| Show IT can not be understood why the president delays so long fi illing the vacancy on the supreme bench THE australian ballot would bo a good act to enforce in utah it would stop a lot of this bad registration besmen busmen and also purify tho polls on election day THE fact that some of our business bouses remain open on sunday be speaks no good banao for such establishments lish ments and people should emphatically net down on the same IT is said that president is preparing a special message to submit to congress on tho financial situation recommending immediate legislation to relieve the present stringency now that the sugar plant for utah county is a certainty other places in the are agitating the question of sugar works the grand junction star wants a plant located in grand valley colorado THE oleomargarine law has done good service and now it is proposed that all compound lard or lard made mainly from cottonseed must also be branded any law to prevent deception in the sale of food will meet with favor by the public pension legislation has been carried too far by republicans they have discovered themselves that they have overstepped over stepped their bounds and the question now is how to maka good the deficit A halt has been called in their extravagance THERE are only throe prominent republican publican Ee journals that advocate the passage of the federal election bill they are the philadelphia press the new york tribune and the indianapolis journal the press is edited by the minister to kissia the tri azine by the minister to franco and the journal by tho consul genera to london THIS new apportionment bill which it is thought will be passed by the present session of congress provides for members in the next house of representatives as compared with at present this means that the electoral college in 1892 will have a membership of an increase or forty three over thai of 1888 of the twenty four new members which the house will gain seventeen will be from state regularly carried previous to 1890 by the republicans while six will so to democratic states it is mostly a lack of confidence that causes the present stringency in tho money market there is more currency in circulation now thai last year or the year before still if congress adopts the plan suggested of placing more money on tho market it will have a good effect in two ways first it will inspire confidence and secondly it will increase the amount of circulation and thus aid the cramped financial condition is a farmers alliance woman iu kansas who makes speeches BO says the denver times on a recent occasion she declared in a high soprano voice that man without woman would degenerate and decrease let those who have heretofore believed that man without woman would continue to increase now pause and reflect upon this great truth their erring pathway by the matchless eloquence of a feminine D IT is now openly asserted that the murder of the indian warrior BULL was a carefully planned military maneuver originating with no less person than general MILES himself sanctioned inthe war department at washington and authorized before president cabinet this only makes the deed look the darker it was bad enough for the indian police to murder the poor old man but to learn that even the president of the united states has been acca sory to the foul deed 13 simply horrifying THE mortgage indebtedness of tha farms of america is something start ling the aggregate mortgage indebtedness debt edness of indiana is chios real estate mortgages gages number and amount to or one third the value of the land in illinois had farm mortgages on acres amounting to in 1888 out of a total of farms in michigan wore mortgaged for jast about one half their assessed value tho num ber of mortgages foreclosed that year was and the number of sales under execution was kansas is said to have farms with a mortgaged indebtedness of it will be seen by those fugures that the farmers have good reason for discontent bad laws have had much to do with bringing about this ead state of affairs THE first term of fifteenth acad emic year of the brigham young ac demy has closed showing a most flattering attendance aiom home and abroad the attendance attests the popularity of the institution and the advancement have made is convincing that the high esteem in which the institution is held by the public is but justly merited A department for commercial training is designed to be added to the second term which is a feature that has been needed practice should go hand in hand with theory and a commercial department will be a big step in the right direction it is an acknowledged with the ameri can system of education that enough practice tica is not combined with alie theories a student gains in tho class room |