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Show TRUTH 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. Wchu rn Newspurer Union llulldlntf. 211 South West Temple Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W HUGHES. Editor sod Mtnaser. Entered June 19, iwu8, at salt Lake Cltv, Utah, a seccnd'ClaHH matter, under Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! ONE TEAR (In advance) S2.00 NIX MONTHS 1.00 75 THREE MONTHS Fostmaators sending subscriptions to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. ., If the paper Is not desired beyond the dste subscribed for the punllcatlon should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. D ISCONTIN U ANC E8. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when- a subscriber wishes stopped; all arrears must be paid in full. - hi-pap- er Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as prewnt Address all communications to Truth Company, Salt Lako City, Utah. Iub-LisnJi- fO ALTHOUGH wo are one day behind in e: tending to every one who deserves' them the compliments of the season, thi3 paper is none the less sincere in wishing the class alluded to a Happy New Year. It is the most sincere wish of our hearts that the ensuing 3(14 days may bo bright and prosperous to all those entitled to be prosperous and liappy. At tills festive season Truth wishes to thank the pub lie for the generous patronage bestowed upon it during the year 1903. The circulation has grown beyond the highest expectations of those who conduct its affairs. Large numbers of tli subscriptions have been entirely voluntary, which gives additions' erai so for satisfaction. We have maintained for some time that our circulation was larger than that of any secular weekly in this city or state, and wo are prepared to demonstrate that condition to prospective advertisers. Our circulation lists are open to any business man desiring to inspect then. This circulation is a bona fide one, and not principally devoted to the exchanging of papers with other publishers. The larger portion of it is In Salt Lake City, although we have no fault to find with our growth in Ogden, T.ogan. Brigham City, Park City, Provo, Eureka, Nephi and other Utah towns and villages. In addition to this the outside circulation has grown to dimensions especially pleasing, and we are glad, for the reason that it affords this state an opportunity to obtain a hearing in communities where it is needed. So many wild and libelous statements arc being made about Utah, which none of the secular dallies attempt to correct, that the publication of a paper like Truth Is a positive blessing to the state. Truth attributes the support it has received to the fact that It has been fearless in stating facts. That its assertions arc facts is evidenced by the circumstances. No one has dared come out in the open and contradict a single one of them. True, some of the galled, jades" have winced and have of the maattempted to discredit Truth by stat- peals to the Republicanism hold Repubing, behind Its back, that it is an un- jority of the council to reliable sheet,, which exists for the licans in oflftce. What it really means of purpose of maligning and slandering is to hold friends and supporters those it does not like, but the public Senator Kearns in office, who, accordknows better than this, and realizes ing to the standard of the Tribune, are the only Republicans. It has read the purity of Truths intentions. We shall continue to do those all others out of the party. The Tribthings we believe best calculated to une fears, and with much reason, that advance and enhance the interests of the Kearns men in the coming muniUtah, regardless of whether it pleases cipal administration will be few. It everybody or not. We shall continue would rather see Democrats in office Republicans, hence to advocate those measures which than will be best for all the people, without the idiotic and absurdly inconsistent respect to petty divisions. We shall attitude it has assumed. Its brazennot withhold praise where it is due, faced change of front must emanate nor censure where it i merited. We directly from Perry. Heath, who still stand for Greater Utah in 'all that the retains unlimited faith in the gullabil-itof the people of Salt Lake and the word implies. We believe that this state should grow in population and state generally; none other connected wealth year by year until it reaches with the paper could be guilty of such the proud eminence its location and foolishness. It is well known that the powers resources entitle it to, and we believe that it will attain that commanding of the mayor and the city council are position despite obstructive measures clearly defined by the statutes and adopted by misguided beings who can each should he respected. Truth besee no farther ahead than the narrow lieves a majority of the council and little present in which they exist. the mayor will agree on a policy and In conclusion. Truth asks all well that harmony will prevail. The Tribmeaning men and women who endorse une to the contrary notwithstanding, the position it take3, to join with it in we believe the mayor and a sufficient the upbuilding of a great state, in in- number of the council realize that the viting the capitalist and the laborer object of the municipal government is alike to come and unite with us and not to build up a political machine for to take advantage of the multifarious any man or any party, but to conduct opportunities that are constantly pre- the business of the city in a businesssenting themselves. And once more like way for the benefit of the taxpaywe wish you a Happy New Year-aners and the citizens. With this in view many continued returns of the same. the Democrats should have a good share of the appointments, while the " anti-Kear- ns 3 y realize what a big thing that coniolidation of the P. V. Coal Co. retail department with that Good Coal was? Yon onght to drop in to the office at 161 Do yon Meighn street and see how the coal business is done. The office of the P. V. Coal Co. at 73 Main is now discontinued; all at 161 Meighn street. BAMBERGER THE MAN ON MEIGHN STREET h. d WHAT a dishonest, Janus-face- l old hag the Tribune has become! Its long and labored editorial of last Monday on the municipal sitand uation as between the mayor-elec- t was the subject of the council-elec- t much unfavorable comment, even by the few friends the old sheet still retains. For two years the Tribune, in and out of season, advocated the principle that the mayor ought to have the power to appoint the heads of the various municipal, departments without the consent or concurrence of the council. It abused and viilifled members of the council because they refused to waive the rights and powers conferred upon them by statute and because they would not confirm appointments made by the mayor. It misrepresented those councllmen and held them up to public scorn and contumely, solely for their action? in that regard. It put forth arguments day by day and week by week intended to prove that the mayor should be about the whole thing in municipal affairs. That was when the mayor appointed pets and minions of the Tribune and its owner, Senator Kearns, "and the council would not and did not confirm them. On Monday it wheeled right about face and boldly declared that the mayor should have nothing to say about appointments, that the council was the real seat of power and should ignore the mayor. It tries to show that it would be to the advantage of the city to retain the present heads of departments, and that the council should resist all moves of the mayor for the appointment of others in their places. It ap , consistently independent Republicans who helped to elect the ticket should receive substantial recognition. Thats fair play. What an awful disaster that was on Wednesday afternoon, at the Iroquois theatre, in Chicago, when hundreds of men, women and little children met terrible ends because of a panic arising over the setting fire of some of the sceenry by an imperfect electric connection. The news caused the en- his books by one fell stroke. He surely tire civilized world to shudder with did his work in haste, too, for he horror. Some of the details were so struck down the victims without disad that the eye involuntarily became scrimination as to age, sex or condimoist with tears; others were so un- tion. It is hard to write of such a dire canny that the flesh crept, while still others were of a character calculated disaster, except to say that it was to make the blood boil with indigna- one of those affairs that seem to be tion. We experience feelings of deep contemplated. This building was presumed to he fire proof. It had twenty-sevesympathy when we read of the taking off of children, young girls exits; it had an asbestos curtain and boys, happy young fathers and to screen the audience from the stage mothers; we shrink in involuntary ter- in the event of just such an occurrence ror after perusing the story of the as this one. Yet, at the critical mostruggle for life made by strong men ment the machinery refused to work and we feel the utmost contempt when and the awful affair resulted. we learn that among all those scenes May He who rules comfort the of sorrow and woe, of pain and dis- stricken and distressed and pour balm tress, there are men and women de- on the bruised and stricken hearts. praved enough to enter the charnel They need all the consolation that house and plunder the bodies of the God and man can extend, because this dead. event was terrible in its method, terWhat a number of homes are deso- rible in its results. late on these New Year mornings. Wives and mothers, husbands an d fathWHAT a sleek, smooth, sly rascal ers, sons and daughters, old and this fellow Heath is. In an Interview youug. the infant in arms and the while east he says: If I ami to he all gone to a terrible persecuted and hounded because I am fate without a warning. It seems as if a friend to Senator Hanna, I am pro Death must have been casting up his pared to stand It all. Just as if any accounts at the end of the year and, one was persecuting him because be discovering a shortage, had balanced was a friend to Hanna. 'Heath knows i un-hpp- hoary-beade- d, y n |