The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-28
A TOUCHING TRIBUTE.

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philosophy when he exclaimed" Lord
what fools these mortals be- He
should have lived in our day, in order
to realize the force of his words; but il
he can now look down upon this part
of the trembling earth, he can doubt
less understand that he builded wiser
than he knew. Here. for instance. is
the Tribune pursuing an unequal con-
test day by day. and endeavoring to
overcome its own shame and the odd
hits inflicted constantly by resort to
rhetorical fourishes. thus showing how
absolutely and hopelessly it contends
against solid facts, hoping doubtless to
atone for the lack of substantial fighting
material by resort to that
which tickles the fancy for the
time being, but neither cheers
nor inebriates, much less infuses the ele-
ments of discipline and courage into the
ranks it essays to lead.
If achievements are TO be gagged by
the good accomplished, it would be an
interesi ling study TO analyze and point
out the results of the paper referred to
and these of its abettorS and clacquers.
IL began on platform OF heteVodoxy,
continued in the field of agitation, and
wound up in the barren enclosure of
pessimism. First Christianity as ex-
pounded in modern times was a sOph-
ism, then the quietude OF the masses
was the awful hush preceding an out
break. and at last everything but itself
and those who pay tribute to it is
wrong, out of place, unfit to live. 1t is
one of those creations that thrives in
Il he misery, discontinue and misfortune
OF those around it; it glo&tS over new
vi ctims being added to the red list itself
b IS established, acknowledges nothing
III eritOrious as coming from an oppon-
Ell It, grows lagily fatOn rancOr and hates
a rival from the very lust of hatred.
Y ct, get in a hemethrust upon a vuI-
n, sable pOintOf its anywhere sufficiently
W sak armor, and its clamors and pro-
te sts against unfairness, ungentlemanly
dc portment, underhanded advantages.
Ell G, make the welkin ring. When it
ca Rnot make point by pursuing the
pr Oper bent of a controversy, it is as
III IscrupuloUs about departing from the
,h essen ground as it is about changing
W sapOns and methods; being unable to
oy erwhelm an adversary in legitimate
lie bate, it will unhesitatingly hunt out
M magnify his personal weaknesses if
ne have any, otherwise those of
hiH family or friends, but still
failing, then Of the neighborhood
N which he lives. 1t fights like blind
preferring to strike its
lssailant, but if unable to do that
else. must receive its venom. |
t would rather say a mean thing than /
good one of any man not amember OF |
IS private coterie, and occasionally
rises to the summit of all previous
achievements in the line of straightout /
'cussedness" by calling attention to the
generous, liberal and evangelical
course it is pursuingl
The downtown achievement of ex-
detrimental depravity is more villainous
han unwise. When it tells the truth
about one who has had the temeritv to
oppose it on whatever subject, it does
10 because there is no chance to do
and avoid exposure; when it
Iays good word about anything not
If its own kind, that particular thing
reeds the closest kind of watching:
Vhen it uncOrks few walls of the un-
liluted mendacity and SANDER with
which it is always overstocked, and
'ours the same out upon the head of
ONE one, the chances are ten to one in
ayor of that being the only defilement
UGH person ever received, and it don't
asst long. There are a few who swear
y it and, they say, would defend it
18th their lives; this would be one of
hose rare cases in which the object and
he sacrifice were about equal. There
another class who think, or say they
o, that our unsavory neighbor is a
lir, upright, highminded. honorable
of journalistic enterprise;
erhaps We were thinking of them wher
ais article was commenced.