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Show 8 TRUTH Issued Weekly by Truth Publishing Company. Western Newspaper Union Hullding, South West Temple Street, Salt Lake City. 241 John W. Hughes, Editor ind Manager. Entered June 19, 1903, at .alt Lake City, ms ter, under Act Utah, as second-clas- s of Congress of March 3, 1879. Terms Of Subscription: 2.00 ONE YEAR (In advance) 1.00 SIX MONTHS (In advance) 75 THREE MONTHS (In advance) Postmasters 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 notified 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 have their paper mailed to a new address, to secure attention, must mention former as well as present address. Address all communications to TRUTH PURLTSIIINO COMPANY, Salt Lake City, Utah. truth: thousands cf heartsick spectators he human beings, took nearly 800 most of them little children, to himself. Nor did he act with gentleness, either. No hallucinations of Waiting friends danced before their little eyes; no scenes of joyousness opened up a vista of hope, cr of peace, but amid wails of anguish and terror; with the smoke blinding them; with the flames scorching them; with the bubbling waters seething around and choking them, the dear innocents went into the awful presence of the Spirit that should come to us all as a welcome radiant being instead of a shape to be dreaded. It was too bad, tco bad. Those tots left their homes that bright morning to go picnicking; to get away from the hot streets for one day and to enjoy the soft breezes that would have brought roses to their cheeks and joy to their hearts. No WHAT a rapacious old being Death thought of the awful end permeated is. We have the right to believe that their beings as their mothers tied on inasmuch as all that lives must some their bright ribbons or adjusted their refall to before he him, day ought bonny curls. frain from taking the young, the good But all this time old Death was and the beautiful, but confine himself to those whose days of usefulness are chuckling to himself. He knew that that a fire nearly at an end. But net content old tub was a fire-trawith the harvest of ripened grain that cnce started would go through her is ever falling before his relentless like a blaze in a tinder box, and he scythe he must needs have a garland grinned to himself a quiet grin as he of flowers once in a while. Nor is he pictured the scenes of anguish that stinted in his desires, for once started would mark a great days work for in the plucking he revels in blossoms him. He knew that men are his greatand stops only when all the fairest est ailies; that the boat would be that no adequate proare gathered. He ran riot on the East river last Wednesday. Within a short visions for rescue in time of danger distance from the shore, in sight of would be provided, and that once the Christian ery respect to Russia. Russia is not a strong nation. It is a weak nation menaced by internal revolts against the worst tyranny the world has ever known in any nation miscalling itself civilized. It is on the verge of revolution. Its cup of iniquities is full and overflowing. The war instead of being only just begun is nearing the end and that end will be the discomfiture of the Russian system of tyranny, oppression, injustice, brutality, falseness, treachery, and everything that Is vile. The complete whipping, the thorough overthrow and humiliation of Russia is the very best thing that could happen for the masses of the people who are cursed by having to live under the rule of that detcstible government; the best thing that could happen for the cause of humanity. so-call- ed p; There are a few Russophiles In this country. Very few and the fewer the better. They prate about what they call the treachery of Japan in attacking Russia before Russia was ready. They call it treachery and all that sort of thing, they hold up the foolish myth about the grand, the signal service rendered the Union cause during the civil war, when she (Russia) was ready to fight for Uncle Sam." They ask the fool question, Does anyone who calmly considers the whole situation want to see a third of the worlds population all yellow and pagan a standing menace to all the rest of it? They tell us that Russia is a strong nation, but a slow one, that the war is just begun and that when Russia wakes up the jig will be up with the Japanese. Its all rot. The treachery before the war broke out was all by the Russians. The diplomacy, the negotiations proceeding the actual outbreak of hostilities were characterized by the utmost duplicity, lying and treachery on the part of Russia. The services rendered by Russia to the United States are mere idle dreams, seized on and fostered by Russia, the coward, the caitiff, in the hope of enlisting sympathy to save her from little Japan. Russia never did any service In the cause of freedom. She was never ready to fight for the United States. Tyranny and the forging of chains are more in her line. The tale of the fleet, with the emblem of the bear, sailing into New York harbor with sealed orders from the czar, ready to fight in the cause of freedom at the drop of a hat sounds very nice as a legend, dramatically told, but there is no truth In it. There is no foundation for It in history or in fact. Nobody wants to see the "yellow and pagan part of the world a menace to the rest. And nobody ever will. It is, as it has always been, a case of the survival of the fittest. Pagan Japan is vastly superior in ev over-crowde- d; (WWWWWWWW-WVVV- V PETER P, KUHN ARTISTIC 8IGN AND ORNAMENTAL HOUSS PAINTER AND DECORATOR L ! ; 615 State St.. Salt Laki City fire started he could revel in his glee as the souls of his victims mounted upward on the smoke of the burning, it came about just as he had picture! The babe in the mothers arms met with a fearful fate; little boys and girls clung to each other and either died from inhaling the scorching air or went over the side and were drowned, still clasping hands. Parents were separated from their children, and all died terrible deaths. Oh, it was indeed a carnival of joy for the fellow with the sickle. And when it was all over Death smiled a smile of contentment, for he knew the thrill of horror that would his feast would soon be stilled. That other old wooden boats would he installed into service; that other crowds would load them down to the waters edge; that other opportunities would be presented him in future. That in their haste to get money owners of other old hulks would send them to take people out for pleasure and, like the owners of this one, would provide no precautions; no appliances for saving of lives in great emergencies. Death knows his friends. Death follow , realizes who provides him with his greatest banquets. Death knows that except for mans neglect and mans ambitions he would have to wait until man sent for him, instead of having oportunities like this one. But oh, the sadness of all The . heart-rendin- g scenes; the it terrible end- ings of so many little ones. Dear little children, with light hearts and pleasant faces on that sunny morning, now cold and silent in the never-endinlesson to stillness, will your fate be those who remain? Only for a brief period of time. Then again will Death have other harvests such as was this g Beginning Monday Next and lasting through the week. a one. I3 Per Cent Off ON IRON BEDS LAST YEARS SURPLUS STOCK D1NWOODEY FURNITURE CO. State Journal quoted in full the article published last week in Truth under the heading;, "Utahs THE -- Fool Friends. By way of introduc- tion the Journal said: "Truth of Salt Lake is an enthusiastic friend of Senator Smoot, and as a rule it speaks only good words for those who are suspected of having sympathy for him. But it has broken loose against some of the foolish friends of the junior senator. What Truths article on Utahs Fool Friends has to do witli Senator Smoot or his fitness to occupy a seat . in the United States Senate is a There was no reference whatever in the article to Senator Smoot or his case In any shape or form whatever. The Journal must be is mys-tery- |
