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Show TRUTH. 10 their places and drink and play cards. great corporations and railroads have Think of that. Saloon men and gam- decided that a man who drinks is not with blers chasing around to get a boy a reliable person to entrust who tipthe that engineer from a news stand with an income of business; with man entrust to not a is safe ples perhaps two dollars per day, and the running of an engine and the lives many times less, so they could get of the passengers on the train. Orwhat was taken in over the little coun- ders have been issued to either quit ter. Rats. Two dollars a day would not entice a case keeper away from his place fifteen minutes, and as for a saloon keeper boosting his own business by chasing around after the sons of widowed mothers getting him to come to their places to take a drink, say what you will of a saloon man, there isnt one west of the Ohio line that would care enough for the amount of trade a kid like that would bring to warrant shouting at him to come in as he passed by, to say nothing of .going round and conning him by buying a paper or two. Gamblers are not looking for cheap suckers. It is the man with a roll they want. tfhe chap with enough to buy a stack of a hundred at a clatter. This fellow Wooten talks like a man- who had been taken in on a strap game at a county fair or had lost three dollars endeavoring to designate which shell the pea was under. dt dt. Now the average crowd which listens to a chap like that is chiefly made up of fellows who have been rounders, either on a small or a large s scale. It is safe to assert that of those who heard Wooten here have taken a drink at some time in their lives or have bucked the tiger a bit. They know what he says is not true. And what man, hearing a fellow get up and falsify by the watch would give anything he said any credence? The cause of temperance and morality is injured by such individuals. The ranter. and the snorter never accomplished a bit of good in the world. In all her roamings up and down through the country;' with all her smashings and riotings no one ever heard of Carrie Nation causing a drunkard to change his course. This fellow Wooten may preach until the cows come home, but he will never achieve any success, beyond attracting a crowd to listen to his ravings. Carrie Nation has made some money. She has used it to erect a home for It cost a pretty drunkards.. wives. wowhat but penny, wife man will go there the advertised of a drunkard? The most of them will stay away and suffer inconvenience and want rather than go there to be pointed out as the unfortunate wife of a' man who was a drunkard. Had Carrie taken the money it costs to erect and maintain this home, some $15,000 in all, she could have sent 150 drunkards to an Institute to be cured and restored them to their wives and made the women happy because they were once united to a man. Men like John B. Gough. Frances Murphy, George M. Dutcher. T. S. Arthur, have written books and made speeches for years and years, advocating prohibition, yet the country is no nearer to it than it was when they started. Those men spoke the truth as near as they knew how. If then such men failed, how can a ranting pedestrian, like this man Wooten hope to succeed. As was said by a speaker in our constitutional convention, alluding to the evil of intemperance: Omnipotence recognizes it as an evil and yet He stays His hand. - nine-tenth- s self-respecti- ng self-sustaini- ng dt minds of men are so trained that each and all will see the evil of drinking, men will drink. The commercial spirit which prevails neara good ly everywhere now. effect in this mental training. The Until the whisky or the employ of the company. That action has made more sober men than all the pledge, signing advocates; all the blue ribbon advocates; all the prohibition cranks who ever walked the earth, or shouted and raved about hell fire and damnation in public places. It is no longer a question of morals; it is a question of expediency. A man has got to leave it alone if he expects to amount to anything. The drunkard is not wanted. Time was when a newspaper man who got drunk as a boiled owl was But the looked upon as a genius. genius is today out of a job. He has been succeeded by a fellow called and the plodder is the plodder, drawing salary while the genius is trying to attract the attention and enlist the sympathies .of the bartender. The forbidding of employees drinking is becoming more and more common and it Is a good thing. By and by those who drink will see that those who do not are the. better off and will quit of their own volition. The traffic will never entirely cease. There will be some men who will drink and drink again. Some because they have to; others because they like to and still others who want to be contrary. The sentiment of public opinion will always be adverse so far as alcohol is concerned and this last mentioned class will drink out of pure cussedness and that is all. If this man Wooten is a preacher he had better accept a call somewhere and get busy at something which will be more productive of results than shouting against liquor in his way at a street corner. . o FOR PENN8YLVANIAN3. Autumn is here and back in the old home the hillsides are covered with crimson, russet and gold. Pretty soon the chestnuts will drop out of the burrs; the shag barks will rattle down among the dry leaves; the butternuts and walnuts, will shuck easily. They are beginning to make cider right now. Hog killing time is coming on and pretty soon the squeal of the Berkshire will be heard in the land. The cradlers are out in the buckwheat and the kids are picking the Rhode Island greenings and the gilliflowers and the golden russets. Sauer kraut und Speck will soon be seasonable as will ponhaus and weiner schnitzel. A lot of us have decided that it would be a rattling good idea to send back home for a lot of this good stuff and have a first class Pennsylvania dinner some time about the first week in December. We will get a lot of real home-cure- d hams and boil them in cider; we will bake a lot of buckwheat cakes and have them hot right off the griddle; we know where we can get a few gallons .of syrup made from the maple with no adulteration, and we can get a whole mess of good grub to go with this. We want to know just how many Pennsylvanians will spend two dollars to pay for the feast Address Secretary, Box 1228, City. All you have Pennsylvanians welcome. If state you married a woman from that a Keyis are eligible. If your hubby stone state man you can come and get something to eat for the first time r&4$ (r)y Tiire Table in your life. Signed, A. L. Thomas, postmaster, H. M. McCartney, Engineer San Pedro railroad, T. M. SchuPEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND macher, acting traffic manager, OreSAN gon Short Line, H. C. McDonough, SALT LAKE R. R. CO. exchange editor Salt Lake Herald, H. C. Evans, deputy county clerk; S. L. DEPART. Hague, C. M. Jackson, Truth. No polor mentioned From will be or itics Oregon Short .Line Depot, religion to have Salt Lake City. alluded to; we are just going something good to eat. Let us hear For Provo, Lehl, Fairfield and Mercur, connecting at Nephi from you. for Manti and intermediate o a TO points on Sanpete Valley Ky.. LOGAN LETTER. For Garfield Beach, Tooele, Stockton, Mammoth, Eureka and Silver City (via Learning- - flVN Logan; Sept. 25. Nearly 300 carton .7. oivAJ in were talcing the American procession For Provo, riages Fork, Lehl. Juab, Milford, Frisco. the delegates of the Irrigation Con- Callentes and intermediate gress from the railway station to the points cut-off)...- Agricultural college last Saturday. The procession was headed by the mayor, and I expected that the vehicle following his lordship would contain the city council, hut alas! I met with disappointment, for in that second vehicle I beheld to my utter astonishment Buffalo Bill of Ogden fame. I started out upon a mission of inquiry and soon spotted one of our city fathers and asked him why the council was not represented in the Oh, said he, the mayor is parade. the chief in charge of all arrangements, and he has no use for the council, they are too small . potatoes The and too few in a hill to suit-himfact of the matter is the mayor has been laying for some time watching for an opportunity to get even with the Logan city council for turning him down on the electric light proposition. He started the ball rolling at the citizens meeting he called to make arrangements for this affair. I inquired what he had done at that meeting. Why, said the councilman, the president of the city council presented a resolution authorizing the mayor, who was chairman of the meeting, to appoint a committee to make proper arrangements for the reception of the irrigationists, the resolution was unanimously adopted, and the committee duly appointed, but the president of the council who presented the resolution was not named as a member of the committee. I conto parliamentary sider, according practice, and common usage in all public affairs, he was entitled to be on the committee. Please explain what you mean by that electric light proposition you referred to. Oh, I tell you, said he, when we were engaged in preparing for the election on bonding the city for $C5,-00to install an electric light plant; the mayor was in California. He wired us twice or three times and wrote letters telling us to drop the matter, that it was impossible to make it a success, that the election would be very expensive, etc. The council, however, with but one exception, turned the mayors advice down. We held the election, won out easily, 75 per cent voting yes. This is the whole story in a nut shell. Good day. , -- 0, ... ARRIVE. From Provo, American Fork, Lehl, Juab, Milford, Frisoo. Callentes and intermediate am pm 3 TO .... points From Provo, Lehl. Fairfield, Mercur and Sanfete Valley C.1C JO p m Ry. points From Silver City, Mammoth, Eureka, Stockton, Tooele and C.1C Garfield Beach pm ALL TRAIN8 DAILY. Direct stage con rect ions for all mining districts in southern Utah and Nevada. JlJJ City Ticket Office, 2ol Main Street Tel. 250. For particulars call on or address agents. Salt Lake Route, or J. L. Moore, Commercial Agent. E. W. GILLETT, Gen Passenger Agent No. I have not been here quite that long, but long enough that thousands of people have been convinced that I sell honest, al le poods at honest- prices, and that my guarantee is as good as the best. re-li- SAL SICKLE, THE JEWELE 78 Bast Second South St. . Mall Orders Given Prompt Attention. Health Commissioner Stewart has aligned himself with the Kearns crowd and is not losing a minute in making himself solid with the outfit. During the week he called all the employees of the health department before him and served notice upon them that they must get in line for Frank Knox. The language used was of a very emphatic nature, too. as f If Stewart would get busy in seeing to it that the city is cleaned up; if he would devote as much attention to sick and indigent prisoners in the city jail as he does to politics he would give greater satisfaction to .the citizens and come nearer to earning the salary he draws. one-hal- one-ha- lf v : O FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Eber W. Hall, successor to A. 8. Watson; 110 West Second So. TeL 1019. |