The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-05-16
PROVO CITY.
TY. MAY Is, 1894
NOT TO BE CAJOLED.


We find the following extract from a
letter to the News, and the pithy COM
ments thereon in the Deseret News of
Tuesday evening last:
A correspondent writes to the News
from Provo:
The army here are peaceable, and do not
steal nor commit any ydenredatiOns. This is true
up to this writing. and knowing your regard
for truth it is but just TO say so through the
columns of the News.
We are very glad, though somewhat
amused, to hear this; but we beg to say
that the same regard for truth" for
bids the publication of the remaining
part of our correspondents lengthy
letter. The News has no personal
quarrel with the army" or any of its
members; but an outfit that steals
trains, IiotouSly insults the law and its
sworn representatives, and when not
engaged in more serious business, sits
down in idleness and impudently ex-
poets food and supplies to be brought
freely by those who have to work for
their own support-it must look else
where than to the News for tributes to
its good order, it's peacefulness, its law
abiding character, and its claim to
sympathy and respectability. Incl
dentally, too, it must have different
leadership and listen to more worthy
advisers than this man Garter and all
of that ilk.
The letter to the News, or at least
that part of il published above, is about
as impudent as are the claims and ex-
pectations of the "army" itself. The
claim put in above for the entire
worthiness and honesty of the ''army"
is the coolest bit of special pleading ever
put up for a cause whose votaries are
every day violating the law, and whose
very existen ce is a menace to the law.
The excerpt is very similar to the i'm
pudent claims put up by local paper
for the ''army", enough so to warrant
the conclusion that the editor of the
paper and the author of the letter are
one and the same man. We are glad,
although not surprised in the least, to
- ~ - 49, ---E~s>.AaN,~@t,lioit ana
correct stand it takes above. 1t is the
only position. Men cannot steal and
appropriate anything to their own use,
and behoof without, by that act, max
ing thieves of themselves.
Another ridiculous claim is made for
the "armY", that when they we're
ditched in PROVO, they were outraged
by the railroad because they were on
their way to other fields. This ex-
ceedingly accommodating code of morals
would not rate man a robber had
he broken into a bank and
taken all the money, if when
apprehended he happend to
be in full fight toward Canada or
Mexico-was getting away with the
pelf. TO such miserable shifts are men
and papers put which attempt to
justify bad cause. This would all be
very funny We're it not for the fact that
behind this lawless exhibition stands
like forecast of chaos, gaunt, bloody,
When faithful officers in
.he discharge of their sworn duties are
lissed and jeered at as well as threat
sned, and the mob is praised, ayel
glorifed for obstructing them, by men
and papers claiming to be the leaders
If the Lpeople, it is high time for the
News as well as all other conservative
influences to speak out gravelY. earn
9stly and with emphasis. Indeed the
News would sadly fail In its duty did it
refrain.
We can hope for nothing outside the
sw. All the good we can eyer hope to
ittain must come to us from lawful
sources and be supplied by lawful men.
The Dick Turpins and the Jack Cades
# the past were mission aries of an evil
ause. These names do not figure in
he list of the men who marched in the
an of the hosts of gallant leaders who
arried the banners of our holy religion /
0 the heather, who toiled for the up l
uilding of the race. Neither are they
ames found among the great authors
English literature or on the roll of
thinkers or hum anitarians-
or even among those soldiers who !
ought to give liberty an enduring !
biding place among men. S
We confess that since the breaking L
ut of this Coxey craze and the exhibi- l
on of the maudIin sympathy OF whole
lasses of men for its lawless purposes,
e have less confidence than we have r
yer heretofore had In the stability of =
institutions. 4