Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-18 | Page 6 | More Truth than Poetry

0 i J , More Truth Than Poetry . I By JAMES J. MONTAGUE t A PLEA IN EXTENUATION The Indian. Wa learn, waa a person of peace. Whoa Ufa waa exceedingly quiet. Till tha white maa appeared and unpleasantly-Jeered At his crude and uncivilised diet. "Poor Lo." aald tha pale-face, -Poor untutored aoul I Tour food haa no savor whatever) With nothing to eat but potato as and meat. " Mow can you expect to be clever f" So tha red man, ambitious to cultivate bralna. And 'to ahlno In enlightened society. At once took a shy at our dlshee and pla And aalada of varied variety. But hla stomach, unused ta such foodstuffa as thaaa. Arose In Ita wrath and protected; Aad Inetead ot mora bralna all ha got waa tha pains Of a dinner that lan't digested. If you ara dyspeptic, dear reader, you know That you do not feel kindly or placid When within you you feat that you've aataa a meal Consisting of eulphurlo aald. Tour heart fills with hatred of all of mankind; - Tour temper's ao longer reliable: And you lean toward tha view' that a murder or two After dinner la Quite Justifiable. And that waa tha way that tha Indlaa became, - Ha wasn't a calm ar polite man. But a maker af war and a thirst or for gore When he'd eaten the food ot the white man. The Indian la human (In apits of tha foika Who love to denounce and defame him). If. he of tan got mad when hla stomach went bad. And took a few acalpa, wbo can blame hlmT .. TROUBLESOME Th Ford boom ta like the Ford oar. It la always la tha way of tha big machines. DISQUIETINfJ Whea a prise fight .suffers a financial leas It la time tor revise the Vroverb about a fool and hla money. NATURAL Farmers find they have raised too much wheat thla year. Well, they had to plant aomethlng la lha old rye fields. INSURING) SAFETY. Tn tha wtr dtlee automoblllsta ara making traifja conditions easier by gradually reducing tha a umber of pedeetfiana, aCopyrlght, I21 tr(ha Bell Syndic!, Jn4