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Show '; S " THE SPECTATOR V It is to be hoped that no maudlin sympathy will be extended to murder Bernstein, who, through his brutal act, killed the mother of four children, the i youngest a baby. The writer had an opportunity to know the dead Avoman took in washing that she and her children chil-dren might have food, while the murderer mur-derer was in Nebraska earning money j and sending to her something like five, dollars in thirteen weeks. Her delight when she secured the position of scrub woman at the Boston building was keen, as she could then provide for I herself and the little ones. That this ) brute in human form returned and ' mureder the mother of his children in cold blood, should merit the punish ment due men who take human life. Let justice be sure and quick. A few days ago in a grocery not far from Liberty Park, there was a sack of new season walnuts labeled at the price of forty cents per pound. These same nuts were offered down-town at fifty cents per pound. A few days later, lat-er, in the grocery near Liberty Park, the same nuts, in the same sack, in the same corner of the window, had . i -v. a ticket on them, fifty cents per pound. ' ' " And they say there is no grocery trust 1 " in Salt Lake City. The worm is beginning to turn. The continued raising ofJprices on all commodities com-modities on the excuse put forth that the Increases were due to the war must stop. The ultimate consumer, the deciding factor, has made it plain that increasing of prices must be stopped voluntarily or by official order. -1 After the congregating of thousands of our citizens on the streets to celebrate cele-brate the consummation of peace, the withholding of the opening of our theatres thea-tres and churches as a preventative of influenza makes the health officer, who is responsible, look ridiculous. Musing over' the fumes 'of 'our ipipe at the fireside the thought wanders through the brain as whether now that the war is over, we people will be allowed al-lowed freedom of action again, or are we to be kept in a state of social regulation reg-ulation whereby we are told when to 1 travel "tfhd When not to travel on the railroads; what to eat and what not -Y to eat; whether to sole our shoes or V , go without soles; 'when to participate in amusement and when hot; how J. much newspaper we may buy and when it shall be paid for; whether our tea and coffee shall be sweetened or only half sweetened; if we can eat candy or not oat candy; and the thousand thous-and and one restraints and restrictions restric-tions placed upon free born citizens in the name of the war by a Democratic administration that seems not to care what it costs to guide and instruct our people how to live provided revenue rev-enue by taxation is made big enough I to pay the salaries of thousands of political poli-tical employes. If the Republican party would deserve de-serve well of the people of these United Unit-ed States they will without delay apply ap-ply the pruning knife vigorously to the expenditures in Washington for the thousand and one bureaus now in existence, ex-istence, some of them it is said, employing em-ploying in their operation as many as ten thousand salaried clerks. Plausible Plaus-ible attempts will bo made for their continuance on one ground and another, an-other, but the country got along without with-out them before the war and can do it now, while the point remains that millions upon millions will be saved to the taxpayers. The people may look upon the "tin lizzy" as something akin to being a necessity, but that did not prevent the people of Michigan from turning down Henry Ford when he tried to get to the United States Senate. It was a grand demonstration. The pent up feeling of young and old was given vent when there flashed over the wires the news that Germany had surrendered and the armistice was signed. Salt Lake went wild, and our citizens cheered and gave forth every possible expression of noise to celebrate cele-brate the ending of the great war. The grand glorious- freedom loving American people had triumphed in the cause of right. Why our places of amusement should be kept closed now that the "flu" has passed away, is hard to understand. un-derstand. Surely sufficient loss has already been sustained by our amusement amuse-ment houses without it being increased unnecessarily. And this is especially true when we consider that equally reliable re-liable medical authorities to those in Salt Lake maintain that the closing of schools and other assemblages is an error. Now is a good time to get yourself right. Get yourself right for a bigger, big-ger, better and more prosperous Utah. Get in the frame of mind that will make of you a booster for your homo state, morning, noon and night. We have the resources and the opportunities, opportuni-ties, and what we need is more capital capi-tal to develop them, and the way to get more capital to come into the state of Utah is for every man and woman to keep hammering incessantly that this is the place where prosperity lives, and if you would be prosperous, come within the boundaries of Utah, put your money into circulation and it will increase again and again. , When the telephone rates were fixed they were established at a rate that provided for the cost of installation of the phone service. In the name of the war a charge was established of something like from five to fifteen dollars dol-lars a phone for installation and no reduction re-duction was made in rates. How long are our citizens going to endure this injustice. The additional charge is going go-ing to discourage the use of phones and with a decrease in the number of phones and increase of rates will be brought about. More phones should mean less rates. Mr. Phone User, get, busy. Mr. Hoover says we must economize on our Thanksgiving dinner. Well, the American nation has so much to be thankful for this year that it is going go-ing to be mighty hard to impose any restrictions on the waist band. "We always have good times with the Republican party in power," is the mighty catchword that is heard throughout the United States today. The fact that Europe might think that the United States had repudiated its president is not even considered. The opinion is everywhere prevalent that the business of the country in the hands of the Republicans is safe. There is great and good work for the Republican party to do, but the death blow has been given the socialistic innovations in-novations at Washington. IN MEMORY OF JOHN D. McCLINTOCK. WHEREAS, it has pleased our Heavenly Father to take from us to Himself one of our members, and the dearly beloved friend of each of us, John D. McClintock; WHEREAS, in his death the state of Utah has lost a useful citizen, highly high-ly respected and widely known and loved; and WHEREAS, the Wholesale Fruit and Produce Merchants Credit Association, Asso-ciation, of Salt Lake City, Utah, has lost one whose solid business sense, unquestioned integrity and keen, active ac-tive interest has made him a business associate strong and trusted, and whose personality made him a comrad whose loss we keenly feel; and WHEREAS, his wife has lost a husband hus-band and companion whose upiight-ness, upiight-ness, kindness and generosity will always al-ways remain as a grateful and healing memory to her; NOW, THEREFOR, BE IT RESOLVED, RE-SOLVED, That in this time of her sorrow sor-row and ours, we extend to the wife of our friend the deepest sympathy of us all; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That these minutes be spread upon our records rec-ords and that a copy of it be sent to the bereaved widow. D. CHASE RICH, Secretary. November 7, 1918. With the end of the war, freedom of lHH speech will be restored. That is some- IBB thing to be thankful for. HIHI |
