Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-15 | Page 4 | Can Noise Convince You

CAN NOISE CONVINCE YOU Most people have read Mark Twains book The Gilded Age Most of them Ulem remember the character of Colonel Mulberry rr Sellers the man who had no nomore nomore more conscience e that a mink and no more patriotism than a Il rabbit The man who was forever yelling for mr the old flag and an appropriation John T Raymond made the part famous fam ms in his acting People laughed at the bombast and the bun buncombe buncombe buncombe combe of ot the insincere old reprobate who was for forever forever forever ever trying to fatten himself at the expense of the public I But they the dl nt permit themselves to be fooled by him They rhe knew he care a cent cant for the theold theold theold old flag They knew all he wanted wanted was the appropriation appropriation appropriation They The saw through the transparent sham of off f the typical of treasuries Here is a modern reincarnation of the Sellers character in the bosses of the American party in Salt Lake They wear the symbol of the tho flag Ong and boast the name of American They The pretend to be working purity It and their methods for pur rival rIal the un unspeakably monstrous offenses against liberty that have n ade Tammany Hall a stench In the nostrils of all mankind They declare themselves disciples of freedom In politics polities and then crush every honest and capable man who dares to have haye a mind of or his own They The prate of their high and holy mission and swing the lush lash of political slave slavo drivers till their victims either lither ln In abject submission or stag stagger ger bleeding and ruined out of the sight of mon men manThey c They Thoy fill tho day da with clamor and the night with Ith iise They hire lure bands and boasters boosters They The drown very every protest proto t with ribald and indecent riot They are trying to stampede the town with uproar Can the good people of Salt Lake be fooled with it ItCan r ran Can an they thoy the be convinced with noise Wo We dont believe it The day of deceiving the people leople with a shout for the tho flag Ong and a shove for th the money lies has vanished never again ng ln to return