Show I jO DONT T SHOOT MR Mit CROCKETT ETl The coon coon oon had been having a pretty good time He lie had troubled tho the farmers and had got awa away He had hadlon sat lon nn a sturn stump I and laughed at them When hen the they started after him with dogs the coon coat waded up creek half a n amile amile mile mile and acid caught on the drifting limb of or a s sycamore more c tree climbed up In the forks fork and antl laughed again When Ium tho the dogs and the hunters went home he trotted over In the corn field ate what h he wanted destroyed ll ten times as rr much ch as ho he needed needed or could u use skirted the garden and made ml mischief with the orderly beds hed of or herbs and flowers flower's and ran mn awa away right In plain sight I ht of the men But Dut Butone one one day after hl his ugliest escapade 11 he looked from the the sheltering branches of a n hickory and saw a Davy Cr Crockett looking along the sights of a rifle rille and he hec c called out our Dont hoot Mr Ir Crock Crockett tt Ill I'll cone comp down That Is what th the Tribune has hns done It looked nt at tl the lie e angry protests of the business ss men and stopped topped Its Us nonsense It Il pretended coon snot like to climb down but hut really it U fell It just let go holds all and still chattering Idiotically of Its Us good Intentions climbed Into the game bag bog of the hu business men anc and permitted a n bigger Utah anti and a n grander rancier Salt Lake to togo togo togo go go forward All this pretense of Salt Lake being what It calls an an American city meaning city meaning that the American party advance Is assured as as- controls here and und therefore a 3 mighty might Is Is balderdash pure lire an and considerably simple h Why pretend In one column the American party helps and In another column accuse the elected officials officials of the American party of malfeasance ance In orn c of failure to do their dut duty of selfishness of bad faith That double dealing Is Is' Is a species of very vory cr shabby shabby- false pret pretense nse The Tribune turns states state's evidence against its pals and then hen 3 assures the world those thos pals are saving Moving the citI city The Tribune has como come down It has been driven from Its Us false and untenable position It Is 18 trying awfully awfully aw aw- fully hard to be decent x The unusualness of the effort accounts Cj 10 for he the eon coarse work that But r results But ut that thata that pager a ap ci 1 Is Is not pr Otte 11 power It once was suppose to ro b bt be It had the people buffaloed If It it had been as n. thong strong as ast It pretended it could have won tho the county count election It pretended it could have If it had been as ns powerful as elected four tour of the five members of or the school board voted for in Decem December er But it lost the county count election and it didn't elect a a. single member of the board themselves that Let Iet the business men congratulate they are getting out out from under the one influence which has has' prevented lias-prevented prevented the advance ance of or Salt Lake the one in influence influence in- in fluence which has cursed the city and damaged the state Let them congratulate themselves they have taught a lesson to the one pirate who has hns been levying tribute on the people Let them understand they are smaller the they have ha bigger than the tho Tribune Tribune not not as curiously believed themselves Thc They have been bullied and blackmailed and badgered badgered bad bad- I by the Tribune till the scandal of It passes the belief be be- Her lief Q of reasonable men And with the first real declaration declaration declara declara- tion Ion of or Independence nce the they have found their tyrant was wasa a l mighty weak coon after all they have found that he knows his Ills weakness and would rather come down than ave v them shoot The Tribune has been taught a lesson But Dut what Is more to the tho point Is this The people have been tau taught ht a n. lesson No paper Is 13 strong enough to conduct conduct itself as the tho Tribune ne has been doing The thing Is Impossible Impossible impossible im Im- possible if tho the people will assert themselves A paper can not win with blackmail If the people rebel The I Trl Tribune une flourished nourished on that sort of or fare for years The people have rebelled And the Tribune has made the I beginning of or a reform |