Show TIlE THE READY n LETTER WRITER Mr ir J. J E. E Darmer Is earning his pay whatever er the they give gJ him As chairman of the thc cH city committee of what is called the American party he ho has taken taleen to the gentle i rt of letter writing His courteous missives havo have been bean received b by people in eve every ery part of ot town The burden of the message Mr tIr Darmer seeks to convey con Is that his party should receive the suffrages of the superior people to whom the letters arc addressed because e that party is itself so vastly superior Every err virtue fn In the calendar Is claimed by Mr Darmer for the part party It Is 13 so extremely lah-de-dah lah that lint Mr l Darmer assumes no toned high-toned recipient of his notes would think of or refusing it a vote And viewing that bold claim we regret to observe e that the party of limitless superiority doesn't know any anymore anymore anymore more about grammar than Mayor laor knows about city Ity finances Here is a sentence that will convince you you- The history of or former administrations justify us in claiming that the Americans have done more for Salt Lake and so forth and so o forth The party of ot of seems n-seems to have forr for for- r gotten th th good gd rd fc l V that f fc a verb w F n v A. A tn f c r 5 its nominative in person and number Mr Ir ecstatic party part forgets that history is the subject and justl Justify the predicate of the sentence And it simply will not do to sa say The history justify us and also so forth We Ve cordially concede the contention that the tho Americans AmerIcans Ameri Amen cans ha e done more for this city than has an any one else In fact as we understand the case the Americans have havo done for Salt Lake and for tor every ery other American city all that has been done one About the only thing that aliens do io here is to Jump out of office to which a a. mistaken en and uninformed mayor sometimes puts them For we are all Americans here and are proud of It Of course not man many of or us are arc members of at what is called the American party part this year ear But we are Americans Americans- through and through Wherefore I and because we simply can n not t indorse tho the American un-American habit of at using a singular noun with a a. plural verb we shall have to decline to vote as Mr Ir directs us in his otherwise well constructed letter |