The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-10-12
IF HE GETS UP
ENOUGH COURAGE

| lctsu IL WRONG, or POSSIBLY had felt
OF his own pulse and that of his as
sociates and made the mistake of
thinking they were the public. We
might give him credit for being sim
cere In what he had said for the
vets If he had not come out in his
last weeks issue and admitted that
ne had been taking the course he
had because he thought it would
win favor with the most people, and
consequently bring the best results
in the way of patronage.
Having learned that he had not
only read them wrong, but was un-
able to change them to his way of
thinking by the power of the press.
he gives out the inference that since
they think the other way he will be
pleased to run the paper in the flu
ture to their way of thinking. And
there you have the measure of his
influence and his sincerity-an ad-
vocate, not an editor-a follower,
not one who takes advanced ground
and holds 1t until they come to him
by reason of his being right.
Soda Springs with a majority
against the saloon after trying it
both ways! Soda dry and getting
dryer! Pocatello wet by only small
margin after pressing every spring
possible to turn out wet votes.
Thinking men will form new con-
illusions from this without referring
to the statistics of Maine or Kansas.
Yes, Soda Springs is proud to be
1.-The land of sheepherders and cat
tlemen," rather than the home of
cheap quack .phrenologists and
would-be character assassins, He
might have gone further and stated
that there is not, on all this sheen
range, sheepherder so devoid of
manhood, or 'slocoed' sheen so
hopelessly lacking in common sheep
sense, as to have been guilty of the
above nasty trick performed by this
self-same bird" of Blackfoot.
He says that "Soda has never
posed as moral town. Truly we
DO less of posing than some others.
but we can state, without fear of
successful contradiction. that there
is not a cleaner, or more moral town
in the state of Idaho, or any other
state in the Union. He says that
the good men came and went
away but that very few remained.
We might add that there were some
who came and went away who were
not at all desirable. Itmay be remem-
bered that our friend from Black
foot "came and went away" and the
flags were not hung at half mast.
nor our door knobs draped in crepe
when he took his departure.
Some of the people of Soda Springs
happen to recollect the dapper
young fellow, wearing high silk
hat and starched shirt and carry
ing cane, who billed the town as a
peripatetic phrenologist, nineteen or
twenty years ago. Tt was feared
then that he was ''nutty'' in the
head and it looks at a distance as if
he We're yet rather ''wheely" in the
upper story. This feeler of bumps
and knots on craniums was none
other than the self-same Byrd Trego
who now assays to sit in Judgment
on the people of town that failed
to come through with the buckets |
when visited by fake head exam
iner, who perhaps knows even less
about phrenology than he does about
physiogomy. Trego's head may be
shaped all right, but his looks must
certainly belle him. A man who |
will stoop to the depths he has done
in order to ''get even," as he would
propably express it, with a people
who had neither patronage nor pa
tience for travelling fakir, would
seem to be almost beyond redemp-
ton. st. Peter will certainly halt
him at the gate and most assuredIy
not let him pass through the portals
mo, not if he even yet claims to be
Sunshine!''
His fairy tale of the martyrs who
came to Soda Springs to run news
but left upon finding that
they were the only real good men in
town, reminds us of the soldier who
deserted the army because, as he
declared, 'every other man in the
regiment was always out of step."
Ii our Blackfoot contemporary is
sincere in wishing to get at facts, let
him come to Soda Springs and in
vestigate who erred, and who was
out of step.
The statement of THE CHIEFTAIN :
sought popular favor by getting on