Show Political Pointers The telegraphic reports are to the effect that meaning the Congressman from of has allied himself with the stand patters on the Payne One of his was to the effect that if a certain large sum of Philippine sugar was brought into the United States it would displace an equal amount of beet sugar and bring havoc upon the producers of-the If the protectionists are reduced to such extremities as this to make a showing for their they are in a bad way Mr Howell is a well-measured man who tries honestly to learn what he doesn't know that is necessary to be and it is not too late for him to learn one important lesson that while superficiality in a statesman may make him it will not be enviably With our home-grown sugar added to all the Filipinos have to we would still be short of the actual yearly demand by thousands of and the augmentation of a short supply of a necessary article can scarcely be looked upon as a dangerous however ana we owe it as a sacred obligation to those whom we have benevolently assimilated over on the Asiatic shores to let their sugar in free if we we are a nest of and it is to be hoped the lawmakers will sometime or other stop long enough in their plunging career to give a passing thought to that little Are we doomed to have a life heritage of the liquor It would seem The legislature having failed to except in such a way as to give satisfaction to and the governor having knocked out what little they did our own and only city council took the matter up and succeeded in passing a restrictive ordinance with practical While not giving such wholesale dissatisfaction to both sides as the legislative make-shift it has by no means reduced the contention either as to volume or and here we If Utah's sun were for just once to rise on a tranquil pursue its course through a quiet day and set on a peaceful would not some of the more emotional begin dusting off their wings in preparation for the Roosevelt was going to travel as a private citizen and enjoy his trip in a thoroughly quiet As the French proverb at Dieu He might as well have sent a press agent ahead and had himself received with brass bands and banners at every port-In the political hurly-burly which we have ever with the name of Irvine is thrown upon the screen with more potent than a religious It is seen upon every turn and heard at most hours of the At a banquet in New York on Friday Senator New-lands of gave expression to the very familiar doctrine that the public should own the railroads- It no a consummation devoutly to be like some other socialistic tasks the important feature of as things are going now and promise to go for a long time to Even Government ownership would be a difficult thing to bring yet it would be more nearly feasible than the Let who pronounce the words so glibly attempt to analyze the proposition and see what they arrive Some people think the wealth of the country ought to be more equitably and the is with them most but how is such a thing to be accomplished within the restraints imposed by How is the railroad ownership to be transferred from those who now have it to those who By by legal confiscation or by anarchic Considering the propositions in reverse order If the anarchists were powerful enough to accomplish that object they would be strong enough for all purposes and the country would be hopelessly in their grasp and there is no law in existence by which con- could be and none could be made that would rest upon bedrock of constitutional would seem to be the only and plan for eventuating the great What an easy matter would The amount needed would be the merest or which could be raised on paper most some of those have the least subscribing the But supposing the money to be raised and ready to pay and the owners didn't want to sell what The Des Moines plan having fallen under the governor's active it is now in order for the different wards to begin grooming their favorite sons for membership in the next city the time for choosing which will be upon us before some of us are aware of At a recent council of the Civic Samuel Gompers defended the use of the in the light of former was to be Gompers has made such an active and persistent defense of the that he got into a position in which himself had to resulting penalty still hanging over The name of ex-Governor Cutler has in connection with the next Republican nomination for In view of certain- happenings last perhaps the Governor will not lend much aid to the at least until the time is close at A good deal of speculation is going on in certain quarters as to what the Americans are going lo do and what they will be able to accomplish in the coming city The party drifted upon the rocks last and so far as the naked eye can is there Like the Republican the American organization has undergone some little segregation because of the liquor and just how of its losses are permanent is the question to be It is between two fires if it comes out for Or even hardshell it loses the support of the saloons and their while opposition to these would the preachers and ultra pious folk generally to vamoose the The campaign promises to be an interesting It is always a pleasure to have Senator Sutherland in our his visit is on legal it is most improbable that a certain event of a political nature to ripen up next year will altogether escape his or his friends attention- The Editor of the Utah Independent is expressing his own personal views on the tariff He may be or it may be that he has not said enough on the If our readers do not agree with the tariff article in the issue of April or in this we should like to have them answer the and thus by uniting all our views on the subject we shall better understand which is the high low tariff for revenue or free trade- are all likely to be carried away by public Two centuries ago public clamor banished hung and put to death witches one century ago it made Methodists sixty years ago the Mormons were driven from Illinois and their dwellings Six years ago public clamor sent two million names on petition to Senator and about every eight years manufacturers for personal gain clamor for congress to tinker the Before we tinker the let us understand Who will be first to add to or to answer the Utah Independent tariff |