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Show Mayo& Holbrookes generosity in offering personally tc pay S1200 for the purpose of lighting the city with electricty is most commendable, but we douDt the propriety of accepting it. The city of Provo, in our judgment, should be careful how it places itself bo profoundly under obligations to a public officer. It might want at some time to elect another mayor, and its hands should not be tied. While this i is all true, yet the value of the offer by the mayor is not lessened by these considerations. con-siderations. Unstudied generosity is a great quality m any man, but it does not affect the proprieties inthecaee at all. Few of us realize how near this country is to a silver basis. The only way to prevent such a calamity is to at once re-establish the equality of gold and eilvtr by the prompt passage of a free coinage bill. Perhaps Senator Sena-tor Jones' bill is nearer the requirement re-quirement than anything yet offered. The day of tinkering with this exceedingly exceed-ingly grave matter is nearly over. Something real must be attempted or we will be called upon to confront te last resort revolution. Tbe patriots of the United States must be told that blood or free coinage is the only way out of it all. It is only a little startling to learn, as we do from, a late dispatch, that the European governments' are maintaining scores of epies in this country, whose duty it is to watch tbe great meat packeries and slaughtering ! enterprizes in order to detect tbe handling of diseased animals. It is somewhat reassuring to be told that, as yet, they have not found a single diseased animal of any kind. Now let the ports of Germany and the continent conti-nent swing wide open as of .yore. . The Standard writes glibly of "God, conscience and country." For a pa- per which i& utterly ignorant of all three, this is pretty smooth. Tbe approach ap-proach of the time when the republicans republi-cans must give up all to the democrats, will very nearly dietract the Standard. Come Bill, hold yourself in a little. It will te all tbe smoother for fou.in tbe end. The Belle Baya dance troupe all the way from Turkey is enter;aining the Grand Junction people with their all unutterable cyrationB. The press of G. J. is divided aB usual on the morals of the dancing. But enough transpired trans-pired to enable us to Bay that the troupe will not be engaged for moral purposes. J F the constitutional convention is to be ready early in Mareb, they had batter hurry up matters. Uncle Sam is a prompt old cuss and when he opens his front door ha likes to have his guests come in promptly. The Herald doesn't seem to Btand in awe before the Tribune's threat of personal castigation. The fact is if the Tribune remains much longer on the down grade, no one will stand in -awe of it in any way. Everybody is announcing that silver sil-ver is winning. Still the price lingers about sixty cents, too closelv to indicate indi-cate much improvement in the white metal. Sixty cents is starvation. Thatcileu is a far better man than the Tribune ever rated him, and if wroDg has been done anent the count, he has had less to do with it than the paper in question. "The Tribune's glorification over the result in the Sanpete cases was frightfully fright-fully premature. |