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Show TRU T H 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by TRVTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. Western Newspaper Union Building, 1 211 West Temple St., Salt Lake City. So. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager Entered at the postofflce at Salt Lake City, Ttab, for transmission through the mails as matter. second-clas- s TERMS OF EUlIbCItirriOX: One Year (In advance) 92.00 Six Month 1.00 M 1 liree Months 75 l'datmaatera scndicg subscriptions to Tbcth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price ns commission. If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed for the publication should be noti lied by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; ail arrears must be paid in full. Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must ment 'o i former as well as present Address all communications to Truth Publishing Company, Salt Lake City. Utah. sentiof the ment that has appeared in the senate in the debates on the bills for the admission to statehood of New Mexico, .Arizona, and Oklahoma is only simulated, the Mormon buggabo being used as an argument by the antiMUCH anti-Morm- on statehood adherents to prevent the passage of the bill. As a matter of fact the people in the east care little about the handful of Mormons scattered over a few of the western states. They care not much more for the west as a whole, but look upon it as a wild, uncivilized region not to be seriously considered. The newspaper reports about the west and what the eastern people think of it are mostly manufactured for western consumption and are no index to eastern public opinion, as it really exists. Cleveland, in his blunt and somewhat rude way, blurted out a few statements regarding the west which showed the true estimation in which these regions are held by the great majority of the people of the east. It does not enter into their calculations seriously except when they have some axe to grind, as in the statehood Ex-Presid- ent IN a spasm that was probably superinduced by a deit of liver and onions, the Salt Lake Telegram, the little imbecile brother of the assinine Tribune, panders to the rural press In the The questionable English: country .weekly Is a great Institution and without It the city press would soon become hard up for young newspaper .men who have been trained in journalism that is on tne square. God save the country newspaper man who should venture into Salt Lake to better his condition or improve his intellect by contact with the daily press. If he sought employment on the Telegram he would find that his salary would be less than that of an elevator boy or hotel bell hop. The assertion Is made and can be verified that the employes of the Telegram less wages than are paid to any fol-fowi- ng ie-cei- ve other class of workers in the city not into open graves. He laughs because excepting the poorest paid slaves of there is something in it. He does not the street railway company. Let tlie weep because it does not pay. Telegram print its payroll if it wants to pay a compliment to the rural press. DID it ever occur to Judge Charles Carroll Goodwin, the only real AmWHAT a world of human nature is erican west of the Rocky mountains, wrapped up in the turf swindles" that Apostle Smoot is bound to settle that have recently convulced eastern down on the cushions in the United cities. A lot of confidence operators States senate? Did this wise Utah who never earned an honest dollar in philosopher ever stop to think that a their lives, invented a plan to rob the Republican senate never discards a public. The public does not get Republican senator who comes from a robbed until it wants to get some- - state that has been Democratic? o thing for nothing. The man who always insists on giving value received AS OTHERS SEE US. for everything he gets is in no danger It is not the best sort of newspaper of being swindled. Those delightful turf fakirs sent out invitations work, perhaps, to inflict upon the readbroadcast that they were prepared lo ing public the impressions one remake money for all the vredant ceives while on a trip east, but in this suckers in Christendom. All the suck- case the end, in the writers mind, er had to do was to send along his justifies the action. Here in Utah we coin and it would be doubled by an meet and felicitate witn each other art of legerdemain known only to the upon the multifarious resources of a race track touts. Clerks, school state, which really has everything teachers, ministers and other conge- which man requires for his support, nital imbeciles sent their money to comfort and entertainment. We conthe confidence men. The sum in- gratulate ourselves upon the possescreased until upwards of $6,000,000 sion of those things and tell ourselves had been gathered in, when the bub- all about the rich veins of mineral, the ble burst and the swindle was ex- bounteous crops, the herds of stock, posed. There is a wide opportunity to the marvellous scenery, gorgeous sunchallenge the popular statement that sets, invigorating baths, health giving fountains, mineral springs and then the people are becoming educated. we talk some more. At home we think we are it. But when we go abroad THERE is a question which is the we discover we are nothing more bigger fool, the optimist than Mormons, pure and simple. or the cynical crank who growls at Get on the train at the station and take the room, for the smokeverything and kicks at the operations ing room smoking is really the best place to of the God. That cheerful learn g things, and there one always and buoyant idiot wrho walks only on finds a group of men from all portions the sunny side of a funeral procession of the country discussing the features the train seems to be a product of the age. He of the section through which as the train is passing. You indicate, is light hearted only because he leaves the city and passes by the thinks he sees an opportunity to sell branch which leads to Parleys canyon, white gloves to the pall bearers. With that up that line is located the great Silver King, the the prospect of making a profit on the Ontario, the famous Daly-Wethe and mines, while Daly gloves he is inspired to slap the right across the valley up in the hills mourners on the back and tell them are the Highland Boy and other great The to cheer up. He is then looked upon mines in the Old Reliable. othor some huh murmur Uh party as the kind of a man to move the intelligent expression and world to better deeds. He is the op- er equally then one leads off with a question as timist who throws shafts of sunshine to what the temple cost or how many over-zealo- us ever-livin- st wives Brigham Young had. Yon n swer and then try to get back to original topic, dear to your heart advertising the richness of your land of Utah and describe in gwn! terms the great camps of Tintic those down in Beaver county oniv be met with the query: is this Reed Shute, or Reed Root, SmtS a polygamist?" So it goes. NoSa ter how hard you endeavor to tell thom about the wonderful possibilities tnh found in Utah you can never get thQT! to abandon their Inquiries concern! 6 the Mormons. I Jt jt Finally you go to bed disgusted. Next morning you awake, get break! fast and return to the smoking room Some fellow from Colorado has board! ed the train and he has the floor. He isnt as glib a man as you, cannot speak with half the apparent fluency and intelligence, but every word he utters is grasped upon with avidity. They dont care whether Colorado is Methodist or Presbyterian, but they do care about how much the ore carries and what the freight and ter charges are and that Coloradosmel man tells them. If you are a true Utah man you cut right in and speak about prospects which can give some of the Colorado mine cards and spades and you tell of assays and mill runs and all that sort of thing in glowing terms only to be met with some infernally tedious question as to whether or not they may be Mormon. Then the Colorado man points out of the window and shows you orchards and meadows and, although they are not a marker alongside of your own, those outsiders will listen to the talk, and once more you venture to get a word in about your big crops in Utah and you tell the truth, too, because we here in Utah can give Colorado nine points in the game and beat her, but that Colorado man will wink at the others and say that prevarication Is not a violation but a sustaining of our creed and then they yawn at you and only brighten up when your opponen. starts over again and you get so internally angry, that even though you be a total abstainer, you feel like going out and taking a drink and then another and so on until you are full enough to forget you came from Utah. Jit Jit Its the same way when you get into Nebraska. Its the same way across Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York and down through Pennsylvania. You see an advertisement of Utah and You Dont Need to Wa.it Until you have tlio cash to buy a piano. Make a small cash Davmcnt down and let your family enjoy the pleasures of a high grade instrument while you are paying for it on the easy monthly installment plan. . . We sell the Steinway. Mason & Hamlin, Belir Bros, and Kimball Pianos at very reasonable prices and on very easy terms. . . first-clas- s, D. 0. CaJders Sons Co. all it has in it is an advertisement of a spot where one can see the Lion and the Bee Hive houses and the Amelia Palace. You read in a book about the mountain walled treasury of the gods, and that appeals to you, but when you come to test the people on the matter you discover that the title gods has no significance to them except as a probable meaning of some of your own religious expressions. It never occurs to them that your state is anything but a land of temples, tabernacles, meeting houses and polygamous families. The writer remembers telling an eastern farmer who was who talking about moving west and about thought Nebraska a good place, Utah the potato crops possible on acres. The granger listened for a short time and men drily remarked: You are thinking about children instead ol that potatoes, aint you? Well now comsettled it. There wasnt a think was ing after that until the next man struck. Jit 45-4- 7 Weill First South Street J We nave a few' friends in the east, however. Harrison Capwell, who has Bear recently bought a farm up in the |