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Show VERY HIGH AND MIGHTY. The Tribune Is heartily welcome to the advice we gave it the other day, anent the matter of the "looting" of Salt Lake by outside counties. The good old Tribune grows high and mighty and talks from the summit of Ensign Peak down at the other coun ties in a very dignified and eelf-suffi-cient way. We interpolate here, to the effect, that if the outside counties ever did, or do. loot Salt Lake, Salt Lake has the very slickest way in the world of getting her lootings back with a most usurous kind of interest. The choice of a similie as to the hold-ups is a most unfortunate one.especially in the event that the industrious fellows have a gun and Salt Lake would rather lose her life than be looted. If so, then we have nothing further to say, but he is a poor fool who gets mad, resists and loses his life to eaye the very pittance which would buy the looter his dinner, satisfy him and save the rather severe result which is to follow his refusal to comply. However all this pleasantry may bs, yet it is about the epoch in the cycle when Salt Lake mupt learn that she is no longer Utah. She mav be an important integer in it but still only an integer in the sum of Utah's imppitance. If the '"little brown wife" of that city undertakes the broom Btick game ehe'll never have another new hat with ribbons and flowers on it while she lives. So there, now. But perhaps Salt Lake merchants don't "have to have" and don't want the trade of the outside barbarians. If so there is little more to be said. Perhaps Per-haps also she relishes a little legislative legisla-tive minority, now and then. The tone adopted by the Tribune in this discussion is likely to produce an abundant crop of minority in the future. fu-ture. Our merchants can get on upon a margin of fifteen or twenty per cent, less than Salt Lake is compelled to have and a little of this sauce for the goose ia sure to play hades with her gander. She haying played the bulldoze bull-doze dodge for so many years must learn at once that she will do better by speaking with, a gentle voi to the "hold-ups" than by keeping, up the old bluster which, while it answered for those old times, is utterly inapplicable inappli-cable to these times, or the times that came to ua with the advent of the school-master. Now Salt Lake Tmay despise this gentle way of doing business. She may in the past have found the knock down argument the most efficient, but the virtue of that policy comes to a sudden sud-den stop when the to-be-knocked-down has grown a little too stout of limb. If it ia to be a case of biceps only, then the "outsiders" will be found dangerous, danger-ous, or at least able to give blow for blow, if no more. Don't expect us to go on giving her capitals, universities, and that kind of thing forever, "free for nothing." "It's agin natur," Lut horrib'y so when we have to do it in the shadow of a bit of black thorn twig or at the point of a bowie knife. Salt Lake is a great city, has great churches, mercantile houses, banks and journalistic champion3, but it must have the trade of the "outside" counties coun-ties in order to kiep it up. There is a bit of natural reciprocity in all this matter which we would commend to the attention of the Tribune. There is a bit of an epic, sung in the southern Btates, which will fit in neatly here. It runs about thus, we quote from memory. mem-ory. "Tho man who bath good goober peas, Aud giveth his neighbor none, Shan't haye any of my coober peas, When his goober peas are all gone." The Tribune, the recently sainted (no joke) Tribune may find the memory mem-ory of an injury a delicious affair, but that, too, is "agin natur." As for us we would as soon sleep with a bag of chisels for a pillow as to carry about in cur bosom the memory of an injury or a wrong, When the outiide counties want to put a period to the exactions of Salt Lake, they have the power to and are pretty nearly mad enough to coin-! coin-! ence the work., |