The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-18
KEARNEY AND KALLOCH.
a Few Pungsnt Remarks Concern
ing tbs ''Trib's" Editorial.
Something About that Philanthro-
pic Record Among CANNES and
Free Lunch FIends.
Editors Herald:

= the sanction Of the benevolent oour
n ten&nced individual Who presides owe
Q the deStinies OF that journal, and dhc
according to the Virginia Enterprise
left such a very phllGnthropio recon
among the CANNES and free luncl
6ends OF that city.
1t is not many years since q forme
attorney general Of California, in dis
coursing upon the evil ways of th
: hoodlums Of San FranciAco, state
that their conduct was not TO b
wondered at when the fact of Sal
Francisco having originally been set
! tied by courtezsns and gamblers va
taken into consideration. Later, Sen
stor Sargent, in q speech in the Sen
late, stated that you could find an
IdsY in San Francisco a mob who
would cruelty Christ over again, snC
that the leading newspaper of the city
would justify the act for thirty pieces
OF silver.
When the mining interests Of Cali.
torRis and Nevada hsd been consoli.
dated into a huge machine for the
depression and spoliation OF the
masses, which continued its workings
with unparalleled success down to
1877, when the people, Kearuey
among the number, we're, in conse'
quenee Of the designsdly false repre-
sensations issuing from = subsidized
press, robbed of every cent of their
honest earnings, and the mines, at
that period, suddenly giving out, they
we're left pennilesS during the panic
and hard Hmes that ensued. is it to
be wondered at that there should have
been denunciations OF their deiraud.
ers loud and deep, and had there been
some hemp'stretohing by some Of
those blsck-besrted scoundrels who
had been engaged in piundering
wholesale the honest and industrious
poor, 1 do not believe that hu
manity would have had much
just cause to mourn. I venture
to say that for every dollar
that has ever come out Of the mines
the people of California have been
robbed of over 500 by stock manipu
tatorI. The writer gloats over
Kearney's having been sent to prison
in defiance of all Law and Justice, and
calls him a craven bandit. Were he.
the writer, (which l feel assured
there never will be any hope of his
doing, for rotten, fish in accordance
with an unslterAble law of nature,
invariably float along with the cur
renD to enter into contest against
the basest and most unscrupulous
mlscreauts that have ever disgraced
Gods footsto0l, beings who rule alb
solutely, in town and state, by the
power Of wealth plundered from their
credulous ard con6ding dupes, and
who permit no obstacle 10 block up
their pathWay-who recognize none,
bat these who are willing to obey for
q price their Ubiquitous behests-who
have debauched justice and public
opinion until the courts are resking
with perjury, and are rank with the
stencil of corruption, and friends of
honesty and good government have
almost become mythical, be, too,
might exhibit some heSitancy as he
set about his mission of reformation.
Success seems 10 have misied
Kearney and to hAVe made him for
get the mission upon which he first
started, but l believe be has never
been even accused OF bstTsying tie
confidence OF his followers or OF
lsYing snAres for the paFpose of de-
trsuding them.
The Tribune speaks 90 though the
millienAries OF California and Nevada
we're honest. honorable men; but the
man who stalds silently by, and in
stead Of denounoiHg schemes OF IN
psrslleled plumber, eagerly seizes
all the spoils they can possibly afford |
him, though be we're not directly
instrumental in setting their ma
chinery in motion, is just as much .
criminal az the vileSt seoundrel that
ever grsced the precincts OF Sing
Sing; and San Francisco to-day pre-
SCENTS the most pitiful aspect OF any
city in the Union-its wealth all ao-
cumulated in the hands of q few
WIetches, whilst multitudes of its
honest, industrious Glasses are without
work and without bread.
well recollect, Q few years ago,
when those interested in its library
set about its enlArg ement, and not
one of the city's moneyed men would
contribute a dollar, until finally re-
course Was had to q gambling lottery
scheme, and another half million dol
lars Wrung from the poorer classes,
who were not in q condition to profit
by its advantages by being able to
pay it's large subscription price for
membership.
Surely, the editor of the Tribune
could have never penned the remarks
Kslloch-his genial ap-
pearancs contradicts the assumption.
Whoever did go, plainly proves that il
be possesses a soul it must indeed be
one of less than microscopical pro-
portions. Kalloch, the grand and
mighiy-souled KallochI the Chritt'an
and the patriot scourging wrong and
exposing iniQuity to the light of day J
the hatred and detraction
Of disappointed oupidity and the ridi
cule and misrepresentation OF char
aclerless, hireling scribblers Ksl-
loeb, whose grand and noble utter
ances could never have proceeded
but from heart strung 10 roble and
lofty impulses Ksllooh, who, at
period when, as q distinguished
writer has remarked, foul cor
ruption had never before go
poisoned humanity, in its blacklist and
darkest places, in defiance of every
threat and of every seduction, in de-
6auce OF thieves with brsssy faces
and greedy. murderous hands, rises
like another star of Bethlehem to re-
deem the righteous and dethrone the
Ubiquitous! May it never be said OF
him, as it has been OF another dis
tinguished Californian:
But such the fate of virtue here on earth;
Fighting her battles on the side of worth,
The Ehirlwind's sport, dismssted on the
tide,
Where fraud and force in pomp and
triumph ride,
Drifting sdown the shorclesI ses Of time,
The scoff Of scoundrels and the pray Of
crime.