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Show I The teachers have the floor also, the town. All should keep in. miud the Griffiths testimonial, and-bo prepared to respond .generously when the time of it comes. Tomorrow opens tho big convention of the .year in Salt Lake. All are welcome, wel-come, and the city is prepared to do its best in their behalf. The efforts of the cit officials to protect the cleanliness of the canyons and the purity of tho waters is wholly ' commendable; they must bo approved ' by every sensible citizen. . The proposition to make July 5th an additional holiday because it is Saturday Satur-day ia impractical. It would cause an immense amount of inconvenience to have three holidays come along to- gcther. Our State "Department calls upon the t S. Consul at Durango for official report upon the outrages reported to have been committed by rebels there. But suppose the reports arc confirmed, what then? Twelve billion stamps was Postmas-ler-jUcncral Burleson's order to meet the expected demands on. the depart-men depart-men I for the fiscal year which began on July 1st. Two-cent stamps were in the majority. The gathering of educators in Salt Lake gives us the greatest social force and guide for the future citizenship that the .Republic , can show; and we are. a II dulysensiblo of file honor con-fcr-ed upon us. The miners' strike in Iho Tiand will he welcomed by the publicists who iliink that the world has too much gold; but the actual financiers who see that there is not gold enough to support the crediis and the reserves, will deplore it as a world calamity. t When The Salt Lake Tribune cx-pressed cx-pressed the opiuion that tho removal of the duty oh sugar would not cheapen the price, a wail -was set up: but now that the Deseret News copies approv-ingly approv-ingly the same sentiment from an East-cm East-cm paper, that opinion may be consid-ered consid-ered orthodox. The proposition to make sessions of C'ongross continuous, save only for a brief recess or two in the two-years' term has much to commend it. By tliat means, perhaps there could be made time for both branches to get through with their work, and give more real consideration to laws. The situation in tho Balkans in most ominous. The Bulgarians have made Hj war on the Servians and Greeks; Mon-tenegro Mon-tenegro sides with the latter, and the latest news is that Rumania is mobi-liziug mobi-liziug to fall upon the Bulgarians. It , is a pitiful spectacle, especially to those who realize that after all the loss of life in this new war, the great powers of Europe will settle the whole Baikan question without the slightest regard to the desire of the contestants. New York Tribune: "Tho sugges-tion sugges-tion of a memorial to tho women of the Civil War is fitting and might well Hj be acted upon. The heroism of female nurses and spies has often been cele-bratod, cele-bratod, in song and story, "but never Hj too much, and it might well have a material monument. As for tho hero-ism hero-ism of the vastly greater multitude, Hj 'who simply watched and waited and Hj toiled and suffered at home, it can never be adequately commemorated." Hj "Duluth which had a 62-degrce tem- perature on Saturdry- and Utah which had a snoxvstorm, were evidently male-ing male-ing a bold play for fame as summer resorts," enviously says tho Pittsburg Dispatch. But those who could easily see from this city the new snow that J j fell during tho past week on the high jeaks of the Wasatch lange, must won-der won-der that any ono could imagine B that that snow fell merely for effect on the imaginations of Eastern newspa-per newspa-per writers. An Eastern contemporary, which ought to know better says: "The demonstra-B demonstra-B tion that a man can be prosecuted as a ' white slaver' if he elopes with a wo-1,mn wo-1,mn to another Stale may happily re-duce re-duce the annual number of elopements' this country." But what elopements ny a man and a woman eligible to marriage, and for the purpose of mar-riage, mar-riage, has to do with the criminal trip of two -married men with two school girls is something that calls for eluci dation,. The, mind that, confuses the Wo is morally depraved. r |