Of the subject of Wyoming's
welfare is In incompetent hands. The
writer who says that ''would-be jurors
and hangers-on should go to work and
turn something up" as ''there is no ex-
cuse for idleness, I" and then adds: "But
we do not conflne our remarks to the un-
employed, {" stamps himself as a ct SUBJ
ject for a school room. Such persons
have no business on a paper, and
least of all, they should not assume to
teach the people.
As l said above, the editor of the
San may not have intended to pass
sighting remarks on worthy citizens,
and l do not believe that he did, al
though his language is plainly express
sive Of the fact. But he cannot plead
anything in e~xtenuation of his glaring
errors in composition. IcoNocLAsr.
Cheyenne, W. T., Nov. %, 1873.
WANTED IMMEpIATELY.- middle
aged man and wife. without children.