Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-02-05 | Page 6 | Local News

Mr-SHr-ehi'setts li:ul. l2oGp" divorces last ycur. How many m:uria:cs? San Francisco didn't exult in its vie HI tuiy over New Orleans; it just fronted. ' -Senator Root 's speech against Lori- v tner was a powerful oiic; but it will H lake sonictliinc more than talk to expel The man who nu.de his agricultural H I filing on the town of Lund did not Hi j.j'j lack in excess of modesty. But lie may t'.",;. find his farming very dry. H'jj!r;j Indians' oif "the C'olville reservation Hi ' are reported starving: If so, it is a re- H U jiroach to the Xational Government pri H -,' ' warily, and also to the State of Wash- HI i insrtoi:. I . If not tho urini and tlitimmiin H V ' j to interpret the Republican Sfato plaf- H ' : form of last year, as suggested hereto- H.j fore in these columns, why uofc.lry a H " peepstonoj H "l A Greater 2s cw York grows some, as the H i eeusus shows; but in no other way does H : she grow ?o fast as iu the number of H j ; her homicides, which have increased -10 I j ' ' per cent hi a year., I 1 ..' Montreal beat New York more Hhah H '. ; ' three to one last year in exports of H'jj j iv It cat. But New York beat .Montreal H. ? ' j Ji much greater proportion than that H . in political scandals. I 'j, j The .French Academy of Sciences has I L rejected Madame Curie from its mem- ifi borship. All right; the French Acad-I Acad-I j emy needs Mine. Curio far more than H fehe needs its recognition. I ! If the Senate otcs at all on the Pan- I "it: ', ' am;i anal exposition city, it will donbt- l;l j less vote for San Francisco, as twenty- jjk ' eight States in the Houoc voted that H t f ' vrny. But will the Senate reach a vote? iiP- There's the rub. t Blffj H probably bo found by the I ,f Portuguese government that tho $40,- I "l l i 00 !l ' ear 1)35,1 to tIlc (Icnosc'1 Kl"cr .p Manuel will be used by him as a nu- h Li, lltus to regaiu his tbrouc. As a prem- K S ium to buy him off, it is insignificant. i V:i lifcs Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragist, de-BlUj de-BlUj clares that "women who give their I ' 'j$ j Ywcs to bridge, balls, anI dinners, ought Ijjjt j j to Ijc swept off the face of tho earth." !!2i Good gracious! Going to reduce the t ranks of prospective voters like that! New York newdpapers are waging a MM W ,r ,,"!linst t,lc 'tliscriininate sale of Jjj fire-arms. And with, good reason, luo j'-Pi aa'c of firc"rirms ought to be under III I I'tiblic control, and strictly limited, li fil cense to Jjuy being had only on a sliow- if I WK f bCnCfiCial' r at leaSt' ,,ar,,,,css' I I Borah motion to mnkc the popular elec- lfl 1'0U f Senators the unfinished busi- BII ncss, (Iocs not look prosperous for the amendriient which it proposes, as it re- hII quires two-thirds of the Senators to If f ratify, and the vote on his motion was 'Ml 40 fm' to 36 against; but two-thirds M would call for ol ayes to 25 nays on a voting strength of76. Hj t Gen. Jacob J. Smith, w!?o was so ar- SI bitrarily r.nd scandaloiiHly treated by ;1 j President lioostvelt, who sunimarily Mi :,ni1 without si hearing dismissed him I?! fr'V" !.hc. "rmy for !lUo brutalities f while Smith wai commanding in'Samar, '. t length come out iu defense of pfii himself. It will do no good now, how- MJ i cver' for 11,0 verlict against him was made up, signed, and scaled; and no matter how unjust the verdict was, tho clianco of rovorsal is now closed. None except to those who know the conditions condi-tions that Gen Smith had to face, can understand how unjust and unfair, from every standpoint, the Roosevelt verdict was.