The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-05-24
PROVO CITY. MAY "a. 1894
CHANGED FRONT OF THE TRIBUNE


Under the head line, Changed Front
of Industrialism." the Tribune Of We'd
nesday had very unfrank and mis-
leading article. 1t says that so long
as industrialism was a harmless YagarY
it treated it lenientIy. Treated it
leniently by abusing Governor West
like a pick-poeket for adopting the
only right course open to him or the
territory, 1t ia not that industrialism
has changed front, but that the Tri-
bune has at last grasped the situation
as did Governor West at the very in
ceptlon of the trouble, The Tribune
never for one moment believed that
fourteen hundred men will band them
selves together and start on a journey
Of three thousand miles penniless,
starving and half-naked in bitter cold
weather to pursue harmless vagary.
Vagary it may be, but excuse US if we
reject the "harmless" nature of it.
Forcing their way upon the cars to be
hauled three thousand miles at some
one else's expense. Forcing, mind you,
may be a very harmless vagary in the
eyes of the Tribune, but to our compre-
hension it carried with it threat of
dire proportions from the very first
move. The wonder only is that the
astute philosopher of the Tribune
failed to note in the gathering storm
the lightning flash of anarchy and
blood. The Tribune will pordon US it
we refuse to accept his dernier resort
the harmless vagary-idea. The Her
aid may be good enough to accept it,
The DISPATCH confesses frankly that
it hasn't the requisite innocence and
unworldiness to enable it to mount to
such ethereal attitudes.
Then there was no thought of steal
ing trains" If ESQ, then all that ruek at
Oakland, that night alarm, that
forcing the train and the calling out
of police and military was only
a harmless vagarY. What wretched
arguments are necessary to bolster
q weak cause. Until those peskY
wealers arrived at Ogden, ayel until
other wealers came to eat of the fatness
of Salt Lake herself, this dear delightful
Tribune still saw in the whole move
the mere harmless vagary of a few
cranky men. No menace. Fourteen
hundred men banded together and in
a starving and freezing condition, NOV
ing On the railroads east, across the en-
tire continent, and no menace in it.
The good Tribune is only outraged in
its delicate feelings when the wealers
put their hands upon property in the
hands OF the government. They may
force the Southern Pacific or any other
company to transport them, but when
they touch road in the hands of a re-
ceiver they become psinims, pagans,
robbers, thieves and menaeers. The
people who do business with or ride
over the Southern Pacific or Rio
Grande Western are as good, have the
same rights, and hold safety o.. life and
limb just as sacred as do those who ride
upon the Union Pacific.
1t is very terse to say 1.-THE Tribune
dealt leniently with the harmless
phase," but different now that it has
become public peril, It all lies in
this that the Tribune is the only inau-
ence to determine which is the harm
less phase and which contains the peril.
And upon this slender thread it as
sumes to asperse an able, devoted and |
patriotic officer and contribute to the |
peril of a whole commonwealth. Men
do not 20 peaceably to Washington in
bands for distance of three thousand |
miles, without money, without |
clothing and without bread. The |
threat was nailed to their color.
stats: All these we must have as well
as your trains or there will be trouble.
1--WE are going to Washington and we
are not going to walk" was first at
tered in the ear of San Francisco, it
still rings out from every squad of
wealers from the blue Pacific to Wash
ington, and there is no threat in it, &C.
cording to this tilter with seeds in the
shadow of the great temple of Zion on
the beach of the Dead Sea of the Amer
lean desert. Tell it not in Gath.