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Show m ' . TRUTH. 8 TRUTH to their own best interests. By experience it ha9 been proven that special editions are nothing more nor less than colossal grafting schemes practiced upon the newspapers best friends. The special edition of this day and age is particularily rank, as njost of the reading matter is secured from syndicates that furnish it in matrix form ready to print for $2 a page. Special editions are read by nobody, therefore they are frauds so far as the advertiser is concerned. Let the merchant who is importuned for advertising in a special edition of any kind simply ask himself whether he has ever had the courage to wade through the multitude of rot that invariably makes up such a publication. If he would not do it, then others will not. He might as well cast his money on the waves of Great Salt Lake as to spend it for the privilege of increasing the size and buik of a special edition, the very appearance of which is tiresome to the average newspaper reader. Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant prince, who spends $100,000 annually in advertising, does not. patronize the Sunday newspaper on account of its bulk, let alone the fraudulent special editions. Advertising is a science that many Salt Lake merchants have yet to Issued Weekly by 11 TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. end 12 Central Block, West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. ' JOHN W. HUGHES. Editor and Manager . Entered at the postofllre pt SVt Lake City, lor tranxmlxslon through the mails as ITtiih, pecond-rlas- M matter. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER 18, 1902 TERMS OF SC BSCRIPTION I SS.00 ONE TEAR (In advanoe) HX MONTHS THREE MONTHS ooss oeoo esse Fnstmiiaters sending subscriptions jo TRUTH may retain 25 per cent of subscription pries as commission. If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed for the puollcatlon should be notified by letter two weeks or more before too term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when s subscriber wishes hi' stopped; all arrears must be paid in s'! b ' .'i jtser ii of subscribers to bare tbelr paper Requests milled to a new address, to seeure Attention, must mention former as well ss present ad- dress. f .1 Address sll communications to Troth Company, Salt Laka City, Utah. Puh-ushi- G m; , k i 1 i ; rover Cleveland, always ponder ous and profound, has, sounded a trum. pet call of warning to all the. faithful Democrats of the nation. He has spoken of his fear that the Republicans are about to steal the ammunition of the Democracy by bearing down hard Grover has evion the trust problem. dently had his ear on the ground. Strange and paradoxical as it may . i- mo i . , i I . . learn. is conceded to be a comparative term. If a philosopher should meet only millionaires while they were engaged in cutting coupons from government bonds, he would be compelled to believe that prosperity was a com- Prosperity mon heritage. If he should be thrown continuously into the midst of poverty, he could not help but determine that grim want was abroad in the land. If the visitor to a fashionable theatre should look only at the occupants c the boxes, he would he forced to the conclusion that, everybody wore diamonds. So it is that useful opinions on prosperity must depend on an equasion, where the entire- people are considered as a unit. Can it be possible that prosperity reigns in the coal fields of While partisan optimists are proclaiming prosperity from the seem, the Republican party has already outlined its policy against the trusts. While Grover Cleveland sat in a cushioned chair at Trinceton, warning his brethren to be up and doing to prevent themselves from being robbed, Attor-nj- y General Knox was giving to the Associated Dress a typewritten copy of a speech he was going to deliver at Pittsburg before the Chamber of Commerce. The speech was sent by mail to every Republican newspaper between the two oceans, and was released by telegraph for publication Wednesday morning. Thus it will be seen that Grover Cleveland's apprehensions were well founded. The attorney general of the United States, who has eaten no bread for the last ten years that was not bought with trust money, paid to him in exchange for his services as an attorney, declaims against the trusts in a masterly manner. But will the people of the United States accept the attorney generals thesis as anything but sophWill they allow Philip drunk istry? to appeal to Philip sober? Abraham Lincoln, were he yet on earth, might declare that an attempt was being made to fool all the people all the time. Thoughtful readers recall the famous case of Jarndice vs. Jarndice, that remained in the English courts for two centuries without adjudication. The trust litigation seems patterned after the English form of equity proceed-ur- e. The daily newspapers - Pena-sylvani- -- d before buying.' Hubbard Investment Co. When Edward .Bellamy promoted CHOICE BUILDING LOTS his dream and named it Looking Thirteen blocks from Temple, water Backward, it might have been inspired so closely did it outline the trend of commercial business. . It was only a dream, and yet it presupposed one single outfitting point, where all the people came for the necessities of life. To the wholesale grocers" of the United States belongs the credit of first embracing the Bellamy dream. It is dow proposed to form one; central grocery store from which all other grocery stores must be supplied. It is not contended that the big 'store will wrestle with the consumer of groceries. That unhappy job will still be delegated to the retail grocer, who will be compelled to abide by a certain buying and a certain selling price. ' He will still be the man who takes all the chances of bad debts. It is a beautiful plan to regulate the price of groceries. Since it belongs to this age of feverish progress and corpulent prosperity, it would be high treason to speak in criticism of it. If this nation is to conquer the commercial world, he is but a poor patriot who will not consent to be robbed that the benison of universal glory may rest upon his countrys fame. Those serious but misguided trons who belong, to the temperance unions,' and who succeeded in abolishing the army canteen or soldiers club, might learn something to their advantage if they took: passage on one of the Fort Douglas street cars late at night. Brigadier General Funston has shown n his courage by declaring that the of the canteen has increased the crime of drunkenness in the army. That the general speaks by the card is abo-litio- Have Been Advanced in New York. But you can still buy at the same reason able prices and easy terms from Raiders 23). are preparing for their annual assault upon the merchants of the city in the 4--5 ; ma- $0& a? -- 4-7 XUcst city high level ground, shade trees, deep lots, wide streets and alleys, 8150 to $2 0, 810 cash, tf.so per month. Will make you big profits, butter than money on interest. Building up rapidly. HUBBARD INVESTMENT GO., , Piacrvo Prices of Salt Lake publication of bulky holiday editions. The wisest publishers in the United States have long since abandoned the special edition hold-u- p as being baneful FOR SALE. housetops, they must have in mind such happy masters as John D. Rockefeller, j. pierpont Morgan, and all those othGrocery Store, very central, first class locaers who eliminate competition and tion, good stock, 11,800. A great bargain. who sit raise the price. To those of us HUBBARD INVESTMENT CO '' 78 W. Second South. at the feet of Gamaliel; io those of us who have no interest in any of the trusts, pools and combines, there is a ALFALFA-anFRUIT FARMS limitis doubt that some We have prosperity great bargains in highly cultlingering ivated farms, from 10 to 150 acres, get our list less in its blessed visitation. TC ons Ftrsl ..South . c 78 West Second South. amply proven by the disgraceful scenes that are enacted on the Fort Douglas owl cars. Drunken soldiers take possession of the cars, defying the conductor and motorman. They terrorize those unhappy civilians who happen to be going to their homes late at night, and sing ribald songs until all the sleeping citizens, for blocks in every direction are awakened by the unseemly disturbance. Wise old military men all agree that soldiers are less apt to drink to intoxication while under the eyes of commanding officers thau when allowed to leave the post. It is President Theodore Roosevelt who says that publicity would help to solve the iniquitous trust problem. As if to mock the discovery of the chief executive, the United States Steel corporation begins the frequent publication of its table of profits, running into such fabulous millions that peda gogues grow dizzy while contemplating the figures. The steel trust is turning its virtues to good account.. It is the purpose of the monstrous enterprise to unload its common stock upon the public, and the happy publication of its earnings helps to carry out the design The Associated Press, always bent on disseminating good news, sends out the reports of the steel trust profits free of cost, so that the trust is at no expense for advertising. Let us have more free advertising so that we may all buy common stock. When a financial depression comes we can loyally lose our investments. It looks very much as if the coal barons were trying to work a bunco game on the miners and that their appearing to back down is only a trick. They suggested that President Roosevelt name the arbitrators, but they put so many restrictions on the president as to the classes from which he must make his selections that in effect the colliery owners would be naming the arbitrators. No wonder John Mitchell was offish and shy about falling in with the plan. If the capitalists wanted President Roosevelt to appoint arbitra tors they should not- have objected to giving him an absolutely free hand. , - One remarkable phase of human nature is shown in the giving of rewards for the restoration of lost pocketbooks. A man recently lost a purse containing $15,000 in bank notes. The purso was ' |