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Show iTLL 27HS PROPOSED AMENDMENT I "MB-HE last legislature of this state passed by a two-thirds vote a joint resolution to amend Article 12 of the Constitution of the H m Cjstate relative to revenue and taxation, which will be submitted to a vote of the people at the election in November, and if ap- H proved will become a part of the Constitution on the first of January next. H This provides for the taxation of mines, for taxing the surface, all the buildings, machinery, improvements everything in sight. H t Then it proceeds as follows : In addition to the assessment of the surface grounds, improvements and machinery of mines and min- H ing claims.producing net proceeds shall be taxed at a value, not to exceed three times such net production." - Bfl 1 How any legislature could pass such a clause as that is beyond our comprehension, except on the score that the members did not H know what they did. H Why not apply the same rule to the farmer and merchant? Bfl : ' Why not say to the merchant: "We will tax your store and your merchandize at full value, and then, if at the end of the year you BfJ have made any profit, we will levy an additional tax upon you of not more than three times your profits. That is if you clear $10,000 H we will tax you in addition on $30,000 to punish you for making that much money. M A man on a company spends years of time and thousands of dollars in the hope of finding an ore deposit. H Perhaps one in ten succeeds and begins to pay little dividends to its stock holders who are out thousands of dollars on the enter- t prise. Then the assessor, who is lying in wait, goes to the managers and says: "What is the amount of -the "dividends you have pa'id Bfl during the past year?" The answer may be $20,000. Then the assessor says: "You will have to submit to an increase on your prop- M erty for taxation purposes of $60,000." t M If the managers say, "But we paid that to our stock holders. They are being taxed for it and, moreover, the deposit from which we M took it is exhausted, and we are now at great expense searching for another." The assessor will only answer : "I cannot help that, I Bfl stand on the constitution and must execute the command of the law." fl Was anything ever more ridiculous? But there is something behind all that. Prices labor, everything of value is rated by the amount of money in circulation among fl the people. i fl I For instance, the prices of food and of labor in China are ninety or more per cent less than here, because the per capita of money M i in that country is ninety per cent less than here. - , H ' All the money that any people can get must come from two sources. One is from the mines, the other through trade, and all that H is obtained through trade must have originally come from mines. t H So significant is their fact that up to a few years ago, even Mexico paid a premium to any one who found a mine. H i It is needless to say that except for the mines of this and surrounding states, Utah would today have been so poor that she would be H I an object of sympathy. H 1 , Why then this craze to cinch the miner and 'hold a club over every one who explores the desert mountains in search of treasure? H I It is not fair to an enlightened mind, it is only an exhibition of vindicative ignorance. , H It is the duty of all speakers of all parties, and all newspapers in the state to warn the people against this proposed amendment H i that they may bury it under a mountain of righteous ballots on election day. H Bfl , He Had Better Not I ' A DISPATCH says that the president will today reply to Mr. Hughes's arraignment of him for driving through congress the eight-hour law for railroad men. If ho does it will bo wise on his i- part to confine himself to a statement that it has M for a long time beqn a conviction with him that 4 a day's work should not exceed eight hours, and II ' that the demand of the brotherhood was a just j one and it was right to crystallize it into aS law. That will be enough for the purpose fJJB designed and will prevent the president trenching Tjfm on dangerous ground, for it surely would be dan-fV dan-fV gerous for him to attempt to discuss the real 11 question, which is: "If any organization under R our government can make a demand upon the gov-"Ijfc gov-"Ijfc eminent, and, refusing all arbitration, give the government only five days to accede to the de- I mand, on pain of inflicting vast anxiety and loss J upon millions of people if the demand is refused, T compel the government to yield, how much is such a government worth?" That is the real point, but in this case the outrage out-rage is greatly accentuated by the facts. Coupled Cou-pled with the demand or included in it is the demand for a vast sum of money from the public the brotherhood say $30,000,000, the railroad companies say $G0,000,000 and President Elliott of the New York, New Haven & Hartford road says if the law is to be construed to include all railway employees it will mean an assessment on the people who patronize railways of $300,000,000 per annum in exceps of present charges. Again. This demand was made by men who are receiving better pay for their work than the same men could obtain anywhere else the world around. Again, it was made upon the managers of property which is quasi public property and in important respects is under government control, and the value of which rests entirely upon the M patronage of the whole people. H The president cannot plead ignorance of these H facts, nor of the other fact that what he did was H in the face of the protests of a dozen railroad H presidents, each one of whom has more knowl- H edge of business and of the relations which should H exist between employees and employers in the BJ railroad service, than have the president and H congress combined. These men were not arro- H gant, nor did they seek to evade the issue in the fl least, but were all the time anxious to have the H differences adjudicated as wise men and nations 'H settle their differences. ttB But the president overrode all their opinions BJ and bulldozed congress into passing a measure of ABJ his own, which measure, while making a good B party campaign iry, is in its essence an abject B surrender of the joverelgn power of a great na- BB tion to the demand of a pampered few men, which H demand was indirectly for millions of dollars in H Bj HHH addition to their present pay, which is more than BhHHB they could receive anywhere else on earth for HHHV like service, and which money the public must ffiBB eventually pay. HmnHj If the president is as wise as his friends claim BHHHj that ho is, he will put off his explanation indefl- HHHIi nitely. BH,j How They Will Vote HfljH i v HTHE Democrats and Progressives in Utah have jH ! u made a paper alliance. The election will show BHH ' that it is but paper. The Progressives who f ormer- IH ly were Democrats will vote the amalgamated H ticket, the Progressives who were formerly Re- BBI publicans, will vote for Hughes's election. BH To imagine a man who was once a sincere H Republican, who believed in a protective tariff and JHH felt it a shame that the great republic was obliged H ! to hire a foreign express wagon to deliver its H goods, and who left the party because he imagined H it was too slow for him, voting now for a Dem- n ocratic candidate for president is simply until ink- When the prodigal son came home he wanted HH the rest the old home had always given him, and H the biscuits such as mother made. p A Sinister Company LAST week we read of an eastern sheriff who found it necessary to take to jail a little host H of men who were all members of the I. W. W. H , organization. The sheriff urged in justification H J for his work that he did it to keep the peace. H The account further said that almost every man H, i; arrested was a foreigner. B-i Now we hold it as an inherent right for any H I honest man to go to any country he may please H to on this old earth and make a struggle for a B livelihood. Again we realize that one especial B reason why our country is great and strong is H l because the strong races of the old world have H come here, assimilated with our own people and H . joined their work with ours to make our nation H But from the first Great Britain and all west- H ern Europe have been unloading upon the United H i, J States a class which because of their appalling H ( ignorance, their criminal instincts and their H i flighty minds are but a source of expense and H i anxiety to any country in which they aro found. B There are in the aggregate a great many of these H , and they are a constant irritation and a menace HH ' to our country's peace. They have no conception H of what liberty in the enlightened sense means, fl they have no gratitude for the blessings this land H .holds out to them; no love for any land on earth; H ' no apparent sense of justice. B ' It is time that they should be taught some B i elementary lessons on the duty of every man in 1 this country and when they proceed to do things Jm which they would never have attempted in the land of their birth, thoy should be stopped at once. When they take advantage of the freedom H which our country extends, to speak and publish H what they please so that it be within the limits Hf ' of reason, and preach lawlessness, and license H which is a menace to peace, retribution should H follow and it should be swift and severe. H i Certainly decent people have a right to pro- B tection and to self-defense. It is a vast pity that H our country has no penal island. It would be just H the place for this class. If they would tear down H our institutions, it would be good to see them H placed where they might have a chance to erect M the model , government which they want; to do H that and to earn their living or starve. m And the immigration laws need revising Un- m lesa a man coming destitute to this country can m bring with him a statement that he was a decent B ' 7 man in his native country and have that state- B ment signed by some priest or mayor or alcalde m and countersigned by an American consul, ho Hg j ! should not be permitted to land. Such a paper K would be a protection to us and a certificate of character to the immigrant. Meanwhile our state legislatures should make special laws to give our peace officers a right to proceed against all sinister classes, when they are known to be off color before they commit any overt act. They can be held in check and our public schools will see to their children. Altogether they are a constant reminder that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Welcome To The Speakers WE are informed that a good many great eastern east-ern speakers aro coming this way to entertain enter-tain us with their eloquence; tb tell us how destitute des-titute of .principle the fellows of the opposite party are, and the only thing that can save the country at this particular time. They will all bo entitled to the best we have by way of entertainment; entertain-ment; to respectful, possibly enthusiastic attention atten-tion while they speak, and it is due us to make their visit as pleasant to them as possible. But unless they happen to be real spell-binders we shall not become vastly wiser for their visits, for the telegraph will have advised us of about all they can say and our newspapers will have made clear the wisdom or the reverse of their arguments. That is a reminder that could the newspapers all be run by pens entirely great, and directed by brains and hearts entirely honest and patriotic, the habit of sending public speakers through the country to enlighten the people, would cease. But it will require at least a hundred years to bring that around, and if some editors such as in . towns, outside of Salt Lake, hold their jobs, it will require a thousand years to accomplish that much desired change. Indeed it will require a million of years with all the help of the telegraph and perfecting press, the post office and the wireless combined to bring about the change. The telegraph is doing for the public political speaker what the automobile is doing for the horse, but then in a good many ways the horse is still needed. Welcome to the talkers. Lack Of Unity Of Purpose "DEPORE the war started in Europe there was J- as many political parties in Germany, or almost al-most as many, as we have in the United States. But behind every one of them the main anxiety was for the prosperity and progress of Germany. When the farmers raised a protest against the free importation of food stuffs, the central power listened and replied "We will lay a tariff on those imports to protect you," and the tariif was laid. When the men who sail ships made their plea that all their ships were bought from foreign countries and could not be; sailed successfully in competition with the thrifty Norweigns or the subsidized sub-sidized ships of France and Great Britain, the answer an-swer went back, "Build and sail your ships, sell what you can and take in payment any raw material ma-terial that our manufacturers can use, and we will see that you have fair interest on your investment." in-vestment." And a miracle in German shipping was performed In twenty years. When reports came in from German merchants in foreign countries that thoy could not sell their goods because they were of obsolete patterns and colors and came In unwieldly packages, the word at once went out to found schools of design and employ graduates of art schools to invent new and catching patterns, and the foreign merchants were asked to explain what was' needed in the way of packing the goods to meet the wants of the countries they were in, and all the required changes were made, with the result that in fifteen fif-teen years Great Britain had to divide her best trade with Germany, and the government of Great Britain had to make a special advance of money to her ship builders to produce two ships as great and swift and strong as Germany had on the sea. Then a report reached Germany that an Amer ican had built' a ship that, could, before a great , fc storm or in presence of any enemy sink beneath ( ( the sea and remain in security there for hours and then rise and resume her voyage. All the science of Germany was Invoked to not only imi- i tato this craft but improve upon it. Again it was j pointed out to German inventors and Iron work- 1 ers that not much improvement had been made j in the construction of artillery and small arms in several years and they were directed to experiment experi-ment at government expense and see if improve- i ments could not be made. j Some startling results followed, and Germany that was so poor in 1871-72 that the indemnity that was exacted from France was a very Godsend God-send to her, in 1914, only forty-two years later, was so rich in money and so prepared with war material that she was ready to meet all Europe in arms, and though an unprecedented war has raged for more than two years, not one foot of -her home territory has as yet been invaded.. By the above we mean only to point out what a gifted people can accomplish when the ruling idea behind them is that no matter what their differences may be when the welfare, progress and glory of their country is involved there must be no differences. And Germany is a small country by comparison, compari-son, a little greater in area than California, a good deal smaller in area"" than Texas. When our congress meets there are enough yahoos in the seats who have an idea that they must fight special, favored interests though they ' do not know what that means to defeat any pro- ' posed tariff legislation; enough men from the I bucholic states who believe they must fight back ' the "rich" ship owners, to keep our flag from the J ocean; enough narrow partisans to defeat any measure proposed by the other party, no matte. j what may be its merits. There are millions 5X I men who would want to fight if they were told I they were not good Americans, enough half-baked I Americans to defeat any needed legislation. I The War In Europe I IT makes unrest on earth; it fills the air with I storm threatenings; the hearts of men are 3 perturbed; it is as though the planets and fixed I stars were all in adverse conjunction and presag- I ing disaster. When we ask our own souls why there is the unrest, if time has about run its course; is the great judgment angel about to appear and proclaim pro-claim to a shuddering universe that Time is no more? It does not require much imagination to fancy that a still small voice from the wireless of the stars is saying that the angel of Death is satiated and clammoring for a rest, for Europe is as was that land on the Nile on that fateful morning morn-ing when there was not one house in which there was not one dead. The air is filled with the crying of Rachels ' who are mourning for their children that are not; their prayers are vexing the Infinite, and Civilization Civil-ization is abashed that in its advancement of men toward the light, she carries no antidote to keep mankind from becoming wild beasts when 'roused by either a lawless ambition or a thirst ; for revenge. $J After the earth was rounded into form and -l the seas were drawn within their shores; after the earth's fields grew green with trees and grass and flowers had been taught to bloom; after the j seasons had taken up their courses and the stars j above had been taught to march with perfect step in their shining processions; even then it required ages of convulsions to fit the earth to become a habitation for men. Ages to take on its coal measures; ages for the glacier to grind down the mountain tops and make soil from which the men 1 that were to be could raise bread upon which to i live; for the sunbeam pumps out at sea to load , the clouds with moisture for the windb' to drive ? clouds shoreward, where the ;old lying In ' 1 wait on the mountain xa might seize them and compress from them their moisture that the springs in the hills might he filled; for nature in her great laboratories to prepare the minerals and metals which the race of men, to be, would need; for the rivers to carve out their channels back to their mother oceans; to freight the mighty - craft for all the centuries through which she was to sail. And man seems to be as slow in preparation as was the earth before him. He has as yet failed to breed out one dark passion of his soul. The Master came preaching peace; centuries before, His coming was proclaimed, and the proclamation proc-lamation said the government should be on His shoulder, and hailed Him as 'the wonderful; the counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace," but though His symbol was upreared two thousand years ago and He was accepted by all Europe, one breath of passion was enough for all those nations to spring to arms and make fallow land of all Europe . by the red ploughshare of war. It is time for the neutral nations to assert s themselves, to unite and in potential tones to de- i' mand a truce and readjustment. They would be heeded now for earth and heaven, even the angel of death is gorged with the mortality, and the demand de-mand is everywhere for a speedy peace. 1 The Coming Of The Autumn HT HE coming of the autumn is a beautiful pro- 1 cess. The sun, day by day, is wandering away to the south, the breeze that comes up from the lake and down from the hills is growing cooler, though as yet there is no menace in its tones; the migratory birds are mobilizing their broods for their long flight; Winter's outrider, the Frost has begun to make his camp in the mountains moun-tains and is touching the trees to turn their leaves I to brown and scarlet; the haze is beginning to draw its net around the sky; the ripened leaves have begun to fall; the coal vender looks out and begins to rub his hands in anticipation; the autumn au-tumn fruits are green and gold and red, and yellow yel-low in their profusion; the merchants are receiving re-ceiving their winter stock; the domestic animals are growing more and more sociable daily; Chanticleer has put off his morning call from 3 a. m. to G a. m.; the world is growing stiller all but Pat Moran's heavy trucks; and like a long life that has grown weary, is waiting for the deeper chill and the final winding sleet. IHovThe Wounds Of War Are Healed A BRILLIANT writer thinks it will be genera- tions before the animosities of the present war in Europe will be forgotten and its mighty wrongs and cruelties forgiven. That depends. If a peace is patched up on paper and the soldiers return home and try to restore what is now a wreck, that feeling will continue. Strangely enough, a peace cannot heal differences; for day by day in the shattered homes the stories of the cruelties of the enemy are repeated and the hate is accentuated. When our Civil war ceased, there was really little reconciliation between the Northern and Southern states. Fifteen years after Appomattox became famous a real Southern woman wo-man could not speak of the North that hot tears of anger did not shine in her eyes. ?!; war with Spain did more to reconcile the tv, sections than did all the years of reconstruction. When General Gen-eral Joe Wilson at San Juan hill cried to his men: "Give it to 'em, boys, the d d Yankees are running," run-ning," his words may be said to have awakened a laugh all over the South and North alike, and they were the first words that had done that in thirty years. The feeling in Europe will be very hitter after In each home, when the names of their dead who died in the war are mentioned, there will be bitter imperations and prayers for vengeance. But imagine an Asiatic alliance between Russia and Japan to absorb all Asia and the trade of the Pacific and the Mediterranean, what then? There will in sheer self defense be required an alliance of all the western powers to meet the storm that will follow. Such an event would cause the present war to be forgotten, the war and the animosities engendered by it. The armies of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Italy would all be fighting side by side and with them the memories of the present war would be ancient history. We are told that when a freshet comes in an-India an-India river, the fox, the faun, the tiger and the deadly cobra are all seen floating on one log, the overwhelming danger causing the animals, for the time being, to forget their natural instincts. It is so with nations. An hour of common peril has more reconciliation in it than years of peace. A Rich Field Waiting For Us "THE government of Venezuela is planning to build a national highway from Caracus to Cristobal in the Andes region at the extreme western west-ern end of the republic, to pass through the considerable con-siderable cities of Valencia, San CarloB, Guanare, Barinas and San Antonia, and to be G83 miles in length. The government of the tJnited States ought to suggest to the government of Venezuela to make it a railroad and offer to help in its construction. The reason is that such a road would make available from thirty millions to sixty millions of acres, much of which is fine agricultural land, that would raise all kinds of tropical productions, including in-cluding rubber, and would make a safety valve for the stream of immigration that will be pouring in upon us when the war in Europe shall be finally over. The products would not come in competition with any of our products, rather were the lands placed under cultivation they would supply a large demand for what we produce and have for sale. And they altogether are but a tithe of the land which in Venezuela should be under cultivation. cultiva-tion. The road would not cost very much, not more than would a road from this city to Reno or Boise and once built and the possibilities of that country properly advertised, it would become a safety valve for our country by turning to it the hosts that want new, cheap lands to cultivate and a market for what they raise. A steam line from New York to Caracus would make the voyage as quickly as the voyage is now made to Panama, and with the road built a vast empire of virgin lands would be open for settlement. It is in that direction that the best immediate new trade for the United States lies, and we cannot can-not understand why it was not at once utilized when the fear of yellow fever and Panama fever was taken away. Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil offer the best hopes for the present generation of young American engineers, farmers, and the men of affairs, who start out in the wilderness and round states into form. Those countries rightly considered and the consideration acted upon would mean that we could make a transformation in them, and at the same time get all our money back, build up a merchant marine and find a new vast market for our surplus products. In this connection it is well to note that a Russian colonizing commission has been visiting Brazil, Argentine and Chile and, according to a Rio newspaper, has made arrangements to send Russian immigrants to the state of San Paulo to work on the coffee plantations, the San Paulo railway rail-way companies agreeing to pay the fares of the immigrants across the sea, to have them wettle on lands near their lines of roads. Also that the com-missipn com-missipn made like terms in Argentine. The prop- osition is to establish a line of steamers to run H between Riga, Russia and the South American H ports, to carry out Russian goods and immigrants H and to carry back the coffee, cacao, tobacco, min- H erals, fine woods and other products of Brazil. In H Argentina the arrangements were made to settle H the immigrants in the provinco of Mendora, while H a like arrangement was made in Chile to sdnd tho H immigrants to the region south of Valparaiso. H Think of that! Out from tho Baltic, across tho North sea, across the Atlantic a sail in itself of 60 degrees of longitude nnd 65 degrees of latitude r and then a railroad journey of a thousand miles to find a chance, working at pauper wages, to H There is an idea in that; indeed several ideas. M It shows how Russia wants to extend her trade; it shows, too, how much she desires to rid herself of all people who are not heart and soul Russians. We have no penal island but why cannot a M like scheme be worked to rid our country of men and women when they are convicted of being anarchists and the sworn enemies of law and order and ,of honest industry? But over all it M makes clear how we are neglecting our opportun- ity of becoming a potential force in Spanish M America, and in taking to ourselves the immense trade which is awaiting us in those expanding states. H The opportunity was just as apparent when M the war opened in Europe, but while in the mean- M time, Great Britain, absorbed as she has been by M the war, has well-nigh re-established her prestige in trade in those countries, our country has done M nothing. It is a reproach to our great merchants and manufacturers; our people who go down into M the sea in ships; our government and our sup- M posed business acumen. H Mr. Bryan's Speech H WE are glad that Salt Lake made Mr. Bryan's M welcome an ovation. He is a winsome speak- fl er, not quite big enough to bo a great editor, but M as catching as a finely trained brass band on the huskins. M It is easy for him to endorse the present ad- M ministration for until recently he was the part of M it, next to the head. M It is easy for him to praise the assassination M of the protective tariff, for he has had tho murder M of it in his heart since the germ of free trade'be- M gan in his childhood, to expand in his misguided M mind. He gulped a little in praising the prostitu- M tion of the sovereignty of the United Slates by the M president to catch a class of the labor vote, but H then this is a presidential election year and many M sacrifices must be made. It is good campaign clap-trap to refer to the "reactionary Republican M party," but he does not attempt to explain why M it was demoralized four years ago, or where the M great demoralizer stands this year. fl He chuckles that many millions have been H wrested 'from the rich through tho income tax H law, but fails to tell that all the millions were H absorbed for running expenses by his party; that H the general taxation has not been reduced a H penny and that the economy framed four years H ago has probably struck a floating mine on its voy- H age this way and has been blown up. He praises H the peace polioy though there has not been a H moment of danger from any foreign power, ex- H cept Mexico, unless we ourselves precipitated it, H for Mr. Bryan is a "peace at any price" advocate. H It is not necessary to give a serious review of Ills speech any more than it would bo to criticize M the performance of a trained orchestra. H Every seventeen years a scourge of locusts H comes upon different positions of tho country. H Could one of the biggests of them be given the power of speech and could it, as the scourge H had about passed, with the devastation caused H by it in full view, made a speech inviting the C H people to pray for its return next year, it would doubtless be most grateful to Mr. Bryan for his H HH speech for it could model its own speech after HB, that of the illustrious Nebraskan's: So easy is HHB it sometimes "to make the worse appear the HHj better reason" although all was false and hollow. BbH' HR Mystery Of Sugar Prices B't TIIE fruit-preserving season is on in Salt Lake i nnd as usual the sugar venders are making Hi ' it as uncomfortable for house-wives as possible. H ' To explain, the farmers who raise beets for H ' the trust, receive about $65 per acre for their H ' t product. It is supposed to cost about $45 per B acre to reduce the saccharine in the beets to rc- H fined sugar a total cost per acre of $110. As H advertised by the grocers, the consumer must Hfl pay for this acre of beet sugar $360, an advance H on the cost of 305 per cent. That is, they sell H , ten pounds for a dollar. H ! The biggest grocery house in San Francisco, H J Goldberg, Bowen & Co., advertise to give four- teen pounds of cane sugar for one dollar. It gets i its sugar from New Orleans, 2,300 miles away by J rail or ship or from Hawaii and the Philippines by H ' sea. Cane sugar is admittedly superior to beet H sugar. Our sugar is produced right here. Our B people pay a little more than 71 per cent more H for their sugar than do the people of San Fran- H cisco for a superior article. 1 Our friends of the sugar trust not infrequent- H ly put out public statements of their affairs. 1 i They never fail to tell what a blessing they are ' to the farmers. From the foregoing we see that B . for every $G5 they pay the farmers for an acre of H beets they exact from the public, after expending H $45 to put the beets in marketable form, $3G0. H Between the trust and the middlemen some peo- H. , pie must be doing fairly well and sugar to them H Y must seem the sweetest thing in the world. H ii It is the preserving season right now, and the H price of sugar reminds us of the coal dealer who H looked out one morning when a blizzard was rag- H ' ing and the thermometer danced around zero. H said to his clerk: "Advance the price of coal H , fifty cents per ton, God help the poor." H Charles Lammersdorf A GREAT old Charlie he! Game as a gray eagle, jolly, shrewd, .generous a real man M (everywhere, loyal and strong, a good soldier, a M first class citizen, a real German but good enough Hj American to offer his life for his adopted country m j every day through a furious, four-year war; cheer- M t j ful -when fortune was against him; never losing H faith in himself, never once doubting that he H ( would win out at last, he tolled on through the H M long years, always keeping his heart young, al- H j ways the good citizen, always so devoted to his H household gods that he and his wife lived a con- H stant honeymoon for three score years; he lived H , a serene and splendid life and kept his heart Hj ' young up to the hour the tabernacle that held his H I soul tumbled into ruin, and the emancipated 'spirit HL j was free. H As the sun goes down when there is no cloud H in the sky and all the winds are still, and the sun's H bended rays robe all the mountains to the eastin H cloth of gold after the sun has disappeared so the H old man's life went out. He is not to be mourned H for his work was finished and the years had come B ( ? that brought labor and sorrow to haunt them, and H ) the final peace must be sweet. But warmest sym- H pathies go out to the aged woman who shared his H ' life for three score years until the two lives were B as ,one, and who in her desolation now sits alone H ((., with only the great love that has always been fl hers, a memory to comfort her. H The Shame And Sin Of It M J HTHE so-called explanation of Senator iStone of B how President Wilson came to surrender all - , the sovereignty of his great office, at the beck B) i of men whose demand really was that the people m HHi' should pay their organization sixty millions of dollars more per annum, though their present pay is in excess of any they could anywhere else obtain; ob-tain; reminds one of that female mosquito which causes yellow fever, has two bills; that which she is drawing her breakfast from a healthy person with one bill, with the other she is injecting into the person she is breakfasting upon, the virus that .kills. And when she has finished she goes away singing, the only time she is ever known to sing. President Wilson signed the measure which he believed would electihim, knowing it would cost the people $C,000,000 per annum, and now Senator Stone contemplating the perfdrmance, and realizing real-izing the full measure of the holdup on the people, and the dishonor cast upon the nation's sovereignty sover-eignty by the act, poises his small wings and sings a poem of triumph. The Same Old Injustice and Foolishness WHEN the late Frank Armstrong's term as mayor was drawing to a close, a friend called upon him in his office in the city hall. Speaking of his administration as mayor, he said: "There is one thing that I have accomplished accom-plished that gives me a great deal of satisfaction. satisfac-tion. I have 'broken up every den of prostitution in the city and have wiped out that evil." The friend laughed. "Why do you laugh?" asked the mayor? "Over your idea that you have stamped out the social evil in Salt Lake," was the reply, and the friend added: "Call in your police and ask them!" The mayor did call in two or three officers, and asked them: "Have we not closed every den of prostitution in this city?" The answer was "yes." Then the friend asked: 'Where are the inmates in-mates now?" The answer was: "Scattered all the way from Fort Douglas to beyond the Jordan!" Jor-dan!" History is certainly repeating itself In Salt Lake City. i An Evasion, Not An Explanation TTHAT explanation of Senator Stone that con- sress was not bulldozed into passing the measure to evade the railroad strike is most "flat, stale and unprofitable." That the president had nothing to do with the strikers or the railroad rail-road presidents is in direct contradiction of all the dispatches received at the time. It was stated distinctly that the railroad presidents pres-idents would not yield to the president's desjre and that the men representing the brotherhood refusing any arbitration, made their order for a grand strike in five days unless the law was driven through congress. Moreover, the interview with Senator New-lands, New-lands, published in the New York Times ten days before the day on which the strike was to he ordered, shows between the lines what was being pjanned. What, if what Senator Stone says is true, caused the Democratic senator sena-tor from the south to vehemently protest against the passing of the bill. The explanation is not an explanation, but an eversion. Do not the same conditions prevail in New York today? Why does not the president Intervene there to stop the loss? Hon. Norman J. Gould, congressman from New York state, has a b' ' complaint to make in reference ref-erence to the metnods being adopted by Great Britain to handicap American exportation. Mr. Gould says that the British luxury list includes apples, ap-ples, and this has knockc' the apple raising industry in-dustry in his district silly. A large fruit storage company has gone into bankruptcy, and others are in the dumps. The extortionate freight rates which Great Britain has placed on our wheat compels com-pels the farmers in his district to sell their wheat at relatively low prices in Liverpool, in order to1 compete with the Argentine wheat; and the effect of the British blacklist has also been felt in his district, but appeals to the state department are in f vain. In this struggle for her very existence, Great Britain has been absolutely dependent upon the ' United States for her foodstuffs and war munitions. muni-tions. If an embargo had been declared on our foodstuffs in 1914 England Avould be a conquered nation today, and she has had to depend on us for war munitions whilst she reorganized her own manufacturing plants. Of the $4,334,000,000 worth of exports leaving our shores during the fiscal year 1916, $1,518,000,000 went to the United Kingdom, King-dom, or nearly one billion dollars more than our normal annual exports to that country. But to the British mind, there are no friends in business, and dependent as England is on us for supplies, she will adopt any means not injurious in-jurious to her own welfare to handicap our commerce. com-merce. England still accepts Lord Sheffield's declaration: dec-laration: "The only use of the American colonies is the monopoly of their consumption and the carriage of their produce." The methods used by j England now are but samples of what she will I use after the war, if we have the present spina- , less administration, a Democratic near-free-trade law, and a government monopoly of the shipping business which will stifle private initiative $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 for government purchased vessels, and not one cent for subsidy. . T"1 HAT is a heroic story of Sir Shackelford and his party, but the governments of the earth should forbid any further Arctic explorations. They are not worth the cost. THE decent people of Tennessee must feel justly indignant and humiliated at the way Mr. Hughes was treated by some of their vicious boors, but it did not harm Mr. Hughes, rather it brought his manhood and integrity of principle more fully into the light. T T is not expected that there will be a great dls- play of horses at the coming state fair, but a great display of automobiles. Is it not queer to think of the automobile as a domestic animal? And the farmers, are they looking for indications indica-tions on their farms of oil, so that by next year they may raise a crop of vaseline for the new animal? ' , W7 E wish that our city commission would make an investigation and try to find some one who was benefited by the removal of the news stands from the corners on Main street. The removal re-moval certainly has resulted in vexation and inconvenience in-convenience to hundreds of people who want to purchase a newspaper on the way home in the evening. PVEN BROTHER ROBERTS sometimes wob--J bles a little in a public speech. When ho tells a Salt Lake audience that Mr. Bryan has made it impossible for any hasty action to be taken that may lead to hostilities between any j foreign country and our own, does he forget how Belgium was guaranteed against any Avar only about two years ago? or that outside nations only keep this agreement when it pleases them to? DRESIDENT WILSON certainly has an obsequl- ous press agent to send out personal news about himself. Think how much human interest there is in wiring to tho world that while the president and Mrs. Wilson were playing golf a shower came up and actually sprinkled them! The audacious rain! . I stand here lopldng at the thing?" There were thousands of dead around Loos; fifty thousand perhaps, scattered over 'a few square miles of country, unburied. Some men oven might still bo dying. The bullets -whistled past my ears. The Germans Ger-mans had a machine gun and several rifles trained train-ed on the Valle crossroads outside Loos, and all night long these messengers of death sped out to meet the soldiers coming up the road and chase the soldiers going down. The sight of the dead man had shaken me; I felt nervous and could not restrain myself from looking back over my shoulders at intervals. inter-vals. I had a feeling that something was following fol-lowing me, a Presence, vague and terrible, a spectre of tho midnight and the field of death. I am superstitious after a fashion, and I fear the solitude of the night and the silent obscurity of the darkness. Once, at Vermelles, I passed through a deserted trench in the dusk.. There the paraphet and parados was fringed with graves and decrepit dugouts leant wearily on their props like hags on crutches. A number of the dugouts had fallen in, probably on top of the sleeping occupants, and no' one had time to dig the victims out. Such things often happen in the trenches, and in wet weather when the sodden sod-den dugouts" cave in, many men are buried alive. The trench wound wayward as a river through the fields, its traverse steeped in shadow, its bays full of mystery.' As I walked through the maze my mind was full of presentiments of evil. I was full of expectation, everything seemed to be leading up to happenings weird and uncanny, things which would not be of this world. The tronch was peopled with spectres; soldiers, fully armed, stood on the firing steps, their faces towards to-wards the enemy. I could see them as I entered a bay, but on coming closer the phantoms died away. The boys in khaki were tilted sandbags heaped on the banquette, the bayonets splinters of wood sharply defined against the sky. As if to heighten the illusion, torn ground sheets hanging hang-ing from the parados, made sounds like traveling travel-ing shells, as the breeze caught them and brushed brush-ed them against the wall. I went into a bay to see something dark grey and shapeless bulked in a heap on the fire step. Another heap of sandbags I thought. But no. In the darkness of the weird locality realities were exaggerated and the heap which I thought was a large one was in reality very small; the mere soldier, dead in the trench, looked enormous enor-mous in my eyes. The dead man's bayonet was pressed between his elbow and side, his head bending forward almost touched the knees, and both the man's hands were clasped across it as if for protection. A splinter of shell which he stooped to avoid must have caught him. He now was the sole occupant of the deserted trench, this poor frozen effigy of fear. The trench was a grave unfilled . . I scrambled over the top and took my way across the open towards my company. Once, at midnight, I came through the deserted de-serted village of Bully-Grenay, where every house was built exactly like its neighbor. War has played havoc with the pattern, however, most of the houses are shell stricken, and some are levelled to the ground. The church stands on a little knoll near the coal mine, and a shell was dug a big hole in the floor of the aisle. A statue of the Blessed Virgin sticks head downwards in the hole; how it got into this ludicrous position is a mystery. The Germans were shelling the village as I came through. Shrapnel swept the streets and high explosives played havoc with the mine; I have no love for a place in such a plight. In front of me a limber was smashed to pieces, tho driver was dead, the offside wheeler dead, the nearside wheeler dying and .kicking its mate in tho belly with vicious hooves. On either side of H i mo were deserted houses with the doors open and HH shadows brooding in tho interior. The cellars H ' s would afford secure shelter until the row was h over, but I feared the darkness and the gloom B ' more than I feared tho shells in the open street. IH I When tho splinters swept perilously near to my ! head I made instinctively for an open door, but ' tho shadows seemed to thrust mo back with a H I powerful hand. To savo my lifo I would not go H ' into a house and seek refuge in tho cellars. 1 I I fear the solitude of the night, but I can never ascertain what it is I fear in it. I am H not particularly interested in the supernatural and spiritualism, and table rapping is not at all h ' to my taste. In a crowded room a spirit in my ' H way of thinking loses its dignity and pdwer to H impress, and I am at times compelled to laugh H at those who helicve in manifestations of disem- H bodied spirits. H Once, at Givenchy, a soldier in all seriousness H spoke of a strango sight which he had seen. H Givenchy church 1 s only one wall standing, H and a large ML jcifix with its nailed Christ H is fixed to th J- 1. From the trenches on a B moonlight night it Is possible to see the symbol H of sorrow with its white figure which seems to H keep eternal watch over the lino of battle. Tho H soldier of whom I speak was on guard; tho night H was very clear, and the enemy were shelling Giv H enchy church. A splinter of shell knocked part M of the arm of the cross away. Tho soldier on H watch vowed that he saw a luminous halo settle H around the figure on the cross. It detached itself H from its nails, came down to tho ground, and put 1 " the fallen wood back to its place. Then tho Cru- H cified resumed His exposed position again on the cross. It was natural that tho listeners should H j say that the sentry was drunk. m It is strange how tho altar of Givenchy church M and its symbol of Supreme Agony has escaped m destruction. Many crosses in wayside shrines H have, been untouched though the locality in which H they" stand is swept with eternal artillery fire. B San Francisco Town Talk. |