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Show TRUTH 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by Truth Publishing Company. Western Newspaper Union Building, 241 South West Temple Street, Salt Lake City. John W. Hughes, Editor and Manager. Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake City, matter, under Act Utah, as second-clas- s of Congress of March 3, 1879. Term of Subscription. 12.00 ONE TEAR (In advance) 1.00 SIX MONTHS (In advance) 75 THREE MONTHS (In advance) Postmasters sending subscriptions to TRUTH may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper, is not desired beyond the date subscribed for, the publication should be notified 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; all arrears must be paid in full Requests of. subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new adress, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present address. Address all communications to TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY, Salt Lake City, Utah. One of the Tribune staff remarked themselves and in sum and substance it will be about like this: "I am an American citizen. I live in Utah, a Elate that since its birth has been maligned, slandered and misrepresented by its enemies, who have never hesitated to use the basest falsehood to serve their purpose. I know this to be so. Every man and woman who has lived in Utah since it become a state has seen examples of little mole hills magnified into mountains, has heard the words of the states best citizens distorted to fit the purpose of some hypocrit whose sole intent was to have the people of Utah represented as disloyal and un-Americ- "The man whose! vast wealth is d of the new furnishing the party for years cultivated the regard and friendship of the religious sect that he now savagely and relentlessly attacks. Why has he so quickly charged his point of view? Has he experienced a new birth or have the people changed their views. Let me think a minute. The votes of those whom his papers now ridicule, rebuke and slander made him a United States senator. If he could 'turn the trick once more, would things life-bloo- be different? It is hard to see through the thick skull if an ignorant man, but this we all know, it was not until the last hope of the senior senator went glimmering into for outer darkness that he fathered the new party. Can I, as a patriotic American citizen, stoop to aid a scheme that has no more of lofty purpose, no more of honor and principle than the plottings of an Apache Indian? Not yet. It And that's the solemn truth. will take more diplomacy than this on the part of the Tribunes backer; it will .require a finer sense of the eternal fitness of things; it will have to appear that better motives than the glutting of a deep revenge are at who eo clearly summed up the K. the bottom before loyal Utahns are K. movement that his paper is esready to cast their lot with one foiled pousing. in a weak attempt to be pilot of the statements afford The reporter's ship; seeks to cast her amid the of food for sober thought on the part breakers to be wrecked. votthe few, the very few misguided ers who are following the new party The reason given out for the resigfrom motives of honesty and princination of Mr. Alfales Young from the ple. In passing we may note the fact to us not very that the majority of the K. K. support- library board seems we get them, ers are "on the payroll. There is no logical. The facts, as occasion to address any argument to them. They have nothing to gain except a few paltry dollars, nothing to lose except a chance to graft a little, and the next oportunity that is presented for them to get a look at the inside of a check book will find' them out in force, no matter the issue, no matter who is attacked or defended, the only thing that counts with them is the chance to get a few dollars without expending any energy. But there are a few men and women who honestly believe that they are helping their country and their state by allying themselves with the party of which Senator Kearns is the head, tail. body, brains (?) and boodle. When l be time comes for these men to a friend yesterday: I really dont know. where this sheet is going to get off at after election day. The whoop and the howl with which the new party was started stirred up a little excitement at first and for a little while the movement seemed to gain strength. But I can see now that the interest is waning. It does not seem likely that many voters will scratch their tickets in a presidential year. Truth has no personal grudge against the Tribune's reporters. It does not want to see them lose their positions. Folr this reason it does not print the name of the young man re-electi- on i OOOOOOOOOOOOO A to enter the voting a lit hold booths, they may honestly tie heart to heart conversation with and women are that the question of a raise in the bounty of the nation can never be salaries of the librarian and her as- adequately paid. sistants was before the board. Six It is difficult to understand how the members voted for the advance, three, of whom Mr. Young was one, voted first voter should have any hesitancy in choosing between the uncertainagainst it. The proposition was carried by 6 to 3. The Herald says the ties of the Democracy and the sure The and patriotic leadership of the Rethrough. raise was forced same might be said' of any question before any administrative or leglslar tive body unless the vote for it was unanimous. We are sorry Mr. Young is off the board for he was a very useful member and well equipped for the duties thereof, but the cause assigned for his resignation appears to us to be petulant and childish. We dont know if the library fund is such as to warrant the advance. That six members of the board out of nine thought so is strong evidence that it is. We do know, however, that the salaries of the library people are none too large and that they earn all "they get. publican party. - . It is surprising that the Democrats are not pushing Adlai Stevenson more to the front as a spellbinder. He has a record for surrounding both sides of a question, now a strong Democratic need. Eastern Democrats are censuring Colonel Bryan for not supporting the Parker ticket more enthusiastically. Mr. Bryan is giving the Parker ticket about the same kind of support he received from the eastern Democrats four and eight years ago. Four years ago the Democratic The Tribune says, carpingly that party had the courage of its mistaken George Sutherland repeats himself in convictions. This year the party adthe political speeches he makes, that mits its former errors but has failed is he does not have a complete new to offer any tangible declaration of inspeech for every town or village tentions. where he makes a talk. 'Of course Judge Parker intimates that , the when Tom Kearns goes on the stump he has a brand new speech in his Panama canal strip was stolen from would pocket for every place he stops. Be Colombia, yet he admits that he merciful, Mr. Tribune. Its not ev- keep and improve the stolen goods. erybody who can afford to keep a Does he not really seem very honest? corps of secretaries to write speeches Democrats are clamoring for econfor him. Tom can. Even if he can't deliver the speeches after they are omy. Their record, when in power, written for him, he can and does get was one of extravagance in the issue them printed in the Tribune, Herald of bonds to save the fiations credit, and Telegram just as the secretary in times of profound peace. writes them. Judge Parkers utterances are said Judge Parker proposes to take to have in them the ring of exalted away the pensions of the civil war statesmanship. Whether the brightest veterans, but promises to restore jewel in that ring is Hill or Gorman them through a Democratic congress. is a matter as yet unsettled. His promise may be all right, but his The west is singing the song of endorsers do not have a good record for prompt payment of the nation's good crops, good markets and good obligations to the men who saved the wages. It is unnecessary to say that the Democrats are not expecting anyUnion. thing from the west. The fact that every vote in congress The record of the Democratic party against pension legislation has been cast by a Democrat completely dis- on pension matters is the best promise counts Judge Parkers promise of of how. veterans and their families liberal treatment by his party of the would fare under Democratic rule. men whose claim on the gratitude and Republicans offer sound theories and honest performance against the Democratic indefinite promise to avoid a repetition of past errors. 0000000X$ HOT THIN 8 Those who have bought mining stock after reading the promoter's prospectus know about what value to 0 place on Democratic promises. 0 Taggart knows the game to understand that the 8 enough cratic have O well Demo- already been thrown into the discard. prospects o o theJudge Parker puts in o things if themight have first 8 effect, that done a lot Republicans had not it, Democrats of done them Utah Light & Railway Co. Many g ferring OOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOO or as New York Democrats are r 8b their candidate for govern- D Cady Herrick. |