The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-19

| ~ agreement. Its a positive |
joy to find a man in charge |
kZZEZ71 of affairs who isn't afraid to |
EZ5$EM mind not only his own, but |
other peoples business. /
This notion that the United States !
ought to sit back and let other nations
misbehave themselves and not say
word is perfect driVel, and a strict ad- !
herence to it as a principle would be
4 matter for national humiliation.
Have at 'en, I say. What's the use of
being a world power if you're going
% stay home playing Tiddledywinks
wei, / guess it's safer business
playing Tiddledywinks quietly at home
han going out and reading the riot
act to your neighbors all the time.
said old Redface- suppose your
aeighbor rose up in his might some
time and swatted you good and hard
so much the better" said the
Knocker. Peace over prolonged
makes a pusnlanimous people. What
we need is some kind of a strenuous
life that will keep W in fighting trim
all the time. say L. We've got to do
something to keep our muscles hard
and our bicepS up. We were born 10
be a husky people We left the old
world because we were too scrappy to
stay there. Our ancestors never Tor
4 minute dreamed of coming over here
to dwell in the plush chairs of peace
and to snOOze away their lives In the
lap of luxury, but to find ring big
enough TO fight TO a finish in. and
you can bet your life that the hrSt
thing they did when they landed was
to look around and find what there
was in other peoples business that
they could mind with profit to them
selves. The man who spends his days
minding his own business may make
a living, but he doesn't own an opera
box or I'LL the air with the odors or
his Gassymobile. The other chap who
goes out loaded for trouble of all
kinds, keeps constantly Dutting in
wherever he gets the chance, and not
only minds other peoples business, but
grabs all of IL he can lay his hands
on. is the fellow that wears automobile
headlights in his shirt front, pays So
600 for bogus old masters, owns a
yacht and can coax a loan out of a
sand bank with few Hot-Air Bonds
worth 10 cents on the dollar as Secur-
ity. That's why I'm glad we're going
into this San Domingo business II
establishes a precedent that in time
Will result in our owning the earth"
You're mixed, Knocker. We aren't
the owners Of San DOmingo-just a
sort of Receiver" said Redface.
THAT may be. Redface, my boy. but
don't you deceive yourself as to the
permanency of the Receivership. You
know the old proverb, said the
Knocker. 1.-THE Receiver is as bad as
the ONneI-OE Sa1lhGlAl4lS IKE AlldA II
these days of high finance a receiver
ship is the first step to ownership. The
first thing a receiver does nowadays
If he is a man of any enterprise al
ALL is 70 close out the owner. Ther
he freezes out the creditors and what's
left he reOrganizes into a stock com
pany, capitaliZeS il at a hundred mil
lions. sells two hundred million share.
to the public, keeping three bunore'
millions worth himself, plus first mort
gage bonds amounting 10 four hundreS
millions, which he later on forecloses
and, prestol his title is clear. That
the game. Redface old man. and !
beats Poker. PinOchle and Bridge as
winning proposition all hollow. and al
IL requires is an iron nerve and al
armor plated cheek. Nerve and ar
NOR plated cheek are never found II
the Simple Life. but in the Strenuous
and il is the strenuous life We ar
leading now. This San Domingo bust
ness is only the first step. Next yea
1t will be Venezuela and Brazil. The
we'll annex the rest of South America
That done. benign old Uncle Sam wi
cast sleeps eyes on the dowager EN-
press at Picking. and by 1907 you'll fin
the Celestial empire applying for state
hood. BY that time Japan and Rus
sIa VIII have fought each other 10.