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Show TRUTH iMued Weekly TRUTH by PUBU5HINa COnPANY. and Central Block, West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. 11 12 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JAN. 11, 1902. TERflS OP SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR (In advance) - 92.00 SIX nONTHS 75 THREE MONTHS Ptwt piasters eendlng sulwcrlptlons to Truth 00 may retain 25 per cent of subscription price commission. If the paper Is not desired beyond the date subscribed for the publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. u DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his all arrears must be paid In jMtyer stopped; paper Requests of subscribers to have their attenmailed to a new address, to secure tion, must mention former as well as pres, ent address. Address all communications to Tbuth Pub XjXSHizto Company, Balt Lake City, Utah EVERT NOW AND THEN something crops up in this 43 1 ate that is apt to make people (think that the movement which was commenced ten years ago for a new order of thinks politically and socially has been a failure. The Mormon and Gentile line, which it is sought to obliterate, appears in many ways as distinctly as it ever did, and occasionally the divisions become arrayed agaist each other, the mask is thrown off and anger and. bitterness are displayed on both sides. It is to be regretted that it is so, but it is. a fact. There are those, especially within the Gentile ranks, who declare that the division on party lines was a mistake and has turned out to be a farce. They become discouraged, and talk of returning to former conditions The incidents which cause this line of thought are but there is no occasion for such gloomy forbodlngs. It took nearly forty years to reconstruct the South after the Civil war, and how complete the reconstruction is was only demonstated war. The during the Spansh-Americbitterness which existed between the factions in Utah were almost as intense as that between the North and the South. There is a good deal of the wild beast still lurking in the human breast, and the wonder really Is that so much has been accomplished in the past ten years. A return to old conditions is impossible. Young Utah and those of old Utah whose hearts are young would not think of .yet such a thing for a single Instant. They have had a taste of American politics, just enough to catch the facination and fan into a blaze their patriotism. There is no retrogration. The march in time with the rest of the Nation is well begun and will go right on. Sporadic cases of the contrary will occur, but the outlook is encouraging. It must be expected, however, that It will take years to make the reconstruction complete. Independence of thought re-greta- an and action grow slowly in (the world, ligious organs and not properly a part but they are growing, and once the in- of the press itself, and the mere exisdividual becomes accustomed to guid- tence of this fact caused the word secing his own steps he will not submit to ular to be applied as a prefix to the word press, and this In time came to be be led by others. implied in the word press so strongly newly-rise- n journalistic proIT IS RAPIDLT becoming the fash- did the fend itself from intermixture ion in this community to print sermons fession with the clergy. So, too, the very disindividually subsigned editorially. This tinction which was made to classify a practice, dating back six months, organ was the homily in edibegan in one big daily, and seems likely religious follows that this new departto become the mode in all during the torial. It ure here amounts to revolution punccurrent year. These type-scastigathe sidewalls betwixt the edtions of the public mind, already quite turing aJ ftnd .tfejat of the. Jrieat- numerous, and seemingly unending in itor jiapctum variety as well as extent, present to us some features worthy of notice. First, as to the matter of them; second, the personality of the contributors; third, the practice of printing them as editorial in daily papers; and last, the moral intent of their being presented. In style they are rather above the average productions furnished by their contributors to their parishioners. This is due partly to selection, i. e., the dramatic instinct of when in public putting the best foot forward, but principally to the effect of an unusually large audience having a tendency to draw the clergyman out of his shell be ruled. For the most part the matter in them .img ready In viewr of the possibility of this is too well-rea- d half thought to be to readily 'put into use in bur daily duties. which might happen. Truth suggests If the preachers only had the nerve its readers, as in the beginning of a to come clear out and brave the con- new year in a new century, that each make a brief inspection of his works to tempt agairst by sitting at meat with publicans, as Jesus did, see just in what condition he is inasmuch as ye have done it unto one the they might learn to hit the mark as he learned it. But so long as .this big shot much as ye have done it unto one of booms up from the parsonage, it ever the least of these is the measure of the law when he comes. lacks the flat trajectory peculiarly et wine-bibbe- rs Na-zarin- e. These heavy efforts so far vary In kind from a proclamation by the Governor telling us how to vote to a didac- tic lecture by a head reader of a Chrls-tio- n Science Sunday-schoexpounding the modicum of faith exigent to remove chilblains. And yet the contributors are all rev- i erned gentlemen of some sort, with the single exception of the postmaster of this city, whose strong propensity for getting in carried him into this class. In addition to being signed, each separate piece is usually further identified either by an index in caps or by title suffixed as adenda to the signature. This is unction or the reader perplexed in the argument, reassuring him what it is. But the most serious effects by far from all of it is due to the printing of it as editorial. This amounts practically to an innovation in Journalism such as will produce a primary and secondary change. It is within the recollection of men now living when for the time were barred from the columns of the daily press, and it is doubtful whether at all the editorial columns were ever open to homilies until quite recently. There were papers printed by religious sects since the dawn of journalism In which this function not only prevailed but was the .predominant feature, but these were considered re- ol hom-eleti- cs PEFPEBCORNS. A New York hypnotist claims to able to treat actors and actresses such a manner as to Improve th ,r work on the stage. Delay not, broth but get to thy saving work at once. The Denver Post declares Gen. Arthur is as much of a great n. now that he is a l, as when he was a Captain down in XStrange. Major-Genera- - David Lieberman of Denver l.ris sued the lodge of the Maccabees there for $51,080, damages alleged to have been inflicted while being initiated, lie says they did things to him; shot .it him and inflicted divers and sundry bruises and wounds upon him. If his allegations are true the Blue Church, of this city, Isnt in it with that organi-zatloJosh Davis had best look to his n. laurels. Venezuela had better settle, is the headline of an editorial in the Provo Enquirer. The article folowing continues the advice. That ought to be warning enough for Venezuela. Send a marked copy to Castro, Brother Graham and he will no doubt heed this timely advice and save himself trouble. But who would have thought a Venezuela Moses in Provo? After being christened with native champagne, it is noted that the battleship Missouri Immediately took to the water. Rather tough on the wine. Wireless telegraphy having become firmly established, it is quite likely that the grapevine" will go out of fashion. A dozen or more exchanges have come to hand with leaders reading Hail 1902. If its all the same, dear brethren, well take rain or snow in ours. A native minister declares China needs Christianity. Yes, and China needs horse sense with it. THE MOVEMENT just started for Prof. Parsons of Boston declares the purpose of Inaugurating a ComWe eat too much. That may be to as Boston a true relates professor, mercial club or a Chamber of Combut we are from Missouri out here and merce in Salt Lake is good, exceeding- you have got to show us. ly good and should receive encouragement from every resident of the city. The benefits to be derived from such an institution are so apparent that no argument on the point is admissible. A St. Joe parson declared from his pulpit recently that young women should propose marriage to young men when they feel they have met with one who will suit. The girl who cannot make a fellow propose to her when they are well matched otherwise without coming out. and saying so in plain Jackson, language is not right in the head. In the death of William G. the newspaper fraternity and the public also sustain a severe loss. Mr. Jack-soalthough only a resident of Salt Lake for about fifteen months, had many warm personal friends, and many more who knew him by his writings. Although but a young man, he had large experience in the newspaper world, and had already made a name for himself as a writer of verses and pungent and humorous paragraphs. He came to Salt Lake from Chicago for the benefit of his health, and materially enhanced the value of the editorial page of the Salt Lake Herald by his clever and entertaining specialties. He was a young man of exemplary character and high aspirations, and was a general, favorite with his in the newspaper world, who all sincerely regret his being cut off in the beginning of a brilliant career. Truth offers his POLICE INCOMPETENCE. n, The police have made such a mess In the collection of evidence in the Hay murder case that the murderer of the unfortunate young man will in all probability never be brought to justice. The evidence they have obtained is such that the prosecution has little convicting anybody. The amatuerish way in which the investigation has been conducted, the publicity which daily, sometimes twice a day, was given to such clues as had been discovered effectually prevented the disto covery of the valuable information followed which the clues if properly would have led up. The disorganization in the police force and the want of a competent head to direct things was so great that the prosecuting how the case was being officers, on to mother and friends its sincere botched, seeing put private detectives In their bereavement. sympathy wrork it up, but their efforts were thwarted and nullified by the clumpy work of the police. It Is a most seriThe decision of the State Supreme ous condition of affairs and one which court holding that the act of the Legis- ought to be quickly remedied by the lature, increasing the salaries of cer- appointment of a competent head to the tain State officials, is constitutional, is department. There are a number pi satisfactory to a majority of the peo- men on the police force thoroughly ple. The remuneration of those officials capable of handling the case if they was too low. were given an opportunity. ers grief-strick- en hope of |