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Show Young Boyle, who was arrested on suspicion of taming the hay and stable owned by Mr. Wilson, was acquitted in court Friday. The young man was no doubt innocent, and the suspicion that lie was the party was carried to an extreme ex-treme that brought much sympathy to him. Most of the tramps have disappeared and everybody rejoices. Parties are complaining about the scarcity of water. 1 tell them it cannot flow all the time to suit everybody. Kinsey won the foot race. Charley must be making money. The Fourth passed off in a manner highly gratifying, every featuie of the programme being carried out in such a manner that the visitors (and there were hundreds in the city) joined with the home people in declaring the day a day of intelligent displays and unalloyed unal-loyed happiness. The procession, the young ladies in appropriate costumes representing the original states; the states and territories represented by, young ladies on horseback, with their "cavaliers, "Uncle Sam;" the calithum-pians, calithum-pians, the singing, the speaking, the feasting the dancing for the children, young ladies and gentlemen,, and for the old people, the meeting of friends, the flag, the bunting, the joke and the laugh, made up a day which will ever be a pleasure to remember. Politics were discussed more or less, sometimes more. Protection and central cen-tral zation were the points of debate, and many a sharp but friendly thrust, was given and received by the disputants. disput-ants. The peons of Mexico came under un-der the head of protection to the American Ameri-can laborer in a manner not easily explained ex-plained by the protectionist. Not only the peons, but the poor of other countries coun-tries were included in the debate. When a tariff is placed upon men, but why talk about it? If protection protects pro-tects the laborer it would seem that the lalwrer should be protected; but it seems to be the policy of the protectionists protection-ists to put man, or t"helaborer, on the free list. Centralization was discussed, pro and con, and 1 was informed a number of times that we need a government that will say to the people: " We, the government, havt, spoken, and elon't you forget it!" Then the question was asked if you believe be-lieve in centralization; do you believe that the wealth of the country should be centralized into the hands of, comparatively com-paratively speaking, a few men. The answer was invariably, "yes, we do." Think of that once. No wonder that corporations of all kinds are so earnest, in the matter of putting a price upon what the people have to sell, not forgetting for-getting to put the price upon what they have to sell to the people. Centralization Centraliza-tion of power, centralization of wealth, means the loss of liberty, then the power and the wealth could and would dictate terms to the people with a vengeance, ven-geance, born of authority. The Republicans, are talking protection protec-tion to us, of course Thos. Wimmer and Grant Simons, being the last two een- tlemenj.vho have considered it their t J tl tlrf'' " rn pt'oj'le of t he duniA of freK ade. I havij just learned that Thos. Wimmer Wim-mer and A. B. Tomson had such a difference dif-ference of opinion that a law suit is at this moment under course of proce-du proce-du re. Frank McHatton buried his little boy Saturday, the victim of diphtheria. The family has the sympathy of the whole city in their hour of affliction. Yet. Payson. July 11, 1891. |
