Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-17
THESE HARD TINES.
The Causes Thereof Discussed By
an OLD Timer
A Cerrsspoudsnt also Has Many
Thing, 10 say Of Collateral
Issues.
SAT- LAKE cI1Y, July u. 1895.

SALT LAKE cry, July II, 1928.
Editor Dcsc'ei NeWG
In conversation with an "old-iimef
recently lie gave expression to an iie
which he was evidently ully lmpresse
with and yet had not obtained iror
-ny Of the public pfiut' or public utel
-nces Of our day. lie bore out In q
respects the designation above Eppiie
to him, bis attire being Ne uncover
tional "a to attract an occasional glnnc
from a policeman, lie beard giylnc IN
mistHkable evldetc 90 u having been
cavorting place for the brs,zgs o. man,
decades, and everything beiokeuing
lack Of assimilation 10 full split Will
the men Gud measures % the sunset %
the present century. Perhaps had hi
been otherwise his expressions OF oplu
Ion would not have been 20 opt ru,
IpgioAi ~ 10 attract attention, opinion
being about as cOmmO ~ house Die
sud usually NJ valuable.
Tho "reminisuoncs" rIprtsicd him
sclf az fOllows, TO vii:
Every politician, OF which We have
mDre'n there's any reasonable use TOT
has some sUft Of remedy that b,
wHnts US all 10 luuarntaud 10 the
only remedy for the hhTI tmrF. S0mt
of'rm hasit that ~ OWN % niiyGi
being knocked out that tuInrH are 40
iight and we Can't nave no sort OF I'M
pfovement tili We turn tail and get
Ia.
tore up Que OF the rails VI our fuanrihl
highwBy ami begun To slide along on =
single tack, anu thUfc's something ~
that, but not no much M we've oil been
thinking. Them a. thinks We lighter
conform to tue syo,cm Of the European
countries and tteuuy down to whal
they call q s1liI basis arc God deal
wuts than the others, bscauso thCy
either don'i understand the kind nj
country we'vo got Or else are interested
IN having our olu.lime conditions
upset Tor good aud oil. Othtrs
again can zee no hope outside
Of paper money not reieeinsblo ~ all
Rnd the istus Kept ~ to eyerybody's
individual requirements, when IL
lunAcy Ia q mud form. Some VI 'cm
thinks the President ought TO b. I'M.
peEchtd, others that no can only be-
fesched In proper form by Nsasslna.
tion, and here we are.
"Now the way IL appears 10 me il
simply this, anu It Ain't lObg II .fy Al
all! There IL some good IN ovefy
Political party aud more or less
patriotism In every citizen. Tho per-
centAge Of people which dsts wrong
just for this sake OF doing II II very
email Indeed. The prcsout Aiminis.
ttation may he, anu DO love ~, bad
Ia many fespaoh, but u aiu't
chafgeable with nil the Ills that
bsset this life, by long eight. IL
might have doue little more than II
has for silver ana not strained thIngs
very much, but II II had done Il lerunt
how do We know II would hH beon
videspTeai ami iastit x bentf ~ such
NJ IL clalmod2 Tho fac. " the matter
10, We have been living 10 much
faster than we used 10 that when a
elacEsning In the pace comes, 40 II
must sometime, We think that every
thing IN wrong, Just ~ u we could
forever 20 plunging ahead like quar-
ter horse OF One OF these uuirAnCus Of
bicycle s;faddloTb and never get ~ tn.
limit Of the thing. Just look At ~ IL
don't sc-m 10 mo like as ~ I was much
younger than I am now since all be.
tween the Missouri river aud the
Sierra NoyadHs was what was
looked on AZ the frontiet-an I'M
known country for ths most part, filled
with great Possibilities most Of which
VIZ have rushed 10 realization with
our steam engines and Improved sys.
tens generally. The best part VI tho
public lands are taken ny, we have
stolen from or cheated the "IIjunan
out Of Que alter another u their little
inhetitSncea which we coveted, aud
sOOu they will be extinct like the
buffalo, while We hold everything that
ca be hold aud gfowl and gtumblr,
talk politics and the rights anu wfonls
Of lAbOTiuG men, anu loaf around the
cirnero ana swrnf becauFe the govern.
mont dOnH annex Canada or Mexico
and give our restless, Unsuitable, ma.
rauding disposition another outlet.
"Look At the great Comstock lDit;
look also Ri the hasty wealth which
II Invested few unworthy men win;
the misery ans crime wh,eH
II brought into existence, not only DO.
cause OF ihr iush tinse, a. d therefore
unnatural umts, which II produced
uuu maintained while " lasted, but hu.
cause " the false hopes helu out 10
those WHO never look beyond To-Day
and thought OF acted n II they thought
tbs silver tide would never eth. How
much difference DOES II make 10 such
people, aud Tor that mater a majority
% our people, whether they have
plenty today OF nol2 What they have
now IN all that they ever have, and
when the case Of suppllos gives out
Ihey are ~ poor A. n they hsd never
had dollar on earth, and then they
cues ami rave about thosn iu,eTusi
lime,l Any times are bad II you DON'T
make proper use OF them, and none
are good II you uesl tlem as you
would the splash sud spray OF m0uu.
tain cataract. l tell you The boom
times are gone TO stay, anu ~ you don't
believe II Just stay on tho eAtth auu
keep your eyes and rhrs open.p
Perhaps the OLD fellow was more
than hall right, certainly no was not
altogether wrong, Whether or not II
he tue case that too mauy are depend.
ing upon the possessions snd ENTERPRISE
VI Otherp, u N uudsniably the case that
n state Of thIngs prevails which is
gradually prsclpltatng some sort Of q
social climaK, LIST US consider 1t fof
moment
Withiu HE past two years moro than
100000 newspaper compost ,W-shIllru
luhunr-uayo gone 60 iuu tho
Ranks OF their uu.EIllei broth.
rem IN labor crcls uy brir.
brown out OF employ urnt through
G agency Of tue iyIusrttu.
machinery VI the day. M1st of these