Show COMMUNICATING THE PLAGUE I A mighty warfare is going on to exterminate th the rats tats in San Francisco The bubonic plague in India I is s said to be almost perpetual because the rats keep up ip the contagion There has been no case of plague in n San Francisco for for several weeks but the idea iden is iso isto iS iSto to o make future cases impossible by exterminating the he rats But right here the statement comes that the he rats of themselves are are in great part innocent the they hey are arc be being ng punished because of bf f the bad had company the they hey keep They are arc covered with fleas and the lens fleas are lire the plague communicators The rats have haye to make vicarious atonement for forthe forthe the he sins of the tho fleas This is another proof that men cannot be too careful careful care- care ful ul about the company they keep This is s what seems to bo he the matter with the R Republican and Democratic parties in Utah There are some good goodmen goodmen goodmen men in both parties honest rats so to speak but look ook look at the fleas Heas the they have bave to carr carry along with them 1 And these fleas are always alwa's communicating with the big plague that has made perpetual unrest heartburning heartburning heart heart- burning and und contention in Utah for half a century And hence this plague here never yields ields to treat treat- ment It is like the plague in India There the people people peo peo- pie throw every possible obstacle in the way of the authorities that try to stamp it out When the inspector inspector in- in comes aroun around a 11 family will clothe one of the household that has hns just died pull the turban down over O his sightless eyes and two of the family will hold lold him up between them for inspection How lIow many dead ones are thus thus held up in Utah when the inspector comes around to inspect the Republican and Democratic parties 1 It looks as though the plague lague here would run indefinitely |