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Show THE CITIZEN SMITH AGAIN BREAKS WITH HIS PARTY ALL we can gather, and writing in the spirit of Christian fair-- . ness which, we trust, has attended 0 our ways ever since the presidential campaign opened, our Democratic friends in Massachusetts will not throw up their brown derbys over the Louisville tariff speech of Governor Smith. We have become accustomed, in this state, to hearing ou: Democratic Junior Senator make his appeals for votes as more of a Republican than a Democrat, and an unthinking constituency has permitted him to win with that program. We find, however, that when the Democratic candidate for President of the MJnited States twice repudiates his own party platform and goes skylarking about on the borders of the Southland in search of an issue that will help him carry New England, the local reaction is no more favorable among members of his own party than among Republicans. For it is now formally and officially admitted, by the selected national leader of the Democratic party, that during all the years Republican administrations have been maintaining the policy of protection and building up of the country to its present degree of unprecedental general prosperity, they have been right and the Democratic opposition has been wrong. When the campaign opened it appeared that the wet and dry issue would figure as the pivot on which the election would turn. But when Governor Smiths espousal of that, in contradiction to the Democratic national platform, turned so many votes against him that even the Solid South seems in danger of breaking away, it became necessary to seize upon something else. Thereupon Governor Smith took over bodily, as in his Louisville speech, the Republican doctrine of protection and asked his devoted followers to stand for that. They alFROM ready had stood, as well as they could, for the liquor program of a g New York politician;, for a careless farm relief pronunciamento which would make farm products high in price and cheapen food stuffs at the same time and for a series of life-lon- admissions of ignorance upon government questions which they have sought to capitalize as a campaign rtue. Now comes the final test, whether a Republican electorate is willing to entrust the protective tariff lamb to the nursing of the Democratic lion. Governor Smiths breach with his party is even wider than that of Bry RAGS-RUBBERS-M- an in 1896, for the Democrats of that day had not been reared from the beginnings o their party upon the doctrine of 16 to 1. The Governor, departs so far from the principles of Roger Q. Mills, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Oscar W. Underwood, as to make one wonder whether he is running for President of the United States or President of the Home Market Club. The great leaders whose names we have just used, are all dead, except Underwood. But Joseph T. Robinson is not he is Smiths running mate. Pat Harrison is not he is a Senator from Mississippi. Win. A. Oldfield of Arkansas is not he is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee. Cordell Hull of Tennessee is not he is ranking Democrat on Ways and Means. They have stood for a good deal from Governor Smith, but would they let him write a Democratic tariff bill? They would not. Would the Republicans of the East? They would not. Will Governor Smiths overnight conversion carry the East for him? It will not. Boston Transcript. t ARE YOU. GUILTY? 15 low must pay for our misfortune. Of course, there are many times when he should, but if you will really stop and analyze the full situation you will realize that you are, more often than not, more than fifty per cent to blame. Accidents are more apt to occur in the early morning, when we havent got tuned up to our 'work, or arie sleepy from a too vigorous evening before; or else, along toward' noon, when things begin to drag a little, or shortly before the whistle blows at night. These are the times when we should speed up our thinking machines to take care of the extra haz-zar- d which comes particularly at these periods. You have to remember also that you must be. responsible not1 only for your own safety, but for that of the other fellow, and not only for the other fellow, but for the other three or four fellows, and they for yours. Not until we get this interlocking of responsibility shall we have as great a reduction in accidents as we should. This is one of the few times when the old adage, Whats Everybodys Business is Nobodys Business, does not function. d This is not written in a spirit nor from an unsympathetic attitude. We are all in the same boat, but some of us fall into the water a lot oftener than others. The next time you have an accident sit down and talk it over with yourself and see if you do not conclude that what I have said is pretty nearly right. If you dont write me about it, for I am always glad to know when I am wrong so that I may not make the same mistake a second time. Be your own judge and see if you do not have to say to yourself, Im guilty! hard-boile- DR. ROBERT J. GRAVES of Concord, N. H., general surgeon of the Boston and Maine railroad, has written for the Railroad Magazine an article entitled, Are You Guilty? While his query is addressed especially to railroad employees, his advice is worth while for everybody. Dr. Graves writes as follows: Have you ever stopped to think that practically every time you meet with an accident the chances are greatly in favor of your having been guilty of carelessness in some form You may have been or other? thoughtless; you may have been tired or you may have been with what you were doing but nevertheless in the last analysis you were guilty. The number of Simon-pur- e accidents is extremely small, so small as to be. practically negligible, although I admit freely that once in a long time an absolutely unavoidable, unforeseenable and unpreventable accident does occur. When I say you are guilty of carelessness or something of the sort I mean you, personally, as a rule. It may be that you applies to the other fellow, but this is not nearly so often the case as most of us try to think. There is a great tendency at the present time, and this tendency seems to be on the increase, to consider that it is the other fellows fault when one meets with an accident, and we are very apt to feel that the other fel over-famili- ar & SCRAP IRON ETAL CRIMINAL BEHAVES IF SOCIETY COMPELS HIM. French criminologists, proposing a revival of the ancient custom of branding criminals, reflect the seriousness with which nations other than ours take the piohlem of suppressing crime. On the ratio of homicides in France and the United States, our crime rate is about six and one-ha- lf times that of France. Yet the French solemnly discuss the proposal to put an indelible brand on a convicted felon so that he could, under all circumstances, be identified by the police. The old manner of branding the criminal was with a white-ho- t iron. The obvious cruelty of it brought about its abolition in France in the Lots We carry in Stock It was Specialty Babbitt, Rails, Pulleys, etc. , - . NEW CURE FOR CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING NEWHOUSE BLDG. ' i Carbon monoxide victims will become less numerous if the rescitation method now being tried out by Dr. Ludwig Schmidt Kehl of the University of Wuertzburg in Germany, works as well on human beings as it has on cats in the laboratory. Cats so far gone with carbon monoxide asphyxiation that they would surely have died have been brought to by placing them in a closed chamber of pure oxygen under pressure which was alternately decreased and increased in time with their own natural breathing rate. Carbon monoxide poisoning, Dr. Schmidt-Keexplains, is due to the abnormal appetite of the red blood corpusles for the gas. They take it up 250 times as readily as they do oxygen. The German physiologist points out that the blood fluid itself, which ordinarily carries so little oxygen that it cuts no practical figure at all in respiration, may be induced to load up with an emergency ration by placing the asphyxiated animal or person in a closed chamber of oxygen under pressure. If the pressure is kept at a uniform level it must be relahas tively high; but Dr. Schmidt-Kefound that much lower pressures can be used if these are alternately increased and lowered, in time with the breathing rate of the victim. , hl hl ONE OF the little ironies of politics is the appearance of a musical comedy star to sing a comic song as a contribution to the discussion of great and momentous issues. Patronize our advertisers. i . re- vived by Napoleon, but finally abolished in 1832. The idea of branding, even by painless chemical means, is not likely to be revived. But the mere fact that it has been proposed by responsible criminologists shows an attitude of mind on the part of the French that partially explains their low criminal rate as compared with ours. The habitual criminal is an enemy, of society. and is treated as such. As soon as the American public has that feeling in the matter the criminal rate in the United States will show a rapid decline without resorting to any such drastic method as is now being disin Paris. San Francisco cussed A Chronicle. MATTE, FURNACE PRODUCTS and FLOTATION LEAD ZINC ORE Co., Inc. Phone Wasatch 2069 - Buyers of at all Times: Pipe, Angles, Channels, I Beams, 840 South 4th West XVI.- United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. LARGEST DEALERS IN SCRAP IRON IN ROCKY MOUNTAIN COUNTRY Utah Junk Our Carload last days of Louis. SALT LAKE, UTAH |