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J TRUTH
H thing in the nature of a Commercial
H I club there is no evidence except its
H secretary, Mr. Fisher Harris. But
H for the herculean almost unsupporte 1
H and far from appreciated efforts of
H Mr. Harris -'the club would have
H been non est long ago. The sccrc-
H tary has the tight ideas as to what
H a commercial club should be, but he
H is accorded but lukewarm support,
H whereas his efforts :rc deserving the
H most active backing. If the members
H gave his projects and ideas half the
H substantial encouragement they arc
H entitled to the club would be a Com-
H mcrcial club in reality and a potent
H factor for the advancement of the
H city and the interests of all the peo-
Kr The Commercial club as a mattct
U of fact is about the most utterly
U "cheap John" concern imaginable. It
U is absolutely devoid of anything even
H approaching to what is understood
H as public spiritcduciiS. It's members
U or the great majority of 'hem are
1 2 by 4 fellows who belong to the
H club because they expect to derive
H some personal advantage if it's only
W getting a lunch for 35c which at .1
m restaurant would cost 50c or 60c.
9 Since it has been in existence it
H can't point to one solitary thing it has
U accomplished which has been of ad-
H vantage to the city. It makes a bluff
H r.t almost everything and gets a lot
H of local newspaper notoriety without
H anything behind it but hot air. It
H has never done anything for the
W city, for the public, for the building
H up of a city or the state. On the
H contrary like the Real Estate asso-
H ciation it has been a leach on the
H community, sailing under false col-
H ors. Instead of helping the city and
H state it is a blood 'biickcr, talking
H about advertising the advantages of
H the city and state to the world at
M large, bringing desirable settlers and
H investors and building up, it has only
H talked about those things and really
H done nothing.
H The Commercial club of Los An-
H gclcs appropriated and paid a quar-
H tcr of a million dollars in one year
H to advertise Los Angeles and its sur-
H roundings, and got and arc getting
H good results for the expenditure. On
H the contrary, if any one gets out any
H publication in the way of an ad-
H vertiscment of the city or state and
H requests the Commercial club's cn-
H dorscment the first question asked
H by the board of governors is what
H percentage of the profits will be giv-
H en to the club, so that the members
H can enjoy good lunches at 35c, play
H billiards and have a good social time.
H Such is the Commercial club of Salt
H Lake. Wihat good does it do to the
H public? Why docs it call itself a
H Commercial club?
M BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.
H All's Well That Ends Swell, with
H Illustrations Thereof.
H Said a good fellow and a good
H friend -the other day "I see Truth is
H publishing your effusions quite fre-
H quently of late, and as long as it can
stand it I suppose the rest of us
have no right to complain. But
couldn't you, just for the sake of
variety if nothing else, get side-tracked
long enough to write something
that has no reference to the 'Ameri
can' party in it?" Sure thing, Josiah.
But wherefore? Would you give that
journalistic Goliath the Tribune a
monopoly of the said subject, more
particularly when its references so
frequently show such a niggardly use
of veracity? The spirit actuating
and the matter underlying your sug
gestion, Josiah, are worthy of you
and of profound consideration; there
is danger of monotony in discussing
too much even so virile a subject as
the organization which has but just
scooped the political planter so
thoroughly. And yet there is much,
quite nuic' 1 the prevailing situa
tion that yields comfort even to the
disappointed and defeated, if only
they have tlu faculty of extracting
the same from its surroundings in the
light of logic and precedents. It is
cheerfully conceded that the comfort
resulting from the possibility of
blessings coming in disguise is apt
to be somewhat rcfrigcrativc at this
time of the year; yet they do come
in that way quite often and arc just
as welcome as if they bad left their
masks and hings at home. Let us
accept the good the gods bring us and
ask not why or whence they come.
In supportive illustration of this pre
lude, an incident in the country's
career which all hands can remem
ber something comes in fittingly at
this point.
Although not a conspicuous figure
in history and remembered only as
a rule when one runs up against a
section of United States history em
bracing events ancnt the middle part
of the last century, on the shady
side thereof, James Buchanan is or
was a figure in our national fabric
of considerable prominence for a
spell. He was the last democratic
president before the war, and it look
ed for a long time as if he would be
the last ever. James was an old
fashioned sort of person who had
never obeyed the divine injunction to
increase and multiply, at least not
in a way that there is any record of.
The admonition that it is not good
for man to be alone was likewise un
heeded, so far as the visual sense of
our race goes. He didn't associate
much with those of his own sex, and
not at all with those of the other, as
delicately suggested in the foregoing
sentence. But he was a tolerably
square man, for a round-built one,
having cheeks like those of a Chester
pig in early frost-time and an ab
domen like the hind end of a mogul
locomotive, thus showing good care
and fine fare. Well, James one day
heard of a colony away out in the
regions marked "unexplored" on the
maps, which colony contained people
with white skins, of a reasonable de
gree of civilization, inclining to Chris
tianity and headed by another presi
dent who seemed to be onto his job
thoroughly and who was called Brig
ham Young. The fact that they had
the same kind of title and were hea
vyweights made them similar to that
exfent but no further, for Brigham
was a married man. Not only this,
but he (B. Y.) had a goodly family
which in spite of continued discour
agements of a wordy nature increased
right along at a tolerably steady
pace. Mark Twain, in speaking of
Brigham's peculiar characteristics,
said the news reached the latter that
Congress had passed a law forbid
ding and punishing polygamy, and
at once showed his respect for it
by going out and taking three extra
wives, this being about as near to the
facts in the case as Mark was ever
known to get; as a joke it was about
as far-fetched and unfunny as some
which cruel circumstances have driv
en me to. James was a Union man,
like many other Democrats of his
time and since; that is, while strenu
ously opposed to secession they were
constitutionally against any of the
means presented for putting it down.
"Besides his cabinet was so nearly
all secesh" that the fragment of it
that wasn't didn't amount to much
and sang mighty low when it sang at
all. You sec it wouldn't do for the
head of the Nation (the gentlemanly
compositor will please oblige me for
this once with a big N at the begin
ning of that last word and I will
cheerfully reciprocate at any time;
to openly champion the cause of
those who had already determined to
split the country in two, putting as it
were a dam in the stream of oun
national progress and Mius making
it a dam-nation sure enough; no, he
must sick the dog on the colored
gentlemen that were lurking around
Uncle Sam's hen roost, having pre
viously seen to it that the dog's
chains were just a few links too
short to enable them to insert their
incisors in the unbleached visitors'
cuticle. The opportunities for car
rying out such ambidextrous per
formances were niimcrious, one of
them looming up piominently and
promisingly in the far, far west,
where the aforesaid family man held
sway. When a man deliberately de
cides on going to the devil he has
hats of advantages; excuses are as
thick as lawyers in that gentleman's
dominions, the way is beautifully
paved, unswervingly straight, all the
way down hill and you don't even
have to press the button to secure
a successful outcome to the venture.
So "Old Buck," as some of the more
irreverent called him, having decid
ed to go wrong, concluded to do so
in the manner most acceptable to
"Old Nick," as he is numerously
known; that is, by resorting to de
ception and hypocrisy, and for a
scapegoat, why not use that other
President out among the cedar groves
and alkali flats where the sun kisses
the just and the unjust of our land
good night and drops through the
coal-clmte to the other side of the
worh' The pretexts needed were at
haiiu , .ic of them being the said
wsterncr's contemptuous disregard of
the law against uxoriousness which
was imely to be passed in a year or
so; another, the fact that the young
people of the western reserve were
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