Show THE educational status of utah is much higher than is generally supposed her ratio of illiteracy according to alie latest census is much below alio average of the nation the per of children over ten years of ago unable to read is and to write alio per cantago of the whole country is ya unable to read and 1244 unable to rite in this educational respect utah is ahead of thirty four states and territories of the union A system of district school partly supported from the territorial treasury has been established for many years and is improving annually besides the district schools there arc several high choals ch a number of private academies about sixty denominational schools supported by the different sects and the university of deseret Deser ct partly supported from the territorial treasury all the principal religious bodies are represented and have substantial church edifices y THE united should not only have the barsi larsi merchant marine in the wpc f and an ample navy to protect it but it should have tho largest foreign commerce in the world for that marine to carry preeminently pre eminently a producing country with a capacity to supply the whole world it today to day be shipping the necessaries and luxuries of life to every land possessed of a people whose intelligence and ingenuity are superior to any others it ought to command the patronage of the world upon its merits with skill that defies competition it ought to encourage that skill ty furnishing it a market in every port upon the globe so long as protective tariff bianas as a species of universal boycott however so long will this country find its market largely curtailed and confined to long will there be no merchant marine because there is nothing for it to do A contemporary asks what monopolies have been fostered by protective tariff there name is legion but to be courteous a few may be mentioned for those who talk tariff without knowing anything about it for instance is the sugar trust the tin and copper trust the lead trust the coal aad coke combinations the nail markers protective association the car builders syndicate the crucible deteel trust alie bessemer Bea semer steel combination the salt syndicate the russia sheet iron monopoly the cheet zinc syndicate the maine sardine fraud the flour bag combine the barb wire ring the window glass trust the wall paper trust alie american print monopoly abo elate trust the woolen manufacturers syndicate many more liht be added but this list will be more than the monopoly tariff advocates can explain away between now and election TUB entire importation of wool and in the fiscal year of 1887 amounted to only in value and paid a tariff of 1828 per cent or the total imports of all kinds amounted to ex of the free list and paid duty the per cent of total duty paid by woolen goods in 1887 was 14 02 and it was 1384 on raw wool it was and in 1887 these figurea do not show any startling increase in wool and woolen imports nor do they show that the foreign imports arc capable of affecting the market to ny great degree as they do not represent mor ethan 1 per cent of the american wool industries AT least one of mr Bla iBOa sentinels on the picket line of 1888 has wit and judgment enough to perceive the folly of inviting defeat by his there is no man says philetus sawyer of wisconsin whom I 1 love mor elthan blaine nor in there a man whom I 1 would so much money for but the facts is the attacks of aba newspapers of his own party upon him years ago led the public to form a false impression of the man and this wrong cannot be eradicated we did our best for him four years ago and I 1 believe wo must now tako up some other man wi THE yr thern pacific will this year put into use four new rotary steam snow shovels eho vels the apparatus somewhat resembles a box car containing a stationary engine which works the shovel on the front of the car is the rotary shovel which gathers up alie snow and it ran be run aa fast as revolutions per minute the enow passes back and is expelled from a spout on top of the car being thrown far to one side the apparatus is pushed by a locomotive and can go through a snowdrift six or seven feet deep at the rate of fifteen or twenty miles an hour washington dispatches convey the sad intelligence that AVAV Corcor anthe well known philanthropist of that city is in very feeble health and that liis condition has excited much alarm among his numerous friends ir corcoran is 89 years old and although in the ordinary course of nature lie cannot be expected to live much there wil be many a man and women to whom the news of big and pot si blo deatle will brin profound sorrow THE past year ha been one of material prosperity and advancement of the people of utah territory the mines have never yielded their treasure more abundantly tha farmer and bandier have had prosperous seasons and throughout commercial pursuits there his been such a gratifying activity that tho boom of tho future is among tho things quite confidently THE plattsmouth Platt herald saya that lie democratic press of this country i a unit lor free trade the sterald is simply mistaken arf trade is not the issue the democratic press is a unit in demanding that a robbing useless and oppressive tax be ored this is not free trade it iu common sense THE congressional comini tUc who will consider claims to statehood is composed of the following gentlemen springer of illinois chairman barnes georgia cox new york dormoy nebraska somes colorado warnar missouri joseph new mexico king of spain gets a salary kofl a year he is now seventeen months old and the salary is ample to provide him with the best class of rubber rings on which to cut his teeth AK ohio paper solemnly says tha fingar of fate points to blaine at examination will show that that flagar a felon on it |