Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-07-24 | Page 8 | Giving Ammunition to Enemy

6 II r f Giving Giving A Ammunition to o Enemy If Acting President Carbajal of Mexico should send out supplies supplies sup sup- s plies lies and arms and other munitions of war to the constitutionalists' constitutionalists constitutional constitutional- army he would be termed an idiot and a fool by the whole world For he would be furnishing his enemies with weapons for forthe 4 L the purpose of invading his capital In like manner a political organ which furnishes campaign material with which to tear down its constituents is also liable to come under the same term individual in Salt Lake which r. r The knocking or ai political organ says that sugar is gone wool is gone the metals are down and that jobbers are C in in bad in a howling foaming effort to prove certain ridiculous pessimistic statements as to the country heading heading head head- ing g for the dog pound is unwittingly amputating its nose to cure For Fai the business man or the workman or the clerk or any of the hundreds of other men of Salt Lake City who read in pink headed columns gushing statements that within a handful of months or nearer the country is going to topple over into thet the t I abyss of destruction when the American dollar donal will win be dead as a boulder and the pay check as rare as an Egyptian palimpsest is going to change his mind about buying that 25 suit He e will pour that quarter of a hundred dollars into his little bank account intending intending in in- in tending to buy food for his starving family when that catastrophe looms up over the land of the calamity howler The political organ which plays such a game is an idiot andis and andis is bringing on itself the issuance of a death warrant I Its s case has been diagnosed by Dr Public and the physician has declared it to be suffering from clogged circulation And when the circulation of any body grows feeble you can hear the undertaker hammering Then it is that the good wife grows anxious about the insurance insurance ance ante and the children begin i to wonder The gra grave ve digger spits on his han hands s and gets his eagle eye fixed on a soft spot in the cemetery where he can place his friend the knocker As the saying goes when you boost or saw wood dont don't use a hammer And the organ which is sawing wood is too busy to knock Even infusion of new blood into the drgan always save the patient although this somewhat perilous method of keeping up the jaded life is used Let the hammer and the long drawn moan of pessimism rest together with the unfortunate being whose efforts were to decry his home town and state and country Only the knocker deserves the ax