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Show NO USE TO PROBE THB LOTTERY. Mr. Bryan in his Commoner threatens to find out through the laws whether the Tribune's late guessing project was or was not a lottery in disguise. dis-guise. Mr. Bryan is a bright man, but there are a lew things which he is not posted on. There was a deep underlying principle beneath that 'lTibune guessing contest. The Bible is filled with allegorical illustrations. A learned writer, some years ago, tried to establish that the whole book was made up by astronomers whose writings in the sacred volume were to show by allegorical illustrations the eifects of the seasons through the stars, upon the animal and vegetable world. Thus tne Hood was made of rain that fell forty days and nights the exact length of the rainy season in the Holy Land. Samson's hair was the vegetation vegeta-tion of the summer and autumn all strong. It was the coming Into the ascendant of the star which rules the winter months which was the .Delilah that clipped his locks. That is, the trees shed their leaves and the migratory birds iiew away, leaving him naked and shorn of his strength, and he only grew strong as his hair grew again, tnat is, when the spring came with its new foliage. In the same way Methuselah's age was reuuced to fair proportions, and it was shown that Jacob only served three years and a half, instead in-stead of fourteen years, lor Rachael. Well, the Tribune's guessing match was purely allegorical. The manager of the Tribune understood under-stood the signs and what star would bo in the ascendant on the 4th of November, and, dissembling, dissem-bling, determined to forestall foreordination and see how many suckers were left who could not read tne political signs outlined in the heavens and on the earth. That he intended to make it profitable was entiroly excusable if not justifiable, for his thought was to teach the people through an object lesson, for only fifty cents, not to gamble, even when they thought they had a sure thing, for the whole election was intended, so far as Utah and southern Idaho were concerned, to show, with a great church all attuned, by the allegory of a pretended election, how a despotism could get in its work, could make a monkey of the Great Re public and play for chumps the whole body of the America people, even like that loaf of bread that smashed the tent of the Midianites. In the history of the church in latter days it will be told how, in the year 778 of the prophet Maroni, in Utah an election was ordered under American forms; how one great star from Wyoming Wyo-ming shone over Utah; how one other star of sinister sin-ister influence from Nebraska came to shine and to beguile people even as did th.e serpent in the garden, but how the prophets' rod swallowed up-all up-all the lesser rods and showed the people how they might deliver themselves. And the manager of the Tribune, being a favored son on whom the, prophet looked with favor, was posted and taught how the suckers might be assessed and bled successfully. suc-cessfully. And on election day the armies of the Lord triumphed gloriously and the hosts of the Philistines and the hosts of the Machine were overthrown utterly, and their tents destroyed, and their camp despoiled, even to the borders of Cache and Utah counties, only the Vrlbune's guessing school was caved, without loss, and after the bat tle the hosts of the Lord returned to their tents i'lllll'IB with much spoil and at night painted the city a 1 j frl iB bright crimson. And the hosts of the Philistines jl 1 , f f B and the hosts of the Machine were utterly discom- ffl, J; '$ fjK fitted and only the manager of the Tribune's i Mf fB guessing school was saved and he cried out, "It is w 1 r ' 1 11 well. My native Heath has scaped." i i iiB |
