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Show ij TRUTHS. Somo time ago Truth stated that tho Tribune was getting ready to formally renounce ho Republican party. Every day tho sheet is tending that way and may bo nationally In ino'-Democratic ino'-Democratic column any day. Senator Dubois pathetically announced an-nounced in tho sonato that his political polit-ical career was nearly at an end. That Is only stating a fact which has been patent to everybody for a year or two. Senator Dubois' term as United States senator expires March 4, next year. It would bo a striking example of tho irony of fate if tho senate did not decido tho Smoot case until after that da to and Mr. Dubois would not get a chanco to vote against Mr. Smoot. How lonesome Grandma Burrows Bur-rows will ho when deprived of tho society so-ciety of Dubois In tho senate! Republicans, Truth thinks, aro making mak-ing a grlevious mistako In defending tho notion of tho county commissioners commission-ers in tho matter of tho county bond deal. It was a poor business transaction trans-action In overy respect and It Is foolish fool-ish to try to defend it. Even If the bid of tho Society for Savings was ambiguous why did tho commlsisonere not accept tho offer of Rollins which was to retire tho $350,000 matured bonds for a now issue of $341,000 4 por cent bonds? That would havo reduced re-duced tho county's bonded Indebtedness Indebted-ness by $9,000 at ono stroke, but it wouldn't havo given tho board $89G0 cash to spend which It secured by accepting ac-cepting tho other bid of Rollins. That ready cash seems to havo been what tho board was after. Tho present county board has not been a success In a financial way at any time. Even If tho Tribune by somo extraordinary accident happens to tell the truth it's just as well to acknowledge It. N v - If the county board had done what thoy ought to havo done and taken Treasurer Carbls and Auditor Fisher into their consultations in tho board matter Instead of tho county benefiting benefit-ing $44,000 by tho refunding of tho securities se-curities it would havo benefited to tho extent of $G3,000. It was also an act of gross discourtesy on tho part of tho board to ignore tho treasurer and auditor, au-ditor, but that Is In full accord with the usual practce of tho present board which has systematically insulted and Ignored Sheriff Emory and tho head of every department in' tho county government. gov-ernment. Chief Justlco Bartch hnsn't yet carried car-ried out his threat to resign. On tho contraiy, It is said ho Is fishing for a renomination from tho Republicans and an endorsement from tho "Americans." "Amer-icans." "A Chinaman can live nnd support a family on what a single-white single-white man requires for simple sim-ple food alone. Ho can llvo on food that no man of tho generous races can eat. Ho can live on half the air needed for a white man; ho -can work sixteen hour's' a day, and do If every day from youth to age." Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly. If that is true the Chinese aro tho coming masters of tho world. No makeshifts, ' llko exclusion laws or other subterfuges can seriously Interfere Inter-fere with their progress. A man who can llvo on practically nothing and work sixteen hours overy day, from youth to ago, is Invincible as far as human affairs go. The theory, however, how-ever, that tho Chinese- will overrrun tho world and reduce the rest of tho Inhabitants to their present level Is nonsense. A Chinaman is human, even his greatest detractors glvo him credit for nossesslnc as much sense as what wo call tho brute creation, and the brute creatures know enough to follow tho course of least resistance. So do those forms of llfo classified as tho vegetable kingdom. A Chinaman don't want to do any more work than ho is obliged to do. Tho Chinaman's wants will increase In proportion to his opportunities for supplying those wants. Tho Chinese question is a bugaboo. Tho dread of tho Mahom-medens Mahom-medens Is a phantom. Both are epher-meral, epher-meral, tho vain Imaglngs of shallow intellects. in-tellects. It Is simply tho survival of tho fittest. Senator Foraker mado it apparent upon whom tho responsibility for the delay In tho adjudication of tho Smoot case rested. Mr. Foraker placed It squarely on tho protestants led by Burrows Bur-rows and Dubois. This precious couple cou-ple havo been sparring for tlmo for a couple of years. Knowing their contention con-tention has no merit they seek delay on tho plan of MIcawber, waiting for something to turn up. Some might suppose that the pathetic pa-thetic wall of Senator Dubois that his political life was ended came from the heart, hut those who know. Mr. Dubois Du-bois and his biography will readily discern dis-cern that ho was playing to tho galleries. gal-leries. It Is true at tho same time that he Is a dead duck, but hope that he may yet continue to play tho game of bunco successfully has not yet died out of his heart. Ho and his nfllnlty, Furious J. Cannon, will yet make trouble for Utah, but In tho end they will fall to tho ground. The reasoning or alleged reasoning of tho Herald and tho Deserct News in regnrd to why the police raided some gambling dens a few days ago Is too deep for tho ordinary intelligence. There is such a thing as a person outgeneraling out-generaling himself. That is tho fix of tho News and the Herald In their desire to throw discredit on the "American" administration. Tho foolish fool-ish part of it is that the administration having committed enough "errors" of head nnd heart to damn It thero is no need for the Herald and News to manufacture stuff especially such silly stuff as they havo been putting forth regarding Chief Sheets and tho police department. A lot of foolish women in Now York havo petitioned tho United States senate sen-ate not to approve tho appointment of a Mr. Winters to tho position of postmaster post-master in a small unimportant town in Idaho, called Montpelier, for the reason that Mr. Winters is either a Mormon or has Mormon sympathies. This is about tho limit. Tho women of Now York should attend to their own business, if thoy havo any, and leave tho United Senate to attend to its business. This henpecked stylo of legislation of which tho two rakes ex-Senator ex-Senator Cannon and soon-to-bo-ex-Senator Dubois aro tho exponents is becoming monotonous. |
