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Show Jk THE PROVO POST PAGE TWO AcW THE PROVO POST f TrTrfrnrrfTmr; ixtiza;riin:rtrinrixKirzrGXtxxxrn;;z.ixKixxi;iixiiixxixrtiii? ? Published Every TUESDAY. THURSDAY and SATURDAY . Utah-- . At Nos,- By The POST PUBLISHING COMPANY. PRICES IN ADVANCE 2.5Q. Three, months SUBSCRIPTION One jyear... Id. C. jj.7!,ePt ' NT Cri.UCKS,'teager I1ICKS, Editor. T 1.50One month six months lntered at the Postofflce of Provo City as second-clasMarch 3, lS8L--;i...I .. Act. oL Congress 25 Cents matter according to s . Post subscribers are requested to notify- this office ' promptly7 whenever the paper is not received. Residence carriers are" supposed to notify the subscribers by blowing a whistleupon their arrival with tbe paper.- Please help us to see that this rule Is enforced by. reportlng any negligence on the part of the carrier. - --- - COURTESY AS AN ASSET. .1 , ii . Railway companies and other public service corporations arc now laying stress upon the value of courtesy toward the public. Some of them are issuing circular letters of instruction to employes, not only as to the value-bu- t as to the natureijjfjcourtesyr" One of "these," coming out of a St. Louis railway office, bears evidence of emanating from a polite mind, such as knows, always, that the quality of courtesy is never strained. Courtesy Ib to be distinguished from mere The latter wont do. It is short of the mark. civility, it says. An illustration is then given of how a question can be answered civilly but not .courteously, because incomplete in the detail needed to reassure the questioner. This is a fine but an eminently true and just distinction. An inquirer-abou- t train connections can be left in a thicker haze than before,, if, the railway employe gives an answer entirely clear to his own mind but confusing to that of the patron of the road who has every reason, and every right, to be fully informed. But after all, the man in public service corporation employment who is merely civil is not the one who is the more responsible for public against such organizations. That odium falls most heavily upon the thousands who have been neither civil nor courteous, hut arrogant and to the last trying degree. . IIow many millions, in the aggregate, such cads have lost to their employers, in fanning a flame of public resentment aghinst corporations in general, can never be told. While public service corporations were less interested in public service than in politics, the politicians pull swarmed many, headquarters and minor stations with persons feeling no responsibility either to the public or to the corporations themselves. As a rule, and almost from the necessities of such a case, men, and sometimes women, holding by such, a tenure have left themselves under such a heavy Weight'ofWbligalions to the politicians who were working their pulls, that, under a law of eqiialization, they have had to slough off any scnseof obligation they might' otherwise have TeTt to stockholders, or to the people the stockholders are anxious to do business with. This condition is glimpsed in the circular before us, which after saying that while some of the loss and depression has been due to' restrictive legislation, adds: But we dont overshoot; the mark when we name lack of courtesy on the part of employes as next in line. The mentor admits that patienceunder difficulties is j not easy,, but he enjoips his readers to remember that the larger the man the larger the patience, and therefore the larger the courtesy This Is hitting upon a vital, not to say primal, truth of life, wliich concentrates in the one sentence : No man is too big to be courteous, but many men are too little.. This is & bit-owisdom it would not be amiss to print in large letters, frame and hang in the office of all public service corporations, as an admonition alike to the pub-- j " lie and the people they deal with. ...... - i i 1 1 VdD f imk . I i I - ' i r f i 1 f r-- r lnnrr I eet Your Friends at the be there Races--Theywwilk- all Nothing Like it Ever Seen in This Section. I Every Eveiit Will he a . PLUNGING INTO FREE TRADE. The Democratic platform adopted at Baltimore begins with a etraightout declaration for free trade, and the assertion that a protective' policy violates the constitution. President Washingtoi and his associate founders of the government thought otherwise, for one of the earliest measures set in motion when Washington was first' inaugurated recognized the desirability,.and oourse the legality, -- ofA protective tarifLDuring thc4ast fiftctfycars the business of the country has been conducted under a protective tariff as shaped by Republican administration during this period. Shall free trade take its placet The Democratic platform distinctly answersyes.j The election of a Democratic president and Congress in' November will usher in free trade unless the platform ! the Democratic party is repudiated in its first and foremost clause. In some quarters it is hinted that full free trade will be evaded, as during President J.; eve--1 "lands "second term, that nightmare of business depression But no evasive party can be trusted. Its proper treatment is defeat. That the business activities of the United States have been etfor-- j 'niously developed in the last fifteen years is a . matter of common knowledge. Every census bulletin is an example of the increase. Thus speaks protection for itself. Its record is an array of aeeomJ ; plished facts, hot a theory with a string of promises attached.' Look! at the tens of thousands of factories in operation and the vasGy enlarged industries of the last decade.- Ndte that the foreign demand for American manufactured articles has amounted to more t ban a billion dollars a fourfold gain in The" last .ten years. Is hot this a matter of careful thought by the great army ofmen engaged in the xnyraid forms of manufacturing that have sprung up under Ihe'two Republican protective tariffs in force since 1897! There lu-- been and the minesr Its story is the re--j equally protection for suits. To fqrget it will be calamitous, as. was proved in the last Democratic administration, which dabbfed in and muddled with free trade of a halfway sort. There is a better way to learn than hy bitter eX-- j No Waits--N- o TfiiriSter--- Time To Lose i Epperson Race Trseh In Excellent Ccr.ii2aa , s' - .J f 25 Cents s the-farm- s -- EVERYBODY IS INVITED pericnce. Suppose Webster had taken three days to reply fo llayho. Ills speech would never have become a classic in the schools of the United States'," and it was the boys Who declaimed that masterpiece who fought for the Union. . w t? J Governor Wilson told Atlantic City it needs more moral pride. The idea of tolling a summer, reso'rt it needs anything hut the money t' r I E y yfr r y - itn ' |