Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-03-11 | Page 4 | The Editor's Table Talk of Things Grave and Gay

THE EDITORS TABLE TALK TALK OF THINGS GRAVE AND GAY PARKERS PARKER'S REBUKE Our London dispatches have informed readers of The Telegram of the scathing scathing scathIng ing rebuke which preacher Parker the worthy successor of Spurgeon has administered administered administered ad ad- ministered to King Edward It will wiIl be remembered that His Ills l Majesty sty so far forgot himself on a certain day last we week k as to visit a brewery and go through the form of helping f the he brew This offence considerably jarred the non-conformist non preacher and lie Ie e did not mince words in going for foi his Sovereign Over here his conduct would Wp be bell considered consid consid- nasty ered ered nasty Probably there was pot one per cent of Park Parkers Parker's rs r's hearers who were not h habitual b beer er Englishmen sometimes may live without water but they they are much less likely to live without without h r i V Parker showed slowed himself a when he jump jumped d on on n King Edward for a brewery It was a a. cheap bitof bit bitof of ot sensationalism sensationalism it It was a petty bit of spitefulness ulness oil the part of f one n v who ho beng beng be- be ng ng socially impossible Is angry about It 4 S Sp SOME OF ARIZONA ARIZONA I The rhe memorial pre presente to Congress by bi Representative Sutherland and asking for the cession to Utah of that area In Arizona lying north of t tie He e Colorado Colora o river dver will not appeal favorably IY to our Southern neighbors eThey They wll 1 regard us as being greedy anc and yet tt they y might spare spar t the e terr territory ory In question qUestin missing it much The Tue truth is a the lands Involved from the ought to pave have been included the boundaries of this State State Geographically Geographically 0 cally they belong to It but two generations genera genera- ago our Government and people cared oared very little for tor geography and looked upon us out here as as the Great American Desert We are something different in the second year of the Twentieth Century THE TRUSTS President Roosevelt has braced himself himself himself him him- self and moved against the trusts at last We have been expecting some such action for several months What It will amount to remains to be seen The suit brought by the Gen Attorney eral against the Northern Securities company is Is a matter of great Interest to the country Upon its result will hang the future of the great olies Perhaps It Is not going too far to say that fe few few- intelligent American citiZens citizens citizens citi citi- citi- citi zens believe that the merger of f the Northern railways will be defeated We have seen that our courts have taken a kindly view of the vast vast combinations of capital popularly known as trusts just justas as they have adopted ideas and laid down rules regarding the Constitution which would have appeared strange In Indeed Indeed indeed In- In deed a generation ago So wh while we have no doubt that President Roosevelt and his minister of Justice are are re quite In earnest we do not think that Mr Mn James J. J Hill and his associates have any particular particular par par- reason for alarm concerning their railway consolidation The They will ivill get to the Supreme Supreme court at at last and then Three cheers for the Brown White and Gray Grayl