The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-30
MAGAZINE SECTION.
Chair Oh
Observation-Disclosures

IT see that the cause of education
has received the princely gift of more
than fifty millions of dollars" said I.
I was cleaning the stray items from
the evening papers while Jeff Peters
packed his briar pipe with plug cut.
(Which same" said Jeff, "calIs for
new deck. and a recitation by the en-
tire class of Neutrality-suspicious.
rs that an allusion?' 1 asked.
1T is" said JEFF. II never told you
about the time when me and Andy
Tucker was philanthrOpists, did {? 1t
was eight years ago in Arizona. Andy
and me was out in the ella mountains
with a two-horse wagon prospecting
for silver. We struck il, and sold out
TO parties in Tucson for $25, 600. They
paid our check at the bank in silver
a thousand dollars in a sack. We
loaded it in our wagon and drove east
hundred miles before we recovered
our presence Of intellect twenty-five
thousand dollars don't sound like 81
much when you're reading the annual
report OF the Pennsylvania railroad or
listening to an actor talking about his
salary; but when you IAN raise up a
wagon sheet and kick around with
your bootheel and hear every one of
'eT ring against another IT makes you
feel like You was a night-and-day bank
with The clock striking II.
The third day out we drove into one
of the most spacious and tidy little |
towns that Nature or Rand and Nc
Nally ever turned out. It was I'm the |
foothills, and mitigated with trees and
flowers ind about 1000 head of cor |
dial and dilatory inhabitants. The
town seemed to be called Floresville, !
and Nature had not contaminated il
with any railroads. fleas or eastern
tourists.
Me and Andy deposited our money
10 the credit Of Peters and Tucker in
the Esperanza Savings bank, and got
Iooms at the Skyview hotel. After
Spper we lit up, and sat out on the
gallery and smoked. Then was when
this philanthrophy idea struck me. Il
suppose every CRATER gets it sometime
When man swindles the public
out of a certain amount he begins TO
ge- scared, and wants TO return part of
it,. AND if you'll watch close and no
tiCe the way his charity runs you'll see
that he tries to restore it to the same
people he got 1t from. AS a hydro
staticai case, take, lets say, A. A |
tiidut IT'S atlllfUllo cElllus OH 10 Door
students who sit Up nights studying |
political economy and methods for reg
Ulati1g the trusts. So back to the uni |
Versities and colleges goes his con-
science dollars.
There's B got his from the common
laboring man that works with his
hands and tools. How's he to get some
of the remorse fund back into their
overaIIs?
All" says B. I'll do it in the name
Of education. I've skinned the labor |
ing man. says he to himself but, ac-
cording to the old proverb. "Charity |
covers 4 multitude of skins!"'
SO he put up eighty million dollars |
worth of libraries; and the boys with |
the dinner pail that builds EN- gets
the benefit
Where's the books?' asks the read
ing public.
- I dinna KEN says,B. I offered We
libraries; and there they are. l sup
pose if I'd given We preferred steel
trust stock instead ye.d have wanted
the water in it set in cut glass decan-
tiers. Hoot, for ye'
But, as l said. the owning of so
much money was beginning to give me
phildnthrOpitis. 1t was the first time
me and Andy had ever made 4 pile big
enough TO make us stop and think how
we got it.
Andy, says l. were Wedlthy-nOt /
beyond the dreams Of average, but in |
our humble way we are comparatively /
as rich rs GreaserS. l feel as If I'd |
like TO DO something for as well as to |
humanity
II was thinking the same thing. |
JEFF says he. We've been gouging the /
public for a long time With ali kinds /
Of little schemes from selling self-ig- !
hitting CellulOid collars to flooding /
Georgia with Hoke Smith presidential /
campaign buttons. I'd like, myself. to
hedge a bet or two in the graft game
If J could do it without actually bang 1
~ the cymbalines in the Salvation /
Army or teaching a Bible class by the /
Bertillon system
'Whatn We do?' says Andy Give
free grub to the poor or send a couple |
of thousand to George Cortelyou?'
Neither says I. We've got too
much money to be implicated in plain /
charity; and we haven't got enough to !
make restitution. So Wen look about 4
for something that's about half way
between the two
THE next day in walking around /
FlOresville We see on hill big red |
brisk building that appears t. be disin- /
habted. Tine citizens speak up and tell I
us that it was begun for a residence