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Show REPLY TO JOHN A. JENKS. ; Editor. Ogden Standard. Dear Sir , I have read with Interest, mixed witb ; a certain amount of pity for the I w riter, th,; communication in vour ' yesterday's issue, over the signature. Of one Ixjuis A. .lenks. of Salt Lake j City. According to him. his letter I purports to be a reply to my letter! taking issue with him. on various as-j "'rtiuns made by him in last Sunday's! j Salt Lake Tribune I have careful- ly read his letter, as published by you. and must admit that I have been unable to find any facts that prove that I am wrong in my contentions as published in l he Tribune Mr. .lenks says he Is particularly anxious that I should be better in formed, and not lose the benefit of his schooling, so claims the use of : vour columns for that purpose I ap- , predate his magnaminity. but. If his i letter is a sample of his schooling, i and medium of imparting information, , then "nave me from mv friends " He goes on to state that I am quite t capable of extreme personality s Well. I wll) leave that to the judg- ment of those that have r-ad his ; arious letters and my humble effort, i as I also do his allegation that 1 am i narrow minded. As he states. I use I facta, not logic, and facts are hard I things to get round as he evidently finds; the.v certainlj have made him t "heave and cavort" as he terms It, t Instead of me. His assertion as to there being v more Englishman (g the- penal insti- I tutions has already been dealt with i by H. W. Ausell. May I suggest to 3 Mr Jenks that he consult a more up- t to-date authority than he has done v In this instance In passing, may I 1 ask why his figures vary In the let- t ter in the Salt Lake Tribune of to- a day's date, written over bis name. As e that letter is, with a few slight ex- g eeptious, the exact copy of his letter ' In last night's Standard. it looks n suspicious. Could it be that Mr. e Jinks has them printed by the dozen for him? When, and where, has Great Britain Ii im i.iiifK'ii anj reflponslhilttj lur tuk-iug tuk-iug care tt the Belgians ' She Iff doing do-ing it every day, as yon can read If ! you take the hias from your . a Furthermore, what a trlbutp yon pay tu the intelligence of tliis ireat country, coun-try, when you say she is the tool of , Great Britain because she, with her usual ycnTosit: . takes pVornpl meas ures to help alleviate the distresa among those stricken people. What j -a contrast to the "eulturpd" German army In Antwerp who have threatened threat-ened to seize th Bupplies sent ' the Belgian people, by neutral countries 1 under the preti t t'lat the people ! I wont work Cfpr thcini Also Mr I Jenks. as you say "we send money to ' Belgium' may 1 ask why you do it. If it paius you at all Assuming for the moment, the role of yonr won ; I derfiii man, j he Inilsei - the I -oni loveth a cheerhil gi'T As to Eir.-land Eir.-land heirm tn a more devastated state ftj t) tho war is over, they might bo j I eer the Germans reached England 1 say if, as that possibility Is very remote keeping In mind their advance ad-vance at the time of writing, If the victoties as published in the presa, liayi been (lefeatti for the alius, i am iinnnie tu nnuersianu vir the tje. I mans are not in possession of Paris., i London and thp Russian capital You .evidently get your inspiration from! 'German run res. and are too preju-l j diced to even read a neutral paper. I would suggest that you read the front I pages of today's papers in particular, I and notice that it is reported that Field Marshal lord Roberts Is re-portod re-portod as going to the front This little man is the same one that the! kaiser once said he would i- e halt ' he possessed, If he v. as a German! general I wonder what his thoughts are now I notice, too. that Mr Tenks tiles lo get away iviih some chap wit asl regards my w;v of spelling emi-grate." emi-grate." I would refer him to any j standard dictionary wherein he Will find it is spelled both Ways emlgrati and immigrate, the meaning the j same. I don't claim to b the wonderful wonder-ful aspirant to literary lame as Mr Jenks evidently, does, so must claim j i his indulgence for any errors in grammar and spelling, as I am justli an .ordinary working man At the i snme time 1 have enough common ;i sense to refrain from using the drivel I that Mr Jenks does as regards the I present king of England. He must h have been reading some of the Ben- i satlonal stories in the yellow press. I which ure occasionally served up to their readers, when they are at loss t to find anything else to print, l am surprised at Mr. Jejtks descending to t such a level as he has in that. For 1 his information, the ting of England ( is not hiding in Buckingham Palace I'i as he states, which at the present t time ly being used as a hospltnl for e wroundeo If reports are correct, and I have no reason to doubt them, In : a the English papers, he Is traveling j c about the country viwiting the wound-k ed at the various hospitals, not for- fi getting the German wounded I have I 3 not seen where the kaiser has been I C man enough to visit the wounded en- j h emlet; of bis country No Instead of 1 t; that, we rejd of cases whore the' If wounded, and British In particular, have been subjected to Indignities) it from the Germans and all of these reports would not be ftes Mr Jenks stales that the kaiser is at the liont It would be as well perhaps, if he stayed in Merlin, as his presence so tar has not been productive of results, re-sults, unless we take the wholesale and unnecessary slaughter of his ; men, who, to satisfy his mad ambitions, ambi-tions, have . ndeavored to take positions posi-tions that were impossible, under his Orders. The assertions of Mr Jenks as to the king of England going blind and not having enough intelligence! to fill a ri.rkship, can be dismissed with the contempt they deserve Ask any of the Americans who have come in contact with him and note their ! reply When Mr Jenks makes t bat kind ol remark, I have no hesitation in st;ning l hat his mental abilities are no larger than bis hat band. Mr. Jenks lays claim, according to the way it reads, of knowing more about the intentions of the German high seas fleet than most people, and ::ays perhaps I am not aware hat the are wailing for real cold weath cr From present indications they are suffering from "real cold feet." Let me tell Mr. Jenks that they have less cnance in the "real ccld weather" j than they nave now. for with storms , on the waters, their small boats will j have far less chance to inflict a dam-! dam-! aging blow than now, and they are I the ones that have done anything worth recording against the British fleet in the North . a. Mr. Jenks also takes me to task for disparaging the Germans for be-1 mg thrifty. Suggest that he read my j letter again, for I am unable to fintl any reference, direc: or implied, to this phase eif German lile He has tangled up with some other letter. Which, by the way, he has not replied re-plied to Now for the 'Tacts" in the last part of his letter. He states that ct the odd. uno volunteers asked for by Kitchener, only 150,000 replied also .villi re ference to .-eland's "lovaf ty, only : replied to the call in Dublin Dub-lin According to official figures on October 11 1914, publish, m in 1 on don. there were 600,000 enrolled Outj oi these (and thjs dorsn t ipto( account any private enrolling such I as has bee,, done, or the territorials. Irehind s share was the beginning of' next snnng England will put into the field 1. -00.000 new troops This! doesnt take into reckoning what forces the overseas colonies may ! send. Get me Mr Jenks.' On that I date also, including the Canadian v'' 1 " 'I d bad 1,200,000 men in raining, which will soon be readv o take the field, if some ol them haxe not already done so. Not very 1 com fortlng for Mr. Jenks peace of 3rL .Uhal otner nations have done 2J?8htin6 for England, and suff r It, k rosr" Slnce ni n did tn Wtlsh empire fear-the German arms and navy The Sir John punch's Wtotemptible little armj as the Wiser said, has fought, Hnd beaten, fr rot., and five times their numbers of " rmans. The British fleet has the rman fleet bottled up in tl CleJ ' iaricr and elsewhexfi, and so fur.lo Wey are ajrafd to come cut. The washed .eppeiins are not roir.g to 1 su their envelopes againn: the Brit- v: n aeroplanes that are now await-a - then 01 thi English oast. Germany Ger-many has lived at peace with her neighbors for M years because she - ;vas Forced to not from choice, an ,,n What about the crisis In Morocco a few years I. nek" Us. Mr Jenks. Eng- "I lishmen do forget, the same as any ntai other Christian, what happened before be-fore their ken, whon its a cjuestion of rei engi . iu Germany's invasion of Belgium i jitii en outrage because ah"j violated h - rfnt signed agreement, signed and sealed with her seal, to respect the neutral- 1 ty of the brave little country. The re "1 was no military in Antwerp, as fai K as England was concerned, iust thrf . naval brigades, Mr. Jenks. Neither did I express any opinion as to the German Ger-man dropping bombs on the City of ,( k Antwerp Tha' has already been doae by ncuiial obseners. fa In cone lesion, I would suggest that hi; Mr. Jenks get some second gradi j-. school child to write his next letter. lor, a worse lot of drivel than he has "H ril in in the la of his letter, I have yet to tome across. It seems hard for an ordinary mortal to I - to1 iieve I hat su h a cultured m in as .Mr. Would hsLVO iir KalfavA I n rhkA I have such trash in his system 1 hope he feels better, knowing now that be has got it out No doubt m2 he yiU come back at me with another an-other effusion from his brain (or someone else's), in which case he -tj can have the field to himself, as I I have neither time. nor Inclination, to a,n-waste a,n-waste oa such as be Finally, if 1 have trampled on his toes In this ttf:r. I letter, I am sorry, but he has asked it. ( Signed) FtRED SMITH. , n A Thirteenth street. ' srriei I Igdi n X"' nbhr L3. j 1 -00- i.. |
