The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-07
SOMEWHAT PERSONAL.
a Reef Correspondent INDUCES in
Some SlaShiDg Cuts and
Sarcasm.
The Editor Of our Esteemed Morn
ing Contemporary Pun6tured.
SILVER REEF. July %, 1881

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now desires. through the HERALD
to state that he is going 20 throw the
p q aside and kenceforth the public
OF Utah will have 20 gather their
intellectual nutriment from some
other source.
| There is more than one reason for
THE; in the first place the deadly con-
test against capital in which he is
now engaged is not conducive to
great mental effort, and secondly the
last favor he has received from the
hands of the Tribune has so com
/ pletely disheartened him that he
wishes to resign, and allow some other
half educated person to take his
place. When he saw the p: a. of the
country, striking wildly at this
Guiteau affair and mistaking rashness
fer bravery, be felt a call to set it
wright and in go doing hss incurred
his Own disrespect and the unkind
regards of the Trt6une.
Why did the leading man of the
Tribune treat him so, and call him
bright fellow and say that he wrote
first rate letter; Why not be coneis-
tent aud say that that production was
utterly destitute of merit, and then
write column or so about it? Then
he would have known be was keeping
up his lick, and no: feel as be now
does that he is growing stale, and
ike one going to Arizona or New
Mexico or some cut OF the way place
and sinking quietly into the belly
of oblivion"
Is there any thing wrong with the
3r'6une man?is ha still SC haunted
by the ghosts Of unpleasant recollec-
tlons that one cannot mention Silver
Reef without his getting excited and
and wanting 10 abuse somebody, and
bringing up that stroke which every
body ia sick and tired of and more
80 than those who first made it
necessary?
Another thing the Tribune man
reiterates statements which he
believes to be true, bat which are
not. he says that I more than once
informed him that his advice or
opinion was not required, when the
truth is I never said so at all, for
where the use? knew his big-hearted
generosity and 1 knsW too that good
advice is the cheapest commodity in
the world, so cheap that there are
more victims of it probably than
whisky, and would it be quite kind
In me to say anything against his
indulgence III his favcrite luxury?l
No. -ra
His comparing Guitteau with the |
men who struck against a reduction |
OF living wages is so farfetched that
1t suggests it own comment, and bis
statement that gave my moral
support to the strikers here. is too |
inconsistant with the premises to be !
entertained for a moment, Mora
support! II BE had said immoral! Blu: |
thus he has always been inconsistent
whenever he has mentioned the
affair, inconsistent in taking the part
he did; Inconsistent IN bis rendering
OF 1t. II he had been an Eastern
capitalist with the servile blood of |
dozenigenerstions of petty tradesmen
IN bis veins one might overlook il: |
but he is a pioneer and We always |
expect q little manliness from them.
To show his inconsistency he claims !
20 be an humanitarian and a pro
mote- of education, etc. to elevate the
masses. and then he makes q move
la form OF grinding them down to !
starvation wages and preaching the |
indulgence in those little necessaries
which little education entails, such
ss books, etc., There are family men
who came here two and three wears
ago, who had to support their fani-
lies by their labor, who have yes
ted rights; they have expended all
their earnings in house and lot and |
furniture; they found this a 81 camp
and naturally expected il 10 continue
so which it would have done il the
scrub element had kept away from
it. Now, it is going to be difficult
for these men to rear and educate
their children On s.. so per dsy.
so difficult that few will try it, and if
the cbildred are girls and have
musical tastes, they can never learn
to play the piano, bu. will have to
fall back on the ACCORDION or some
equally bsrbarous instrument which
may lead to trouble.
Mr.. Tribune is mistaken spsin
when he thinks l was ever a prcmi-
nent striker, for in common with
many others l did not feel much i
personal interest in it, and went into
1t as a matter OF principle, for there
is the objection TO all secret societies 8
that whenever man joins zone, it is j
pretty conclusive evidence that he 4.
las lost confidence in himself. and is
afraid that he cannot get living
without help; and many of them are !
light; there bsvs been men in this
country who have filled positions :
whose best recommendation and 5
,Dly credistiabIe we're the symbols of :
heir order worn conspicuously on :
heir rieckties or bssoms. However a :
sbor organization is different :
hing.
Mr. Iribaas thinks there is hone
or the HERALD correspondent and +
ie may yet become respectable miner.
n f,Ts aorfio,,. - ~-.,-Il