Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-23
A PETITION AND A PROMISE.


Some time ago we received petition
from three or four thousand ladies, ladies
who are mothers of families, requesting
us not to make any mention whatever OF
a certain newspaper published in our
city, and to a small circle of readers
known as the Tribune. In response to
the request of the delegation that waited
upon us. we said it was not our intention
to in any way heed such papers as the
,Secier Valley Echo and the Tribune, but
that the rule was not infeXible. We
asked the ladies of the delegation
for something more specific than
the petition set forth as a reason why
they desired that no mention OF such
papers as those above named should be
made in our columns. They replied that
they held that the very word Tribune was
immoral, and that whenever the word
was seen or heard in their homes, it
frightened the smaller children and made
ali the larger boys so bad that several
had gone away TO join Jesse James band.
In proof OF this they cited a number of in
stances which are familiar TO all, but OF
which the true cause was never known
until now. The request of the petitioners
was granted, but to-day we very much re-
gret that circumstances, over which We
have no control, compel us to break our
promise. The apology which we offer
for so doing is the fact that yesterday this
same Tribune made an uncalled-for at
tack upon us, an attack in which they
ought to and did wound us. There was
no justification whatsoever for piercing
and wo lnding us as they did, for we have
ever been meek and humble, lowly and
lovely, and they wounded us from mere
wantonness and from a consciousness of
superabundant strength and ability.
They have done us a great harm, and by
so doing have not added one mite to their
great glory. We were seeking to live
and they have slain us; we had thought
the wide world broad enough for us both,
but they alone have filled it and their
greatness is already fast crowding upon
It's confines; and we must be content to
be as naught. In the hour of our greatest
affliction, we went to the assistant" on
whom we clean for support" and told
him of our trouble and sorrow and how
the Tribune had injured us and said that
our article of Monday last was not a
specimen of far reaching and austere
logic Our assistant, who is a first cousin
to "my friend Mrs. Harris bade us be
of good cheer and gave us great
comfort, and said: "Your logic
is as good as the Tribune'S,
although it may not be so austere, for
they are given to austerity. In truth,
austerity is their stronghold, and without
austerity they are nothing; to take from
them their austerity is to deprive them of
their strength, and they become as a lit
tie child" Then we complained that the
Tribune inferred that our jewels were
only paste, and we had always deemed
them of the first water and finest hue
Our assistant" on whom we clean for
support" assured us that while he was
not an expert lapidary, yet he knew
enough to assert that the Tribune
was not competent to judge, as
all of their crown jewels were paste, for
he had often examined them in their
hiding place. And further, he said that
their jewels were not even French paste,
but were a poor imitation of false thing.
Still we were not comforted, and we told
our friend, our assistant, that the Trib-
quae had sought to blast our reputation,
and that such a thing could do them no
good, while it made us poor indeed. To
this he replied: Tut, tut, lad; you
should not care for that, as, next to aus
terity, blasting is the Tribule'S favorite
occupation, and | account for this from
the fact they much resemble Job,
in this that their belly is filled
with the east wind. Never forget, my
boy, that the Vaccinations of the wicked
come to naught, although at times He
who orders all things for the best allows
them to live and seem to triumph for
short while and they have their reward.
The time has not yet come in which such
as the Tribune shall be swept from the
the face of the earth, and so YOU must be
patient yet little longer" We left our
" assistant" feeling much rejoiced, and
in the future when we cannot agree with
the Tribune, we shall not meet them in a
spirit of contention, but think that " dis
passionate, kind and complete reply is
the best means of meeting such an at
tack, and is the means we shall endeavor
to USE"
THE IMPENDING WAR.