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Show TRUTH. 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. Western NewspHpcr Union Ilulldlnir. 211 ftouth Went Temple Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor end Mensger. Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake City Utah, an second ciaHn matter, under Act of Congress of March 8. 1879. TERM! OF SUBSCRIPTION! ONE TEAR SIX MONTHS (In advanoe) 1.9 THREE MONTHS Postnastors sending subscriptions to Truth retain 25 per cent nay as commission. of subscription prloe If the paper Is not desired beyond the date subscribed for tbe publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before tbe term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by Tetter when a subscriber wishes blIn stopped; all arrears must be paid Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present Address all communications to Thutii I'ub-USHIN- O C0MP4NT, Salt Lake City, Utnh. 4 THIS ukases and addresses issued the Czar of all the Russians, or at least Issued In his name, for tho Czar has very llttlo to do with them, are by most misleading to those who do not know tho conditions existing in the Russian empire and do not understand the system of Russian diplomacy. To road thoso documents tho uninitiated would suppose that the Russian government was tho most benign and mild In tho world, that tho great principle behind it was humanity, Christianity In its best senso and an all consuming desire for tho happiness and welfare of all the human race and particularly tho subjects of tho Czar; also that the subjects of tho great white Czar were a homogeneous, loyal and contented people hold together by the greatest affection for the Czar and a profound lovp for Russia and Its government. Tho very reverse is the fact. The Russian government Is the most despotic most cruel and most execrable in the world at tho present day. The peopie hate it with an intense hatred and they are only kept In subjection by the vast standing army. No nation can come anywhere near Russia in ferocity and cruelty. For hundreds of years it has practiced both the brutal and the refined systems of satanic cruelty. Take for Instance Russia's treatment of Poland. It has not a parallel in the history of tho world, except It be that accorded by tho same power to tho Finlanders, even within tho past ten years. Massacres of unoffending, inoffensive and helpless men, women and children, citizens of Russia prop- er is something appalling to contemplate and all done by the sanction and connivance of the Russian government. Yet the outer world never of the atrocities hears of committed by officers of tho government. The system of press censorship is so complete and so rigorous that the world is. seldom if ever informed of the conditions as they exist in that empire. For hundreds of years the to- - Russian empire. The s00er plan of tho Russian government It will he for wards the rest of tho world has been takes place the better duplicity, misrepresentation and lying until the ruling classes have become past masters In those arts. A newspaper recently remarked that the treatment accorded to women and children, refugees In Manchuria, since tho present war began was a blot on the Russian flag. Tho fact is the Russian flag Is nothing but one vast blot. It represents nothing but tyranny, oppression and fiendish cruelty, a disgrace to humanity. There Is no loyalty among the people of Russia. Why should there be? What cause have tho Polanders, the Finlanders, the Hebrews or the progressive elements of the population to be loyal? The country Is so filled with those groaning under oppression that it requires the constant presence of millions of soldiers and police to keep them down. That Is the real source of Russias weakness in the present war. If she finds it possible to transport enough soldiers to the scene of hostilities to cope with the Japanese she dare not do It for if she removes the soldiers from home there would be a revoluRussia needs tion in short order. more soldiers to fight her own people than to fight any foreign foe. There Is no unity or bond of sympathy between the tribes composing the Russian empire with its population of with over a hundred more or less distinct languages besides dialects. This war may be the beginning of the dismemberment of the 120,-000,00- 0, Strictly humanity. THE same disreputable element employing the same disreputable means, as controlled the primaries, and the Republican convention antecedent to the late municipal election is now balking, as the Tribune calls it, the mayor and the sensible, decent members of the city council In their efforts to give the municipality a good business administration. The object of the opposition is to keep In office a set of men who will use their places for the furtherance of the ambitions of to the Senator Kearns for United States senate. Thats the whole story. The fight in the late election was to get rid of Kearns and the d Kearns machine, but the nine Republicans, notwithstanding the emphatic expression of the citizens, are determined to keep the Kearns millstone securely fastened on the deck of the people. That stormy petrels, soldiers of fortune, such as Davis, Martin and to some extent Hobday, who have no visible means of support to speak of, and who have no interest in the city, should be overcome by the Kearns influence is to be expected, but why business men who are ordinarily supposed to have sense and judgment, like Neuhausen, Black and Hewlett should join with such a disreputable combination for such unholy purposes Is a mystery to the ordinary mind; why they should allow themselves to he The New Wilson A. FRED WBY. The Most UptoDatt Hotel Vest SALT LAKE CITY. so-call- ed hfubr Print XatwnoL Rol RbtJPWDw Largs, Light Sample Gfc SALT LAKE ICE CO. re-electi- self-style- THE CURTAIN DEPARTMENT Prepared for the mands of spring. fers the de- Of- new and dainty patterns in Curtains; rich, silk overdrapes and elegant French valours. They will please the most exacting taste. Enow, 100 rooms With Telephone, Hal mi Celt X Sixty Prime Punning PURE ICE MADE FROM DISTILLED WATER J. C. LYNCH, Maiulv. PHONE 41 guided by such notorious scoundrels as control the Tribune and the Telegram passes human understanding. THE death of Senator Hanna will cause an entire change in the personnel of the rulers of the Republican party. Hanna was the head of a large and powerful coterie which controlled the destenies of the party. He was also the keystone of the arch which bound them together. He showed great judgment in the choice of those admitted to that coterie. Among them were found some of the ablest men in the nation whose influence was great There were others of mediocre attainments and yet others down to our own Perry Heath and Senator Kearns. Hanna had a place in the structure for each in which each was useful. The tricky , politician like Heath and the stupid, blindly obedient Kearns as well as the abler ones, had their uses in the general make up of the machine which the genius of Hanna held together' and kept In working order. There will probably be a new deal all Heath and around before long. Kearns are left as orphans without a protector. THE eulogisms of the late Senator Hanna, which have appeared in a great many newspapers are extravagant, in some cases to the point of nausea. All admit that Hanna was an able man, even an extraordinary man, but after all he was only a politician and won his political victories by trickery, wire pulling and the extravagant use of money. He was not a statesman and posterity will not place him in the statesman class with such as Abraham Lincoln and James He looked upon politics as a business and conducted his political operations In a purely business way. He never rose to the heights of a e. Will be pleased to give estimates on Up- holstering work. one-tent- h i EY FURNITURE CO. statesman. THE Tribune of last Sunday has The Colorado con the following: hUf gressman who refused to retain seat when shown that he had been declared elected on the strength of il ballots, is clearly in a class tY |