The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04

/ ophy in this incident, and ! think it would
/ be mighty good thing if some men who
plunge into Wall street without having in
any way tested their capacity for the pecu-
liar kind of warfare carried on there could
be induced to try little speculation on
paper. Believe me. it supers tition that
Imaginary speculations always succeed. 1t
/ is not all luck; it is science; and being
science, skill will determine the result every
time. | didn't have the genuine skill and I
didn't succeed. l think l have taken the
moral duly to heart"
DO YOU TREATl
1t may as well be confessed that the anti
treating movement, so far as New York is
concerned, is complete failure.
The movement started out with certain
lusty aRgressiveness. Nobody was to treat
anybody TO anything. Primarily nobody
was to treat anybody to anything to drink
for, said the author of the propaganda with
wisdom no one theoretically questions, to
| treat to drinks is to presume on a similar
/ privilege and obligation in all the treated
and the result will be that a man who
wishes, or at least needs but one drink will
take six or eight according to the number
in the treated group. 1t is possible that
sor1e people may have tried to in reduce
the new ery-man-for- himself principle in
drinking. But the actual instances have
! us n
strain of ambition to be thought well of, not
to mention strain of natural cowardice, in
every man, has made it a practical impos-
sibility to enforce the non-treating code
The reform had to begin outside the regions
of conviviality. A good many tried the re-
Termed way of paying car fare. Clutch
treat'i was always the phrase for this
method. Some people with what authority
l never discovered, called it the 'Philaiel-
phia plan" Men occasionally went out to
dinner and instead of paying on the alter
mating treat plan, paid each for his own
meal. This practice Undoubtedly prevails
to e certain extent now. And "advaucedn
people still struggle against conventional
ideas of politeness and generosity.
But among the great average the plan
fails. Men and women, especially women.
struggle ridiculously in the horse car before
the plying contemplation of the conductor.
who is skeptlcal en- ough to believe that one
person in every pair is secretly willing to
let the other pay. but makes a show of get
ting at the conductor first
Everybody who thinks is willing TO agree
that treating of any kind, when it does not
shield hogs or tempt hypocricy, is a down
right nuisance But all the same. nine peo-
pie out of every ten never even question the
ancient method-hogs, hypocrisy and all.
AS for New York, in particular. il has
entered on the great annual orgy of treat
ing. For five weeks the wholesale treating
of the politicians will liberate rivers of beer
and lakes of whisky. This is the saloon
keepers'-and particularly the bartenders,
harvest One of the taxes on candidature
is an exorbitant price for drinks. No des
potisn is more complete than that exerted
by the saloon keepers during the election
season. The most hardened candidate is
often staggered by the lump sum CHARGED
for round" in some miserable GROCERY.
but he dare not utter complaint. II is one
of the amenities of running for office under
our ingenious political system.
WHAT WE ARE COMING TO.
A New YorKer-a parson, in fact-tells
me a story which has, he thinks, not been
in print
This is the story:
A venerable lady from rural parts came
to New York to see the sights. She was
sagscious and inquiriug person, and while