The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1898-08-06
KING WILLIAM PLEASE
STAND UP.


Editor Broad Ar:
Please give us space in your
paper to answer an article which
appeared m the Plain Dealer, July
s0th, headed The Benefit.
We, the walters of the Knuts-
ford Hotel are accused BY Mr.. w.
w. Taylor of not doing the right
thing BY Nm. Collins. He starts
Of by calling ua cheap shrews. We
would like the gentleman 70 ex-
plain the word cheap shrew and
where he got on to such vulgar
slang. It does not sound much
like . gentleman's writing and we
think that Nh. w. w. must have
failed to overlook his proof before
il went TO the press. You might
ask some of our learned men of the
day what would the United States
do with Porto Rico or Cuba. They
could readily tell you. But ask
them what 10 meant BY the word
cheap shrew and they would refer
you to the slums and dives of our
city. Wedon't say that Mr.. Tay-
lor got his word cheap shreW from
there. But we do say that the
scrub that he was seen with a few
nights ago passing through the
Eagle Gate all yelled up must have
escaped us and went out with him
and applied the word to him cheap
shreW. That is the only way We
can see how q church man could
obtain the word Now We would
like the public to judge for them
selyea which has been the most
benefit to Mrs. Collins. the Knuts-
ford men or the Plain Dealer
benefit. We have 10 men at the
hotel. Mr.. w. w. left ten tickets
with Mr.. Brown to sell to the men.
But two or three of the wise ones
claimed that by. buying these tick
cts wasn't a good way to help Mrs.
Collins, so it was decided to return
Mr.. w, w. his tickets and to send
Mrs. Collins what little we had to
give. So Mr.. Brown our head
waiter appointed a committee to
wait on Mrs. Collins and present
her with SI0.25 from the Knuts-
ford walters. Now would not
this amount be of more as
distance to the lady than
the pot of sour beans which she
received from the benefit? Then
Mr.. Taylor claims that all of us
failed to attend except Haines and
Scott. Say that If all of Us had
bought tickets of Mr.. w. w. that
would only amounted to $3.50.
Now he claims to be 81 short.
Had he had our 90 cents then he
would have had $3.50 for Mrs.
Collins and himself. People don't
work for nothing these days. He
went 30 far Is to call us can
Iushers and scrub chasers. Perhaps
he was at some of the saloons col
Letting for the benefit some part of
that s. that he failed to account
for. But to lay all jokes aside and
talk common sense we viii shake
Bro. w. VS. hand when it comes
to scrub chasing for We look at
him a. the king of scrubs for upon
one occasion we had Q chance to try
to chase behind him but he set the
pace 80 fast that the best We could
do was to see his feet striking fire
going to and from the Columbia
hotel during the time of certain
old lady's management. Some of
US viii admit to our can rushing.
etc, but there Is not q man at the
Knutsford that can give w. w.
one yard In one hundred with a
scrub as the prize and win. And
Mr.. W. w. says that We are no
good TO the club room or church.
We would ike to know what club
he is backing that win benefit him
by our wanting.
He should be satisfied with the
rake of he receives from the
church without wanting men to
20 around in some vile dive and
lose his small change as . church
leader. he should be opposed to
club rooms and gambling instead
Of criticising men for not attend
ing such places. IL We are as bad as
Mr.W.W- has pictured us he should
not expect rs to have any money
to spare for anything except the