| Show Tafts Taft's Critics Unhorsed ADVISING tho the elect President of the fundamental fun fun- BY B reasons for lot his adoption of a 11 modified modified modi moth fied fled policy towards Mexico Ic ico and consulting with his successor as to the proper course Mr Taft has disarmed his chronic critics of the tile only logical complaint they could make As greatly unfamiliar with Mexican c affairs as tho the President is intimately tel informed enemies of the administration administration adminis adminis- t ration can only object to his present stand on the tho ground that it might embroil the United States with Mexico on Ol the tho eve of his retirement and und the thence Wilson Vilson But that it becomes nce accession of Dr now known that the thc President elect t has been fulI fully informed informed informed in in- formed and that he lie concurs in the action of the state department tho the statesmen who ho sit eit in the editorial chairs of the thc nation presumably will either give grudging approval or hold their t tongues Cs The President has handled the Mexican situation ith such consummate tact and aud exact justice that t t may fairly bo be assumed his advanced ad stand at athis athis athis his time timo is w warranted by conditions The dis- dis from fromY Y Washington on the subject are arc so prepared that it is apparent the thc unreported ported happenings below the surface are aro much more moro interesting than those about which we arc i permitted to know Even from the meager facts I that are given ghen to the public one may deduce that President Madero mistaking moderation for fear and justice for cowardice vardice has gone a bit too far farin farin in iii his Latin insolence to our state department We have ha the thc utmost confidence and so 80 has the country co in Iii the good judgment of tim the President and Secretary of State Their attitude is doubtless doubt doubt- doubtless less Jess fully funy warranted and they will be supported in whatever er they thoy may decide to do 1 i I A Most Humble Suggestion I I IN N A MOST laudatory discussion of the alleged L accomplishments of the city commission CommiSsiOn published published published pub pub- on Saturday there appears the following statement of what the city purchasing agent alone and single-handed single has been able to do The purchasing agent Is a now new department and one to which the commission points with pride In the first six months It was estimated ed that 21 per cent was saved on the supplies of or the various departments Actual figures show how that more mora than was saved up to July 1 IN LEGAL ADV ADVERTISING Hll ALONE 62 PER CENT 1 WAS AS SA SAVED V ED It seems rather rathor heartless for tho the press a agent ont to add th tilt the last sentence in the tho above quotation because because be be- cause the Salt SnIt Lake Tribune which carried the city's legal advertising ad up to the time that Salt Lake was born again by the inception of the commission commission com corn mission has been really pathetic in its humble submission submission sub sub- submission mission mission to the tine new government This knock upon the Tribune Tribune-is is so badly muffled however as to be bemore bemore bemore more apparent than real and we believe that the commission if it will accept a bit of friendly advice advice advice ad ad- vice can economize still further on this item Why not place the city's ad advertisements in one of the thc local weeklies that boast of not more than 00 subscribers subscribers sub sub- scribers In this manner perhaps the tho remainder of the publishing appropriation mi ht be saved And in the interest of truth without desire to insinuate a a criticism we feel impelled to remark our surprise that despite all an this saving it is necessary necessary essary sary to fix the same tax levy on a much greater valuation Why if economy has been introduced does the tIle commission sion not spend less money than was spent by the American n administration instead instead instead in in- stead of spending more as it is doing z c-z The Irreproachable Glavis T THOSE HOSE who observed with some Borne interest and more suspicion the performances of Louis R. R Glavis during the Pinchot Ballinger-Pinchot imbroglio and who thought him really reany too good to be true should watch with care the present inquiry in California into the recent Glavis record When a disgusted federal government performed n a major operation upon Gl Glavis vis by amputating both his job and his sala salary he ho was translated to California and given the position of secretary o of the state conservation commission It is charged and Governor Johnson Johnsonis is now investigating that Glavis Glans has used this position for private gain and that the particular form his conserving energies assumed was that of grabbing choice timber lands for himself and his friends Any verdict as to the thc guilt or innocence of the former field agent of the interior department must be withheld until officially found by California's governor whose prejudice however in favor of Glavis is so 80 pronounced that the tho latter probably has hns little to fear But they that remember the readiness with which ho he was the instrument of those who wished to punish Secretary Ballinger for retiring Gifford Pinchot as chief forester will recall that Glavis Glans exhibited disloyalty ingratitude and Rind treachery to disgusting degree He be 1 a n i I may maybe innocent in 11 uns ana aim nis motives mou in tile ne Ballinger case may have been irreproachable but we doubt it it The individual who publicly displays so many revolting traits may with reason be suspected suspected sus sus- of concealing a few equally as reprehensible t Z 4 f 4 1 Twin Samples of Justice A PEW FEW days ago in Now York a rich quick swindler who had amassed several fortunes by I defrauding the gullible was convicted and Fen Fen- i fenced to one year in prison On Saturday in Kansas City a woman with two little children who conf confessed to forging a 45 check on a dare was ordered to tine tIle state penitentiary for ivo years These two news happenings in widely-separated widely sections of the United States are not without interest to th the inquiring They prove pro the relative inadequacy of our American merican system of punishing crime and reforming criminals and demonstrate the sublime spectacle two judges can make of themselves although their mani manifestations may be entirely different 4 S The recall is the finest modern weapon for the iho politician who wants another mans man's job The huntin hunting season reason was vas not a complete failure some sonio of the gUnners gunners got back Cold weather Wc it is the tine only timo a aman man with with- Wilis- Wilis whis kers hers realty really looks comfortable I. 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