The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-07
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MkNTED: ONE REST.
IN behalf Of a IOng-sunering and too
patient public. The Herald files a plea
for the cessation of verbal hostilities
between its newspaper neighbors, at
least until the hot weather is over and
the city political campaign begins, say
about Sept. Is.
For something over three years the
newspapers on one side have been por-
traying the cussedness of a large pro-
portion of the people of Utah I'm Terms
that might suit a pirate. but certainly
should be barred in polite society. For
the same length of time the newspa
pers on the other side have replied in
kind. with such variations in terms and
embroidery of abuse as a difference IN
literary style might conceive.
Meanwhile the plain people on both
sides who have grown tired OF the con-
troversy, have had to see the whole
state described, on one side or the
other, as a place where good men
might reside, but where mighty few
chose TO reside-if the newspapers
aforesaid could be believed.
Some of US had hoped that when the
senate of the United States recorded its
august opinion of the Smoot case there
would be a lull, but nary a lull has
appeared. on the contrary, quite other
wise. the defeated have grown more bit
Ter and the victorious more aggressive,
while the poor, plain citizen, who loves
peace and doesn't hate his neighbor, is
kept awake night and day by the beat
ing of the tom-toms OF war, the swish
of the snickersnee and the yOwl Of the
heW -gaga. as The COmbatants keep on
slaying-on paper-the enemies of
years ago.
Coming right down TO facts, isn't It
true that this is about the best place
to live in a man could find?
Is there a more delightful climate,
finer outlook on the wonders OF ma
ture. a more comfortable place TO do
the days task?
II YOU have TO leave, do you know
any place you would seek without re-
Eret at leaving here? Could you find
better neighbors and friends on the
average anywhere between the two
great oceans?
Is there A single disadvantage here
except the eternal condemnable. IN
profitable caterwauling Of the pOliti-
clans who seek personal gain in con-
tinuation Of the row they themselves
started and are keeping up?
Wouldn't the whole state heave a
sigh of relief If II could be sure the
stars in the political row could all be
thrown across a clothes line the other
side Of the lake and left to fight il out
on the Kilkenny plan while the rest OF
us took a rest, at least till September?
Seriously, it isn't fair TO the peaceful
non-combatants i'm this terrible war to
be compelled to L-ten to the noise Of
battle. to read the proclamatiOns and
pronunciamentoes, and see the horri-
bic cartoons and look over the list Of
dead and wounded politicians every
day.
Here 1t is in the middle OF the ice
cream season, when hammOcks are ripe
and golf balls are plentiful. when the
tennis suit invites the soul and the
temperature. Of the lake is irresistible,
and visions OF cool streams with trout
a foot long ought to displace the night
mare cartoons.
What if SmoOt is seated; what If the
Americans" do run the city to the
citv's entire dissatisfaction? Ought a
man be compelled to think about such
things all the year round when he
might better be thinking Of the pine
balsam that fiOats in the air on top the
Wasatch? Are baseball and boating
and the moonlight of summer even
ing never to have place in the econ
omv of things here again?
In the name of a long-suffering
peace-loving public that is sick and
tired of the whole bloomin' bunch
won't the ofice-holders and office
seekers and their newspapers please
please. give us a rest.
Inst until Sent Is anyway?