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Show r. Our Senior Senator. In. the past ships have .been built and equipped with great care, the compasses have been properly adjusted, the engines tried and found to work smoothly, on the trial trips they have answered the helm perfectly, per-fectly, but when finally loaded and sent to sea, the first returning message has brought the news that some substance within the ships themselves has demoralized the compasses com-passes causing them to vary, that so drifting out of their supposed courses they have been caught by adverse currents and tossed pounding upon an inhospitable coast. One is reminded by the above facts when trying to follow the eccentric course of Senator Sena-tor Rawlings and to find reasons for his performances. per-formances. His shell seems to be thick enough, his engines work with reasonable smoothness, his compass we know was adjusted ad-justed according to ancient Democratic formulas; for-mulas; when he starts upon a voyage the auspices all seem generous enough, but the marine insurance companies all fight shy of him, for they have learned that some inex-plainable inex-plainable substance which is part of himself will be sure to demoralize his steering gear and toss him, bow on, at full speed upon the rocks, or hurl him pounding helplessly on a breaker-lashed coast. Senator Rawlins has fine negative ability. To find the wrong side of a proposition and espouse it is a grand passion with him; to defend it, even at the expense, if necessary, of tearing the universe into shreds, is with him a labor of love. An old farmer once explained why his pigs were such persistent squealers. Said he, "they were born when the sign was wrong; they squealed the first day of their lives they have been squealing ever since now they just jump up and squeal. Nothing suits them." Would that some astrologer would cast a horoscope of Senator Rawlins and report what sign was in the ascendant at his birth. It must have been either Capricorne or the Scorpion. Nothing awes him. He delights in picking pick-ing up a policy outlined by the finest minds in the executive and military departments and tearing it to shreds. A true soldier, fighting in the fore-front of a doubtful battle, is 'something that awakens his keenest animosity. ani-mosity. He delights in designating such an one as a coward and at long range from his safe kopje to fire his" anathemas at him. Nothing can awaken his sympathies unless an assissin and head hunter is brought to book. When that happens then his eyes become be-come artesian wells, his cheeks irrigating ditches in a moment. To fight for the liberty liber-ty of continuing a race of robbers and assassins assas-sins is a spectacle that kindles all the grave senator's admiration and sets the wind mill of his mouth in violent motion. Has anyone ever thought of the accruing advantages to Utah because of the possession possess-ion of a senator like that? |
