Show STATE PRESS COMMENTS The people of Utah county and every person in the state should join hands in an effort to make the MidSummer carnival at Salt Lake city on July 2 3 and 4 a grand success We understand it is to be a state affair intended to show visitors from other states the resources of our great commonwealth and the hospitality of our people as well as to afford a pleasing entertainment and grand celebration celebra-tion for our own people The fireworks and other features being free no doubt great crowds will attend as is usually the case with a free showPayson Globe What with its fairs its carnivals general gen-eral conFerences state conventions of all kinds and other general gatherings Salt Lake city is becoming more greedy each year for the spondoolicks of the other towns and cities of the state Salt Lake can get up a very attractive celebration and almost enough money will be spent Ijy almost any of the cities of importance in the state to witness this grand carnival to have had a very creditable affair at home Provo Utonian As appears to be the inevitable result of all legislation looking to the bettering V of the workingroans condition the Jaw regulating the time which sB constitute a days labor for mine and smelter employees em-ployees which goes into effect today seems destined to work a hardship on the very men for whose benefit It was intended Managers of mines and smelters smel-ters are claiming and with circumstances pointing to the tr th of their assertions that at the present prices of lead and silver any material Increase In the rates now paid to employees would result in the closing down of more than twothirds of the mines of the stateSpanlsh Fork American V The Mercury sincerely hopes that the miners and mineowners of this camp may adjust the difficulties occasioned by the adoption of the 8hour law Thus far all parties interested have shown a disposition disposi-tion to make concessions and It looks as though everything would be amicably arranged ar-ranged In our opinion the mine owners the miners and the people of the camp would all be losers should trouble be occasioned by the new condition Mercur Mercury Two weeks ago It looked as though McKinley Mc-Kinley had a clear field for the Republican Republi-can nomination and that he would so through on the ttrst ballot Now however after the smoke has blown 1 away and we get down to actual figures we see that McKinley is abut fifty votes short of an actual majority and that the fight in the convention will probably be a long and hard one This fact is encouraging for the free silver Republicans as in the closing coqtest or final roundup as It were our delegates may be able to set in their work bra silver candidate Tin tic Miner That is a queer conclusion the Provo Enquirer has arrived at that those who are opposing the manifesto are on the road to apcstasy That is as much as to say that a man can not exercise his honest judgment upon a question and be in good standing unless he should be In line with the popular side We thought it had always been a rule in this church that all things were done by common consent that the majority should rule We thoughtntha 1 the principles of Mor monism taught ifreedpm and Independence In thought and actor and gave all men aright a-right to individuality If a man cannot and must not think but upon a given side I of a question then he is not free and has no use for manhood and individuality Payson Header |