Show A discussion ON WIDOWS the subject taken up where the editor of the dispatch left it by permitting ino to reply briefly through the columns of paper to an editorial in aba dispatch of apster day you will confer a great favor abile aiding so much of you I 1 fully realize that the public generally do not care to purchase periodicals whose columns ara filled with peaks and hence ali limited circulation of the dispatch As my name hag been falsely used against a worthy class of our community by the editor of the dispatch I 1 may be tar asking so much at your handi the delectable editor anya mr holbrook rushes into print and aladits alai its all this paper haa charged about a prominent hotel keeper in this the learned editor haa done me a great injustice in accusing me of any article he has ever written that has come to my notice as being true he further says we have an extensive fund of evidence to the effect that mr holbrook haa been repeatedly pressing present and passed officers for protection against widows who were keeping boarding houses this is absolutely and positively false every word of it I 1 have heard of but one widow in the city keeping a doard ing house there may be many more and I 1 regret to say I 1 have naver had the pleasure of meeting thia lady I 1 appreciate preci ate her efforts very much believing that ehe is perfectly competent to compete with any hotel keeper in the city even a prominent hotel keeper that she is a true lady of good judg ment and shrewd business ability no one will doubt who is acquainted with the facts that today make her a widow it is true that the charming editor of the dispatch has had probably an un excelled experience in making courting and marrying widows and is consequently much better acquainted with their circumstances than the ordinary man it is also true that he has oft been in the position that enables him to extend favors in his judgment that many worthy men could net do Is it possible afier succeeding so many times that the dauntless editor has at last met with difficulty and abac he has commenced this tirade in braar to enlist in hia be hilf the sympathy of all widows of this cita and territory and possibly surrounding territories if thia be true jit would be but just to forgive him for all of this brain mixing trouble on his mind and the care and responsibility of the editorial department of that pure simple and paper he would be a mental giant if he did not make mistakes my position on the license question has been plainly stated in a former is ale of this paper my desire was to discriminate against no one or to in fluence the council to do BO L PROVO sept 28 |