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Show TRUTH 8 TRUTH Issue! Weekly II and by TRUTH con P ANY. PUBLISHING Central Block, Went Second South Street, Salt Lake City. a JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. 12 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, HOY. 2, 1901. TERnS OP SUBSCRIPTION. advance) ONE YEAR (in SIX nONTHS THREE MONTHS 12.00 - 1.00 75 Postmasters sending sulncriptions to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed the publication should be notified by letter 'two weeks or more before the term expires. fr DISCONTINUANCES. Remember th it the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his ayer stopped; all arrears must be paid In to have their paper Requests of subscribers mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as pres. ent address. Address all communications to Truth Pub lishino Company, Balt Lake City, Utah FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS times have been good in Salt Lake. The merchants and business men have been prosperous. They are making money and are satisfied with conditions as they are. Real estate has advanced 30 per cent, and it is still on the up grade. Holders of property, which was practically unsaleable two or three years ago, and incumbered by mortgages as well, have been lifted, and the prospects are others will be. Real estate is active. It is readily saleable. The owners are satisfied and want no change. The mining brokers and mining men have done well. Many large fortunes have been made within the last two years, and everything indicates that a long era of prosperity is ahead. Why should the people want a change of administration even in municipal affairs? They know that with Ezra Thompson at the head of affairs the municipality will contin- ue on the course of prosperity it entered upon when he assumed the chief magistrates chair two years ago. The growth of the city, which has been very marked, will continue. Within the past year the population has increased at least 50000, and it is of vital interest to all that the growth continue. An influx of desirable citizens will lighten taxation. There will be more people to fcelar the burden, and the city will be enabled to carrv.out needed improvements, such as a better water system and more street paving. It seems too plain to admit of argument that the best interests of Salt Lake demand a return to power of the administration under which the city has made such forward strides. THE FINAL ACT in the awful tragedy which deprived this nation of its much loved President has taken place. The assassin Czolgosz has paid the penalty of his diabolical act as far as this world is concerned, and now let his name and his personality sink into i NATIONAL AND INTERNATION-a- l ETIQUETTE OF COLOR. expositions generally prove losing ventures. The Buffalo big show, which The Chicago Tribune has a timely closes today, is a striking example of and very correct article on the sentiment in England regarding the negro this. The loss is said to be over social question, called forth by President Roosevelt having Invited Booker Washington to the hospitalities of his THE SCHLEY investigation is home. The article is as follows: Had not King Edward issued a deabout over, and everybody is glad of it. widow's of peers The result has been a complete vindi- cree to the effect that who have contracted marriages with cation of the Admiral, who, always commoners had forfeited thereby their a favorite, stands out in the clear light ! rerogatives as peeresses of the realm there would have appeared among tbe of day the hero he is. latter at Westminster Abbey on k the day of the coronation a of the Hottentot type, arrayed THE LONDON ANARCHISTS "cele- regress in the ermine trimmed red velvet robe3 the gold coronet of her rank as a brated the electrocution of Czolgosz and countess. For the dusky widow of and dances. of Stamford has since his the gay Earl late by midnight parties a Boer of the name of married diath Pictures of the assassin draped in Peter Pieterse, and has made her home black decorated the walls, and speeches in South Africa since her unsuccessful to prove the rights of her. son eulogistic of the degenerate were made. attempt to his fathers earldom, rights w'hich His name was repeatedly received with were denied by the Committee of Priv-ileiof the House of Lords. cheers. The presence of a negro peeress at the coronation, while it w'ould have added to the kaleidoscopic effect of the IT IS THE DUTY of every good gorgeous spectacle presented by the ceiemony in Westminster Abbey, citizen to turn out on Tuesday and would have exc.ted no objections whatvote for the men whom he thinks can soever on the part of the other peeresses of the realm on the score of color best administer the affairs of the and race. For in the old world the soprejudice against the negro is to municipality for the next two years. cial such an extent that it He should consider the prosperity and needs a perusal of "Uncle Toms Caband of American works of the same progress which has attended the pres- in class by people on yonder side of the ent administration, and think a good ocean in order to enable them to understand the extraordinary outcry many times before deciding to make a which has been raised in certain parts' of this country against the action of change. President Roosevelt in inviting Booker Washington to his table. That this courtesy should be extended by the A POLITICAL CRIME. Chief Magistrate of the United States to a man of the eminence of Booker in spite of his being an men who five Washington, of know I Ward Heel so natural and proper African, appears came here from other States only yes- to who have not crossed the Europeans Atlantic or visited the new hemisphere terday and were allowed to register. B. Good (of the S. S. U.) Infamous! that they would unhesitatingly have Infamous! Who allowed them to do It? condemned the President had he kept his doors closed against Booker Wash"The clerk at the Kenyon. ington on account of his color. It is perfectly true that this absence of prejudice in Europe against the colored races does not extend to an apSing a song of- sixpence, Pockets full of rye! proval of Intermarriage. It is limited to social intercourse, and unions beThat way every Sunday tween white people and Africans are went town Since the dry. viewed with quite as much In the old world as are those of EuroIn fact, while peans with Asiatics. The wheelmen admit the collapse of well-bred are as English people their political aspirations, but they are glad to welcome to their table quite negroes of education and of good manners, still unable to locate the puncture. such as, for Instance, colored bishops, etc., as they are to invite Indian RaTurkish Pashas, and Persian jahs, THE POLITICAL PUSH. Princes, they would entertain precisely the same disinclination to allow their or sisters to become the wife The man who publicly announces the daughters of a member of the African race, as morning after election that he voted they would to her- wedding some great the defeated ticket has either a fine Indian magnate of magnificent ancesquality of moral courage or mighty lit- try and colossal wealth. tle hope of squaring himself with the defeated candidates. NEED NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM coal-blac- es non-exista- nt - Ill-w- dll THE BENEFIT OF PUBLIC After the election the Home Telephone companys application for a franchise will be taken up by the City CounWard Heel And why do you favor cil, and the probability is it will finally be granted. Some of the reasons why of railroads? the public owner-shiB. Good I have noticed that public it should be granted are as follows: The low rates will place the telephone officials wll 1 do almost anything for within the reach of all. railroad passes. will do away with the party line It "Yes? nuisance. "And if the public owned the railroads It will facilitate and increase business generally, owing to the ability to reach it would have passes. more than double the number of subCertainly." at present at least. scribers, "And the passes could be used to Salt Lake is a progressive city. It p bribe the officials to do something for has grown beyond the n town It s too large for a town. the public. Do you see? Almost every other city of this size in the United States has two systems. The only hope for a reduction in rates GOOD AT FIGURES. and improved service is the granting of a franchise to the Independent company. The reformer is not always successful The rates are fixed In the franchise in getting out the votes, but he is in- asked for and cannot be changed for years. variably an expert at figuring out how fifty The city will share in the revenue of it happened. the new company to the extent of 5 per one-ma- one-telepho- ne cent of Its net Income, besides u. free use of thirty telephones for fifty The new company will IntroduV- -' more instruments, a betti ser. lf vice and at rates about those now charged by the Bell company Independent companies are up-to-d- ate - one-ha- from day to day. It will not b.- ionl before their lines will span the - THE UNION STATION. That the union depot will built South and Fourth West streets there is little doubt. The Rio Grande Western and on the original site - at Third the Oregon Short Line railroad which proposed to build the union station, owrn the site by purchase. It is the proper place for a station, and the fact that and surveyors are at work on the blue prints shows that the project is not only not dead but Is not oven oom-parie- s, pas-reng- er ongi-nee- ds sleeping. The union depot will be built and it will not be very long until it takes definite shape. MR. NEWMANS ENTERPRISE. W. J. Newman, president of the Board of Education, is becoming quite enterprising. He recently had a telephone put in his shoe store on Main street, which is quite an advance for grandma, and doubtless he finds it very convenient in his business. It has also the advantage of being cheap for Mr. Newman sent the till to the Board of Education, and that body is expected to pay it. The calls upon the president of the board by the suclerk, principals and perintendent, teachers, who find it necessary to obtain his grandmotherly advice are so frequent that it is really necessary for him to have a phone, and then he can make use of the instrument in his business. No other president of the School Board ever had a phone at the expense of the board, but then Mr. Newmans sage advice and counsel is constantly in demand, and is absolutely necessary to the successful conduct of the schools. COUNTY PAYS OLD DEBT. The County Board has paid off the loan of $14,627 which it obtained from the Deseret National bank some six months ago for the purpose of retiring some of the old furniture warrants which were left unpaid by previous administrations. By economy the money has been saved from the regular revenues of the county, which have been augmented by a more strict system of collecting licenses and income from other sources. This payment left a balance of over $3000 in the treasury. In the course of a few months it is expected another payment on account of the old indebtedness of $40,000 can be made. THE HEART OF THE WOODS. I hear it beat In the morning still When April skies have lost their gloom. And through the woods there runs a thrill That wakes arbutus into bloom. I hear it throb !n sprouting May A muffled murmur on the breeze, Like mellow thunder leagues away, Or blooming voice of distant seas. In daisied June I catch its roll, . Pulsing through the leafy shade; And fain I am to reach its goal, And see the drummer unafraid. Or when the autumn leaves are shed, And frosts attend the year, Like a secret mine sprungfading by my tread, A covey bursts from hiding near. I feel its pulse mid winter snows. And feel my own with added force, When drops his cautious pose. And forward takes his humming course. The startled birches shake their curls, A withered leaf leaps in the breeze; Some hidden mort&r speaks and hurls Its featheied missile through the trees. Compact of life, of fervent wing, A dynamo of feathered power, Thy thrum is music in the spring, is music every hour. Thy --Johnflight Burroughs, in Atlantic Monthly. red-ru- ff |