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Show WHY Nor BUILD PYRAMIDS? There is such a great demand for work at this time, and the Republican party is straining every nerve to give employment through a protective tariff and so on. We would like to suggest the propriety of building a few pyramids. something like those in Egypt. It might be well to try building one large one as a starter. We understand that a plat of ground ot about 40 acres can be had very cheaply. It lies just over the Jordan river, and we are told the character of the dirt is . desirable for making adobes. The famous Pyramid of Egypt, which we would like to see paterned after, covers about thirteen arcres of ground, and runs to a point It will take lots of labor to build one. It ought to be built solid throughout or nearly so, and while we are not able at this writing to compute the days work it will take, or even approxmate it, yet, it is safe to say that it would give employment to all the idle men in Salt Lake City for several weeks, possibly months. As the aim in building these is to give employment we would want g to elimnate all sorts of machinery, and appliances such as horse steam or Let the whole thing be electrial power. done by manual labor. By getting some distance from the river the one item of carrying the water with which to make the mortar would give employment to quite an army.' This one item could be extended almost indefinitely by lengthening the distance. It might still be better to build the pyramid about the middle of the desert, say 40 miles from the Jordan. There may be same question as to adaptability of the desert clay for making adobes, but that should not stand in the way, for they could be made elsewhere and carried to the building spot by the men which means a great deal more labor. Or suppose a pyramid built of desert clay should last only a few years, it could be rebuilt in which event there could be more work and so on. We consider the scheme thoroughly practical for there is no doubt left in our mind that the building of one or two pyrimids would absorb all the surplus labor in Utah. Some unthinking one may ask, What use would we make of the pyramids after We answer, no use whattfiey are built? ever. We are building them not for use, but to give employment to labor, dont you understand? It is work that the people want. It is like the great advantages that would arise from a scheme td raise all the oranges and banannas that we use. There are thousands of dollars sent south every year for these tropical fruits, all of which could be raised here, if proper hothouses were erected, which itself would give employment to a great many.- Only think of a lot of Central American Indians employed in gathering this fruit while the same might be done right here in Salt Lake Cityl It would not only give employment but it would keep our money at home. It is true, perhaps that it would take a hundred times more work to raise a car ol bannanas in Salt Lake than it would in Honduras, but isnt it work that we want? The same general idea holds good in regard to everything else. A coat can be made in England for much less possibly than it could be made for here, but see at the work it takes away from the American workmen. We should not lose sight of the fact that American workmen are not working to make coats, but working because they like to work, working for works sake. If they were working to get coats they could probably get them with much less labor by employing themselves at something else, but it is work they want This is why they vote for McKinley. labor-savin- MR. KINGS SUCCESSOR. Of course it is too far off, and politics are too badly mixed at this time and are likely to so continue, that it is impossible to give the political color, much less the name of the General is consistent in his political views. He is a Republican of Republicans; a McKinley Republican of the simon-pur- e stock; a Republican in fact as well as in name; a Republican who stands squarely with both feet on the Republican platform. He is none of your wishy washy, mongrel monstrosities that is neither fish, flesh nor fowl, but a genand a uine, without evasion or mental reservation. You know where to find him for twenty-fou- r full sixty minute hours every day. He is a Republican who votes the Republican ticket without fear of punishment or hope of reward. The extreme popularity of the Genera! both in and out of his own party has caused some dastardly cur to start the report that he is opposed to. pensioning old soldiers. This charge his friends declare to be untrue in toto, and propose that General Taylor shall have an opportunity soon to publicly declare himself on this as well as all other issues of public interest. all-wo- ol Goldbug-McKinley-Republica- n, MR. DEBS COMING. According to report Mr. Deb, is now in Denver, Colo., in the interest of the Social Democracy, and as soon as through there, he will come to this city on the same mission. We will certainly be glad to have Bro. Debs come, for if there is one man above another for whom we have a profound respect that man is Eugene V. Debs. While it may not appear quite clear to us what advantage there is or may come from the organizing of a separate reform party from what we already have, there can certainly no harm come from it. No one realizes more fully than we do that the work to be done is educational, and any move that has that for its object will always find an unflinching friend in Living Issues. We hope that all true friends of reform will rally 'round Mr. Debs when he comes, and each do his share toward making his coming a great success. There is no room for any jealousies in the heart of true reformers, and if there be any Populists in Salt Lake who stand aloof from Mr. Debs, they may be set down as men who love party more than the cause for which they profess to be working. INFORMATION WANTED. Mr. Warren Foster, Dear Sir: I would like some information through the columns of your fearless sheet, to wit: There are two of us running a little meat market, for which privilege we have to pay the city $50 per year, 'cash in advance; then on our market fixtures etc., we have to pay taxes; and then on our individual selves we have to pay $3 per year poll tax. Now the question I wish to ask is this: In case we are so fortunate as to accumulate a dollar and s or two dollars, is there any other means the city has for getting that out of us. Yours Resp , Porter House. It seems to us, Mr. Porter House, that you are borrowing trouble; trying to cross the bridge before you get to it, as it were. The six-bit- contingency of which you speak is so far in the future, and so unlikely to occur, that you are only wasting your time, and wrecking your nervous system unnecessarily. You might as well spend your time in trying to fathom the makeup ot that mysterious mixture known to the world as boarding-hous- e hash, or conjecturing the length of the tail on the dog star, as to be trying to figure out how you are to spend "a dollar and or two dollars that you will never possess. live oft of the interest on what they owt other people? Well they do. Do you want us to prove it? All right, here we go. Now you will help us, wont you? All right. So you get up a good note for ninety days, aad go over to Mr. McCornicks bank and present it. If accepted you will receive the amount of the note less the interest in national bank notes. Now read one of them and see what you have and you will find that it is a plain note of hand signed by Mr. and the cashier of the bank, in which, they as officers of the bank, agree to pay you so many dollars on demand, but without interest The note he holds against you draws interest; the one you hold against him does not. Now, if you are not paying interest on what you owe the bank while the bank draws interest on what it owes you, this child doesn't understand English. How do you understand it? Eh? Me-Corni- ck W11AT THEY ARE SAYING. If a Legislature is able to pax laws which the jKMtjih who created it have no right to revise, then we have at last found a creature that is greater than its emit or. People's Party paper. Arizona ediiors are jubilant over the recent, great surgical discovery that a man can live without a stomach. Now, Brother lleppy of the Tribune thinks if they can only retain their gall they can manage to gel along without any other .internal workings. Tombstone Epitaph. Mr. Isold has undertaken to tackle the whole iHistal department outfit by charging that LSO additional carriers had been illegally apointed, creating a deficiency of firaMHNl. Rut what is that 10 the f20. 000,000 Load ginl his kind tornrit to be roMml bv the railroads for carrying the mails? All the carriers iu the service are- iueded, but Loud wants to discharge them, ami cut olf sample copies so as 1o suppress lilieral literatim' and enrich the Senator Pettigrew objects to the an- railroads. How much jier cent, of the nexation ef Hiwaii on the grounds that it railroad plunder dot's he get? San Franproduces, or can be made to produce, too cisco Star. much sugar. And he shows further that the Singerl.v, the Philadelphia banker who labor to produce said sugar would be perfailed and swifted about four million of formed by Asiatics, hence would make sugar his diijH's money is a rabid gold bug very cheap, which would be a very bad thing, Democrat who supported Mcllanna for for the people, especially for those who use President, because any other course was sugar! Oh deliver us from cheap sugar! dishonest and meant repudiation! Of course he is honest! All of them are. Cheap sugar? Wy it is horrible to contemelse are rogut. The fteople Everybody plate such a thing! Cheap sugar? Not much. took the advice of such men, and behold Why that would make candy cheap and the the glorious results. Apical to Reason. childrea would soon have no tee'h! Cheap The liberties of a poor man art few insugar? Oh no. Why look at the sweet 110I deed. He must not beg, he must cakes, the cookies, the pies, the plum pudlie not and steal. loiter, Indeed, his may dings and the thousand and one other dehim to work if lie the liberty gives right structive delectables that would follow in the can to if he starve and get employment, wake of cheap sugar! Cheap sugar? Oh cant. Rut let him lie very careful how Good Lord deliver us! Our advise to Sena- he conducts his untimely dissolution, or tor Pettigrew is to go and soak his feet, his lie shall be punished, lie must starve quietly ami unobtrusively, and without head is soft enough already. fuss and hurry. Let him but try to accelerate the pmeess by taking 11 dose of The News and Herald got into a fight or by a jump in the canal, and the this week over the speech that was made last consequences are severe. If his attempt Sunday evening at the Peoples church by is frustrated he will be punished in this Dr. Ravlin. The Herald's report of the world; if his attempt is successful he shall be damned in the next. Loudon affair, appears to have conveyed the idea in Clarion. the head of the News editor that the Peoples church is a religious organization, and that As soon as it gets so that all people can Dr. Ravlin preached a political sermon. So live off the interest of what they owe, then the News jumps onto the Herald because the will prosperity be here. That is we suppose Herald did not jump onto Dr. Ravlin for it class now that does that is will, for the - rat-Kiso- n, preaching politics from the pulpit, claiming, of course, that if Dr. Ravlin had been a mormon preacher, or if some mormon preacher had done as Dr. Ravlin did, that the Herald would have raised a howl about church interference in politics and so on. The News, it seems, does not understand that Dr. Ravlin is not a preacher, and that the so called Peoples church is not an ecclesiastical or religious organization in any sense, whatever. A landlord as a landlord produces nothing. He lives on the labor of others. All the wealth he enjoys, the houses, furniture, clothing, ornaments and food, are produce! by others. But you say he buys these things with his money. Yes; but whence comes his money? He does not produce it Men, his tenants, labor and produce things which they sell for money, and give the money to him. He gets without giving. He lives on the proceeds of slave labor. From an Exchange. only the backer, and he is prosperous. FAST TIME TO CHICAGO VIA. RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILWAY. Commencing February 5th the new time card of the Rio Grande Western goes into effect. The Atlantic Express leaves Salt Lake City at 9:00 a. m., arrives at Denver at 9:30 a. m the following morning, and Chicago 2:15 p. m. the third day; making connections with limited trains from Chicago to New York. The evening train leaves at 7:40 p. m., arrives Denver 9:15 p. m. the following night and Chicago 8:03 a.m. the third day, making close connections with the fast moring trains for New York and Boston, Both of these through trains are splendidly equipped with all latest appliances and conveniences, and carry Pullman Palace and Pullman Tourist Sleeping cars as well as free Reclining Chair cars. Ticket Office, No. 10S West 2nd South St. (Postoffice corner.) SECRET SOCIETY NOTES. The Woodmen of the World had a grand time at the Salt Lake Theatre last evening. God reigns and the Republican party Possibly you have.forgotten it so we will A very large crowd was in attendance and till lives telegraphed the blasphemous Hanna give you a quotation from a speech made by an elaborate program was rendered. Too when he was declared elected senator from Wm. McKinley in .1891. The speech was late for particulars. Ohio. We shudder to think of what dreadmade in Toledo, Ohio, just after Cleveland Mr. S. W. Darke, Grand Foreman of the ful things might have happened had Hannas; had taken a firm stand against silver. Mr. A. O. U. W., went to Mercur last evening boodle not won. Crawfordsville Argus. McKinley said: to institute a lodge of 102 members. The PRESIDENT JOHN SMITH. "Mr. Cleveland, during all his years at the Editor bears him company. head of the government, was dishonoring one President John Smith is the name of a of our precious metals, one of our own proTHE CHURCH. PEOPLES hook. inauhis It is a book that catches everybefore even endeavored ducts. He who reads. Mr. Lawrence was so of office silver the Ravlin D s evento to for body next Sunday coinage guration stop subject his of the with taken doss and it that he sent for fifty or to and ' dollars, afterward, ing will be Thought Transference, or the more which he lias loaned and administration, persistently used his power Art of copies, Thinking, and its Relation to the until they are about gone. Everyto that end.' He was determined to contract Remember the place, body likes it. We will have a lot of them the drculating medium and demonetize one Physical Brain. Gladstone of volume the limit of Hall, just south of the Godbe-Pitt- s 011 hand iu a few days. They sell for 10 of the coins commerce, make the money people, cents, notwithstanding the fact that the money among Drug Store. hook contains 300 pages. It is such a scarce, and, therefore, dear. He would have increased the value of money and dimin- PAPER CUTTER AND BOOK MARK hook as usually sell for 23 cents. Send ished the value of everything else money along your orders and they will he filled COMBINED the master; everything else its servant. He at tlie earliest possible moment. AdSent free of postage under sealed cover on dress was not thinking of the poor then. He had this office. left their side.' He was not standing forth receipt of ten cents in silver or stamps. The in their defense. Cheap coats, cheap labor latest, best aad. most serviceable adjunct of JUST RECEIVED. and dear money, the sponsor and promoter every library and office. Address Geo. of these, professing to stand guard over the AVe have received fifty copies of welfare of the poor and lowly. Was there II. HeafTord, 410 Old Colony Building, Tom Watsonjuston Railroads. Price 10 ever more glaring inconsistency or reckless Chicago, 111. cents. Send in for one at once. six-bi- ts man who will succeed Congressman King. About the only thing that seems settled relative to the whole matter is that Gen. John Lu Taylor will carry off the nomination from the Republican camp. Indeed he seems to be the only man in the party whose natural and acquired ability fits him for the place. While he makes few pretentions, he is acknowledged by all who have heard him to be a master in oratory. Indeed, there are but few lawyers in this city whose eloquence will assumption? draw a crowd to the court room, and GenThe most glaring inconsistency that we eral Taylor is one of them. It is no uncom- know of now is Wm. McKinley himself. mon occurrance, when it is known that he is l'lIOTO BUTTON NOVELTIES. to argue a case, for the young attorneys to pack the room to hear him. Gen. Taylor Call and see Shi piers Photo Huttons, a1ar has a most enviable war record, which Photo Cuff, Photo Scarf Pins, etc. Sliip-ler- s adds largely to his popularity. Again the Photographic Studio, Hooper block. . And so you did not know that bankers re-loan- ed FOR SALE OR TRADE. Weekly paper with well equipped office, situated in growing Oklahoma town. Will sell cheap for cash, or will trade for small tract of good land. Value of plant, $6oaoo Reasons for selling given on application. H. S. Foster, 125 Eighth West, Hutchinson, Kan. EQUALITY. We have on hand a few copies of Edward The book Bellamys last book, Equality. is having a large sale possibly larger than his Looking Backward. The price, $1.25, is too high, but it is as cheap as it can be had for. |