Show THE PACKARD LIBRARY I I OHN OM Q PACKARD PACKARDS P GIFT of for a free fre public u lic i library building and grounds s is as munificent asit as it was Va unheralded Always a retiring man nian Mr 1 r Packard had J kept k pt his intentions int so well ivell concealed l that none but the donors council the th city attorney and the giver himself knew w anything i about the project until the announcement to the council on Tuesday Tues lay night Both the substance and the manner manner of the gift mark it as the act of a citizen bent only on o ing the th greatest possible good for the community regardless r of ari any personal aggrandizement No limitations are imposed as to management m of the th library as many benefactors have required in similar cases it was not made even cven a condition that the pro proposed proposed 1 posed building snail shall 51 a l bear Mr P Pt ck name This will willna na naturally na I be b done however Even if the city authorities failed to perpetuate Mr Packard s generosity by calling g the th new library alter after him the voluntary gratitude grat tude of an appreciative appl public would supply the title In all the field of public beneficence benefi enc it is to be doubt doubted ed whether d dmore more effective use of money could c uld be b made than in the way Mr fr Packard has chosen The Salt Lake library is C not abreast with libraries in other cities of the same rank It is good for the time it has been in operation and for the means at atthe atthe atthe the disposal of the directors and its large patronage is a proof of the love Jove of good literature among all classes of citizens ns old and young But the th space allowed for books is entirely made inadequate madeC quate so small i d C that new acquisitions can hardly find and t school c ool months when the attendance is largest the younger you r patrons of the reading room not mire infrequently infrequently have to take seats on the floor because of the crowd The Packard building will supply all the needed room in the th midst of beautiful surroundings the t auditorium audit for public lec tures which is part of the plan will vill afford an educational opportunity opportunity opportunity of incalculable value to the city and the installation of the hooks in such quarters is certain to lead to wider usefulness for fo the library 0 CINCHING THE FARMERS f I 0 O PRODUCERS of the nation benefit r I so little by legisla 1 IJ 1 tive favors from congress as do the farmers no other class dass I a suffers so heavily from the burdens imposed by laws for the privileged few who buy special legislation in advance by campaign contributions It is not questioned qt even by adminis favorites that the cost of living to the farmer has been enormously increased by the trust advances in prices made pos possible possible possible sible by tariffs which exclude competition and give the trusts absolute control of the purchaser From barbed wire and nails to tc farm fann implements the farmer has been robbed d b by monopolies in whose prosperity erity he could have le possible poss no share except e ept as a o i contributor It has been argued as an offset that the farmer has pros prospered prospered prospered in proportion as the prices were advanced in the material L he has to buy that his farm produce has with gone up the ad advance advance advance vance in trust goods so that he be was was va actually a gainer gain r by the thc general uplift in the cost of living lhing Now a as facts fa ts Wheat v prices are generally accepted as the gauge of o the American Ame icim far farmers farmers mers mets earning capacity Here is the table of prices and yield of o E wheat heat for the past decade as compiled by Mr H II HL L Bliss from fron L the United States Statistical Abstract issued under government authority aut Value Yield Value t r per bu per acre per acre Year f Cents Bushels Dollars h c 1891 v u i h 1286 1892 h v h 1893 0 r 1 1894 I t o 1895 o 1896 r 24 1897 1086 1898 1 58 2 1899 0 The figures show that the enactment of the McKinley law was followed by a decrease in price value and yield yi ld per per acre After the Wilson V lson law Jaw came an increase in price and nd value per pera 1 acre a re and the Dingley law Jaw was accompanied by a decrease in the price per bushel and the value per acre In other ther words when w en the farmer fanner has been compelled to buy from monopolies mon favored i by h a high tariff he has had to suffer from a 31 shortage in the net revenue per acre of wheat And when he had a more moderate tariff it happened that he got more mor money for every v ry ry acre of 4 wheat cultivated The tariff had nothing to do with the yield nor have Dem Democrats Democrats Democrats claimed that the higher revenue rev nue for wheat what wh t was due to tariff legislation by their party They have always taken ta en the kindness of Providence into consideration and unlike their po political political opponents assume no ho credit for favorable favor seasons or short shortages shortages shortages ages in crops abroad The gist of the business is that while the trusts have been enabled to cinch the farmer through a tariff made to their or order order der the farmer fanner has had hal to depend upon crop conditions alone for revenue and upon the mercy of monopolies m for the cost of such things t ings as he had to buy On that showing g the th agriculturist hilt has s had the privilege of paying the administrations tio s political debts to the trusts while his wheat has h s yielded less ls per acre in cash The Republican party is welcome to all the support it can c can n nget get from om the farmers on that showing |