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Show TRUTH quick to see the defect. It looks as if it would be a good thing for Mr. Westervelt to employ some one in his office who knows something about law. THE duck season is upon us, and very soon the rattle of shotguns will be. heard in the land. The birds are said to be very plentiful this year. Harry Finch, of the Finch Duck club, has had a blue print made of the preserve controlled by his organization and the plans and elevations show at least two million teal, seven hundred thousand mallards and from sixty to seventy thousand widgeon and pin tail, with an occasional canvas back. The mud hens and fish ducks are uncountable. - CHATTER. (Being the personal opinions of the writer and for which no one else is in any manner responsible.) A heavy featured man, with a mud dy complexion, a voice akin to a fog horn, black hair, sprinkled with grey, large, hands and ample mouth, has been in the city during the past week, haranguing crowds at the street corners from a wagon, on the subject of prohibition. He accompanies his addresses by illustrations on a banner, evidently designed by a sign painter, one side representing the home, the church, the bible, the school, house and heaven, with its angels, while on the other one could see very ugly representations of a saloon, a gambling house, a tough looking fairy from a brothel, a fellow swinging from a railway bridge by the neck and a small corner of that warm country usually designated as hell. This persons namq is Wooten; so he says, although Hooten would be more appropriate. He declares himself a preacher, and it is fair to presume that he tells the truth. He is out on a crusade against the licensed saloons of the land and wants to entirely abolish the liquor traffic. & No one will deny that liquor is a curse to some people; to most people. 9 We drink too much. That is to say some of us do. It is equally true that some people do not drink enough, although the latter class are a very small part of the great mass ofa humanity. All of us welcome the man who comes among us to teach moderation, and many of us welcome the man who comes to us with a plea for the discontinuance of the use of strong drinks. As a matter of fact, the great majority of us believe that the man who abstains entirely is better off than the fellow who uses too much or the chap who drinks in moderation, keeping in mind of course the fact that all rules have an exception, for there are some few who are so constituted that alcohol is almost an absolute necessity. But when one of these apostles of temperance or comes among us, we like to see him confine himself to the statement of accurate truth. Because we know that the truth is all that is required. There is no need for exaggerating or indulging in falsehood in order to bolster up a good cause. The writer does not want to assert that tee-totalis- . GONO'te WELL I m Wooten is a prevaricator, but if what he said in one of his Salt Lake City speeches is fact, then the gamblers and saloon keepers of San Antonio, Texas, ought to be wiped off the face of the earth. Incidentally it may bo stated that his remarks sounded like those which emanate from a fellow who has been experimenting with a new sort of dope. & Wooten asserted that in the city of San Antonio a widow, with one son, a brave bright boy, kept a little news stand, where they made a bare living by selling papers, peanuts and magazines. The boy was all right at first and the grey haired mother was happy. But he fell and her heart was broken. He became a gambler and a drunkard. That tale is common. Lots of boys go astray. But listen to the story this fellow tells of the temptation that beset this young man. He declares that the gamblers and the saloon men started coming to this little news stand to buy papers and that they called every day for weeks in order to entice this youth to come to SHOULD THE BIG TIME OF YOUR LIFE CAN BE HAD AT TA VTAHS GREATEST Grand Displays in Every Department. Unequalled Stock Show. Real Horse Races. Fruits, Flowers, Farm, Art, Manufacturing and Mining Interests represented as never before. SIX DAYS. OCTOBER 1st to 7th, 1 903. Sensational Aeriel and Acrobatic Features. En7YYYYYYYYYYY7YY?YYYYYYYYYYYYYYffYYYY7YYf7YTYYYYT7Y7Y7YYT9 DERBY DAY, THURSDAY, OCT. I. SALT LAKES POPULAR DAY. Go With the Crowds on the 1st. jftHIUimimimiAAilAilAAlliAAAliAHAAAiAAAiAAAAlAAMa |