The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30

lies type of fiction appearing III the
magazines.
lie is bothered TO know whether
the public at large. thus influenced,
will go out and stake their liberty
against tho easy money so aLtrac-
lively piCturcd:" and n fellow mem
bcr OF the Solemn JacllaSS Society OF
America points out with horrlfied
statistics tho extreme youthiuln"ss
OF daring criminals In New York.
Paris. Richmond. Va, and the Cape
OF Good Hope. AS to Polynesia and
the Straits Settlements he is miracu-
lousy silent. But in conclusion the
Solemn Jackass always asks, with
bated breath what is to be done
And. il being part of our cheerful ann
in life TO answer all such questions
when we can, We reply
''Thc thing 10 be done Is Tor the
Solemn Jaciass to cultivate philos-
ophy.'
Nobody likes to he hard upon an
adult lackaSs; his wa! through ne ~
difficult enough without his having
To learn new tricks. II is going a hlt
against nature. too. which has lnade
his ears SupcrSenSitive and super
long. for The very purpose that Ihey
might gather in all the alarms ol an
alarming universe that ne may ,aT n'aT
thcreat and express mis- disapproval
thereover by kicking his heels AT the
beautiful and senseless SKY theIeoI.
All of which. being without phi'os-
ophy. nc does. .,, u,,
wav of the world: il anything Is to
he changed he will have to chahse
himself. We respectfully and
Irishly suggest that II one ear mus
view with alarm. the other be Al
lowed 10 point-not win prlae-%ion VI,
a sort Of kindly cynicism. But what
IS the way of the world as regards
the attraCtlveness Of crime?
Let us examine into human nature
and see why people pstroniZc such
shows as '''Thc Deep Purple and
The crevhound." chuckle at the cpl
sodes. go away declaring the show
TO he great" why they read Raf-
Res." lost i'm fascination over q
rascals successful nancuvors, IL an
begins with that grand, that world
redeeming, that society preserving
fact that the masses OF people are
slow wittcd.
Adolphus Lump, the millionaire
brewer. has become rich by slow and
painstal!ng process Of two.and- Two
sincere process; but there is no magic
about 1t. no Imagination, Also. quite
unbcknownst 10 Adolphus-and by the
same process as he became rich--he
has become old His life: in other
words. has been solely a matter of
two plus-two
Never in the process OF adding to
the days of his life and tho dollars
OF his fortune did the wild notion
ever burst over Adolphus to be
clever. At one with the rest of the
solemn brood Of care. he plugged on;
as the poet SAYS. All over the world
his world-he met other and SINH
lar Adolphuses. The wholesalers vino
bought his product, the retailers who
rented saloons from him, the bankers
people (saye a foolish few who i'm
blbed too much OF his producD were
two plus twoers.
If any man OF his business ac-
quaintauce showed at any time the
quality OF ina sination, Adolphus cut
down his credit. He argued that II
the fellow could make two plus two
equal a hundred and twenty five, he
wouldn't do II with his money, Nuh-
nuh. and quickly.
Well there's your world, messieurs,
constructive world. a pleasant land
made up Of little grains OF sand care
fully piled one on top OF the other by
the careful, unimaginatlve Adol-
phuSes
Every honest man and woman OF
us really tries to he constructive. We
try To bank n little money, buy a
little home Of our own, rear few
children, inculcate constructive poll
cies in their minds. improve our
business-heavcn knows what; but
we sincerely try to pile up whatever
grains OF sand Fate gives us and
make decent structure OF the same,
And, all hypocrisy aside. we know
what this game is. il is the duilest
game on earth,
Yet We play it; why? Because we
And now We come to lhe crook.
There isn't any ought In the crooks
makeup, Ethics is as unknown to
him as il is to free child.
VEL. the crook Is a playboy. gifted
Wltn IMAGINATION Thai T..
son we like to see him al work in
a play or a novel. Adolphus Lump
was never clever in his lie; i'm the
play the criminal is AT his cleyerest
best, That is the reason Adolphus
chuckles and roars when. unrolled
before his eyes. he sees the crook
approach a character as stupid as
Adolphus himself. invciec him into =
card game and cheat him Down i'm
his thick old honest brain. that ap-
peals To some callouscd lobe of his
imagination.
II had To laugh Mt Captain Rand's
magic stones. writes farmer TO his
farm paper, 'becsu | know a lot Of
folks right here in Tllton that they
worked the game on" Yes; he had
10 laugh. because he was a stupid
bystander who saw the revelation OF
clever game.
i know Of no better place than
night here 10 ram in another analysis
OF the crook mind You have fire.
quently observed savants draw a com
parison between the criminal mind
and the poet mind, That notion logs
around the same old starting point;
neither the poet nor the crook IS
OF duty 10 society A poet-a real
tempcramental poet mean. no, q
union poet-is just about as cousLruc-