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Show 0, WHAT'S THE USE? We are spending millions fighting the "white plague," and have conquered yellow fever. Xow comes along something before unheard of the "hookworm" the pellagra which, according to Superintendent Seller, threatens to become a national na-tional scourge. In Provo a suburb of Salt Lake the clergy, the newspaper, the Republican party, the Democratic Demo-cratic party, the women of the Sunday schools, pleaded for prohibition, and prohibition was defeated. de-feated. All the ministers, the elect, the ladies of our country, the politicians, refined society, the 400-all 400-all the Sunday schools.. Bible classes, the Christian Endeavor and the Christian Scientists, loudly denounce de-nounce prizefighting with its black eyes, a little blood and punching, and are silent on football, which, last year, slaughtered twenty-seven promising prom-ising young men, and mangled eighty-three. When last week the life was crushed out of young Byrne in a football match, and Michael Burke carried dead and mangled from the game in Philadelphia, a mild protest went up against the gentle pastime, but three days after these young men were in their graves, 18,000 tickets were sold for the Yale-Harvard match, and 26,000 sold for the Yale-Princeton "go." The Deseret Xews, the Herald-Republican the Rev. Mr. Short of the First Methodist church' the Rev. Louis Bowerman of the Immauuel Baptist church, the Temperance societies, and the elite drove their gaffs into Martin Mulvey's adipose tissue, tis-sue, and for nine days before the election, held him up to public scorn, claimed him as "the limit " and comparing him to Judas Iscariot, awarded the palm' oi rascaiuy and deviltry to Martin. Then what does me brave Martin do, but leave his happy home that memorable Tuesday morning and, like the game fighter and brave American citizen that he is, poll the largest and handsomest vote of any alderman al-derman in Salt Lake City. O, what's the use? You can't down the Irish. All the daily newspapers of Xew York City without an exception, all the prominent ministers preachers and female orators, all the combinations ' j of Bible classes, Temperance societies. Christian f leagues and Christian Endeavors, the good gov. ment party, the fusion party, Hearst, PulirPr Ivens and all of them, jumped on the Tammany ! candidate for mayor, and Gaynor "wiped the fl,,0r j with them." J O, what's the use? j The Republican-Fusion party claim tho aider manic seats and city offices for the anti-Tanimnnv ' Democrats, but, "bide a-wee," Tammony will I there" all the same on the appropriations. f Oklahoma swept its state with the Prohihitior. broom and its legislature passed a wirp-rit,-hp.I I and copper-riveted prohibition act. and now, from El Reno and other towns of the "long sheep"' state comes this resolution of regret: j' "That in place of the limited number of aloor. ! formerly operated in Oklahoma, from whirh th public fund received a large revenue. tK-re are n,MV thousands of illegal joints and bootlegp(.r3 011 ! roofs, in cellars, back rooms, stables ami in a! sorts of secreted places liquors are sold and consumed. con-sumed. The state, counties and towns hav? n '' revenue therefrom, and must burden the 'citi with higher taxes. Thousands of men. respect inj every other law, do not hesitate to viola re the prohibition pro-hibition law, being an iniquitous imposition upon their personal rights." What's the use in passing prohibition ? The anarchists, bomb-throwers and atheists nf Chicago met together and passed red-hot res , In- tions condemning Spain for executing the worst scoundrel in Barcelona. The Rev. E. I. Goshen, ! William Thurston Brown and one Murray King did I the same thing in Salt Lake last Sunday. What's f the use? For two thousand years, all hell, and a mighty -big part of Europe and America, have been pound- ing the life out of the Catholic Church and, to tho amazement of us all, she seems to thrive on tho pounding and is fresher, healthier and stronger to- ? day than at any period of her mysterious existence. O, what's the use? |