Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE TALK r OF THINGS GRA GRAVE VB AND GAY PRESIDENTS EX-PRESIDENTS AGAIN It is a refrigerating day that does not find and somebody somewhere agitating th the ti absorbing question of what to do Io with om our ex Fortunately th they y do not not form a large lage class among the population at any time There Isnow Isnow is isnow now but but butone one living Jiving and three has long been more more than an average maximum It follows that whatever w v we may decide decide dedde de de- de- de cide to do with them the drain upon the country's resources resources will not be ap ap- ap- ap palling palming The rhe question is not a new on one one and something is to be conce conceded ed to those who insist that a. a m. m pub public IC position with pay pay for fOl life or a retiring pension ought to be gUen ghen given to statesmen who ripe in years st step p down from a pedestal upon which they have been been the peers of Emperors Emperors Em i to obscurity and perhaps to struggle for a living with a heavy handicap han han- pica of custom and dignity upon them It It has It-has has been sugg sug- sug g sted that Presidents ex-Presidents in view of their experience at the head of national affairs mi might ht b be bO made of use as Senators Sen Sen- tors at large i perhaps if if they are tobe tobe to tobe be provided for by the nation at all ali seats at the Cabinet table without portfolios might dispose se of them comfortably comfortably com corn and appropriately One of these days the matter will receive Serious se serious se- se rious ious attention in the White House andin andIn and andin in Congress but it ft will not ot be just be beZore before be- be tore fore a Congressional or a a. Presidential campaign PHILIPPINE EXCLUSION li It o occurs curs to us as being a little ange strange that chambers of commerce boards of trade and other organizations organizations organizations' of th the sort at Pacific ports should be as benignant benignant benignant be be- toward the propos proposition to Introduce in introduce In- In Chinese se che cheap p labor to the country and its possessions as they are Readers of The The Tel Telegram gram do not need to be reminded of of the recen recent t action of the San Francisco Ch Chamber of Commerce Commerce Com Corn merce merce and l Ier Merchants Merchants' an s Exchange nor of the fact that not not long ago the AmerIcan American Amer Arner- ican Chamber of C Commerce at Manila l petitioned Congress Congress' Congress to permit the Importation importation importation im Im- im- im of Coolie i labor bor to the Philippine Philippine Philippine Philip Philip- pine islands When the latter action waS taken a great many p people ople In In this country thought that 1 It might not be a a. abad abad bad idea to let work in our far Easte Eastern n possessions if If the natives s could not be induced to but G Gov v. v Taft in his testimony before the House Committee Committee Com Corn on Foreign Affairs overset every notion of that sort sOtt He declared that the hat hated hated d the Chinese who regularly undermined undermine their prosperity wherever the two races came in competition com corn petition n and th thai thu t r open the gate at Manila to Coolie immigration would be beth bethe bethe th the most deadly affront this country could offer to the and other PhilIppine Philippine Philippine Phil Phil- tribes s. s So it appears that our brown creatures tellow fellow In in t ti tha distant archipelago have become Americanized enough to have a party whose watchword watchword watch watch- word vord Is is The Chinese Must Go O Away Back Backi LABOR IN LEGISLATURES State Legislatures at any arty rate in the older Stat StatS States like Congress are mostly made ade up of lawyers or or ar professional politicians with no ito other t er visible means ns of support support It i is trute true that there ar are exceptions as in our own wn St State t te te sturdy Y fa farmers m rs and shrewd merchants merchants are are plentiful In both Houses House Also there thee are occasional exceptions In Eastern Eastern East East- em ern legislatures tures but but they only serve serve to accentuate the rule Until of recent years re rs representative of if the wage age earnIng earnIng earning earn earn- ing class have haV been rare among amonS' our nati national nal or local loca law law- lawmakers makers but a great great change ls Is going on In that re re- A couple of years ago the driver of of f an an- an anice ice wagon V sat In ong Congress ess from froma a New York district and other othea similar Instances might Ight be cited In the present present present pres pres- ent legislature of Kentucky one of the brightest members of the lower branch Is a barber and as evidence that political political cal honors have not made him above his business It Is said that when not engaged in hIs in-hIs his public duties he takes his place at th the chair equally as ready leady to administer shaves shampoos and haircuts as he is to make l laws for forthe the Commonwealth It were well if It there vere were more citizens of his kind and calibre able ble and energetic enough t ii to successfully f y emulate his example SALT LAKES LAKE'S OUTLETS J News comes from San Jose California Califor Califor- nia to the effect that the people of that place are enthusiastic over the prospect that before long there will be a a. com corn competing competing lisle lire of railway between San fl Francisco and Los Angeles via San Jose and That by means means' of the proposed proposed pro pro- posed Clark road via Salt Lake City the fruit and grain shippers of of the San Joaquin valley wui will have opened to them a fre fresh h avenue to the East The San Jose folk probably are Justified in their optimism in connection on wIth with new railway enterprises s It seems evident evident eVl- eVl evi evi- dent that we are standing upon the threshold of a great development in that direction on Lines ar are are projected which if built would add greatly to the trade and wealth of Utah and don dou double ble the population of Utah within a few years There is eve every evey y apparent indication indication indica indica- atlon a- a I tion that we are destined to see a great growth and enhancement in values Inthis in inthis inthis this valley before before any any of us have growne grown e enough ough older ld r t to tell th the difference |