Show I ANOTHER 4 TOTEM SONG If It you attended one of or the performances of or The Alaskan recently seen seon at the Salt Lake theatre you rO will i remember member l' l the Totem Pole song In It Is a mimic re representative c of all the Alaskans and he ho has sui surrounded rounded himself with totem poles Ho LIe has carved car these oes In tho the ugliest possible designs leering designs leering owls beetling eagles scowling cowling wolves wol and grinning bobcats t And no matter mattei what tho the polo looks like the man who ha has made it can an t see eo in it tho the things he wants to see sec So with the Tribune That miracle of that patron of or peculation has set up a n totem pole which It calls the hierarch and it can see all sorts of or things that are terrible In that handmade horror As old housewives cs frightened their children with tal tales s of or the big black Thing so the he Tribune seeks to frighten th people with what It says rays lS l'S it sees in Its totem pole A As j this The truth Is that there i Is a Republican nor nora a Democratic party art In Utah Each Is simply a branch of the tite political servitude er of the Mormon church Neither has an any distinctive political principles Neither knows about traditions history or 01 tendencies E Each eh takes on on tit the n name mc without meaning i anything in iii particular by It It and stands ready to dio drop ron ronIt It at any time and carr carry out the will of or the thc priesthood whether hether this be for or against itself itsel A Oh perfectly perfectly clear to mo moIs moIs moIs Is this this this-Is Is that thatIs thatIs that that- Is this m my totem pole But nut It I Isn't nt clear to an any one else The hierarch exists ox- ox is ts only in iii the stimulated imagination of the Tribune Nobody else can see it Xo No one else finds It taking charge o of the political parties Xo No one else discovers disco It driving men hither and yon ron Xo No one else feels II Its lash It Is all in iii the imagination of or the tho fellow ellow who made the hierarch totem pole The rest of or the people are normal and healthy and happy happ The They arc are gla glad the benighted s savage nage gets some pleasure from believing In his totem pole polo Is whatever cr he wants It to be But they know better belter The They like 1110 to hear heal him sing about It It for the more he relies on his superstition the more completely will ilI he ho bo ho beaten at nt atthe the election Tribune and totem poles belong belons in regions where th the nights are arc eight months long They are so prone to fevers that thc they should bo ho where there 1 Is plenty plent of ot snow And Arid I they know so little o of the science of government go that they should remain forever rOrO in the land where there Is I nothing more active than the e carved figures on their totem poles 1 |