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Show It is a pleasant little fiction, is all this about Santa Clause, tne raindeera, the swooping down smutty chimneys and the rest of it, but has it ever dawned upon anybody that we are getting a little more than our share ot it. " Whole volumes of meaningless fctuff-aT' written, innumerable prinf-ing prinf-ing presses are strained, tired fingers and worn out brains have toiled,oceans ,,., ,,. w.,.,,.,,. .mmmm:.mmmm of money and a world of ingenuity ex-" hausted, for what? Simply to per petuate a falsehood for mere infants As soon as one is able to read, sometimes some-times before he totally repudiates the fraud and all this intellectual effort, all this mechanical ingenuity and all this poetical lying is done for the tots who can't appreciate it.when they can, tbey repudiate. Take the money all this costs and apportion it among tne poor and see how many of them it will relieve and how benignantly the Savior will smile.' Of course the virtuous Enquirer calls it a grab that part of it which Mr. W. n. King gets, not so, however, the raise which the Enquirer gets of $60. The council did exactly right in giving Mr. King half of the agreed retainer, re-tainer, because he did all the work of examining into the case, hunting up the law, etc., in the Rhodes case. Really the whole of it should have been paid if the council had stood Btrictly on the equities in it. The Standard deals in paragraphs of the Greeley order, two columns and a half in length. The fellow who wields the editorial faberon thatsheet has almost al-most as hard a time of it as thein: fortunate" readers of it. A dose of boil down wouldn't be a bad prescription prescrip-tion for this case elongatiori. The 'Colorado papers do fight man-folly man-folly for silver', whether' wisely or not remains to be Been. There are now no free silver volcanoes int erruption; save in Colorado. UUh is not altogether an uninterested spectator of this most unequal fight with her every real sympathy on the weaker side. CiJi any , one realize that we in Provo are "living under "a republican city administration, and no cogs are jumping; no tax reductions are being noted, the Bun "do" ehine, the snows come ana" "go and the' mud remains with wonderful persistence." Oh, the jolly reformer. - - It amuseV the Hearld to flay 'Thk Dispatch went off wrong in the beginning begin-ning (in the Peay case) and seems determined de-termined to Etay wrong to the end" and it hurts no' one else. Why shouldn't It be Indulged in this little bit of harmless harm-less pleasantry which it gives in lieu of argument. Just why ... the outgoing council should be written up as the Splatter-blotch' Splatter-blotch' wrote it up yesterday fre can't see. It "seems lo us they were a rather decent, brainy and far -sighted set of men, anyhow, worthy of anything else than insult If the Pope of Rome and the Czar of Russia? do get to fighting, the devil will be to pay, Bure enough. The two leading soldiers of the church militant wlfl make a nice little Bhindy, sure enough. Tni Colorado papers teach not by parables but by cartoons. All the staff brain' of the average Colorado newspaper, is found under the hat of cattooS artist. . Wslagfee with the Summit Chronicle that the female ex-missionarieB who oppose statehood for Utah should interview in-terview 'Joe Rawlins. The Tribune's first of January write-up write-up is a jjood one ' . . |