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Show HOLY WILLIES BY 0 Thou, PRAYER. ROBERT BURNS. who in the Heave dwell, as it pleases best thysrl1, Wha, Sends ane to heaven and ten to hell, A for thy glory. And no for onie guid or ill Theyve done afore thet! bless and praise thy matchless mighti Whan thousands thou hast left in night. That I am here afore thy sight, For gifts an' grace, A burnin an' a shinin light, To a this place. 1 What was I, or my generation, That I should get sic exaltation? I, wha deserve sic just damnation, For broken laws, Five thousand yeais fore my creation, Thro Adams cause. When frae my mither's womb I fell, Thou might hae plunged me in hell. To gnash my gums, to weep and wail, In burnin lake, Where damned devils roar and yell, Chaind to a stake. Yet I am here a chosen sample, To show thy grace is great and ample; I'm hen a pillar in thy temple, Strong as a rock, A guide, a buckler, an example, To a' thy fl ck O Lord thou kens what zeal I bear, When drinkers drink, and swearers swear, And singin there and dancing here, vVi great an sma am For I keepit by thy fear, Free frae them a. But yet, O Lprd! confess I must. At times Im fash'd wi' fleshy lust, And sometimes too, wi warldly trust. Vile self gets in; But thou remembers we are dust, Defild in sin. May be thou lets this fleshly thorn Beset thy servant een and morn, Lest he ower high and proud should turn, Cause he's sae gifted; If sae, thy hand maun een be borne, Until thou lift it. . Lord, bless thy chosen in this place. For here thou hast a chosen race. But God confound there stubborn face, And blast their name, Wha bring thy elders to disgrace, An public shame. Lord, mind Gawn Hamilton's deserts He drinks, an swears, an plays at cartes, Yet has sae monie takin arts, Wi grit an ami, Frae Gods ain priest the peoples hearts He steals awa. An whan we chastend him therefore. Thou how he bred sic a splore, As set the warld in a roar O laughin at us; Curse thou his basket and his store, Kail and potatoes. Lord, hear my earnest cry an prayer. Against that purile bresbytry o Ayr; Thy strong rignt hand, Lord, make bare, Upo their heads; Lord, weigh it down, and dinna spare, For their misdeeds. O Lord my God, that Glib-tongue- I WISH I WERE A RABBIT. The editor once made a speech on the land question Unity Hall in this city. We used the following illustration to show that all animals except man seems to feel and act as though they believed is a natural right to use the bounties of nature. "When a boy I loved to hunt rabbits. Rabbits at certain seasons of the year are fat at other seasons there are not. To test the point whether rabbits were fat or poor you have only to kill one. If that one was fat you might depend upon it that all the others were in like condition because so long as there was anything to fatten upon, each rabbit would insist upon having his share. After ths address was closed James Geary was heard to remark "Well, I wish I were a rabbit. Now this, to some, unthinking minds, may seem a little out of place, but candidly new, dont you really believe that a rabbit that has free access to the bounties of nature, is in fact much better of! than a wage slave who can stay on the earth only by complying strictly with the terms laid down by someone else? Tnere are two things thr.t rabbits have ever learned. One is to try to oppress heir fellow-kin- d the other is to submit to such oppression. They would not oppress if they could and they could not it they would. These two things have been learned by man and by man alone. Man is the only animal that oppresses his kind, and is the only animal that submitts to such oppression. You have never seen one rabbit slaving for another, by giving up what it gathers If a rabbit gathers fruits, grains or berries for .its supper, it claims the right to eat it, and no other rabbits disputes that right Man does We feel like saying with Mr. Geary both. 'I wish I were a rabbit. Don't you? Say, you working people, you are too ex travagant. People who work ought not to expect to eat plenty of wholesome food. That is for the idlers who do no useful work. And then the idea of working people wanting a decent piece of furniture or a good suit! It almost sets the idle guardians of the poor wild to see such extravagance. Yon ought to have more consideration for the fellings of the rich than to do such things. The rich give you good advice. You should live on the poorest food and not much of it, wear the cheapest clothing and find shelter in any hut, and be contented. Its your extravagance that keeps you poor. Your ideas are too high. It is not good that poor people should have any desire or ambition to be anybody. It makes you discontented, and if it were countenanced it would require the idlers to do with less, for there is only a certain amount of products of labor and if the laborers use it the rich cannot get it. See? Just as plain as day. The rich see it if y6u dont, and you ought to see it. I see in the New York Tribune that a poor women who washed every day had actually bought a bedstead and a cheap bureau? And the charity committee expostulated with her on her extravagance! The idea of the woman who washes their dirty linen while they do nothing wanting a bedsteadl No wonder the committee was shocked when the poor woman got behind with her rent. It seems that we can never teach these poor people the virtues of They will contheir after having surroundings tinually long teach them to seems It impossible pleasantl contentment in the place where plutocracy has put them. Why, if this is not checked the working people will be actually wanting a clean shirt on Sunday, and that will . certainly cause a violent upheaval of society. We live in a momentoui time Appeal to self-denia- l. Reason. d HOW IT WOULD WORK? Aiken, Referendum is to be tried in San FranMy very heart an J soul are quakin, To think how we stood sweatin, shakin cisco to a limited degree and in a way that will add no credit to the plan. When an An p d widread, ordinance has been passed granting a franWhile he, wi hingin lips an' snakin chise of any sort fifteen per cent, of the Held up his head. voters at the last election can, by petition, Lord, in the day of vengeance try him have the whole matter submitted to the vote Lord, visit them wha did employ him, of the people. Now we hold that a petition And pass not in thy meicy by em, of fifteen per cent, ought to have any meastheir hear Nor prayer; ure submitted that has been passed by any But for thy peoples sake, destroy em Legislature nr by any city or town council, And dinna spare. but the matter to be submitted is the most trying on the plan of any that could posBut, Lord, remember me and mine sibly be brought up. It is safe to say that Wi mercies temp'ral and divine. there will be no franchise renewed or granted That I for gear and grace may shine, that will not have the fifteen percentage of Excelld by nane, voters petition for the submission, and then An' a the glory shall be thine, what a time for papers that get pay for "fair Amen Amen. What a margin will have to treatment! be left for the political rounders! There will We have just received fifty copies of be a glorious distribution of "corporation Tom Watson on Railroads, lrice 10 Ex. money. cents, fiend in for one at once. MRS. HAMILTON CONVICTED. Lou Hamilton, some moa:hs ago, was arrested and tried for the murder of her Mrs. She was confined in the county jail for a long time and was finally tried, cleared and set free. But it seems that she had to be tried again for the same offense. Mrs. Hamilton is a poor woman but willing to work, and has the reputation ot being one of the best book binders in the city. She accordingly made application for work at her old trade, but was refused the place because she had been accused of killing her husband. Other employees refused to work in the same shop with her. So Mrs. Hamilton, although willing to work and pay honestly, is denied that privilege and must look for a livlihood in some other direction. Now if every other avenue of escape from starvation is closed against her, the question is, how is she to make an honest living? This is a nice state of affairs indeed, coming as it does from people most of whom no doubt make great pretenWe wonder what tions to Christianity. Jesus will say to them when he sees them? husband. In case ot war the United States would be a large borrower of money, and of course would be compelled to issue bonds. Oakland Inquirer. No "of course about it as to being "comThe war of 1861-- 5 was mainly pelled. carried on by greenbacks, which would never have been depreciated had the government under the same influences as control the not refused to represent administration ceive those greenbacks for customs and interest It was the same as if a merchant should refuse to receive his own notes in payment for his own goods, only more so. It proves how thick some people's skulls must be that these simple historical facts have to be repeated one generation after another, and that palpable lies on the subject are still circulated as undeniable truths. Star. DUNBARS CONSCIENCE AGAIN. Our readers all remember that some weeks ago, D. C. Dunbar, County Qerk of Salt Lake Count) , refused to allow publications summons to appear in this paper on the grounds that he "conscientiously believed that the law contemplated that they should be given the greatest publicity possible" and for that reason he selected the Herald for all that kind of work. Of course he was knocked out when we asked him nhy he had not sefected the Tribune? But that his conscience is of an elastic character let the sequel show: Some four weeks ago a paper was started here in the city railed the Bee Hon. Noble Warrum as Editor. It is a good paper and Editor Warrum is a fine writer, as well as a fine gentleman and a scholar For him and his paper we entertain none bu the kindest wishes. The Bee possibly has by this time as many as 300 paying subscribers. It is doing well if it has as many as that. Last week there appeared in its columns four legal notices each bearing the seal and of D. C. Dunbar, County Clerk. wish to say that we are glad to see we Again the Bee getting to the front, but what about Dunbars conscience.' Does he believe that publishing a notice in the Bee gives it the widest publicity possible? How is this Mr. Dunbar? Has that great and growing conscience ot yours ceased to assert itsel? In plain words Mr. Dunbar, County Qerk of Salt Lake County, does the Bee promise you a bigger rake off than the Herald gives you? If not whence comes the change? sin-natu- re If we have the Iniative and Referendum we would have little need of the Imperative Mandate. If legislators had nothing to sell, they would not sell out, they could not sell out. Legislators would do their duty were they not induced not to. Under the Iniative and Referendum there would be no body to induce them, hence they would do their and no one would to call them home. Debs thinks he will find more fruitful soil duty So there would be little need of the Imperafor his peculiar doctrines in Kansas than in any other state. Kansas is a great state for tive Mandate. sunflowers, grasshoppers and such things. AT THE GRAND. Herald. Chas. E. Blaney's big extravaganza sucPerfectly natural. Sunflowers grow only in rich soil; grasshoppers know a good thing cess, "A Boy Wanted, which comes to when they see it and Mr. Debs ideas will the Grand next week, is a whirlwind of fun always flourish where there are brains, all of from start to finish, in which are introduced which Kansas has. Had. the world been more novelties, pretty girls, bright comeditor of the Herald edians, talented singers, finished dancers and such with the as peopled Kansas would today be a howling wilderness high class vaudeville artists, than ever were instead of heading the world for progress a$ engaged to bring forth the authors idea of she does. There is no doubt that Kansas solid fun; in fact, there are virtually two will do for Mr. Debs just what the Herald shows in one. "A Boy Wanted was the intimates. We see so reason why she should talk of the large cities by both press and not. public the past season, as being the greates. success ever launched by Mr. Blaney. When you hear a man say that populists are made of the same sort of mud as the reTHAT DEBATE. publicans and democrats, dont flare up and There was a mistake in the last issue where call him a liar for the chances are that he is re stated that Judge Bowman and Fisher telling the truth. The facts are that Harris would debate the question of Direct men will use the power that is given Legislation at the 2nd Ward school house them. This is all that republicans and demo- last Monday evening.. The debate will be crats have done and what populists most held in about one month. Lonk out for ikely would do if put into office under the notices. present system. The thing to do is to take that power from them. No one can sell out RAILROAD QUESTION. if he has nothing to sell. This can be done Warren Foster will give a lecture Saturday through the iniative and referendum and to (tomorrow) night at Murray 00 the govern our mind is ihe only way in which it can. ment ownership of railroads. There is one question upon which all SOME OF THE BOOKS WE SELL, honest men ought to be able to unite and that is the question of Direct Legislation. CerAuroraphone, by Cyrus Cola. A Romance of Two Worlds, with Interest-In- s who is no man honest he be whether tainly suggestions on Politics, Science and Religion; 25 cents. Republican Democrat, Populist, Socialist, Uncle Barns Wealth and Money, by C. Single Taxer or what not, can object to the H. Murrey. A thoroughly comprethe people governing themselves. Certainly hensive treatise on the finance question. 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