The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-02
THE MAN UP A TREE.
HE APPEARS TO BE sKEPTICAI
TO A DECREE.
Things Are Not what They Seem
Is Politics Throttling Sweet Char
itys-Some General Observations.


l am frank to confess that there are
times in my quiet and uneventful life
when I experience a pain in treading
the busy thoroughfares of our city, the
same partaking but too wildly of the
may whirligig of politics in questiona-
BILE channels. AT such times l an
tempted to flee from the busy l1aunts
of those known as ruin an designing
politicians, and to that end l wended
my way last evening to the north
bench, where l climbed a tree, both fol
observation and connunion with my.
self.
| The tree top was both high and airy
The view of the city and valley was
superb and untrammeled, save that
shut out by the thick black pail eman-
ating from the big and towering smoke
stacks down in the heart of the city
but strong wind after a time some
what dissipated it, and I at once start
ed in to commune and observe.
| What grand panoramic view of
nature was spread to my enraptured
gaze, inspiring even in its snow clad
winter garbl Truly, Utah as a land
is well fitted to shine resplendently
when added to the galaxy of states!
From the lovely valley stretching SO
far away between lofty mountain
ranges. where is garnured in abundance
moisture for the summers golden
grain, and the dark blue waters of
Great Salt Lake uniting with the win
try azure blue, l turned me on the
topmost bough, to drink in the beau
ties of even q more rugged and awe
Inspiring nature in its grandly tower
ing formations, and bearing to a great
degree the impress of mans handi-
work, so far as relating to the "boule-
ward" in its sineWy windingS so high
above the clear and ripping waters
coursing down City Creeks rock-ribb-
ed environs. 1t will be a drive second
to none in the world, and picturesquely
enchanting to visitors who travel it.
was here cut short in my musing OBJ
servations by the clanking of dinner
pals, and lowering the range of my
optics, espied great number of labor
ers returning from good honest toll
they are the men of Drawn and muscle
who had fashioned the boulevard
from the steep and rugged mountain S
side-but what is that they are say
ing? They have halted beneath my
tree to gather each a small bundle of
dry faggots for kindling ] dislike be-
irg an "eavesdropper" but l can't stop
my ears-I can only hold on to the
limb. and listens And this is the burden
of what l heard:
The good honest men who had toiled
on the boulevard for 81 per day
we're reconsiled to the measure, so far
as in all relating to disinterested pri-
vate subscriptions went to prosecute
the work, even at 81 per day-but in
rought else. They openly talked that
private interests and politics were be-
ing brought to bear against living wag-
eS that they were entitled to, These
men said they did not like to be known
IS charity waits when doing a
bleak mountain side in winter, and
that when their honest labor had
achieved the desired results, it would
be others who would go on reaping the
benefits, while there would be no re-
turn for them.
They wondered how it was that Judge
Goodwin told them from the steps of
the Tribune building that they had
brought the hard conditions upon them
selves" and advised them to hereafter
vote the Republican ticket. They
seemed to agree on the fact that there
was method of deep significance in
that. And they wondered how it was
that the Judge failed to say. even one
good word for a Democratic Congress
and president allowing the bonding bill
to pass. They0 thought he was not
overly pleased with it, considering Mon
days editorial wherein he claimed some
banker was authority for saying Utah
was sending out $4,000 interest per day
And when they said that Republican
money was going into the charity fund
pot, / lost my hold and slipped down
several feet was thunderstruck They
then moved on, and [ started to sum
up things 1 had heard.
| recalled how it was written in that
good book that in giving aims, the left
hand shouldn't be onto the curves of
the right hand but that don't seem
to hold good here. While many give
to the poor quietly-and that is charity
in it's true senSe-hoW many are there
who herald the giving with blare of
trumpets? If their love of praise and
satisfaction derived from so-called pub
lie appreciation, could be subtracted
from the innate love of charity-how
much would remain to their credit?
And when I recalled the two meet
lngs of the unemployed in the Tunnel
on Second South street, l realized that
those worlSingmen had a vivid concep-
ton Of political pastors as now being
worked. ! called to mind the last meet
Ing which Governor West attended and
addressed the men. Not one word of
pOHliCS eSCdpSQ IlIIli OE WdS lHQulEeQ
in on that occasion.
How as it at the meeting preceding
that? Welt was different It was
so different that petition was drafted
then and there to a Republican Legis-
lature, reading from the 'Workingmen's
Republican Central club" Ex-Governor
Thomas was prominent in that first
meeting--could he have ought to do
with it? Contrast the two meetings,
and say If politics" wasn't in it, Don't
let the idea escape from your mind that
the Republican party in Utah is talk
Ing advantage of every condition-even
the worlingmens condition-to make
Utah soiidly Republican. The old-time
watch fires of Democracy are not burn
ing in Utah as becomes their keepers,
and the time is fast approaching for
an accounting. l will take to my tree
again MAN UP A TREE.
No other Sarsapariila has the merit by
which Hoods Sarsaparilla has won such
a firm hold upon the confidence of the
people, 81
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