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Show TRUTH. 6 TRUTH Isiued Weekly by TR.VTH PVBLISH1NG COMPANY. II end 12 Central Block, West Seoond South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor Matron Lowe of the Topeka and Manager. Entered at the postofflcn at Salt Lake City, Utah, for transmission through the mails as matter.' second-clas- s SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE form School Murdered Unto Death is the way the headline artist of the News entitled a story one day this week. WHISKY AND GAMBLING. 11.00 1.00 75 Postmasters sending subscriptions to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription prloe as commission. Is not desired beyond the date subscribed for the puDllcatlon should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. If the paper DISCONTINUANCES. that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his stopped; all arrears must be paid in Bequests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present Address all communications to Truth Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. The burning of the town of Mercur is probably the most extensive disaster of the kind that has ever visited the state of Utah. The suffering and deprivation will be great and immediate relief especially for the homeless women and children is needed. Had the disaster overtaken the camp in winter the suffering would have been much greater, but even as it is there will be great distress for weeks to come. The response to the call on the generosity of the people of Salt Lake and elsewhere has been spontaneous and liberal. The local lodge of Elks set an example to the other organizations of the city and to private citizens also. The Elks, although there is not a single member of their order in Mercur, standing on the broad platform of humanity, appropriated $300 from the lodge funds for the relief of the destitute. When the Scofield explosion occurred by which so many miners were killed, the Elks of Salt Lake lodge were the first on the ground to succor the wounded and the bedying, to give aid and comfort to the reaved and to bury the dead. They also algave $500 in money to the cause, though no Elks were sufferers in the horrible calamity. Salt Lake lodge of Elks also contributed more liberally to the relief of Galveston when it was overwhelmed by the sea a couple of years ago than any other organization in the west. The jocular interpretation of the initials B. P. O. E. best people on earth, seems quite appropriate to the jolly Elks. The Ministerial Association is going to start a crusade against gambling and Sunday liquor selling. Go it brethren. Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may, but confidentially you are up against the real thing, for election time draws on apace and most match for politicians are more than a ordinary preachers. . to be a bit wearisome, this reminding a delinquent president of his shortcomings, but we suggest to Mr. Roosevelt that in the excitement It is getting Re- 28, 1902. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE TEAR (In advance) SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS M RtHnember attendant upon the Cuban reciprocity can either change the facts or. make matter he seems to have forgotten that people believe a lie, ft ft our only Senator Kearns has recomIt might be well to inquire why the mended W. S. McCornick for secretary Deseret News and the Herald have of the interior. taken the apparently high ground The daily papers are indulging in an unusual grist of buncombe and hypocrisy in regard to gambling and Sunday liquor selling. The Deseret News started the crusade and fairly shrieked itself into hysterics in its demands for the execution of the laws. The Herald with more vigor than it has displayed in anything for many months echoed the hysterical screams of the News. The Tribune taking the demands of the other two sheets as an aspersion upon and an insult to the administration, with which the city is blessed or .cursed, and being in duty bound to defend anything Republican, comes out in the moit brazen faced manner imaginable and tells the people in effect that the city is free from gambling and Sunday liquor selling, which it knows to be untrue. Sunday liquor selling never ceased. For a few Sundays before the late municipal election, things were moderately tight, but after the ballots were cast there was a relaxation and the restrictions gradually grew less and less stringent. For the past month or six weeks things are just as they were before election. Every saloon in town is open, the only difference being that frequenters enter by the back or side doors instead of by the front entrances. There is no attempt at concealment and there is no effort on the part of the officers to stop the Sunday traffic. The Tribune knows that perfectly well, so does everybody else who takes any interest in the matter. Gambling has been' going on right along, club rooms are constantly in operation and every body knows it. Whats the use of putting on a mask and lying about it? Its a fact and no amount of denials and editorial works of fiction in the Republican party hack which they have assumed. Its mere hypocrisy, for the purpose of gaining a'.little cheap party ad vantage for the Deseret News is decidedly Democratic when President Joseph F. Smith isnt looking and the Herald sees a chance to make believe that it is a Demobroken cratic paper by shouting pledges at the Republican city administration. Sunday liquor selling and gambling have gone on in every city of the United States and will continue The pledges made by both the Republican and the Democratic parties before the municipal election last fall were absolute and unqualified rot. Neither party intended to keeo them. The Democrats came along with their bunch of pledges in order to catch the The vote of the religious element. couldnt Republicans fearing they carry the city without the church vote went into the pledge business too and handed out a bunch equal to that presented by their opponents. Neither party had the slightest intention of keeping its pledges to stop gambling and Sunday liquor selling. The Republicans have broken them and the Democrats would have done the same thing only perhaps a little more so and with less attempt at denial if they had carried the city. Truth ft ft is not wise enough to pre- scribe a remedy for the state of affairs which exists. People who want to gamble will find a way to indulge their passion, law or no law, and those who want to drink liquor on Sunday will find a way to get it if it by all the statute books in the world. Its their personal privilege to driuk and they will not be deprived of it. It would be better and much more honest to acknowledge the facts as they exist. Drunkenness and gambling are evils, like the social evil, which cannot be suppressed. Similar conditions have existed for thousands of years aDd no country and no epoch has found a solution of them. We might as well look the conditions in the face, regulate the evils and take away as much of their most objectionable features as possible. Total suppression is were-pro-scribe- DESERET NEWS BOOK STORE. . . . SUCCESSORS TO . . . CANNON BOOK STORE H AVE MOVED into their Elegant Store in the new Deseret News building, where they have large and complete lines of Books, Stationery, School and Office Supplies WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. d failure absolutely and unqualifiedly The attempt at it has become nothing but a foot ball for politicians to olav with and juggle with and for makinJ fools of the credulous. MUNICIPAL MATTERS. Had the friends of Sheets taken the advice of Truth they would have saved Mr. Sheets from the humiliation of being turned down by the city council on Monday evening To any person with ordinary perception it was plain that Sheets could not at this time be reinstated. The members of the council who voted to remove him could not be expected to reverse themselves without at least the semblance of an excuse, and no excuse having yet appeared, bringing his name before the council was only kicking against the pricks. It also served to awaken the bad feeling among the members of the council and renew the conditions which existed before Senator Kearns good offices smoothed things over. The senator really shouldnt have gone to Europe. His party needs him here, but as he has placed the Atlantic ocean between him and the subordinate parts of his machine, that piece of mechanism is getting badly out of order again. ft ft There was much bitterness in the debate in the council over the reinstatement of Sheets. The charges of church influence were reiterated with great vehemence and feeling ran high. The mayors supporters inveighing so strongly against a boss in the opposition ranks is inconsistent. They and the mayor are controlled by a boss themselves and if we must have a boss most people would much prefer President Joseph F. Smith to Johu E. Dooly. ft ft Ex-Dctecti- ve The Alcatraz Paving company is playing horse with the city in the mat ter of the paving of Second South street. The work ought to have been finished long ago, but it drags along without any perceptible progress being made. The street is torn up and filled with obstructions which seriously impede traffic, yet no action is taken by the board of public works or the city council to bring the contractors to time or to enforce the delay penalty of $5 1 day. Of course the Alcatraz company has made its peace with Chairman Dooly of the board of public works and it goes without saying that the penalty will never be exacted and that the company will be allowed to finish the paving when it gets good and ready. ft ft In laying water and gas pipes in the streets it would be a good idea to place them close up to the curb instead of several yards out in the streets. This would save the expense of tearing up large sections of pavements and relay ing the same when repairs are necessary. Last Tuesday a woman with a pillow case denuded the county side of the City and County grounds of all the rose blossoms. She had the assistance and encouragement of the so called gardner in charge. Wonder what she and paid him for the Countys roses, them? what right he had to let her have It would seem that the Countys side of the grounds are being run as a private snap for the gardner. There is nothing in the way of bloom about the ground he except a few rose bushes and these seems to consider as bis own. |