The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-05

thought he was trying to get into the
church for no good purpose,
When this was suggested to Brother
Anderson he soon laid the law down to
! Fred and it was only few days until
Fred was taken in on probation. Then
he began denouncing Tho Tribune and
all the American leaders who helped to
nominate and elect him. 1t does ones
heart good to hear Fred roast the gang,
| Why, one would hardly believe n con-
version could be so complete.
bowling success as prosecutor, but
that is just the kind Of man we want.
| We do not need any prosecutions.
| What we want a District. Attorney to
do is to leave US alone. Some of these
days we will show Fred how much we
appreciate him by e!ecting him Judge
or making him bishop. The great
trouble about making him a bishop is
that he Is not quite clear on the ques.
tion of polygamy. He would make a
dutiful husband TO four or five good
women if he could only persuade him
self that it is the right thing to do. All
the girls say he is cute, and they like
| him.
One of the most aggravating things
we have to contend with is the great
| business activity in Salt Lake City. OF
| course, the Americans are getting all
| the credit for it. They declared that
if the people would Just elect them
| that the story we set afloat that the
Americans were knocking the city
would be disproved. | mover saw the
devil so successful as he has been in
! helping the enemy out. Why, every
body is at work and getting good pay
and them Americans are pushing I'M
| provements 80 fast as to convince even
some of our people that they, mean TO
make a great city out Of Salt Lake in
spite of our protests.
told one of the merchants the
other day that Ezra Thompson is about
to bankrupt us with high taxes. /
showed him that the levy was about to
be raised a whole mill-that we just
couldn It stand any such robbery. He
| figured it out with me that my part of
the raise would only be S439 and l am
rated as an average taxpayer, too.
1t stumPed me; | supposed It would
out at Pelican Point would never JUS
tify it.
This merchant told me that the only
| way to make town out of Salt Lake
| is to lift 1t out of the mud and get
moro water at any price. He made it
so clear that he forced me to admit it..
He said he didn't care, if 1T required
d
must be improved, I'd hate to pay
| 80 for such foolishness. We don t
need improvements.
1t beats mo how clever these business
! men are with their figures. They cost
us many vote,
I've been asked by several polite
ians what ] thought of running Judge
Powers against Brother Howell again.
I told him I thought it would be a
good thing. Our people do not think
they have had quite enough satisfac
ton They enjoy inviting the Judge
| to tho feast He will never get more
than look at it and the brethren like
to know that he is hungry.
It is mighty lucky for Brother Cutler
when that petition for an extra ses-
sion of the Legislature was filed I'm
| doubtedly somebody blundered, or the
call would have been made. would
| think Brother Cutler would know that
we want consolidation. Brother Young
could then sell the land he got from
the Government the other day to the
could take the Agricultural college and
make 1t B. Y. III bet Brother Cut
| ler hears something as soon as our peo-
pie find how be was tricked. 7 do not
believe he is very smart, anyhow,
What the thunder did our County
Commissioners buy them voting ma
chimes forl I have been unable to fig
ure IT out that it was good politics.
| The American council was too keen for
the machines to please me, Looked
Ike they wanted the machines so es
| to keep us from counting them out
next fall.
They tell me we can't beat that ma
chine. II this Is so I rather fear it was
downright Gentle trick that they
were purchased, and that the county
board was caught mapping.
I soc that the Herald has fallen out
with Fisher Harris II is almost unbe-
lieveble They were such good friends.
I'm bet on Fisher holding BIS own even
II he has to call his Sightseeing Club
to his back. Fisher has the cleverest
snap outside Of the Church and 1t is q
Government agents onto him.
They tell me our boy Governor and
Brother Groo are mixed into this affair,
too. Somehow I do not believe the
brethren are as smooth rs they were in
my day. Now you take Brother Ander-
son. He had no right to let them catch
him with that blanket. Then there is
Brother Jones. Why, many day have
I talked with him and no one could
have persuaded me that he would ever
leave go broad q trail as he did when
he was leaving the county house.
I am glad that we have a County At
torney who is charitable enough to over
look these things in Brother Anderson
and Brother Jones. Anyhow Brother
Farley Pratt has all he can do prosecut.
ing the enemies who break the laws.
He need not bother the brethren about
such triaing things as appropriating
public property and the like.
I told Farley Pratt that he had bet
ter ease up on Brother Jones If he
wanted the Congressional delegates
from Pelican Point, and he told me
needn Il worry about that-that Brother
Penrose would be very undutiful pa.
rent did he not look after his son.in-