Show STANDING ARMY europe enters inters upon the second decade of her existence under the berlin treaty with leis lei s of immediate trouble than she has felt in nry year the chances of international provocation are indeed for the moment reduced to a minimum there is fur the ciaio being internal peace throughout the balkan states and the great powers inside the triple alii i ance find themselves so evenly balanced against those on the outside that no one ases reason to fear any precipitate tipping of the scale these ten years of peace under the ar rau gemant of lord and prince bismarck have not however been distinguished by blessings which such a ion and pacific term might be c to brin ayery nation in europe ha paid most dearly for the privilege of quiet when the last elaborate computation of the arbiea of europe was made the taxpayers of the continent have expended in preparations for a war that has not come or nearly twice what we at lionie on our four years of civil war A big struggle ten years ago ie S jilts of such H sweeping character that a partial disarmament could have followed would have been infinitely cheaper and better for europe than tin s long nightmare and dread and ruinous preparation since 1872 germany and prance have bogli more than doubted the actual war strength of their armies and the total war strength of the seven continental powers counting the balkan states as one has risen from to if we add to this host of trained fighters on a war footing the classes of partially trained men in the second and final reserves we get an imposing total of soldiers all liable to be drawn into the next european war and now more or less withdrawn from peaceful vocations at a total annual public cost of thib vast war taxation tasa tion who do not hata each other who do not want to fight who ask only for opportunities tuni ties for peaceable industry ind and mutual traffic is a terrible burden the blood money must be borne however for no batter acason than that it is still in the power of a few families the Haps burgs bourbons and to embroil the whole continent with their dynastic in agues and ambitions it is only when these modern figures of war taxation are studied figures at which frederick the great or napoleon Napole jn would have been paralyzed with amazement that vc realize what kingship means JUDGE of the yew orlenas civil district court has rendered a preliminary decision in the case brought by the state of louisiana vs the cotton oil trust decreed a monopoly carrying on business in violation of the statutes by makin combinations of prevent coin petition in the purchase the sale of products manufactured and to have tho trust adjudged cuilty of usurping the franchises and privileges af a corporation without being chartered by louisiana or any other in the union tho ji dge hi his decision over aulca made by the trust to the introduction of e offered by the slate he holds among other things that nil monopolies whether authorized by statutes passed prior to the adoption of tho constitution or since as well as all combinations of or corporations po rations to prevent competition in trade or commerce as prohibited and denounced by tho constitution of 1870 thaltha state can suppress all monopolies existing within her borders in violation of her constitution by civil as well as criminal proceedings especially by injunction since no penal statue has been passed upon this subject and that all testimony and evidence tending to show that the defendant is R monopoly is under the pleadings ay agreement has been reached by the senate and house conferees upon the bill establishing a new department of agriculture the house conferees have agreed to accept the bill as it passed the senate and the bh will be passed and sent to the ant for hia signature before ion now agreed on provides for tho appointment of a secretary of agriculture and an assistant secretary besides other ordinary officers the bill as it passed the house provided for the transference transfer enco of the weather bureau of the signal service to the new department but this provision has been dropped through the action of be house conferees THE new york world in december offered a prize of to the person that that would guess nearest to the circulation of the paper during the year 1888 the figures of ten months bad been published eo that only the estimate of two months was rean ned the paper received in answer 2755 pounds of letters the postage alone amounting to 1100 the prize was obtained by emma cornelius who guessed white the truo figures were the year ending december 31 1888 immigrants arrived ia the united states as against in 1887 of these or nearly SO per cent of the total arrived at the port of yew york against or about 76 per cent in 1887 of tho total number arriving in this country or from the united kingdom against or 35 per cent in sea gulla tea is the best apor sale at debt by trane evans american fork by coop co op store and A dunkley pleasant grove by frank beers provo by the principal merchants by dal bros and boyar bringhurst payson by doulass sons by coop co op more spanish fork by A A dahle |