The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-20
GENTLEMEN, LOOK AT YOUR
SELVES.

tits to be presumed that in the course
of time remembers Of the lower House
of the Idaho Legislature will come to
their senses. This presumption is
based On two assumptions. The first is
that the men referred to were by nature
endowed with a degree of sense or in
tslligence and that a portion OF 1t has
been retained and may yet be brought
into service if given an opportunity to
assert itself. The second is that in
the course of time the Boise saloon
keepers will demand pay for their
goods and refuse to let drinks go on
trust. These Prescriptions are both
reasonable enough, and we suggest
that no offense can be taken at them.
Assuming that the gentlemen will at
some period more or less remote, have
more or less intelligence at their COM
mand, what will they think of them
selves at having elected THE HERALD
correspondent from the Chamber ?
What will they think of an act which
for pettiness, for spitefulness, for down
right idiocy surpssses anything ever
before done by a legislative body /?
The HERALD must not be IN
derstood as worrying oyer this
matter. 1t is of the least possible con-
Germ to cur correspondent or to this
paper. If it were worth while, if it
could be of the slightest interest to any
body TO have a representative in the
Idaho House, THE HERALD would see
that its correspondent held his seat in
that chamber, that he heard and re-
corded what went on and that he had
free access TO the public minutes and
records the same as other press report
ers. 1t is not. therefore, that The
HERALD is chatting that it again refers to
the ocsedings of the other day, for so
far as the resolutions relate to this
paper and its representative, we care
absolutely nothing, and would care
less if it were possible to do So.
We do, however, want the so-called
statesmen who adopted the resolutions,
when they regain control of whatever
mind they may have, be it much or
little, to look at themselves and see if
they can discover anything but scrub.
After they have made the inspection,
we would like to know if they do not
feel ashamed of themselves, if they do
not entertain real contempt for them
selves, if they do not in their hearts
despise themselves for their contempt
ible conduct. We want them to say
truthfully, if they would not cheer
fully surrender the petty per diem
which the government allows them
if they could thereby erase from the
memories of themselves and everybody
else the knowledge of their childish act.
We want them to be frank and say if
the do not regard it that they have Gi>-
graced their manhood and proven 10
their constituents that the latter were
sadly and deplorably mistaken when
they selected for lawmakers men Of
such low mental caIibre and so much
lacking in dignity and self-respect.
All that THE HERALD wants to know
and more than its sense of propriety
an decency viii permit it to publish
of the doings of such body of men, it
can readily obtain in spite of childish
resolutions and babylike iulminations.
The legislators, AMI not The HERALD or
its correspondent, have been held up
to contempt and derision by the escort
ing out of the House of Mr.. Brizee.