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Show NEEDS EXPLANATION. j It might be in order to have the Ke-I Ke-I publicans or the Liberals, or the Lib-j Lib-j erals or the Republicans, or both, to explain how it is, if it can be, that the I late school election is called by the Re-j Re-j publicans a Republican victory, and by j the Liberals a Liberal victory, i "Republican victory in Salt Lake." "The Liberals carry the city." 0, how I wish Congressman Dorr was here now to explain how it is. There arc-men arc-men who. but a short time ago, made the confession that they had never investigated in-vestigated national politics, had never informed themselves as to the workings of the tariff usually called protection, but who are now explaining to the untutored un-tutored the advantages to be derived j from a high protective tariff, and thd higher the better, for the higher the tariff the more, protection we get, ami the more protection we get, the cheaper can we buy, if we do pay more: and the mure we buy, the higher the wages are, even if wages are reduced; and the more we need protection against pauper pau-per labor, and the more pauper protection we labor, the more tariff we got, and th more paupers we get the more we need the guardian care of a benevolent tariff, that we may protect the tariff and ! at the same time protect the protective form of the protectionist. I tell ou j they do explain 'it so that any person j can't understand it. 1 I Whenever you see a man who will j visit every business place .in your city to ascertain where lie can buy tin cheapest, we can bet on the proposition that he is a high tariffite, and is a strong believer in protective do2trii.e. and when he has anything to sell In will travel over the same ground to learn who will give him the best priei-for priei-for his commodity. Now, it would almost al-most appear that a high protectionist would prefer to buy in the dearest market and sell in the cheapest, and it is just w hat we are doing. It would be the natural result of his argument, but in actual performanee he forgets his politics and rej -erses the I sale and the purchasing advantages and verv carelessly makes of himself j an absolute free trader. I'm blowed if I Know whether it is the direct thing or not, opening a political convention with praver. In spite of all 1 can do to keep down my risible propensities, a grin will submerge sub-merge my facial expression whenever 1 read of the solemn invocation indulged in before the light begins. There are but few indulgences in this world that cannot be made to appear ridiculous, and it happens when the wrong time and the wrong place is selected for it display of man's privileges. Now prayer, in a political convention, seems to be so much at variance that a cast iron statue will snicker just a little at the attempt to solemnize something that never did and never will take to the solemnizing business. Then, again, it is hard on the prayer. No matter how anxious the prayer man may be to have his intercessions reach to heaven, the anxiety of the politicians ??reent-that he sh cut it sWort, h-ectui? to me to be a great hindrance to obtaining ob-taining satisfactory results. I do not suppose, however, that if 1 held the formula of fashion in the hollow of my hand that I would veto the custom, for the reason that occasionally there will be found an individual present who actually ac-tually believes that without the usual, shall I say, petitionary remarks, ihat the convention would not pass off in an appropriate manner. O, web, as it is a harmless introductory to more serious results, I, for one, will submit myself to fashion's claims, and vote as seemeth w ise unto me. Skandinavisk Massemode. Skandi-naverne Skandi-naverne of Provo og omegeii indbydrs til et mode Tursday den 'M te Juli klocken S aften i Forste Wards Skole-hus. Skole-hus. The above is what I read in The Dispatch Dis-patch of July 29th. My first impression impres-sion was that some Republican orator had been explaining the benefits of protection, pro-tection, and I bad been reading the report re-port of it. It was about as satisfactory, satisfac-tory, and of course I dared to presume that if it was not a protective tariff illustration, then some Liberal had bi'en explaining the platform of the Liberal party. Mj wife, I believe, suggested sug-gested that to her way of thinking, my second choice was probably the best. I therefore nailed the explanation to the mast-head and am now waiting further developments. My Scandinavian friends might help me out, but I propose to use the language lan-guage against the common enemy if it takes all summer. Do you suppose there is any danger that BkAxxaas will be "GAsned?" It might be well to have the "perlice" out in the "spooky hours" when bats fly to and fro, an 1 grave yardsyawn. Protection Pro-tection leads to many an unprotected protectionist, and it would be a pity to see a staunch defender struck down and Gnshvd all to pieces. I see that tin; R-publican pipers speak of Congressm.ui Iloni: as "Michigan's "Mich-igan's noted Congressman," and then we are referred to the statesman's birthplace and education. Us darn fool Democrats sometimes get promiscuous promis-cuous when we begin to ask questions. as the Enquirer hoped we would tlo. when the great statesman was at Frovo. Suppose now that weunsask soine questions. ques-tions. What is Ilonu noted for? I remember re-member reading in Republican papers at the time the "great statesman'' was elected to Congress that now the House wou Id have a man there, who could tell as good a story and would be just as cute in parryiv.g thrusts as the best of them. Ilonu was pitted against Srxsj:T Cox, and it was nip and tuck, only that Cox amounted to something and was really an nhh man. Noted, noted for what? Noted for his witticisms. A Htntaman. No wonder a high tariff prevails, when such men as Horr, who upon their slorv telling proclivities, at so much a year, milage included, can delude the unsuspecting and then after nil is done, be told by Utah papers if he never knew it before, Mrs. Ilonu on bis challenge, that he is a Statesman. God save the mark! where party choice causes men to forget party principles, princi-ples, and pity to tht man w ho never fjund out he knew anything until he learned it of ex-Congressman HOUR, 'the witty member of Congress." Ad cuptamlvm mlgvs, Yet. |