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Show TRUTH. them are going to have them. Thats the programme, good people. What are you going to do about it? Nothing, of course, except to vote as can get the senate will approve it, or any other measure emanating from a saloonkeeper. The senators are all so ultra respectable that it would be entirely you please maybe and when it is all out of place for such grave and reverover bide by he result. Perhaps this end gentlemen to do anything, even in has interested you. it has, for it is fact. It is to be hoped the nature of JC Mayor Thompson did not send in the name of George Sheets as a candidate for the office of chief of police, at the meeting of the city council on Tues- last, as was expected. Thereby hangs a tale. That Mr. Sheets is fairly pining to be chief, every one is aware, but his last action in his campaign is strange, to say the day evening least when his public actions and utterances relative to church influence are considered. It appears that some the misguided friends of Mr. Sheets conceived the idea that it would be a thing to have some one good church authorities; talk to the the organisee the president of sation and have him consent to the appointment of Sheets and his confirThat with his influence the mation. could be recalcitrant councllmen brought into line. They suggested as the committee, George T. Odell, who ia an avowed candidate for the mayGeorge oralty this fall, G. - and Webber. T. Hon. Romney Sheets fell in with the plan readily. In fact, it is said that George barely missed falling over his own feet a time or two in his anxiety to get a of movement on. Odell baulked, soon after the propo- sition was laid before him. It seeems the proposition was pending a certain faction got next the scheme and the telephone bell in. Mr. Odells office rang at once. When George T. placed his ear. to the receiver he was gently, but firmly, admonished that if he joined this little combination all the scalping knives Sixth ward and down in the several other wards would be sent while , non-commit- tal strike, continued by reason of the stubbornness of Burt, the head of affairs, who might have settled it in a very short time, this journal wanted to ascertain what representations were being made to the government as a reason for tne exasperating delay. This letter was written under date of December 17, 1902, and on February 6, 1903, an answer was written by the acting general superintendent of the railway mail service. Bad weather was alleged to be one cause and inability to secure proper equipment another. The letter stated that the lat- with a man who makes a business of selling liquor. With the house, of course, it is different. A saloonkeeper may even occupy a seat in that branch of the legislature, but perish the thought that a man who either makes or sells liquor should defile the sanctity of the senate with his loathsome presence! The senators should promptly throw out the Cahoon bill, laden, as it is. with the ter objection was being overcome by the delivery of new equipment. The contamination of a gin mill. dpartment expressed its regrets that o-such conditions prevailed and declared AMONG THE RAILROADS. it was not unmindful of the inconvenience suffered by the business pubAlthough it has been "officially an- lic. there should have been nounced that the strike on the Union such Why a long delay in replying to this Pacific is ended; that trains are now letter, Truth is unable to say, but that running on time and the equipment is an answer was received at all is emiin view of the conplentiful, it is a fact that trains and nently satisfactory, As matter a of fact the tingencies. mails are often late and that the road Union Pacific had plenty of equipment is not in the best sort of condition. all of the time, but by reason of the The mail service is a little improved, stubbornness of Mr. Burt, who refused but not much, and lateness of arrival to treat with the men employed in the from the east is by no means the ex- shops of the corporation, the engines ception, but rather the rule. Nearly were allowed to get out of repair and three months ago this paper asked the remain so, until the road was short of postoffice department to kindly explain motive power and trains were hauled why it was that the chronic condition over divisions with switch engines. At of lateness in the arrival of mails was this writing Truth has it on good aupermitted to continue without action thority that the side tracks of the road on the part of the government. As is are laden with engines out of commiswell known the railroads carry mails sion. Engines that might have been under contract and are bound by cer- used to good advantage had Mr. Burt tain conditions to fulfill their agree- met with his employees and treated ments. Truth asked the postoffice de- with them. Mr. Dickenson wanted to partment to give to it a detailed state- meet the machinists half way and ment of the matter in order that the when he was overruled, went to anbusiness interests of this community other road, where his advice is heeded. might be advised as to the exact causes Burt stubbornly continued on in his of delay. Although it was a well asinine way and his road is badly cripknown fact that it was because of the pled as a result of his conduct. The hob-nobbi- ng , omenTOnmno SOB-SO- to the grinder, and when thoroughly sharpened, would be used in removing his political scalp. Mr. Odell promptly retired to the rear and picked out a soft chair, so that when the balance of the party was ready to go to see President Joseph F. Smith, he had Of business of a pressing nature. course he meant pressing the cushion on the chair, but never mind that. He didnt go. Mr. Romney had a date elsewhere on the day appointed, but it appears that he had promised to see the head of the church, and that the next day, or the day after he did see him, with the result, that whatever President Smith may have said, he, Romney, declared he would never, never, never consent to the confirmation of Sheets. Mr. Webber has been ever since. But it is evident that the plan has failed. What makes it more astonishing is that certain Gentiles who have done much shouting against the church influence were leaders in the plan, and that Sheets, who has ever been loudest and most active in decrying the alleged work of the Mormon leaders should be so anxious to fall in with the scheme, is a poser indeed. But after all it merely demonstrates that all the politicians decry church influence when it is against them, and struggle to get it used in their behalf. The church is not to blame for taking a hand in politics; it cannot very well keep out of it when invitations are constantly extended it to take a hand in whatever little political muddle is uppermost. 11 i If E 4 dooly building noM AUERBACH BUILDING. You Need a. iome S It will pay you to investigate this proposition and avail yourself of the opportunity here offered.X3C3L3CX $ $ $ $ strike is no nearer settlement than ever and even though a few new engines have been purchased, it is a lamentable fact that the system is in a condition to be deplored, notwithstanding the fact that Burt maintains it is running smoothly and is all right. In the meantime the Rio Grande system has profited by the policy of the Union Pacific and while the receipts for passenger and freight traffic have fallen off in the case of the former, those of the latter show a gratifying increase. Perhaps some day Mr. Harriman will discover that in Mr. Burt he has a chilly old oyster of the unimpressionable school and will make a change. When he does, he will doubtless note an increase in receipts immediately after securing the services of a man who can smile at times; one who knows the needs of the system and who appreciates the labors of the men who have worked for years in Its behalf. Jt J Every railroad agent in the United States received a letter this week from headquarters calling attention to the Elkins bill. The agents were instructed that under the Elkins bill no concessions could be made to anybody without incurring a penalty. In other words if a shipper should pay to a railroad company many thousands of dollars in a year he could not accept even a stick of chewing gum from an employe of the company as a guarantee of good faith. To take the gum would subject the company to a fine and the agent to summary dismissal. These laws governing railroads are all very strange to those of us who are engaged in hewing wood and drawing water. When it is considered that Senator Elkins, the author of the new law, has always been a trust promoter, the real absurdity of his action becomes apparent. As well might a Salt Lake banker appear before the Utah legislature and secure the passage of a stringent law that would cut down the revenues of banking. The Interstate Commerce law has always been a legal absurdity with judges sitting in owl-lik- e dignity trying to interpret the legislative farce. The Elkins law is apparently giving the people the old burlesque under a new name and with new stage settings. Jf JK John D. Rockefeller flitted across the continent this week with his physician by his side. For fear that, the barkers along the - road would be wanting to sell him a hair grower, the modem Dives kept his movements en. tirely secret. Even the train dispatchers were not allowed to know anything about the running of the Rockefeller train. The physician' who accompanied the rich man. Insisted that liis patient was in. the best of health, .barring the fact that he has to live on parrots food and has no hair to comb. It is barely possible that , the $ . Hi money making wonder apprehends being blown up with .dynamite by some man who has been bankrupted through a desire to abandon tallow candles tor the luxury of kerosene oil. In that case the attending physician' could" stand by and sew the pieces of the rich man tenderly together. Blessed are the poor for they shall escape dynamite. , Hi The house passed the Cahoon liquor W) bill without any great amount of opposition. The bill, however, isnt much good. In some respects it is even pernicious. It is hardly conceivable that THIS 02.700 HOME WAS PURCHASED BY THE ASSOCIATION PON L. N. NEN. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER, OGDEN, UTAH. 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