The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25
THE THINGS NEEDFUL
The Prize Winning Article on What will Best
Promote Our Prosperity.

the Mormon for years has accepted his
presence in good grace and has turned his
attention to making money out of the
transaction.
The folly of pretending that he would if
he could re-climb the thorny path of mis-
past bitter experience is to me incompre-
hensible. Rational men do not act that
way. Revolutions do not go backward but
move forward, even though their course is
sometimes as ragged as Zig-zag lightning
But there is no mistake as to the direction :
no more danger of reaction than of light
ming retracing its lurid path
Has the Mormon not suffered enough al
ready?
The odium heaped on his head still op-
presses him, and to clear this away he has
precipitated the new order even before we
We're ready to receive it.
There is a grim disappointment mani
tested in certain quarters at his alacrity.
They had counted several more years of
prosperous warfare, during which time the
pront of selling mules to the government"
would be very remQnerative. When a
man sets up in business with big stock of
wares he does not have much love ter the
people who "Othello' him in his business.
The growl we hear is feeble effort to
keep up business at the old stand. 1t paid
well IN its time, and man who has been
proprietor and the Mikado of an empire
does not like to get off his throne and do
chores. After supplying chopped-feed for
decade at paying price even provision
dealer does not like to sell straight corn
and oats at a loss.
All we shall hear of this question in the
future will be for the gravy that there is
IN 1t. Even now the question is hardly
preached, except where there is stake set
up for men TO grapple for in the shape of
office, and the man who can middle mems
minds most is said to be best entitled to the
would be no disturbing and threatening
dangers. Unfortunately in a republic, of
fcers must be chosen, and in choosing the
hoo-doo is omnipotent.
A man does not require perception as
long as mosquitoes bill to draw blood on
this question.
We should put business above politics.
To those men who feel that they have not
''evened up'' old scores, l would commend
the practical philosophy of Bill Arp, who
struck the keynote by saying: "Well, L
killed as MANY of them as they did of me,
and now l am going to work"
can name half-dozen men who spend
great deal of time on the streets in big.
clustering talk who should go off and get
at work. These wordy individuals remind
me of wienerwursts = no good unless
wormy. When boy used to spend much
OF the day killing snakes and the night in
dreaming that the snakes were killing me.
We need to introduce here some of the
manly rules of the ring. When a pugiiist
persists in Furnishing his rival after ne has
thrown up the gloves, the referee cries:
Break away!'
To the men who are now continually
mauling people who have sued for peace,
every instinct of manhood in me cries:
Break awayln Time has been called and
until new challenge is made, common
decency and fairness alike demand that we
shall deal no blows, but take our former
adversary by the hand
Henry w. Grady, In his great speech be-
fore the New England society of New
York, took for his text these words from
the immortal lips of Benjamin H. Hill:
There was south of slavery and seces
sion-that south is dead. There is south