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Show 4 mrrn mnt nrt'Ptrr v fATTTJMAT. Thursday, December 10, lgj UTAH, AUGUSTUS GORDON.. EDITORIAL PAGE THE JOURNAL Published B Earl ft England Publishing Company j F. J. MARSHALL... r" CITT EDITOR The Pastel Rose and Silver Where Charity Begins Tax Reduction EDITOR Pickard: China A great many people have learned to hate Utah, thousands of property attractive lunch Setr owners are thinking thoughts similar to those the old truism, charity begins at home, bedecorated iA appropriate of the Morgan county fanner who wrote the cause it has been used as a cloak to cover underpn tflose of the selfishness and News: to part Deseret upon the charity following well able, but utterly unwilling to pay out their I am glad The News is an advocate of a reduction in taxes,. I have lived in means without receiving, a full equivalent in Morgan county over 40 years. Never return. It has been worn threadbare by those before have I seen such a large delinwho would refuse under any circumstances to quent list published in this county. Somunlend a helping hand to a fellow-wayfarA SUPERB COLLECTION ething must be wrong. I believe we are der any circumstances ; but they may still have OF THIS' FAMOUS paying too many men for doing little or ' nothing. I wish to call your attention, to . decency, or rather hypocricy, enough to seek (it, the increase in taxation. Before Utah, an excuse, no matter how gauzy. With such became a state I paid on a piece of proper-- f men, charity not only begins at home, but ends RECEIVED FOR THE ty $20 a year taxes. This year the taxes there. ' on the same piece of land, with no more HOLIDAYS. ' The axiom, however, is an accurate expresimprovements is $88. How can the cost BETTER SEE US of living be reduced when the cost of sion of a great fundamental truth. Charity FIRST." , production increases like that. should begin at home. It should begin in the Public extravagance seems to have gone to individual home, where it would be folly to such lengths that every unitof our various risk the danger that the little ones of the famdepartments of government; at 'least city, ily might have to go hungry, in order that rather to strengthen the weak, county and state, is always in distress for some lusty tramp might be fed. As soon as Jto aid those of strong minds ready money and is compelled to begin borrow- there is a little to spare for sweet charitys and poor bodies to bear the to of current soon almost as immemade-of life?Nature often puts pay the be should burden expenses ing sake, a survey as the last of the tax monex. is Hn ; and this diate 'neighborhood, that the jflistress of close precious parcels in small pack-- 1 ages and mighty brains in frail after having acquired a standing bonded in- neighbors may first be relieved; and then, in New York American. bodies. debtedness perilously near the limit. ever widening circle, ones city, county, state, Under the old conservative plan, although nation and from thence across the sea. As Even the cost of neutrality there was never much in any of the public the good book says, the poor we have with us runs high. treasuries and taxes were as much lighter than always, and our first charitable duty is toward at present as is indicated in the Morgan mans them. letter, we strove to make each years income Belgium, war torn, distracted, ruined and meet the years expenses. Then came a new starving, has presented a sorrowful spectacle idea. We were undeveloped and must at once appealing to the pity of the world. Rendered secure all the improvements possessed by lomeless and destitute through no fault of communities hundreds of years old, or be left leir own, the heart of humanity beats in Baskets Are Always Acceptable Gifts behind in the race for modernity. The pio- ender sympathy for the poor people . of Belit was done neers, conceded, had nobly, but gium, "and this feeling is everywhere finding bad reached their limit. It was up to the expression in gifts of food, clothing and money. Only the busy housewife knows the of many baskets. For the to element take the necessity burden. been Lets younger up Organizations for Belgian relief have and socks stockings which must be make the improvements now, while we are ormed by the thousand, and millions have been darned, for the unflnlshed piece of emliving to enjoy them, and let posterity foot contributed. Response to the appeal was imScene from" Ba toy Rxne.ITTnces, broidery. for the mending that meat the bills. And so we began to bond, state, mediate and most liberal, which is as it should be done all these things require the cities, counties and school districts, and thus be; but sentiment should not be permitted to Lyric Theater Night. Seats now on Sale, became the bond slaves of the coupon clipping, carry us to the expenditure of the last char-tabl- e 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50. Late cars will run on the Interurban interest-gatherin- g classes ; the leeches who live dollar to relieve necessity abroad, while lines. upon the life blood of the body corporate, and our own poor lack, food, clothing, firing, and ! who gave the worlds thinkers WHO ARE THE UNFIT who reap what others sowed. Our intent to t le other necessaries of life. , la stimulus such as they had done a pay was firm, but evidently not so firm as to The Rockefeller Foundation Educate only the fit, says not known. He said: If I had withstand temptation. Generally the course noble work for Belgian relief, f lTohn D. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,! not been so great an. invalid I has been the same as in the case of Logans tockefeller, jr., president of thr foundation, president of Columbia and col- -, should not have done so much ' lege presidents all over the work. forty thousand dollar Waterworks Bonds, stated on Sunday last: Reboul: What Dumas asked echo his sentiments.! which were to be paid in twenty years, the The foundation has thus far dispatch- - U countryreason from a a made you poet? and the an- standpoint contract. requiring that one twentieth of the ed one shipload of food. 4,000 tons to They economics that it is a waste rwer came in a single word: of Belgium, which already has been receivprincipal should be set aside each year, in adof time, effort and money to Suffering. ed and distributed; it is now loading a dition i to the annual interest payment. But put the facilities of colleges at Of the physically unfit imin New York harbor, which second ship the disposal of the physically mortals think of Gibbon, the we; needed other things and couldnt spare the will carry 6,500 tons, and has purchased historian ; Beethoven, Moliere, .money, so we violated the contract. We have for delivery at Philadelphia to a third weak. contri- Calvin, some of finest Ydt the Carlyle, Ruskin and paid in interest a sum equivalent to the amount ship, 280,000 bushels of wheat. These butions to the worlds g Robert Louis Stevenson. three ship loads represent an expenditure borrowed, and by refunding the bonds have All physically unfit, and yet have come from the physiof about $1,000,000. It has also sent a entered upon the task of repeating the operaone made the world richunfit. every cally commission to Europe, to advise as to how a er. himself tion. This is a fair sample. Bonds are rePhysical unfitness or sufvery great Shelley, and where further relief to noncombatworld to the fering is indeed often a stimusufferer, gave newed, and a large proportion of the tax ants may be most effectively provided, and lus to mental effort. Sacrifice of pedal basket Illustrated here Istora lines: these be used is ready to spend millions of dollars if money goes to the interest gatherer. Yet, men are cradled health is the price many noble nest of baskets which can while wretched Most In the all the mentioned, because w6 have not reached the things necessary in this direction men have paid for mental inwrong ; into.poetryby can be kept all of basket topmost summit and outshone all competitors, we seek This, with the many millions from other hey learn in suffering what tensity and spiritual earnest"babys toilet articles. The convenient ness. Some souls consume their point about these baskets la that they American farther improvements and more bonds, and sources; with the contributions they teach in song. can swing one underneath the other, send to the legislature and elect to office in the rom Italy and other neutral nations, and Shelley may not have meant bodies. thus Butler Is President but alone, taking up very little room. right? suffering state and in its various subdivisions, those who :rom England, should certainly have so far hysical is no mistaking Darwin, Should not our colleges aim here represent the progressive and debt creat- relieved Belgian destitution as to give us time are o look around a little to see if our neighbors ing element, and we must pay the price. weight with, a great many whose means Italy finds her first duty is to herself. A choice stocks comAnd by the way, the price is appalling. A are eating regularly, before we give more. at this time between the German-Austria- n limited. That is that when Christmas glance over the lists of delinquents in the Belgian relief must not be permitted to become bination, and allied powers of Great Britain, new and complete, the highest price the are embarRussia France and easily prove might various counties of the state, as published in such an obsession as is intimated in the after the the-waNo " decisive-battl- e traffic jwill. beaFL is asked; while 'of attheehd rassing the county papers, at first looks like an infrom the New York American: stock has beeii partially . depleted and the has yet been fought so far as we know. The efforts of Americans to send aid ventory of all realty. Cache countys deBut Italy doubtless does know and is acting choicest has gone, during the last day or two beabroad have to sufferers war passed covered information. list three of the The Jourconsiderable reductions are made; this being pages linquent upon charof outbursts the spontaneous yond and If any particular human agency has been nal in solid brevier. The Salt Lake county list particularly true of the more decorative of a great cathe face in itable instinct or filled a twenty-fiv- e responsible for Italys inactivity, that person Under such circumless useful articles. page supplement to the lamity. They have become a fad, a fashallies can bestow. the merit everything persons n a hundred fifty columns stances the merchants cannot expect the genion, a mania, a real madness. Charity field beside her associenter the to Were Italy closely set and approximating thirteen thoueral public to do their shopping before the plays too often second fiddle to social osates of the Triple Alliance, the exposed distentation. Our own people can be, and sand eight hundred descriptions. Adding just tricts of Southern France would be hers for the expected reduction, even if those who have as as cold, homeless, are, just just just the dollars in a single column we found a as taking. The necessary detachment of strength plenty of money do get first choice. hungry as any Belgian, and the man from the main French army to guard the Italtotal of more than ninety-nin- e o thousand eight who lets his neighbor freeze or starve ian border would seriously, perhaps fatally, - Some of the Rockefeller millions, under the hundred dollars. These are not property while doing himself some cripple the operations of the allies. Herald-- " are mission of foreign charity is not charivaluations, but taxes due. Think of it ! 'auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, Republican. of be to animated table. He is more likely Now but few people defer payment of o being spent to good purpose for the benefit should be the selfish It some purpose. by taxes until they are advertised because they mankind. The sums spent for Belgian relief Nearly every newspaper and magazine in one having any influence of every study the country has for several weeks been busy are gathering interest on tfte money. It is over his fellows t6, seek to stem thi rushare already noted. Realizing that there are in advocacy of the - regular annual early much more frequently because they havent got also poor at home, it has given forty-fiv- e ing tide of American benefactions to Christmas shopping, propaganda ; the object the price ; and the reason so many fail to have thousand dollars to relieve distress in New foreign suppliants, and divert a greater of the hands of it into outstretched part it ready is because it is difficult to pay so much York city, where there is hlways suffering. being chiefly to save the strenuous and exhome. at our nedy wornout labors forced haustive The Foundation is spending millions in mediin one lump sum and they have not yet learnupon poor o ed to save it up by degrees. They are learncal research 'work forjthe common benefit, but salesgirls 'in thebig city stores during the few 4 Index an days immediately preceding the holiday, which ing, though, that now taxes are approximating Italy probably its greatest work will be he organilike cheap cynicism to re may It appear exto so j what would have been a fair severe as leave the victims too rental a few mark that zation of a society for social and economic reiterated neutrality is the are Italys differ3 Tears ago, preparations must be made in ad best evidence the world could discover tha hausted to share in and enjoy the festivities. research, that the root causes of the asvanee. And when they sum up the genera neither Germany nor the allies have scored any The idea is a charitable and good one, but ences between capital and labor may be there are several things that militate against certained and indicated in such manner as to public financial situation they either feel like appreciable advantage, yet the dubious respec of modern ex warrants the diplomacy its general Observance. One is that the great swearing, or else praying for deliverance, ac- tability point the way to a' just apportionment, will make her choice between Italy pression. ai But and find their means utterly training. cording to disposition delibetately, coolly and impartially the Triple Alliance, with which she was align- majority of people alike yearn for a change of policy. and with sufficient time at :ts command, the ed, and the Triple Entente only whea.it.can be inadequate to meet the requirements of their o done with the minimum of danger. generous desires, and are in such a dilemma inequalities and injustice of present systems led become has the first to Some merchants, after the law as the division of the sum at their command is be made so apparent that remedial might. If I had only realized in of nations in Europe, as it has long been that between the objects of their desire, that, not gislation could not be successfully resisted. over, will say time how things were going, I could have of men. With battle and bloodshed all about until The great need is apparent, therefore w they are absolutely forced can they come made a fortune! Every merchant, who ad- her, with the map of Europe in possible prog- to a decision at the last moment. The Deseret friends of humanity will hope for the success vertises adequately will make a fortune be- -' ress of change, and the obliteration of present international boundary lines even probable, News suggests another reason that has fore the final peace is declared! of the undertaking. , All over er - j, V China " n u Car don Jewelry I Daily Christmas Hint To-morr- ( -- well-bein- te up-to-da- . fol-owin- g, r. -- Herald-Republica- much-advertis- ed a ; , bn-dertak- en war-perio- Self-preservati- on 4 J |