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Show LIVING VOL. 4 DO T1IE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY DYING SUFFER PAIS? As we are all to die, the question of how we shall die and what is to he our condition while undergoing that last ordeal is one which we are nil to some degree interested in. The idea that generally obtain ' that death is a terrible thing; that it is a grapple with the king of terrors that of all the moments of life our last is to be the most dreaded; that the closing scenes of life are to be marked with terrible forebodings; that all die desiring to live: that it is an unwelcome visitor; that the waters of the Jordan of death are cold and chilling; that deaths "icy fingers are clammy: that, taken altogether, death is Hie most undesirable adjunct to human life. We take just the opposite view of the case. We believe that it is aB natural for one to die as it is for him to live; that death is peaceful; that there is no grappling with the mon-stee- r, for there is no monster to grapple with; that death is a thing to be desired; that there are.no dark forebodings: that while dying death is the thing most desired; that the angel of death is a welcome visitor; fingers that there is no Jordan, or clammy hands, and that death is the fitting termination of life. On the subject of death we are indebted to the St. Louis Republic for the ir following article. It says: The rule is that unconsciousness, not pain, attends the final act. A natural death is not more gainful Painlessly we come, than birth. whence we know not. rainle8slv we go,where we know not. Nature kindly provides an anaesthetic for the body when the spirit leaves it. Previous to that moment and in preparation for it, respiration becomes feeble, generally slow and short, often accompanied by long inspirations, and short sudden expirations so that the blood is steadily less and less oxygenated. At the same time the heart acts with corresponding debility, producing a slow, feeble, and often irregular pulse. As this process goes on the blood is not only driven to the head to diminish force and in less quantity, but what flows there is loaded with carbonic acid gas, a powerful anaesthetic, the same as derived from charcoal. Subjected to the influence of this gas the nerve centers lose consciousness and sensibility, apparent sleep creeps over the system; then comes stupor and then the end. This does not mean that does not suffer pain prior to death, for such is not the case. So long as nature puts forth iTorts to restore the body to health and life so Ion" will there be pain. It is when nature gives up the fight that death moment really begins, and at that ceases, and resignation comes. pin Peace follows, and death, like a sweet sleep, takes possession of the the body. The spirit man closes up out. moves business and quietly is the first law of have are given we nature. The pains of the reminders as us by nature to the body. Take duties we owe or possibility of pain away all pain become neglectful of would and wre our bodies. Many things injurious to the body we would do with imas a punity were not pain standingus for to repremand sleepless vigil it. At every point of the body sentries are stationed, night and day, and when it looking out for danger, carried to is news the approaches once by headquarters, the brain, atAn order sensation. of the nerve to protect that part of the body is at once issued and dispatched whatthrough he moter nerve, and ever is necessary to be done to protect that part of the body is done at once. If your hand be on a hot stove the pain causes you to move it. These things obtain until death rethat these ally sots in. It is thenThere is no sentinels are palled in. This is more work for them to do. means above what the writer of the nature pro- by the anaesthetic that MARCH 25. but as soon as he decides to leave it and move to the city this care leaves him. So it is with the inner man. So long as he expects to tabernacle here he is very careful of his body, but just as soon as he decides to move out this care ceases, which is equivalent to saying that min KEEP THE PUMPS GOING. 011, ceases. So long as the body is in full vigor death is abhorrent It is perfectly natural and right that it should be. See the growing leaf how it hangs to the parent stem. But when autumn comes, when the leaf has served its purpose it turns a beautiful yellow, and dops off of its own accord. It is just as natural for the leaf to fall as it was for it to grow. Look where we may or at what ire may and we see the same condition of things all minting in the same direction; all telling in words and irays that admit of no dispute that it is as natural to die as it was to live. The man who first pictured the horrors of death was an enemy to peoples peace and every follower of his curtails the joys of life bv erecting hobgoblins that never existed and phantoms that will never be. he last thing that we expect to do unon this earth is to die. To us it has no terrors whatever. We are expecting to die as peacefullv as we now fall to sleep, and enjov the fond embraces of deaths, supposed to be, clammv arms as we do now the carresses of our beloved ones, and to drink in its peaceful reposes with the same relish that ire now quench our thirst with cooling waters. There are many other things we would like to say along this line did our space permit, but we hope that what we have said may be the cause of freeing some mind from the terrors that we do not believe exist. Once upon a time a ship, many leagues from the shore sprung a leak The pumps were set to work but it was soon discovered that the leak was letting in water considerably faster than the pumps were taking it out. The ship was headed towards the land with all speed possible. The pumps were kept at work evenr moment. The water in the hold kept rising, but they kept right on pumping and pulling for the shore. Just at the moment when the ship was about to sink the shore was reached and the crew saved. This ought to give courage those who are working in a losing cause. For years there are thoi who have forseen the shin of statS sinking. They have been working night and day to prevent it The grand old ship keeps going down. It is much nearer the sinking point now than when they first began. Had the ships crew, when they discovered that the water was running in faster than they were able to pump it out, become discouraged and stopped pumping, the ship would have gone down long before it reached land. So it is with those who are working to save the ship of state. Many there be who would gladly lay hold on the pump and help out the cause, but they see no hope. Let us take courage. If we cannot save the ship let us save the crew. Keep the pumps at work. t . WHAT BROTHER SAY. EDITORS Gold is a tyrant in time of peace and a coward in time of war. Gold never did serve as a circulating met-- ', ium in time of war and it never will. National Era, Vincennes, Ind The Chicago Inter. . Qeanlaskv Shall we lie and steal? Of course you shouldnt; but if you intend to Suppose there was a coal mine remain in the Republican party yon near Salt Lake Citv sav within six can be compelled to do a heap of or seven miles. Suppose the mine lying and to help cover up a heap of belongs to the public, so that stealing. Commonwealth. and everybody could obtain the coal by digging it. Suppose It is claimed that this is the land again that a public wagon road of the free and the home of the leads from this city to the mine, brave; j'et look at the conditions! over which anybodv and evervbodv The masses are industrial slaves and could run wagons. No doubt you money is in the hands of the few. think coal would be cheaper in this From my seat in the senate during city? Most emphatically, Yes. Do the tariff debate I saw the desks of you think such a condition would Chairman of committees crowded ic bad for the people? Certainly with telegrams from corporations not. Is such a condition possible? demanding not requesting that We think so, let us see. Within a be cared for. No telegrams they there is came from the fanners or merchants hundred miles of this a boundless supply of coal. Conthey are not represented in Connecting this coal with the city are gress! Senator Tillman. a number of railroads. But the coal belongs to private individuals, or The Democrats are claiming great The railroads are credit for corporations. for the adoption of owned inthe same way. The people the Teller voting resolution which provides are denied free access to the coal for the payment of bonds in either fields by the private owners. But if or silver as the government gold they had access to the coal they have chooses. This is the same resolution no means of getting it to Salt Lake, which the Republicans passed 20 because there are no public roads. Under the law the bonds years ago. Now supopse the government owned can he that paid way now; but a the coal fields and the rail- Democratic Congress passed a law to roads, and everybody . had ac- 6top the of silver, dollars. coinage cess to the use of the railroads the The Democrats are great reformers same as we have to the wagon roads; when out of Buzz Saw. power. that any person desiring to could If war should he declared against rig un and run a coal train of his own, dont .you think the price of Spain just watch and see the number coal would come down? Dont you of dam fools there are who did not know it? Certainlv you do. Now have courage enough to vote for dont begin to erv out impractical, their liberty, but will go anyw'here for it is not. Nothing was ever to kill some other workingman bemore practicable than this and you cause he is as unfortunate and as know, or at least you would know, big a fool .While both will pay taxes if you would only allow your mind for the privilege of doing so. Spoaccess to the question. Now please kane Freemans Journal. study on this just a little, and you Socialists of Spain recently startwill be surprised to see what a damed an agitation against continuing nation fool you have always leen. Ah, but savs one, that woud be the Cuban war unless rich men and socialism. Is that so? Well, what their sons he compelled to do their of it? If it is a good thin? why not share of fighting. It had a marked push it along? If it be socialism effect, so much so that a call for volfor people to have an opportunity unteers in the Barcelonia district to use what God made for us, then several weeks ago went almost unlet socialism come. We are ready for heeded, and finally drafting was resorted to, and even then the conit. scripts had to be driven through the of the bayonet. streets at the The Southern Mercury publishes Of course the point rich escaped as usual, a long list of things for wives to but the socialists intend to carry on remember. the first of which is their the same. just that Adam was made first It Labor propoganda ViilCSa Journal. So long as a farmer lives on his might be well for them to remember beHave you ever thought how many farm he is very careful and pains-so too, that the donkey was made Adam. and fore fenses humpshouldered, baldheadcd, hump taking regarding the . PUBLIC MINES AND ROADS. any-l)o- dy the-bod- Self-preservati- on I if thu number u onth label backed, fklefacwl men and women I coii tawing irour name, you bod ,, better there arm this country wielding I migtityquick, m the number hh of the ninuMw. No im the hoe, e the master, the mort 'thatia will be lent fur i longer tiioe than pmit pel gages or t landlord, sits on the top for, nor on credit, except bjr epecigl rail of thence and save: Give me Hustle up there, AT THE BRONZE your eart-gsCHURCH you lazy 4 vagabond, and give me DOOR. your can ;g for interest or rent, or out yoi into the street! C oine, I Only a woman shivering and cold; I .Ur "Pif you don t the sheriff qie pr0y of the winds and prey of will got Work, I tell you! the cold! Work haK Dont dare to look up I Cheeks that are shrunken, breven f to breathe! Dig in EyM that are sunken, there! I )u hear me? Rights of I jjpS that wore never oer hold I an Asking for alms at the bronze church door. . Every ort loan made by govern-- 1 ent is iirect fraud upon the I Hark to the organ roll upon roll! flic. VIJien we borrow we I The waves of its music go over the soul. rely gi file credit of the govern-- 1 to fj-- banks and borrow it Silk rustles iast her, rest. The government I Faster and faster, should is?; its own treasury notes The great bell ceases to toll, instead. Ids can be done without I Fain would she enter, but not for I the poor oncj: dolla for interest. Well may Stnfc rejoice and clap its Swingcth wide the bronze church door. s ovdthe passage of this meas-u-n Mr. 'resident. Ever since I a woman alone. have beenL member of Congress Only cold on anwaiting stone. Icily (sometwity years or more) its What do they care for her? whole tin. paa been occupied over a prayer for her the interefLof individuals, of banks, Mumbling not bread but a stone. Giving tariffs, burbr the people, not one Under rich laces tlieir haughty day, not o hour. Speech of Senahearts boat. tor Calhofcon the Loan Bill, 1813. Mocking the woes of their kind in t Bree Sheriff Martin and I Great hisband ojiurderers have been dis- - Only a woman! In the old days unarmed men I Hope carrolled to her the happiest chaJgetty Twenty-tw- o while walking upon the I lays; apsassioi I Somebodv crowned with her praise, thirty-fiv- e ighway, and publip I jvounde and the cowardly thugs Somebody faced out the buttle of life. are glor ed as heroes! Shame! e shame upon the commu-?ut- y Strong for her sake who was mother pverlast thallarbors a court and jury and wife. and citiJ w guilty of such a miserlies with a tress of her able tra .y upon justice! Suppose Somebody hair mine-ownipluto-Wethat tw( Light on his heart where the doath w to efats, attempting shadows are. hold thi price of coal and Somebodv waits for her, jSryent lUhmt compel, Irnn haa hegata ICQ Qn ! 1 ice-co- ld tj! . re ng y-t- up-dli- pg hn the working fr r- Ocpcir-Only a woman nevermorel She ib dead in the snow at the bronze J .verdict have b?f n tlJ nrno sane man will set up l,iat it would be even a Clarion. remote Pennsylvania, ubility. s, the lam cold, heartless, whose satanic enceless than that the souls ar reft of every humane I Nothin? is plainer all it can is its bond doing fraternity with spark; , with ecta.1 down to Spain. keep wretehe Micro to hnvo wilhns pwple and China cursed a war is imminent so that a few conditio nTinp m0Te demon- - that .millions of U. H.Gioncb will e world that it is unfit Jmndml strated. of losing 1. Jmf the thoughts to be ebi dl as a civilized state, and gives it the Jim ami cruelty of its its Spanish that tin the IT. S. bonds can Jains If it get "lers and their capitals mi at the same time save its Span--, ed butcli place it in the same cate- Monels it has accoinpl.shcd i a gory wi ,ie slaughter pens of the and that is its scheme at this murdero eTurk and the benighted end, and cam iilistic countries of dark- time; and it is working to its liking.s est Afri le But the class struggle To stop the war scare 6tops prepara-ionfor war, hence stops bonds, will go only more intensified by o push it too far might work a such ou ores, and the time has arof rived vty il the working people lardship on the Spanish endwill the be There must c between greedy, bloody deal. So it goes. there issued but bonds S. ots of U. y on the one Bide and capital be no war unless mayhap the will the on socialism mane, leople take a hand and wrest the Hazleton! other. lemember Clevelaii liing from its clutches and control. Citizen. The money power put McKinley is and it is safe to say will The 1 5tor was born and reared where he his policy in the future as it in the 8 ith where chattel slavery, dictate in the past. with all I its horrors obtained. We ias be to have seei it all. For one man owned bl another man is an awful For the soul of us we cannot see thing. ll ft there is another side to what the Maine question has to it. When we call to mind the husk do with the question of Cuban freeing bee, I te possum hunt and the dom. If one tenth of the tales of sweet, phi ritive melodies that tl le cabin homes of these cruelty wc hear are true the thing wll Ise only life burden was for the Government of the United people to do the I J ill of their masters, and States to do is stop it, and stop it compare tl .it life with that of one at once, as it can do if it would in whose exi4 I nee is one round of and ceaseless tl l and anxiety, it is with two days. Stop the outrages afterward. details difficulty ft 1st we refrain from the look after the wish that n li have been born a hun-dre- n It would seem that the intention is years! looner, and that we hat that if it can be proven that the been black 4 I istead of white. Chatte Maine was destroyed bv the Spanworst is heaven itsel slavery at tl iards that, there is to be a war with to that of isViiustrial slavery. Spain and that the Cuban auestion he purely incidental, while' if DIRECT ilEGTSLATION CLUB is to cannot lc proven that we arc to such down and let the Spaniards conlie The Di t Legislation club depredations. People the Second ward will meet at tlic tinue tlieir what thev please but to may say Second wai meeting house States has United mind the our is invited day evening be ashamed to cause of its It is the inti ntion of the movers to great with course that little struggling get up somtia interesting debates in island. Instead of sending warships the near fut dp e on questions of gen- down there on friendly visits they eral mom en tol Why not proceed at to he sent there to do business once to orga4nlize a club of this Bort ought Cuba. for in each ward; In the city? Would same? the clai -- consci-..tocrat- SSTM'd L1v4P 1 1 red-han- d- U hu-iilizi- ng ed h Mon-Everybo- dy |