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Show Thky say roosters are a good deal like men. A rooster never gives notice of finding a worm until after lie has swallowed it. Thk coNtiitEHS that is about to close its doors, spent in appropriations appropri-ations only a little over $519,000,-000.00. $519,000,-000.00. That's all. No wonder the treasury is now as empty and lean as a cast ofT tobacco bag. A flwkrai, was held in Spanish Fork this week, which no one but Republicans were permitted to attend. There must be a tough lot of Democrats in Spanish Fork, or tke Republicans of that place "have got it bad." Ci-kvki-and Says t(nppoi n tmcn ts to odice. instead of being rewards of personal activity should go to those whose efficiency promises a fair return of work for the compensation compen-sation paid them." The eager applicant ap-plicant for office is told to call when the weather grows pleasanter. Logan City receives $5,000 each year from saloon licenses. Yet the people seem perfectly willing to give up that large sum and be taxed a little higher, in order to raise it by legitimate taxation to keep the city wheels moving, than to be pestered with the baleful influence in-fluence of the saloon and gambling hall. An army, numbering nearly 800,000 man, is employed on the railroads of the United States. Last year the roads carried something like G50.000.000 people. Out of this vast number of travelers how many do you suppose were killed in railroad accidents? Less than 300. This is an astonishing fact and shows how perfect the order and how comparatively free from fatal disaster the great railroad system of our country is. The salary of the Utah Commissioners Com-missioners has been cut down from $25,000 to $10,000, or from $5,000 each U $2,000 each. Hereafter. . iliey must all be residents of the Territory. Uncle Sam peems at last to be opening his eyes in relation to Utah. When the big-hearted, big-hearted, but occasionally misguided, mis-guided, old boy gets his peepers thoroughly opened he will knock out that useless body altogether and give us statehood straight. A quaiuiei.somr, contentious paper that is forever snarling or picking at someone does more injury in-jury to the business of a town and stirs ii) more broils, strife and bad feelings in an otherwise peaceful community than any other medium. 1'eople who read such an organ unconsciously un-consciously grow into the pernicious pernici-ous habit of finding fault and criticising criti-cising their neighbors where no such censure is really deserved. This is human nature. Look about you. Take note of the actions of people who patronize and eagerly devour the contents of a quarrel-; quarrel-; somw, bickering sheet. Are they j not the fault-finders and back-biter j of every community? |