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Show ! Where there's a will there's a way to break it? I provisions. ' Who ever heard of Governor Swettenham before the Jamaica upheaval, anyway ? A really pood friend is one who will not be Too close when yon need a dollar or two. The Ten Commandments would make an admir able platform for any political party. T ----- When a politician steals another's thunder, we 111! Ci 'liir .ulgoJW.Irm i,f l-nong- U Jjs noi a JJ)ar - ... Ketame quantity. . ' -I ' - : Ilf the weather should be favorable, the Easter bat joke will appear early in the Lenten season, and be overworked. Xo doubt some congressmen, by a comparison of their -own with others' ability as law makers, feel that their salaries are still quite inadequate. In fixing up a schedule for the assessor and one for the fire insurance agent one looks upon his possessions from radically different points of view. Xo doubt some members of the Colorado legislature legis-lature uttered a solemn "Amen!" when their chaplain chap-lain returned lhanks to God that they were not in jail. ; Without the earthquake at Kingston. Governor, f Swettenham would liave retired unwept, unhonored t and unsung, into an oblivion equal to that of our ! own ex-vice presidents. Any public official who accepts a little courtesy like a pass from a railroad may rase his conscience by selling the company his talents and classing himself as an employe. With various perquisites cut off and a long-suffering purlic demanding legislation not bid for by eorporation lobbyists, it is in order for members of all Mate legislatures to discover that their services are worth a much in proportion as congressmen's. Kdward YIJ has been king of England more than six years, having taken up. the burdens of I government in January. lftOl. Tie has wisely pur-Mied pur-Mied golf and eschewed politics, so should not be held responsible for any shortcomings of the Brit- i-h government. Vtsh needs a state house, but think of the iu- vest igat ions and probes and scandals, not to say thievery and robbery, which have accompanied and followed the erection of capitols in other states. A state house without an after-dap would be a great triumph for Utah. Sessions ot slate legislatures when there are no candidates for membership in the "Millionaires' Club" must be comparatively unprofitable to the legislators. Heal prosperity has been exemplified in Rhode Island, when three men. each with -a barrel, wanted to join the club. A story comes from Xew York that a crook, Mho was acquitted of theft by the efforts of a -hrewd lawyer when the case against him seemed hopeless, was so grateful to his deliverer that he J gave the lawyer a pawn ticket, his only earthly pos session, to liquidate ihe debt. Details are somewhat some-what lacking in the press dispatch, but we can picture pic-ture the grief of the rogue in parting with the licket because it represented only a few dollars on ia most, sacred relic handed down from father to son. snd we. can imagine the joy of the lawyer j when he redeemed the pledge to receive from the . . r . i . -v. j - i'i broker his own watch, stolen only a short time before. be-fore. Surely there is humor as well as honor among thieves. Senator Secly's bill to punish the selling or offering of-fering for sale of short pounds of butter, recently introduced in the Utah legislature, is intended to correct one of many shortcomings, as they may be called, and give the people a square deal. If the bill introduced in the legislature for a board of three commissioners to run the city government gov-ernment of Salt Lake, provided for terms of ten to fifty years' imprisonment for malfeasance in j office, misappropriation of funds and grafting, wo j would accord it our heartiest support. The Roosevelt Third-Term Leaguelet displays most amazing nerve in attempting to work up a boom for another term for the President. The President stated after his election that he would not, under any circumstances, be a candidate to succeed himself, and he has since reiterated the statement. That ought to settle the matter, and the leaguelet ought to know it. Ret ween the demands for a ship subsidy and a great navy the vital need for railroad improvements and good roads is overlooked. A first-class battleship battle-ship costs seven or eight million dollars and an equal amount to maintain it during its brief season of uselessness. An amount equal to the cost of a couple of battleships spent on road improvements would provide a good many miles of highway that would be passable in winter, or spent on railroads would furnish cars to move the crops and supply coal to the cities of the west. , . j A chance is offered the Utah legislature to show some regard for the great body of workers aud incidentally in-cidentally the manufacturers of the land by enacting enact-ing into law the bill submitted by Representative Kuchler which provides for marks plainly designating designat-ing all goods made by convicts and known as prison-made. It is evident that any manufacturer who puts honest quality into his goods and pays his employes honest wag"es is not ashamed to put his name upon them, and should not be compelled to compete with convicts. Moveover, the consumer is always better able to judge the merits of any article after he has tried it, and if entirely satisfactory will seek to duplicate it. And there are very few men or women who would buy prison-made or sweat-shop goods in preference to others made. by American workingmen if they knew the conditions under which the goods are made. There is much outcry at times for the necessity of protecting American workingmen from cheap foreign labor, but protection from competition by convicts is even more to be desired. The bill should Ih passed. |