Show A MINERS COMMENTS A Silver Ryefer Expresses His Ideas of the Attempted Assassination As-sassination and of Gnit teau SILVER REEF July 161881 Editors Herald otfo event that has occurred since the vile outrage that was perpetrated perpe-trated here last winter has called forth the general condemnation of the people and press of Utah as the attempted assassination of the President Pre-sident and although the press has not been as bitter in its denuncia tion of this act as on the first men tioned occasion it may be accounted for by the fact that in its notices of that outrage it exhausted its vocabu lary of invective The first affair was considered a shot at long distance at free government govern-ment but there is no mistaking the second The distance was as short as might be and the shot aimed directly di-rectly at the heart and the general sentiment here is that the perpe trator should be shackled and sent back to Illinois or wherever he came from We have anxiously waited to see what the leading literary men of the Coast had to say about it and are if anything surprised at the mildness of their censure for notwithstanding not-withstanding we occasionally read of an assassination killing Presi dents is not only unUnited States it is unMissourian Michigan and inhuman The Tribune says it is the outcome out-come of too many trying to live by their wits and might have added that it was the lack of wit which made them try itand that they often employed what little they had to the detriment of men who were willing to produce their living but this is aside As no one has hit upon the first cause of this attempt at murder it devolves upon your correspondent to enlighten the people and although al-though the theory is not purely original ori-ginal it is the correct one and will be recognized as such The source of this crime is some ancestors an-cestors of the man Guitteau probably prob-ably his grandmother who was a lecturess or an actress perhaps and at some critical moment when the process of gestation was established has struck a happy poso and been greeted by the plaudits of the crowd and in her bosom was awakened the desire for admiration which through the intricate workings of nature has been by her transmitted and has cropped out in her grandson grand-son in a vitiated form into a thirst for notoriety which has been the mania of his life His whole career goes to prove this He has been a lecturer and a preacher and has tried to buy a newspaper wherein he might publish to the world the kind of man he was but tailing to obtain notice has finally hit on the novel idea of becoming somebodys Brutus and without question has picked the most shining mark in the world t The wise men of the east are taxing tax-ing their intellectual faculties respecting re-specting this mans sanity when it is plain to any average person that to say he is sane is to make him out a kind of infamous hero for no sane man would expect to live ten minutes after shooting the chief magistrate of 50000000 people made so by their choicein broad daylight and in a crowded depot This mans deportment since the shooting has proven him the very reverse of a hero and nothing more than a poor little cowardly thin brained effeminate person who should have been established in the hosiery or millinery business one of those people who can never under any possible circumstances cir-cumstances do any good but not too contemptible to do harm a man by nature utterly unfitted for a miner and it is doubtful even if he would pass successfully a board of eastern stockholders as a superintendent super-intendent Now if this man were a foreigner it would be as unfair II and unmanly to cast reproach through him on the country which had the misfortune to give him birth as it is to claim that he is not an American when he is one as unfair un-fair and unmanly as it is for any party or division of a party to give him the notoriety he seeks by at taching any political significance to i his deed for no country likes a monopoly I mo-nopoly of half wits though there are times when it does seem that the chances for running against them in this are over average The first telegrams which were received here relating to this saddest sad-dest of catastrophes stated that at the time of the shooting the President Presi-dent and Secretary Blaine were walking arm in arm and at the first shot Secretary Blaine ran a few steps and then returned Now suppose sup-pose it had been one of the bottom stratum of society who was walking walk-ing with the Presidenta miner from Frisco saythe chances are that before Mr Guitteau had had time to fire the second time he would have been grappled and the wind shaken out of him so violently that he would have been completely discouraged dis-couraged and thoroughly convinced that killing presidents was uncomfortable uncom-fortable business What we deduce from this is that leading statesmen like leading literary lite-rary men are prolific of precept and theory but when the exigencies of the case demand prompt action it is better to depend altogether on a creature of impulse W A |