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Show TZ i THE ARGUS. 4 poused the cause of W. J. Bryan and run down the platform of international bimetallism. It was the stand taken by those publications that produced to great a majority against President McKinley. Every man, woman and child in Utah heartily endorses the invitation hwim Accept. extended to the President by the Jubilee Commission through its committee, and devoutly wishes him to come to the celebration. While he has not declined, his acceptance has been conditional, which the He gave a Provo Enquirer defines as follows : partial promise, it seems, that if public business would permit, and that may mean anything, then he would come. Utah really knows no more about it now than before the invitation wTas But whether President McKinley presented. finally concludes to favor us with his presence or not, it is generally believed, and sincerely hoped in certain quarters, that the visit of at least two members of the committee of six has not been in vain, whatever the other four may think about it. The Herald, which never intentionally offends or opposes President Cannon or Manager Lannan, has come to the front with a full account of their plans, the real purpose of their appointment, the secret of their trip East, the combination of silve and uncertainty formed to the detriment of e Arthur Brown, the scheme of the Tribune manager to retain a voice in the distribution of federal patronage and incidentally to undo an enemy, the ambition of the father to succeed the son in the Senate and the consequent necessity of forming an alliance with a strong newspaper all of which is told in detail by the Herald, in general terms by the Provo Enquirer, commonly talked on the streets and generally believed throughout the State. McKinley Republicans will find that a strong combine has been formed in Utah for the purpose of controlling local patronage and politics. Lannan and Cannon, Tribune and News, church politics and professional politics, silver and uncertainty these are hard to beat. semi-centenni- al wide-awak- Men who ruin homes, who break up iamilies, who thrust their bestial personalities between husbands and wives, often escape censure, often succeed in keeping their names out of print, par- ticularly if they are blessed with wealth and social position. Money covers a multitude of sins, and even newspapers help to spread the mantle of concealment. Scandals so flagrant that secrecy is out of the question are published, frequently with a coloring of partiality. In the suit for divorce brought by George O. Bradley against Amy Bradley, adultery on the part of the defendant with two men Eli L. Price, a prominent citizen of Salt Lake City and one D. Sparks was alleged and proved. The Salt Lake dailies shielded these two men as far as possible and concealed their identity, prompted by cowardice or mercenary motives. A PIONEER JUBILEE PAPER. HE PONY EXPRESS has made its appearance with Judge Colburns name at the head of its editorial columns. As that gentleman promised the State Press Association, it is not designed to enter into competition with the regularly established newspapers of the State either in advertising or circulation. It is published for the sole pur pose of advertising the commission and for distribution in other states. In its salutatory it says : There are hundreds of journals published west of the Mississippi now generously devoting space to the discussion of the jubilee, but that it may be advertised among those who do not have access to these journals, that the official communications of the commission, the interesting letters of pioneers and many other matters about which the general public should have information and which the columns of the local and general press cannot conveniently carry may be published, the Pony Express has been established. It will be issued weekly until the close of the jubilee, but it will pass away with the jubilee. If it appears at all after the people of Utah have made memorable the 21th of July, 1897, it will only do so as an echo of Utahs greatest celebration. It will be the official organ of the commission. It will be attractively printed and illustrated. Its publication is undertaken, not with any intention of invading the local newspaper field already filled with the brightest, best edited and most enterprising newspapers west of the Mississippi, but only that the jubilee may be better advertised. Whenever a church or lodge holds a club over an American citizen for victims. the purpose 0f intimidating him and controlling his political action, that church or lodge becomes an enemy to mankind and a nest of treason to this government. Whenever men are driven, or degraded if they refuse to be driven to vote or voice the sentiments of an ecclesiastical organization it becomes the duty of every fiee man to protest and denounce the infamy. When John Seaman of Ogden declared his political independence it became apparent that he would be punished by the political head of the church directing its religious arm. WThen Charlie Smurthwaite replied to B. H. Roberts It is a neat publication, well written, nicely last winter, the guillotine was oiled for him. He printed and tolerably illustrated. The colored was doomed to become an example for the cover is a reproduction of the jubilee hanger, of other voters, just as Thatcher, De Lamar, criticised in a recent issue of The Argus by a Langton, Lowe, Farr, McCuistan, Paul, Woolf local artist. It presents a better appearance in and that Davis county bishop who signed a peti-:iothe reduction, however, than in the original. to the Legislature last w inter were held up ; The title cut, or head, represents a horseman of others have been threatened. It carrying the mail across the valley, getting a just as scores ;eems strange that men who drink, carouse and hump on himself, as it were, to escape the notice ;ommit adultery are exalted while others are of five Indians who are crossing his trail at right and persecuted for daring to think on a angles some two miles in the rear. The likeness political question without first obtaining the con-eof Director General Young and the other illustraof George Q. Cannon or Heber J. Grant, tions are excellent, and the book will doubtless tnd this is the land of the free and home of the create a favorable impression among those it is rave seeking to interest in the celebration those who know nothing of Utah, her pioneers, her people and her institutions. ARE YOU GOINQ EAST THIS SUMMER? teg-or-izin- g n J. SPRING POETS AND JOKES. ARRELS OF jokes and poems are written every spring that never reach the public. The new woman is the butt of both. She may have suffered more keenly at the hands of funny paragraphers and cartoonists, but no one haa been more than the spring poet. All poets are ridiculed to a certain extent, but a spring poet is an incorporated jest, a mov-insbreathing, plaything. Whether the spring poet was ever the ubiquitous, inconsiderate, bore that he is represented to be in the comic papers may be doubted . One thing is certain that, he has been laughed out of actual existence, and that at present he endures only as a convenient. peg to hang jokes upon. A great deal of fun has even been made of the classic sentence that poets are bom, not made. It has been suggested that this is lucky for the poet. An editor once questioned the merit of some verses which had been handed him. The d caller became very indignant. Poets are born, sir, he said to the eminently practical editor. Of course they are, responded the. editor You didnt imagine I thought they suavely. were hatched, did you? I mean, sir, they are born ; bom, sir, do you understand? I think I do, and the editor added reflectively, but why are they? Another editor sat in his sanctum when, a poetic genius called and proceeded to remark : I have a little poem here that has been . long-sufferin- g r, all-pervadi- long-haire- tt Well, sir, interrupted the editor, I would be glad to see it convicted, but I cant try it. In the same vein is the editorial reply to the poetic query, How much ought I to get for that poem? You ought to get about fifteen Editor years. Gallantry flees at the approach of the poet. Sex is no protection from the gibes and jeers of prosaic pencil pushers who write with or without inspiration at the dictation of appetite rather than the command of a muse. The female poet fares as badly as the male. A humorist (only humorists ever Bee these sights) once beheld a poetess gliding into the editors office, and quietly approaching the editors desk, I have written a poem she began. Well, exclaimed the editor, with a look and tone intended to annihilate, but she wouldnt annihilate worth a cent, and resumed : I have written a poem on My Fathers Bam, and Oh! interrupted the editor, with extraordinary suavity, you dont know how relieved I feel. A poem written on your fathers bam, eh? I was afraid it was written on paper and that you wanted me to publish it. If I should ever happen to drive past your fathers barn Ill stop and read the poem. Good evening, miss. ma-igne- d nt The Argus is the leading weekly newspaper of Utah. D. H. PEERY, ! If so, you will receive some valuable information by calling1 pon or addressing L. J. Eyes, Ticket Agent U. P. Ry No. 201 uuth Main St. Subscribe for The Argus, three months 50c. JR. DE WITT B. LOWE STOCK BROKERS 10 West Second South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. ng |