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Show THE WOE OF A DIRECTOR. The Tribune has no desire to parade before a curious world the sacred griefs which gnaw the souls of men; but there Js a case of such character as that a public knowledge of Its extent may do good to the afflicted one and to all mankind, man-kind, If the suffering shall be understood so that the world may bestow adequate sympathy. Hon. Joseph F. Smith undoubtedly mourns whenever he 13 brought Into In-to contact with his "enemies." HJs refusal re-fusal to sell one Inch of land to them, Bhows his desire to keep them at a safe distance. How It must bite into his very heart to sit on a board of directors with wicked gentiles like Harriman and Gould and Schlff and Stlllman and Rogers and other great financiers, who, with him, control the destinies of the Union Pacific! Not even the fee which is paid for attendance at meetings, not even the passes which are extended to the families of directors, and not even the courtesies which are lavished by other railroads, can possibly assuage his gnei. iet tne people mourn wun mm In his tribulation. His very soul doth abhor the contact; and yet duty calls him to this high place and he must obey. The imperceptlbllity of the duty to other eyes than his own adds to his grief, as it also enhances the sacrillce tvhich he has made. It Is a prodigious labor for even a diplomat and a hero to be the only man upon a board of directors who holds the Other members as his "enemies." All of the rest are in accord with each other, at least upon terms of sutllclent amity that they call each other business friends and associates. He alone is In the house of his "enemies" when he sits with Oliver Ames, Horace G. Burt, Thomas P. Eckert, Louis Fitzgerald, George J. Gould, E. H. Harriman, Marvin Mar-vin Hughltt, James H. Hyde, Otto H. Kahn, Charles A. Peabody, Henry H. Rogers, Jacob II. Schlff, James Stlllman. and WInslow S. Pierce on the board of directors of the Union Pacific. As he goes to St. Louis with some of his family; as he goes to New York with others of his family; what righteous rage must illl Ills heart every time he draws that Union Pacific annual an-nual and shows It to the conductor as authorization to pass Joseph F. Smith and family over the lines of the great highway! How it must remind him of the hours of torment spent by him In directors' meetings with his "enemies," one or two of whom have signed the pass. There are many sorrows in this world which are unavoidable; there are many sufferings which men might escape If they refused the call of duty; there are some sadnesses which may be In part assuaged by public sympathy. We feeel that the position of President Joseph F. Smith belongs to at least two of these nlaSMOK. TTrt (nfprK thft hnnrrf nf rectors of the Union Pacific because he feels that it Is upon him as a solemn obligation not to refuse this call to a directorate, as he has never refused re-fused any other call of a similar character; and he deserves and will doubtless be helped by' the tender and thoughtful sympathy of a whole community com-munity In the agony which he undergoes, under-goes, wedged In. as he must bo, between a wicked gentile like Harriman on one side and another wicked gentile like Marvin Hughltt on the other side at tho directors' table. It might bo suggested that a remedy for all the 111 Is not to make and Insist upon having eighty-two millions of "enemies" In the United States; but we leave all ratiocination on that point to the esteemed Desert News, which can argue the question In ' two successive sublimated articles to the satisfaction of friends and "enemies" alike, if only they can be Induced to believe what It says. |