Show 0 V THE PEEP 0’ DAT— A LITERARY MAGAZINE too that it was taken for a real expression of his feelings Others more delicate contented themselves with simply intimating all round that by the nature of the privileges they enjoyed they had mysteriously arrived at a knowledge of a grand preparation for incontinently squashing us up as soon as we should be born Now some ignorant people would call this meanness Nonsense Nothing of the sort It was merely an underhanded way of doing good ! These friends being of a sensitive turn of mind and not wishing to appear to obtrude their services upon us have taken this very delicate way of working for our interest 44 Let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth” was preached many hundreds of years ago but it was roserved for this age to practice it ! Would any of the ancients have ever thought of doing a kindness manner ? Certainly not Then in such a here’s an age of progress But some who are opposed to allowing so much credit to our friends will say we hired them the scheme has worked so well Gentlemen we say— our right hand pressed modestly upon our shirt bosom — we admit this method of advertising has increased our subscription list we acknowledge the compliment we are of course smart but not enough for that We back gracefully out and leave the honors to fall on the generous beings who for our sakes braved the storm they knew must be met in appearing to oppose TlIE - ! ' 1 Peep O’ Day Gentlemen you have our thanks With tearful eyes directed to our subscription list we say— imagine a pair of parental hands about two feet above your head trembling to low music from Professor Thomas’ fiddles —and consider you have our blessing A STORM IN A TEA-CU- P LETTER FROM DAYID CANDLAND Great Salt Lake City ESQ ) August T2th 18G4 JIessrs Editqrs “ Peep — time of O’ Day” At the my' subscribing to your Prospectus for the issuing of the above periodical I presumed it as it promised was to be conducted by Latter Day Saint Elders I would therefore encourage it by my subscription as a developer and educator of the 'But when it has to resort to a Pandemonium people lor its publishing place and its Editors so far forget themselves as to resort to an avowed enemy to them and the people of whom THEY form so 'small a part for its publication I respectfully decline and wish my name withdrawn from the Subscription List DAYID CANDLAND Messrs Editors PEEP O’ DAY Camp Douglas” It is a matter of serious regret with us that we have to present our readers with so lamentable a specimen of bad feeling as the above unfortunate composition Our only apology for so doing is the opportunity it affords for correctly defining our true position In reply then to its virulent contents let us say in the first place— this letter to the contrary notwithstanding —the PEEP O’ Day is and will be published in no 44 pandemonium” unless such can be found in the 20th ward of Great Salt Lake City But as in the confusion of ideas which usually attends bluster (see Dr Hall on brain diseases) our correspondent has confounded the editing and publishing of a paper which usually go together w ith the printing of it which is usually a separate affair we will further suy that while this paper w ill be EDITED and Sirs: 44 ' PUBLISHED by ourselves alone in the 20TII WARD of Salt Lake City the printing like any other commercial business will be done where we can be best served We are quite aware that no intelligent person will care bow the mechanical portion of this paper is got together knowing it to be none of their business but for the information of our friends who may be curious wre will say that on the first starting of tlm enterprise an unreserved offer of the whole of the' printing was made first to the Deseret News next to the Daily Telegraph and lastly to the Farmers Oracle A lack of materials or some necessary convenience as stated prevented them from accepting our offer Nearly a month was spent unceasingly on these efforts for we were determined if possible to honor our owrn institutions Finally we obtained on very generous terms the use of the press on which this magazine is now printed As to the wratliy intimation of our melodramatic correspondent of a collusion of our paper with parties or views antagonistic to this people we have simply to say we arc as much opposed as our correspondent and possibly more so to anything Where any one takes a opposed to this community course of this kind they alone and not we are responsible for it We intend the PEEP O’ DAY to be an independent paper Independent of but courteous to one and all We hold ourselves unbound to endorse the views of any paper in City or Camp No existingaper of any name has anything to do with us or we with them W e shall publish our own views and what they are very many of the inhabitants of this Territory by personal acquaintanceship know full well As to the success of our paper we expect to stand or fall upon its own merits and not upon the question where we get our type We might as well be asked where we purchased our pens! — We are before tho public as editors and all sensible persons will judge us by the sentiments and spirit we diffuse aiidby that alone In conclusion we beg our readers not to accept the epistle at the head of this article — which circumstanced have compelled us to notice— as any representation ©£' the views by the great Mormon community respecting the world outside our faith However foolishly individual Mormons may act Mormonism”— such a& we have learned from boyhood — is a wide and glorious system that claims all Arts all Sciences and all Literature as its own and accords to all who in anyway promote them thanks gratitude and honor su long as they da it honestly MOM MIRIAM ALROY We present in this our first number Benjamin D Israeli’s great historical tale of the Jewish Captivity’ It will be found intensely interesting as the tale uu folds itself It seems that the Jews always jealous of their national existence— for which perhaps they have contended more fiercely than any other people — maintained among themselves at the date of our story and while yet under foreign rule a semblance of their ancient government persisting in ruling themselves by one of their own blood styled the Prince of the Captivity” who was chosen from the royal house of David The intense ambition and mighty struggles of one of these sons of David to replace the ancient people in Jerusalem — their former home —and thus fulfill the prophecys — a destiny which many descendants of the chosen rac£ besides David Alroy at various times had believed they were inspired to fulfill — forms the of Mr DTeraeli’s story We shall ' review thesubject characters drawn as wc pass along 44 44 44 |