Show A WAIL While cogitating laboriously over the political situation in Utah and wondering how the characters would come out the other evening I must have fallen asleep At least the person usually taken for me had disappeared in the gloaming or elsewhere else-where and I became as another being in the twinkling of an eye It seemed as though the spirit of the late Petroleum V Nasby around whose name cluster sacred memories had come up from its present sphere and entered in unto me and took full possession I was seated at a table before me were paper and the last pencil I had borrowed for a minute The disposition I to write camo upon me and 101 rather Nasby who was running things then began to write as never before The old time mood seemed to be on the ghost and he caused me to write after the manner of his celebrated wail shortly after being i turned out of the post office atthe X Roads = This is what I wrote A WAIl Alas I the day of rath has sertinly overtook over-took the Demuiocrisy onst more For they wuz proud in the day of their triumph and lookt not ahead tu a time wen a change would cum upon tlie land Even so has it been unto the Demmocrisy of Utah wich was surnamed the Sagebrush Sage-brush For lo I mine eyes have beheld the rise and progress of tho same likewise its downfall It was to speak as if in parables a fine lookin craft bill of sound timber Every rope and chain was in its place the jails wuz set the hull wuz painted with bright colors and last but by no means leest the crew was a hardy capable stouthartid band of fellers whose objict wuz the discovery dis-covery of nashnulpolitix somewhere among the reefs and icebergs of the soshul oshuu of Utah It tuk men of nerve and kurridgc to undertake such a trip because all realized at the beginnm that if we I use the per sonul pronoun for behold I was one of em missed the icebergs the chances waz that we would get onto some of the reefs and ctitOlmJigfc i vise versy It wuz a difficult matter to make one class of people understand that we hadnt become enemies because we left em so as to discover better sailin and the other class can only look on anybody that dont sail right alone with em taking in everything wieh they take in and throwing out everything wich they throw out as so many pirits and cusses at large We hoped to convince the former that we wuz better friends to em than them cz remained behind be-hind to asist in abusin us and to hold on to the loavs and fishes and we would hav done it but for the haponinj of some things wich is enumerated hereafter and as the other class co to bed findin fault hatch un grudges in their sleep and wake up cussin sumthin or sumbody and iz mainly Republican Repub-lican besic js we didnt care what they said nor greatly for what they did We hadnt morcu fairly got started before be-fore we struck a snag which shook us up a little but iz we or most of us wuz lookin for it it dun no great harm This was on November 8 last At this pint bein alarmed and tempted by a offer from his unkle of a sure thing on a posishun one of our crew from Manti Sanpete slid overboard and went ashoar He had heard somewhere that gettin beastly drunk and runnin after wimmen in a loose way was Demmycratic principles and hnvin both of these qualities quali-ties developed to a unusual degree concluded con-cluded that he would do for a member and jined us he didnt know that it also required re-quired a reasonable amount of branes a 1 beral quantity of eddycashun and a considerable con-siderable persentage ov kurridge none ov wich he had enuf ov tu be wuth mention and so the loss ov him wuz counted a gain But the example wuz bad fur sez some of the others wots the use ov takin chances on something in this craft if we kin git a sure thing on the sweets ov oflls right now by lettin god And so one by one they let go The crew got down by degrees to a corporals cor-porals guard There wuz Me and Hadley and Dr Faust and wun or two more wich I am not at liberty to name becaus they dont seem to want it known that they wuz ever Sagebrushcrs it not being advan tajus just now wen the offiscs is goin round Well ware are we and fur what There not bcin enuf men to handle the beat she haz gone down with only a verry small portion of the quarter deck above water If there iz anybody on the concern but me ho must be down in the hold and therefore drowned for I am unable un-able to see him so I conclude that I am runnin cruel sarkasm all that is left of the gallant Sagebrush kraft To say that I feel loneiy and alone but feebly voises the sittuation Ov koars I have no ellis and am not likely to get ono but will have to keep on workin for and earnin my livin but when the prodigals have run thrcugh thair discs and the spoils consekcnt upon the same and return to the principles wich they let go ov for the saik of the flesh pots thay will find me right where they left mo standin en writ little is left of the Demmy cratic struckture above water and with the flag flyin from the masthead Tho wail ends at this pint When I awoke and looked over what bad been written I felt to repudirto very bit of it The spelling is not nearly vp to my standard ESSA Cuan |