Show THE PUBLIC PULSE I Communications under this head are published pub-lished on all proper subjects at the responsibility responsi-bility of the writer Large Boilers To the Editor THE HERALD Although the matter cannot be of great interest to the citizens in general of Salt lake I want to mention it as a specimen of the accuracy and reliability of your morning contemporary the Tribune Among its news items this morning a statement to the effect that two 100 H P boilers just arrived for the Dooly building weigh 66000 pounds and are the largest ever brought to the territory all of which is untrue This is simply one more reminder re-minder that however poetically and autocratically auto-cratically expressed all Tribune statements must be taken cum largo grano salis Your rabid contemporary without going any farther than the plant of the Street Railway company Ogden can there find three 150 H P boilers built by Fraser Si Chalmers working under 150 pounds steam pressure per square inch each one of which weighs twice as much as the Dooly boilers Yours MECHANIC January 15 1892 The Church Funds To the Editor of THE HERALD In readln1 your valuable paper this morning find that the master in chancery has decided just as the courts had done in regards to the disbursing of what is known as the church funds This is the strangest piece of law that can be found in the history his-tory of this or any other nation Years ago the corporation known as tho Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints was dissolved as the United States courts did not acknowledge this corporation as being legal and it was said that the legislature had no power to create this corporation If that is the case then there was no such corporation in existence then whose money is all this lawiug about This money they are using or trying to use for what they call common schools is in fact individual money or personal property prop-erty The EdmundsTucker bill was to use the funds of the corporation known as tho Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints but there being no such legal corporation cor-poration in existence the courts in my belief be-lief are putting tnemselves in rather a bad fix I protest against such unlawful rulings as I have paid hundreds of dollars as donations to bo used by the trustees which were appointed and upheld by mo and others who had donated these funds to be used as was thought best by these trustees we being thoroughly satisfied satis-fied with the way and manner these funds were distributed Knowing the thousands of dollars that is paid annually to the poor and building places of worship tho most charitable purposes to which money can be used It all seems a farce to say that this money is to be given to common or other schools as there is not going to be anything any-thing to give to anybody but receivers lawyers masters in chancery and commissioner commis-sioner What right has the common schools to the fund We pay a school fund or tax already which is fully sufflcon to pay all expense and again what has tho question of polygamy to do with those funds Tho idea of the master in chancery using that old song which has been laid on the shelf bringing it up to the front again looks to me that it is done to keep up that old feeling of hate to the prejudice bf the defendants for we know that has been tho bugbear for a groat many years but when it was solemnly declared against by the people in conference it would only have been tho act of a great and professed libertyloving nation not to have referred to the question again but no it is as the bloody shirt and must be brought to the front and show the true profession of Republicanism I remain as I always hope to be a lover of justice equity and Christianity Christ-ianity JOHN T NATTBESS Questions to John H Smith To the Editor of THE HERALD I read a short time since some letters written by Elder Stevenson to the News stating that he and John H Smith one of the apostles were traveling through the southern settlements preaching righteousness righteous-ness to the people Afterwards J H Smith made several Republican speeches but the letters did not state the object of his speeches He must certainly have had aii ax of some kind to grind else he would have stepped down and out of the apostolic stand where he must have been preaching honesty righteousness and steal not and set up a defense to Republicanism I cant see how he can harmonize the two opposing elements and be consistent with his profession He certainly has tho right to advocate tho election of any one ho chooses but not to use his position to mislead mis-lead others There is a saying that misery loves company It is possible that he wants to pay the Republican party for treating his father with contempt when he went east to represent repre-sent the Utah Republicans at a national convention and show his humility by kissing kiss-ing the rod that chastened him In the messages of all Republican Presidents Utah has always been a spider in the dumpling and 1 suppose Harrisons message mes-sage would not have been looked upon as straight Republican goods without it I want to ask F H S how he likes the idea of dislranchisement the Utahcommission and shoestring representative districts I suppose in order to be a good Republican ho must back all of that work The Republican Re-publican party was organized on tho black line to liberate 4000000 slaves and after that to enslave 20000000 of poor whites I dont wonder at the Republicans looking astonished when they met to organize a party at the appearance of one of the twelve apostles If he is not ignorant of the distress and suffering his adopted party has caused this people I think he will do well to pause and think a little I By joining hands with the Republicans you constructively say gentlemen you have done right I am a Republican too I was a Democrat fifty years ago and that party is no less the palladium of human liberty today than it was then and I am a Democrat Demo-crat still VERNAL A Hen Twelve Days Without Food Tho editor recently had a load of hay thrown into a crib on top of some other hay and without knowing it a chicken hen was caught and covered up by it supposed to hare been on her nest Just twelve days later sho was discovered in there softly singing some chicken melodies Her voice was low and wo imagine had a pathetic pa-thetic sadness about it though what the line she was singing were will never be known as we have not studied the checken dialect She was a fine game hen however and we could not discover that there anything in her language or tone that indicated her willingness to go back on her blood Sho was rescued and after drinking water for about two hours she joined her riends and has since been as cheerful as ever Eutaw Ma Mirror |