Show 1 The writer of these lines desires to compliment The Independent upon the article on the tariff question in the last none but those who are blind with partisan bigotry could fail to see the iniquities inherent in and constantly sprouting out of the protective system after that It is one of the questions that should be in the light of public welfare and not of factional The Payne bill in the nature of a to its the Dingley for if it is proper to cut the duty on lumber then said duty must necessarily have been twice as high as there was any just cause for it to and thereby the amounting to many millions of has been exacted from the people without recourse in other they have been robbed to just that extent regarding this one item out of many equally as The aggregate of such robberies must foot up a sum placed be It is useless to say that each person's individual loss is so small it is not worth mentioning resort of the but whether small or unjust exactions contain the essentials of crime as certainly as though the money were abstracted from the victim's It is no defense to seller of a 1500 pound ton of coal for when it would have yielded a good profit if the amount had been 2000 pounds and the price that the buyers keep on to say there could be no great amount of harm Theft is no matter how skillfully galvanized with sophistry or fortified by defended and the Payne bill already amounts to a confession of As foreshadowed in this department last Governor Spry reappointed the men whose appointments in the first instance failed of confirmation by the They will now hold office ad till the next legislature the personnel of the upper branch will have Undergone some changes and less hostility may The question of who will be the next U. S. Marshal is receiving considerable attention in certain the consensus of opinion seeming to be that the appointment when made will fall upon some one who is already provided for in that It is idle to discuss the wisdom or otherwise of such a chiefly for the reason that speculation is the principal if not only foundation for it at this As the Irishman the use of being sorry for bad things that never The announcement from Chairman Nephi L. Morris that the campaign for unrestricted prohibition in 1910 is on and will be waged without is of interest to both sides of the The straight Prohibitionists were chiefly so taken back by what the legislative action simmered down to and then having that little vetoed by the governor that they had doubtless settled down to inaction and needed a trumpet call to arouse them to renewed the liquor interests are able to understand that their victory is not to be enjoyed in undisturbed but that they must continue their defensive contest as vigorously as if not more When Utah ceases to be churned up about something or it will be about time to begin preparations for the grand The defeat of the Des Moines bill through the governor's veto leaves us where we were regarding municipal The Des-eret News suggests in substance that those who favor honesty reform get together on that basis and leave party polities on one while it is not so this in plain a union of all the to the American If this could be accomplished it would undoubtedly be but n It seems that there is a pretty big element or perhaps two or three who will not support the American but want such opposition around them altogether the fly in the ointment such a proposition has been It is and that the determine J the city government to pros the work of street vigorously is for the pJ accomplishing other It would be a handy aj J means of i of new each of 4 i would naturally support i ing power at the view of the fact that there is enough work to go around those who are already hm scheme if carried out ought d prove a causing s many to leave the American ps ty as are brought in for its It has been freely fi not that William J. will be a candidate before then legislature of Nebraska for ft position of U. S. succeeds he might as well let presidential bee escape ki bonnet for No one ha m yet gone from the Senate dad to the White field had been elected mer when chosen to it is to be Roosevelt knocked sky If Mayor Bransford be a candidate to he is keeping his own a way that other party might imitate to The plan adopted Police Barlow of reducing JJ population by having shoot all the untagged ol dangerous and in some a cruel Shooting n J lie streets is a bad thing jj ried on by good when it is done by those W as badly as the police W it not only endangers but occasionally result U ready has several tim poor animals being II then getting J |