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Show 11 1 f ! Ogften's JVeto Daily & he Com- B If! in Irrigation Congress B J I I -A JSfovel Defense. Bj if :' September 4th, 1903. B H I f, The announcement of a new "daily" paper B 1 . 1 S t here Prank Cannon in the editorial department, B ' v "1 if as set the town by the ear.s: -. People are eager B ! 'f I to know if the announcement is the real thing or 1 jl I r i just one of the periodical newspaper canards we B J 11 nav6 so often been regaled with in Billtown. It B I ;I f f is needless to say that an overwhelming m&Jnrity B I I 1 1 of the people would welcome any kind of compe- B J JI tition, in the form of a daily, in preference to the Bj i j f ' present egotistical assininity of the personal or- B 1 ' I gan we have. The only question is: Can the B ,i 1 1 j v new paper get a long enough loase of life to keep B . !t , out of the journalistic boneyard till the cam- B III paign of 1904 is past and gone. If so. the com- B 2 : ' ' J I binatton of Cannon and LittlePeld will have made B 'If r- ton strike. B In I & & & B !,', To the average Ogdenite, a paper edited by B U ; j Frank Cannon means 'more than an ordinary jour- I r 'flf ' nalistio venture. Frank Cannon used to say things. I Infill' 'n an editorlal wy tliat ma(le People want to I Mill read what Frank Cannon thought. In short, Can- B jljg f ; non became the first citizen of Ogden because he B Mil i ' had earned the place by the sweat of his pen. B -iflh That feeling is here yet. Since Bill has been B I !r murdering tho King's English the loss of Frank B ' 1 1 from the tripod Jaas been jnore keenly felt. All B jll jt, ,thRt Cannon has to'do to win a home is to settle B II 1 1 down in an editorial chair and tend to business. B" i h The people here are his friends as much as ever H LUIl' and he will find it out when he gets his paper B f 1 if started if it is a paper. j B T But as .to the policy of the proposed paper. B' C I J It is well known that the present paper, the B ;jj' I Standard, is the organ of the crustfders, reform- B ' : ' , ers or Holy Willies who still believe in the Pur- B pf itanical observance of the Sabbath, while the ed- B' Tfii'1! ito.r' as Mayr' is runnInS a "Wide open" town. I' imIj m Ifc'Is sunposed4 in fact, asserted, that the new B '('t H 5 paper will out-Bill the mayor in declaring for an B m 'Si , unfiltered liberty of license all the year round. M ! ijlj , In these, the prosperous times" of the pasasites on B j 111 , tne body Politic, there has been no complaint of B i rfl' ' tne severity of municipal rebukes, but, per con- B P ijrfj? tra, the knights of the levee revel in the un- I Ml ' hampered enjoyment of their graft, with none to ail f interfere or make them afraid. Now, then, where ilj' ! will the moralist, Cannon, and the austern Little- jt .! field be when the Holy Willies demand the disin- JP ., I fection of the inside of the town? lit1 M V ,, (,7 t v7 l T The field for an opposition paper in Ogden J i Is particularly inviting. In the first place the m1 jljifj I . ' Standard has not enough circulation to keep its M j'l I feet warm, while its local advertising patrons for 'lll! I : ' the most part do business wih it against their B III I will. The patent medicine matter and other for- B ' I :fj eign ads go to tho Standard because there is no B fill ,''11 competition. Any kind of a decent paper here B M 'fm would catch practically all of the legal ads and miscellaneous business. The local and other ads would go to the paper with the biggest circulation and the paper that could not reach more homes in six months than the Standard does now would have no right to be called a paper. So much for the field and the opportunity. Frank Cannon has the brains if the Democrats can raise the money. If the coin is not forthcoming it is idle to talk paper at all. 5 w 5 It would be against all the proprieties for this issue of the Weekly to go to Press without local reference to the magnitude of the preparations for the Irrigation Congress to be held from the 15th to 18th, inclusive. IndicM ions' point to the biggest, grandest, and most important session ever attempted. The program covers the question ques-tion of irrigation and its kindred topics in every detail. The papers and speeches are in the hands of the recognized national authorities on the subjects selected, which means that every meeting will be entertaining and instructive to the greatest possible degree. A.n outline of the arrangements for tho entertainment of the delegates dele-gates and visitors offers a good time in almost every form. It is expected that fully five thousand thou-sand visitors will find their way to Ogden during dur-ing the session. Those who can, but do not, attend, will have a chance to check up afterwards after-wards and figure out how mu6h they missed. This is tho occasion when Ogden sores. The situation is well in hand and when the Eleventh National Irrigation Congress passes into history Utah will be the best liked state west of the Mississippi. t5 t5 t5 By judicial decree of the municipal court, John Smith, accommodation barber at the depot, shave 25c per, has been fined for doing business on Sunday. The defense was a novel one. John Smith asserted that the transcient and traveling public demanded a tonsorial parlor contiguous to the depot and that his place of business was a public necessity under the protection of the Inter-State Inter-State Coihmerce act. The'plea of necessity was well taken, and, looking through the eyes of the stubble-faced public, the judge no doubt concurred; con-curred; but the run for covei to the shadow of the law was a long shot that the judge would not stand for. Hence the fine. Tho majority of a city ordinance must be recognized if the Barbers' union insists. To be fair, however, the rule of the court should not be prohibitory. The habitues habi-tues of the levee, who flagrantly violate not only the city ordinances, but the state law, are quietly reminded of their misdemeanors by a nominal fine assessed monthly. So let it be with Smith. A Sunday barber shop is much more a necessary adjunct of civilization than a Sunday gambling hall or a wide open saloon. If Smith insists on shaving the dear public on Sunday at 25c per, let him pay for it, but on the -same basis .as the other violators of the Sabbatlu Give John a run for his money. |