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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1906. PAGE FOUR tatr Ilmmial Utah OGDEN, UTAH. Publiohon Utah State Journal Co. (Incorporated.) Published every evening except Sunday Telephone. Bell, 664 Business Offlc Ind, Editorial Room Bell. M4 6 Ind.. 686 1 1 Z Z rln ring ring ring Terma of Subscription. By carrier, per week By mall, per month By carrier. If collected by circula60c tor, per month filtered aa second claaa matter November 10, 100S, at the post offlc at -- Ogden, Utah, under Act of Congress of March A 1070. C. M. JACKSON JOHN METEER H. S. FOSTER Editor Manager City Circulator OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY MODERN THEATRICALS. "But the Viscount's the boy!" cried rip, who invented a new oath for the of everything he aald. Introduction "The Viscounts the boy! He came Into our place one night to take Her home; ratlier slued, but nut much, and mid: Where's Pip? I want to see lip! Produce Pip! Whats the good I never read of Pliakesieare, Pip? him! There' a lot of feet ill Sliakea-peare- 's verse, but there ain't any leg worth mentioning in Shakespeare's play a, are there, Pip? Juliet. Deade-moand Lady Macbeth, and all the rest of 'em, whatever their names are, might aa well have no legs at all, for anything the audience know about it, Pip! Why, In that respect they're all Miss 1M1H ns, Pip, to the audience! I'll tell you wluit It is! What the people call dramatic poetry la a collection of aern ions!. llo I go to the theater to lie lectured? No, Pip! If I wanted to be lectured. I'd go to church! What's the legitimate object of the drama, Pip? Human nature. What are lega? Human nature! Then let us have plenty of leg pieces, Pip, and 111 aland by you, Dickons Martin my buck.' na tern-oruri- ly slush-produce- Sho-Gu- have n, where vaudeville, "teams do stunts together, the lady in the case taking great care to show off her ahapely underpinning and her ample proportions otherwise. The twain crack alleged Jokes, some of them like the stories told at the banquet described by Mark Twain In a Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court; stories with a nub' to them, at which the women laugh as heartily aa the men. Wc pay good money to watch a tight-cla- d chorus sing and dance; we squander aimeoleona to see a star daneeueae pirouette around on her toes, clad In about eight ounces of tights and two ounces of mosquito netting. We have had Wang and the Devtl'a and the Lord only knows Auction, what, and they- - keep right on shooting It at us, and will, no doubt, so long as the perverted tastes of the dear public which no longer seeks education, but coarse amusement, at the theater enhlgh-clu- aa A friend of OGDENS rs ariy-wher- the writer, who owned a dog he thought a great deal REFORM CRUSADE. Chief Browning did what was hla obvious duty when he closed Electric alley. No other course was consisted? possible. The hour the officers started to strictly enforce the ordinances relating to saloons and gambling the doom of Electric alley waa sealed. Official action on the other proscribed practices simply concentrated the public gaxe upon the tenderloin and aroused the '? public sentiment against It. Public opinion differs widely as to the proper manner of treating or handling the social evlL Thera arc thoae who recognise no necessity' for e, a red light section of any kind no civil or knowing there is moral law to uphold It. With tbeat to countenance or condone or attempt to regulate the evil le criminal. Abolition is their only theory of solution. To utterly stamp out tbs unlawful practices Is, In their eyes, the Imperative duty of the officers charged with the enforcement of the law. They are rejoicing over the action last Saturday of Chief Browning. Other people believe In what is commonly called the open town policy. In their way of thinking all these are evils, but necessary evils. So long aa history furnishes evidence these necessary evils have existed and so long as man Is frail they will continue. The only question with them la the best method of control. If man must drink, how can saloons best be regulated? If man will gamble, whether la lt better to allow him access to a gambling hall run undur police 'surveillance or force hint Into clandeetlne dens where he may be fleeced without recourse?' They reason that so long as the earth is leopled by licentious men and fallen women the unspeakable vice to which lust and greed lead them must be recognised and held ns nearly aa possible within comparatively decent bounds. And these, also, believe Chief Browii-In- g took proper action last Saturday, because he could not consistently raid saloons and gambling rooms, utterf Ignoring the social evil for which' there Is not a line of protection by law. Which Is the better policy of the two outlined above will now be demonstrated. The open town has had its trial and the closed town la entering upon lu Innings. If gambling continues In secret and rooming houses are occupied by fallen women elthef. the closed town policy Is erroneous or the police are Incompetent Then would come another crusade for carefully guarded gambling and the limitation of the red light houses to a confined district as unobjectionable as It mllght be possible to find. Time will bring Its proof of the better method and lu solution of ths vexed problem. Meanwhile the police have Uken the only poeslbly consistent course and are expected to continue In the way laid out for them. POISONERS. DOG It looks aa If the spirit of the Viscount Is dominating the exhibitions we are getting nowadays. We have Piff, raff. Pouf." We get the although candor ooinpela the statement that that waa tolerably clean, although We the legs were there in bunches. Infinity intended he should. Hs stays when all the balance of the by a fell-jworld quits him, and he is as faithful aa faithfulness Itself. To wantonly kill .ate of the most Intelligent and affectionate of Gods creations la bestial, wicked and altogether reprehensible. We hope the gentleman alluded to dis- covers the man who poisoned hla chilBecause dren's pet and companion. we are satisfied If he does there will be a tournament that will be delightsome and strenuous, and we want a front seat at the slaughter. solution to it. and that is the fact that the spirit of commercialism has so permeated tlie souls of the people that they no longer seek Instruction; all iht-desire is something light to divert their minds from the caies of the everlasting chase after the dollar. There Isn't enough poetry In humaniThe mad race for ty these days. money has knocked our finer sensibilities galley west. We haven't had a novelist since Hawthorne, nor a poet since Walt Whitman. Richard Harding Davis, Stephen Crane and a lot more of the army of have written books that are read one day. and forgotten the next. Whereas, we can pick up Thackery, Dickens, Victor Hugo, Coojier, Poe, Hawthorne or any of the great one and read them with an interest almost equal to of the first who would think In Indulging for a second time "The ' Red Badge of Courage" or Stringtown on the Pike. We pore over Thanatopala" with the same avidity aa we did when we used to read it in the Fourth Reader, but who ever took a second whack at the gush written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, save some crank who wanted to learn a poem to recite at a meeting of the Jimtown Social club? It la pretty near time we woke up to the fact that, ae a nation, wa are getting a bit mouldy. Of course, we get lota of history. But when a nation only produces historians. It la a sign that her literary men and women have died off. What this United States of America inoat demands la a revival of aoine of the old-tispirit of the drama some of the old-tispirit of literature. Of course, there are those who say "Poetry dont git nothin', but poetry gets a man a whole lot. If he only aits down and thinks it over. Wolfe aald lie would rather be the nun who wrote the Elegy In a Country Churchyard than to take Quebec. Wolfe was right, and carrying the sentiment duwn to modern times, if we lud less pelf and more poetry, men and women would be better for It. of, found the noble animal cold and stiff on the doorstep of hla home a few mornings since. Investigation showed that the canine met hla death because some one had handed him a piece of meat loaded with strychnine. That the poor beast died In great distress la certain, for any one who has seen a human being In the throes of death aa a result of taking strychnine understand the agony caused by the administration of the drug. This dog wasn't a blooded animal he was Just dog. He waant even handsome, for he was a sort of dirty brtndle, but he was wlae and Intelligent. He waa a great friend of the children, and three little ones wept as if their hearts would break when Bruno waa they ascertained that dead. He had been a faithful guardian of those tiny ones ever alnce their birth. He watched them with all the care ordinarily displayed by a loving and an anxloua parent. He followed them to school mornings and called for them In the afternoon, considering them hla especial care. And yet some human brute, with leas joys It sensibilities than thoae of the dog, finer It Is becoming so that a man who i can Interpret any of the characters of poisoned him. the great writers has to atand back, Now the man who will poison a dog WHITE FAVORS LYNCHING. while a dancer eigne a will set fire to a bam, or a house. Ha contract for the season. The actor who will rob hla neighbor's hen roost, or can Interpret Hamlet. or who can steal hla coal and firewood. He will Dispatches tell us that Andrew D. ambassftdor to Gersuccessfully give "Marck Antony's circulate Ilea about hla fellow, and cast White, formerly an to the students in address many, lnXocenX virand tha Oration at Caesar's Funeral moves aspersions upon came out strongat Cornell tuous. university, The man will who a poison dog so of the aggregathe proprietor aside Ha quoted tion can take on the black face who can will commit murder; yea, h'e will! Be- ly In favor of lynching. were in Goldwln Smith there saying next to cause, taking Human life, the aing "Everybody Works but Father. In the BUtes communities United of most a Is the killing whose Juliet dog serious, The motional woman, has thrilled hearts, la told to come and. after a nun has killed a dog, wan- wheee lynch law was better than any and excoriated the maudlin pro? again tomorrow afternoon, because the tonly and cruelly as this dog was killed. other, the summary disposal of It test la a man. kill against to further a only step manager la going to be busy getting He aald ravish rs. and murderer to munler a or out dash woman, the for out the poster Biddy Fewclothes, murderers that only one In forty-si- x who la going to do a turn with Willy brains of an Infant. This particular dog never harmed Is legally executed. Hlrtytalk for the season. one. He waa a friend to all with Within the next year, he contlned, any Why, even the pretty little dramas, whom he 9,000 In came persons will be nru tally killed, one. save contact, Sinners" Jim. and as and Saints such was There one fellow he never would destroyed by human hyenas. My symthe renman. where Kelcey and the make friends with. You see the dog pathy goes out to them and their famibalunoe of that Madison .Square theater knew the fellow. aa you travel lies, not to the fienda who will destroy And excellent such company used to do work oven they are sidetracked be- through life look out for the man a dog them. When we consider that forty-fiv- e out of every forty-si- x murderers cause the outfit that chants The Wed- will not make up with. Watch him aa Is It would a wonder The escape you must rattlesnake. punishment. any Coon person ding of (he China and the no use for a dog Is not a man that outraged communities take meashas who chance. a hsyve Borne weeks ago an excellent com- Vo fu trusted. The man who la greeted ures to protect themselves? Lynching pany presented Ibsen's Ghosts" to a b)r a dog with a growl and a snarl has a brute Is on a par with stamping on a house of empty seats at a a past that will bear Investigating. If rattlesnake, and those In peril are the crowded . local place of amusement. It waa as the dog passes him up, you pass him best Judges of the methods." While not an advocate of lynch law, fine a production as was ever seen any up. Don't lend him money, except on we must admit there Is some Justlice to It him eock and where. Hut the people didn't attend, security, and why? Oh, they don't go to the for the Interest, Just for the dogs sake. lit hie remarks When we consider the theater to be lectured. What's a the- -, Don't trust him with a family secret. caee of Shockley, down in Salt Lake, ater for? Human nature. What are because.lt would be much better tar who brutally murdered two street car Jcgs? Human nature. Give ue plenty write it out and send It to a dally paper men, and how he was handled; how of leg pieces, Mr. Grant, and we'll stand for publication. The editor would see he was at first convicted and then given , to it that it was published as written, a new trial on a technicality. It almost by you. Time was when the elder Booth, and while the dog hater would garble It makes people want to take euch fellows out and wreak vengeance on them at teen times worse. even hla Illustrious son, would pack any and make If they were If you ever get acquainted with a once. The law's delays in this country bouse In the country. Inalive now It la doubtful If they riot a man who telle you be has poisoned a are tedious and exasperating. dravalue 1889 ae remote life. him shun stances been known So as where have your the you cases dog, bearing. matic "critique" of a Balt Lake paper He will lay for you going home and against murderers have been prolonged alluded to Booth and Barrett as a pair knock you on the head with a bludgeon until every material witness had died, for fifty cents. and the prosecution waa compelled to of muchly overrated men. The Lord In Ms wisdom gave man dismiss for lack of evidence. It Is difficult to gccoupt fer this ' change ill the tastes of the people. In the dog to be a ' companion and a The figures by Mr. White are apTha animal. dues his duty as palling and ought to be carefully the mind of the witter them is only onp friend. t buck-and-wl- ng gilt-edg- ed Its i i . . i r s t tidied by those In authority in order that some remedy may be applied. The ci.de of criminal procedure needs a thorough revision, not only in Utah, but In almost every state in the Union. TEe Real Bargains JOHJi B. STETSON'S WILL A 'provision In the willl of the late John B. Stetson, the millionaire hatter, which was probated at Norristown, indirectly encourages race suicide. It provides that If either of his sons should die childless and leave a widow, then 1100,000 shall be set aalde from the estate and the Income paid to the wlldow. There la no other provlailon for any widow that may be left by a son, so that If a son should die and leave a widow and children, the children would fall heir to the estate of the father, and the widow would receive nothing from the John B. Stetson es- tate. The will devises about S5.000.00Q, but no public bequests are made. Mrs. Stetson is to have the two residences, one In Philadelphia and one in Florida, for life. Mrs. W. 8. Roelofs, a daughter, gets the Income from (100,000. The residua of the great estate Is to be held In trust and the Income given to the two sons, John B. Stetson, Jr. and G. Henry Stetson. There is no accounting for tastes, but perhaps Stetson did not believe In tbs stock his sons wedded and cared nothing for Its perpetuation. It Is a peculiar will, to say the least, and one which will, no doubt, meet wiith the unqualified disapproval of one Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United Great Array of TO BE FOUND AT THIS STORE SURPRISED HUNDREDS EACH AND EVERY SHOPPERS THE FIRST DAY. SPEC ARRANGED FOR EASY CHOOSING SO THAT IT IS A Ple URE TO SHOP AND AT THE 8AM E TIME Save The enterprise of the Herald in the below was ably manifested yesterday when it printed a cartoon on John A. McCall, who has been dead and burled over a week. vllllage one-ha- lf HE PRICE OF MERCHANDISE YOU WILL NEED FOR SPRING AND SUMMER. ALL DEPARTMENTS ADD THEIR SPLENDID SPECIALS TO THIS GREAT SALE FOR THE WEEK PRICES FOR THE SIX DAYS ARE LOWER THAN YOU CAN HARDLY EXPECT AGAIN THIS SEASON. ON Sale closes Saturday, March 3rd prtt Jfanim Thia department ol the Ctax Stats Jopbmal 1 open to aU the people, whtre th.rT.l present tbeir view in relation to matter of public eoneern. LommiinuiM,iiV,m?t in aU rases be Mailed with tha namea of responsible eltUeni in orJer t tlon. It should m understood that tha editor of ihe Btatk Jocbkal ha responsible for aautlmenta expressed by individual writers lu thi. drwrti5J?t Smith Warm Under tha Collar. Editor Btats Journal: Believing After reading the bouquets thrown your paper Intends to be fair, and at himself by the youthful editor of wants to give all an equal chance, I the Bingham Bulletin anent his former submit the following lines as an ex- -' connections with Helnse of Butte, we pression of my opinion: Allow me to ay, before proceeding marvel that the millionaire ever consented to a separation. further, that I have no interest In any saloon, gambling hall, nor have any of 9 By ths way charges of all sorts are my personal friends any Interest In being filed against Harry Orchard, and this line of business, nor do I frequent reviewing the statements that hla pic- any of these places, so you will note I ture has been Identified aa being that have no axe to grind. It seems to me that we are going to of the fellow who has committed all the crimes that have been committed foolish extremes in our house cleaning, since 1896 front Portland Me., to Los and not only making ourselves ridicuAngeles, we would not be surprised If lous before the world, but are doing an It was alleged, sooner or later, that he absolute Injury to our merchants and la ths double-dye- d villain who hit the laborers In Ogden. An experience of hundreds of years lamented William Patterson. ' has taught us that there Is no way of Through the courtesy and kindness completely euppresslng the social evil, of . Charles C. Daniel, ..supreme secre- and never will be until man himself himself and be bom tary, the Btats Journal has been put In shall repent If there were no demand for possession of "The Story of the Order again. of United Commercial Travelers, a the presence of these fallen women, little Ulumlnatel book that Is worthy they would cease to ply their traffic. of perusal, the same being a history of Then, if euch be the case and we have the organisation and its objects This human beings for cltlxens. Instead of paper commends ths same to all ths wooden Images why not, for decency's members of the fraternity, and to those sake, let these women alone, and not who are not members, as being some- run them all over town? Let them remain where the police can watch them. thing they cannot afford to miss. They will rent rooms and houses, - and, like San Francisco, we will find them taking houses In the residence portion of the city. How will we like HE WANTED TO DIE to d your money States 4 It looks as If WUhelmina would be the Busch that made Anheuser famous one-thir- ' that? are these men and women who cry out Cleanse the city; we are too wicked.-- I do not believe one of Uie-- e holler than thou beings ever tried to save t I am Informed, on single fallen girt. what I consider good authority, that one of these unfortunates, ho deslied to reform and lead a decent life, went to one of the Ogden ministers and asked him to help her. She wanted a position where she could free herself from past associations. Did he extend her a helping hand? Did he say. "My poor fallen slater, I will aid your Xa. He told her to go to the mayor, whs was paid for attending to such disagreeable duties. We are in the west; this Is a rsllmtd town, and we do not want these selfish people, whose Ideal of city government are founded upon the Blue Lawe of New England, run the town. For as soon as they da Ogden will dwindle to the wise of Brigham or Logan. Ask any business man, or any man who looks the situation square In the face, and does not Indulge In cant which Is ths best, and he will tell you that an open town, under the direct supervision of an efficient police system. Is the best. Let us not go insane, and, like a lot of sheep, follow some conceited speaker who never saved a eoul and who lacka the experience to qualify him for leadership. Be rational and let us not kill the town. We are just getting on our feet, and If we keep up the work Ogden will be a city. If we take the course laid out by these reformers, she will have about ten thousand people. If these purity folks dont like It. let them hike back to Vermont, or to Kansas, where they belong. Let us not go entirely craxy. JAMES M. SMITH, narrow- -minded, Of all the cruel outrages ever perpetrated In the city of Ogden, that act and InWITH CLEAR RECORD of Saturday, In peremptorily unfortustantly throwing these poor, nate creatures out on the town, was the limit Of all the smiling, smug hypocrites, the people who advocated such an action take ths prise. (Continued from Page 1.) Where la all their vaunted charity? circle of the Western Federation of Where waa the hand stretched forth to street 776 Twenty-sllxt- h help? Narrow, vain and hypocritical Miners. I have seen Orchard since this confession was made. He has told me that NEW ORLEANS CARNIVAL. his queen and his numerous and brino promises of clemency or hope of lliant court, will arrive and will reward had been held out to him. Mr. This ia tha Last receive the keys of the city, Day but One of the McParland was aided in his work by Mardi Gras. be delivered under Impresswhich will Orchard's early training. In his boymemceremonies ing by the mayor and hood home the Bible was read night royal ZS. The NEW. Feb. council. is This ORLEANS, ber of the city and morning by hla parents. The Im- the last day but one of the carnival couple and their court will proceed to pression of those early days came up and everything la In readiness for the tha grand stand erected for their use and smote his conscience when he was events of the last two days. and will from there review the big brought face to face with his God. He crowning Thousands of all parts of military and naval parade of the visitors In told me that he believed a supreme the United States are from In the and being and a hereafter, and that his one the hotels are crowded to theircity fullest At 8 o'clock In the evening the E tne thought wag to make his peace with capacity. of Proteus will parade through his Master. S the paiade "Ths finding of the bomb at Judge At ofoclock this afternoon Rex, the principal streets, and after the,carnllval, accompanied by there will be tableaux and a balL Goddard's gate and many other things king which alii later be made known to the public at the trial have proved the truthfulness of Orchard's confession beyond all question to those familiar with hie story- ."The state's motive Is to secure justice. There le no thought of punishment of the innocent or waging war an any labor organisation. In the assassination of former Governor a grave offense against the state of Idaho was committed. Ae Its Chief executive I felt It my duty to bend every energy toward the discovery of the guilty parties and fitting punishment. One For One I wish to announce that I have withdrawn the offer of 85,000 reward made by the state for the punishment Week Week of the guilty parties, and have advised other parties who had offered rewards to do likewise. This they have agreed to and today there Is not a single dollar of reward offered for the conviction of the murderers of Steunenberg. "A reward of 11,000 Is now offered ONLY ONLY by me for Information leading to the arrest of J. L. Simpkins and this Is ths only reward now offered In connection with the Steunenberg assassination. "My reason for withdrawing the rewards and advising others who had offered rewards to withdraw them Is think no detective agency or that any one else is entitled to rewards. THIS IS BUT ONE OF THE MANY BARGAINS WE OFFER I Harry Orchard was onarrested before BEDS W THIS SALE. LET US SHOW YOU THE SPLENDID the ground, on Sny detectives were WILI WILL THEY YOU SELL FOR A a committee MONEY. secured VERY LITTLE Information by SURELY INTEREST YOU. of dtlxens of Caldwell, assisted by a few of us who left Boise on a special train after the assassination of former Governor Steunenberg" Governor Gooding declares the prisCO. OGDEN & oners will be allowed newspapers and leniency as they will be given as muchrules. YOUR CREDIT. IS GOOD. under the prison ed - aft'-noo- l IRON BED SPECIAL I Bteun-dnbe- rg Beginning Monday Morning For . m $4.15 I X FURNITURE possible CARPET 101 |