Show ana lit rf aagut is tins OF coM aBaci A great deal of senseless grumbling largely on the part ot the ill balanced editorial squad of the la being indulged in at the expense ot the ogden chamber of commerce if it were not for the human frailty which causes weak mankind to condemn rather than applaud and to take up any howl against exi exiting aing a no matter how irresponsible the source of such howl may be the present outburst would not be worth noticing we do not apprehend that any seii man who lias had the patience to follow the short but meandering course of the commercial will see in its fault finding anything more worthy of attention than in those mat which it has spoken in terms of praise referring to its oft n suggestion if the brown elixir can inject brains into a vacuum or judgment into a jabberer Jib berer the stockholders of our contemporary leave need of at least a mortar tall as part of their editorial furniture alie present chamber of commerce of this city has proven its strength and vitality on too many occasions to be contemptuously sneered oat of existence its president is recognized as one of the most progressive men of ogden its members represent all classes and pursuits pur and if merit can be by success they are above the criticism the chamber has been found equal to the occasion every time and ne need only to point to the good results accomplished complis hed in the past to silence the clamor any human make seek to raise special reasons which it is not necessary to name for the luke wann ness about attending the meetings ol 01 the board most of the members know what they are there are also general reasons chich exist everywhere and which everywhere produce the same effect business men individually may be full of enterprise and yet not succeed in infusing that enterprise into a collective body unless the feeling be general in the entire community the board of trade will not be sustained as it ought to be ridicule and abuse of representative institutions will never build op confidence nor inspire men to union of effort consistent work for the common wel fere and decent regard for alie people who are laboring in the same cause will do more than whole volumes of tirade toward correcting any chort maybe noticed I east of all criticism be tolerated from those who have looked on and done nothing and whose only desire is to breed strife and discord men immersed imme reed in private business must be it they feel that ahry cannot spare the formal meetings they have some justification too in failing to attend if they are every time confronted by unfavorable propositions or asked to perform disagreeable tasks in this regard the meetings of the chamber have not been as interesting as they might have been but those w ho have attended have been benent ted and with the advent herthe improvement in trade the experience of the pa stand the strengthening of the feeling that ogden is forging to the front the chamber has before it every prospect of a busy and useful career as an institution in which the energetic citizens will take greater interest and in which all of them will take a just pride GOOD FORTUNE FOR BOTH Clev elands attorney general alio ng his our years term with less distinction thin any other man in the cabinet is still rated high bysura prime judges of human ability as alie giant railroad corporations according to cwashington correspondent judge garland has been appointed resident attorney of alie northern pacific railroad and his salary is sot down at the fanciful figure of per annum the term resident attorney means in plain language lan lobbyist and the northern nod every other roal generally maniger to keep one of these employees about washington to keep hia eye on thing senator mitchell wag the last recognized predecessor of mr garland in this place after serving one term ia the senate mr liell remained in washington as the accredited agent or attorney of the northern pacific and stepped from that lucrative situation tion back into the senate it was a rare chance which threw into the way of villard and co so choice a as an ex attorney general his talent need not be great neither is it requisite that among bis professional brethren his popularity be extreme the odor of his high office will necessarily cling around him for a time and this among raw congressmen whose vote by the way is as potent when the test cornea as that of the ripest statesman counts for a great deal mr garland will undoubtedly bo worth the money to the N P leo II 11 breus much spoken of book of As you like it will appear about the first of september alie author whose previous literary bubli are baill well remembered states that there are no al luliona to local differences either of politics or religion but that the book is literary historical philosophical numerous hum erous and poetic alie will doubtless and ready sale among both friends and foes of the author as evincing a adeph of thought and a breadth of fueling which very few but the most intimate friends would give the erratic litterateur credit for how develops the inner depravity of human nature here is a gentle chicago daily suggesting in view of new yorks desire to capture alie worlds fair that gotham is made up of speculators and at which the new york paws up the earth like a mad bull and bellows out eliat the chic ago people are a lot of bankrupt grain dead beat real estate boomers red eyed anarchists and coliet bound |