The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-05-26
SPECULATIONs ON NATIVITY.
American Swell of Pride a Windy
Inhalation.
White People Pretty Much Alike
the World Oyer.
SILVER REEF, May 20, 81.

Editors Herald.
! Some honest people. for the SAKE
of name and a desire to benefit
their race, devote their lives to prin-
ciples, and are said to be, and nc
doubt are, actuated by noble am
bition; but if many of them could
realize the abuses their efforts often
entail on inoffensiYe people, they
would remain quiescent, and take
the world as they find it.
| For example, take those who have
legislated for the freedom Of the
press" that mighty power so potent
for good in the hands OF able and
honest men; so pernicious when its
| enunciations and denunciatiOns are
governed by Yenality and spite.
Who has not seen some well-mean-
ing but luckless chap, whose evil
genius has prompted him, in mo-
ment Of weakness, to accept a little
office of trust, the emoluments of
which were such, compared with
the annoyances involved, as to have
demoralizing effect on anyone en-
doWed with human passions? Who
has not seen him Writhe and turn
pale under accusations which
conveyed the idea that he
was fool, and a liar, and
thief, until he began to think |
there was somethingwrong himself ? |
and his successor who was admit |
tedly all three, march in with cOlors
flying and go "scot Free" for the
simple reason that it would look too
much like plagiarism to reiterate
what everybody had heard and |
knew before? This is one abuse of
the freedom of the press" and
mentioned to show that there are
others beside the one that has been
felt here.
AT one stage of the recent trouble
here, the liberal wing of the Utah
press. being imbued with patriotism,
announced that it was a
sure thing that no Americans were ,
engaged in the gross violations of
order, etc. From what premises
this deduction was drawn, it is hard
to determine, for it is matter of
history that within the last twenty
years every state and territory be-
tween the Mississippi and the
Pacific, unless it be Utah, has been
ruled at times by vigilance commit
tees, organized and run by Ameri- I
cans, as a necessity against the |
Iawless acts of Americans.
However, the little fellow who
made out the lis; probably did not
know this, but issued his fat in ac-
cordance with the suggestion given,
and the result is, Erin weeps. 1t is
a rough joke on some of !
the men immured, whose demeanor {
has always been characterized by
nildnesS and moderation, that their 4
DatrOnymicS have subjected them to
he frownS Of justice and suggested :
jhe key for their incarcerations; but 4
t is true, nevertheless, and being 4
rue, should make every honest
American hang his head for shame,
hat such dirt is possible in the land
le was born in.
Is does seem, sometimes, that
here are people who will have to I
)e told that the white race is foreign
oAmerica; that it is not Indigenous;
hat it has been transplanted, and i
as an exotic, its growth 8
will be more eXuberant, or its fibre ;,
iner, is still an open question. If :
We can at all rely on the traditions =
# our fathers, many of us will have @
% admit that compared with them, 7
We are narrow in the loins and =
weak in the chest; and when we
Zee our feeble little attempts in u
print, we know our mental faculties e
will not size up with the stern old =
gentlemen who could eXtemporiZe i
/ caustic address to the throne of 7
race, of several hours duration, and :,
without a stop, OF a SHUTTER, or a I
and still have plenty of i
material in reserve. r
Americans in Europe are not as .
vet considered more honest, more
vlrtuous, or more modest than their
Alasl no.; the most
trait noticeable in Anne .
ricans abroad, is brag; and brag of .
the most repulsive kind; and this is E
the impartial verdict, that has been =
given in SORROW, by the most intel
igent of their countrymen. So when
we read: How the bosom of every
American must swell with pride" ,
ETC., we feel constrained to say, that
all such expansions may be due to
lir. Suppose a sheep herder, in the
Hilds of Australia, should one day
become conscious that he was an
atom pertaining to the great empire
'on which the sun" may be said to
be ever rising, and suppose heshould
,mite his chest and give vent
to his exultation in bombastic
phrase, what would be the result?
He would be simply ridiculous, and
his friends would say: His Yoca-
ton has turned his brain. He will
have to be looked after. =
The man who knocks around the
world learns that people Of different
of the white race are
all about alike in the main, and
when this knowledge becomes gen. {
eral the lion and the lamb may lie {
and the time may come !
when an Englishman can tolerate !
Frenchman, an IriShman Dutch
man, and an American all of them
so let US be charitable, and when we
ourselves to direct pub :
lie opinion, if we make mistakes let
us have the consciousness that we :
are guided by our honest convic-
tions and without malice, for it !,
often happens that when small
fry" official depends for his cue on a
"heavy weight" newspaper, he does
more harm in a week than he can
possibly undo in a lifetime, for Off
Gals are, as a general thing, men
whom nature has dealt with meager- :
ly, and try as they may, it is hardly
on the papers for them to do much
good anyway. - NJ
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