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Show THE TRIBUNE AND THE TRAITOR. BE NOT CONTENT. Andrew Carnegie has purchased for him--el- f Recently this State was disgraced by the Be not content contentment means inaction utterance of one of our district judges ii The growing soul aches on its upwarc a fine residence in Scotland, where he sentencing a poor tramp to the penitentiary. quest; jxpects to end his days. Upon this The No matter what the of the tramp, hie Satiety is twin to satisfaction Tribune wastes nearly a column of its valua All great achievements spring from life'? record of crime might be as black as the ace lie (?) space lauding Mr. of spades, yet it d.d not call for the wholeunrest. Carnegie to the sale denunciation cf tramps. kies; holding him up to the gaze of the The tiny roots, deep in the dark mold hiding Tramps are the legitimate offspring of oui Would never bless the earth with leaf and young as a proper person to enmiate, which is in keeping with The Tribunes government, present Cleveland-McKinleflower every-da- y and. as a class, the men out of work, travWere inborn restlessness an not policy. abiding elling from place to place in searce of work In seed and germ, to stir them with its Let us for a moment consider, who is this tramps deserve our sympathy and help power. Andrew The rather than our condemnation. Carnegie? According to The Tribune following is the scurrilous attack, falling from the lip Were man contented with his lot forever, ne was a poor Scotch boy who came to this of Judge Dusenberry, of Provo: He had not sought strange seas with sails country and, by his industry, farsightedness H. J. Morgan, stand up. A verdict ol unfurled ; so and on. amassed immense fortune. To an guilty has been lbund against you for rob- And the vast wonders of our shores had this we have no No one admires objection never bery, by a jury of intelligent and honest able and men. You were earnestly defended by Dawned on the gaze of an admiring world. vigor push more than we. Just how he made his first few thousands we are not adcounsel, who guarded your every legal right. is yours, but be not quite conDuring the trial, there came to your rescue Prize what vised; let us hope he made it honestly. Just tented. as witnesses a number of tramps, how he made his first million we do not know There is a healthy restlessness of soul in appearance and demeanor almost as hardis which a or in By care; but let us hope he made that honestmighty purpose augmented ened in evil'and worthless as the evidence In men reach a to goal. higher of class this case shows you are a urging ly, too, although his acts in after life cause us beings Ella Wheeler Wilcox. who are becoming a menace to and despised to doubt it. We do know how he has made by the honorable and decent portion of mansome of the other millions be possesses. Let BE PATIENT. kind; a class of creatures who are apt the starving participants of the Homestead disciples of the rogues maxim that the The world is well lost when the world is strike tell that story; we havent the time or world owes me a living and I intend to have wrong, the space. We pass on to a more important it; and, imitating that meanest of animals, No matter how men deride you; the hvena, you go forth in darkness of night For if you are patient and firm and strong, epoch in the history of this man whom The seeking your prey, when detection is almost You will find in time, though the time be Tribune would call both good and great. impossible. The public executive officials are long. About six years ago Mr. Carnegie was indeed to be congratulated in securing conThat the wcrld wheels 'round beside you. viction in this case. So alarmed have t.it employed by this government to build cerIf nu d.re to sa:l on a new thought track, tain warships. They were to be clad in a public become, that the penalty for the crime a while it will scourge and scorn you; certain kind of which you are convicted has been change o of armor plate, which was from ten to twenty years. In this county and Then, coming abreast with a skillful tack. thought to be the most durable and useful. district if the executive officers continue their It will clasp your hand and slap your back, He was to be paid an enormous price for the it And before vow was there you. good work for mankind in successfully deElla Wilcox. Wheeler work probably three times what it was actutecting and bringing to justice hold ups, so worth. The work proceeded. Just before long as I occupy this position those who are The New Time (best magnz r.e published) ally business c invicted will hold up their hold-uthe ships were finished it was that until they are older if not better beings. 1 lit and Living Issues frv.h o:;e year for $1.75. Mr. was inferior an Carnegie substituting way is open for you to shorten the term bv and for himself $250,-oy- o POSTPONED. plate of thereby the conn saving behavior. The good judgement This was brought to Mr. Carnegie's is that you be committed to the State prison Dr. Ravlins meetirg i.t the T. yceum for of this State for the terra of seven years. next Sunday evening hit Iti-postponed attention and he thought the government ofone week and will probably be held in Unity ficials were The American X Ray, Ogden. treating him very badly not to Of all the men in Utah, we think that Hall instead of the theatre. allow him to continue in his mammoth steal. So he sought out President Cleveland, with Judge Duzenberry ought to be the last to POPULIST CONVENTION A make use of such language as the above. The Populist city convention will meet in whom he knew he had great persuasive powhint is sufficient. the legislative Hall in the City and County ers. He knew that Grover was always tractBuilding at 2 p m. Saturday. Plenty of able in the of money. With CleveThere are some fields of wheat with tares room. Come along and see the winning land he waspresence successful, or partly so. He, on growing in the midst, and there are fields of ticket nominated. the recommendation of Cleveland, was allowtares that contain a few stalks of wheat; the to go free by paying one half the sum ed wheat must take things as it finds them, but GRAND RALLY. a Christian finding self in such condition have secured the Salt Lake assessed against him. The should bear in mind that one cannot afford TheatrePopulists for a grand rally on the evening It is a fact that he attempted to steal $250, to hae ones influence for good compro- before the election; that is to say, on Monday It is also a fact that he stole $125 000. 000. mised by such company and should migrate November 1. Dr. Ravlin will be one But there was a evening, to a more consistent environment great deal more involved in of the principal speakers. the than of the mere stealing of question We clip the above from The C. E. Banner of Houston, Texas, the State paper of the FREE LANCE SOCIETY MEETING. $125 000. or even twice that sum. Had he A meeting of the Free Lance Society will succeeded in his attempts and substituted his Christian Endeavor Society, which, to our be held in the Commercial Block, Sunday interior plates for the good ones, it would mind, is the most profligate piece of cowmorning. October 17, at 11 oclock. A dis- have rendered the ships useless, thus involvardly advice that it has ever been our plea- cussion of the history and philosophy of the entire cost of the ships. Even that sure or disgust to read. It seems to us a sur- Mormon polygamy will be opened by Mr. ing was a small matter when we consider that rendering of everything that has rendered A. T. Schroeder. All free thinkers invited. P. James Erskine, Secretary. these boats were being built for the purpose immortal the names of all Bible characters. of defending the Nation against outside inWhere would Noah have been had he taken GOING TO KLONDIKE. trusion. Now within their care would be inthat kind of advice? No doubt Jonah was P. A. Sorenson, proprietor of the I X. L trusted the entire welfare and safety of all the seeking for "a more consistent environment Second Hand Store, 48 East Second South the very life of the Nation itwhen he undertook to run away from his Street, Salt Lake City, will go soon, and he people aye, self. So it might have been said that that ask of going to Nineveh. If Christ had fol- is now selling out over $30 000 worth of the for the want of a plate the ship was lost; for lowed that sort of advice he would certainly finest furniture, carpets, stoves and household goods. A rare opportunity for confer- the want of a ship the Nation was lost. All have never come to earth to die for sinful ence visitors to furnish up their home at the fact that Andrew Carnegie man. How very different is the above advice their own prices. All mail orders given hinges upon wanted to steal $250 000. He stole that sum ; from that given by Christ to his apostles prompt attention. he imperiled the life of the Nation to do it; when he said: "Behold, I send you forth as Grover Cleveland allowed him to keep halt, COL. FITZ GERALD SPEAKS. (Matthew x. sheep in the midst of wolves. the people what of them? They simply and in the same d Col. An immense crowd greeted story, says telling j6.) Luke, He encourages last the Theatre lambs among wolves. at Lyceum Tuesday passed the matter by; they seemed to take it He talked for nearly two hours as a sort of them in their work by assuring them that it evening. and said but is the spirit of God speaking through them and the crowd stayed with him throughout, little about Had this treasonable conspirit No man and advises them to take no thought of which shows they were interested. been in any other nation on unearthed is It so on. true and acy sh?ll can hold a crowd so long unless he has what they say, in when one the than advises ihem this, Carnegie and Cleveland persecuted globe that he something to say. He has a very pleasant did but he will and become to no a doubt flee certainly another, delivery great would both be in hell today; they would city to not mean that they were to do so merely for factor in Utah politics. have taken passage over the hemp route in the sake of "a more consistent environment." less than a week after the thing was known; We leave this matter, however, for the ChrisNOTHING TO CHOOSE FROM. and now, six years after this unhung traitor tian Endeavorers to settle with themselves their con- has been have held The is Republicans city that it to say and their God, only wishing caught, we find The Tribune holdall of like that others that The has above as vention. the advice platform, such cowardly ing him up as an exemplar for young men to it is today, party, says nothing, means nothing, is nothi- follow. Poor old Tribune! put the country in the position for a politically. Everybody is seeking ng. The ticket partakes vtry much of the They vote more consistent environment. of the platform. THE PRINCIPLE OF MUNICIPAL ticket for that reason; they nature the n the between As OWNERSHIP. Republican, sentimen: of tide public drift along with the is tickets in there Democratic work and is hard rowing against absolutely Brcorder, Cleveland, O, because there of matter in the need The vote of the mayors' conference at we choose today from, except it. What nothing for Populists to are is who men willing and politics morality that possibly in the nomination of Wenger Columbus Ohio, whereby an engineers to sacrifice personal comfort and the plea- for police justice there is a chance for some address in opposition to municipal ownership sures of "a more consistent environment choice in that matter. It is somewhat like was endorsed, is both significant and er cour-aginfor the education and elevation of the masses The vote stood 16 for municipal and heroes the traveller told the stranger regarding the need heroes, of the people. We the no one and in following that no matter ownership and 25 against it. When it is the town we must have; only two hotels hero. a become ever can above advice which one he goes to he will always wish considered that city council men participated that he had gone to the other. We know in this vote, there is reasonable ground for 3ET OFF THE EARTH. Wenger and we dont know Timmony, which suspecting corporation influence. But witha man comes before the police court fact is decidedly favorable to Timmony, We out even considering that, the vote as it for ten days ity and is imprisoned and gets know what Wenger has done under certain stands testifies to a wonderful growth of streets ime of walking the entence for trespassing on private circumstances. We dont know what Tim- opinion in favor of municipal ownership a roperty, what is a man not prop-If mony would have done, but Mr. Timmony within a very short time. Less than ten earth? the off but do er to get must be given and should be given the ben- years ago it is doubtful if in a mayora coneasily accom-bu- t vingsthis might be callous-hearteefit of the doubt. Therefore, not because we ference a single vote would have been cast in that case the more but because we love for municipal ownership. It is not certain the judicial ermine would probably love Timmony e crime of 'roaming the skies and Wenger less, we would say that as between that the question would even have been avenue pf escape lor the poor devil the two, Timmony is the best. We care considered. :rime consists of having been plun-Wha- nothing for the election of Timmony, or any How weak is the argument against municia poor man good for, any-lo- t one else; but we do want to see Wenger pal ownership to which its adversaries have to make fees and costs for the been forced as a last resort may be seen by defeated. if the police department? SENTENCING A TRAMP. efK-ns- e y so-ctll- a Fr p Fitz-GeJal- matter-of-cours- e, old-pirt- y non-partisa- g. d ts examining the address of the engineer which was supported by a5 votes against 16 at the mayors' conference referred to above. It consisted chit fly of an attempt to prove that it costs the taxpayers more lor gas plants and the like under municipal ownership and operation than under private ownership and operation. This proposition, even if it were Hue, as it is not, would prove nothing. The first question to be determined in reference to municipal ownership is not whether it would cost the taxpayers more or less than private ownership, but whether the function which it is proposed to bring under the control of the municipality is essentially a public or a private function. If it be a private function, then the municipality has no business with it, even though by assuming ownership it could save money for the taxpayers. On the other hand, if it be a public function, the municipality has no right to relinquish control; or, having relinquished, is bound to resume it, regardless of whether it would or would not save money for the taxpayers. Nothing is more demoralizing to a community than the farming out of its public functions to private speculators. Examples of this demoralization may be seen in the convict-leasinsystems of the South as well as the street franchise systems of our cities. The moral sense of almost any community would revolt at the mere suggestion of turning over the machinery of criminal justice the police department and the criminal courts to private syndicates. Nor would any sane citizen tolerate the excuse that the syndicate could administer justice wiih greater economy. Something more is involved in the administration of justice than the saving of money to taxpayers; it is that justice shall be administered, not sold. So something more is involved in the management of the public streets than that the taxpayers shall save money; it is that everyone shall have free right of way. We might and in some places this is done with the highways we e commight turn over our streets to panies, which would save the taxpayers much money every year; but we know that this would wrong the general public and obstruct the growth of the city, so we maintain our streets out of the general tax, even though taxpayers suffer. For the same reasons we should insist upon municipal ownership cf the rights of way for gas mains, street car tracks, etc. And if in order to maintain this control it becomes necessary to operate the business to which such rights of way relate, then the municipal government should be required to operate the business as well as to own the right of way. The effect upon the taxpayers taxpayers but really only tax collectors is not the determining factor in the municipal ownership question. The rights of the public as a whole are to be considered. But in fact municipal ownership is the more economical method. The experience of Philadelphia with a municipal gas system proves this. For years Philadelphians have been served wi:h gas at lower rates than have prevailed in other large cities, yet the city has received in other large cities, yet the city has received in twelve years $7,000,000, and last year the municipal gas works of Philadelphia earned a profit of $700,000. Compare that with the experience of Chicago, with her gas trust, and say whether municipal ownership is not an advantage, even to taxpayers. g toll-gat- d, t - I The question is sometimes asked, who will be the leader that will lead the people out of the present slough of despondency? We do not know; but this we do know, that when the people get enough of what they are now getting, a leader will come forth. Moses was bom at the right time. So were Washington, Jefierson, Franklin and Paine. When you get ready to take the journey to the promised land of reform, you will find your leader heading the column, never fear. The Indian of Alaska is happy. His dogs do his work, and he collects the freight. Florida Times-Union- . Just so in this country. The respectable voter casts his vote plays dog at the dictation of his political bosses, and the political thtg reaps the reward collects the freight New York Voice. What does all this talk about municipal of street cars, gas and electric ownership light plants, etc., mean? It means that the people are at last learning what the Populists have known for the past ten years. The people are catching up with the crowd. The leaders of the old political parties are now to move up and camp on the beginning grounds occupied by Populists and Socialists ten years ago. They are forced to do this by public clamor. t |