The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-28
CATTLE, CATTLE, CATTLE.
SALT LAKE, Cry. Feb. q. 80.

SALT LAKE CRY, Feb. q. 80.
Editors Herald:
"The Hermit" needs taking dowr
another peg or two. 1 have read BIZ
letter in the HERALD of the 22nd, bu
there is nothing in it. 1 mean in the
letter, not in the HERALD. Nothing
but cattle, cattle, cattle. Yes, there
is one other thing, and that is money.
Cattle, cattle, cattle, money, money,
money, is the burden of his song.
The cattle as the grand cause, the
money as the glorious result. Any
thing else is very incidental. like bis
debating my eating, as IN his fret
letter, and his debating my drinking,
as in his last. Presumptuous mani
He says, Take vinegar bitters." 1
believe l have seen similar presumt-
uous advice many times on the
fences in various parts of this city.
But do not indulge in Hermit's
faVorits drink. | do not. irrigate with
that sort of stuff, if he does.
There is q mysterious fascination
about this cattle, cattle, cattle bust
ness. The fascination is so powerful
that it destroys the mental equili-
brium of many people. That seems
TO be Hermit's sad case. He is to be
pitied. Wnen people are q little
gone, they are not in the least aware
of it. They lhi0k they are advancing
in wisdom Again, that seems to be
Hermit's cad case, and again he is to
be pitied. He thinks cattle, cattle,
cattle the only property worth cent.
But he is so errlng man, he errs
greatly. He has cattle, cattle. cattle
On the brain. Poor man. He does
not know he has got it so bad.
Hermit speaks Of Montana days.
According to his logic, when wheat
was worth So bushel, nothing
brought cash but catile, cattle, cattle.
When coal was $25 a ton, nothing
was sold for money but cattle, cattle,
cattle. When wool was $40 a cord,
was worth money but cattle,
cattle, cattle. When hay was worth |
s85 ton. nothing was sold for money |
'ut cattle, scattle, cattle. When |
Ipples and peaches we're worth Sc
,ushel, nothing fetched the money
iut cattle, cattle, cattle. o those
7onderful cattle, cattle, cattleI OIL
hat wonderful thieving So steerl
Nothing else brings cash. and cash is
he god of this lower world.
Hermit says Mark Twain went to
europe and to Jerusalem, but saw no
stray pound. l should not go to
erusslem to fnd an estrsy pound.
erusalem is only half civilized. But
nuch of Europe is highly civilized. l
ave been in Europe, with nay eyes
pen, and have seen estray pounds
mere scores and scores of times. So
lark Twain did not see everything
n his travels. Utah did not invent
10 estray pound. II
Hermit Fays the cattle men are
Ding out of the territory. Let them
D. Who cares? 1t is a good sign
hen the wild cattle men leave q
1untry. It shows that civilization is
ivsncing. 1t elbows that cities,
)wns, and villages are increasing in
re land; that the prairie is being
into the cultivated field;
lat the desert is being made to bios
Jm as the rose; that nature is being
improved by art; that the hum Of
industry is supplant- ,
lg the yell Of the knights of the
attic, cattle, cattle business, the
iziest business in the world. Let the
stsle men go, il they want to This
q free country. It will be a long
me before l petition for them to
ome back again, with their thieving
attic, cattle, cattle. It is worth
,melhiDg to live in a country where
lere is something else to see and to
link, talk, and hear about than
Iese everlasting cattle. cattle, cattle.
In the last days OF the late legisla.
ge sessioD, some half crazy cattle
ian sent in a little bill, and it WAS
i about cattle, cattle, cattle. he
anted nothing else tolerated on the
ublic domain but cattle, cattle,
attle. The Legislature did not see
le point in his light, so HE cattle
IN and bis cattle, cattle, csttle we've
# cut in the cold. Possibly Hermit
Mt in that bill.
CULTIYAToR.