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Show Strike the iron while it is hot but not the man in ihat condition. This balmy midwinter weather will be well re- ; meml)oreJ by the iee man when lie makes out his bills next summer. The great amount of space in the newpapcrs j pi ven to the Thaw trial has Jomporarily put Mrs. ' r Bradley out of the running;. 'v:i . 1 t fost of ilie "hitherto unpublisluxj portraits" of 2 i the unfortunate wife of Harry K. Thaw would t make pleasinp illustrations for patent medicine T' ad. ? : r. " t hvni the coal de3ers are satisfied with the ! bright sprinp-like weatker Salt Lake has been en- ! ' j".vinp fori two weeks. Tlic demands for fuel are I not so insistent. ! . I (tovemor Swettenham has resipnetl and is jroinij home. A brick house is sufficient to move most of III the subjects of ilr. J. Bull, but Swettenham rr- I ; quired an earthquake. I Three commissioners for Salt Lake insteal of a j council would be a death-blow to forensic eloquence 5 ! ' in the city's government. The bill was unanimously passed. What will be results ( It is reported that a ''medicine" factory in Illinois Illi-nois has been forced to close up as a result of eu-i eu-i forecment of ihe pure food law, but there has been j no great clamor for its repeal. I . I The boy on the farm is not included in the child 1 labor bill. He is usually so fortunately eituated in j comparison with factory boys that he needs no pro- j . tective legislation to improve his condition. I , " Canned beef exports for 190G decreased in value j 4,000,000, which is a loss of more than one-half whe n compared with 1905. Foreign beef eaters evi- 3"ntly heard of the packing house, investigations. One of the arguments put forth by defenders of trurs is that they improve the quality and decrease the rest of controlled articles. The theatrical trust ,' controls f00 of the (500 principal theatres of the country. Just think how high the prices would be and how disappointingthe performances if we 'i:ul not this beneficent syndicate! The good i-tate of L'tah gives a certificate of ! I eoiiij.cKnce amounting to a virtual guarantee to many professional men who may be looked upon :i move or less public servants. Barbers have iheir permit to practice their art. and doctors have theirs. A Mate board to. inquire into the qualifications of legislators should be added to the list. John 1). Rockefeller's son-in-law has written a book entitled "The Federal Power Over Carriers nnd Corpora t ions,"' which is in the nature of a defense de-fense of corporation, methods. It is not presumed "lie sales of the book will so greatly increase the au-;h-r"s wealth as the added patrimony from a gen- rus and reputed wealthy papa-in-law. There is a lot of humbug about this friendly Mtitude of natio'ns at peace with each other. Eug-bmd'and Eug-bmd'and America are very much at peace and Lave been fr quite a few years, and America and lapau have until recently been ou very cordial Terms of international amity. iXow we have an Anplo-Japanese alliance, and the Mikado is blustering blus-tering about with a chip on his shoulder. It's just like three boys, any two of whom Uiink they could 2 : . -1 ihr third and take his marbles and top away. V.... ' V..:. --I.. from him, if they could just agree on which should be the victim. ' A few billion dollars spent and a few thousand lives sacrificed to the god of war would not prove anything 'more valuable than that humanity has not yet lifted itself out of the darkness dark-ness of. barbarism and that America is the kingpin today among the nations of the world. The righteousness right-eousness of Japanese exclusion from the San Fran- -ciseo schools would still be an open question. The Chicago street car franchise troubles, which have agitated that city for ten years, seem now to be on a fair way toward settlement. The eouncil has passed an ordinance which will be voted on by the people in April. The politicians will now hr.ve to seek another question with which to befuddle the people and befoul themselvep. Advertising Utah can only be done by telling others of the things we have in the state. A -ign j painted on the sida of the Rocky mountains would J disfigure the scenery as much as a billboard does a ! city street, and neither of these is a convincing nor as likely to be read and remembered as a judiciously judi-ciously placed newspaper or magazine advertise- j ment. . j It sometimes happens that bills like one to make groundhog day a legal holiday or to prohibit the wearing of silk hats by others than members, arc introduced in legislatures to distract public attention atten-tion from some innocent looking bill which is railroaded rail-roaded through in the merriment resulting. By all means the profundity of a legislative session should be relieved, but a court fool would be less expensive than fake bills introduced to cover tip some graft. I A Xew York dispatch to the Buffalo Times quotes United States Senator Chauncey M. LVpew thus: "I am not one of those, who fear that socialism social-ism or advanced radicalism or untried theories are to be carried into effect to such an extent as to produce pro-duce financial or industrial paralysis. I believe these great corporations should be under the rigid supervision of the states and of the general government." gov-ernment." Ir. Depew ought to move to Kansas and adopt the soekless fashion. He talks like a people's peo-ple's candidate for the presidency. Seattle has a public benefactor in a capitalist who is building a four-itory $r0,000 apartment house whose rooms are to be rented to families with children. Xo others need apply. It will not be necessary nec-essary to advertise these apartments more than to say that children are welcome. There is room in Utah for apartments to shelter our ''best crop.' However, suburban homes are much more desirable, and the no-children apartments may be a good thing for the children, even if they are conducive to immorality and race suicide among adults. Be sure you are right, then go ahead. The old proverb is so simple. We are all sure we are right when wf ftart out, but after wc have traveled some distance-we make the. discovery that perhaps we are on the wrong ioad. Doubt assails us, and we would retract owr steps. Then something urges us on on the same road. Evidences multiply that there 13 something wrong. Then we halt. It is unfortunate that being sure we are right is so simple, for it leads us to so many sad discoveries that the surer we are, the more likely we are to be mistaken. John D. Rockefeller has long been reputed the wealthiest man in the world, and he has established another record in making the largest donation to the cause of education ever presented by any individual indi-vidual a lump sum of $:2,000,000 given to the Xew York central educational board, last week. This donation brings Mr. Rockefeller's public benefactions bene-factions up to the fabulous sum of $158,500,000, while that of his nearest competitor, Andrew Carnegie, Car-negie, reaches the immense total of $14o,000,000. The gifts of these two men for educational and charitable purposes reaches the enormous total of $304,o00,000, enough money to give every man, woman wo-man and child in the United States more than $-1 apiece, and each has a little nst egg put by for a " j rainy day. Tainted money it may be, accumulated at the general expense of the public, but these men I are certainly princely spenders, no doubt made so by the strong public sentiment against such vast fortunes being held and transmitted by inheritance. Getting rid of their ill-got gain iu this worthy manner will do much toward elevating these men in the estimation of the public. . It is another triumph for American ingenuity and Yankee shrewdness which, if adopted by other rich men and women, will make them really jrreat. too. |