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Show WlIITEl) SEPULCHRES. Tin preacher prayed in a woeful tone, For the thief in the felons cell. And told of liis punishment here on earth And his endless days in hell; Ihit the thief that sat oil the best front pew That he might be seen and heard Of the shyloe-thief of the helpless poor. The priest never uttered a word! 1 And he told of the harlot, stilted in sin, And the rumseller's awful doom; And said if they didn't cease to increase Hell would run short of room; Ihit the pirates that have stolen the earth And their brother's blood have shed The iKirson smiled us he winked at them, And never a word he said! Lord help the peracher and help the church, When the morning sun shall rise, And cast the veil that has hidden the sham Away from the jieoplea eyes! And the big thief then, in the best front The Desert Ncms in its issue of Wednesday finds fault Mith certain person M ho deiH'ud upon charity for support ami families be movexl to suggests that t the country and put upon a small piece of land M'here they could make a living. The advise of the Ncmh is good and striki-- s at the very resit eif both the cause and cure of jHivcrty. but if the News cel it or Mill take the pains io lesik .over the city just a little he might Is surprised to sen the vast amount of vacant land M'itliin the rerisrate limits ef the city. We risk the eipiniem lliat Mil bin the limits of ihe city there' are vacant lands suf-fiieut tee fexd every nexxly family in the lands are held for speculacity. Tlu-stion pur wires and are doing neither the eiwm-r- s eir any erne else any gessl. They luxuriant creeps eif mcixIs every year greiM and that is all. Just why a man eiMiiing a lett M'eiuld so much rat lieu- let it groM' Wliat unbounded prosperity we might have if the bankers, Ismdholders, usurers, syndicates, trusts, combines, lmiueqsilistH. idle holder of the capialien investor tal" lawyers, etc., were not in the saddle and rulid the roost and the ieople were. Would there not be a shaking among the dry bones, the deadheads, the usurers, the suckers, the leeclns, etc., if the Hople liad the good, sound, common sense enough to rend their friends and not their enemies to Congress. What unparalleled prosjierity we could have if the lumbers, bondholders, usurers, shylocks, lawyers, corporations, truts. s combines, syndicates, courts, alien like not stand and investors did a Chinese wall between the people and their properity, sucking the lifes blood out of the people. What a prosierous and happy country we could have if our laws Mere not wide ojkii to every one to tax his ingenuity, to invent plans and schemes, devices, tricks and ways and means to live by robbing others of the fruits of their honest toil, instead of jmddling their own canoes" by the sweat of their own broMS. lie-r- e e land-owner- e op PEDDLERS AND DEC. DA It." What a happy world we would have if the laws were made to protect, maintain and defend human rights, instead of the rights of property so called. What a happy world we would have if the laws were not made by bankers, bondholders, userers and lawyers to rob the many to gratify personal greed. What happiness would fall to the lot of mortals if the financial interests of bankers, bondholders, usurers and lawyers were not the same as the rest of the people. , - u When you sex.' a man standing up and arguing that a tariff law either high or low will bring preisie'rity or anything liorelering on to it, you may set him elown as a hoiH'le'ss'e'ase. As the preachers sometime's say, you may a well give him over to a linreliiexe of heart and a repro-liacof iniiiel to believe a lie ami be y elamiiexl." Gage is offering more to the SeH-ri'tar- JO y And the man with "the blood-staine... hand, Hhall stand alone in the daylight clear In the sight of all the laud. Ticlienor. WHAT A HAPPY WOULD WE COULD HAVE, IF, ETC. . U. Adams's masterly editorial on Mark Hanna's famous tehgram to Presielent McKinley, God reigns ami the beqiulili-cuparty still lives. Send us your subscription for this great reform magazine. Dm hundred page's, illustrated, 10 exalts a mouth, $1 a year. New Time ami Living Issue's, e'urli one year for $1.7.1. .Million soujujeiei Utiq SprMAV banks than they have ever askexl for, the hit any harm. Me are seuneMhat at a which imlicnteM that of all the gixxxly hiss te kneiM. We M'eiulel suggest an bankers in the whole country that Mr. requiring eiwners of vnexint hits Gage is the gixxxliest of the gixxxly. Mr. to keep them elixir of weeds. This M'eiulel Gage woulel have us to believe that Ihe ceinqiel these speculators to either culti- only way to make the country prospi'ixius vate the'ir lots eil h't seime eine edse do set. is to give the bankers unrest rainesl lilier-tIf tlie'sc lot M'ere thrown eqiem to use' to rob the Koph. there would be ne need eif Kxiple h'uving the city fen land. We woneler why the 11. U. Frick, Andrew Carnegie's conNews el id not think eif this last spring sort in crime and in Krfhly, has partuer when the County (eimmissioners Mere lematexl a $100,000 jminting to the Art trying to aeleipt the l'ingree jieitato pa tele Galedry of the Carne'gie Library. The plan, lint fell doMU on the preqieisitiem itle of tin is Christ ble'ssing the Uity Council thought the jHxqile lie bread." painting A fitting (?)' gift, certainly, eif the city needeel a neM jail meire than Venn the hand of the surviving murelirer soniedhiug to eat. Now that the Ncms of Home'ste'ud! has its eye's widedy eipen to the faed that ine-- n are land animals. M e hoie to see it The sueex'ss with which the trusts do something in the future in the May of ini'et liy consolidation and eelue'ating the masses em the vaeant lot ought to cause the isxiple as a whole to question. irofit by it. It looks as though tliey at some time harn that 1hey could might NO RIGHT TO KICK. re tlie'ir condition in the same way. d t on k - Iew, . The Ni'W Time has Ihe pluteHTuts the rim. Do not miss Frederi-- What a happy world we would have if money borrowed were made profitable, instead of money lending. What a happy state of affairs if onr financial system were made to facilitate trade alone, instead of for the usurers. What a happy world we would have if we had the cash system, pure and simple, and the credit system were banished from the world. What a happy life we could all live if jutorost on money, between man and man, were banished from the earth. What a happy country we could have if interest on money, the credit system, and the collection of debts by law were not the bedrock of the legal profession and the business. What a happy world we would have if it were not for the fact that the harder the times are the more the people law, kick, fight, tear, rend, scratch and rob each other the better for the lawyers. What a happy world we might have if Hie people had political and financial wisdom enough not. to make their enemies bankers, bondholders, usurers and lawyers t heir la wmakers. What a glorious country we could have if Congress were not mostly conijiosed of lawyers, bankers and bondholders. What, a happy country we could have if legal tender jmjier money were made the money of ultimate redemption" and metal money reheated to the moles and bats. What a glorious country we could have if we could get money from the Govern-men- t at 2 per cent, on our own time, adopt the cash system, abolish the credit system, and leave the bankers, bondholders, usurers, lawyers and the courts without a job. Oh, what jieare we often felt by making lawyers and bankers our lawmakers. What a paradise on earth we could have if government Mere organized to protect human rights, at the least possible cost, instead of an organization through which to rob the class of the fruits of their honest toil as we have it. What an Eden we could have here on earth if there were no monoisily of the gift of Hod the land all had their own homes.' under their own vine and fig landlords and tree," and no 1o and interest. rent collret usurers What a heaven begun below we could have if there were no landlords, usurers, alien landowners or investors to harass our eople and eat out their substance." Would it not In safe, sound and equitable if wv had good, honest, safe, sound government money for the iteople instead of promises to pay, made for the bankers to eat out the substance of the eople? What a truly prosperous and., happy country we could have if all public utilities were owned by the public and all taxation of every nature and kind was d from that source as in Glasgow. What a prosjierous and happy country we might have if the class had not to give annually about $ 4, SIM 1,000.00(1 in the form of intenwt, rent, dividends, etc., to the more wealthy, who live on income and dont have to work.' wealth-producin- steel-hearte- g d de-rive- wealth-producin- g At the foot of the elevator in the Commercial block is postexl a sign No led-dler- s or Ileggars Allowed in this building." This causes us to arise and ask M'lio are iwddlers and beggars? Tm'o men appear at the elevator. One wears a plug liat and good clothes. The other wears a seedy suit. The fare of one slums that he has plenty of this Morlds goods and is amply able to care for himself. The other's face is sad and pinclied, showing extreme poverty and M'ant. One is representing" a rich book firm in New York and desires to take orders for some book. The other has his hand filled with lead jicncils that he M'ant s to sell. One is trying to do business. The other is trying to make a feM ienuies to keep himself from starving. Which of the two is the peddler? Or are they both eddlers? Is that sign intended to exclude both? Does it exclude Imth? If not, Mliich one? Where can you draw the line? Who is to be the judge? Another two appear. These tMo are One of them is M'ell dressed. M'omcn. The other is not. One of them looks happy. The other looks sad. One of them is asking for a contribution or subscription to a fund to erect a church or to pay the salary of a preacher. The other has nothing to sell, but wants to ask for a feM cents Mitli which to buy food for herself or sick babe. Which of the two is the lieggar. Are they both beggars? If only one, which one? Are they, both to be excluded? Why only one? Who is to be the judge? This is something like the difference If betMeen stealing and kleptomania. one takes M'hat does not belong to him because he needs it, he is a thief. If he does not act'd what he takes lie is a kleptomaniac. bo if one really needs the proceeds of his sales he is a peddler. If he dot's not need it he is an agent. If she dots not really need what she asks for, she is a solicitor. If she dot's need it to keep from starving she is a lieggar. That such a sign should be posted in a civilized country is a disgrace. be-cau- There is some very high and hard kicking be'ing done by the usees of gas in this For the last mouth or menv the supply has been practically shut eiff. Those depending upon it for light and fuel have been put to great inexinven-ience- . Neit that. there isnt gas enough but liecause the Salt Lake and Ogden (las company has a pet scheme of its own to reib the isxiple anil is using this plan to force tliedr measure upon them. The people once had it in their power to handle this business, but after tliey have given the eomiianv an absolute monopoly on the whole business it is too late. So there is nothing left for them to do but to kick, but while they are kicking tliey ought to administer a feM kicks to them-selve- s or hire a cheap boy te do the kicking for them. The company is only doing wliat it t'xjieedeel to ele from the start, and just Mliat the ieople might have knoMn had they thought it over just a little. It is only taking all the traffic M il hear and laying plans so that it will bear it will take. So long as more, all of Iieople are foolish enough to give away Mhat they have to corporations they have no right to kick. ONE DAY LATE. The execution of Theodore Durrant is perjured; a thousand and one circuin-liaileas a vindication of law. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence and we are one of those Mlio believe circumstantial evidence to be the strongest evidence possible. Direct evidence can be stances never will lie. but there arises the question, if the code of morals enunciated from ML Sinai is the basis of government, Mas not the injunction, tliou slialt not kill" aimed as much at the common Mealtli as at the individual? The Classicum. The Ulnssicum is the name of a monthly paier published at Ogden by and in the interest of the Ogden high school. It has tMO editors, tMo managers and eleven associate editors, and is a neat 'little sheet. It has good things in it, from among which Me clip the above. We are glad to sex a disposition upon the Kirt of the youug to appose capital punishment. Did all the school journals of America opisise it, M'o believe that, it M'ould not bo long ere this black relic of barbarism Mould disappear. d . Should any business man in Salt Lake City Is? discovered transacting his business in the same way that Lynmn (iage suggests for the management of the Government's affairs he Mould le urrestd and tried for lunacy just as soon ns an officer could perform the action. , The unflinching tenacity with which Lyman Gage sticks to his nonsiMisical it's regarding finance, one is at times constrained to think that Gage believes them himrelf. but he doesnt. One by one the nie'treipolitnn dailies of the Democratic jiarty are forsaking the Chicago platform and going over to the gold bugs. The latest of this sort is the San Francisco Examiner. There is no more reason that the should endorse the note's of Gov-ernme- nt bank than that it should endorse note's of a farmer. Tom Watson. a tin PRESIDENT JOHN SMITH. : The paper is a day late this week. We had to deMnel on the Tribune people to set onr type, and the Tribune jieople have to depend on the gas e'ompany for file Mith which to run their machines. Since Driver got a judgment against the gas company for $1 1,000 the flow of nature gas 1ms practically ceased. It is a greai scheme, of the gas company to drive the people into certain measures for the comsooner panys benefit, but it Mill or later. Oh, Mel I, it is good for the foo Presidi'iit John Smith is the name of a hook. It is a book that everybody who rends. Mr. Luwremx was so take'll with it that he rent for fifty or more eopie's, which he has blam'd ami re-- 1 oand until they are about gone. Hvery-boel- y likis it. We will have a lot of them on hand in a few days. They si'll for 10 notwithstanding the fact that the hook contains ,100 pages. It is such a book as usually sell for 2.1 rents. Send along your orders and they Mill la filled at the I'arliest possible moment. Ael-elre- ss this office. MIL ROGERS SPEAKS. Mard meiding in the last evening miis M'ell altendex and all Mire M'ell paid Mlio come out. Mr. Alexander Rogers Mas the sKaker, his sulijex-- t lieing Direct Legislation and suce-ete- l Proportional Representation. Mr. Rogers has a happy way of putting it. Few, if people. The time may come Mhen they any, there lie M'ho can present this parwill have too much sense to turn their ticular subjex-- t so well as lie1. public utilities over to private corporations to be run for private gain. The THE PEOPLE'S CHURCH. ' right time to throttle a is it gets its clutches on to you. just Dr. N. F. Ravlin will sjiexik at the1 (Hailstone hall Sunelay eveniiig at s The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. War- o'clock as usual. We aix not informed ren Foster, formerly of this as to wliat his subject Mill Ik, but it will but at Salt Lake City, will tie pleasex lie worth hexiring whatever it may be. to know that they are the parents of a PHOTO DUTTON NOVELTIES. brand new boy, born January 21, IS'J.S. Hutchinson, Kas., Gazette. Call and six Shipler's Photo buttons. Thanks awfully, brolhe'r Netflelon. Photo Cuff, Photo Searf Pins, etc. Shije The above clipping give's us an opportunler's Photographic Studio, Hoopi'r block. ity to say what our extreme modesty has hitherto cansed us to leuve unsaid. The JUST RECEIVED. Hutchinson Dwnoe-ra- t has our thanks We have just received fifty for a kindly notice em the same subject. copies of Tom Watson on Railroads.' Price 10 The railroads reflect to a great extent exults. Senel in for one at once. the biisiimsa condition of the country. With the ha nl time's their earniiigs are EQUALITY. small, and vice versa. Manti Me'ssenger. We have on hand a few copies of Edward More preqierly sjMaking, it reflects Bellamys last book, Equality. The book what the business condition of the e'oun-tr- y is having a large sale possibly larger than his The price, $1.25, ought to Ik. So long as the railroads is tooLookingbutBackward. it is as cheap as it can be had high, retain their positions and jwiwer to take for. all for their services that the traffic will bear it inntters little to the country how FOR SALE OR TRADE. mu or how little it produees. Weekly paper with well equipped office, The See-on- d mext-ing-hour- be-fo- re now-livin- All that we can say for or against the annexation of llnM'uii is. that if the Have you any doubts now as to where United Stales can manage lluMniinn affaire no better than it does its onrn we the Republican party stands on the fifail to see wherein either the United nancial qui'stion? If you have, you must States or IIuMaii Mill be licncflted by the Iki a be'publiean, for certainly no one else has. union. g h situated in growing Oklahoma town. Will sell cheap for cash, or will trade for small tract of good land. Value of plant, $600. oa Reasons for selling given on application. 125 H S. Foster, West, Eighth Hutchinson, Kan. e |