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Show THE SPRIN0V1LU INOEPENDEHT Saa. 11. LeHaj, E Itar aud Manager. Intered at tho Hf.it oftl.-e Ht Sprlrivllln Utah, for irwiwul-W't'" ibi.m.'li tlio mails as (t'lind-i'lKw. mMei Issued cvervJKridsiy One fir. Six month. Three mouths. :.oe 1.00 .so TSSOCiATIQN oov r.R Ji g r o iV Kits n i v RAILROADS. OF "Switzerland is a republican form of iMvermiii'nt, where the initiative isid lelereiiduin are in effect, and when great queMions of staft; come uj, all the 'iiial t tl-) vol en of the nation .j.iss Judgment. Lately the railroad problem lus been brought to un Issue by sutaniltim: an act passed by the frd.nl assembly, pro idin for state purchase, to popular approval, ap-proval, and the law was ratified b) 3SB.000 vsies against 182 COO. The ' Litest percent tfe of adverse votes, cime from the mountain cantons, where thert are few railroads, the valley people deciding almost unanimously unani-mously in favor of government ownership. owner-ship. "The American eople will watch with much interest this latett leglsla-tion leglsla-tion of the Swiss republic and if the economic diftieull ies are success fit lit met, government ownership may be-coaic be-coaic an Irrepressible issue, in otu politics. "Already tlie mounlainceis of republican re-publican Europe have demonstrated that the initatjve and referendum are desirable method.' of legislation, the leading statesmen of all parties i.f Switzerland having united in commending them to all republics." (OtJen Standard. There are two propositions in the above from The Ogdeii .Standard that the editor of that paper seems to have too hastily concluded us being excellent i leas for our country to adopt, the government ownership ol laihoadi", und the initiative and leferenduin of laws by tin people. As to the first, if our government govern-ment should conclmJe to own tlm railroad tind operate the Kitme in thi-t country it would huve to ruie $10,000,000,000, or an amount equul to tin present total of the entire stock 4)1' metallic money, gold und silver, of the world. Now, our country certainly should pn for the property it confiscates. It will thus be seen (hat the government will first have to take possession, of nil the gold mid silver of the United states now coined and then conliscate all the mines of the country. In the meantime it will be com pelled incidentally to take possession of all the farms, nil the produce which is now seeking seek-ing lite foreign markets, and then enforce practically elavery of labor to keep tilings going till the transfer ol all the railroal property has been made. In the meantime, the present owuers of all lh railroads of America will be invited by every South American republic, bv every habitable section of Africa, by Siberia, by liritish America, and by Mexico, to come to each of those countries with their wealth just a fast as "Undo bam nays it over to them.- Thai is, the government ownership of railroads in this country means that our country is to be stripped for an indefi nite period to enrich the rest of tho world. But lonve this ploomy part of it out of the calculation and granted that the scheme whs no in operation under Populism -and crime. There would be 1,000,000 railroad men or more to add to an already large list of governmental cm-ployees cm-ployees to keep that party in power. Then to them add millions of tramps who for free rides will gladly vote to main tain a scheme that will permit , them to flock into states and districts to there plunder (he producers of their crops and property, and it will cost many lives if the demands of these "Coxy armies" are refused. Then there will bo no army, no militia, no police, Protection lo life, liberty ami property is mi im possibility under Populism, Popu-lism, So these protectors will be dismissed promptly to satisfy the demands of a majority of those voters who will be permitted per-mitted lo cnjuy llie light f suffrage. T lit visionary enthusiasts of the initiative and reiV i end urn always point o S witzt-rlnii'l as ii shining example of tho good Hucls 'f this scheme. In Switzerland it is only in fur. e '. in those cantons w here t here ; ate t''.t pt-r cent Catholics. It is j a success there because tin-, priests rule anyway. Mere, such questions as cattle running at j largo could never be settled. ; Utah, under the most favorable j circumstance would have an ehctiou t vety week. The fie- quency of elections would so j ligust the producers and busi ness men I hut I hey would soon refuse to take part in the same md the franchise would be exercised by a mere handful ! irofessioual politicians and eveiv voter would te drawing ..I .i i salary. Capital would retire, 'ahorers would he discharged,) 1 1 1 1 markets would be destroyed, I and r.KUisirv would oe strangle 1. Then G 'eat. Britain would lake a row of s ts off, lenr across the continent on iho norm. nance and (lermay would divide up the southern states, and Russia would take this southwest. The America which the world has looked on for tho past thirty-five thirty-five years would ho known no more in history, for the entire area now called by that name would have coolie laborers as tho bread winners. Speak up, . i i you who are enthusiastic lor these results. POITLISM AXD CRIME. There are quite a number of the Utah papers advocating the adoption of what is known as the initiative and referendum. rhat is, the people in their in lividual capacity in some way, either by the uplifted hand or by a secret ballot, are to directly make and pass their own laws. Just what will be the method employed has not us yet been divulged, and Ihere will be no harm done if an independent journal should happen to look into the question for the benefit of its readers. It will be entirely unsatisfactory unsatisfac-tory if the people, are in any way prohibited from voting on every amendment which may he olfeied or which good sense suggests, else the peopie will vole against many a really mer itorious proposition just because swine esseiiiialiy vital principle has been overlooked or left out Then it seems the people of Utah will, whenever they want to enact a law, have to assemble at Salt Lake and go into a committee com-mittee of the whole. Then Salt Lake might want us to report progress and sit again to help out the proprietors of hotels restaurants, res-taurants, bakeries and lodging houses. Within a week after it had become a law the supreme court would have us all upthere again to patch up some ohjec tionable features. As an example, ex-ample, suppose the people enacted en-acted a (ax law, and it contained some clause which confl cted with the constitution of the Uuited Slates. Either the state would be without funds for two to four years or the people would again be called upon to meet at Salt Lake and vote out the objectionable ob-jectionable features. Then, all those who do not care whether or not taxes are to be paid might secure the insertion of such an amendment on this unpopular un-popular topic which would again have the supreme court declare i he act unconstitutional. It would be found exceedingly difficult dif-ficult to secure a vote on any equalizing act which would satisfy sat-isfy all the people of the several counties, for nearly every voter would have an amendment to oiler, and each amendment must be passed upon before the main question could be voted. On the other hand, if the law is to be first placed bfore some kind of a legislative body to be so drawn up that an issue may be mado, it will precipitate a never end.ng clash between those who want high taxes Uvied from tho real estate as against those who will fight for their homes and who will naturally waut low taxation. There would bo a never ending end-ing contlict on tho water question, ques-tion, fences, callle running at large, taxation of sheep in one I county an l the tuxes to he di- vided with another county, lr ceny und lis punishment, and ! other questions. The agitators would ho stir up the people that j not one law would remain undisturbed un-disturbed on the a'atute book. The people will be called upon to vote an answer lo each of these questions in turn' "Sh ill we tax?" "Who?" "When?" ''What?" "How much?'' If the railroads will be expected to pay tlie expenses of the slate and county governments, then the railroads t tc. will quit busi- ness and the state and counties will be compelled to hunt u some other victims. In tin- ; meantime other states will have secured the capitalists snd capital cap-ital driven from our mills'-, and then in turn the people will vote to abolish all taxation on rail- i i .... roans etc. as an liuniueiireni lor them to return. But soui'ollhe referendum advocates will insist I he scheme will he a good thipg for a Hy anyway. Let us see. Every city in Utah contains what the Salina Press declares are "water hogs.1' Now, at a time when water is scarce, just imagine what a battle one of our cities would have in determining jusi when each irrigator could lake water a ad how much. This is a question no council of Spring-ville Spring-ville has ever settled satisfactorily, satisfac-torily, either to itself or to the people, although I he city has been incorporated since 185.'). If in all that lime no city council coun-cil has solved this vexatious problem, its settlement by tin citizens in their individual capacity ca-pacity would be impossible, for a mob never definitely settled any proposition. There would be countless feuds. Each "dry" summer would witness daily sessions of the people on the city square. Just imagine Mayor 1 1 all even daring to decide a hotly contested question "lost" or "carried." And wouldn't the voters have lo's of fun? We would vote ourselves rich, and none would have to work, because be-cause we would all be wealthy. Lot's wife evidently suggested the expression "rubber neck." Philadelphia Times. Streets in Jersey City have been renamed Schley, Sampson, llobson, Shnfter, Miles, Dewey, Wheeler and Merrit. Brother Warren Foster, editor of Living Issues of Salt Lake, has been nominated by the Populists of this htate as candidate for congress. "You can gimme," said a tail trooper, as he stowed most of his length under the table in an all-night eating house, "some ham and eggs and a beefsteak with onions, a broiled chicken with some fixin's, a .dozen oysters, two kinds of ice cream and a can of peaches." Some of the rough riders are also hungry, observes the Pittsburg Dispatch. Let us work for the free coinage of silver by all means, hut let it be at an honest ratio. The United States alone cannot raise the value of silver any more t han it can lower the value of gold. Further, The Pioneer will venture tho prediction that the silver plank now advocated by tho Democrats and half-breed Republicans of Utah will not be embodied in the national plat form of either party in 1900. Emery County Pioneer. President McKinley has ordered or-dered tho two battleships, the "Oregon" and "Iowa;" to proceed pro-ceed byway of Cape Horn to the territory of Hawaii and then to Manila. It is expected the two and their four collier consorts con-sorts will arrive at their final destination about the latter part of next February. In the mean-time mean-time five more American regiments regi-ments have been ordered to the Philippine islands. This is a precautionary measure against Germany, whose fleet of warships war-ships have mud themselves obnoxious to Admiral Dewey. The late orders certainly mean that not only the island of Luzon but the entire Philippine group will be retained bv the United States. W. G.T.U. Department Edited bi the SpriwjrilU Union. TOIIACCO. The use of tobacco may pro duce an irregular heart action j mi exaggerated kind of palpi-; lut:on heart "fluttering," or in some cases tho heart beat may j become greatly weakened by j t he tobacco poisoning. This isj known to physicians as ihe: "lobacco-heart." The use of tobacco is especially espe-cially injurious to tlie throat and lungs. Il causes the throat to! become dry and irritated. Thej voice becomes husky from thej iriitant action of the noison. Olten a dry, hacking cough is produced hy its irritation of the membrane lining thej larnyx and bronchial tubes. I llab.tnal smokers usually sutler, j alter u time, from what i known to the medical profession as the "smoker's sore-throat." The effect of tobacco upon the nervous system is that of modifying the energies and not the structure. "On the youthful youth-ful and immature," says Dr. (.'utter, "the ellects of tobacco in what form soever taken, art . pernicious. The processes ol nutrition are diminished and and the growth slunted; the I nervation of the heart is dis-turbed; dis-turbed; Us uctiou becomes weak, lingular, and intermittent, lausmg alpiiation, famtness, an.1 diziuess; muscular coordination co-ordination is impaired, for it i-said i-said that youihlul smoicers cannot draw a clean "straight line " Certain glands, at first ore stimulated especially by cigarette-smoking, but later become be-come markedly debilitated; i he power ol concentration ol mind is lessened, the intel lectual activity ia said to be impaired, and the whole individual in-dividual is crippled. Tobacco is a bane to the youth of the world. No boy from ten to fifteen years old can practice smoking or chewing the weed without becoming no ntally and physically less efficient when he reaches his majority than he otherwise would have been. By chewing anil smoking tobacco the sensibility of the nerves of the tongue and palate may be lessened to such a degree as to greatly impair the ense of taste In cases of the smoktr's sore-throat the inflammation in-flammation may extend to the eustachian tubes, and the middle ear greatly injured if not destroying the sense of hea ring. A New York specialist says; "The greatest enemy to the eyes of young men is i he cigarette. Recently n diseu.-e appeared among smokers which is dangerous, and after careful investigation the best authorities who for a long time were at a loss to understand the peculiar malady; have traced it to the small paper covered tobacco sticks. It is now known as the cigarette eye, and can be cured only by long treatment. Its symptoms are dimness and filmlikc gatherings over the eye, w hich appear and disappear at intervals. To II im Who Waits. 1 wnrcd my peerless Edith S me twenty years ago, Nut Danvers had me bested A million plunks or so. 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