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Show TRUTH. CHATTER. fReing the personal no one and for which opinions of the writer else is In any manner fever and The prevalence of scarlet is appaldiphtheria in Salt Lake City announced by the ling The deaths daily numerous as to newspapers are so but awaken thought in any other city told of whole this. Some of the stories families of little children passing away maladies have as a result of these dread been heartrending. remeBut no one seems to suggest a one ventures to assert that dy. No there is a cause for all these painful in- cidents, whbh can be found very easily and abolished with very little work. The able editors pen paragraphs on Prince Henry salted his taters twice at ihe banquet, declaring he never tasted salt like American salt, and string out yards of drivel concerning the time when Jawfighting Bob Evhow taught the Emperor to makeofManthe hattan cocktails at the opening beminded cheerful Kiel canal. The liever in foreordination, predestination, infant damnation and concatenation whispers to herself after reading: The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away; ans blessed be the name of the Lord' and tearfully starts writing a poem with seventeen verses to the effect that Baby The Board Willies started upward. of Health looks at its several jars and wonders if the bacilli are doing well and the mayor and the city fathers cudgel their brains in devising a way to In the get rid of the chief of police. meantime the Angel of Death flits from door to door gathering little blossoms and taking away the sunlight from, many a parent's heart. ft ft People of Salt Lake City, you know the cause for all these untimely deaths, if you would but stop to think a moment. It is right under your noses. It smells to high heaven. It is filth and nothing else. The city is an abomination from the rear line of the house to the back fence. Down on the west on South side, Temple, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh South streets, where the yellow flags as you do that you have not help to do all this work, and thats what we are kicking for. Both Beatty and Dalby had good men, who were well paid and did their work well and the death rate was lowered, but on the grounds of economy this department has been shaved down and down until it exists on a bare pittance and no more entitled to the name of Health Department than Sampson is entitled to credit for the victory at Santiago. This city needs a scouring, and that right away, and for every death chronicled at this time, the people in authority will have to answer for at the Great White Throne some day whether they believe it now or not. One of the able editors recently wrote an article on Suicide and wanted to know whether it should be considered a crime or not. He finally decided in a half hearted way that it was a crime. He has a better subject in this. He can assert without fear of contradiction that child murder is a crime and then go after the city council because it sits by and sees children killed day by day. And if the apathetic Health Department does not. call the attention of the city council to the conditions existing, then the apathetic Health Department ought to be shot at from all directions. The press should take the matter up and fight it to a finish. Clean up the city and lower the death rate. It is bad enough for old folks to pass away in the course of nature, but to permit children to die because of the filthy conditions which prevail, is crime. tt Kid Beverage, Senator from Indiana, has made a speech in which he declares Washington one of the conservative men of the age. The youthful member of the American House of Lords may be right in his assertions, but it would have been a difficult task for him, had he lived in that age, to WASN'T A JUNKET. have convinced Cornwallis or Lord Howe that there was anything in WashWhenever the mayor, the members ingtons nature savoring of conserva- of the city council or committees of the tism. As a matter of fact, Washington was impetuous at all times, or nearly council make a trip to inspect any pubso, and impetuosity always means radi- lic works the city may bo engaged in, calism. Beverage brought no argu- or contemplates engaging in, the daily ments to support his declaration, the bare assertion of alleged fact being suf- papers invariably designate it as a ficient to enable him to continue an junketing trip, that is, a trip taken on the Philippines, Cuban sugar to have a good time at the expense of and kindred topics. the city. All city councils we knew ft ft or ever heard of have sins of both Mr. John Farson, of Oak Park, 111., ommission and commission, and the is mentioned for the vice presidency by one is a shining example of present a Texas paper, which declares he is that trueism. It has plenty of faults, fitted for the place and expresses the to be criticised, but it is not fair hope that he will be nominated. Just open as soon as the Kanab Clipper falls into to blame the members for things of line we shall know that the hand of which they are not guilty. It is not Henry M. Ryan, who is a neighbor of Farsons in Oak Park, is in the plot and only proper, but it is exceedingly necessary for the proper conduct of the that Farson will not be nominated. ft ft citys business that those who have it In its mention of the many industries in charge should be as familiar with of Cascade county, Montana, the Great the conditions and the interests of the Falls Tribune points with pride to the city as they are with their own busifact that it has 118 saloons. Verily, ness affairs Reasonable facilities Cascade county and Great Falls will should be given the members of the soon take rank with Butte and Silver council and the city officials to post ad-adre- ss Bow. ft ft Grover Cleveland isnt such a bad old fellow after all. He declined an invitation to eat dinner with Prince Henry and the balance of the high rollers, because he wanted to go after ducks. Not that Henry is not a good fellow and all that sort of thing, but Grover did not care to undergo the formality of sitting down to table and acting stiff and prim and talking commonplace, when from a blind he could knock the feathers out of the pintails, break the wings of the mallard and tumble over the broadbills. Grover is all right. Shooting ducks is better than dining with princes aay time. themselves on municipal affairs so that they may act intelligently thereon. The trip made last Sunday by the members of the council, the city engineer and the land and water commissioner to the old canal bed at Mill Greek which it is proposed to sell, was proper and was in no sense a junket. It is a matter of considerable importance to the city and it is necessary that those who have the matter in charge should know all about it. If the canal strip was owned by a private individual he would not dispose of it without seeing it and knowing all the ins and outs of it. He wouldn't go it blind unless he was a fool. The council should be commended for taking the trouble and spending the time to familiarize itself with the citys interests instead of being held up to ridicule. The council should inall the spect citys water rights and its holdings of every kind. If it did so intelligently, good to the municipality would result. !?lp5Kia3 thickest there hasnt been a cleaning up for months. Back yards reek fly with decaying matter. The streets in front are covered with a combination of mud and manure to a depth of six inches which when warmed the sun is a by hot bed of bacilli, bacteria, tubercles, worms or whatever the animalculae is designated. It is in these places they grow and from which they scatter. Closets all over this section of the city are abominations which would be tolerated nowhere else for a moment. But here; here in Salt single Lake, why we sit down and prate of our glorious climate and pure air; tell how the Lord has blessed us and what a comhealthy munity we are to be sure and then look out of the window and wonder whose hearse by with a white ft ft What the city needs is another clean-in- g up such as was given it by Dr. Beatty when he was appointed health commissioner and when he sent out sanitary inspectors through all Zion and made saint and sinner alike haul his garbage away; clean up the cellar and i o premises generally . This city needs another Dalby in the place. A man w o would take a pride in the work and everlastingly go after the recalci-ftin-t. Now, Mr. Health Commissioner dont log, rise up and shout, for it 1811 1 Jour play. We know just as well 3 OFFERS CHOICE OF FAST TROUGH TRAINS DAILY And Three Distinct Scenic Routes. Powers, Straup & Lippmari, ATTORN Pullman Palaee and Ordinary Sleeping Cars to DENVER, OMAHA, KANSAS CITY, ST. 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