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Show TRUTH Issued Weekly by ' TR.VTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. Western Newspaper Union Building, 211 So. West Temple St., Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager. Entered at the postofflee at Salt Lake City, Ltah. for transmission through the mails as second-clas- s matter. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JAN. 25, 1902. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE 82.00 (In advance) SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 year Fostmwtcrs sending subscriptions to Truth 25 may retain per cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper Is not desired beyond the date noti- subscribed for the punlicatlon should be fied by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter whci a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid in lull. Requests of subscribers to have tbelr paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present Address all communications to Truth Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. What a lot these preachers are! Here we are and have been for years bawling and yelling about bringing eastern capital, foreign investors and desirable residents to Utah. Yet on every possible occasion the preachers cause it to be circulated all over the country east, west, north and south that Utah is a very sink of corruption, that the majority of its inhabitants are little short cf devils in human form, that decent people can hardly live here. Every possible inducement is held out for people to stay away. The representations are wholly misleading and in many instances absolutely untrue. Wouldnt it be a common sense policy to step such foolery? Salt Lake is just as pleasant a place for well disposed and refined people to live in as any city in the country. Instead cf forbidding capital and men and women to come, would it not be well to encourage them? If these people had a grain of sense they would see that an influx of outsiders would settle the Mormon bugaboo quicker and more effectually than anything else. The half empty churches would be filled and the preachers salaries would he doubled. They are so blind they cant see it, but apparently are in dread, like the god makers of old, that if the Mormon bogyman is not kept to the front, their occupations would be short-sighte- d . gone. The Presbyterian preachers created something of a cyclone In passing through Salt Lake City on Sunday en route to Los Angeles, where the general assembly of the church is being held. The Mormons, of course, were the objects of the wrath of the eminent divines, who were stirred up to white heat by their local brethren. Dr. McMillan was the hero of the occasion, and second to him was the nameless little jackanapes who bearded Satan in his lair at the Tabernacle service.? on Sunday. The little monkey will now go back east with a rep--j utation for bravery which will stay May 29, but assure our readers that, with him all his life. Dr. McMillan, notwithstanding this little handicap, whese fame rests chiefly on the story Truth will contain, in its Issue of the which makes him a Christian hero week following, a full, complete and of the going armed with a pistol and a Bible, handsomely embellished report has told the story so often that he affair. The breakfast, occurring as it has come to believe it is true. Very does at 11:30, the hour for our first few in Utah, Gentiles, Jews or Mor- form to go to press, compels us to demons, believe it in fact, they know it lay the publication as stated. Now Is is only a piece of fiction intended for the time to subscribe. eastern consumption. Really, it looks as if there had been Isnt it about time this injunction a great deal too much fuss over that business was stopped? Really, it is incident in California, where the becoming intolerable. Not only intol- president gave a smaii boy a roasting erable, but in some cases the courts for shouting Hullo, Teddy! at him are actually becoming foolish. The as he passed. That boy is evidently latest is from Omaha. L. Oliphant a good natured American lad, wrho Dodge owns an apartment house and reads the papers and, noting that among his tenants is Mrs. E. Berge. "Teddy is a sort of pet name for the The latter does not like L. Oliphant president, took a chance. How much Dodge, and she talked about him to better for Roosevelt had he given the her fellow' tenants. L. Oliphant made lad back a jovial Roland for an Oliver a complaint and the district court, one greeting, and if he had any lecturing Baxter presiding, actually issued an to do, sought out the lads father and injunction restraining the woman held a session with him. from visiting the other tenants in the house and from saying Anything about The Union Club of St. Louis has Dodge, either good, bad or indifferent. barred out the cigarette. No one wrill Under the terms of the injunction she be permitted to smoke them inside its must not talk about him at all. Of all walls hereafter. The enforcement of the nonsensical, asinine decisions such a rule here would he salutary, made ty the courts of late this one but there are some organizations is entitled to the prize. which would dwindle into nothingness We regret to state that we cannot acknowledge the receipt of an invitation from Senator and Mrs. Kearns to break our fast with the president of the United States on the morning of Have you been introduced to our hand made Suits and Top Overcoats? If not you have missed seeing the best r clothing on ready-to-wea- earth. Come here for your Out- ing Suit and Panama Hat. Well treat you rightly and save you money. ONE TRICE. PLAIN FIGURES. Rowe & Kelly Co 132 MAIN STREET. That reminds us of Sampson Brass invitation to Dick Sw'iveller to take a drink with him, one of these days." The Philadelphia bootblack who found a $10,000 bill and upon returning it to the owner was given a $10 as a result. note can console himself with the Carnegies old partner, Phipps, says thought that virtue is Its own reward. o he will invest $400,000 or $500,000 in buildings in this city, when labor VIEW OF MORMON DEMOCRAT. and building material get cheaper. Last week Truth printed what several Democrats of this city propose doing, i. e., refraining from nominating a ticket this fall, and declaring as a reason for such action church interference in politics. This week a Interior De c o r l t i ivg We Ha.ve the Rowe & Kelly Co Finest Line of WALL PAPER the city all up to date and in all grades. Also an elegant line of Wall Picture Moulding, Grille Work and everything used in decorating. We have a corps of experienced decorators and are prepared to furnish in h. mjvwoovEy FV'RJVITV'RE CO. well known Mormon Democrat con- tributes the following on the subject, which will be read with Interest by all the interested parties. Editor Truth: I am not busy today, and as some always loyal Democrat should lambast you for the article in last weeks Truth about not putting a Democratic ticket in the field next fall, I will attend to the job myself. God hates a coward, and it Is also true that the average American hates a coward. The Democracy of Utah is overstocked with poltroonism. It may he, as is often claimed, that the great majority of weaklings in the Democratic party Mormon here are what Is called Democrats, but there are some, however, who are so classed that are not cowards in a political fight, and I, for one, am of that number. In joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat Saints, I, for one, did not surrender my Americanism, nor will I. As I believe in Jesus as the worlds Savior and In Joseph Smith as his latter-daprophet, so, too, I believe in Thomas Jeffersons doctrine that every man and' woman beneath the American flag should voice by the balot an honest judgment untrammel ed by any influence whatever, except that of reason and intelligence. And as the fqunders of this republic were every one of them unwaveringly opposed to church influence In politics, so am I. Now, suppose it he admitted, and it may as well be, for it is a fact, that is susceptible of easy proof--th- at the leaders of the dominant church in this slate have controlled and still control the votes of a majority of their church members; ana suppose it be admitted, and it may ter-da- y y |