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Show Somehow the midwinter fair isn't exciting the enthusiasm among the people which was predicted of it. It seems there is something lacking. What is it? Is it a resort or a hotel grab? Which? 'If California advertised the affair liberally in tbe papers all over the west, it could be made a success. As it is we doubt if they will be able to get up any considerable amount of enthusiasm. The newspapers of the west have been very liberal (at their own expense) in the past, to this and similar enterprises. They should now kick and demand that recognition they deseive. You can't beat the papers when it c?mes ti getting up a revival or a prize fight. The Standard is a charming paper in many reepects. What we admire most in its get up, is its manly frankness. frank-ness. If it makes a misstep upon occasion, occa-sion, as we are all liable to do, it dots not hesitate to make it right. A journalist journ-alist who does not honor the craft and who belittles his own purtuit at all times never climb3 to any exalted place either ia the confidence of his j co-laborers or tbe public. If the Stand- J ' . Mil I ard would now go a step farther and say it had no business to attack the Herald editor personally, it would but difchargeits duty. Thehe is no doubt of it, we should have a peneral game law passed by the tiiirty first legislature at once. Especially Es-pecially should the game fish in our lakes and rivers be better protected. For one thing, seining should not be permitted upon any pretext. We understand un-derstand the legislature will bv petitioned peti-tioned to pass a bill at this present ees-tion ees-tion looking to the better protection of this game. Tiie Dispatch stands ready to assist this laudable purpose in any way possible. It should not be postponed. The improvement and decency of the Enquirer since the absence of its. hired blackguard in the legislature, is o served by everybody. However, it did make a serious lapse day before yesterday. It is a great pity that the Splatterblotch just can't be decent or permit us to treat it with common courtesy. The republicans in congress seem determined to place every obstacle possible in the way of Utah statehood. Why should they feel as the? do about this territory? What great evil has this people done that party? Why should it now put itself across the hawse of Utah's progress? The late meeting of the grand lodge A. F. & A. M. of Utah, in this city, was an eminently satisfactory one to the brethren. They are a lordly set of graceful and cultured gentlemen, to be sure. They proved abundantly that they can handle pitch without defilement. Those exalted patriots Mitchell and Corbett do find numerous obsta cles in their way of getting together to determine de-termine which is the best man. They have the sympathy of similar patriots the world over. I The Standard announces that a farmer has the Herald cornered, borne-how borne-how they all corner the Herald at times, but we notice that they always let it go, promptly. A veritable Solomon in political judgment is the Logan Nation. Sedatives, Seda-tives, my boy, Bedatives may save it, but that even is doubtful at this writing. writ-ing. It is a dead grind in the legislature at Salt Lake. Not one single glint of genius has yet appeared to relieve the mediocre monotony prevailing. It seems there Is nothing for it save a great bond issue. It is a pity but also a real necessity. Business is slowly picking up in this part of Utah, after the usual holiday stagnation. |