The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-28
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kI LII TELL you one thing, Knock
err said old Mr. Redface. at the
Growers, the other day. the
trouble with fellows like you is that
You knock other people and never do
anything constructive yourselves. It's
q darn sight easier to pull down an
other fellows work and tear it to Dieces
IMAM TO build up something that viii
take us place. Modern criticism is de-
StructIVe and not constructive"
II can't help itself as n rule" re-
tOrted the Knocker- For ire+,,,,l.
NHeH you and I tear to pieces the vt-o,t5
CT the president in connection wifi, 80
Domingo nothing would please ms. bet
yer Jnan to provide n better policy bu+
they won't Jet us. If We paid ON. or[-D
Iafc 10 Washington and offered In take
Ihe presidents job off his hands va
De spotted by the secret service r,eoofe
ana nauled off to jail as a pair of
Cranks. Same way with the Staea 7
may De able To knock a dozen HaTDIafs
tG snltheTeenS. but if / went 10 a man,
SEeT and said See here nut mo on
the boards, just for one night. and I'm
give You a melancholy Dane from
GAINESVILLE thatH put all the others TO
sleep in a minute he'd laugh me ont
OF his ofAce. That's how the milk gets
into that cocoauut, my boy We ham
meTeTs would be constructive if We
could but the fellows in charge won't
let us Even more influential critics
than we are suffer from the same con-
ditiOn- There's the editor Of the Even
ing Ghost who could run this country
better with his eyes shut than any
body IN Washington, but the Washing
ton chaps, instead of calling his bluff
by turning their work over to him for
a week or two, keep right on doing the
wrong thing day in and day out. Just
~ II Mr. We never existed Same way
with the railroads Every COmmUteT
on the P J & X Y T. could manage
the suburban service of that railway
better than the president general man
ager or third assistant deputy fourth
vice president who have the commuters
in charge: but not for one day in any
known Mar viii any one of them per-
init Mr. COmmuter to control affairs.
Therefore. your criticism Of modern
criticism doesn't cut enough ice to mix
a cocktail with"
IT'S pity. amt ito" laughed Red
face
oh, 7 don't know. maybe not" said
the KuOCker- only YOU must not
blame us who are ou the outside he
cause we pull the fellows on the in
side to pieces and leave EN- scattered
all over the place instead Of putting
'em together again.
Take your criticism Of spring poets ~
said Mr.. RedfaCe- How about that2
NObOdy's preventing YOU from showing
what YOU can do. I haven't heard that
Edwin Markham has got out an in
junction in the federal courts restrain
ing you from writing the kind of
spring poetry you think ought To he
written. Thomas Bailey AldTiCh hasn't
threatened to shoot you on sight if
YOU turn your hand to putting a few
immortal lines together. I am not
aware that Alfred Austin has got the
king of England to promise that he viii
declare war on the United States If
YOU write sonnet on the merry month
of MAY. embodyinC your ideas of what
a real spring poem should be. In
short. you knock every son of the Muse
in sight, demOlish their fragile little
yersicIes, and give us nothing to read
I'm place of them You can't plead the
they won't let me act in this case
That's very true said the Knock
er- And I've realized that very point
myself. Wherefore I have written sew
eral realms of very good spring poetry
to take the place of the things I con-
denim. and to prove it III read a few
of 'em 10 YOU. Here's one on April
that I did with my left hand little
Vyhile ago.
O April April, April.
Month of the triple face
Winter. summer. spring tide
go give myself chase!
1-uriug the ruby robin
out of tho Southern sphere.
To meet him JIM the NorthIaud
With billiards. sharp and dTCaT,
Is most base
Cabling the lovely maiden
To don her fiImy fvock
CaiOiiug the man Of commerce
His ulster for to hook,
And then whilst they are dancing
Along their sunlight zones,
I.oosiug the Arctic breCZeS
To freeze their uarrow-bpues;
Is disgrace
Warm sunshine o. mornings,
Torrents at stroke OF noon,
Drifting SHOWS for supper
Tlen skating Meath the moon