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Show t U TRUTH OGDEN LETTER. fj Ogden, Jan. ) ft: i j 10.'Without flourish of trumpets or blare of horns the new regime in municipal affairs took hold of the helm on Monday last, and at this writing are safely stowed on the out ship of state with the tide ebbing on the a From lofty position to sea. is able mariner an experienced bridge to detect signs of a storm, and it is a safe prediction that the waves will be before beating and the hot air blowing The the voyage is many days advanced.trouis ithere but officered, ship is fully ble brewing over the crew. The captain wants his personal friends to have cabin and charge of quarter-dechold, while some of the mates think the crew make about as good pick of the old seamen as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat. - k, In other words, the capable, Councilmen, intelligent,' with a Republican majority of ten, noghave got it into their gins that Orson Ris;er, Democrat, is about as good a fire chief as Ogden is entitled to. This idea was helped along by a mammoth petition, signed by practically everv business man in town, which expressed a strong desire to leave It the fire department undisturbed. is only proper to say that some of the Council find this petition a convenient shield to crawl behind, as they favor Riser because they believe him to be the best man for the place. In politics a petition, no matter how badly is seldom regarded as worth more than the paper it is written on. In this case, however, It serves seven or eight Councilmen as trumps in the good political game of bluff. all-rou- nd lofty-ideal- ed fire-insur- ed out that Tommy Jones Carr bad used the Council to make a monkey out of the Mayor he pulled his parliamentary wits together and called a meeting for. Tuesday. The meeting was held, the time was opportune, and Bills message exploded with the noise of much conflict. There Is one thing about that message which can be said in a word it is to laugh. It is unique in construction, overflowing with ideas, bad and otherwise; stuffed with egotism and barren of reasonable conclusions. He wants some offices abolished and more consolidated. He wants the firemen to be the wet nurses for the city and keep the records of births and deaths. He wants his predecessor prosecuted for maintaining a contingent fund, and he asks that the local license be removed from breweries. This last idea is more pathetic than practical. You see, Gus Becker is the only brewer in Ogden, and as Gus is credited with handling for Bill the saloon vote, it is easy to see where he gets off at. Everybody step up and have a drink of Beckers Best. It is evident thlat the ante-electio- n promises are going to be knocked higher than ever Gilroy hung his bacon. The Republican committee, which thought it was entitled to all the pie, has been denied even the crumbs that fall from the political table. Chairman Murphy wants his friend Skeen for Street- Supervisor, but Bill, while he only half trusts Murphy, is absolutely opposed to Skeen. The reason, as stated by Skeen is that he did not make a deposit with the Mayor when he made his application.' If that is true, there is hope only for those canBut the immobility of Riser is also didates who will pay the price. The steadied by a hand that was supposed chances are, however, that Skeen and to be in active opposition to the Interests Murphy and Bill will get together, and, Council willing, Mr. Skeen will go of the Fire Chief. The hand is that the on the citys payroll. of the Mayor. While his Honor has almost Bill in his clamorous CHATTER. demands for the heads of all Democrats in office, the sequel finds him offering the Council all the other spoils, Being the personal opinions of the including the head of the Fire departwriter and for which no one else is in ment, if they will confirm Tom Brownas Chief of Police. Of course Bill ?ny manner responsible. ing will not appoint Riser, but he will send This has another kick to the Council a list of other names coming;department on the fraternity. this time which they are not to confirm. And The expression pulled off is becomthus Riser holds his job. The result is that the Mayor, by connivance with the ing too general in its use. It origiCouncil fathers a scheme to oust a Renated with the element which goes out publican and retain a Democrat. While and batters each other in a roped ring this is not what he would have pre- and was lnlended to only to ferred to do, the fact remains that his pugilistic affairs, but apply some way its promise to the Council is now a mathas appealed to reporters and ter of history, and his time for ex- juiciness editors country alike, and everywhere, plaining will come when he asks for one from the columns of a metropolitan of his celebrated ,,vindicatIons.,, daily to the paragraphs of the rural weekly, one sees pulled off forever A southern Utah exand forever. tells how a Christmas tree was The installation of the new city offi- change off a at church. On second pulled cials was a quiet affair, although there the expression might have thought, was some coldness in spots. There were been all right there, had it alluded to no tears and no one got drunk. If there the presents. In an Eastern paper we was any kind of a shock it was only read the announcement that a donaperceptible to the patriots who made tion party will be pulled off at the way for the reforms. parsonage on Thursday evening; the Anaconda correspondent of that exceld lent but journal, the a informs grasping pubWhen Tom Carr, Councilman from lic that the of Shore Acres will play the First ward, who, as the protege of be pulled off" at the opera-hous- e on a G. Wash Jones, a will and have future it hopes date, his model, outstripped so nauseam: on ad and house, as Bill Nye said about the ballet girl, good thing we know the society edimade his idiotic motion to adjourn last First tors and editresses will get hold of it Monday night (and it carried) he left snd then we will read items like this: Mrs. Blank will pull off a pink tea at the Mayor hanging by a thin thread between a fit of apoplexy and a spasm, her cozy home next Tuesday afterThe wedding of Miss Mamie ou see the application? The Mayor noon. had eighteen pages to Skipandfly and Mr. Runandwalk was of message off at the cathedral last Wedneshand to the new city juicy and pulled dads, they adjourned without giving him a chance day morning, Rev. Father Prayerful 10 shoot it into them. Or we may read that: It was Inex- officiating. The funeral of the late John cusable, if an oversight, and absolutely was pulled off from the family shameless if a slight were intended. Whatever the Council thinks of the residence on Sunday afternoon, a large Mayor, it should be free from insult or number of friends, etc. Give us a rest the evidence of disrespect. on pulled off. Its too strenuous. Well, damn my eyes. If I am not serious! That will never do. getting i hat I want to tell you is that so long The best way to advertise is just to 1 there are 7 Mayors who have advertise" says the Springville Indeto deliver to Councils, there no reason why aCity Council which pendent. No such thing. There are the Mayor on Monday night can-'- -t too many who just advertise already. be gathered together to listen to men who advermessage on any other old night. What are needed are ;erefore, when President Driver found tise. Half of the matter designated ink-staine- d, j r 3 P - out-Bill- ed crazy-quilte- Inter-M- ountain, Gone-anddi- 1 mes-Mg- es I i 1 i in-dt- ed ed 7 as advertising is not advertising at all, and for all the good it does might as well never have appeared in print. There is an art in advertising as well as in all other business. The fellow who has a lot of stuff to sell generally rushes to the printer, tells him he wants the lowest rates he can get, jews him down to a starvation basis and then writes a lot of tommy rot himself, prints it, lets it stay printed without change for weeks, and, when no one appears to buy, grumbles and declares advertising does not pay. Now, take old John Wanamaker. He isnt altogether lovable at least, every one does not like him but he knows how to advertise. He hires a talented man at a salary of about 930,000 per year to manage that department. Under him are writers of ability. Result.' Johns advertisements read like novels. Everyone peruses them and then go over to see what they have read about. If they They buy, and buy plenty. hadnt read they would not have visited his store. If they hadnt visited the store they would not have bought. Of course, every one cannot hire men like Wanamaker, but there are plenty of ad. writers at home. Five dollars for writing a large attractive ad. is not money thrown away by any means. It is a good investment. Small merchants in the. country would do well to subscribe to some journal like the National Advertiser, get some ideas and then use them. The way to advertise is to advertise right. If you have something to sell, tell what it is and what it will cost. , - . . And now the eminent Bishop Potter lias opened his mouth and inserted his foot therein. In an address, recently delivered, he declares the drunkard unworthy of sympathy. He asserts with emphasis that it is a false sentiment to condole with him, and declares the teachings of John B. Gough, and their A entire theory, false and rotten. drunkard, according to Bishop Potter, is a responsible person, given over to one who understands ihe consequences of his wrong-doinwho drinks when he knows it will injure him; whimperingly concedes the demands of his appetite, and therefore he deserves no consideration because of his unfortunate predicament. The term "unfortunate is my own. The bishop did not make use of it. Oh, sapient disciple of the Man of Sorrows, who declared there was more joy in heaven over the one sinner brought in than for the ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance! Oh, evangelist of the doctrine that God so loved the world he gave his Just a few only begotten son, etc. ever Did Were drink? you questions. you ever drunk? Did you ever go on a debauch for a period of six weeks, six months, or a year? Did you ever indulge in alcohol until your system was so thoroughly impregnated with it that Of to take it away was torture? course you did not. Well, then, what in blazes do you know about it? Not entitled to symapthy! Why, you man of regular habits, whose days have been consumed in eating yelow-legge- d chickens, praying at great gathwhere your prayers were reporterings ed stenographically for the benefit of the public next morning, and presiding over conferences where creeds were revised and doctrines promulgated, why do you say a drunkard is entitled to no sympathy? Because you do not know what you are talking of. You know nothing of the course of drink save what you have read in some Sunday-schoself-indulgen- ce; mer is the most easily procured. Almost any bartender will give a poor devil a drink when he sees he needs it. Very few bishops will send a man to an institute where he can be cured. You Imagine the man searching for a drink in the morning does so because he likes it. Not so. He hunts for because he has to have it. He whisky is just as ill as the man with pneumonia. No matter if he was to' blame, he is ill just the same. old person you What a must be, bishop. But instead of taking the inebriate by the hand and leading him to a place where he can be cured, where 400,000 of bright men have been cured, you wave a little ribbon at him, flash a pledge under his nose and rah You might just as for prohibition. well ask a typhoid fever patient to sign a pledge stating that he will never take typhoid again as to ask an alcohol-soake- d system to refrain, from drinking. You regard a drunkard as a criminal; I am an unfortunate. You send him to jail for thirty days; I believe in sending him to an institute for twenty-eigh- t. You put a ball and chain on him; I believe in chloride of gold. You condemn him; I pity him. I have been through the mill, with all its horror; have suffered all the pangs of torment; have brought misery where happiness should have reigned, and am sorry for it. It was sympathy that put me where I could be restored to manhood and sympathy will restore others. If your creed is outlined in what you say, God pity humanity. I want none of It. I will take my chances in eternity side by side with yourself on a little religious platform of my own building. kind-heart- I t ed I I - r1- W. H. CLARK, I STOCK BROKER, Mining Stocks and Investments. Money to Loan on Stocks. i I Ik y 9 22 West Second South 8treet. A F Phone 181. ginaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiig E C. S. C.B. g; Williaxs Williaxs A. L. s s R. G. Williaxs s Williaxs S BROS. GOAL CO. WILLIAMS 5 D. A. Williaxs, Dealers in Mgr. Rock Springs, Castle Gate, Grass Creek. 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