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Show CRITICISING A CONTEMPORARY. Editor Journal.-Were it not for the unimportance that people generally attach to the utterances of the Salt Lake Herald and other such indifferent publications, we should, perhaps, have taken umbrage at the sentiments concerning you that appeared in a recent editorial of that paper. The writer, in whom nature has planted more zeal than judgment, and more assurance than intelligence, appears to labor under a strange misapprehension as to the importance of his little sheet. He seems to think there is but one journal in existence-the one which is illuminated by his genius. He mistakes the admiration of his associates for the applause of multitudes, and thinks "The rustic cackle of his burg The murmur of the world!" We could laugh at this ignorance did it not lead him into such folly; could smile at his bad grammar, his aberration of thought, his fits and starts in attempting to be dignified over a newspaper that has discovered more brain in its incipiency than his will possess when it is irradiated by brighter lights than himself. But folly must ever be a subject of commiseration to the wise, and ignorance will arouse pity when its actions do not deserve it. It is thus that the sentiments of the Herald can excite our compassion but not our anger. We see the ill-will of the paper with indifference because we realize its importance. We behold its attempts at dignity-at self-inflation-at exalting itself in the eyes of the populace, much as we would witness the swelling and strutting of a barn-yard fowl in the presence of strangers. It is time this self-?? ?? of prohibition and city ordinances; this advertiser of saloons, but champion of temperance, be exhibited in its true light, as the enemy of ?? but friend of drunkenness, as the lofty egotist, but shallow declaimer, as the advocate of right, but doer of wrong; in a word, the defender, and at the same time the opponent of the greatest curse upon earth. When the Herald exchanges its present inferior news writer for one of judgment and intelligence; when its editorials are written with more discrimination, and less bombast, it may perhaps occupy the important position which, at present, it holds only in the imagination of its self sufficient editors. Until such a time arrives, the people among whom it is suffered to exist, cannot but be pained at seeing themselves so wretchedly caricatured. Vox ?? Populis. Logan, Sept. 4, 1882. |