The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-18

papa or tn still lovelier name iv ma. So
far I've got only half me wish in this
matther. 7 don't want poverty an crime
to go on. / intfnd to stop it. But how?
It's been hOldin' its own fr einchries.
Some iv tn gr-reatest iv former minds
has undertook to prevent it an has failed.
They didn't know how MOdesty wud
prevint me again firm sayin' that know
how. but that's nayethar here nor there
I do. TIL way TO abolish poverty an
bust crime is to put up a brown-stone
buildin' in ivry town in tn country with
me name over it. That's tn way. / sup
pose tn raison if wasn't thried befure
was that no man liver had such a name
It's thrue me efforts is not appreciated
ivrywhere. l offer a city a libry an
oftentimes it replies an asks me FIR some
thing TO pay off tn school debt. / ray
ceive degraded pettyshuns firm so-called
proud mothropoIises askin' FIR gas
house in place iv a libry. 1 pass thin by
with scorn. All 1 ask iv city in rayturn
FIR fifty thousan dollar libry is that it
shall raise wan millyon dollars to main
tain TIL buildin' an keep me name shiny
an if it won't do that much fr ltthra-
choor, tn divvle take tits unworthy "
tn name iv an American city. What ivry
community needs is taxes an lithrachoor-
] give thin both. Three cheers FIR
Iibry an a bonded debit Lithrachoor.
taxation an Andrew Carnaygie. wan an
miserable. now an foriver, They Sc naw-
thin so good as good book It's betther
thin food; it's betther thin money I have
made money an books, an 1 like me
books betther thin me money. Others
don't. but I do. With these few wurruds
will conclude. Modesty wud prevint
me firm sayin' more, but have TO catch
thrain an cannot 80 on. l stake We to
this Tory which We win have as soon as
We raise tn money TO keep it gOin- Stock
IT with useful readin' an some day we're
otherwise pauper an criminal childher
will come to know me name whin am
gone an there's no wan left to tell it
thin.
''Whin tn HISTORIAN comes to write tn
histhry iv tn west, he'll say: Pianola,
IOway. was a prosperous town till tn
failures iv the corn crop in nineteen hun
dherd an wan, an tn Carnaygie libry
I'm nineteen hundherd an two. TIL gov
ernmint asst f'r thirty dollars to pave
Main sthreet with wooden blocks but tn
great philanthropist was firm an tn
Hbry was sawed off on tn town. TIL
public schools, tn workhouse, tn wather
wurruks an TIL other penal instichoO-
onions was at WdnSI CLOSED an IN people
begun to wurruk to support tn libry. In
five years tn population had deserted tn
town to escape taxation, an now. as Mr.
Carnaygie promised, poverty an crime
has been abolished in tn place, tn
ianitor iv TIL buildin' bein honest an
well paid
Isn't il good FIR lithrachoor, says ye?
Sure think not, Hinnissy. Libries niver
encouraged lthraehoor amy more thin
tombstones encourage Twin No wan liver
wrote anything because he was toll That
a hundherd years trim now his books
might be taken down firm a shelf in a
granite sepulcher an some wan wud
write Good or This man is crazy in tn
margin. What lithrachoor needs is film
/ food. If Andrew wud put a kitchen in
tn libraries an build some hunks or
aven swing a few hammOcks where Twin
authors cud crawl in at night an sleep
while waitin' f'r this enlightened nation
to wake up an discover tn Shakesperes
now on tn turf he wud be givin' a rale
boost to ithrachoor. With tn smoke
curlin' firm tn chimbley an hundherds
iv potes settin' aroun' a table loaded down
with pancakes an talkin' pothry an prize
| fightin, with hundherds iv other potes
stacked up nately in tn sleepin' rooms
an snorin' in wan gran chorus, with
their wives hOldin' down good-payin' jobs