Show murmurings MURMUR INGS BY BT oss ONE op OF LA VICTIMS oh ob winter ily fly quickly im longing to sing though stale is the subject the praises of spring oil oh winter ily fly quickly and give us the slip lip im r in heartily weary of cold and la grippe pa weary of fighting the latest disease pm weary of having to sneeze and to sneeze of a sold cold in the head and of numberless tun of burning with fever and shaking with chills ali ah I 1 what can one do for a desperate cold la grippe like the winter wont loosen its hold my bones are too bemy too nimble my pulse rm im tired lured of myself and of everything else also and yet im surrounded by kindness and owe care rm im in the easiest and easiest chair and hard it would seem were there no one to say do good morning I 1 hope you are better today stern stem conscience oft takes me quite closely to task why cant you be easy and thankful ask there are others lose less fortunate it so BO are they an all less deserving most certainly no you y doubtless have heard and us verily true that meanly they murmur marmar who little can do wi wise daniel 1 I answer its only a shirk whole content to be idle while others must work I 1 watch while the sleighs and the cutters flit past tits the bells belle shake and jingle the horses fly fast ohl oh I 1 free merry marry mortals how fast your tongues ran rua what tonic so bracing as sleigh rides and tan fun iwo ho wonder the healthy and wealthy wealth yand and gy gay think winter is charming and wish it would stay but bat the vi eary who wade through the slash aad the snow and the weather bound woh wish that the winter would so go all I 1 look at you yon anew allow mantled mountains so ao high whose peaks with the storm clouded sky and my heart heaves a sigh for the living biting or dead lost lost in the snow neath the avalanche dread I 1 recall the grim woes boes of a journey long past the terrible storms and the pitiless blasts poor pooi comrades I 1 see them weak wasted and aad numb alas I 1 that so many were forced to succumb oh winter thou art certainly rile rde with trouble and death as with laughter and life the poor rightly deem thee a merciless thing an ill natured tyrant compared to the spring yet we well I 1 render thee justice grim winter thou art like evils essential performing thy part but the earth that was thirsty hath taken its mi jul oh winter fly quickly thy touch is in too chul chill oh I 1 come doctor sunshine I 1 we thing bright come natures grand cure all and set us all right oh ob winter ity fly hence take a faraway far away art trip im heartily weary of cold and la ILA grippe B H K WOOD MANBER if th the elead agad should give out where would the real estate of salt lake be 4 0 the GO governor vernot talks about the necessity ces sity of public buildings in salt lake ou a gaud scale in order to empress people leith with the majesty and rop potentiality I 1 ty tv C of tho thae united st states ates government fie ays aag there are buildings got up by private enterprise the size of which dwarfs our american imperialism in chicago we have ou ous private enterprise prise building alone that would swallow all the public buildings in illinois and yet we dont feel that uncle sam loses any of his dignity by it but the governor wants an immense to teach an object lesson to orlando Or lanclo the brave and t to caleb the callous if salt lake needs a public building for public service she ought to have it 14 bajt the puerility of asking for it on the ground mentioned is obvious that philanthropic enterprise the industrial home is mentioned it cost to build and equip it but not one word is said of what it has done or whether it has any inmates save the paid staff this is one very important omission in the re report A jr touching bing the indians the governor says of the sanpete colony 1 I am informed that they are being tacit polygamy by the mormon who lives with them p he says also of the kane county colony 1 I 1 am informed they practice polygamy 11 for a state paper these two utterances read badly the rhe governor says h is informed P dut but does not say by whom or by what means Is it not his duty to ascertain the truth of information received and then report has he not an able staff of assistants for sleuth purposes or could he be not visit these colonies himself suppose these indians forwarded a memorial to congress stating that the governor was where would he be then the governor says there is an tm im operative pera tive necessity for appointing by a federal agency selectmen clerks recorders superintendents of schools and assessors and it appears this necessity is i caused by what he says i is a tact fact that a gentile in some parts of utah finds himself tu iu a foreign land the rho governor himself admits that the I 1 cormons mormons Mor mons no are entirely composed of native dative ameri feane eans englishmen Scot Scotch ehmen men and scandinavians surely no american considers himself entirely a foreigner among scotch aud eng iash and as to the scandinavians there jig IB good ground for believing that they merethe we retee rethe original ined di discoverers of this continent that is the i original caucasian discoverers the best americans today in this country are am the scandinavians and the native american who visits their colonies is treated royally per haps mormonism niam changes a mac but hear the governor himself he says for human nature is not changed by the kind of church it enters these are identically his own words ye he must in truth be a queer kind of native american who finds himself a foreigner among Sos Scotch men and englishmen and finds himself at home among daboo and clan na gaels gaeds he says that apostate cormons Mormon fe are numerous but that they are taxed and driven out of the country why slid he not make allowance for this in his statistics of who he says are all alive and well since 1880 but it Is in his bis review of the situation that the governor distinguishes es himself as a jurist logician and rhetorician hesayo of 11 mormon domina domination tiow 1 I am forced to express the opinion that it is not true and feel that I 1 will be performing a grateful duty if I 1 can give the facts concerning the utah of today in such shape and form as to enable congress and the country to forta clear opinions concerning them that is just what we want facts clearly and ex stated but the governor says farther on 1 I regret degre to say they were in error that is he regrets that the peopled people Is party in utah was not wholly defeated as it was in ogden can we expect clear and honest evidence from a person who thus expresses his regret in a 9 public document such an utterance would disqualify him as a juror in any court in the united states such an assertion would rule out his evidence before any judge in the land anderson anderaon included such an observation as this coming from an american governor is treason to the genius of american liberty it is a dishonor to american j jurisprudence and an insult to the majesty of the american people A governor has no right to rejoice over or regret theMe theNe feat or success of any political party what would we think of president harrison if in one of his hia messages es to congress he expressed regret because iowa went democratic at the last election certainly if the election was not fairly conducted th there ere would be cause for regret or thaile would be cause for regret if a larie large number of citizens were dis franchised as it is said they are in the south and if we raise such an inferno because a negro is chased in missi surely we ought to say something when a scotchman is dis franchised in utah itis it is no ex excuse cuseto to say that it esthe is the party of judge anderson that is doing all this dis franchising it is no excuse to say that iowa elected a democratic governor because judge anderson left that state where he once was a candidate for governor on the democratic ticket and where his party and himself I 1 were regarded as rebels traitors and and where a few years ago 90 a mormon was more popular inan than a democrat the Governor uroil writes quite a little essay on polygamy iut but in confidence I 1 will tell his excellency that he will never get a araje grave in W westminster i meter abbey for essay writing he proceeds to consider I 1 whether the ceased to enforce the doctrine of plural marriage in ID a very unique way instead of plainly telling us how many plural marriages were celebrated for 1889 he proceeds proceed 9 to give a dissertation on the aio nary system he says the most ignorant are sought after the fact is the contrary the five countries which at the head of the civilized nations for intelligence are scotland england sweden germany ana and the united states from these countries come thal mormons cormons Mor mons I 1 n one paragraph he ascribes to them ignorance in the next intelligence he says they are law abiding except in the laws against polygamy then if they dont abide by the polygamy laws why not tell us how many polygamist marriages occurred in utah last year he says it is a poor tribute to their sincerity to say they have abandoned polygamy and yet he says the masses of the mormons cormons are too sincere to make false pretenses he says the strength of mormonism lies in the sincerity of its people and of its officials and yet he says they deal in evasions ambiguities and falsehoods he I 1 introduces the josephite mormons cormons in a way to leave the impression that joseph smith was murdered on account of polygamy and then after all his praise of the mormons cormons for religious enthusiasm sincerity honesty he says mendacity and deceit are their characteristics the revelation on polygamy was given in 1843 previous re to that joseph smith was persecuted by mobs and petty officials he was murdered in 1844 so that the josephites and polygamy though introduced for a certain purpose only reveal the weakness of the governors understanding in a few paragraphs he uses the word probably a dozen times as evidence that polygamy exists and that chat congress ought to disfranchise a community of americans englishmen arid and Scotch men on probabilities now probabilities will do well for weather prophets but in a court of justice that make poor spoor evidence he speaks about offices being held in families would he disqualify the present of the white house because his father was a distinguished man or because the harrison family holds a place in history years back he says mormon money is spent among congressmen congress men does he mean to say that the mormons cormons actually paid money to get the edmunds tucker law or does he the country to inter infer that the first legislative assembly in the world is a mere ring ling of shell manipulators he says that a sheriff in utah needs be a hurdle racer that is just what a lord deputy once said in ireland his report reads these wilde Iri be uncommon swift of foot and without the aid of bloodhounds it is a impossible to apprehend them it strikes me that if afew a few swift footed daniel OLe arys could be found they would outrun their swift footed Scotch men we have in chicago a number of clan fagael na bael men out of office why not import a dozen to utah they are swift of foot and will outrun bloodhounds we have the liveliest kind of a time here in the east just at present four movements of a poll poli tico economic character are in active progress first there are tariff reformers who ought more properly to be called tariff abolitionists inasmuch as that is the shape tariff reform has taken of late rho fhe cry of reform now is ie reform Be the tariff by its total abolition the propaganda in this line is active ag res give dive and seemingly effective ft ft is expected that the next national platform of the democratic party will declare unequivocally for trade free absolutely free even to the abolition of tariff custom houses workingmen in general begin to think that perhaps the tariff is not the bread and butter gospel of labor in the united states persons who were rabid protectionists projectionists a year ago will now stand to hear free trade speed eclied ec lies es the rhe second movement next in importance to the tariff one IF IE the labor issue trade and labor organizations are not idle at present every means is adopted to organize efficiently and effectively all branches of labor so as to be pro prepared red for the demand of an eight 9 hour ur day on may 1 that is in a few antho hence labor is going to make its boldest effort to attain its object next summer the leaders do not project a general strike in case of a refusal of the eight hour day as on former occasions but they will designate a few trades to make the demand and then the whole labor party will support these trades which will be the men in the gap the support will be given by means of pecuniary help and a mild system of boycott of all products 0 ducts and materials used in the sr strike k trades this means a great deal if labor is as well organized as it claims to be the third movement designates itself the single tax party henry george is its apostle it is simply a tax lax on land for all purposes though it is aggressive and pushing its doctrines tri nes earnestly among the masses y yet et it seems there is little chance of its achieving anything aBy thing of course there is great dissatisfaction with real estate pe people ople who buy city property and hold it idle for a boom to realize handsomely real estate is constantly increasing and sha sharps 8 b buy uy lots thou then wont build but ho hold frfd rfd on a year or two for profits and then sell again to sharps the tax on land of this kind is very small the single tax men propose to tax unimproved roved city property on the same alls basis as the land adjoining which has immense buildings on the workingmen look upon this movement with favor because it would compel speculators and monopolists to build or quit the business more buildings of course mean cheaper homes cheaper tenements and less taxes factors tors by no means ignored among small industrialists and wage workers the fourth movement is known as aa the nationalist party it is simply a proposition to establish state socialism IZ on the bellamy plan A man named bellamy wrote a wo work i rk of the imagination entitled looking backward and this book is made the platform of the state socialists here ere is a paragraph which will give an idea of the book mentioned in looking backward mr bella my has described a twenty first century utopia he has carried out the idea of state socialized socialised socia lieng to what hg he believed to be its logical conclusion and has reorganized all the nations of the world on this plan there are no longer employers and employed capitalists ita lists and wage workers masters and slaves in their place is one grand in du army for each nat ionin which every able bodied man and woman between the ages of 21 and 46 is enlisted those under 21 are at school those over 45 are on the retired list all others are laborers in their chosen or appointed fields money and wages have been abolia abolished lied but every human wg being men women and children the able bodied the halt and the sick is 19 allowed an annual credit estimated for convenience in dollars and cents sufficient to provide him with not only the necessaries but also the comforts and luxuries of life competition and profits have become becom e obsolete terms civilization has been brought to a degree so high that there is almost almost complete oom social educational and mental equality there to is no negro problem no race conflict in the south no poverty ov no wealth no debt no tariff taril no taxes this is a platform that may do for the millennium but it will hardly work under present circumstances however there is no barm in cultivating the ideal in politics as well as in art when that ideal looks upward |