Show the old settler written from salt sa lt lake city I 1 my dear san Jua ners are people who seem to live their whole lives in a world cf theory they never get d wn to what is basic and susceptible of demonstration besides their old stock theories on which they dispose of the common mon phenomena they are adept at finding or improvising some strange account or explanation of the problems that each cech day brings bring and they hand it out with as much assurance and authority as if it were backed by holy haly writ besides the people who are that way all the time there is a still a bigger class who are that way part of the time many of them at regular intervals one of those particular times comes around every four years in the united states and as it approaches preaches pro aches people chow strange signs of excitement they are easily ruffled they have these theories in such a serious form that it is safe to approach appi them on the subject only with the most baleful diplomacy stranger st 11 they want everybody to kislen and it is not always safe to display a lack of interest without a watertight excuse I 1 am surprised at the number of people who want to enlighten me on jn the matter of national problems and the big issues which are to be settled in the november election I 1 am still more surprised to discover and the d sov ery is not difficult that when it comes to things that are proved or provable they have no more than I 1 have the main thing they continued ori on page 16 the old settler continued from page one have and that is the reason they hey arc so eager to broadcast it is th theory of what they hope or imagine and thy have a keelins that everybody should drink i ia down as they have done and become intoxicated with it as they are intoxicated with will rogers all I 1 know is what I 1 read in the paper and it may be a difficult matter to determine how much we are the victims of propaganda and hot air the falsehoods of one faction released to injure the other but at the same time people should be able a ble to detect the foolishness of a b big ig part of the stuff that is offered and to be offered in the next few months when har contradictory report you know one of them is wrong may be ih y are both wrong to every important question there is a right and a wrong side and the people on the wrong side try to cloud the issue by taking advantage of the periodic weakness of the public for swallowing wild theories hook and line ALBERT R LYMAN |