Show PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL A Mechanic Stands Up for His Fellow Mechanics eTa the Editor of THE HEftit2J I see by Sundays HERALD what fur ports to be something relative to carpenters car-penters and at first sight I thought it I was an advertisement for the lUhiver sity but after perusing it the thought struck the writer thatthat was a singular i sing-ular modus operandi by which to strike a blow at the carpenters of Salt Lake and of Utah and as I have been employed em-ployed in several of the large cities of the cast and mingled with the I carpenters and mechanics there 1 and have been employed hereby here-by builders I can state with some truth when I say that you will find just as many practical and theoretical mechanics me-chanics who handle draw or furnish details de-tails for a plan with equal ability of our eastern brethren of the craft that is according the amount of inbabitants 1 am well aware that there are many men who with all the chances and avenues open them which of late years have marKed the progress of science for when the hour of quitting work arrives they might as well be overtaken with the sleep of Rip Van Winkle for they forget all about their work until they start next morning Those men can be found in the east as well asjin Salt Lake or Utah and such probing as we find in the Sunday HERALD must have been for their craniums to buck against or else for the investigative mechanic and I think that he must be ignorant of the hours which the mechanics of Salt Lake are generally employed or else it was intended for a thrust atthe sun posed ignorance of the mechanic by which he holds himself a I critic and I doubt if he holds that position honestly As to the way with which we are to be en lightened it should be left to our judg ment and not whipped into supporting some professor who has nothing but theory but by a thoroughly practical man who could not only dress a plan but do the work with the tools that would be necessary for the same and I could find the men who could fill the bill but they are rather modest about But as soon as an artisan class is started here you will find that it will be remunerative to the starter providing r irsen the starter is a man who can fill the bill There are several institutions of this kind in the east and the promoters have been raised to opulence and wealth > A MECHANIC |