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Show I , i Thero Is nbout as much sense in the I f ' Tribune's chargo Hint tho "hierarchy" Is responsible for tho Mutual Life In. 1 suranco company declining to accept j ' tho $1,000,000 Salt Lako City water I bonds as thero was In tho declaration J of tho hind that tho building of Tenter- don steoplo caused tho "formation of I tho Godwin Sands. Tho Mutual com- pany says tho bonds are not legal, bo ll cause they wore Issued to improve and w L develop water rights which tho city I I doesn't own,( and as a matter of fact never would own, if tho foolish plan proposed by tho present city administration adminis-tration is carried out). Tho point raised by tho insuranco company B seems well taken. Let tho city own I tho water rights beforo it spends a million dollars Improving them. When It does that, thero will bo no difficulty about selling tho bonds. Salt Lake City bonds, when legally Issued, have never been a drug on tho market, and aro not so now, despite the efforts of tho triumvirate to knock tho city and its interests. Tho Tribune says in effect that the Mormon church Is responsible for the Mutual Life Insuranco company not taking tho $1,000,000 city bonds. To establish this contention, it brands tho officers of tho insuranco company as liars. On another page of tho same issue of tho Tribune, it tells how Attorney P. S. Richards, who Is and for many years has been, tho chief legal adviser of tho Mormon church, Is going go-ing to Now York to try to induce tho insuranco company to take the bonds. This is moot and proper. Mr. Richards has been wet nurse to each and every city attorney at-torney wo have had for many years. Numerous aro tho big fees ho has received re-ceived as "special counsel" and "additional "ad-ditional counsel for the city." By all means lot him go to New York as special spe-cial "financial agent" of tho city. It is necessary that lie should go In order that tho present city administration keep up its record of paying people large sums for doing nothing. The legal and persuasive talents of Attorney Attor-ney Richards and Mayor Morris would certainly have great effect in persuading persuad-ing tho officers of tho Mutual Life Insuranco In-suranco company to accept illegal bonds. It's a good thing tho Mutual Life Insurance In-surance company has refused the bonds. It saves tho city a million dollars, dol-lars, which othorwiso would have been squandered by tho present incompetent incompe-tent and corrupt city administration. Deforo another issue of Truth shall havo appeared, the surviving remnant of the gallant band who preserved tho union by carrying arms for four years of bloody strife, assisted by loving thousands who revere them, will have strewn flowers on the graves of tho heroic dead. Tho men who fought 5n tho war with Spain and in the Philippines, Philip-pines, accompanied by loving wives, sisters and mothers In whoso hearts tho wounds aro yet fresh, will have laid on tho turf above their gallant sleepers a token of affection. All over tho north, and in some sections of the south, floral tributes will have decked tho sod-covered mounds and at tho head of each will havo been planted tho flag of tho republic. In commenting upon what has been dono no bettor words, no moro llttlng language can bo used than that employed by tho Immortal Lincoln at Gettysburg, November 19, ISO!!, whoro he said: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a now nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to tho proposition that r.ll men aro created equal. Now wo aro engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Wo aro met on a great battle field of that war. Wo havo como to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who hero gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper pro-per that wo should do this. But In a larger sense wo cannot dedicate, we cannot' consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The bravo men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. Tho world will little nor long remember what wo say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, tho living, rather to bo dedicated hero to tho unfinished work which they who fought here havo thus far so nobly advanced. It Is rather for us to bo hero dedicated to tho great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead wo take Increased devotion to that' cause for which they gave tho last full measure of devotion; that we hero highly resolve re-solve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of t'reo-dom, t'reo-dom, and that government of the people, peo-ple, by tho people and for tho people, shall not perish from tho earth." The aspect of tho strike in Chicago is a serious one, neither employers o employees being .willing to make any concessions. When tho Windy City gets ready for trouble, she can furnish moro and a brisker sort than any city in tho union. When a city paper contains expressions expres-sions which please the editors of the country press, they are alluded to as "able editorials," but when the former says anything that does not meet with tho approval of tho rurallsts, tho statements state-ments are designated as "screeds." For further particulars, see small bills or rather the Logan papers on the Agricultural college muddle. "Japs Capture Junk" Is the headline in a city dally. Can it bo possible that Rojestvensky has lost his flagship? Tho empress of Germany recently foil down stairs, hurt her kneo cap. sprained her angle and bruised her head. With as much money as Will-lam Will-lam has, wo should think ho would havo tho stairs carpeted. Thero is sadness In the homo of Attorney At-torney B. W. Taylor. Tho children nro red-eyed from weeping, and tho old folks aro by no means feeling jovial. jov-ial. Some ono poisoned "Klondike," their valuable spaniel on Wednesday last. "Klondike" was a smart animal. Ho was just tho age of one of tho children, who is broken-hearted. He would go down town a certain distance with Mr. Taylor each morning, and upon arriving at tho place to make his adieux would extend a paw to shake, and then gravely trot back again to watch tho house. Ho would open and close a door and do many other Intelligent things. Some person fed him a chunk of meat loaded with cyanide. Now the man who wil' n.' on a dog Is too infernally menu I. with human hu-man beings. Tho man who will poison a dog will commit murder i TiT fJ -who will poison a dog win 8W 1 a barn. The man who will i ' II dog will steal sheep, or any iung l 1 , ean get hls hands on. Tho i.aa who I will poison a dog is the man WJ I would ravish an innocent malu.u e I is a vampire, an ogre, a ghoul and he I would rob tho grave of his father hU 1 mother or sister and sell their bone 1 to a phosphate factory, if th;B meets I tho eye of tho fellow who poisoned I Taylor s dog, ho can rest assitr ,i that !' every word is meant for him, and the ! husky person who writes it w,n bet ! two to ono that tho cur daro , 0t acknowledge ac-knowledge it and resent what s Bala oven when it is stated that should he disclose his identity it would bo kept a secret. "Box" Groshell lost a dog from poi. son a few days ago. Tho animal was a good dog, too. Didn't bother any one, but had a heart full of love for all humanity. Yet some low minded basely bred fellow gave him strychnine. strych-nine. If would bo a very good thing If some owner could catch one of these fellows in the act. While not advocating advocat-ing lawlessness, we do not hesitate In saying that mashing a fellow's face, kicking In about two-thirds of his slats and otherwise maltreating him would I bo mild punishment. H |