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Show The plaint of the Emperor of China anent the drubbing tne Flowery Kingdom King-dom has received at the hands of plucky little Japan, is very touching but very weak. lie is now engaged cutting off the heads of his unsuccessful unsuccess-ful generals, in order to get even, we suppose. We would recommend that he cut off the heads ot the successful Ja p-anese p-anese generals. His Mijesty must have read something of the history of our war and the way Staunton used to do it. We can tell him that cutting ofl heads will never woo victory tohisstand- I arda. The thing to do is to roll up his sleeves and go in, in person and beat the Japs In their own way of fighting. The day of the gong as a war implement imple-ment is over. j Governor Fishback, the retiring governor of Arkansas, thinks that etate would be justifiable In declaring war against the government of the United States because it has gathered about it an aimy of favorites in whose interests alone the government is being conducted. con-ducted. We don't know but Fishback is about right in this. Every state which has received Id jury cannot afford af-ford to declare war though. A greenback note payable in gold or silver without discrimination, might not stand very high in Wall street, but send it to the western side of a line drawn on the summit of the Alleghany mountains and it would answer every requirement as money. This ie the simplest and least troublous i way to restore silver. It has this advantage, ad-vantage, it Is plain, direct and entire. It can't be covered up, clouded or misunderstood. mis-understood. Suppose some one of our krave and great financiers in Washington Washing-ton were to offer a bill to that effect. This much more might be said: Two tiiirds of the population of the nation reside west of the line we have drawn. That ought to count for something. . John Hknry Smith's proteBt and a Idress is most vigorous. Now we will see if the local board will ba able to do aayt'r.ng for John Henry's relief. When one enjoys the delusion that he has been elected to office and after three months finds that he hasn't been, he is apt to work himself into a pet. The Tribune is begging hard for money to pay the expense of the late Sanpete trials. It exhibits great ingenuity in-genuity in twisting and turning the arguments in favor of the sum. That citch phrase of "roll of honor" fund lias caught dimes and nickles galore. Here Is dignity for you. .. ... Mit. John M. Zank, hl; since the hurry and worry of the Sanpete cases is over, is comingoin for a very just share of condemnation which is being destributed to both himself and the in-pudent, in-pudent, audacious and fiercely partisan parti-san Tribune. Four of the victims of the Butte disaster belonged to .Utah. Thy were firemen and all died at the post of duty. If one has to die, the post of duty is the place to do it. Utah men always die there or in clo3e proximity to it. There will be growls, loud and sonorous if the local returning board in Salt Lake doesn't seat John Henry. The creature will not fare much better than the creators have done, unless the result is reversed, right or wrong. Casimir-Periee resigned because the papers lampooned him. He ought to be president in the United States for a term. His delicacy would promptly take wings. The Tribune dresses Bill Glasmanu down in its own inimitable style. It is a dog eat dog affair between them in which we feel but little interest. Faroe's election constitutes a great boom for the socialists. How long will it be now until France will be under the government of the commune? |