The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-15
THE APOL0GIST
For Liberal Meanness Is Roasted
by Charles Ellis,
In Few Pertinent Observations as to the
Worth of the Commercial Street Glimmer
and the Hypocrisy Of Its PrebAnsions.
To the Editor of THE HERALD :

Another hen off the nesti Funny how
an argument knocks the Salt Lake anti
Mormon editors My logical, calm, candid
article in THE HERALD of yesterday, show
ing up the hypocrisy of the Commercial
street glimmer, has raised worse excite
ment over there than my pleasant letter of
Wednesday evening in the NelCs did in the
Tribune place of torment. The mutilated
Semitic off-shoot who runs the scissors for
the Commercial street affair calls me all
kinds of naughty names, and charges me
with having "screedn in The HERALD
this morning. Without offering to meet
my argument, he vents his spleen on poor
me, and closes with the assurance that he
will not mention me again, because it
tlckles my vanity.
What was my ''screed"? A logical argu-
ment showing that the Commercial street
hen was fighting The HERALD and Tribune
to get revenge for their criticisms of the
city hall ring that owns the said ''hen."
That the wandering Jew who furnishes edi-
| iorlal chaH for the Commercial street hen
| lost his temper over my exposure OF his
! little fraud proves how deep the spear Of
my truth penetrated. In coming back at
me in sucn tempestuous wrath he admits
that made case so strong that he could
not break it.
/ want to remind the Commercial street
anti Mormon hypocrite again that The HER
AID has done nothing more than to defend
the Mormon people against the malice of
| the Tribune and its hackers, among whom
were the owners of the C. S. g., Commercial
street glimmer) until the Trib. cried
''boodiers;' and l leave it on record that
the W. j. (wandering jew of the C. s. G. adj
mits that my position is inaccessible when
lnIr nor hl rN11r,
chased and is now run, and wilt continue so
to run until it runs into the ground, to
shut the morning papers against criti-
cism of the Liberal city government of
Salt Lake and prevent the exposure that it
was feared would be made. To this end
the owners of the C. S. G. hunted far and
wide to find a vivacious and unprincipled
could play the buffer in the Utah Lib
eral' farce, now on the boards at the city
hall.
| Unable to answer me, this mutilated w. j.
seeks to cover his defeat by attacking my
character. l suggest to the readers of THE
HERALD that they demand proofs of the
charges and insist that at the same time my
arguments be nswered. The w. j. tells
his readers many things concerning me
that | never knew myself, but it is al
inuendo. l am "a prostitute of holy
things" was lin the tolls of the law bach
,, east,n he says, and yet l never was in Law
suit in MY life. l am "a dirty scribbler,
pest"
Now let me tell what this Salt Lake
Times is. l will not depend upon Billings
gate. will let 1t condemn itself. 1t poses
as respectable paper. 1t prints first
edition and a ''lastn edition every after
noon. The 'frstn edition contains sever
) pages of the stuff, mostly plate, that wa
the last edition OF the day before. The frs
page of the FIRST" edition is scissored from
the Tribune and HERALD, which it proceed
to whip in its LAST edition. That is
having taken its matter for the First
edition from the enemy, it then makes
sortie for the purpose of preventing tn
enemy from discovering Its tracks. Oh
the Commercial street hen is no chicken
" Having published its first edition it sell
the same to the ''kids'' at 215 cents pc
:. copy, and the boys go out and sell the sam
!. stuff they sold the day before. This is tn
!. high toned, "enterprisine" Salt LAX
!, Times. 1t has been guilty of a fraud upo
= the public, and guilty of what is virtual
= a robbery Of the little newsboys. This i
~ the paper that seeks to break down Tn
y HERALD because The HERALD tells tn
>, truth. This is the Times that is owned b
. the "Liberar'' ring that runs the city gov
,, eminent of Salt Lake. Its "tirst' editio
= fraud is just what might have been ex
pected from the men who bought dyin
9 newspaper hen and doctored it into brie
, = vitality to fight exposure back. This is tn
= Times that, by seeming to speak the Mo-
. mons fair, would lull them to sleep an
y capture Salt Lake for second term. Thi
u is the Times that should be condemned no,
s. s. too day. An alleged newspaper that woul
g play such trick upon the public and upo
J" the poor newsboys should be, not ''kicke
OUT as the W. j. says L should be, but
should be left to die in its tracks and rot
its hole as warning to other schemers an
wandering Jews. Tata, so long, dear w.
CHARLES ELLIS