The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-28

took the Demmocrisy onst more.
For they wuz proud in the day of their
triumph and lookt not ahead tn a time wen
a change would cum upon the land
Even so has it been unto the Demmocrisy
of Utah, witch was surnamed the Sage
brush.
For 10! mine eyes have beheld the rise
and progress of the same, likewise its
downfall.
1t was, to speak as if in parallels, fine
lookin craft; bilt of sound timber. Every
rope and chain was in its place, the sails
wuz set, the hull wuZ painted with bright
colors, and last but by no means leest the
crew was hardy, capable, stout-hartid
band of fellers, whose obiict wuz the dis
covery of nashnul politiX somewhere among
the reefs and icebergs OF the soshul oshun
of Utah.
1t TUX men of nerve and kurridge to
undertake such trip, because all realized
at the beginnin that if we Il use the per-
sonul pronoun, for behold l was one of eml
missed the icebergs, the chances waz that
we would get onto some of the reefs, and
wise versy. 1t wuz difficult matter to
make one class of people understand that
we hadn't become enemies because we left
EN- so as to discover better sailin; and the
other class can only look on anybody that
don't sail right along with EN-, taking in
everything witch they take in and throwing
| OuJ every JlIIlS NlCl IuGy THROW out. as 80
many pirits and cuSses at large. We hoped
to convince the former that we wuz better
| friends to EN- than them ez remained be-
| hind to assist in abuSin US and to hold on to
the lOavs and fishes, and we would hav
done it but for the happening of some things
witch is enumerated hereafter: and, as the
| other class go to bed findin fault, hatch up
grudges in their sleep and wake up cussin
sumthin' or sumbOdy, and IL mainly Repub-
! lican besiC IS, we didn't care what they said
nor greatly for what they did.
| Wehadn't moren fairly got started be-
fore we struck snag which shook us up a
| little, but az we, or most of US, Wuz lookin
for it, it dun no great harm. This was on
November s last. At this pint, bein
alarmed and tempted by offer from his
unkle of a sure thing on posishun, one of
our crew from Manti, Sanpete, slid
overheard and went ashOar. He
had heard somewhere that gettin
beastly drunk and runnin after
wimmen in a loose way was Demmycratic
principles, and havin both of these quail
ties developed to unusual degree, con-
Guided that he would do for member and
jined us; he didn't know that it also re-
qnired reasonable amount of branes, a
beral quantity of eddycashun and a CON
siderable percentage ov kurridge, none ov
witch he had enuf ov tn be with
mentionin, and so the loss ov him
wuZ counted Il gain. But the
example wuz bad, fur, sez some of the
others, WOt's the use ov takin' chances on
something in this craft if we kin git sure
thing on the sweets ov offs right now by
lettin' go.
And so, one by one, they let 60
The crew got down by degrees to a cor
poral's guard. There wuz Me and Hadley,
and DIR. Faust and wun or two more, witch
! I am not at liberty to name becauS they
! don't seem to want it known that they
wuz ever Sagebrushers it not being advan-
taius Just now wen the offises is goin'
round.
| Well ware are we. and fur what. There
not bcin' enuf men to handle the beat, she
haz gone down with only a very
small portion of the quarter deck above
water. If there IL anybody on the
concern but me, he must be down n the
hold and therefore drowned, for am I'M
able to see him; so / conclude that l am
runnin' (cruel sarkasm y all that is left of
the gallant Sagebrush kraft. To say that
feel lonely and alone, but feebly voises
the situation. Ov koars, l have no offs
and am not likely to get one, but will have
| to keep on workin for and earnin
my Twin; but when the prodigals
have run through THAR offises
and the Spoils conSekent upon the same,
and return to the principles witch they let
go ov for the saik of the flesh pots, thay
will find me right WHARF they left me,
standin en- wat little is left of the DENNY
| cratic structure above water, and with
the flag flynn from the masthead. (The
wall ends at this pint
When | awoke and looked over what had
been written, felt to repudiate very bit
of it. The spelling is not nearly Up to my
standard. EssAv CAIGH.