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Show forced in this city two years ago, compelling children who were attending school to be vaccinated, vac-cinated, having three of his children comply, and states that he informed the reporter of tliis and that he was open to conviction. To the -Gazette, Mr. Metcalf now expresses himself him-self as being ready to favor a compulsory vaccination law should such a measure be brought up in the present Legislature." Which the Free Press is pleased to note. EDITORIAL COMMENT. Barbering is no longer exclusively a man's profession in Utah. Woman has entered this field of art, too, and a college has been established estab-lished in Salt Lake City to teach the fair sex how to remove whiskers without pulling them out, says the Herald. The Salina Sun will wager a keg of pick-led pick-led pigs' feet that not one-half the readers of The Sun know the name of the Utah gentleman gentle-man who was elected to Congress last fall. The Sun thinks this is due to the fact that no opposition has developed to his going to Washington. You may take your hand off your pocket-book, pocket-book, please; you fellows who have purchased State lands and only paid for them in part. The Senate has passed the tax exemption bill' over the Governor's veto. Persons who hold options on State lands are now exempt from taxes on the same until the last dollar has been paid. It will take more than the unsupported testimony of administration Washington correspondents cor-respondents to convince a skeptical world that President Roosevelt is prancing up and down in a passionate determination to cut off the trust party from its base of supplies. For as the ox knoweth his master's crib, so the great Theodore knows where the campaign funds come 'from. lie knows who yields the fat. He knows who furnishes the free excursion trains and the money to round up the delegates. dele-gates. And he has had sufficient experience in practical Ilanna politics to feel no uncertainty uncer-tainty as to what would happen to the Roosevelt Roose-velt band wagon next year if something should chanca to go wrong with the supply of grease for the axles. Salina Sun. n The Appeal, published at Carson City, Nevada, Ne-vada, has the following to say of Hon. Joseph Judd, a former resident of Manti: "The Appeal regrets to chronicle the fact that it was necessary, in the debate on the tax on patented mines, to call the attention of the members of the lower house to the platform on which they were elected. Assemblyman Judd of Lincoln, during the debate read the platform and pointed out the path of duty to the members, some who appeared to have forgotten for-gotten the fact that they were elected by the feople on certain pledges. As long as the 'usion party of Nevada sticks to its platform pledges it can never be beaten. When it falters fal-ters in its duty it takes chances. No party that deceives the voters by pledge breaking can survive. Assemblyman Judd showed common horse sense and the right kind of political sense when he read the platform of the Fusion party to the house on Tuesday last." Concerning Representative Metcalf's views on the vaccination question, the Gunnison Gazette says: "Mr. Metcalf is very indignant over the Telegram's severe criticism of his stand on the vaccination question. He 6tates that the paper misquoted him, denying that he made any positive statement of his position, and that he would not do so without first examining exam-ining into the proposed measure. Mr. Metcalf, Met-calf, while then opposed to any compulsion, yielded to the order of the health board en- |