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Show TRUTH. 2 seem to be bygones, so far as the Republicans are concerned. If Mr. White of Piute would rely less on the arts of the orator and more on his nimble wit and Keen logic, he would be a power in debate. His audience is not susceptible to rhetoric and views with rural suspicion anything that appeals to the emotions. Yet, paradoxical as it may seem, it is the very audience that could be worked into an unreasoning frenzy of enthusiasm by an orator capable of touching the right chord an orator who had learned the art of concealing his art. Mr. White has the art of oratory, but not the art of concealing it. A half dozen members who could not make a speech at a dollar a word can make a deeper impression with two minutes of conversation than can Mr. White with a set speech. J Mr. Merrill of Cache comes nearer to being an opiate than any other member. He speaks in a monotone and with no more regard for effect than a waitress calling a bill of fare. One of the best all around debaters in the house is Don Colton of Uintah. He has a few mannerisms left from the lyceum where he larned the science of polemics, but he can be depended upon to make the best of any kind of a case that he espouses. Although not eloquent, he is better he is convincing. The listener knows that he believes what he is saying. Jl J The handsomest lady member of the house is Mrs. Coulter of Weber. Nor is the distinction due entirely to the fact that she is (fortunately) the only lady, member. She is fine looking, cultured, enterprising, but, alas! she is not cut out for a statesman. Do not rely on the word of a male biped for it. Ask the first woman you meet. She has the unhappy faculty of thinking right and voting wrong. She is a wise enough woman to believe in education, but she votes against the free textbook bill and argues that great men are made by the obstacles they have encountered, pointing to Lincoln as an example. How fortunate for Lincoln that he had to walk miles to borrow a book and do his sums on a wooden shovel! Had there been a little red school house on his fathers farm he would have grown up in obscurity! Yet where are the other boys of Lincolns generation who encountered as many obstacles as the Great Emancipator? And how did Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Seward, McKinley and Roosevelt ever become prominent when hampered by facilities for education? Such an argument belongs to the early half of the nineteenth, and not to the twentieth century. No student of history parades poverty as a cause of greatness, or attempts to deny that the prosperous classes have furnished great men in a proportion far in excess of their comparative numerwell-meaning-a- nd ical strength. J JE The house is amply supplied with humor, both intentional and accidental. Dr. Condon of Weber is the wit and Wilson of Wasatch the unconscious humorist. Mr. Wilson counts that day lost whose low descending sun looks not upon some parliamentary rule undone. In his life of hard work he has had no chance to store of with the lore his mind and Robert. ConsequentCushing amendments to moves he ly amendments, to amendments insists that plain motions shall have constt- - me worse than it does you' but Ive simply got to Doit! Go back to your hay. Go ahead your apostle business. graft--for an apostle If you. Any chump But n une and its little brother, the Telegram. Neither tells how the petition came to be formulated. In fact, they have been particularly careful to conceal it. The facts are, President Roosevelt was made to believe that the nineteen signers of the petition practically represented the Gentile element of Utah. He was later informed that such was not the fact. The president then suggested that if the nineteen were not the whole thing that a counter petition would be in order. That is how the unusual condition of parties petitioning for the admission to the senate of a duly elected senator arose. pro-Smo- ot anti-Smo- Jt Now that the jl fight- - ot the supporters is between Smoot and fairly on, it is to be hoped that it will be fought to a finish, that the senate will appoint a committee to investigate, and that the committee will come to Utah and make a thorough personal investigation of the conditions as they exist, and that such a decision will be rendered as will forever settle this much vexed question. anti-Smo- ot Jt JH Senator Smoot has gone to Washington to claim his seat in the senate. Chairman Anderson of the Republican state committee is also in the national capital, presumably in the interest of Mr. Smoot. The plan of campaign will pursue which the senator-elewill be to get personally acquainted with as many members of the senate as possible, and give them ample opportunity to question him as to his eligibility and as to the conditions in Utah. Mr. Smoot, it is believed, will not only not oppose the proposed amendment to the national constitu- -f tion, bringing polygamy under the Jurisdiction of the federal courts, but will rather urge it. He maintains that the Mormons are sincere in their declaration that polygamy has been abandoned, and that they have nothing to fear from such an amendment as has been proposed. While they are amending the constitution the might as well make a wholesale job of it. An amendment enabling the federal government to take jurisdiction of matters that are now pretended to be dealt with by that farce we call the interstate commerce law is needed more than a polygamy amendment. An amendment authorizing a uniform divorce law in all the states is also badly needed. The fact is, however, we have too much constitution in this country, so much that half the righteous and needed laws cannot be enforced because the courts are all the while running upon snags in the shape of some constitutional provision. The constitution, at it was written more than a hundred years ago, was very applicable to conditions as they existed then, but conditons have and the constitution should changed, be changed to meet the changed con ct law-make- rs and ne is watcMng; a month in Congress the gayest apostle pro-Smo- ot caie he goes away off in the hills d06S Wher Much cold water has been thrown on the petition by the Trib- with would mak Wizzly! It would indeed. Youd come back to your constituents with a hard constituditions. This talk about the hard conscience and a reputation docution being a divinely inspired ment never to be changed is all moon looking as though it had fallen into the Youd buy three shine, a species of buncombe. The quarter sections of land and your constitution was the work of clever, constituents would wonder where intelligent and honest men, who deyou got the money. Youd find served well of their coutnry, and thats that a rumor had preceded you all. that you had. Jt Jt It is a somewhat astonishing fact Flirted with some Washington belle- - and that many of those who are now opwhen you went back to Congress posing the seating of Senator-eleagain there wouldnt be a Hair were Smoot the most adrent workers waving above your seething brain for the success of the Republican: Leave ticket last autumn, although they well Washington and the Gentile roost knew, during the campaign, that the Back! success of the Republicans meant Pack Your old carpet-sac- k senator. Smoot for If they are so And your feet on the homeward spank everlastingly opposed to Smoot, why track! didnt they get out and work for and vote the Democratic ticket and send Scoot, Senator Rawlins back? Smoot was Smoot, the storm center of the entire cam- Scoot! Jt Jt paign. He won out, and it doesnt Some signers of the look well for his former allies to be petgoing back on him. This means the ition say they signed mainly because Rev. Peter Simpkin, they thought it was very necessary that the state be represented in CoAllen and lots of others. ngress by at least one senator for the Jt Jt next two years. Kearns they considThe following little jingle is from ered in that as naught, plus the San Francisco Bulletin. Its away naught equalscapacity nothing. off as to facts in the particular case of Jt Jt Smoot, but it is rather a clever strings Councilman Thomas, whose name ing together of words: has requently been mentioned as Re(Apostle Smoot is still trying to butt publican candidate for mayor, declares into Congress.) he has no ambitions in that direction, Hoot, and handed the following disclaimer toot, to Truth: Smoot, Salt Lake City, Feb. 17, 1903. Gang awa noo, Dinna be a chump! Editor Truth Dear Sir: In your Dont last issue, in your political column, Hang around the White House in con- courting another application you kindly mentioned my name of Uncle Sams nection with the nomination for the Boot, mayoralty of this city. I thank you Smoot! but Cant you get wise to the fact that for the honor of the reference, would be much obliged If you would youre not wanted? Don't mention in your paper that I have you understand that an apostle never had such an ambition, and am would be out of place in a not and will not, under any circumbunch of stances, be a candidate for the office Politicians? Dont J. J. THOMAS. of mayor. , you see that you wouldnt fit, ink-we- ll. ct pro-Smo- ot Smoot, Say: gummuuumimiummMttimuuuiiiijt ' You couldnt-er-assimilat- e, were. You , couldnt as it get your mighty, surging brain to working in the same grooves with those of the sordid old statesmen: for while They thought of rivers and harbors Monroe Doctrines and the Coal Trust, Your mind would be rasslin with the I problem How Five Points of Eicellenco I Perfect Cuisine. Quick Service. Best the Market Affords. Clean Linen. Popular Prices. he S LH)ern 21 E. First J'outh J't. to buy sealskin coats for umpty-fiv- e wives without putting a crimp SffWTffftnTffffifffwiHiwimfnfwwwwwg in your pocketbook that would cessitate an operation for Appendicitis! Sure! Im talking to you with ne- Tears in my pretty brown eyes! Indeed I am, Smoot! Its all for your own good. Hurts WINDSOR EUROPEAN HOTEL. OSNTRALLY LOCATED. Rates 50c, 75c nd StOO. . Osia Everything New snd First j. a. soott. SMuanss ! |