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Show TRUTH. 6 TRUTH Issued Weekly by - . 11 - TRUTH awi) t PUBLISHING COMPANY. Block, West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. JOHN W. HUGHES. Editor and Manager. Entered at the postofflce at Salt Lake City, tJtah, tor transmission through the mails as second-cla- ss matter. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 7, 1902. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! ONE TEAR (In advance) SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS S.00 1.00 75 Poet ms at ere sending subscriptions to Tbuth may retain 25 per cent of subscription pries as commission. If the paper Is not desired beyond the data notisubscribed for the publication should be fied by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. DISCONTINUANCES. Itamember that the publisher must be notified by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper stopped; all arrears must be paid In Requests of subscribers to have tbelr paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present Address all communications to Truth Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. After nearly three years of fighting, the war in South Africa has ended. The flags of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic have been furled forever and over the subjugated countries fly the crosses of St. Andrew and St. George. Two nations of the earth lose their identity and are swallowed up in the colonial policy of Great Britain. The struggle was a bitter one and the conqueror paid dearly for all she achieved. Millions of money and men by the thousand have been lost, that two dependencies might be added to the possessions of the crown. The best blood of England has stained the grass of the veldt and her brave men have died by the hundreds on the The Boers have fought hillsides. bravely and well. To the immortal pages of history's roll of honor have been added many new names. Cronje, Joubert, Methuen, Delarey and DeWet will be remembered so long as men read the stories of battles. The devotion of the people to the country, which prompted grey haired sires and stripling sons to fight and die side by side is worthy of a plaoe in the records alongside that of Sparta, of Switzerland, of America. They fought stubbornly and persistently and with skill. But the glass could not endure under the strokes of the hammer. For awhil9 it gave out its bell like notes of defiance only to crash into fragments at the end. In the battle of the mighty against the strong the. god of war nearly, always takes part with the army having the most field guns and ammunition. The terms given by the victors seem to be remarkably lenient. This is right. England can afford to be generous, for if she can assimilate these Boers and make of them citizens every act of kindness now will be repaid in years to come. The conquering country has a great work to perform. The land is desolate, the herds scattered, the houses destroyed. Families are separated, some never to be reunited on earth, and misery and despair reign where joy and plenty once smiled. To restore all this will require the best efforts of the captors and much time. We rejoice to see the English so favorably disposed; to see such advantageous terms given the vanquished. They Savor strongly of those given Lee by our own Grant at to the facts in this case. Obscenity is a curse in this community which has too long corrupted the fountain of na- tivity. Appomattox. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Mr. R. R. Lyman on last Sunday was rebuked from the altar in the Tabernacle for stating that obscenity is the curse of the Mormon church. No less a personage than the president of the church assumed to say there that obscenity does not exist amongst the Mormons, or as stated by him, it is the exception and not the rule amongst them. It would be very agreeable to Truth if this were so, but it must be said that the common observation of men in this community very strongly attests that obscenity exists among both Mormons and Gentiles here in a marked degree. Social conditions are pertinent matter for comment by the press as well as by the pulpit and it is the part of legitimate journalism to deal with the facts of the case irrespective of the interests of religious institutions. Without reflection upon any class of citizens, it is sadly true that obscenity is common; too common, indeed, in the conversational utterances to be heard here. Scandal flourishes on the streets and to some extent in the homes of this city. One of the constant troubles of teachers in our common schools is to combat the prevalence of obscenity amongst school children and it is not the least of motherly anxiety to preserve the infantile mind from contact with this evil. Let us be frank in our dealings upon questions of public morals. It will not profit us to hide our sores. The vanity of this generation ought not to be used to perpetuate that which is base in the human mind lest our childrens childrens teeth should be set on edge. We have a Clean City club devoted to sanitation in our back That is more needed is a clean yards. talk organization, strenuously exerted to purify speech in all or nearly all the walks of life. Because of the little ones whose future lives may yet be long in the world Truth dares to point is now a Doctor of Law, that distinction having been conferred upon him by the University of Missouri last Wednesday. It is presumed that the Missourians have been shown. This is a fit compliment to a deserving man, and the tardy bestowal comes as a reminder that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country. Next to Benton perhaps Samuel L. Clemens is the greatest Mis- sourian yet produced, but it remained for the University of Missouri to extend recognition to him after he had attained the foremost rank in letters both at home and abroad. Muncie, Indiana, has inaugurated a crusade against profanity. That is a good example for Salt Lake to follow. The profanity and obscenity of the rising generation here is perfectly disgusting. SCHOOL BOOK CONVENTION. The school book convention assembled for the purpose of. selecting and making contracts for text books "to be used in the county schools of the e.t,ate during the next five years, is having a merry time. Representatives of publishing companies are here in force and the members of the convention, the state superintendent and the various county superintendents, are receiving as much attention as if they were mem bers of a legislature charged with the duty of selecting a United States senator. Everything may be all right and no thought of undue influence or g of that kind may have entered the minds of either the members of the convention or the representatives of the publishing houses, but at the same time things have a rather queer look and there are whisperings that everything is not as it should be, This convention has the letting of contracts which will amount to probably a million dollars. The publishers who succeed in getting them will have received a profitable piece of business worth a big effort to obtain. The American any-thin- way to achieve Book Co. it is controls the situ, eternal happiness in these days is to ation to. a large said, extent. It is claimed embrace Christianity in China. As that concern has made combinations soon as a Chink is converted the Boxers with other publishers and that no publisher who does not stand in with the slaughter him and he passes away ere will have show. is claimed About the quickest he has a chance to backslide. gang any It that the gang has in the past con- trolled the school, book business in Utah and has charged much higher The average citizen no longer tries prices here than in other states. For to make both ends meat. He is satis- instance, the price to Utah for the New fied to have one of them meat and for Franklin first reader is 25 cents and to Missouri the same book is put in at 17 the other put up with bread. cents; the second, third, fourth and fifth readers are charged to Utah, at J. Pierpont Morgan is going to 35c, 50c, 65c and 85c, respectively, while the Missouri price is 25c. 30c, Athens. The Greeks, having been ap- 38c and 45c for exactly the same rooks prised of his coming, will no doubt in exactly similar binding. Fryes fence in the Acropolis. primary geography and complete geography cost tne schools in Utah 60 cents and $1 .25 while ia Indians Fifty Chicago people suicided dur- the same respectively, works go at 30 cents and 75 ing May. There is always a way to cents. Wentworths school algebra is sold in Utah at $1.12 and in Kansas at escape trouble when the will exists. 55 cents. A set of readers, arithmetics, The United States Supreme court grammars, geographies, histories and cost in Utah $7.9o, in Missouri, having decided that the courts have a spellers $5.21, in Indiana, $4.45, and in Kansas, right to quarantine, or shut out persons $4.38. The convention will do well to from other states, Carrie Nation will no make a thorough investigation before doubt end her existence in Kansas. placing contracts, and the members had better beware of the wiles of the book agents. LEARN HOW TO WALK. DESERET NEWS BOOK STORE. . . . SUCCESSORS TO . . . CANNON BOOK STORE Its astonishing the number of people one sees on the streets who dont know how to use the sidewalk without making a nuisance of themselves. The universal rule of the road to keep to the right is almost entirely ignored in Salt Lake, the consequence is frequent collisions and great annoyance to all pedestrians. It seems to be the rule for a party of four or five persons traveling in company in the same direction to spread out across the sidewalk so that people going in the opposite direction have to break th rough the line or take to the street, and the same applies to persons going in the same direction and wishing to pass the cordon extending from the curb to the buildings or railings. In large cities like New Yori and Chicago people acting as they very down frequently do here would be run crowds. and trampled underfoot by the . H AVE MOVED into their Elegant Store in the new Deseret News building, where they have large and complete lines of Books, Stationery, School and Office Supplies. . various street corners loiterer , make themselves a nuisance to passers-by-w and there seems an. utter lack on At- WHOLESALE AND EETAIL. - common courtesy among pedestrians our streets. Waldemar .Young is hack from Stan ford university to Bpend his vacation. |