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Show TRU T H 8 TRUTH thieves and blacklegs to positions in the city councils they should not be surprised if- they accepted- every Issued Weekly by bribe that was offered. Their rascalTRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY. ity stood in the way of. getting fran; 11 and 12 Central Block. West Second South chises and the street railway builder Street, Salt Lake City. simply had to buy them as cheaply as JOHN W. HUGHES, Editor and Manager he could. It " would appear that the English politicians and officeholders Lake Salt 'i at City, do not stand on a very much higher at the Entered postofflce f Utah, for tranamission- through the mails as moral second-clas- s plane than those of the United matter . States. 1 - - , A . m " -- a I SALT 'One LAKE CITY. UTAH; OCTOBER 25. 1902 THIS bloodhound business savors of TERMS OF' SUBSCRIPTION: Year (Ih advance) Six Months M Three Months M B0 There is something grotesque about the zealous1 manner dogs of this particular variety are placed' upon the trail of fugitives. The real mockery comes when nothing more is heard of either fugitive or bloodhounds. Not one man in one hundred has ever seen a bloodhound. Thu. very mystery of their existence forms the basis - for- - genuine satire. Public knowledge of bloodhounds is confined to the information obtained by seeing a lot of nondescript curs howling in Uncle Toms Cabin shows. The actual dog as he exists is much maligned by the romance of the time. Onjy a day or two ago a Northern Pacific train was held up in .Montana. Instead of finding and arresting the robber we were informed that the officers went in search of bloodhounds to place upon the track of the flying thief. Were we all raised on dime novel literature, so that the simplest fairy tale meets with popular, credence? Who is there that ever heard of a bloodhound catching anybody or anything? These animals have become a political attachment to every penitentiary in the west. The whole farce in its most ludicrous sense is being perpetrated at the Idaho penitentiary. A big kennel of bloodhounds is kept near the prison. Most of them are females. At frequent intervals they give birth to litters of young ones, which are dealt out as political favors by the warden of the penitentiary. None of the dogs are ever fit to run for their sole ob dime-novels- 100 in-whic- Postnaasters sending subscriptions to Truth may retain 2S per cent of subscription price as commission.' 1 o If the paper is not desired beyond the date subscribed for tbe publication should be notified by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. - DISCONTINUANCES. 'Remember that the publisher must be notified paper ' by letter when a subscriber wishes his stopped; all arrears must be paid in fulL ' of subscribers to have their paper Requests ' mailed to a new address, to secure attention, ' must mention former as well as present address. . . Address all communications to Truth usHiHO Compart; Salt Lake City; Utah. . WORD comes from London that Charles ,T. Yerkes has succeeded in shutting out J. Fierpont Morgan in a competitive attempt to gobble the underground street railway franchises This is of the British metropolis. the first time in his life that Morgan, the magician, has ever been forced to take a seat outside of the parquette. As Morgan owes his reputation for greatness to certain as a- reorganizer, Charles T. Yerkes is not without rare ability in the art of securing public franchises. It should not be forgotten that Mr. Yerkes served a term in the penitentiary of the- eastern district of Pennsylvania, because he obtained through' bribery a franchise for the Philadelphia surface railway. The money he used for purposes of bribery was furnished by the syndicate the beneficiaries of the franchise. Although Mr. Yerkes wore the convict stripes and broke granite rocks with a big hammer he never betrayed his principals in the official corruption. For this fidelity he has ever been rewarded. He was faithful in small things and has therefore been made ruler over syndimany. The Elkins-Widenwhich to with funds him cate gave buy several lines of street railway in Chicago, and he has made many millions of money. In a private conversation Mr. Yerkes once said that God never designed ; him for a reformer. He took the world as he found it, and was not so disrespectful to the Supreme Being as to criticise. His handiwork; He ; further declared that there was a lack of honesty and moral courage among the people. They elected councilmen who were known to be rascals from their cradles and then expected street .railway promoters to treat them like .they would honest men. He said the people themselves were to blame 'for all the1 municipal corruption of the If they .elected entire country. - - Elkins-Widen- er . h - $ Steinwety ject in life is to perpetuate their speIn ; six cies for political purposes. months six prisoners escaped from the Idaho penitentiary. In not a single instance' was a bloodhound used- to overtake them: This is not saying that the dog would have performed any dime novel exploits by tracing the - If the representative of the fledging Spanish king could have found President Roosevelt while he was hunting bear the truth might have been pro- mulgated as follows:. Say, Don; the guy. that, had your Maine went job when the fugitives through streams and among to the bottom battleship was a real peach. It of lofty tree tops. In the pursuit is we extremely doubtful whelhec, Harry Tracy, the Oregon outlaw, with your Spanish system of publfc informathe with were daily regaled and public robbery there tion that ferocious bloodhounds were deception is an honest man in the Castilian nahot on the trail. When we began to I suppose we have got to have tion. doubt the ability of the dogs, we were here from your informed that Tracy, dime novel hero somebody and you will do as well as that he was, had scattered red pepper country, the any other cigarette dealer, providalong his path so as to paralyze jim-cro- w ; scent of the sagacious animals. But that history failed to record the fact the dogs ever worried the outlaw to animals were any great extent: As the political attachments of the Oregon and Washington penitentiaries, they served their purpose. ing you behave yourself. from your country who A sailor once hap- pened to be in Manila bay, said some unkind things about the mongrels who live here, but we wont talk of that now. If you see any tin whistles that you think little King Alphonse would like, send him one and charge it to o me. WHAT a world of insensate rot is : o connected with the foreign legislations at the national capital. The - THE strife between the cattle and other day Senor Don Emilio de sheep men for the possession of the Ojeda, the new Spanish minister, public range is never-endinScarcePresident ly ever has the conflict been reached Washington. carried to Roosevelt formally received the new such deplorable lawlessness as when arrival and delivered himself of the a hired assassin in Wyoming killed the son of a sheep man to force the following diplomatic twaddle: Mr. Minister: Recalling the warm boys father to quit the range. The friendship which, from the earliest assassin has been convicted by a jury beand the report of the trial contained days of our national life, existed it and States Spain, United the tween the information that the prisoner welto sincere me gratification showed wonderful nerve when the gives come you as the envoy of his majesty, verdict was read to him. Instead of the king of Spain, and to acept the being disturbed by the gravity of the royal letter you bear accrediting, you proceeding, the murderer smiled sarin that capacity. castically at the solemnity of the in I offer you cordial court; The murderer had no just cause all that may tend to realize our com- for unseemly alarm, because the vermon desire for lasting amity and in- dict meant but little to him. It was creasingly advantageous intercourse a trifling formality connected with between this republic and the Castilian an assassination. Because the jury nation. I trust, Mr. Minister, that, had decided that he was guilty seemlike your predecessor, you will win re- ingly had nothing to do with the final gard and esteem among us and re- outcome of the case in the mind of ceive in your own person constant evi- the prisoner. As a hired murderer he dences of the sentiment of friendship no doubt made ample arrangements ;or his defense. Such arrangements in the administration of criminal law mean a final acquittal after he preliminary legal farce in court las been properly enacted. g. - Sons; ; . O NOW that the month of November las been ushered in, the syndicate ress is redoubling its activity in sandbagging the merchants of Salt -- ake for advertising to pad out the . Ire the only Manufacturers tvho lift maKf ft lift lift oft lift alt the component pans of their TIA.JVOS, ejeterior and interior, including the casting of the full metal frames, in their obunfactories, This is one of the reasons tohy the STEIJWWAy stands at the head of the list of all Tianos. -- y 7 ...D. 0. CaJders Sons Co... : . pie. - er : that our people, feel toward your reo 45-4- 7 WEST FIRST SOUTH STREET, ake holiday editions. '. daily newspapers have long since abandoned the questionable practice of holding up the advertisers who ceep the publications alive throughout the entire year. It is not enough that merchants produce large sums of money every thirty days, but they must be deceived and bulldozed as a holiday diversion. The most experienced advertisers recognize the fact that special editions of any and all Self-respecti- ng worthless as mediums of publicity. Let the syndicate press of Salt Lake dispense descriptions are practically with its trix hold-u- p solicitors; and plate. matter at $2 a page, maand confine itself strictly to the public -- |