The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-28
THAT P0LE-RAISING.
So the Liberals have raised pole.

So the Liberals have raised pole.
They have also, at different times, raised
some other things, among them hades.
There can be and in fact is no objection
to their raising anything they please so
long as they keep within the law and do
not trespass on the rights Of their neigh
bors.
But the pole-raising was made the coca
sion for a great whoop and hurrah, as
though it were matter of vast and far
reaching consequence. And perhaps it is,
to them. 1t is so seldom that they see one
of their party or anything else standing
erect, that their homage is not unworthily
bestowed, even when it relates to an in
animate object like pole.
The poles have always been in hard
luck, and never more so than when pressed
into duty as mute advocates of an out
rageous cause, and if the Liberal cause
isn't outrageous, what on earth is IL!
But to come down to this particular pole
referred to. 1t was not a hickory pole for
two reasons-hickory doesn't grow in this
country, and tits an emblem of Democracy.
There are precious few Democrats in the
Liberal organization, and the thought of
making use of kind Of timber which SYM
bolizes the great ANDREW JACKsoN's rule
in public affairs is too much for them. 1t
was only an ordinary sort of timber indi-
genous to Utah, and as such would be hate
full to the Liberals but for the fact that
they are hoping to take possession of every
thing here by one means or another, and
are not averse to having all things, includ-
ing the scrub-oaks, brought into the cap
ture.
Few and short were the prayers they
said In fact, Liberals as class do not
pray, and this is so much to their credit,
since it relieves them of the charge of en-
gaging in blasphemy to that extent.
But they swore a little on the side in a
quiet sort of way, and they made speeches
and had certain sort of music; and after
the exercises were over, they had numer-
Gus drinks; for behold the average Liberal
and the average potation mix and mingle in
a manner wonderful to behold.
This was, we believe, the first pole rails
ing in Utah. 1t does seem as though we
might manage to squeeze along some way
and get through life in a comfortable sort
of fashion if we never had another Not
that it is an Objectionable pastime by any
means-far from it; but it does seem as
though the party by whom this one was
erected have enough occasions in which to
vent their spleen and discharge their bile
without creating them for the purpose. 1t
has become the case that they can scarcely
permit even funeral to take place without
unloading a certain quantity of the
cussedness with which some of them
are surcharged, and it does really
seem as though it were high time
to stop the procession and have some
sort of discouragementra rather than encour-
agement for the programme.
1t should, however, be borne in mind
that the Liberals are in desperate straits
and have to resort to desperate measures
in order to make even adecent appearance.
Of course they don't expect to pull through,
and this condition alone has a tendency to
create desperation and sort of rash deter
mination. But there is nothing in it,
after all.
What with the ear-piercing fife, the
spirit-stirring drum, the blazing bonfires,
the giddy glare of rockets and the gorgeous
panoply of the knights who march in a
steady tramp, tramp, through our yielding
soil, one would think the Liberals had given
US about all In the way of an intellectual
and educational campaign that they were
capable Of, without their last performance
with the vertical quaking-asp. We live
and learn, and great is the learning, for a
snher TACT