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Show TRU T H 8 TRUTH Issued Weokly by TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. 11 nnd 12 Central Block. West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager Entered at the poslofflce at Salt Lake City, Huh, for. transmission through the mails as matter. TKKM9 OF SUISSCIUi'TION: ne Ymr (In advance) )ix Months " flirt-- Months e 02.00 1.00 75 roHliiiiistrrs sending subscriptions to Thuth 23 per cent of subscription price as commission. inay retain If thn paper Is not desirod beyond the date subscribed for the publication should be noil tied by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES, Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid In fulL Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a nrw address, to secure attention, must mentio former as well as present Address all communications to Tbuth Com pax t, Salt Lake City. Utah. Pun-MKitix- TRUTH hopes that President Roosevelt will accede to the requests of the powers implicated to act as arbitrator of the Venezuela muddle, notwithstanding advice to the contrary which has freely and unsolicited been tendered him by statesmen and politicians. After a while Americans will wake up to the fact that this country has a part, a leading part, to play in the affairs of the world. The question is, will she shirk the duty which destiny, if you will, has called upon her to perform? She is a world power now, and very little can happen anywhere in which she is not interested, directly or indirectly. As time goes on her interests must become more accentuated, and the impossibility of her holding aloof from the affairs of the world at large will become more apparent. The sooner Americans fully realize this the better. We cannot avoid the which have come responsibilities upon us as a nation, and there is no reason why we should. When this country was an infant, when this form of government was an experiment, when we were weak and struggling, it was very wise and very proper that we should avoid foreign entanglements with the utmost care. When the monarchies of the world were looking on, hoping and believing that the experiment of popular government would prove a failure; when they were eagerly waiting for an opportunity to accelerate the end which they believed they saw in the not distant future, it was imperative that we keep strictly within our own boundaries, beyond which, in those days, we had no Interest It is different now. Our Interests are worldwide, and our power has increased in proportion. This nation is big enough, strong enough and just enough to take the lead. We need fear none of the nations or all of them. We hope Mr. Roosevelt will accept the task which has been thrust upon him. If lie does he will decide the matters in dispute with Justice, tempered with mercy, and if anybody wants to make trouble afterwards they can be car, while the last either wobbles in the spanked and made to go away bafck home or rides to the station patrol wagon. All three awake next and sit down. morning with similar feelings, and sweet CHRISTMAS was celebrated in this while the air vibrates with the while style. Parents echoes of the Christmas time; city in sweet-voicesingers chant the Gloria gave their children presents, children in Excelsis; while the happy laughter gladdened their parents hearts by reremembered of the children ring out on the frosty friends ciprocating; of the friends in loving and substantial ways. air, every one of the members to cool their The poor were not forgotten, many classes indicated seek mouth of of the wealthier class contributing to inward fever at either the nozzle of their material comfort, while the Sal- the water pitcher or the vation Army, as usual, did a good the hydrant. Why this should be is passing part in making life brighter for the unfortunate. It was a season of joy strange. We can imagine a pagan for Christian and Jew alike, for de- having an excuse for making merry in that way on a festival day, but the spite its character, the anniversary to believe of the birth of One whom millions reason for a man professing of have come to regard as their Re- that Christ suffered all the agony crucifixion in order that the world deemer, its general observance in- the creases with the years, and, instead' of might be redeemed f.'om the conseas many do the Christians having a monopoly of quences of sin, behaving all intelligent comprehension. it, it is fast assuming the character of is past While professing to love the One who a cosmopolitan festival time. There is one striking feature of gave His life that the soul of the profrom never-endinChristmas, however, which merits fessor might be saved torment, he celebrates the attention. It has been said, and is drunk said, of this people, that we are a event by getting gloriously Christian nation. That a great ma- and making a beast of himself. jority of us are Christians is true. Almost every one believes in the diIN the death of George W. Thatcher vinity of Christ in some measure, no of Logan, Utah, and especially the matter whether he be a church mem- northern portion thereof, loses a ber or not. This being true, how real- valuable Mr. Thatcher has son. ly sacreligious it appears, when we been with a great identified observe the unbridled use of intoximany of the things which have cants on that day. Beginning with this state great, gone to make Christmas Eve, the anniversary of and his demise at this time is keenly the time when the angels appeared to felt. He was not an old man, being the shepherds on the hills of Judea, but 62, and it would seem as If there we, or that is to say, many of us, be- should have been many years of usegin filling ourselves with that which fulness ahead of him. Perhaps no cheers, inebriates and many times man in the state will be more sinlands the participant in jail. The cerely mourned than Mr. Thatcher. home of the rich has its punch bowl; the middle class man takes three finAGLIPAY, a Filipio leader, has degers straight over some bar, while the poor seek exhil- clared himself pope of the Filipino aration at the barrel house, or where national church and as Infallible authe large schooner crosses the bar. thority In ordering insurrection moveToo often the first named gets so ments. Aglipay will wish he wasnt boozy he has to be hauled home in a a pope before he gets through with cab; the second staggers to a street this latest movement, for Uncle Sam has military government in the provinces of Cavite, and Tabavas, where this latest fool claims to rule, and that means trouble for the new religionists. Ba-tang- old-fashion- ed d g quasi-respectab- le IF all the death sentences lately passed are carried out according to schedule, the interior of the yard at the state prison will soon be a veritable slaughter pen. Botha, Morten-se. n, King, Lynch, Haworth are all billed to make exits within the next few weeks. It is more than likely however, that these doleful Incidents will not be pulled off as per present arrangements. CROWN Princess Louise, of Saxony, who has abandoned her home because she could no longer live With her husband, whom she characterizes as a beast, let out some state secrets concerning the court of her papa-in-lawhich he doubtless fails to relish. It looks from her statement as if her hubby was a s old roue, and she had tired of playing wife to a man with many mistresses. w first-clas- A POLISH young woman has been sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment for lese majeste, her offense consisting of throwing a brooch containing Emperor Williams picture on the school room floor and stepping on it. Our office boy, on learning of this sentence, immediately took a portrait of the emperor and hung it upside down in the coal shed, and dares his majesty to take action concerning it THE National W. C. T. U. is at it again. It has decided to instruct local societies to petition legislatures to enact laws prohibiting saloons within four miles of any military reservation, army post or camp. If such a petition is presented to the Utah legislature there will be several protests from people living east of Fifth West street. CLEVELAND made the phrase desuetude famous. And now the old boy comes to the front with a new one: attenuated refinement He positively- - insists upon being remembered by posterity as having done something besides bring rack and ruin upon his party and the country "In-ocuo- Waive You &n Idle Pia.no Ii Your Home? If so, Why not put it to Work? at large. Truth loses Such ,1s some battles, but no wars. fame. We never knew before that Tom borrowed this paper of his Cleveland neighbors. TOM JOHNSON says Get 15he Apollo The Best and Simplest PIANO PLAYER., and enjoy the sweet strains of the world's greatest composers. THE APOLLO is sold on easy terms and at reasonable prices by D. 0. CaJders Soils Co. 45-4- 7 WEST FIRST SOVTH STREET. VLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA? JUDGE John E. Booth is a polite old death He prefaced his jurist. sentence upon King and Lynch, the murderers of Colonel Prowse, by addressing them as Gentlemen. COUNCILMAN Cottrell and the bavi lance of the police committee have ited Victoria alley, officially, of course. Now look for something to be doing. THERE is one satisfaction for thos who had to put up the money: Christ mas comes but once a year. , . |