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Show T R.U T H. 6 TRUTH Issued Weekly by 11 TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. and 12 Central Block, West Seoond South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES. Editor and Manager. Entered at the postofflco rt Salt Lake City, Utah, for transmission through the malls as not put any hindrances in their way. On the contrary, both the council and the people will do everything in reason to facilitate the much needed . Senator Kearns now has an opportunity of displaying his worth in secur- ing for Utah something besides apThe house has virtually second-clapointments. matter. buried the irrigation bill. If Mr. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 31, 1902. Kearns can resurrect it and secure its passage he will be entitled to crow and TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: S2.00 his secretaries can file dispatches till ONE TEAR (In advance) 1.00 SIX MONTHS 75 they, cant rest, with no one to find THREE MONTHS ss Postmasters sending subscriptions to Truth may retain per cent of subscription price as commission. fault. 25 About the rawest think which has If the paper la not desired beyond the date come by telegraph lately is the ansubscribed for the puollcatlon should be notified by letter two weeks or more before tne nouncement that President Roosevelt term expires. will attend the coronation. If he DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes bis paper stopped; all arrears must be paid In should, what a slaughtering he would get at the next Republican convention. That would be nuts for Mark Hanna. Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present The American Federation of Zionists Address all communications to i Truth Pub- lishing Compant, Salt Lake City, Utah. - j : . The wholesale and bitter condemnation by the press of the action of the had a row over the question as to who should handle the finances. Verily, as the apostle said, the love of money is the root of all evil. of the press until it had whiskers on it. It was resurrected again in 1876 and Along subjected to another journey. in 1889 it again turned up and was seen for a time in the patent insides. Then it disappeared and I. thought it was buried forever. But no. ft ft This week the Salt Lake Herald robs the grave in which the ancient joke has lain buried all these years and shaking from it the vestments which clothed its mouldering form when it lay in oblivions cemetery, puts new clothes on it by heading an editorial mind you it Another Worm Turns and hands it to us as coming from Centerville, near Salem, N. J., with the implication that it happened recently. Another worm turns indeed. I should say. Why, there must have been a million worms; the worms which have chewed at the corpse of that old time worn, frazzled, decayed, ancient, punk and altogether hoary piece of humor of our grandsires. They all turned to see who had robbed them of their feast. No wonder the Democrats kick on the Herald. If the paper eyer does get back in line as a political organ it will doubtless advocate the election of Buchanan and Brecken-ridgBy the way, Centerville, near N. Salem, J., does not exist. e. ft ft We submit that the saloon keeper As year follows year Memorial Day who will open his door on Sunday to a is more and more generally observed. city council in granting a franchise to intended as an occasion citizen and deny admission to a policeman is guilty of unjust discrimination. pany to lay tracks on Fourth West street, is not altogether merited. Negro lynching has become so moThere are two sides to the question, but the papers have only discovered notonous down in Missouri that for vaone. While it is true that the Rio rietys sake the people of Paris took a Grande Western should not be discrim- white man out of jail and hanged him. inated against and that it should be The Boer war has been transferred given a fair show, to build a depot if it wishes, it is a mistake to hold out that to London. Literary men in the English company as a disinterested benefactor capital are nowfighting again the battles to Salt Lake City and to throw the en- of Spion Kop and Modder River. tire blame of the failure of the former union depot scheme upon the Short If Mt. Pelee continues its state of Line. The facts are these: The franeruption much longer we suggest the chise for a union depot was granted to application of Cluckatura soap on a the two roads jointly. They both got large scale. all they asked and they both threw up the franchise and the depot scheme at CHATTER. the same time and by the same written communication signed by the representhe personal opinions of the writer tatives of both roods. For more than and(Being for which no one else is in any manner two years, the Rio Grande remained responsible.) quiescent and beyond hot air newsBack in 1868, when the echoes of the paper articles there was no movement great guus of the civil war had scarce by either road to build the depot. The died out, a publishing firm in New Short Line made application a few business under the weeks ago for permission to lay tracks York City doing Dick & Fitzgerald, issued a on Fourth West street. Then, and not title of Uncle Joshs yclept, till then, the Rio Grande comes in and publication Fun. was of calculated It declares its burning desire to build a Trunkful to make people laugh and did make depot and as a condition to its doing so them laugh, although some of the stipulates that the Short Line's appliwere a little broad and are not cation for leave to lay tracks on Fourth jokes to the standard of the humor of West street be denied. That's a kind up these days. One story in particular I of a negative proposition and savors a remember. It was about a farewell good deal of dog in the manger policy. sermon preached by a minister in westThe Short Line should not be granted ern Pennsylvania in 1851. This serany privilege unfair to the Rio Gaande mon was brief, but pertinent, Here Western or which would prevent that Ua road from building a depot on the land Brothers and sisters, I come to say purchased for that purpose, but it is a good-by1 dont think God loves this bow did discover not Western the pity church, because none of you ever die. was a build I don't think you love each other, beto anxious it burningly cause you have not paid my salary. depot until the Short Line entered the Your donations are moldy fruit and field. Some means should be devised and by their fruits ye wormy apples, by which both roads may build depots. shall know them. Brothers I am goThe best solution of the difficulty would ing to a better place. I have been of a penitentiary. be for them to get together and agree called to be chaplain a for you,' and to I place prepare go on a plan. If they show good faith and on your Lord have the mercy may an .honest intent to erect the much souls. Good-by- e. Well that old yarn went the rounds talked of station the city council will the Oregon Short Line Railroad -- com- . e. Originally when the survivors of the Union army in the war of the rebellion could meet to strew blossoms on the graves of their departed comrades, the scope of the exercises has been gradually enlarged until now, not only the heroes of war, but the soldiers who have struggled in the ceaseless battles of peace are remembered. It is fitting too that at this ' season of the year when summers first blushes are mantling her smiling face that all should meet in the cities of the dead and remember those who have passed out into the shadows. The lesson learned from the exercises of the Grand Army of the Republic are beneficial to all of us and perhaps it would be better if they were oftener repeated. When we see them laying wreaths on the grave of the man who fought in '76, who may have .been with Staik at Bennington or with Washington at Trenton, it is then our minds go back to the time when this mighty republic was an infant struggling for independ-ancThe planting of a tiny flag over the spot where sleeps a veteran of Lundys Lane recalls the war with England for the preservation of the dignity of our citizenship. As the line halts beside the mound which covers a soldier who carried our flag at Monterey and Reseca, we are reminded of the war which made the Texans free. And then as the old vets come to the places where sleep their own, we remember with pride the awful fight for the perpetuity of the Union. Last bat not least are the fresher places, where lie the brave boys who stormed San Juan hill, who went down before Caloocan and other places in the far off Pacific Islands. It is well for us that on this occasion we abandon the cares of the commercialism which holds us to reflect upon the glories ot the past and those who fought our battles. It is well for us once in a while to recall the fact that there have been times in the history of the republic when all of us were not engaged in chasing the almighty dollar. ministers who never neglet an opportunity of shying a brick at Utah. Tin: writer is glad to note that many citizens commend his expression. A' who have endorsed the statement I were Gentiles, which, makes it stiil more gratifying. There is no excu.-for this perpetual nagging at Utah We are all right. Just let us alone and we will work out our own salvation. When we ask for help will be time for outsiders to chip in. ft ft would not be a juryman? Strwberries for dinner and the choice of restaurants. No common every day place either, but the best in town. What does it, matter if the bills in excess of the regular rates are turned down by the county attorney, so long as the calm beautiful stomach of the jurymen sing a song of peace as they walk back to the court house. And if the jury which tries Peter Mortensen for his life is entitled to feed ad libitum with strawberries and cream for desert, why should the jury that sits in the action brought by Smith against' Jones, eat less dainty food. Equality before the law! Justice and the best kind of dinners for all jurors. Down with the system that limits a man to a 35 cent meal. ft ft The arrest of Chin QuongChan and his fellow Chinese gamblers doubtless brought delight to Governor Wells house servant Ah Luck, who in his capacity as a Christian worker has been leggirg for Chins punishment many moons. Who . HERE AND THERE The county board acted sensibly in refusing to levy an increased tax for the support of the city schools as requested by the board of education. The tax last year was 2 mills and it was proposed to increase it by 1 mills. With the prospective revenue the board of education will be about 334,000 short of its requirements for 2-- 10 2-- 10 next year, but the legislature, which meets next January, can, if it sees fit, enact such legislation as will afford the desired relief. ft ft Live stock insurance is new to this state. The Arkansas Live Stock Insurance company has just entered upon e the field and has appointed Dick their general agent for Utah and Idaho. Dick is a rustler and will do a good business. ft ft Salt Lake county has been burdened for some time by an influx of paupers brought here by the Utah Construction company. Men have been shipped here from Denver and elsewhere by employment agencies who when they arrived turned out to be unable to do the work required of them. They were penniless, and in some cases absolutely sick, and became charges on the county. Chairman Anderson of the county board says within the past month or two the board has had about 100 such cases to handle, and whenever possible has sent the poor people back to the place from whence they came: ft ft There are many complaints from all over the city of peddlers of vegetables, fruit and the like giving short weight and short measure. Now that the sheriff is through subpoenaeing jurors for the Mortensen murder trial if he will turn a few of his deputies loose Last week this column contained a on the they will have a rich reference to the methods of eastern field to peddlers work upon. e. Whit-temor- |