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Show THE BEE. HONESTY OF THE STATE PRESS. FTER a number of promi-en- t members of the State Press Association had publicly denounced the suspicious tone of the Deseret News reflecting upon their integrity the News repeats the rumor which it used as i and intimates that there is a lack of sincerity in the disavowals of those who have already expressed themselves upon this subject. For instance the News of Monday, referring to the interviews with state editors published in a morning paper, says : The article which appeared in these columns a few days ago under the heading Has Utah a has given rise to considerable Venal Press? comment among the papers of the State, and the tone characterizing the remarks some of them make is disappointing. Curosity seems to be the prevailing sentiment created by the article curosity to know who was going to spend the money referred to in it, and who were the candidates in or against whe interests it was to be spent. One or two papers affect anger, and one or two others try to be facetious, in treating the subject; but there is not that unanimous and spontaneous condemnation of venality, and of politicans who seek to promote it, that would be better suited to the occasion than are expressions of mere curosity, or feeble attempts at wit. a text I ! In other words the Xews observes that some of the state editors are inclined to laugh the matter off, while others are anxious to know who has charge of the fund, presumably for the purpose of opening negotiations. This is what the Xews has said between the lines and it is a studied insult. The man who asks for more light is charged with an exhibition of curosity ; the one who treats it lightly is condemned ; and the one who denies s it emphatically is treated to the quotation : It is a the lady doth protest too much. pretty hard thing, to satisfy the Xews on this matter but The Bee treats it elsewhere in this issue in a way that the Xews may not like but ought to understand. The Xews refuses to give particulars and claims that it made no statements of fact on its own responsibility, but cited its authority. The Xews did nothing of the kind. It quoted some unknown, unnamed person who may be the man with the fund for all that is known to the Me-think- contrary. The rumor was used it says as a text for a protest (what about the lady now?) against venality. The Provo Enquirer strikes the nail on the head when it calls attention to the fact that the newspapers, with the exception of the Deseret Xews, Salt Lake Tribune and the Enquirer, have all denied that any of the fund has reached them, and they say it wall be refused if offered. And the Enquirer adds its denial to the list. The Enquirer interprets the Xews article as follows : It looks a little like Utah is on the eve of a big Senatorial contest, in which both money and skill will be used to land the big political fish. It will be more or less a national affair, and the people in Utah may be tried in politics to the utmost, but their honor, we trust, will never be found wanting. The Deseret Xews, in a vague manner, without giving names, has charged that a corruption fund' of some $20,000 has been raised for the purpose of putting some man unnamed in the Senate, or at least of influencing public opinion, through the newspapers, in his favor, and the Deseret Xews uses the rumor to inquire if Utah has a venal press. 5 In this connection the Enquirer adds, very suggestively it may seem to some, that Col. Issac Trumbo is about to begin a vigorous campaign for the Senate. But this may not iuterest those editors of the state whose editorial columns have not been devoted to booming the Colonel. - . SOME SENATORIAL SCARES. ADMINISTRATION VIEWS. The great McKinley organ of St. Louis denounces the silver standard in words and figures familiar to the people of Utah, as follows towit : Forty years after Seward proclaimed the irrepressible conflict between slavery and freinlom the conflict between the silver standard and that of gold is found to have reached the same sort of a stage. The outcome will be the same in the present case as it was in the earlier one. Silver-isis a relic of barbarism, as slavery and polygamy were described to be by the Republican platform of iSfifl. Every important civilized nation in the world except Mexico has abandoned silverism. Every important half civilized nation in the world has abandoned it except China. A few barbarous nations stick to silver, but as the light of progress dawns on them they, too, will drop it. The silver standard belongs to the shell money and bean money stage of the worlds development. Almost all of the nations which are important enough to have a place on the map of any of the continents have discarded it. The fight against polygamy lasted a third of a century. The tight against slavery lasted, in one of a century. phase and another, over Both had to go, however, as every intelligent person knew long before the fight against them was ended. Their aualogue, silverism, cannot escape their doom. And yet they say that one of Utahs leading politician preachers is a follower of the army whose battle cry is embodied in the foregoing, that he is laboring to turn the people of this state and march them off in the same direction, that he repudiates those who follow the lead of Teller, Dubois or Bryan, that even his own flesh and blood are not spared his scathing criticism for being found in company with silver champions. Do the people of Utah have to close their eyes to these facts? Are they obliged to blindly follow in single file wherever an ambi- tious leader may choose to go? To endorse whatever he eudorses? To give it even the approval m The Herald is at last awakening to the blare of the California Colonels trumpet. It smells the battle afar off. The Tribune treats it as a rumor but there is a quaking in its tone which seems to indicate that it fears more than it sees. The Provo Enquirer says : While on the Senatorial situation, it may not be amiss to mention that Col. Isaac Trumbo is again a feature in the fight. From the Xews Syndicate of Xew York and London, with a branch office at San Francico, there comes to us a well written letter ou what Col. Trumbo has done for Utah. We have not space in our columns for the whole letter, but a couple of quotations may prove interesting. Iuter-ternation- al It (piotes from the Colonels outside endorse- ment as follows : This remarkable trait in his character (unselfishness) has never been quite understood by a great number of those who but indifferently comprehend what true patriotism is, and what great satisfaction there really is in serving your fellow man in a spirit that is altogether without an ulterior motive. The circular closes in these words : From all this it would appear that there is no honor in the gift of the people of Utah too high to be offered him, and that he will fulfill any trust that could be reposed in him with the same sacred fidelity to that States best interests which he has so conspicuously shown in the past is irrefutable. His whole heart and soul is entirely wrapped up in a brilliant future for the growing State and all her people. of the matter The Tribune takes this editorially : A gentlemen, who is himself above reproach, said to the waiter of this a few days since: I was talking with a good Saint yesterday, one wrho is permitted to feel the pulse and take the temperature of the First Presidency, at least once a week, and he assured me that it was the hope of the First Presidency that Col. Isaac Trumbo might be the legislative choice; that while that First Presidency would take no part in the election from a church standpoint, as individuals they would, when asked express the belief that in common gratitude both Mormons and Gentiles should support him, for priceless services rendered in the past and for the good which, through his great heart and acute intellect, he could render in the future. In proof of this, he cited the recent manifesto expressing profound gratitude for what the Colonel had done, and further, the belief that he was inspired in his work; also the impressive words of the President of the church in the Tabernacle two Sundays ago, in which he renewed the tributes of the pronunciamento and added the sorrow that he would feel should such a gentleman have any right to nurse the belief that the Mormon church had prevented his attaining to a high office, and, finally, the preliminary tribute which prompted a journal in San Francisco to reproduce a description of those services of the Colonel, when he gave up a lucurative business in San Francisco and at a great expense devoted all his masterful ability and subtle magnetism to the defense of the great people of Utah who were, at that time, in sore distress, because the Government of the United States was vindictive enough to insist that they should reduce their ideas of full liberty to liberty under the laws, the same as the people of other States and Territories accepted. viewr It is the intention of the publishers to make The Bee one of the leading illustrated weeklies of the west. two-third- s M of their silence? From the rank and file will come the answer. .. - FLOWERS AND JEWELS. When gentlemen of France have fete days of their lady friends to remember they can rest assured that by choosing the gem and flowers specially affected by their fair countrywomen for each month their tact and good taste will never be open to question. In January, for instance, they offer the garnet, with a little bunch of snow drops. In February the amethyst is the reigning gem and its chosen companion is the fragrant violet. The agate claims supremacy for March, sharing its honors only with the primrose. The diamond best expresses showery April, and with' it goes the Easter daisy, emblem of innocence. In May, the emerald, reflecting the color of green fields, is the fitting gem to present, accompanied by a spray of eglantine. The pearl and the peony are chosen to celebrate a June fete. The ruby and the royal lily are Julys special emblems, while the sardonyx and carnations in mixed colors constitute Augusts souvenirs. The sapphire, suggesting the infinite blue of a September sky, and the rose of France, dominate September festivals. The month of October rejoices in the mysterious opal and the fragrant heliotrope for its fete occasions, and no ill luck attaches to the opal worn by one whose natal stone it is. The topaz, with a cluster of tinted chrysanthemums, makes a Xovember day rejoice, while the pale turquoise and glistening holly are esteemed fittting emblems to mark the closing month of the year. |