The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-22
A Communication in Reply to
Inquiry"
SOMETHING OF A sCoRCHER
Col. Murray's Defense of the Ssh OPP
keeper" and Argument in Favor
of the Rapid Transit.
salt LAKE, July 2lst. 1888.

the pseudonym of Inquiry" comments
on the efforts of sh0pkeeper of thi:
city to secure charter for a new lint
OF street railway on Second South
Street. The article has several eal
marks that point pretty plainly to thu
? author, and he will be readily recog
: nlzed as an interested party, largely
Interested party. We have no shop.
Keepers in the United States, and the
: use of thu term betrays the English
origin of the writer. He cunningly at
Temps to confeund the English shop
keeper with the American merchant
aud would clothe the latter with the
opproorium attached to the former.
ShoDkeeper in English is synony-
nous with the other terms of contempt
and has no equivalent in America,
where the merchant is z prince and
may become greater than king.
That the street car company is cen
sured for not having more enterprise is
not the fault of the shopkeeper to
whom he refers; the cJndemna-
ton OF the company by the Council
committee is but an expression of
popular sentiment on the subject, as
the writer well knows. The company
is not blamed by the Tribune for hdving
enterprise enough TO Ian O. track on Second
South Street, but it is blamed for having
appropriated that street to prevent
shopkeepers or others from securing a
franchise to accommodate the citizens
living along that thoroughfare. The
! citizens fail to see where the entergriSe
is shown. 1t is only the last week or SO
that mule hauls car over the track
once or twice day for she accommO-
dation of citizens, while the visitors to
the lake resorts are still allowed to wax
nome from the depots at 10 o'clock at
night. The sentiment of the people
upon the subject is pretty well known
and understood, and "Iuquiry' cannot
whitawash his management or owner
ship by his anonymous commUnica-
tons. There is no railroad manage
ment in the United States which is so
much an outrage upol public senti- |
ment.
As regards the policy of the Tribune,
let that journal and Inquiry settle |
their opinions among themselves.
In the third paragraph the shop
Inquiry" says: Now l don't see why
that chap doesn't come to the front and |,
ask the Council himself for the charter. |,
and if he proposes to give the petitioner
something. say $40 900 or more for the
charter, Why not give the money to the
city for the charter? l say if, because |
am only supposing. | don't like this
mystery abo It people behind peop'e
1t may well be believed that when there
is a mystery there is add scoundrel at
the bottom of it. Somebody is likely 10
get scooped by these ways that are
dark
Now, let me tell Inquiry" what l
believe of him. WHAT is the secret
motive of the interest splayed by him
in the welfare of the city? How much
moQcy di5 "IRquirv" have for specuIa-
1i,;a when he arrived from England?
How did he OBJ ain What he now pos
sesses? Was it by an honest consid
Grafton of the rights of his fellow-cit
zeps? Was 1t by his honest trea ment
of them in giving them fAi return for
the privileges conferred upon him and
his associates? How much railroad
S ock has he possessed himself OF for
which he has never done more than laugh
at the demands of the people who insist
on an equivalent for the franchise they
have granted the railroad company
What did the STOCK cost him and VII.
he now sell it to tn shopkeeer for
donnie the amount? It has naturally
increased 100 per cent. Without any ef-
tort on his part to aecede to the wishes
of the citizens for improved service. Is
his conduct not worse than stock job
hing? Is he not robbing the people un-
der the guise Of a concession? Who Is /
This magnanimous citizen? Would be
dare reveal his identity and thus expose
his gall to our community? Why Is he
On violent in the use OF bis term ~
Would he like to have the mystery re
yealed to him for his own purpose! HIS
kind are those who sneak IN and by
their scoundrelism and knavery deprive
honest men of the benefits of their la
Tors. talent and connection.
He saws the old street car line won 7
nav here because he often finds himself |
the only passenger. VIII he sell his !
stock for twice its original est? How |
can the institution pay? Is 1t not the /
laughing stock of every citizen? 1t
il never patronized for the reason |
that neither man nor woman WI!
stand on corner to wait the arrival ct
a oar that has no schedule time and the
coming Oh WnICu 40
ceI Think of it, car run on streets
for the accommodation of business
public every half hour or less fire.
puen,lv. inquiry raises the cry CT
stock-iobbing and speculation. These
are American terms with which he
seems to be somewhat conversant. He
wants to share with the shopkeeper.
Rnt where is the opportunity for spec
nIation or stock jobbing, il the shop.
teener binds himself to avail himself of
the franchise to be granted Within
o;rem time and agrees to satisfy the de-
gmands of the citizens by giving them
AMID transit and decent accommoda-
ton within that time? His interest is
too plainly visible and he places him,
self in the position OF the adrolt and
cunning knave who, when detected IN
his theft, to divert attention from him
self cried out stop thief" to those that
surrounded him
The shopkeeper referred to can only
he one man, and that man, Mr.. w. h.
| Remington. Mr. Remington has been
citizen and business man in this city
for great many years, and during, his
nublio life who has ever charged hin
# with dishonest business transaction
q As to the $4,000 referred to that In
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