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Show THE ae inte WESTERN WEEKLY. save by allowing to the enslaved multitude a hand in the direction of their own government. PuesuisHep Hvery SATURDAY BY THE. WESTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Satr Lake Crry. warning voice. the: horror of Subscription Price: OnE YEAR, : : $2.25. Six Monrus, 2 1.25: THREE MonTHS,~ shag OD: all communications to revolution may leave do not French soul as he was: the Remittances may be made by express, money order or registered letter, at our have his full address. nigh its disappeared. an never before has the principle of popular government been so powpromptly to subscribers; and persons erful for the destruction of despothaving any cause of complaint will ism as it is now; never before were oblige by notifying the office. its forces so collected and well Changes of address will be made whenever desired, but the postoffice FROM as under control. It gives one hope well as the postoffice To which any that the future of this world will change is made must be given in every Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. es OB G. Q. ditors: CORAY, Saturday, J. M. November AN appalling calamity ening our ROMNEY. 17, 1888. is threat- blest Republic. Ht i}1 to the care people, and direction, the race is to be the banner of by the people, of the people. that under Divine advancement of the wrought out under popular government for the people and Her a> tj commercial greatness is going to collapse now right away when Canada and China indignate against her. When Canada cuts off her supply of sealskin and codfish andthe Celestials paralyze the Continental Oil Company by going to. bed at sunset, where, O where will the Nation ‘find adequate appeasement for its army of mad females and its pampered | monster? ; be entrusted English Mr. Youth’s Companion As I was going to remark—the No, I mean suggestions from history; for nothing I am guilty of writing will ever the “The Future recent trip of Emperor Wilhelm the Second, to Rome, the home of the Papacy and once the hearth of civilization, (Cicero and Ovid, Horace and Pliny thrown in)brings to my mind a few historical suggestions. + on Martin our Democratic friends on this ‘side of the Protestant Pilgrim Plymouth Rock. The seed he sowed is growing, all the same, like Topsy, and it’s growing into abolition. Abolition of religious slavery. of the contribution to will-power. of moral self-government (to speak with Speaking Races. Gladstone’s impregnable Luther’s body is in the dust depository of some central German archive of venerable declivity—but “his soul goes marching on.” He has left no lineal descendant. Luther engendered sons and daughters of thought, of sturdy brightness, of intellectual independence, And fo possible effort will be made to have the WESTERN WEEKLY delivered instance. | “Who loves not women, wine, and bloody song, of the Remains a fool all his life long.” : Thus he sang, thus he lived and thus in this he died! if there is any such thing as Before the dying of an immortal intellect and tracks upon the annals twentieth century. The rule of absolutism world is passing away. another century has elapsed it will WESTERN WEEKLY, 37 S. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. risk, the sender giving Happy If they a second WEEKLY. They always live. They more frequently say “beer.” Protestantism has sprung from that land of Luther, and keeps on springing, although in a more advanced spirit than what the great and immortal monk of Wittenberg did it. He sang, jolly old will it be for the ruling class. in that country if they heed the Entered at the Postoffice, Salt Lake City, Utah, as Second Class Matter. Address WESTERN of go down the vaulting the English Speaking Races,” furnishes a storehouse of matter for the reflection corridors of Clio’s fane. That’s good. of thinking people. Mr. Gladstone computes that the hab- Ilikeit myself. Essay my lot to rock—not the baby, that’s too bve,but the chair,while smoking 4 a : 6 a ;A Last week the "$ he United States declared who: should be the chief magistrate of the nation during the next four years. Twelve millions of freemen marching to the polls to exercise the high prerogative of American citizenship is a grand spectacle; grand, not alone on account of the high principle involyed—the prinWe ciple of popular government. are prone | of course, been growth ane of the LIN United States. Since no end of money. 1787 our population has been multiplied twenty times, while that of the British to look upon all this as country contained: only total oyp-fift@Mf of English-speakinggpeople make The increase during computed by Mr. the a cen- the the year 2,000, out of the 850,- fering the oppressive tyranny of 000,000 English-speaking people in the the Stuarts, and France was bow- world more than three-fourths would be ing in blind adulation before the throne of Louis the Fourteenth. It was the American . Declaration of Independence in 1776, that raised the torch on high as a beacon of light to the nations. It in the United States.” > [For the Western no end of money? hour, anyway. sus- My time is fora Trot out your 1 was a boy once myself. It was way over in Switzerland. I could not help it because I was born that way. But — played Indian (the euphemistic term for some other commodity.) We, (I and some other young William Tells,) went into the woods with counterfeit >_~+ Weekly.] EMPEROR WILHELM Uf. was the herald proclaiming that ‘tomahawks and imitation moe sins. We And His Great Tour To Rome, An Liberty was born, and that hencehad our infantile innocent faces ochred Historical Event Of Vast and ogred. We looked like the daises of forth individual freedom was to be Magnitude, a Nevada sagebrush plantation. Siegthe watchword and guarantee of fried Glutz (bless his soulin heaven! progress. where I’m afraid he’ll never see me)fired It was the Declaration of Inde- Duly Elaborated By a Western Weekly (If that is the correct artillery techpendence that put the death seal Writer. nicality for shooting ?) an arrow at me. It struck: me midribs. upon absolutism. Its ringing notes I was taken home. Not on a shutter. leaped over the Atlantic to Europe, [Premonitory.—Don’t think I don’t But after the interview with which my reached even..into Asia and the know how to spell. I know when I am grandfather favored me.I thought I had islands of the sea, till to-day right; I am also cognizant of the fact had. all the shutter-up I needed. [ a goodly portion of the world pos- when I write. Moreover, l am _ appre- didn’t “Indian” any more. It was enough sesses constitutional government hensive or comprehensive of the fact to “Will Tell.” when I am strong, weekly, Fageily, anOh, about my friend, the Kaiser, tite by virtue of itsinfluence. Russia nual or otherwise. Spier Will. alone in Europe stays the advance SEE You Lavand &:; 8, em, .: of popular ‘tule... cocabel 3 a mighty confict 1s in progress there. The Eastern idea of despotism is in deadly encouter with that of Western demccracy, and the sul«| Qa WANES. OL. revolution which keep beating against the throne of) (ithe | And Sx Ozars can never be appeased He has been to Rome. If I werea The Western Weekly is taking considerable interest in Eastern’ events Though an American Magazine, its magazine of knowledge is loaded well with Kaiser and were earning information wide world. descend into the Cisalpine fields where the maccaroni grows in popularity and from: all over this wide, FOR HARRISON Why Rome? did Charles the Fifth go to Why do people goin summer to Syracuse, (don’t spell this Lake if you please) except some fun with the The Salt Lake Republicans for fun? Park, He had Pope, although the Hold a Jamboree in Honor of the President Elect. it too. On Thursday evening the Republicans of this city began making preparations for a grand demonstration to take place latter reverend did not relish the situa- the followine Saturday evening. Merchants and all classes of business tion even half as much as Sam Thurman did the Delegateship to Congress. men who were in sympathy with the No offence meant to the latter individ- Republican party took hold to make it ual, for Charlemagne also went Roming. a grand success. At 7 p.m., Saturday, the city presented Otho, the Great, did. I did, too. But the Pope did not know it. It’s because, a brilliant display of mottoes, banners, probably, his name was Pius and I gas illuminations, Chinese lanterns and hangings of nat:onal emblems of every wasn’t. description imaginable. Preparations When those ancient Kings and Emperors traveled towards the sacred were made for bon fires on the four corSeven-Hill-City, they went for business. It was not for the solicitation of advertising patronage. They did all their advertising themselves and burned their own gun powder. It was generally for the purpose of getting pretty Princesses for their impecunious lads who had not learned enough to be decent devils in a reputable printing office. But it did not always work. The Italians of Italy of that day were a lt- more than high-strung the and high-toned monkey-mounted-organ- grinders of Mulberry Street, ex-Cleveland City. A few of those Italians felt like—shall Isay it?—retaliating. Well, the pun’s done, andif the chase don’t crack, the form won’t pi, this time, I I going to say? No, I’m not grinding out copy to narrative, went made some toasts. can do that, too; to Ihave but Rome. He girl that a they don’t graph her performances in the art. Why not? If I were (which I’m afraid he does of the block. tele- culinary not want me ism of the Conclave of the Vatican ona spit long enough to reach to the depth of Vesuvius. At any rate Wilhelm did which the Opera ensued. While the procession air was dles, filled with Chinese crackers the was forming the rockets, bombs, by Roman fire pots and box. The yells can- fire and cheers became louder and louder, only interrupted by an occasional “rats” from some unenthusiastic Democrat. Tin horns were heard in every mouth, which added to the deafening uproar of the crowd; and it was a crowd! crowd that Salt Lake the jamiest has ever seen. The procession started from the Walker House led by the chief Marshal, Colonel Henry Page, and the Fort Douglas Band. FIRST DIVISION. Led by N. Treweek, Marshall, was composed of the Liberal committees, members of the Alta and Elk clubs in full dress, tin horns included. SECOND DIVISION. Fred Simon, Kent’s Band, uniformed Wilhelm, to be) I would have toasted the despot- on House stands. At 7 o’clock a bugle call from the Walker House gave signal for the forming of the procession; the lighting of the bon fires, and a general uproar of yells and cheers for Hasrison and Morton fill my exchequer; it’s your columns I am about tofill with “innocuous desuetude.’ Wilhelm, as I have already remarked once or twice in the course of this authentic ners Marshall, merchants, organizations THIRD composed business and of men, tin horns. DIVISION. B. F. Whittemore, Marshall, fo'lowed by Pederson’s Band, business and working men, bearing torches, banners and tin horns. | The procession marched south to Third South Street, west to West’ Tem- show that he was the grandson of the cash. My friend, Wilhelm the Second, is not ‘monarch who knocked the eye out of ple, north to First South, east to Main, though. He has had better training. Pius IX, as well as he had done with the south to Second South then west to the His father and grandfather could afford optic of the decrepit Napoleon IIT. Opera House. Tf I could be funny I would try it to givehim a better education, because But somehow or other, since ' Among the banners were noticed, Fatherland and Grandfatherland paid again. Cleveland in a boat headed up Salt for it. No allusion to his hat. He does Benjamin F. Butler has lost his standing River; Cleveland walking ties to Buffalo not wear such vulgar degradations of in the New York Sun and in my own Jam _ serious while free lead and free wool take the the capillary exudation. -Crowns is his heart, I can’t be funny. cars for it; Cleveland burying Democmotto. Inthis country we are satisfie : now, very much so; even as much as if J written (or racy in a free trade coffin; one reading with shillings, though we call them bits, were to listen toa poem “Take the D. & R. G.W. for Harrison, no in Republican disdain of monarehical af- stolen) by some other poet than myself. But I say, just in order to drift back to free trade in ours;” another, ‘‘He who fluence and arrogance. This reminds me of astory. 4 <> it too of- Whoever as they say superfluously. a year, it would be more than 550,000,000 and by tried year, subscription rate, $2.25—-premium, tle next century, Gladstone, must an every-day matter of course, also be in the United states in chief| so much so, indeed, that we seldom part. If the present rate of growth, about three per centg annually, should pause to consider that government continue, our popul@™#pn one hundred by the people is almost purely of years hence would He 700,000,000, or modern growth. Less than two nearly twice the pr@ént population of centuries ago the whole world was China. Even assuming the gradual fal! _ bending under a despotic rule. of the ratio of increase to two per cent England, the freest of all, was suf. But I pected me of such a pecuniary suicide? Nobody would who ever knew me. And if they don’t know they are that much ahead in their “Gallery of Celebrated Men of the Hour.” -’'m not aman of tury ago, it now contains#frree-fifths. as I don’t like ten not to be convinced that I am as great afailure that way as the other. By the way, did I say I would like to kingdom itself has only a little more ‘| than doubled. We have increased from about 3,000,000 to more than 60,000,000, and England, including all the British Isles, has increased from 14,000,000 to 35,000,000. In other words, while this think Ill live through The managing editor is already counting up these lines and making a face as if he had voted for Belva Lockwood. joking anyway. Iwould like to be a funny man, even an End Man, and make o” the though Schiller gives him a somewhat dubious character in his “Don Carlos.” But that was before Victor Hugo wrote ‘“Hernani’ for me to commit hara kari on. But as. the W. W. has. survived, I 1, (I mean the latter) Iam duly aside of all joking. > ~~ <> > >++ r+ that’s the size of it. Well, Charles the Fifth wasa good man,as men go, al- hope— Well, what was nary—I mean thankful. | people—somthing, Havana, purchased out of my th’s WesteRN WEEKLY salary, & ' peror of the German if you please, like a Mis:issippi Judge of the Federal Court in—Corea; yes, tle Caigh could hardly do better. I know I could not if I were to try again, and it’s too late now anyhow, for Mrs. H. is about washing the dishes and it falls to itutal speakers of English have increased from 15,000,000 to 105,000,000 during the last one hundred years, that they will I mean another German Emperor, or more properly speaking, a Spanish Em- ary as moments, he is I’d indulging leave the such a big salin at leisure ‘Transalpine my subject—if I can possibly remember what it was to be when I started out— that Kaiser Wilhelm went to Italy, including the gorgeous capital of Rome in his visit, saw Il. Re Humberto, shook hands with him, said “How do you or “Wie geht’s?”’ do?” and then settled down to business about the Pope. T’ll settle down to business, too. This article costs me four cents postage. (I “hooked” the paper, did not pay for you this. If he won’t, ll send word to headquarters (after the 4th of March next) concerning “offensive partisanship,” and then hear something drop. either. you'll It won’t be a pin, Yours, in Italy, Emperor Wilhelm and the WESTERN WEEKLY, Lro H#Fe.xt. O«apEN, Nov. T2, 1888. [Postscriptural:—Beg laughs last laughs best,’ was Mr. Murchison with a broad grin on his face and Sackville-West in the depths of despair. The crowd rushed into the Opera House with such a force that in ten minutes after the doors were opened every seat was taken and many were unable to obtain entrance. the envelope, and borrowed the pencil.) If the postmaster (he’s a Democrat, too,) will trust me, I’ll send loves not his country loves . nothing;” another, under the motto, “He who your pardon for THE DECORATIONS. Were as beautiful as they were extensive. From the centre of the ceiling hung festoons of flag cloth stretched across to the upper gallery. Above each procenium box hung the name of each of the six Republican Presidents— Lincoln, Grant, Hays, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison. On the front of the first gallery was a banner bearing the words: “Chicago Platform: The political power of the Mormon Church, as exercised in the past is amenace of free institutions too dangerous to be longer fostered.” not telling you all about Emperor Wilhelm IJ. Ijust found out that I put Pinned to one of the flies at tho back of that title on the top of my own They serve the interests of Europe; nication. commu- How I came to do it, “ask me the stage was this: “Chicago Platform: we I couldn’t will serve the interests of America.” In the front of the stage was a stand tell you anyhow. It got there. Next time tell your “devil” to look after my copy more carefully, or I’m afraid Ill beautifully draped with the national colors, and presenting to the audience excellent portraits e Harrison and Mor- sourcrout climate and climb the Alps to not in mournful numbers.” the girls go un-stockened footed, Even from Germany. Lhad.a piece, a week or so ago, about. got disowned in your favorite family. Fatherland is a great country: in -her. own way. ‘Teutons never will say “die.” Ghacios the Fifth. He was another. ' en Hy ton. The stand was occupied by the promi- ) =2I)® |