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Show I However, the returning confidence is not supposed sup-posed to include that kind of games. ! If the provision market would slump in pro- I; portion to that in the stock market, there wouldn't be so sore need for the currency which is so scarce just now. I It seems that the phophecies of the billionaires, made last January, that 1907 would witness a de- ! eided panic, have come to pass. i Curiosity impels the query as to how the life ! insurance companies like having been forced out of the stock market just before the fall in prices. I Autocracy is a noun, corrupted in anticipa- Ition of a condition now cxistiug, from auto crazy. f . Limiting public service corporations to a cer- fain fixed percentage is not new. As long ago as I j the thirteenth century its prototype was in force in London in the form of an enactment limiting ihe profit of the baker, "on each quarter of wheat, I or his own labor, Od, and such bran as might be j ifted from the meal.'" "Which shows that fre- I Yjuent recurrence to first principles is commend- I at'iu even in a free country. I ; Clearing house certificates will be very ac- jj ceptable on subscription accounts, too. I However, if all the candidates who ran can now read, the recent campaign was not in vain. There will be a brief session of school after the footV-Mll season 'closes, but it will not be allowed to ir.terfei-e with the prnctiee for the opening of baseball base-ball in the spring. Wo haven't noticed any withdrawal of the offer I 1 pay interest on savings accounts by the trust companies of Salt Lake, despite the scarcity of real coin of the realm. Fusion worked about as well in Salt Lake as it did in the populist days of Kansas, anyway. i Those meat prices that were reported to have 1 slumped seem to have been restored along with con- j fidenee. Activity of the bears in the stock market is not 1 ' in anyway attributable to similar activity of those in the canebrake recently. ., It must be an awful weight of suspense which I the grub trustlct magnates are laboring until they j find out how guilty they are by the grand jury. j ' " And now congress will furnish the pungent par- ! agrahper with much immaterial. J Attention is frequently directed to the "star- I tling increase in insanity" in this country. It's ! probably not so great as the increase in the number I who are just finding out they are crazy; I A Pod many people besides the banks feel the I need of a little financial assistance just now. I If a man pays $100 for a fiddle worth only $15, !, hp is loser just $S5, but he doesn't find it out un- 1 til he tries to sell. That affords an explanation for 2 the country's financial condition. The people have $ trcli paying too much for everything, especially for 1 stocks and securities, and they are just finding it I ou There has been no loss, except to those who j paid more than the stocks were worth; the re-i re-i f eourccs of the country remain; the' railroads and ! ' ' iiijiii ..nuiwi.imw.n i.i iiiii.i i i iwiiiiibimh,! .ipKjuini.jjuiiwiw numw iwbw factories are here to do business just as they were two years ago, when the shrinkage which has reached reach-ed its climax within the past month began. The fiddle is as good now as it ever was, and the shrunken stocks are as valuable, but the follows who sold at the top have a lot of money they never worked for. After the wafer was all squeezed out, where could it be expected the people would run, except on the banks i And, by the way, beefsteak is not any cheaper as a result of the money scarcity. In the meanwhile, 16 to 1 may be remembered as a one-time cure for financial stringency. Confidence in Christianity is still a solace for those who have lost confidence in the money situation. sit-uation. The meanest and most contemptible cry that goes up from human tongues concerning eternity is the one entitled, "No one ever came back to tell us." Very few of these unfortunates know an1 thing of St. Paul's writings,' or the Savior's utterances. utter-ances. If they will not believe Moses and the prophets, said Abraham in heaven to Dives in hell, neither would they believe one though risen from the dead. Salvation is not necessary and the fearful death of Almighty God on Calvary is a farce if there are no Satan and no Hell. Professor George Herron? the western socialist, believes we should abolish the devil in order to do away with the "practice" of saving people from him. "What a glorious thing it would be if we could! How differently George Herron would act and talk if there were no Satan to move him at will. How quickly Dowieism passed away, and Christian Chris-tian Science is going the same road of oblivion. And yet Rome is still with us. After so many centuries, cen-turies, too. You could hardly believe it. The first Episcopalians did not believe in having hav-ing crucifixes. And, lo and behold, today they adom all their churches with the cross. But, then, you should remember that human nature is inconsistent. incon-sistent. What has become of all the talk concerning the Congo atrocities? Do not let it die out, gentlemen, gentle-men, by any means. Every man who denies future reward and punishment pun-ishment for the just and the unjust consciously or unconsciously calls the Son of God a liar. The Methodist and Baptist foreign missionaries are still trying to convert some of the benighted Roman Catholics of foreign lands, according to their publications, and in the meantime they are letting innumerable thousands of American Protestant Prot-estant boys go to the devil. Now what do you think of that? The protesting "reformation" gave us, if nothing noth-ing else, a prodigious and astonishing countless multitude of atheists. Now what do you think of that? The great and pressing need of Catholic clubs that will cater to the humblest and poorest youth is too apparent in all our large cities to merit lengthy comment. It is remarkable how events change the history I of nations. Had the Portuguese and Spanish Jesuits Jes-uits not been driven out of Japan 300 years ago it is safe to say Japan would have become all Catholic Cath-olic and the active Japanese would undoubtedly have converted all China and India. Religious bigotry and bitterness were back of this expulsion of the heroic Jesuits of Japan, as the Dutch Cal-vinists Cal-vinists made continual accusations against them to the government! Darwin, Spencer & Co. found great delight, as though it was something of which to be proud, in attempting to make man the equal of a dog. Civilization is the predominance in society of reason over passion, knowledge over ignorance, moral power over brute force, and these are not possible without the predominance of a strong religious re-ligious institution, divinely inspired to teach truth, and to demand obedience on pain of spiritual J punishment beyond the grave. ,If the universe, life, love, hate, passion; etc., originate in the fortuitous combination of material, mate-rial, lifeless, senseless atoms, who first made the atoms to combine? Who is a liar but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is anti-Christ who denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father. He that confesseth the Son hath the Father also. St. John. Now is a good time to begin to save a little money for the Christmas holidays. A small amount of self denial, a few drinks and cigars less, and it is easily accumulated. The great mistake many infidels make is in assuming as-suming that Christianity, or the Roman Catholic Church, is a continuation and development of pagan pa-gan mythologies and superstitions, when it precedes pre-cedes any of these apostate, barbarous sects and apostate conditions by at least 2,0000 years. All these heathen "religions" were the result of the great Gentile apostasy from the Petrarckal and sublime monotheism of the Jews. Wc see the i truth of this when we examine carefully the great infidels of the past 400 years, such as Ingersoll, Paine, etc. These men were descendants of ancestors ances-tors who apostatized from Catholicism in the sixteenth six-teenth century. When a conceited man picks up the Bible to read its utterances it always confirm his mental vanity. Beware of the individual who imagines he knows more than all the prophets of Israel from Moses to Paul combined. A fool shall bo converted before him. The devil is a philanthropist who never relieves the suffering under his nose or cares a picayune for the welfare of individuals. |