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Show Mormonism in the United States; each other. The great majority of due to it there; and Mormons and Gentiles have kindly some status is will be decided when eeclings towards each other. They that is what or any other lave no' desire to fly at each others Utah sends Reed Smoot United States senate. .hroats, .and there is no reason why apostle to the is settled the hey should. These professional agi-ato- rs The sooner the matter should be relegated to the rear better for all parties. o by-th- well-bein- IT appears that the vexed question will come up in Two years congress again this witner. earnest solicitation of temago, at the the W. C. T. U. perance advocates, and other societies, the canteen was abolished. But instead of drunkenness indecreasing in the army, it has creased, and that, too, at an alarming rate. Advocates of the post canteen for this that the solgave as a reason of obdier, deprived of the privilege taining beer and light wines at the to the sapost canteen, had recourse loons in the cities and towns adjacent to his station, where he bought and consumed whisky and other stimulants of a high proof. Not only that, but dives and groggeries were established near the borders of government reservations, where the worst kind of tanglefoot, Jersey lightning and was sold, and with the drinking of this the paid defender of his country became worse than drunk; he became insane, as it were. Inasmuch as the officers of the army are about a unit in favor of the restoration of the canteen, it is fair to presume it will be But not without a struggle, however. The fair warriors of the W. C. T. U. and their longhaired companions are getting ready to storm the citadel of congress and insist that this alleged evil, once hav ing been abolished, shall not be re-habilitated. Really, to one not fa?, miliar with the question, id appears that if more drunkards are made through agencies not connected with' the canteen; if more soldiers get drunk when those institutions are not running than when they are, then those who believe in temperance would pre-fthe canteen. Officers assert that one difficulty which is surmounted by the canteen is this: When the soldier selling it encourages him to drink all drinks off the reservation, the fellow he can, and the sooner he does it the better, for the sooner will his money change hands. At the canteen, however, he is not permitted to drink more than is good for him, for as soon as he shows signs of intoxication further drink is denied him, and, as a result, he does not get up in the morning with a dark brown taste in his mouth and an aching void in his pocket. of the they wanted to achieve the best re- practiced so long and so successfully, sults. He laid great stress on home was carried to such an extreme last influence, and always attempted to season e Salt Lake Tribune that lead his employes toward a higher it resulted in the killing of the goose plan of intellectual development. His that laid the golden egg. The Tribune work was thankless, but no more so must have been well pleased, for its than that of many another man whose manager gave his chief bunco steercr or the peace and g of the efforts were along the same lines. a laudatory letter, commending him to community. It was nothing but those all those who had bunco work, to do'. disturbers who originated the MorIT will easily be remembered that But the manager and his imported mon and Gentile fight which has char- the wheelmen of the city for a long confreres are beginning to find out acterized the present city council from time kept up a great agitation for the j that Salt Lake merchants are not as he day it went into office. In this inconstruction of in the easy marks as they may appear to the stance the fight was forced by a few streets of the bicycle paths city, and from them average carpetbagger. They are willGentiles, and the Mormons were emanated the ordinance which was ing to support legitimate : newsdriven to take up the battle. In other passed' imposing a tax on bicycles and papers every day in the. year, but obcases a few Mormon malcontents have providing that the money thus ob- ject to being robbed on Christmas to the jeen aggressors. tained would be applied to the cost of make a grafters holiday. o , constructing the paths. Although the HERR KRUPP, the great German ordinance has been in force for some THE Deseret News dismisses the r, known as the "cannon months only twenty-tw- o wheelmen statement of the Ministers association king, did not, it seems, commit sui- have registered their wheels and paid concerning Apostle Smoot in a sneercide, as was at first supposed. He died the tax. Will some one figure out how ing manner, declaring that the sevennatural death, having been a sufferer many thousand years it will take to teen members thereof do not amount from asthma and heart trouble for build the paths at the rate the money to much, and that there isnt anything many years. His gun works at Essen is coming in? The police seem to have to their declarations, which' are unwere the most extensive in the world. little time to devote to the enforce- supported, etc. ' It will be remembered He was known as a political econo ment of the ordinance. Special of- that three ministers only started the mist of a peculiar type, and his origi- ficers, it seems, will be required to en- storm which unseated B. II. Roberts. nality has been admired by many great force this law, and their salaries would The News forgets that these ministers captains of industry in the United amount to more than the sum which have behind them all the ministers of States. Since his death he has been would be realized. This is just the the east; all their congregations and severely criticised by the Socialists of condition which Truth poitned out a thousands of others who. will Germany, and yet the most of his crit- year ago would obtain. with them in doing all they can ics are probably not sufficiently gifted to keep. Mr. Smoot from taking a seat to understand his methods! He be IT begins to look as though the spe- in the senate. lieved in the highest efficiency of la cial bunco holiday editions of the daily bor, and was tireless in his teaching papers would not weigh as much this WE ARE again told that the czar of that workmen should live properly if year as formerly. The hold-u- p game, Russia thinks seriously of abdicating; post canteen kill-me-qui- ck - . jun-make- , co-oper- ate f LACE CVRTAINS er o IT is an encouraging fact that the great majority of Mormons and Gentiles are alike heartily tired of the religious quarrel which has been maintained for so many years between the two factions. Their wish for peace is sincere and strong but every once in a while the old grudge and old jealousies break out with considerable vigor. It seems to -- Truththe cmbi of past bitterness are alive by kept professional agitators who make gain in petty offices and otherwise, by havthe two elements arrayed against ing o o o o o 0 1 I .; A fine assortment of $ imported Laces just received. All $ and the prices are away down O Also a splendid line of Velour Portieres and O Furniture Coverings, Draperies, Etc., We invite O you to examine our goods in this department. up-to-da- te, We pride' ourselves on keeping the largest and and best stock of these goods in the state. ... X |