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CHARACTER H. v of or Salt Lake has haa 1 1 No Xo cartoon in the newspaper history made a greater cater impression than that on 01 the front page paga of ot Republican hu last t Sunday b by Mr 1 Johnson of oC this pa pa- jH per r. r Wo We have hare heard rather more from it than oven a h kt keen it l' l appreciation of or its Ua merits In tho the drawing could reasonably rea ren- iu hl have hn foreshadowed And Anti c cl every l comment has lias i cr the nature of a compliment It is 18 probably the best possible expression lon o of a 3 char- char actor acter a campaign anti and a crisis It depicts Tom J Kearns earns at the tho end of his labors for Cor the defamation of or Utah He Ito ma may have C called It a n campaign of or Senator Smoot Sonic Some 4 people coplo ma may have o believed they were following Mr Ir I Reams Kearns p In a light fight against the tho But Dut after aCter all is said Mid and lone done lo e. e It Il was Utah that was on trial In the case of or Senator Smoot and when the vote oto of or the United States Slates senate was S lc recorded on February al 20 O. O there thero was the conclusion of the tho battle batlle The Tho picture showed the in commander chief of or the forces o of anta antagonism to Utah at tho the moment when whon he tio realizes his defeat and depicts him there thero In the thes s solitude in which defeated men must ever find themselves surrounded by ly tho ho various accessories with which his light fight t thas has been waged tho the slender remains of at a splendid money mone fund still unspent and Impotent In his hands and th the th verdict of his hs country countr against him And there is in the eyes c of or the man that look of or utter defeat of ot exhaustion of extremity of ot vain searching for a means of or retrievIng or a n line of or retreat Among the agencies which Mr Ir J Reams earns has employed In his battle for Cor the ho hurting of or Utah money mone Is easily first He lie has spent plenty o of it H. Ho lie has hns at all nil times S been in the market for stories which would bolster his causo cause of or homo defamation lie He has hns had especially favorable favorable favor favor- ahle able means of ot getting financial help hell In his cause and he j has got gol IU It lt After Acter that he he has paid it out with a lavish hand f Trin the ho hand and vas not lavish la enough to satisfy tho demands of or one one o or two women of or Salt SnIt J Lake al o who were counted on as factors in the lie chorus selected to sing tho ho dirge dirgo of oC Senator Smoot in Washington but it IL was lavish In enough nou h in all conscience of oC the lie agencies Indicated In the cartoon was womanhood od Probably no man mun ever eyer secured so 50 noble a help In so Ignoble a cause roUse Never Ne would a n petition have ho been sent b by women to the senate for tho the expulsion of or Reed nONI Smoot if Ir the women had known he is not a mist The They had been told that was the charge chargo against him and from lom ocean to ocean they believed cd It If It the they hUll hud been Ioen told tho the truth they would havo have wondered what Mr Ir and his crowd were working forIne for 4 Wine Ine was another cruel another cruel was tho the commingling of k for fur the effecting of or his bad plan There were thousands tJ of oC women on the one ono hand devoted de to a n bat bal ii intemperance agencies o of ill fame tune agencies of or cOI combined liquor dealers and dealers and the prou profusion lon o of liquor at every avery 1 conference of tho the Kearns Reams as assailants o of Senator Smoot f And the tho defeated man with tho lie vcr very torture of oC 1 hopelessness of or desperation In his tired eyes eye looks past tho the date that was vas fatal to hl his hili hopes hope February 20 and O-and and S st stares r at nt the tho eternal puzzle What hat shall I do Tom J. J Reams Kearns Is a character Ho Ito deserves a better I fate Thero There is II a man with plenty o of capacity for fightIng light fight I big Ing There Is a man maii o of ability In mone money affairs Strong In hla hili body lody and ancI vigorous In th the action of or his hilt mind with u sort glUt of or prophetic grasp of or the future and amI a secure on In tho the past ho he achieved success in tho the only a way that 4 S 1 possible HO lie wanted mone money partly because ho lie loved loveil money but more ho loved ed the lie things s that mono mone money vo would ud bu buy He lie worked well voll into tho ho midday o of manhood before success succo crowned his efforts But when it did come o r ho became one of or the lie richest l men of oC the West Wed He Ho revelled revell revel ro l led ct in tho the pleasures that his money made possible nn and 1 wl with h each ch gratified delight hi his whetted Imagination bu but caught sight eight o of sirens still singing In tho the seas before him S And ho lie devoted de himself to their their capture S Ho lie lived 1 well Veil lIe He built a house that stan stands tolla today as ono one o of the amazingly rich things of or Salt Lake and will wll 5 4 iJ for a n century It I l Is a palace He lie furnished 1 It I with tho luxuries that a king Icing might em envy Ho lIe had horse hores and carriage end carriages and later ater the automobile of or the lie rich H lie He J row grow grewo o to be a big financial factor In a 3 fabulously rich region I rA r t t Ho lie gratified another el side of or hi lila hi life Ute when he ho founded v refuge for orphan rind and put It Into the care o of an or- or It 1 which has never ne served tr mankind but to ble blend bless ble- And nd what good Torn Tom I Kearns and anti hi his mone money have done for forthe tho the boys of or that orphanage no language can t I no rule rulo can m measure Then ho went to the senate of or the United States State True rrue there was wai not much reason reson aside from rota the fact that ho had hall the price for hie his going there But nUL ho wa was wasS wasi S S i f of C the bh biggest Mt figures In the eye 00 of ot Utah at the theS S time and when a state goa to talking of at one man a a. good d deal l. l It Il Is 18 well veli for or the tho state If IC a senatorial ol election Uon be benot beS benot benot not not on the he tapis that tallia-that I ls If lC the tate state t I doesn't want him S Thoro Thor were other men imen in the senate whose seats Nata were largely expressions of oC a commercial transaction He lie was warn b but t one ono more moro S S And ho he hud lind a good rood time in tho the senate lonate lIe He didn't know how bad ball a time line it Il Ila was wac for or tho rest real of oC them for h hEl lack lacked some rome of the mental preparation that should have S gone Jono with his commission In tho the creat greatest I legislative th I body In the world They laughed at him a good deal Somo ot of them remembered his entertainments next day tri 1 sought in bromides some surcease for tor their sorrows But they all an ii laughed at him through the four Y years year ft ol 01 his 1115 term and know knew he lie was but a n Heeling fleeting Incident When her Utah took look time limo to lo confider the lie matter malter Utah found thai that was not Just tho sort rt of ot senator that she should employ employ- I and cho chose e another There wa was the turning point In the mans man's II life Co How line fine it would have been lleen if Ir that lint bodied big laughing fellow fellow tellow fel tel low could coult have accepted the defeat as aJI man many a better betterman betterman man had hall accepted a bitterer fate rate ant and como come back to the thc state where hi his fortune had been made and anti proceeded In fraternal labors Jabors with hl his brothers to tho ho which had too long tarried behind nd iho tho march How stronger ho would hao have been beon If JC ho lie had hall to let et office of of- lice fice go since office seemed so 80 willing to let him go How Howmore Howmore howmore more creditable ho would have o scorned if 1110 ho hall had told his state if It another man were wanted wanted why why send scud him And AmI then go on with the lie plenty of ot Joys that wore still sun left him nut hut he Ito chose then thon to make maIo himself elt eltone one of or those who Vito said Mill hard things thing or of Utah Ho lie may have hae thought ho lie could rally an Influence In the nation at largo larg which would give gl him control of a at state to absolutely Ho IIo certainly tried The bad feature of or the tho enterprise was that ho lie i could not rise without the tho ruin of or his state That should have hayo deterred a game gamo man But Dut It did not deter him And AmI for four years ho has lIe been n the head anc and front of at a campaign cam cain p more pitiless than aliens ever before waged a waged a bat battle I Itlo tie tle for the hurting of at the tho very community which had hac enriched him and where had been uttered every kind dOll I word that was as ever over spoken of or Tom I Reams Kearns earns We Ve regret that lint cartoon so accurately expresses ex ex- I presses all in the Tom I Roams Kearns carn character r. r It would be bea a l better pleasure to rank him with tho the business men of Or Utah who have t worked all an tho the time for the state It I would be bo a 0 pleasure to know ow that his fine fine- success In I money could have been lIcen succeeded by a a. finer career superior su su- su- su perlor to mone money We Ve dont don't think he ho has hns been vcr very happy happ In the past four tour years ears He lie jay aya the fight Is going to continue and andon andon andon on even more radical radical lines JInes If Ie that resolution holds there thero Is 15 not much happiness in store for tor him in the tho future Bo no cause his fellow citizens have bave followed tho the light fight for tor him long enough nough It has not helped the state It has hurt the whole region The They do do not approve the Intolerant method In which tho ho unwarrantable battle has hns boon been waged And if Ir those e eyes es of oC the cartoon are arc looking past the record of ot his first utter defeat in the hope hOIe of at finding profit in a now campaign tho they are deceived The light Is not good after an night all session The brain Is 18 not clear after aCtor an orgy The Judgment Is not sound Instead of ot making malting resolutions from tram the litter JIlter of ot that destructive encounter it would be wiser for tor thoman the tho theman homan man to take a no day ofT off Sleep a little Then give gho orders for his lieutenants to set got down to business of at a legitimate kind to labor for th the good of or Utah and not ask the interference of or nn any other c community There Is character In the subject of or the lie cartoon too cartoon too much to bo ho wasted In a hopeless and dishonorable fight Tho The next cartoon In tho lie series will be Interesting The calendar card on on tho the table will boar bear tho ho date ate November November No uNo vember C And whether that robust figure shall read victory ry or defeat depends on the answer to tho ho question Has ho lie learned to be good |