OCR Text |
Show ' 1 TRUTH. 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by Truth Publishing Company. Western Newspaper Union Building, South West Temple Street. Salt Lake City, 241 . . ' d John W. Hughes, Editor and Manager. Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake City, matter, under Act Utah, as second-clas- s 1879. of Congress of March 3, Terms of Subscription. ONE YEAR (In advance) SIX MONTHS (Tn advance) THREE MONTHS (In advance) ..... 22.00 1.00 .75 sending subscriptions to TRUTH may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper Is not desired beyond the date subscribed for, the publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. Postmasters Discontinuances. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid In full. Requests of subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new adress, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present address. Address all communications to TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY, Salt Lake City, Utah. - r many wonderful strides in commerce, finance, education, and in fact, in the whole wide field of progress. What shall be said of those who are trying, at any cost, to discredit the state, both at home and abroad? They are the citienemies of every public-spiritezen. They are willing for the sake of a personal grudge to antagonize, to. revile, to destroy. There is no reason for their attitude.. Let us pull together and the uplifting of for the Utah the best section of the great and wonderful .west Let us cease this false babbling and pnatlng about phantoms of danger that exist only in the minds of those whose intense personal bitterness prevents them from enjoying a clearness of view. Let us have peace. . up-buiidi- ng The little American party is in a bad way. Its management is in the hands of men who are hardly worthy to be called pygmies, for an army of them- could not capture or subdue ia Gulliver. From their paid clerks down to their wouldbe boss, Kearns, the men who control its destinies are either - or bigots. In all their ranks, there stands out no one who possesses even a semblunderers, turn-coat- s self-seeker- s, For many years Utah was a botbed blance of the power of leadership. The of social, political and religious strife. only control which 'any one of them, That any one who has lived through or all of them can exercise over any this period should desire to see it re- of the voters of Utah is by the use of occur is inconceivable, unless it be adgold, or by that still more improper mitted that such an one is an enemy to thing: a threat to get their jobs if they the growth, prosperity and peace of dont get into line. That the Amerithe state. The conditions that pro- can party can maintain any standing duced this era of strife in Utah were against the aggressiveness of the Renatural under the then existing cir- publicans and Democrats of Utah is cumstances. They have so nearly be- not to be expected, for in the heart of come obliterated with the changes that the average citizen is an abiding faith time has brought that it is worse than in the common sense and loyalty of the foolish, it is absurd to pretend that common people. For the common peothey can ever again predominate.' ple are not bound to any boss and It was, therefore, with a devout have no. confidence in the motives or thankfulness that the people of Utah, abilities of the man who is paying for irrespective of their religious beliefs, the noise that the American party is welcomed the day that brought them making in a vain effort to excite attenan equality with citizens of other tion. And this humiliating characterstates and gave them an opportunity to istic of the partys management is vote according to their unprejudiced quite equalled, yes, excelled by the piti.judgment. That Utahns generally have ful. pretense which the American lived up to their pledges and their opparty speakers make at being patriotic portunities is within the knowledge' of when they appear upon the stump. citievery sane, unbiased, No Mormon can be a good' citizen, zen. There are a few individuals, both for every Mormon is a slave to his Mormons and Gentiles, who long for leaders, is the sum and substance of the old day3, when they could, through an hours appeal to passion the ballot box, strike at their neighbors and business associates. But it is the rlain, unvarnished truth to say that in this effort to keep alive these ancient fires of bitterness and resentment Gentiles are more to blame than . fair-minde- d per-fervi- d and prejudice. Any Gentile who fails to think as the Tribune would have him and refuses to fight the Mormons to the last drop of his hearts blood, is also a tool of the church and Is afraid to say that his soul is his own, is another convincing (?) argument with which the American orators are driving away from their ranks many mopersons who at first, before the tives of this new party were made clear, felt inclined to lend their Poor old Tribune! don its pipe dream that the American party movement would sweep driven to over the state like wild-firabandon its false and malicious declaration that the leaders of the Mormon church had decided upon a straight Republican victory, the K. K. organ is now industriously squirming to get where, no matter what the result of the election may be, it can say: I told you Look at the power of the Morso! mon church in Utah politics! The Tribune has been compelled to cease its boastings that the American party is in sight of a county victory. Even its deaf ears have caught the mutterings of the storms that the voters of Salt Lake county are preparing to turn loose on the 8th of Novem-be- t as a rebuke to its now methods. The K. K. mouth-piec- e says that no matter what the result of the coming election may be, it will still continue to fight the Republican organization. Here is the direct, incontestable proof of the Tribunes animus disappointment and anger because its owner is no longer dictator of the Republican party in Utah. Now, on the morning after election, if there is a Republican victory, the Mormon Demo Tribune will say: crats have obeyed the counsels of their priests and voted against their convictions. If the Democrats should win, the Tribune will say: In an effort to make it appear that there is no church influence, the Mormon leaders have forced Republicans to vote the Democratic ticket. And so, no matter what the free voters of Utah decide as to the men that are to be entrusted with the administration of public affairs, they must still feel about their ears the crack of the Tribunes whip. If such an impossible and unheard of thing e, un-Americ- an well-deserve- l-- HOT THING I $ OUR NEW GAS HEATER COME et STREET. MAIN un-Americ- an Tri-bun- Utah politics. Marion Butler, of North Ex-Senat- or a recent interview: President Roosevelt, in my opinion, will get more than half of the Populist vote in this country, and his vote from Democrats wtyl certainly be large. He is greatly admired for his independence and honesty, without regard to party lines. I heard an old Jackson Democrat recently say that he was the most independent charac- ter and best type of true Americanism in public life since Andrew Jackson and that he proposed to support him. Another remarked that Roosevelt might make mistakes, but they would be his own mistakes, and he would make amends for them. This feeling is giving the president much support among the most independent and parties. thinking people of-aThe American people, who would preserve their government, cannot afford that President Roosevelt, who has shown such courage, wisdom and patriotism, shall be defeated when there is such' opposition arrayed against him on account of these very qualities and deeds. And I am one of the people who feel that way. ll The Hon. Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior, has sent in his estimates for the next fiscal year, ending June 30, 1895, wherein he makes it appear that in his opinion an aggregate of $17G, 779, 134.26 is needed for the several branches of the public service under his control. He seems somewhat proud of the fact that this is a decrease from- last year of $3,308,496.18, the total then being $180,087,630.41 But he omits to call public attention to the suggestive fact that he gets all and more than all of his apparent saving out of the pension bureau. His estimates show a decrease for pen- sions of $5,000,000. Further than that, he wants an increase of $1,000,000 tor examining surgeons, $100,000 for clerk hire, and $300,000 for expenses of in0 vestigation. This is a, total of $1,400,-00which he must have in order to cut down the pensions to the extent of $5,000,000, and the secretary proposes to make the old soldiers pay it all. New York Tribune. Said an American who has lived in the Philippines for over six years, and who is well acquainted with local con- $ ditions: I INI t AND S d NO. II SOUTH could happen as the election of the K. K.s hybrid, ticket, it may reasonably be supposed that the e would still cry out: President Smith has made the voters of Utah swallow this bitter pill to make the national government believe that the church does not use its influence u Carolina, once national chairman of the Peoples party, who will support and expects to see President RoosDriven to aban- evelt elected, had this to say of him in ooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo Mormons. A handful of these Gentiles who are hopeless of ever being able to command political influence by any legitimate means, are now working for the American party. What can they hope to gain except a record championship as originators of strife and trouble, even if they succeed in keeping a semblance of animation in their organization. Let them go on in the way that they have started, and long before, they die of old age they will have earned the contempt of those. who are most. strongly Identified with Utah's best interests. us have peace, not strife and bigotry. Since statehood, Utah has made rr Utah Light & Railway Co. $ g 000 ooooooooo oowwooooo i . - At mu If I entertained a deadly hatred toward all Filipinos, If I wanted to tor flict upon the islands the greatest pos- sible Injury, I would rejoice to see the establishment of Filipino indeho pendence. Nothing else that could ha planned or done at this time would |