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Show TRUTH. 6 TRUTH Issued Weekly by TR.VTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. II bnd 12 Central Block, West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HVGHES. Editor and Manager. Entered at the poKtofflcn rt Si't Lake City, Utah, tor transmission through the mails as se 'ond-clamatter. ss SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 22,1902. TERMS OF SURSCKirTION: ONE YEAR (In advance) 92.00 MX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 75 Foatmaatera sending subscriptions to Truth may retain 25 per cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed for tbe puDlicatlon should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid In lull. Requests of subscribers to have tbeir paper mailed to a new address, to Recure attention, must mention former as well as present Address all communications to Truth Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Nothing succeeds like success. This to the wisdom of being on friendly terms with so powerful a neighbor. Those are some of the reasons whv England refueed to join in the proposed European naval demonstration, and prevented interference on behalf of Spain by several of the continental nations. The masses of the English people were decidedly in sympathy with America in the struggle with Spain and while Germans, Frenchmen, Austrians, Russians and Italians were calling Americans" Yankee pigsinsult-in- g them as individuals and as a nation in every imaginable way, displaying Spanish flags whenever possible, there were more American flags seen in London in those days than there were Union Jacks. Even the milk wagons, delivery vans and coster mongers carts were draped with the stars and stripes. America, however, owes her success solely to her own prowess. In view of the almost certain scarcity next summer, various suggestions for economizing and increasing the been made. have supply One of the simplest and on the face of it the most feasible for husbanding the supply is to turn the water which is now running to waste in Parleys canyon into the deep raviues where it would freeze and remain in solid ice until gradually melted by the summer nun. All the way up the canyon on both sides there are numerous deep gulches and precipitous ravines which could be used for the purpose suggested. There are numerous rivulets and small streams some of which are now discharging into the creek and in the case of others the water is absorbed by the earth and reaches the creek by subterranean passages. It is said that with very little trouble and at a nominal expense those rivulets could he diverted into the gulches where the water would soon freeze solid and would be held in that shape during a great part of the summer. In this way it is said the summer supply could be largely augmented. There is little doubt that every available drop of water will be needed next summer and no means for economizing and increasing the supply should be overlooked before it is too of water country has little to thank the European nations for, either in the late unpleasantness with Spain or at any other time. None of the this was contributed to country has attained of peace of them. victories Her by any and war were won by her own prowess. The Nations are making themselves ridiculous in their Codlin and Short efforts to show that each was the only friend we had, when hostilities with Spain were b3gun and through that war. Had America not been successful in the struggle she wouldn't now have had a friend among them, but because she so completely and expeditiously wiped the foe off the face of the earth and the sea thereby opening theireyes to the fact that in case any of them provoked a quarrel with this country a similar fate would in all probability be theirs, they are making of themselves pitiful spectacles of obsequious fawning which they carry almost to the point of grovelling. France gets credit which she does not deserve for late. the aid the colonists received from her in the revolutionary struggle. It wasnt If tbe city council before the last an because France loved America, but be- one, the so called aggrecause she hated England that she did gation, had taken the oft repeated what she did. Had she not been at advice of City Engineer Kelsey the city war with England it's but little aid or would have had no litigation over its even sympathy America would have water rights in the Jordan river and received from her. At the outset of Utah Lake. Time and again Mr. Kelwar the sympa- sey addressed communications to the the Spanish-Americthies of all the European governments council and also labored with many of were with Spain. The more despotic the members individually when he saw ones saw in American success a blow at that the citys rights were in danger, their depotism and the advancement of pointed out the fact and suggested what human liberty. Even the English should be done to preserve them, but government at the beginning of the the council not only ignored the engiwas not very friendly neers advice and warning but insulted quarrel to the United States, but it was him. In the meantime parties acquired forced to take an amicable position rights adverse to to the city, and the because the masses of the English peo- result was protracted and costly litiple demanded it and Prime Minister gation and vfhat appears to have been Salisbury was wise enough to see that a futile attempt to regain what by alAmerican success and the annexation most criminal neglect was lost. The full by this country of Spain's foreign pos- extent of the citys loss cannot be assessions would be advantageous to certained until suits still pending are English trade. England also had a adjudicated. It may run up to a milbetter appreciation of the real power lion dollars and at the best it will be of the United States than any of the very large. The municipality may continental nations and was fully alive j have to buy back what was originally pre-eminen- ce non-partis- an what it lost by the unparits own-andonable neglect of its representatives who despite the many warnings they received stood by looking on while the most valuable water right the city the possessed was taken from it, or at least put in great jeopardy. council has at last taken up the question of the inefficiency of the The city Fifty attorneys have enlisted to defend Mrs. Soffell, the woman who attempted to make good the escape of the Biddle boys. Fifty attorneys in the east must feel the need of some ad- vertising. The Battle Creek Sanitarium, with its store, of nut butter, protose steaks and cereal coffees, was burned on Tuesday. Now the patients will have to subsist on ordinary food until it can be rebuilt and restocked. street car service. The matter was brought to the notice of the council by Councilman Thomas, who presented a resolution for the appointment of a OOM Paul continues to declare that the inadquate God will crown the Boer arms with committee to inquire into street success. He will not unless the accommodations provided by they get car company in the mornings and the more cannon. The time to shoot with and evenings when business people prayers has passed. Shrapnel is better. their employes are going to and from their offices and stores. The council has Let us hope that Miss Stone will be comcar street the to delivered to us before old age creeps the power bring pany to tima and it ought to do it. The over her and renders her valueless as a persistent disregard by the company of dime museum curosity or a platform the convenience of the public is suff- lecturer. iciently glaring to justify a forfeiture Fifty thousand citizens of Chicago of its franchises and if the council will are from Kansas. If that is not going get after it vigorously a great improve- from drought to flood there is no such ment in the service can be brought thing as moisture. about. of the Herald declares no man has the right to commit suicide, no matter what his condition in The able writer life may be, mentally or physically. Well, we don't know about that. Suppose one was sentenced to read all the editorials in the Herald for a term of six months. Would not suicide be justifiable in that event? A packing house war has broken out in Chicago and threatens to lower the price of meat. Let us hope it will extend to Salt Lake City. This paying more for breakfast bacon than we used to pay for porterhouse steak may be prosperity all right but it knocks a hole in the workingmans wallet just the same. We do not see why all this fuss is made about Americans going to England and wearing short trousers and kissing the kings hand. There is no law in England, nor in America either for that matter, to prevent a fellow from making an ass of himself if he wants to. Col. Susan B. Anthony has arrived at the age of 82 years. If she had only married in her youth and raised a large happy family how much better it would have been for her. She is going down without posterity and her personality is lost to mankind forever. It is said that horse meat and mule meat are being sold in Chicago surrep" titiously, as porter house steak etc. Well thats all right, but the first time a butcher gets to slicing off automobile cutlets there is going to be war. Korea has beheaded eighty men found guilty of defalcation. This will be conclusive evidence to Neely, Andrews and such others that Korea stands in need of the influences of a modern civilization. Banker Andrews of Detroit, remarks that he can now take a good rest behind the bars. Buttheunlucky depositors on the outside will have to do a proper amount of hustling in order to make good. It is announced that the whiskey trust has no fight. Then the whiskey trust has not been indulging in its own product. By instructions of Superintendent of Schools Christensen, the truant officers are making special efforts to compel children who play truant to give it up and attend school. Some have been found utterly incorrigible and by the aid of the county attorney have been sent to the Reform school, which has the double advantage of giving them every chance to mend their conduct and removing the baneful influence they have on good children. Mr. Christensen is also giving attention to the compulsory education law which requires parents to send their children to school until they are 13 years of age. This is a good law and should be enforced. The schools are free and parents who have so little consideration for the welfare of their little ones as to prevent them from taking advantage of so great an opportunity to gain the education so necessary for their future battle with the world, should be made to do their duty. Mr. Christensen has consulted the county attorney and will call for his aid in bringing careless and neglectful parents to a sense of their obligations to their little ones, ft ft The Street Car company contrived to inconvenience its patrons as much as possible by not causing the repairs on State street, just north of the Eagle gate to be done at night. Something went wrong with the rails at that particular place on Wednesday evening anj passengers on the First and Sixth street ines were greatly inconvenienced and delayed for the remainder of the evening. The inconvenience was renewed the next morning, no effort having been made to make tne repairs during the night. Passengers coming to town had to leave the cals at First and State streets and walk the remainder of the distance to their offices or take the chances of catching another car. ft ft The sidewalks on Main street between Ninth and Tenth South streets are in a disgraceful condition. The walks were constructed last summer and have been destroyed by teams driving on them. Sidewalks are supposed to be for predestmans and should be kept for their use. Vehicles should keep on the streets. 1 |