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Show TRUTH 8 TRUTH Issued Weokly by TRUTH PUBLISHING II and 12 COMPANY. InCentral Block, West Second Soutb by rumors of lawless corruption. Salt Lake Street, City. vestigations were ordered and numer- JOHN W. HUGHES. Editor and Manager Entered at the postofflee at Salt Lake City, 'Jtuh, for transmission through the mails as econd-closs It does not require a historian to ference to his Income. He gets his recall the disgraceful proceedings that money just the same. The Tribune has attended the efforts of one McGune dispensed with its picture department to break into the United States sen- and is curtailing expenses in many ate. The legislature was disturbed ways, but Perrys salary remains just matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! oe Year (in adranee) SS.00 1.00 It Montlis Three Months M 75 ....' PoNtmHsters 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 the publication should be not! tied 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 full. Requests of subscribers to hare their paper mailed to a nr w address, to seoure attention, must mentio . Conner as well as present Address all communications to Truth Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. QUEER, indeed, must the election of Senator Reed Smoot seem to the political swashbucklers of the nation. The choosing of a United States senator has come to be looked upon as the primal opportunity for bribery and corruption. Like buzzards hover over a dead carcass, the heelers and grafters scent the political carrion from afar off. So open and outrageous has the system become that decency has been shocked, and political integrity despaired of. But Utah has elected a senator with no more suggestions of bribery than might be expected in the choice of a Sunday school superintendent or the selection of a leader for a Methodist revival meeting. Of course the politicians cannot understand it because it is so foreign to modern politics. Should decency intrude itself into the election of United States senators a grievous error would be committed. Our great national institutions would be undermined by honesty and chaos would come again. Now, therefore, let all the grafters and confidence operators assemble and proclaim to all the world that Senator Reed Smoot was not properly elected. Let them aftirm as just cause for complaint that no bribe money was circulated. Let thqm also insist that no corrupt alliances were formed whereby the senator-elect is pledged to distribute favors and emoluments as a reward for fraud and trickery. Let them point with pride to the corruption attendant upon the election of other senators and by this evidence annul the selecLet tion of Senator Reed Smoot. them show by multiplied examples that when a senator is unwilling to lend himself to political baseness he is unfit to mingle with his confreres at the national capital and should not be allowed to take his seat. And when this is done let them call the Ministerial association to invoke the wrath of God upon the head of a man who sought an election to the United States senate and scorned to make use of corrupt methods. ous witnesses summoned. Testimony was produced of a most damaging character and witnesses swore that bribe money was freely offered. But those were palmy days and the politicians who outraged public decency fit companions for deemed were statesmen who all the quasi And at Washington. hibernate the incidents leading up to the election of. the Irish monarch from Park City were scarcely less notorious. No man has yet had the timerity to declare that dishonor, pollution shame, ignorance or degradation disqualify a man for a seat In congress. Perhaps the test is about to come at last. Senator Reed Smoot was elected without bribery, without fraud. His integrity may make him ineligible to the office of United States . senator. WHEN the merchants of Salt Lake dig up money for the Tribune on the first of every month they should not foregt that they are enjoying a luxury that is well worth the price of admission. They are enabled to feed and clothe that transcendent political and financial genius, Perry S. Hearn. Not every community can boast of such an ornament. Like all god things, tfie secretary of the national Republican committee comes high. He draws from the Tribune exchequer the sum of 0 every month. It takes a good many classified want advertisements to pay Perry, but he gets his money before the office boy absorbs his weekly stipend. With the setting of every sun the wizard of the defunct Seventh National bank of New York receives $40 from the purses of his Salt Lake admirers. The fact that he is now hobnob, bing with the national board of directors at Washington makes no dif $1,-20- as it was. The advertising columns of the Tribune bear startling testimony to the fact that the merchants of Salt Lake are at last coming to their senses, They are gradually comprehending the bunco game that is being worked. The subscription price of the Tribune is $12 a year, greater than that of any other daily paer in the United States. Why should the people of Utah be helu up by. one who has no interest in the state beyond the contenis of his carpet bag? How long this enormous salary graft will endure depends on the terms of the contract between Perry and Tom. Maybe Tom, alias Senator AFFAIRS in Venezuela are reachKearns, has begun to realize what an easy mark he has been. ing a more critical stage than is shown by the public reports, it is the LEASING the public ranges is still province of statesmen to conceal the a political question. It will be a sad truth and therefore the exact condiday when the influence of the big cat- tions must be conjectured. Venezuetle companies is sufficient to secure la was enjoying a delightful revothe passage of a national law that lution when England and Germany will cause endless bloodshed on the decided to collect two bills against These plains of the entire west. By every the little republic. bills of wealth means known to the power amounted to about $300,000 each and efforts have been made to secure for had accrued on account of certain the big cattle companies all the pub- damages suffered by citizens of the lic domain. The small cattle owner two countries who happened to be has not been wanted. At first he doing business in Venezuea. History was terrorized and murdered. After is silent regarding the nature of the that those who were left were wor- damages, but it Is presumed that the ried and annoyed. Then the small warring factions had destroyed propcattle men combined for mutual pro- erty or confiscated it in some mantection, whereupon the cattle kings ner. Just why Germany and Eng. flew to the seat of government to land should go on a collecting tour strangle by law the men they could in partnership has not been exnot murder. Immense sums of mon- plained. But they did go and six war ey have been used as a corruption vessels appeared and blockaded the fund and the National Livestock as- ports of the diminutive country. They sociation has been supported for the viciously destroyed two Venezuelan exclusive purpose of stealing the warships, either one of which would public ranges from the government have been worth enough to satisfy and pauperizing the small cattle the claims of both nations. And these men. This seems to be the last thing vessels were dstroyed after they the government has with which to had surrendered and were helpless. feed the .maws of plunderers. That Then came France, Italy and Spain a man with only a dozen cattle should with unsatisfied claims, and all these like wolves are now howling at the heels of Venezuela. The merriment of a local revolution was turned into a sort of national tragedy. The claims of England and Germany are growing so fast that the pickaninny republic can never hope to get out of debt It begins to look as though the crazy kaiser, that Teutonic war-go- d of central Europe, had filled himself full of sauerkraut and bock beer and MARKET. 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He calmly awaits the inevitable and if the law is passed he will sell his life dearly for he might as well be dead as to be deprived of his means of subsistence. West First South Street. Co. set out to assail the Monroe Doctrine. The moment Germany lands troops and takes possesison of the ports and custom houses of Venezuela, the Monroe Doctrine will be strained to the point of breaking. There is only one logical sequence to the Venezuelan trouble. The United States must defend the Monroe Doctrine even to the extent of saying that Germany shall not land troops in South America with the intent of taking possession of the country. Should the kaiser decide that he and God are equal to the emergency, the Carribean sea will be strewn with sauergraut, for your Uncle George Dewey will probably be in the vicinity of the disputed territory. The prophetic words |