Show so long as utah is afflicted with foreign officials whose interests in the territory aro only to fleece the community for self aggrandizement so long may we expect them to be working for more corrupt legislation anything to further their hellish schemes may bo expected even tu such direct lies as aro now told by and THOMAS before the house committee dealing with the bill to disfranchise the cormons mormons Mor mons THE POLICE of chicago prohibit small boys from smoking by using the authority they have by law in givin them a smart spanking when caught behind a cigarette the prohibition ordinance is said to work admirably we wish the same right could be delegated to police officers in this city it would have a moderating tendency we believe to a much greater degree than the ambiguous cigarette act passed by lature ALL mothers and fathers should tomorrow witness tho exercises of their children at the school fair in the opera bouso do not let the busy season deter you from this duty we call it a duty because it is in the interest of education and the pair if successful will do much to promote good schools in the county As a rule teachers do not receive the encouragement from parents thai is their due and as they have worked zealously to get up a fine programmer program mee for this occasion we think the community should at least show their interest in the undertaking by being present on the occasion THE theory that farmers are benefited by protective tariff when they are compelled to pay a forty per cent tax in the interest of on all they consume aside from the actual products of their farms is most absurd farmers are getting their eyes open to this fact DUTIES should be so high that our manufacturers can fairly compete with the foreign products but sot so high as to enable them to drive out the foreign article enjoy a monopoly of the trade and regulate the price as they please this is my doctrine of protection if congress pursues this line 0 policy steadily we shall year by year approach more nearly to the basis of free trade mccau 30 we shall bo more nearly able to compete with other nations on cevaal terms I 1 am for a protection which leads to ultimate free trade I 1 am for that free trade which can only bo achieved through a reasonable protection JAMES A THE SALT LAKE herald is now attacking the boomers from the standpoint taken by the that they are not of any use to a cam wishing to give our contemporary due credit when it takes the right side and believing that the herald puts its finger right on the sore in prove as well as on the cancer of salt lake we herewith reproduce an editorial which appeared in tuesdays issue there are some croakers in salt lake city happily they arc not numerous and also happily they are not influential they do not belong to tha city and we arc glad to say the city does not belong tu them they are not old recci denta indeed they are not residents at all in the true sense of the word they arc merely temporary aal are not t all attached to alie place they may have brought some money with ant if 0 o they have ot it in ways to the town alicy us speculators and huou ura and hau ascertained as it nav be aal hiob ably 1 to their that this is not a speculative or boom city they croak you dont hear complaints from anyone who ia antei ested in salt lake nobody who has invested money here in business in real estate or in building is grovling with the present condition of things none of the old timers is finding fault the men who came here because they thought this was a good place fur legitimate enterprise are better pleased than they ere when alie speculators were making things hum and driving people out of wita by booming operation they find the realty is beyond alie expectation enterprise ter prise being satisfactorily queued re and legitimate business remunerative munera tive nor are the bonafide buyers of real estate in alie least degree disconcerted we have heard of no lot that can be purchased for the price that the last buyer paid for it the present owners being content iu evera instance with their bargains the liewald has no use for the croakers and will be glad when chev all seek other fields for operations |