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Show TRUTH 6 SMUDGE, YEARS THE PUBLIC BEFORE TWENTY-FIV- E Young Bros. Go. ire sole agents for the following well known PIANOS Voso & Sons Crown Richmond Royal Blasius AND PACKARD ORGANS BOTTOM PRICES. EASY PAYMENTS. Monday evening Mrs. Ella Cumming Wetzel and Miss Olive Gray gave a song and pianoforte recital by way of Introduction to the public of two of their pupils, Mrs. Frank Benedict (soprano), and Miss Jennie Williamson (pianist). The programme was selected with much good taste and was rendered most pleasingly. Both musical debutantes showed great proficiency and reflected great credit on their preceptors. The audience was as large as Unity halL could accommodate and was thoroughly appreciative. The programme was as follows: Beethoven, Theme and Variations from Sonata Op. 26 Miss Jennie Williamson. ArdittE Parla AND The current number of The Philistine has the following caustic remarks, under the above captlcn: The facts in the case are about like this: One Reed Smoot was legally elected as a senator of the United States from the State of Utah. He was duly admitted to a seat in the senate, and entered uoon his senatorial duties. , After he had so entered upon his duties as senator, various parties, in various parts of these United States, began to ask for signatures to petitions praying that Senator Smoot be removed on account of his being an unfit person for the position. These petitions were circulated, in the main, by the Womans Christian Temperance Union, the Young Mens Christian Association, the Epworth League, the Baptist Union; and thousands pf clergymen of all denominations, Including Catholics, united in their appeal that Smoot should be unseated. The petitions were not all alike, for some of the supplicators demanded 'that statehood should be taken away from the state of Utah that is, Utah should be debarred and thrust out of the Union. On December ICth, 1903,' at Detroit, lishop Cralts, of the M. E. church, )efore the Detroit Ministers association, offered a resolution that Utah should be deprived of statehood. The .resolution passed without a dissenting voice, and a copy was duly forwarded to Hon. William Alden Smith, a representative in congress, with a request that he prepare a bill carry-n- g out the .idea, and introduce it before his honorable body. Mr. Smith took time to consider and then replied as follows: However' desirable it may be to put Utah out of the Union on account of certain sexual irregularities there , 38 MAIN ST. Song SMITH SMUT, SMOOT. Mrs. Frank Benedict. practiced by certain gentlemen with billy-gca- t whiskers, yet I have to report to you that it is impossible on account of a ruling once made by Chief Justice Chase, worded as follows: The United States of America is a union of states, indivisible, undivid-able- , Moreover you and perpetual. Lincoln carPresident recall that may to ried on a war prevent certain states from peacefully seceding, and this being so, we cannot now compel a state to secede. Beside that, even if it were possible to put Utah out of the Union on account of the questionable lives of some of her citizens, it would be a most dangerous precedent to establish, since I am told,' there are men in Detroit who live shady lives, and whose practices are slightly lavender. If Utah were put out of the Union, why not put Michigan out on account of her double quota of fools, and amputate Indiana on account of the rogues who roost on the banks of the Wabash? And then is Chicago desirable? Why not cut it out? And how about the Rev. Whats-his-Nam- e of Ohio; and all those people Park-hurtells us of in New York! The real fact is that if you put out of the Union all of the states where there are bad men, we would only have Massachusetts and Connecticut left. And, in confidence, I know one representative from Connecticut who is not all that he should be. I agree with you that Smoot should be smlt, but regretfully return your resolution, and have the honor to be, Your obedient servant, WM. ALDEN SMITH. A Detroit clergyman now advises me that the Hen. Wiliam Alden Smith also said, This Investigation d of character is a bad thing I am to all such dangerous preceThen my correspondent hints dents. that the caution of Mr. Smith was actuated by a wholesome prudence for his own safety. But I believe that there is nothing in this indelicate aspersion. Mr. Smith is a man of high resolves cold, lofty, impeccable. Let calumny loose her poison shafts they will break in splinters gainst his stern bosom. Smith stands like the Goddess cf Liberty with one foot firmly planted on the earth, the other i st op-pcse- Ballade. Rheinecke Miss Jennie Williamson. Songs Lily and Blue Bell Wakefield Smith Dudley Buck "Skylark Song My Dear Jerushy. .Jessie Gaynor Mrs. Frank Benedict. Chopin, Polonaise in C Minor. Miss Jennie Williamson. Violincell Fischer Romance Hegner La Separation Mr. C. D. Schettler. Dreams of Song- - I Arise from Dewey Richards Thee Benedict. Mrs. Frank Jensen Galatea. Will o the Wisp MacDowell Albeniz Tango. Miss Jennie Williamson. Leo Stern Coquette Song .. Mrs. Frank Benedict Lesginka Rubenstein Miss Jennie Williamson. The music of the song. I Arise from Dreams of Thee. it is worthy of note is the composition of our olt friend Dewey Richards, a native of Salt Lake, son of Franklin S. Richards. Dewey has made an enviable reputation as a composer and is mak-In ing his way in the musical world New York, where he has resided for some years . o household treasure Is a good cook, hut those who are acknowledged experts wont use anything but Clear A Creek coal. : - O . Th Shepard Co., Com. Elk., coU Wee. ' r V AmA 4ft ASK FOR-- ws Wm. A. STICKNEY Cl SAB CO. FINE Cl CARS CALL AND EXAMINE OUR. NONPAREIL KRANICH 8. BACH GRAND 3 uuuuummuuuuuumm......,lllr ROSHELLS 1 221 MAIN STREET BUY AND SELL RAILROAD TICKETS Can jon IS to 110 on sack ticket. Member Amerloaa Tick- I G TICKET OFFICE I uts . et Broken' Association. Monsieur and Madam de Loery VOICE CULTURE and French Conversation. Breathing and Coaching for Opera a Specialty. 0 Commercial Clnb Building. 250-20- pointing to the stars. William Alden Smith is all right, or fairly so. Senator Spooner is credited with To investigate Smoot was not this: a crimeit was worse, it was a blunder. The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on, nor all your tears shall . blot a word of it. We now reach the pathetic part of this passage in United States History. The United States senate, not as cautious as the Hon. William Alden Smith, swept off its feet by the petitions and clamor of the W. C. T. U., passed a resolution that the private life of Reed Smoot should be investigated, and a committee cf five senators was appointed to do the investigating. But unfortunately when the investigation began there was not a scintilla of proof forthcoming that Reed Smoot was, or ever had been, guilty of anything illegal, irregular or improper. So instead of investigating Smoot, for the committee had to investigate somebody, it investigated some of the men who were closest to Smoot in a social, business and religious way. One of these men by the name of Smith, but no kinsman of William Alden, was on the witness stand for three weeks. He was ouestioned and d as to his habits of life, his business methods; his religious beliefs. Questions of the most intimate and delicate nature were fired at him, hour after hour, day after day, week after week. How he got his money, what he did with it, where he slept, where he spent his evenings, was he married or single, and how did he like it, who went with him to St. Louis, Chicago, New York and Washington, and what was the relationship between them! Then he had to give reasons for his religious faith, go into the minutia of it, and defend it against those who smiled at his argument in derision. And in this modem and most peculiar inquisition, two of the questioners seemed totally Innocent and ignorant of the fact that every religion is preposterous and ridiculous to those who do not believe in it. The investigation of Smoot had shifted to strange ground It was an investigation of his neighbors and the church to which he belonged an investigation of the neighbors of neighbors and folks who lived in Utah, or never lived in Utah, of Mormons, Baptists, Presbyterians and Catholics, bum lawyers from Tennessee, apd of the people who passed through Salt Lake and looked out of the car wincross-questione- dows. Baynes Romney Piano Co, . 40 RICHARDS STREET. Suddenly a chill swept over the august body of the United States senate the dignified body had goose-flesh- ! A rumor was rife that a certain senator, who was ai Catholic, was to be investigated, and clergymen, curates and bishops were to be subpoenaed and placed upon the witness-stand- . Even the one lonely American cardinal was to be put under cath. Dozens of Catholic priests were to be placed in the sweatbox witnesses were to -- |