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Show I 'r" " " '" SATURDAY. JUNE :A. Subscription Rates: tt.W tine year MrUTly In advance .11.00 SIi months, Mr Icily In udvanoe In the fnlrertal Postal To ail countries K 50 l'n ion. one yeur.Mrlrtly In advance Discontinuances: If the paper it Dot dcMred beyond the dale subscribed for. notice by letter should be irlren at least two weeks before the term expires. All arrears must le paid. Advertising Rates: Tbe flee bos the lorjfehl circulation of any weekly newspaper published In lluh, and is therefore an udrerllMn medium of recognised merit. Hates will be made known on application. Remittances:. All Drafts, Tost Office or Kxpress money orders und Registered Letters should be addressed and made payable to eral-race- BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 67 Commercial St., Salt Lake City. Business Manager NEWMAN LIEN C. M JACKSON EJItor EDITORIAL. Rogers of Washington in declining convention at St. to attend the anti-truLouis is right when he says, practically that the movement is insincere. The Rogers is Right; Governor ado wrong. st trust is not the issue. But John R. is also misled, when he supposed public ownership to be the real cure of the trust evil. The governor shoule stick to that which he advoeated when he was a struggling Puyallup editor, namely, free silver or a free fight. Increase the volume of money by allowing the miner to take his product to the mints and the miner is a good spender and the trust evil will soon be solved, If we have to wait for public owership to solve the question Heaven help us all! life is too short, Governor. For the benefit of our large number of octogenarian readers we would add that silver is NOT coined at the mints as is gold, but we want it coined freely and unlimitedly at the present ratio of 16 to i. For the benefit of the smart young set we will als add that we do not propose to have the ratio charged at all because such would necessitate an entire recoinage of all the silver money of the country, giving a tremendous advantage to the holder of either gold or paper money. Suppose our present ratio of i6to i were to be changed to 32 to ( the latter being about the present commercial ratic) it would mean that the government of the United States would lose about $300,000,000 in silver money, for - I ! - )' . : I 1 llll. SAIoT IsAKE CITY. UTAH. KnuttM k( I bo l'uM Office at Sail hake City. for trunMuUMon thruurb the uiall. a mvoihI clan ( ' 1 the reason that the government has about $600,000,000 of it piled up n its treasury vaults, for part of which certificates have been issued; and this change of ratic would entail the making of a dollar twice as large as the one we (or rather, you) now enjoy the use of. Figure it out for yourself. Thousand nen Only a few watchmen who must Tramp. remajn- wllcre formerly a thousand men were employed, and miners leave in search of work, is the way the news comes to us of the effect of the shutting down of the Lcadville smelters. These men may now go out on the road and hunt work until they find it and, if in the meantime their resources run out and they be reduced to vagabondage, their fellowmen will give them the same kick as though they had been idlers and loafers all their lives. No man suffers so pitilessly the hatred of his kind as the honest workingman, who, with a poor old widowed mother to keep in comfort or probably a wife and several little children to feed, clothe and house, suddenly finds himselfout of a job and soon realizes that his meager resources will not long avail an idle man. The world in its stupidity ( perhaps it is more selfish cussedness than not, or can not, conanything else)-wilceive of the possibility of a man who is honest and upright being reduced to the direst distress through a force of circumstances which he could not com trol. ( By the way, who, ever did control force of circumstances?) It is possible for a ship to be wrecked but can a man be wrecked ? Supposing the few smelters here, should some fine morning be all closed up by the king of this little section, T. R. Jones just by. a mere fiat of that individual, his excuse for sodoing being that he found it necessary to make some extensive repairs what would be the far reaching effect of such a move? Do our ore producers ever think of its Do our tremendous possibilities? blind merchants? Do our still blinder workingmen? Oh, ye gods! but well might we paraphraze Tom Carlyle and say the population of the United States is eighty millions, mostly fools! - l VOk.il. No. IB Such, our masters, is the condition to which we have been reduced by the shortsightedness, the laxity, the inertia, the stupidity, the contemptible stinginess of the howling patriot who always manages to make the most noise and then go to the polls and vote for the wrong man. The trust is not to blame it is the voter who should be damned. Even the Jones of our own little domain would not have Teen possible but for the assinine'electdr who foisted upon our nation for a finie indefinite a money regime which bad its inception in hell and has .its masters in Europe. And this is the power of the gold kings, eh? When, oh when, will the American awake and be a man? At present he is largely a case of misdirected brute force., He makesa mighty good animal for some fellow to ride. Some of our people are fast horses and others are patient. and mild mannered donkeys. Between the two we must find oiirnecks beneath the heel of the gold king, and, subject to the whim, the mere caprice, of some trust at any time, we may find ourselves cast out to be trodden, under the foot of men. Oh, shades of Washington. Jefferson, Jackson. and Lincoln! has it come. to this? . Reader, if you had a farm would you drive your horses away and shut the gate against them? would you say you had no further use for them? would you forever bar them out? We trow not! Why is it, then, that modern farmers of labor will dispense so readily and cooly with their human horses? It is because the cheapening of labor means the endearing of money. They want a nation of dear money and cheap men. This is why the trust shuts down its mills and smelters whenever the gold power touches the button. Abe Several ministers and sever-Cls- e al ladies of this city have set about to see that young Abe Majors, convicted of the killing of Officer Brown, escapes paying the death penalty. It is urged that his youth should be a plea in bar and prevent the firing squad from perforating his frame. The laws of this state makes it a capital offense to take a mans life. That is to say when the party convict- Major. |