The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-03-19
VERY HIGH AND MIGHTY.

The Tribune is heartily welcome to
the advice we gave it the other day,
anent the matter of the ''looting" of
Salt Lake by outside counties. The
good old Tribune grows high and
mighty and talks from the summit of
Ensign Peak down at the other coun
ties in a very dignified and self-sufi-
cient way. We interpolate here, to
the effect, that if the outside counties
ever did, or do. loot Salt Lake, Salt
Lake has the very slickest way in the
world of getting her lootings back with
a most usurous kind of interest. The
choice of a similie as to the hold-ups is
q most unfortunate one, especially in the
event that the industrious fellows have
gun and Salt Lake would rather lose
her life than be looted. If so, then we
have nothing further to say, but he is
poor fool who gets mad, resists and
loses his life to save the very pittance
which would buy the looter his dinner,
satisfy him and save the rather severe
result which is to follow his refusal to
comply. However all this pleasantly
may be, yet it is about the epoch in
the cycle when Salt Lake must learn
that she is no longer Utah. She may
be an important integer in it but still
only an integer in the sum of Utah's
Importance. If the ''little brown
wife, of that city undertakes the
broom stick game she'll never have
another new hat with ribbons and
flowers on it while she lives. So there,
now.
But perhaps Salt Lake merchants
don't ''have to have" and don't want
the trade of the outside barbarians. If
so there is little more to be said. Per-
haps also she relishes a little legisla-
tive minority, now and then. The
tone adopted by the Tribune in this
discussion is likely to produce an
abundant crop of minority in the fu-
ture. Our merchants can get on upon
a margin of fifteen or twenty per cent.
less than Salt Lake is compelled to
have and little of this sauce for the
goose is sure to play hades with her
gander. She haYing played the bull
doze dodge for so many years must
learn at once that she will do better by
spesking with gentle voice to the
"hold-ups" than by keeping up the
Al 4 NH
for those old times, is utterly inappli-
cable 10 these times, or the times that
came to us with the advent of the
school-master.
Now Salt Lake may despise this
gentle way of doing business. She may
in the past haYe found the knock |
down argument the most efficient, but |
the virtue of that policy comes to sud-
den stop when the to-be-knocked-doWn |
has grown little too stout of limb.
If it is to be a case of biceps only, then
the outsiders" will be found danger
Gus, or at least able to give blow for
blow, if no more. Don't expect us to
go on giving her capitals, universities,
and that kind of thing forever, free
for nothing" "It's agin natur," but
horribly so when we have to do it in
the shadow Of a bit of black thorn twig
or at the point of a bowie knife. Salt
Lake Is great city, has great
churches, mercantile houses, banks and
journalistic champions, but it must
have the trade of the "outside' coun-
ties in order to keep it UP. There
is bit Of natural reciprocity in all this
matter which we would commend to
the attention of the Tribune. There is
q bit of an epic, sung in the southern
states, which will fit in neatly here. 1t
runs about thus, we quote from mem.
ory:-
1.-THE man who hath good goober {
peas,
And giveth his neighbor none,
Shan't haYe any of my goober peas,
When his goober peas are all gone.' ]
The Tribune, the recently sainted t
(no jOke) Tribune may End the men,
Dry of an injury delicious affair, but '
that, too, is ''sgin natur." AS for us we
would as soon sleep with a bag of
chisels for pillow as to carry about in :
our bosom the memory of an injury or T
, wrong, When the outside counties l