The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-09
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was short, thick set party, weartn' eyeglasses,
a frind " TIL Harvester Thrust, an livin' In
two-an -a-haE story house on tn shores iv Long
island. Ivry mornin' he come into Rome an
wrote pieces Fl tn pa-aper which are now set az
task fr little boys to thraneiate into English.
He was inp1or twict, an whin he come back firm
Africa he thried to get th' job again away ffn
his old frind Ponrpey Durin tn campaign he
uttt,ercd tn nlim'rable sayin: Aut Cayzar aut
nultus," which, ben' Translated, names Ye've
got 10 take me or Taft" He was attackted in III
sint chamber be tn boy ne took to raise wtln he
exclaimed, =" O, you E1itu," an threw him out iv
tn window.
"'I've todd ye enough now to show ye that
there sint tn width ~ yc'er thumb diff renee be-
tween Rome an this country. If TINS thing isn't
stopped an if tn ilicton doesn't go tn way me
boss tn prisidnt iv this college an his frind Bill
wants it, in few years time tn Liberties Nv this
people will be destroyed, til popy}ace will have
to go to free circuses ivry afthernoon with loaf
iv free bread undner their arm, an whin Cayzar
dies we'll see Hinnery Cabin Lodge fallin' on his
soord in Nahant an Clifford Pinshow pursooed
into Pannyma an destroyed be Nick Longworth,
who'll come back to rule over an maybe play
his fiddle while Cincinnaty is burnn at his feet.
Well all be slaves dhressed in white sheets with
garlands Nv roses in our hair. tal1n our meals IN
bed an dhrinEin' great pans " Falerrriun wine,
which had some iv it wanst whn / was abroad,
an it's poor stuff an does ye good onless we
devote all yeer waIin' hours to it. / can dwell
no longer on this dhreadful pitcher iv tn future
iv this country. TIL ony way yc can get away
firm it Is to injooce ye'er fathers TO vote fr
Ponpey Ye can now take recess while I go
down to tn dhrug store ON TIL corner an buy
mesilf shell iv hem1ock, fr do not care to live,
he says An tn onthinkin' little vaggyboncs,
onniiIdful iv tn doom Nv their country, whit out
an choose mp sides fr baseball game,
"Afther readin this ohichury notice I thried
to get some consolation, dye mind, out " tn
ditoryal page iv me fav'rite journal but twas
worse there. Tn iditorysl writer had been so
broken hearted be III prospect iv Jooly1s Cayzar
andin again that he cuddent write anything
new he got two tickets FIR tn theaytcr fr him
silf an wife firm tn, dramatic critic an slung in
iditoryal an essay that got him second
money at tn grajatin exercises in tn University
v Oklahoma an let it go at that Twas called.
Is Our Civilization Failure? It Is, He said
tn ship iv state already on tn rocks, til thun-
derbolt had fallen TIL die was cast, til' sun had
concealed its face we stood between Scylla an
Charybids. I'll pale aug1rs rushin' firm tn
temple, an til sacred edhce built up be TIL fore
fathers v some iv us was shaken to its very foun-
dations. an TIL busts iv Wash'nton an Jefferson
had already fallen firm tn brackets on tn wall
an were scattered all over TIL Aurc. felt like
calm Polls. Yet afther | had ca med down
enough to read tn rest iv tn pa-aper il seemed
that nobody else but tn ditor an tn professor