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Show THE ARGUS. OPINIONS OF OTHERS. Park Record: Congressman King of Utah He was a little late was sworn in Wednesday. in arriving at the seat of government, but doubt- less he considers himself equal to making up for lost time. His first vote was cast with the Dem- ocrats against the committee amendments to the Dingley tariff bill. Silver City Star: Sundays Tribune contains a cartoon showing Arthur Brown dishing out s of Utah. political pap to the federal The only fault we have to find with the picture is that John C. Graham and Jim Clove are left out in the dold. office-seeker- Provo Enquirer : Though Congressman King did not give his vote for protection to Western interests, we still have hopes that Senator Rawlins will do so. You remember he was once elected on the campaign cry, Whos afraid of free lead? and then he voted against free lead. Silver City Star: Congressman W. H. King of Utah is at last in Washington where he should have been several weeks ago and where he would hate been had he consulted the wishes of his constituents instead of his personal desires. Paris Post : President MoKinley has not been in office thirty days, and has already begun to use the official guillotine in lopping off the heads of Democratic federal office holders. Bingham Bulletin : One excellent job to be credited to the second Legislature is the amendment to the election law discarding the style of ballot used last fall. Hereafter, instead of mixing names of candidates, the respective tickets will be printed on the same sheet but side by side. If you desire to vote a straight ticket, all you have to do is to make an X on the one headed by your partys name and the ballot will be ready. The Caldwell (Idaho) Record says several of their citizens contemplate moving to Mexico in order to better enjoy the pleasures of life, where they will not be hampered with Sunday and antiand hot gambling laws, and where tamales flourish. bull-figh- ts Saturday Night: Speaking of orators, however, the one man who has made the greatest mark as a speaker, is Senator Rideout, of Draper, Salt Lake county. Strange it is, that his great gifts were unknown up to the opening of this session. During the senatorial fight he made two speeches that electrified his hearers. Even those who were bitterly opposed to his sentiments bowed to the genius of the man and felt the influence of his oratory. Silver City Star : We have no objection to any man on account of his religion ; we believe that B. H. Roberts has a perfect right to preach and teach Mormonism, but when the Censor states that B. H. Roberts is Utahs Hero, it states what is manifestly untrue. B. H. Roberts, when he took his manly stand at the reconvened Democratic convention, one year ago last fall, and proclaimed the right of the people of Utah to perfect and complete civil and religious liberty, might well have been hailed as one of Utahs Heroes, but when he later repudiated his words, when he accepted blindly the dictates of an ecclesiastical superior, when he gave up his right to free Bpeech and free thought, which belongs to every American citizen, he became anything but God pity- the State or the people hero. a - which could pay honor to any man who failed to have the courage of his convictions, who forsook the cause of the people who honored him, as has B. H. Roberts. ' Saturday Night : Among Utah boys who have made their mark and stand high in the estimation of their fellow men, there are none so deserving of mention as Hon. Aquila Nebeker, president of the second Utah State Senate. He is happy in his disposition, and true and the brainiest man in all Utah. He would more fittingly represent this young State than any other man in it choose whom you may. When hunting for material from which to make s should never pass statesmen, his him by. great-hearte- d fellow-citizen- Ogden Press : It is very unkind of Republicans to continue to remind Congressman King of his campaign pledges regarding the measures he proposed to vote for. He was publicly pledged on both sides, so what could we expect him to do, keep his pledges to his own party or the opposite party? He is a Democrat and believes in the principles of his own party. If he has any political future it must come from that party. The editor of the Logan Nation takes a very peculiar stand when he Peculiar Stand. insists that men who receive Mormon votes for political office are under obligations to the Mormon church therefor and have no right to criticise leading men in that church or to refer to them in any but the most solemn and respectHis vindictive personal referful language. ences are regarded as a matter of course, as there Mormon in every five hunis about one dred who imagines he is doing the Lords will in exciting prejudice against gentiles who remove from the neighborhood. But the people of Cache county have resented that style of argument and have frequently during the past five years repudiated the men who make use of it. When the claim is made that Republicans and Democrats elected to office in this State are bound to the church organization or its officers in any manner Saints whatever it is so absurd that Latter-dathemselves regard it with derision. The Argds is under no obligations to any church for its existence or support. Its editor owes no political honor to any religious denomination. He regards the membership of the Mormon church with respect and entertains for the great majority of the people only feelings of friendship. But there is a difference between church and state, between religion and politics, between the people and the leaders, the masses and the masters, which the Nation ignores. A man may be all the better friend of Democracy if he criticize a Democratic president ; he may be a friend of any people and yet displeased with the greed, hypocrisy, the tyranny and disloyalty of their leaders. The Abgus intends to criticize intolerance and inhumanity whenever and wherever it finds those relics of darker ages. By the way, it was the LatterLogan Nation, officially backed by leading -day Saints, which persistently and bitterly slandered and maligned C. W. Penrose, B. H. Roberts and Moses Thatcher while he was still an apostle. A Very 5 Society Springs Advent. The years on the turn, The night is toward morn, Winters behind. Theres a sword-blad- e of green, The black earth-clod- s between, And a kU on the wind. The days have grown longer. The sun has grown stronger, Robin alone Shall have sweet company In the bush and the tree 'Ere a great while be flown. The grass shall smell sweet Soon, soon the tall arches Of beeches and larches For the treading of feet ; Grow misty and gray, The crocus shall start ; For the leaves that are coming The daffodil glancing, The spring that is homing And in the wind dancing, The winter away. Shall lift up the heart. The years on the turn, The night is toward morn, Dawn in her eyes : And our joys coming home, Oer the sands and the foam, With a tender surprise. Ex. 1HE DULLEST week that so-cie- ty has seen for many a month has just been passed. Had it not been for the theaters, which have been especially attractive this week, society lovers would have had absolutely no amusement, and the tramps Oh! well! soliloquy of alas ! alack ! Theres nowhere to go but out, and nowhere to come but back, would have been the refrain on many a maidens lips. As it was, however, the maidens took refuge in the theaters and each night of and at the Grand Patience The Mascot, saw bevies of them in parties in stalls and boxes. so-call- ed y Editor Glanville of the Wasatch Wave is a fellow. Last week he was thrashed by an irate subscriber, after which he wrote up a facetious story of the affair for his local page and good-nature- were inMany very jolly little parties dulged in behind the scenes during Patience, and, though the participants will tell scarcely anything about them, from the few hints they drop it is to be supposed they were lots of as one of the girls was heard to remark. fun A great many Salt Lake people went to Og- den last night with the Home Opera Company and report a splendid time, with the opera scorLogan will be the ing another success. scene of their triumph. Several parties are made up to go with them and the majority will remain over Sunday in Logan. To-nig- ht Mr. Ferris and Mr. Wayne Smith, with a party of guests, occupied stalls at The Mascot on Monday night. Among the prominent people seen on Wednesday night at Patience were Mr. and Mrs. Nat M. Brigham, Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hempstead. Mrs. Longmaid, Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. and Mrs. William Reid, Miss Mackintosh, Mr. Rooklidge, Mr. Pollock, Mr. J . H. Young, Miss Celia Sharp, Mr. Schramm, Miss Shearman, Mrs. Hoffman, Miss Lawrence, Mr. Katz, Miss Katz, Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Clawson, Governor and Mrs. Wells. Mrs. Kent of Fort Douglas entertained most charmingly at dinner on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Nat M. Brigham returned on Monday from a visit to California. d remarked editorially: Last weeks Vernal Express came out with a new head. This papers head remains unchanged,' but its editor had a new one put on him last week, Mrs. Albert F. Holden returned from fornia on Wednesday morning. Cali- Mrs. Adelbert Hudson entertained on Thursday afternoon at a delightful Kensington tea. The house was daintily decorated in cut flowers |