The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-10
How chase Views the Rot.

To the Editor of THE HERALD.
Now comes a Tribune correspondent, |
80. j. H." with new definition of
"Workingman: that is definition by i'm
plication. Lannan gave one few days
ago, putting it on record that the true
workingman is the capitalist who works O.
nights and can't sleep. But this Trib.
serb alIudes to the Independent ticket in
the recent election as ''the so-called Work
ingmen's ticket The use of ''so-called''
is a negation, denial, an implication of
fraud. In this case it means that the
workingmen who put up that ticket and
voted for it were not workingmen at all
That agrees SO well with Lannan's defini-
ton that it gives ground for the inference
that this 20. j. H" may be one of Pats
| hired liars. The fellow ''tggers" on the
election and concludes that there were in
Salt Lake fifty or eighty five soreheads,
the cranks and the corrupt men who
| haven't secured some petty ofice.''
There you have it The real working
man is a person who has secured "some
petty office" The seltishness and egotism
OF some folks are too awful for any
! thing Here is gall bladder
whose only claim to recognition is
that it was related to one of the credit No
bilier thieves who was Sunday school
teacher and had sufficient influence at
Washington to get ''petty Office" for his
| impecunious relation and send him into
Utah, so far away that he couldn't come
| back begging; and here that aforesaid 'gall
! bladder has eXosmosed its bitterness for
twenty years. until everything around it
has chronic jaundice. Like 50 many others
whose vanity has been chafed raw by car
| rying on their heads the weight and dignity
of s'some petty Office" this fellow came to
Utah top heavy with the consciousness not
only of his little Office, but also his relation
to one who had been honored, by mistake,
with national Office. 1t was smudge in
/ this fellows face when he had to attempt
literary effort to prove that his notorious
relative was not dishonest when he went
into the Union Pacific swindle with Cakes
Ames. He worked harder there than he
has ever done since, and his present soft
ening of the brain is perhaps the result of
that one work of the petty officeholder
Yet that was a failure. He only succeeded
in calling attention to the fact that his
benefactor was a black sheep in the Repub-
lican fold.
But now, per contra, if these fifty-four
or eighty five sum up the soreheads, the
cranks and the corrupt-the men who
haven't secured some petty office"-then
we have the logic of this Trtb. scribe to
prove that, but for the petty office which
LIDS SI6UltQ Allu W Slb Oh Ills bdll Ike d
coyote yelling as the dawn approaches -
he too would have been a sorehead, a crank
and corrupt. Such being the case, | submit
that it is not kind, it is not generous, it is
not manly in him, after having drawn his
nourishment from the government teat for
twenty years in petty Office, to condemn
as ''soreheadS,n "cranksn and corrupt
the men who, using their ''una!ienable'
prerogatiye of American citizenship,
choose to vote as they please. Altogether,
| look upon the action of those ''Indepen-
dent Workingmen'' as 1.-THE coming of the
dawn in Utah, 1t win mark the beginning
: Of justice here. Since the day when Broc-
chus--aRother holder of ''some petty
oficen ran away from Utah because he
. could not debauch Mormon women, to the
present there has not been an hour when
the Mormon people were not the
victims of a relentless nate, the OBJ
iect of which was to drive this people
out again, sequestrate their property
aud grow rich by robbery, as others had
done III the east. These Independent
Workingmen did brave act. They broke
the chains with which such petty" office
holders rs this 10. J. H." had bound every
non-Mormon in Salt Lake. They said:
: I'VE decline to be your tools and your
slaves. We decline to be a party to your
misrepresentation rand abuse of people
; who are your superiorsn This was said
But it was met by a howl of rage and a
storm of dirt that justihes the conviction
that SO j. H." actually dsd make one of
those coyotes yelling as the dawn ap
proaches.''
They were' sitting on their tails and yelp-
ing,' this fellow says. 1t struck this
quaint chronicler, | suppose, as being a
very unusual position for those particular
coyotes. There were only 1.-TWO or three
lank wretchesn among them, but they
''made noise enough for Million" That's
what they did! Powers and the Ti'ib.; 20.
j. II" and Pat" But the latter is not a
''lank'' wretch and probably 40. j. H.
was hired to howl for him. But it must
have been rather comicai picture to see
those two or three lank wretches, sitting
on their tails, holding down some petty
office and yelping at the Independent
Workingmen who stood up to be counted
as friends of American liberty.
But as / read down this product of the
Tribune scribe, discover something more.
; He says the mental atmosphere of Salt
Lake is peculiarly adapted to turn
ing well-balanced men and women into
| cranks." have wondered for years what
) allied that fellow. Well, am glad that he
5 at least knows the cause of his malady. Do
, you wonder that he doesn't leave such a
!, clilnates You forget that he has 'ssome
petty office.'' You forget that he is a
workingman. You forget that there is not
: man in the country who is more skilful
J in the horny headed mean handed-toil
of collecting al unearned salary than he
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