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Show i ' i-- ' ; i r ii I l TRUTH Issued Weekly by TRVTII PUBLISHING COMPANY. 11 and 12 L i ; ! JOHN W. HUGHES. Editor and Manager r'- i ;J:-- i Entered at the postofflee at Salt Lake City, ?tnh, for transmission through the mails as ccond-clamatter. iff, ' i ss i 5 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! oe Year (In advanee) S8.00 111 Months 1.00 Three Months .70 jft; ii 'i I', i Hr. i r :!j! ' Postmasters sending subscriptions to Truth may retain 25 pier cent of subscription price as commission. If the paper Is not desired beyond the date subscribed for the publication should be not! tied by letter two weeks or more before the term expires. u i Central Block. West Second South Street, Salt Lake City. ! DISCONTINUANCES. Remember that the publisher must be notified can fix the price. Of course it can. by letter when a subscriber wishes his paper States have fixed laws governing usury stopped; all arrears must be paid in fulL and in the great commonwealth of Roquests of subscribers to hare their paper where these coal mailed to a nrw address, to secure attention, Pennsylvania, must mention former as well as present ad mines are located, the man who t ; - M !;M lf , dress. Address all communications to Truth Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. v; i ; ' : M ! a:; v . M h'H!'; f i ? ir j . 1 .! f : iN - hf :i HJ ' VI. v 'I ! Mi! V 4 r ! H V ?f .? j.-- Vf ..'I i, to i s. to partially relieve the situation. In the light of all this, is not the proposition of several of the economists of the country that the government take the mines, a good one? Or should not the government fix a price at which coal shall be sold? It can be done. Either propostion is correct. If it were in time of war, and the government wanted coal, would it hesitate to take possession at once? Certainly not. It seems that when little children and invalid women, old men and old women, helpless and poor, are freezing, the exigency is just as urgent as in case of a war. The government is bound to give to its citizens the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Declaration; Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and lack of fuel prevents one from enjoying either. It , FROM all oyer the country there comes a cry of distress because of the coal situation. Especially in the larger cities is the discomfort; the actual great. For a time no suffering could coal be had for love or money. The mines were running, to be sure, but still the small consumers have been unable to get enough to keep them from freezing, and in several instances death has occurred because the unfortunates were unable to get fuel. In some cases citizens have taken the law into their own hands and have gone to the cars standing upon the tracks and helped themselves, making no concealment of their actions. In the great city of New York there has been more distress than in any, perhaps all, of the others. The people clamored for coal, which was advanced to a very high rate by the dealers. Inquiry at the offices of the great corporations, such as the Delaware, Lacka- charges more than 6 per cent per annum, not only forfeits the interest on the loan he has made, but the principal itself. If such a law obtains and is held to be good; if the state can regulate what price a man shall charge for his money,- why cannot it say how much he shall charge for his coal? Really, after looking at the situation without any prejudice, it appears as if those who have been fighting the Socialistic principle, which is growing in this nation at a rapid pace, are the very men who are tempting the people to put it into effect. - SENATOR Rawlins has been accused, perhaps with some degree of truth, although he vigorously denies it, of making attacks upon the American army. Truth has never endorsed any such action on his part, or upon the part of any other. But on Wednesday he arose in the senate to demand that information in the war department be transmitted to the senate, in the wanna & Western, brought the information that there was no coal to be had for any price. Then it was that th city papers started out to discover if this statement was fact Reporters crossed the river to Jersey City and Hoboken, and found yards full of coal cars, loaded to the guards with fuel. When the railway managements were confronted with the lists of cars, numbers and all, and the kind of coal they were loaded with, and were asked why they did not ship this fuel into the city and assist in relieving the distress, the answer was that they could not get barges and steamers to float it across the river. Again the patient, tireless and energetic reporters were set at work, and in less than half a day over 500 barges were found whose owners expressed a willingness; nay, an anxiety to get to work in transporting this coal. Then, writhing under the maledictions which were showered upon them by the indignant press and population, the managements of these railroad divisions of the coal trust got action upon themselves and consented matter of the murder of Father Augus is tin, a Catholic priest ,who, it alleged, wanwas slain by American soldiers from tonly, and the senatorial shrimp his Indiana, Beveridge, at once began the shilly shallying tactics to prevent information being transmitted. Now, if this priest was killed as asserted, all the facts in the affair should be given of publicity, and if not beyond the pale the law, the murderers should be broughtto justice. It is singular that, while the information concerning the death of this priest was on file in the war. department for months, it was not given out until the day following the election. If a crime has been committed, then let the facts be known. If it has not, and Rawlins and his associates are but seeking to make political capital, the best way to rebuke them Is to produce all the evidence In the case and confound them with it. But fair play and justice demands that no concealment be indulged in. the indigent inebriate an equal chan with them. But if the bil is to T amended, let It contain a section re quiring the compulsory treatment-oparesis, so the writer of the r nragraph taken from the Tribune cats be given the prompt and careful meub ai attention bis case deserves. f UP to the time Truth went to press the trial of the sophomore-- . of the State University, who are charged with disturbance of the peace, had not proceeded far enough to warrar.t forming a conclusion as to its outcome. But if these youths are permitted to go scot free, after their acts of hoodlum-isvandalism and housebreaking the authorities cannot expect regular criminals to refrain from violating the law. The scandalous acta of these fellows at the Alexander block is a standing disgrace to the state Institution, and every one of the guilty parties should be expelled. By the way, a warm reception awaits anyone who wants to repeat that Alexander block experience. Three or four of the roomers and the propreitor have secured sohtgun and those twenty, mote or less, whb invaded the block in an effort to shave Editor Pratts head are cheerfully invited to call again, at any time, under similar circumstances, and they will get all that is coming to them. m, THE following, of course, was taken from the Tribune: Possibly an amendment to the bill making drunkenness a preferred disease, to be treated at the public expense, might be, suggested, adding other diseases, as gluttony, obesity, improvidence, etc., to the list that should be treated at the public cost. When so good a thing as public care for disease is suggested, why TRUTH is glad to see the friendly stop at one disease, or one class of disof the legislature toward eases? Why not include a good many, disposition our neighbor on the north, which will and give the system a popular taxaentertain tne next session of the Irrtion, on this account a fair and generigation congress. It is pleased because ous trial? house raised the appropriation to Members of the legislature would do the entertain the next session of the Irrwell to pay no attention to such rantigation congress. It met here first, ing as this. There is no argument eleven years ago, down in the old Exadvanced against any of the provisand was made up of ions of Mr. Bambergers bill and noth- position building, from this state ing therein contained calculated to strong men, especially Woodruff and Wilford make a friend of the measure change and California. adhis mind. The state treats, at is own George Q. Cannon, since deceased, dressed the congress, while Judge expense, indigent men afflicted with Goodwin, was an active member. W. H. typhoid, smallpox, rheumatism, lumMills, of the land department of the bago, hives, ringworm and other ailSouthern Pacific, was a leading light ments, and this bill proposes to give on the floor from the Golden Gate. And other states, this congress is coining back to Its old home. It should be given a fitting reception at Ogden, and with the encouragement given by the WE CARRY THE VICTOR TALKING MACHINE TAB BEST ON TAB MARKET. JUST RECEIVED the latest improved machines with swinging arm, giving louder and clearer tones than were possible with the old style machines. ONE THOUSAND NEW RECORDS The Victor is in every respect, embodying all the latest scientific appliances. It is by all odds the very best talker on the market. Drop in and hear it. up-to-d- ate 0. CaJders Sons Co. D. 45-4- 7 -- L- s T' .! '.! !? T- - .SM.. DESPITE the fact that Ed Wolcott; who was the Republican candidate for the place, concedes th election of Henry M. Teller to the United States senate from Colorado, and urges the governor to sign his certificate, the Salt Lake Tribune, with a persistency not unlike the chief trait in the character of that hybrid animal, the mule, insists that no election has been had. It is fair to presume, however, that the Centennial state will go ahead and attend to its own affairs, without waiting for instructions from the syndicate organ here. Long Flight of Albatross. An albatross has been known to fol low a ship for two months without ever being seen to alight West First South Street. , no legislature, the Junction City will doubt exert itself doubly and will raise an ample fund with which to entertain the visitors. :4u Pi f |