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Show I Some Uorrid One J J J From the Junction. The second chapter of the fight of the whited sepulchres against the opening of Ogden canon by I a salute of popping beer bottles will begin when I Billy Wilson concludes the weather is warm I enough to drive the town people to the Uermit- 5 age, or, some time in June. True, the county ' board, by a vote of two to one, granted a license i to a resort farther up the stream, but that has J no bearing on the real question at issue. In the ' first place, being a commissioner, Wilson can't vote to grant himsejf a beer-selling permit. That? leaves the matter to be dispdsed of by Stanford ( and Fowers, and where that pair is concerned it is horse and horse. vJt t5 05 I The real reason, however, why Wilson Is due to bump into a thick mess of trouble" is because he is the nigger in the woodpile the reformers have been plotting against. The reason why t Stanford is in 'favor of tying Wilson up with blue law has already been explained in the Weekly, and opposition of others seems to bo pure cussed ness and with only one commissioner his friend it looks as though the genial Scot would have to pick where he scratched or else just give the beer i' away to the boys as they happen along. If that is againBt the law he can leave the key under the I door mat and his friends will do the rest. & & & The threatening prospect of a wholesale strike among the mechanic's of the railroad shops, which I has kept the merchants and people generally oscillating between a fit and a sweat for a couple of weeks, seems to have cleared away for the ; present, though the danger has not been entirely dissipated. There never' has existed caifse here for a strike, but the sentimental and unreason- , able sympathy for the Union Pacific strikers has kept the men on the qui vive for months. The real danger of a strike at this time lies in the damage it would do to labor. There is in Amer-I Amer-I ica a keen and active senBe of the justice or in-i in-i justice of a proposition and the union that would permit itself to be drawn into a foreign fight through mistaken sympathy would be sure to get the worst of it. So far, the Ogden unions have acted with rare judgment. It is the part of wis- e dom to continue doing so. I 5 4v O We had one strike during the week. A bunch of millinery girls, Imitating the rampant hod-carriers, hod-carriers, walked out of a shop on Washington avenue, and the breach between down-trodden labor and imperial capital has widened into a gulf. The girls had their own ideas about how ! a twentieth century hat should be trimmed, bo the head milliner of course it was a man found himself up against a walkout. The outcome of this sudden action of the Independent Order of Hatties will be awaited with quaking impatience. Will the roosters and other feather producing birds strike in sympathy? Will the farmers that plant Vu.3 seed that sprouts the grain that grows the straw that makes the hats order a boycott on the abandoned milliner? Will the walking delegate dele-gate of the Amalgamated Union of Hat Wearers be able to square things or will the country be involved in civil war? These are questions of I much moment, but, thanks to a benign Providence, Provi-dence, what a blessing this crowning trouble did not jar the peace of the world before Easter! Theie is, after all, something to be thankful for. 08 05 The preparations for receiving1 the president go on apace, with Bill as the high cockalorum of the poultry yard. It is needless to say that where the question of arrangements is concerned .the mayor is it to the manifest disgust of other members mem-bers of the various committees. While our chief executive can always be relied on to demonstrate that public ofllco is a public bluff, it is to be hoped that we escape any and all of the mayor'3 usual misdemeanors against good taste during the president's visit. Bill has his uses all right, such as electing a tool for a councilman or forcing forc-ing a telephone franchise, but when It comes to a semi-social function, that requires culture and good breeding 'tis true but few men are really great in everything. At the same time, it migli be well to remember that it is claimed the bosses have Bill's renominatton cut and dried. What's the use? |