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Show f :! ; F. TRUTH. 8 TRUTH iMued Weekly 4 ; PUBLISHINa ing the credit of it when its success 11 and 12 Central Block, West Second South and rightfulness has been demonStreet, Salt Lake City. strated. Any party which supposes that JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. this Nation is going to contract, Is even- going to stand still, will be as SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, HOY. 9, 1901. badly fooled in the future as the Democratic party has been by its antiTERriS OP SUBSCRIPTION. I....92.00 expansion, ONE YEAR (In advance) policy of 1.00 SIX riONTHS 75 the past few years. THREE MONTHS T i by TRUTH COnPANY. who have denounced in the bitterest terms the holding of these possessions will be the most conspicuous in claim. - anti-progressi- h ve Postmasters sending suliscrlptlons to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper is not desired beyond the date THE ELKS having broken the ice subscribed for the publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before for Salt Lake as a convention city, the term expires. and other organizations will follow the DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified lead. The first to do so is the Interby letter when a subscriber wishes his national Brotherhood of Electrical stopped; all arrears must be paid in ( j)er Workers which has practically decided " STREET CAR MENS WAGES. The motormen and street car conductors have a genuine grievance against the Street Car company and the sentiment of the public is with them. The grievance Is that they are paid too small wages for the work they condition has been perform, and their recent rule promulmade worse by the them requiring company the gated by on to take their meals elsewhere than remen are the rule the cars. By that quired to put in an extra hour Itand is a quarter each d)ay without pay. motormen the all right and proper that and conductors should not eat on the cars when they are running and carrying passengers. It is neither pleasant for the passengers nor for the men, but the men should not he made to give an hour and a quarter to the company for nothing to make effective the rule, however good it may be. The car men receive miserably poor pay. A new man starting in gets only 18 cents an hour. If he stays with the company for a sufficient number of years and gives good service he may be advanced to 21 cents an hour, and that is the limit of his advancement. The new man, If he works the eight hours a day prescribed by the statute as the period of a days labor, would earn the munificent sum of $1.44 a day. Most of them work ten, eleven or twelve hours a day, and then their In earnings are exceedingly meager. paper that Requests of subscribers to have their attenthe national convention of the mailed to a new address, to secure as as well former must mention pres, tion, order will be held here next September. ent address. Address all communications to Tbuth Pub The gathering will be an important ubhing Compart, Balt Lake City, Utah one, not only on account of the numbers who will attend, but particularly because of the intelligence and educa- addition an hour and a quarter for tion which they possess. Electricity is meal time is now added to their period How can the company DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINES seem to the coming force. The time is not far of servitude. reasonably expect a man with a wife be out of favor In most parts of the dTstant when it will almost entirely and family to support, and earning only $1.44 a day, to be honest when, he has country. In local and municipal mat- supercede steam. Those who control an opportunity to put down a few ters there is really no great difference and harness this giant, the nature and nickels or dimes? The men, as far as Truth knows or has reason to believe, of the two between the ; f 1 r 5 ' i parties. polciy and Both preach econnomy progress. It is in national affairs that the issues are drawn, and the sentiments of the people on the great questions before the country are reflected in local contests such as we had in Salt Lake on Tuesday. The great majority o! the American citizens at the last general election declared in favor of the Republican policy of expansion, of carrying the flag and civiization to other lands to the inestimable benefit of the inhabitants of thoce lands, and at the same time to the ultimate advantage and glory of this country. The people effectually sat down upon the narrow, contracted policy put forward by the Democratic leaders, wh'ch did not really reflect the sentiments of the rank and file of the Democratic party, seeing so many of them turned away from it and by their votes endorsed the broader, more statesmanlike and progressive policy of the Republican administration. In order for the Democrats to again come into public favor and induce to return former members of the party who have strayed away and thereby win even local success, they will have to rebuild their national platform, and if possible outdo the Republicans in progressive ideas. They must stop splitting hairs as to what is constitutional and unconsltiu-tiona- l, drop absurd techenlcalities and remember that the Constitution was made for the people, and not the people for the Constitution. In the course of a few years, when the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rica become prosperous and happy parts of this great Nation, there wont be a man in the whole country who will have a word to say against the manner of their annexation or against keeping them annexed, Indeed the platform orators 1 substance of which, if substance it has, are men of superior intelligence, whose visit to the city cannot be other than of great value to Salt Lake. are honest, and turn over all the fares collected, but if they were not they could not be blamed very much. The street car operators have no organization. Most of them are married men with families. Th?y cannot afford to mit to any conditions the Street Car company may Impose. A corporation MAYOR THOMPSON said he had re- that has a monopoly, a capital of and is giving the public as poor ceived from C. W. Penrose informaservice as possible without precipitattion to the effect that Mr. Penrose ing a boycott, thinks that $1.44 a day is sufficient wages for an employee occuwould vote for Mr. Thompson and sup- pying a position of trust and responsiMr. Penrose bility. It appears to Truth some ameport him for lioration of the condition of the car denied that such was the fact. It is men should be made. Their hours are longer than those of working common a of between simply question veracity laborers or any other class of men exMayor Thompson and Mr. Penrose. cept newspaper men, but they dont count. Referring, probably, to what Truth said about the matter last week, the NEWkSOLDIERS AT THE PORT. editorial columns of the News of November 4th, had a paragraph carryIt is an open secret that the new soldiers at the fort have apparently starta studied All to insult Truth. ing ed on the proposition that Salt Lake in that Truth has to say regarding the is a good town to have fun in, and that insinuation almost amounting to a dithey are to be allowed to have their rect assertion is that it is absolutely own sweet way. The arrests of some of them, however, which were cleverly and unqualifiedly false. done, will have a good effect and them that while Salt Lakers doteach not object to a reasonable amount of hilarthe Dlart LI HUNG CHANG, Chinas greatest ity any of the soldiers, there is a limit beyond which that they diplomat, Is dead at the age of 80. He must not go. In early days, street brawls and fights were nightly occurwas a wily old Celestial, full of the rences between soldiers and citizens. deceit and cunning characteristic of 5ained a name for deviltry which still to a limited extent, clings, some his race, who, while doing little tiie fort, even at the present day. for his country did a great deal for For the last ten or twelve years there been ple&sant Intercourse between himself. an cozens. It is to be hoped that the defenders of the country's honor now at the fort will not themselves to be marked as the allow men Rollo G. Taysum, one of the oldest who inaugurated the scenes of terror n were witnessed daily and and newspaper men in Salt that on these streets twelve, fifteennightly so sick that his recovery is and Lake, Is twenty years ago. If the soldiers condespaired of by his physicians and fam- duct themselves as they should. In a ily. He has been in failing health for soldier-likmanner, they will a year or more, but stuck to his work find many friends among the people of whose Interests in several for months after he ought to have giv- Salt Lake, ways are common with those of the en up and taken a complete rest. Hi the fort. Salt Lake is a ailment has developed into paresis, and place to live in compared with some of the military posts according to the verdict of the doctors and the elsewhere, need but to act as it cannot result otherwise than fatally, gentlemennewcomers in order to gain and retain and the end is not far off. Mr. Taysum the respect shown to so many of the has a host of warm friends in the city commands that have been stationed at who sincerely regret the hopelessness the fort. Salt Lake takes a great pride in the of his condition. beautiful little city on the hill and Mr. Taysum died at 1 oclock yesterday boasts of it as one of the attractions of the city. It is advertised far and wide morning. lose their jobs and are obliged to sub$4,-000,- - on. best-know- e, Sldnt up-rig- ht as a spot worth visiting by all .ho come this way. It is in many res:. , ts a model Western military city, an no one who has ever gone there oi. s,is good behavior has failed to be such courtesy as is within the bo .,is of military discipline. If the Improvements to the fort which Senator Ke a ns is working for at Washington are n. ;.ie it will add further to the beauty nnd desirability of Fort Douglas as a residence. ' .i V slu.-iv- t- - ;ii-ta- ry I 1 ri UTAH ART EXHIBIT. The governing board of the Utah Art Institute have adopted rules regulaung the coming annual exhibition. Tlse provide that only original works ,vui be accepted; paintings will be placed according to their merit; on all works admitted, the institute will pay trans- portation to and from points within the State at owner's risk; all works in color must be framed. A bronze medal of honor will be given for the best work of art on exhibitiun. The State prize of $300 will be given for the best painting by a Utah resident artist, the painting to become a part of the Alice art collection. The following institute prizes will be open to resident artists: $50 for the best water color, the painting, with its frame, to become a part of the Alice art collection; honorable mention for the second best water color; $25 for a perspective sketch and floor plan combining the most convenient and artistic arrangement for a city cottage, to cost about $2000, the sketches to become the property of the Art institute; $10 for the best study in clay or plaster from life; $10 for the best study in color by a student of the Stote, honorable mention, second best; $10 for the best study in black and white by a student of the State, honorable mention, second best; $10 for the best design for silk fabric; $5 will be given for best design in poster, china decoration, pottery, cabinet work, lace handkerchief, wood carving, tiling, pyrogrophy, wrought metal, lace collar; $5 for most artistic collection of photographs, second, $3; third, mention THE PRIZE-WINNE- R' The county fair Is over, an I spec we 11 settle down To tight'nin up for winter, an to weekly trips to town. Were keepin purty quiet, sense it pears from this years fair We aint got many premiums to brag on, I dcclstrG! An pa an mas disgusted but theres no one they can blame, An 'specially the jedges, who each year are jes the same; An what I mean when I let on I carried off prizetwro of us has got the leas I reckon only 8. surmise. Luke Barlow euchred us on hogs pa says you bet your life He ought to, at the rate he stuffs them full an starves his wife! An Jerry Blossoms Cuckoo took the run-ni- n race from Bump . With ary decent start, I swan, wed make ol Cuckoo hump! The Simpkins butter scored on ourn e grade) (though ourn is Ma says that thelrn may look all right, but she knows how its made! An fancy work I reckon sis is feelin kinder sore, Because she laughs an says that hern warnt bougnten at a store! Thats jes the way it went all through. We didnt do a lick In cattle or in punkins, or we didnt take a trick! Exceptin I come out ahead, an made a lucky strike An that was in the Beauty Show! Well, snicker if you like, I dont deny Im freckled bad an carrot-toppe- d then, but, You hoi your hosses this here show warnt open to the men! Twas meant for girls; an there they set, gilt-edg- in a row, An which one was the purties some people didnt know! By jinks! the votin said twas Belle Belle Richardson! Hurray! But other fellers talked so fast I hadnt much to say Until that night, when yre drove home. The big, round moon had rlz, An I jes felt Id plumb sure bust unless I did the biz! An cornin through the holler I spoke up, an says, sayB I: Competin at a Beauty Show we men had oughter try. Says she: But ain't you tryin? jes so sassy-likyou Bee, I kissed her an I asked her an that prize was won by me! .rBy Edwin L. Sabin, in Lippincotts. e, & & |