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Show a state. Subscribers will please tlee to the Circulation RECT, and not to wolicitors, on al pape Serienion explicit ea: noDI- subis PAID IN Offices-Dooly emple stree $5; Independent, FULL. Block, 208 South West Phones-Bell, Exchange 3199. OFFICES: EBASTERN New give ae York Office, 4 Cambridge Bulla ing, Opposite Waldorf-Astoria; cus Office, 311 Boyco Building; J. P. }Melkinney, sole representative east of the Rocky Mountains. Now, it is not reasonable to hope thal Kearns would stop the fight until he had carried his point. And the re tirement of Senator Smoot from the race would not be victory for Tom. The surrender of the Republican party of the state to the dictation of Tom Kearns, the re-enthronement of that bad man in a position of political despotism in Utah is the end at which he aims. He doesn't care whether Smoot is in or out of the senate-so far as the main point goes. But he cares a great deal whether or not he is boss of Utah-and through that power boss of the inter-mountain country. Here is the main point, after all: Had Mr. Smoot a right to ask for election at the hands of his people? The Herald admits he had. Most of the people of the state join In that admission. But SALT LAKE CITY, MARCH 2, 1908. THE the Herald says it was impolitic, because his candidacy would precipitate strife. That if he became a candidate Tom Kearns would raise hell with Utah. That if he ran, Tom Kearns would begin war, and keep it up. Well, there is only one thing for freemen to say in a case of that kind. If Mr. Smoot had a right to make the race, then he should not be stopped because some guerrilla bushwhacker Federal Regulation Federal Control, Are Right An Address of the Rock of Genernl Frisco Roberi Lines, Chicago Mather, Isinnd Counsel Rock Dellvered Association President Company, for of nnd Island- Before the Commerce. The railroad problem has become today the national problem. Not because the railroad business is for the mothe subject of publle eritleiam the object of assault- shotigk that is sadly in the higher sense that the life depends upon its railroads that its future hangs upon the right solutior of the questions they present, We cannot count our wealth and greatness in terms that do not point for their significance to our lines of trans portation. We Say that we take annually out of the soil six blillons of dollars. But these fabulous values result not so much from the fact that millions of bushels of corn and oats and wheat, of tons of hay and bales of cotton, are grown and harvested, as from the circumstance that a system of transportation, unequalled on the globe for efficiency and cheapness of charge, is ready to carry these products to profitable markets. Our marvellous crops would count for nothing If forced to lie in the flelds where they grow, or driven to seek such markets only the farmer's team could reach The cotton crop, which brings to our shores annually nearly half a billion dollars of foreign gold, would be but a fruitless burden on southern wind@ {f there were no railways to carry it to the seay0ard. We take from our mines and forests and factories twenty billions of dollars each year, but without means of transportation these costly praducts would be worthless junk. HERALD ON REPUBLICAN How Railroads Count. POLICY. This critical generation would do There is a political axiom to this efwell to recall how our railroads have been created. Upon the invention of fect: "Never do the thing which the the steam engine, the industrial world opposition wants you to do." In spite faced a difficult situation. It had from of that we should listen with patience > and the accepted duty state to proand follow with gratitude the counsel proposes to gut every other man in|yiage and to maintain the highways of the Herald in the matter of Repub- the state. The thing to do in such| upon which the citizen might elther * is yn ‘ight, or as : 9 10 lican politics, if we could see that circumstances is to make the guer-| carrier, 22"! his transport own freight, or as a andcommon the persons propcounsel was good. But we can't. rilla understand that he will not be per-|erty of others. But the new style of The Herald wants Senator Smoot to mitted to destroy the state or injure|!To" highways that the steam enging 5 7 z had introduced was expensive to connever again be a candidate for office. , it without warrant of law and excuse] struct. States were poor, their revIt definitely desires that he decline of right enues insignificant and their credit cor: respondingly bad Many shrank ento ask FP for a re-election at the hands} mppere is. the case, gontlamen. The "yg cine! oe ane ee us of the legislature to be chosen iD} herald is wholly disinterested, of] offered; others undertook the work and $908) he Heralsls, veason'1s' thst| course, in its advies to the Republican| e117, Daetme Involved in debt. In lots Senator Smoot is bitterly certain men who formerly nized as time, the there is Republicans. Herald no other states opposed by were reeog- At the definitely reason for party. And But we think the advice is bad.| so does the Herald. same 3 that denying THE PURCHASE OF vate enterprise was given the opportunity to undertake the duty which the states form. ze vate "TRUTH. the themselves were unable to That is, the states employed capital, highways on certain which the terms, states perpri- to build should Let us hope that the buyers of the} have built for the people's use. One ot to Senator Smoot the rights other citiwas that the terms of this employment aper called Truth may make money the corporation that bullt the highway zens claim-and which are conceded | P and win credit with their new enter- should alone have the right to operate to them. It does not object to him that the public prise. There is place in Salt Lake for trains over it, and as a man. It finds no reason against could use the highway for the moveThe men who| ment of their goods or persons over it, him in the fact-that he is_a Mormon. an honest weekly paper. have bought Truth are of the right| only under rules and regulations and And it is mot very strong in its posirates prescribed by the corporation. the means and the This worked a restriction upon that tion that an stile should be denied}. sort, The ¥ have the energy to make al]free use of the common highways to ability ted official recognition. Its only reason : which the citizens of the state had They theretofore been accustomed, For, while for begging him not again to run is splendid success of that journal. that he has been bitterly fought by will never be any more fearless than|any one could carry on the ocupation was John Hughes, whose death made} °f 2 common carrier over the ordinary Tom Kearns, and certainly will again only one comhighways of the state, And mon carrier, namely the corporation be subjected to that same attack if he the sale of the paper necessary. they will never be any more direct in| and Federal Necessary and EEE that had built it, was permitted to con- = is again a candidate. on the business of 2 common carrier But they this new kind of highway. We have said before, and rane it their honesty than was he. ov But the railroads could not rebuild here, we do not know what are Sena- may make a bigger publication of it. and enlarge their facilities as fast as We trust they will. tor Smoot's intentions in the matter. he traffic grew, In the decade from Some say they mean to make a mag- 1896 to 1906 the railroad mileage of He may intend to be again a candithird, tracks, including second, date, and he may not. He may pro- azine, a high-class weekly that shall] 4!l fourth and yard and siding tracks, had reflect the best things In Utah and in} grown from 240,129.12 miles to 317,pose to resign his apostléship, and he 083.19 miles, an increase of may not. But he is the senator now, Salt Lake; that it will have a distinct cent, In the process the capitalization flavor, expressing the best of the railroads had inereased from and he has made a good senator. He literary Added $10,566,865,871 to $14,570,421,478, or 26.2 is coming to the end of his term, and there is in art in this region. per cent. But the tonnage of the railhe or some one is going to be elected to that we are told there will be poli- roads within the same ten years had tical discussion from an independent climbed from 95,228,360,278 ton miles to to succeed him. We are not going to 215,877,551,241 ton miles, an increase standpoint. tell him: ‘‘Here's your hat." Until he of over 125 per cent! All of which is hopeful. Truth can Then the railroads confronted a crideclares himself we are going to consis. Unable to handle the traffic that be made a paper of which our people clude that the probable and usual rule multiplied three and four times as fast applies in his case. And he is going will be very proud, and at the same as their facilities grew, they turned to have the same rights any other time one which will bring money to to further plans for enlarging thelr its owners. In both of which direc- capacity only to find that, In the height man gets in similar place. He is not of their prosperity and in the stress of the greatest demands upon them, their going to be forced. When he gets tions we wish it the most unbounded securities could no longer be sold and success. ready to make his announcement he money for their improvements was not available Then, instead of moving doubtless will make it. with greater speed to provide the tracks NO SAVING IN THAT. But there seems little to commend and terminals and cars and engines for Out of the discreditable little squab- lack of which less than a year ago in this advice of the Herald to the Republicans. That paper declares ble between city and county author- grain lay rotting in the fields and communities suffered for want of coal, they that if Mr. Smoot be not a candidate, ities on the subject of help for the slackened perforce their already too pace. And today, condemned by vyouth-saving slow the Kearns war will cease. Lawyers, Juvenile court and the public opinion, by reports of commisin the trial of a cause, hold that the effort, comes this: There is no deten- sions and by their own consciousness inadequate to their task, causing opponent is bound by the evidence of tion home. The city refuses to help in any way daily loss to commerce by the insuffiits witnesses. In this case the Tribclency of their facilities and equipment, une and the active leaders of the because the law puts the appointment the life of a eriminal and a convict is American party take absolute issue of the court into the hands of | ahead of him-till he dies. county or the state; because a little with the Herald. They say-and say In many of the states the law lays it constantly-that the removal of Mr. piece of political patronage is denied a limit of five thousand dollars on a Smoot from the race will not at all the city. life. If a railroad company The county declines to £0 forward human make an end of the fight Kearns is waging. They should know. They to the extent necessary for anything kills a man in Illinois, his widow can are the witnesses for the Kearns like adequate work, because such a recover but five thousand dollars damIn a way that is the crowd, and that crowd should be home would cost more than the coun- ages for him. Illinois estimate of the value of a bound, as to its intentions, by the ty can afford to pay. Both city and county are making a man. testimony of its own witnesses. That On that. basis society is losing the mistake-a yery grievous mistake is a pretty reasonable view to take. Even granting the Herald is sincere Neither can afford to permit matters | use of five thousand dollars for every are now. Boys convict now out at the penitentiary. in its view that there would then be no to continue as they cause for continuance of the fight, the and girls inclined to waywardness, un- And society has absolutely and forever position is not sound. The Herald in curbed by the restraint of home and lost the money spent in catching the the very same article concedes that enticed by bad example, are being lost culprit, in keeping him for trial, for They are trying and convicting him, and for there is no sufficient reason for the every day-and every night. That is Kearns attack on Senator Smoot. By getting farther and farther away from his keep while in prison. what logic, then, does it expect Kearns safety because the restraint that so- money that never by any possibility to stop a fight when Mr. Smodt is no ciety should throw about those un- can be recovered by the community. longer a factor? If he never had a guarded is withheld. The city and the All there can be on the other side of afford to the ledger is the value of a little needgood reason for his attack, what rea- county certainly can well And it son is there for believing that he will spend the money required in estab: less and unproductive work, guard over doesn't pay for the brick in the walls for reason abandon the attack, All lishing and maintaining that detain the wasted existences. the American party authorities hold the young. that Senator Smoot is an _ incident If not, they go to the bad. And In the case of the girl, the ruin is only; that his presence or absence there is far too much of this loss to much more complete. She misses the has nothing to do with the case, and excuse any one making light of it. care parents and relatives should give that the fight will go on just the same They go to the bad, and pretty soon her; misses the care society is equally whether or not Senator Smoot is a the boy in the case is arrested for obligated to give her; is subjected to candidate, what would be a crime if he were the temptation which never neglects There never was a good reason for older. He is locked up for e time, her, and commits acts which hurt her the shameful campaign Kearns has brought to trial, and sent to a state worse than burglary can possibly hurt made. Why believe that he will get institution of restraint-and punish- a boy. And presently she is a mother, decent in 1908 when he never was ment. Usually he makes that his first and the condemnation of the communbefore? visit, He ig out a while, and then he ity is written for all eternity. For an Kearns bad a grudge against the does something much worse, and the everlasting soul has come into the ng Styles Protection i ae el the railroads are impotent to relleve the situation. This ts a national calamity. Its force is felt, not only in the falling prices of the stock exchange, but in the fallIng tide of commercial activity, in the lowered price of the commercial metals and in the slackened demand for human Jabor. There igs not a man. from I''resident to the least of the laborers in this great industrial organization that we call the nation, who is not directly and personally Interested in discovering the causes for the inability of the railronds to raise funds for their needs, and in doing his utmost to remove them. This is the railroad problom; this is the national problem. Three theories commonly advanced in explanation of the unsalability of dur railroad securities One is that a world-wide money stringency due to great and general commercial metivity, restricts investment In all Kinds of securities. [ am not a banker and should not presume to have an opinion upon this proposition, but It does not strongly impress me In the face of the fact that three-fourths of the fabulous five billions of dollars that Mr, Hill would have the railroads spend In the next five years in furnishing additional facilities, today stands to the credit of depositors in ou Savings banks alone. I believe the money exists and could be had tf our rallroad securities appealed to the confidence of our investors, I count as first among the causes that have made their securities unsalable, the misdeeds of the ratiroads themselves. Who Is Without An SDA with the trust estate. These honor, and for that reason and worldand of are con- demned by the comnion mind. The fact that they are understood to have occurred in certain of our corporations Suggests the natural inference that they are characteristic of all our corporate managements, and investors are suspicious of the securities of corporations conducted so variance with the principles of business of law and of morals, mean to imply bys this that the regulates should also proAnd I favor an open acceptance of federal regulation because it is only through adequate and effective assertion of the federal power that governmental control can be made uniform or just and the commerce of the country saved from the conflicting regulations of forty-six separate sovereignties There is in this no Invasion of state rights, no straining of the Constitution, no assertion of principles that have not long been familiar and often applied. The list of state laws that have been set aside as being in conflict with congresstonal action on the same subject is a long one. The right of the state to license and regulate navigation on the waters within its borders to license importers to make sale of their importations; to authorize the damming or bridging of navigable streams; to regulate pilots in its ports -all were powers long exercised by the states, but perpetually denied to them when congress finally assumed to regulate the subjects There need, therefore, be no hysterla about the destruction of the rights of soverelgn states when the growing needs of our national commerce force this further step forward under the Constitution. world as a result of the neglect of that wayward, unfortunate girl. And if the man is worth five thousand ‘dollars, the girl at the threshold of life is worth ten times that sunt. It may not be so written in the books. The courts may not agree. But she is, potentially, the mother of men, the source of strength, and-of thought, and of service. No money can measure the value of a girl's life. It is the duty of society.to take care of her, to remove her from_ those temptations which her elders know spell ruin if she yields. There is no economy in either city or county re-fusing the detention home which would make safe refuge for fifty. A place for such a number would cost five thousand dollars a year. Every court here costs more than that. Not counting the value of the lives that are being lost, it is certain the community is going to pay more money for correction and punishment than is now asked for prevention. What a blessing it would be if the city and the county could work together for the protection of the youth -the youth that so sadly needs protection in Salt Lake now! WHERE THE GREEKS MADE GOOD. * On the evening of February 22, Governor Cutler and officers of the Juvenile court made the rounds of certain resorts in the city. They found in I. smartly tailored and handsomest and Rajahs in in A number bnuiterfly of prices that our M. modes = Elegant Voiles W774 browns with braids new suits of the variety Z. C. cleverest sleeves. An and oS and ee have bees attraetive the Is maintain. models at blues, trimmed the feature the blaek, bnitons. 1908 Wear styles. Daintily latest of new Summer reasonable ranging from _ $15.¢ ww to $60.00 ee Pai =, These are the famous and ever popular ‘Key ser Donhile Tipped'* Gloves, that won't wear ont at the ends of the fingers. They will outwear several pair of the cheaper kind. In blaek, white and all colors, 16-button length, wi! wear excellently. Per Pair- > like operations violate certain accepted principles of prudence showing and greens. Sin? There has difference in morals passage of the Hepburn no difference in law, bethe giving of a rebate and of free or reduced passenger transportation, In these days when the mask of pretense is being lifted, it should not give offense to call the roll of those who have participated with the railroads in this diserimination. Statesmen who regulate the railroad judges who fine them, preachers who condemn them, and the press that spreads among the people with no too careful pen, the stories of their misdoings, all decorate the list. The railroads in this respect are in the position before the people of the woman taken in adultery and brought by the scribes and Pharisees before Christ for condemnation. And there is need nnn for the volee of a Master to say that is without sin among you, let as first cast a stone The misdeeds of the railroads u which, In my judgment, is charge aki the hesitancy of the investing public to take their securities, are acts that more directly affect the securities themselves, There is a prevailing public belief, based on facts _ publicly shown, that railroad corporations have issued corporate obligations and apPlied the proceeds to purposes other than those for which such obligations may lawfully be issued. Directors are understood to have purchased the securities of corporations of which ther are trustees, and to have sold property their own to the corporations, makpersonal profit tlirough their deal- authentie for Spring $2.25 $2.00 z Kk } Tal VeaX Z - Pays 7 Pel Ags cai Uae some of young men the Greek women who the $2.75 Our Drug Store is at 112-114 South Main Street. wy. carrying frequent girls seemed tainly was. home, and coffee place. age; The the coifee the under girls to of SAMPLE GOLD 3 CROWN, 22k $3 275 SOUTH MAIN the Two of one cer-} were practice sent their em ployment was reprobated. On _ the same evening the governor and. his! party visited some lodging houses and| other resorts in Commercial street- which is not Greek territory. they found there simply eannot be described in a newspaper. It was too esi i aii Pay © fhe NGG, gi0d 64 | 5 oe theJenson vile. ed by almost eXclusively Americans-was at all In one of in West the vulgar saloons Second citizen South was song. kept street singing It was a by Greeks not in a EXTRA coffee the comparison such GROSSCUP a tour compels. ESCAPES. It is not pleasant to put a federal! judge in the prisoner's box. But if he belongs there, it. is not pleasant to realize that he kas been freed. The charge against Judge Grosscup of IIllnois, in the matter of a wreck on a railroad which he partly owned, and on which he was-and is-a director, seem to have been well founded. The loss of life in the wreck was directly attributable to the condition which the directors and officials enforced They were absolutely responsible for physical condition, for running time, for operation, for material and for-men. They forced employes to make trips that could not have been less than hazardous, and when travel became gZenerous, they increased those chances without making at all adequate safeguards for the people who rode. There are some cases in which the management of a company cannot properly be charged with an judge quashed the common rule of judges, in accident, and has in- well values values values Navy blue 35c 40c 45c and PANS 30c made-dnrabl 75ce values 55c 85c values 60c 90c values 75c black serge (all wool) $1.00 values go now at $1.25 values go now at.. $1.50 values go now at.... 76¢ .90c $1 00 Special Prices still prevail on PROVO WOOLEN MILLS GOODS an L ~~ = HOUSES-LOTS-FARMS 13room honvse in Waterloo, 6x10 " rods of Sey Ww ell cultivated ceae sood out ground, buildings. We invile you to purchase the best wedding ring= mad made o RUC-mns he sn formula Z devised by i Mr. Boyd mt Park icratoenee listed at $5,250, We will now sell for £4,150 and give terms. 5-room ae brick house, on 7th avenue ith 3 unfinished rooms in over forty years ago; 18-karnt solid made in one piece with no solder end absolutely guaranteed They hay ~ . Terms years' attic, SxS rods of ; 500. tve made test. Within 5 minutes' walk of monument, we hz 1ve a 7-room pos e in one of the fine locatio the city. The land on whieh the Hass stands is worth nearly the price o the place. t frontage and 165 feet deep; only $4,500. Must be sold at once, 5-room modern brick house, renting fo 2 for $5,000. $1,200 and terms on give ~170 Phones ° k t Quic I come form a e 0 very Box : oe - a7 Wee "45, 47 Door NEW West from YORK 32nd Broadway St. crry remement. | European Plan. oom, With hath, $2.50 2 $4.00. Parlor bedroom. and. Bane $5.00 and $6.00. Two hed?oonia:mirs {)j 2130 seu Fora ide ef | Hotel TIAARRY Vi . ris prapmegncae reer combination. this can Oo ts Establiabed Superior, perfectly appoin tel appealing espec fally eS people newspapers, cffective Pp phone One 5 atte If you'll only *phone , PONT. eturns are working for others and od. B45 | jasateniicann for you ell d - R through MAIN ST TY: UTAH = HOT] from Advertising rem cl } Wet ae es LAK -B REAL ESTATE: AGENTS. now ‘ALT ' E "HEBER J. GRANT & CO. 7 forty e ¢! $} terms. nm hy balance S-room new modern brick house on Srd East ,south, for $4,000; easy terms 4-room frame bouse, 3rd Bast and south, $1,800 We are exclusive age nts for Lower Helghts property, the mest sightl location in a All kinds of real estate anid 20-26 good ESTABLISHED 62 Between ne ind 8rd South, est 9-room modern house, close in, east of Center stree 0d investment, for it is renting fo 38 per month. 7-room brick house on Sth North near Ist West, 4x10 rods of Jand, for $3,500. This is a snap. Will indictments} yested his money in business, and gives much of his time to the profitable management of his properties. Because they could make much money by neglecting safety precautions, those precautions were neglected. They | made the money, and more than a| score of men and women were killed in an instant. We shall be interested in watching if the Illinois prosecutors have the courage to try it again 60c CORDUROY goods | and refused to hold the prisoners to! the next grand jury, he left the in- 7 : ference that the position of at least one of those defendants, Judge Grosscup, was the reason for his radical action, Judge Grosscup is a rich man, a good business man. He has departed from the 50c 60c 65c : however lamentable its results. But this does not seem to have been that sort of an accident. When the Ia-, nois SPECIAL, Mixed and JUDGE especially interested as' it means a Big Saving on Boys Knee Pants an Ameri- where sold; Month shockingly no intoxicants are ever it was not in the presence of | any women. But it was a vile song- sung in English. It was the worst incident of the Greek end of the governor's walk. Putting which things together makes one wish the Americans had made the same effort at correcting that the Greeks certainly made. <A native of the United States would have no oc-| ‘easion to feel flattered as a result of | house, of boys should be this announcement , im- proved can ao | CUTLERS' Mothers frequent- not YEARS' GUARANTEE LADY ATTENDANT | On the following Saturday night the same officers made the same round again-with a few exceptions, What they had complained of in the Greek places was correcied. But the condition in the Commercial street resorts -places HG aa houses HROWN ‘ N Boston, srs j and Isle- sae rts combination do the same ee The say the word. | 1 originalit tiveness of a aint iimaaia aitras: more than Is the la terial used, bor and ma- | | J 65 MAIN STREET Upst aires PHONE 6119 BELL ne, inter-Mountain Republican Co. ROOSEVELT'S POLICY AS TO RAILROADS: A RAILROAD MAN ON RAILROAD PROBL EMS5 ° inter-Mountain Republican este en eae WiAMeEN 7c, UTAH, MONDAY, ~ monn THE INTER-MOUNTAIN REPUBLICAN, SALT LAKEC [ Mormons because they would not a second time sead him to the senate. a directed bis.guas osteasibir at Padiiahed Hresy Mornias Br Senator Smoot. But he has hurt the state of Utah a miliion times more Senator Smoot. He Official Orgen cf the Repovblicaa | te an he has hurt Party in Tieb. bas seemed absolutely Indifferent to Ientered as second class matter Teb. 10, the effect of hls defamation of the 1906, at the postoffice at Salt hake. oon state. Lies that any other man would under the Act of Congress March2, 1879. bave blushed to print have been the Only Republican oe, Newspaper in staple filling for his papers ever Balt Lake City, Utah since President Joseph F. Smith deSUBSCRIPTION RATRS. clined. to permit the Mormon church to Pald in Advance, take a part in the politics of the HAMLIN PAINTS » PAY, Ae |