The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-24
ENQUIRY" AGAIN.
He Obligingly Answers Mr.. MUIR.
rays Queries.
To the Editor of the THE HERALD.

| WIZ 5OO AIhuly olOW mC W oDue'
myself aud withal edify Mr.. Murray BY
replying to his attack on me in thi;
mornings HERALD.
He tells about seeing earmarks, but
he is not as smart at guessing as be
thinks he is, he is greatly mistaken. /
have never owned q dollar of stock or
otherwise in that road.
He states I'VE have no shopkeepers in
the United States, ana the use of the
term betrays the English origin of the
writer that l attempted to confound the
British shopkeeper with the American
merchant so as TO clothe the latter with
the opprobrium attached to the former
that ''shopkeeper in English is syn
onymous with other terms of contempt
and has no equivalent in Ameri, a."
This deny, in England shopkeeper
is respectable, and in Wo1ces;er's and
Webster's dictionaries is defined as
one who sells goods by retail, store
keeper. The gentleman named by Mr..
Murray sells goods by reta'', therefore
he is shopkeeper. l deny that there
is among educated and well-raised peo-
pie any opprobrium intended by that
term. 1t is an American term by the
American standards. The great Wan
namaker of Philadelphia Is a shop
keeper, but he is merchant also as is
Mr.. Remington, and as he would be If
he were only pedlsr. (Read both die
tionaIies carefully Any way, l first
wrote storekeeper in my letter, but
changed it to shopkeeper at the last
moment, to excite the visibility of the
reader, because L know many people
IN America don't like to be called by
their proper names, and affect to look
down upon shopke eper. A merchant
must be called prince. king; others,
colonel, major, etc., but ~ my mind.
the most noble title is citiz N iti-
zen Murray, Citizen Brown, &c.
We want none of their pageant,
none of their titles. If Citizen Murray
Will investigate he will find himself in
error in saying there IS no synonym in
America for shopkeeper. There is, and
it is storekeeper. | have often wished
l was as competent shOpkeeper as the
gentleman referred TO. True, it is said
Napoleon contemptuousiy described the
English as a nation OF shopkeepers,
but the shopkeeper5 played old Harry
with bis Greatness at last. If those
people who affect TO look down on shop
keepers would pay them their monthly
bills they would do themselves credit,
and begin to like shopkeepers better.
l made simple statement that there
seemed to be somebody behind some
mys erious, quoting well-knuWn saw
ing which l picked up from a very
smart Phlladeldhia business man, that
where there is mystery there is al
ways a-scounC1e at the bottom of H.
Having begun to quote the adage l had
to quote it correctly, and as Mr.. r. is
at the front. and at the top, as the petit
toner, it could not be applied to him,
but to the imaginary individual at the
bottom of it.
l have, however, been Informed that
there is no such man with a pile
behind the merchant, that the charter
will be for sal3 so soon as obtained.
if it ever is.
l virtually asked a q1estion-why
the man wi b $40U COO on hand with
which to build the road did not come
forth and like little man do his own
business and Mr.. Murry, replies that
l want to sneak in AM by scoundelism
and knavery deprive honest men of |
the benefits of their labors, talent and |
connection (taking care however to |
avoid answering the question.)
All that l have done is in the papers. I
MIR. r. has forwarded e petition-what
else has he done to entitle him to
get something given him worth-if
it is worth neutrality-suspicious. some
thousands of dollars If he
wrote the petition himself it
IS worth a dollar, il he paid a
awyer might cost him FIVE dollars. |
will write him a petition any day for
i've dollars as good as that, and for less
+ he will have two or three petitions
DER day.
Now. Mr.. Murray, you have asked me
a number Of questions. |
will answer such as can directly, with
'ut accusing you of anything
TO the question, What is the secret
motive OF the interest displayed by me
u the city? | reply,
[ don't know where my motives came
rom; the question is too mysterious
How much money did l have for
pecalation when l arrived from Eng Z
and?" Auswer-A quarter. 1 should
lave spent or given that aWay too.
,nly it was hidden in some Of nv
lothes and didn't know | had it.
How did l obtain what | now ,
,ossess?" A.-By hard work and long ,
hours.
WAS it by an honest consideration of /
lie rights of my fellow citizens pa {
was not working at honest or dis
onest consideration and got no salary j
or considering.
"Was it by my honest treatment of I
hem (my fellow-citizens). etc?n 1
don't understand this; l +
aid all my grocery bills, and eyery- I
hing and everybody. q
How much street railroad stock have 2
gotF' Answer have never had f
nele share to my naNe. i
."What did it COST me2" Answer b
'otuing. | never bought any. l raw Q
" car fare, a nickel, every time except 0
hen | sneak" in and rob the com g
any OF its inst demand. b
It has naturally increased 100 per e
mt Answsr-You say it is euer s.
afr II zed, so it cou not increase that r
Iuch-thht it is never patronized be il
,use t1e cars have no schedule time, vet b
~ that it is run on the streets every o
alf hour. which is giving the schedule RI
me yourself and | see the street cars fl
Re greatly crowded this hot weather. tx
| ogether it it too mysterious for me Il
I'D am gettiT & sleepy. Good bye.
lionel. Do you want to discuss the
inese question with me?
July %, 1888. INQUIRY.