The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-04
THE FOLLY OF DISORDER.


leadership of Carter. And, as is often
the case with such movements, it was
Ionly excitement. 1t was started in mis-
understanding. carried on in fury and
finished in froth.
The man Carter who is leading a
band of mistaken men toward the east,
lharangued a crowd which had gathered
on vacant lot, and revealed his nature
and his folly by using some vitupera-
tive language about gentlemen who are
placed in public position here, and also
in reference to The Herald. He stated
that this paper had published that there
was plenty of work for men in this
city at 50 a day, and denounced this
as wholesale lying Subsequently he
admitted to a reporter that he had not
read The Herald, but had been told that
it had published this. He apologized to
the reporter when informed that The
Herald had said nothing of the kind, but
did not retract publicly what he had
told to the crowd.
! A body Of men came to this Office, and
in an excited way demanded of a young
man in the business Office the work at
50 a day announced, as they declared,
in our columns. Some of the imprac-
ficables who are deceiving the public,
further infiamed the people by assail-
ing The Herald with epithets which
perhaps were quite appropriate for such
lips, but were harmless as to The Her
aid, because they were entirely unde-
served, and the excited shouters had
not read the article that occasioned
their ire Here is what The Herald
said:
Probably most of the men who form
the Utah contingent are workmen I'M
able to obtain employment. Yet the
Sandy Independent tells of a. farmer
who came to Salt Lake city to get
three men to work for him for short
time; but not a man would go into
the country unless they were assured
of 81 per day and board and lodging"
If we wanted to retaHate we might
turn the charges of lying upon those
who preferred them. But the fact is
those men deceived the crowd, having
been deceived themselves. 1t is of no
use to argue with a mob. And we under
stand full well that when people are
destitute and hungry they are apt to go
to extremes and say and do things
which are unreasonable
Much more censurable is the course
pursued by those excited people in
reference to Governor West. a black
guard had used toward the Governor
and toward the President of the United
States language of a personal character
that cannot be reproduced in print.
And the crowd gathered around the
executive Office and proceeded TO heap
insult upon an official who has done his
utmost to start public work cur their
employment. The same may. be said of
the Mayor, who came in for his share
of undeserved abuse. That Is not the
worst. A letter was sent to the Cover
nor of which the annexed is literal
copy:
15-11-13.
Salt Lake City,
Sir:-Your actions and words in the
past is detrimental to us, toward
| american CITIES & in violation of all
humanity. therefore take a hint and
depart the city within 4S-hours
fair warning
Committee.
God have mercy on you
13X15X11.
This was written on a sheet of
scolloped paper, and of course only &C.
casioned a smile of pity for the coward
~ writer who had not the courage to
put his name to his effusion. That is
all of piece with the frantic and
foolish assault on the business office
of The Herald.
There is a great feeling of sympathy
for the unemployed in this city. The
press has helped to create and support
it, All through the past winter every
paper in town used its influence in aid
of the distressed. Gentlemen who have
worked like heroes to raise funds for
the poor have told us that they were
spurred on to continued exertions by
the strong words of The Herald.
We wish to say to the people who
are still in distress, that they are only
damaging their cause by listening to
the blatherskites who are stirring them
up to acts of disorder and words of
insult. The Herald has been their
friend. Governor West has been their
friend. Mayor Baskin has been their
friend. The men who seek to influence
the public mind are not the friends of
the masses. They do not know what
they are talking about. They shouted
nonsense about The Herald, and had
not judgment enough to read first and
object afterwards. They are unsafe
guides. They should be let severely
alone.
The railroad companies cannot be
coerced into providing transp ortation
for bodies of men who want to ride.
It is folly in the extreme to think of
compelling them to do So If the ex-
element of Thursday continues, some
overt act will be committed which will