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Show If prophecies on the trust decision are veritied they are entitled to convicts cells iu the penitentiary. penitenti-ary. ; 1 Utah will have no new land district in the immediate imme-diate future, the measure aiming at its establishment establish-ment having failed because of a want of agreement between our representatives in the senate. 4- The "great white czars'' spirit must be in a state of intense agony just now. What with the insur- rections at home and the rumors of further reverses !in Manchuria, his cup of woe must be full to overflowing. over-flowing. 4 ! ' ' The community of interests so persistently ad- f rocated by the Church Progress seems to be a most excellent idea. It now remains for some practical I ind talented business man to materialize it into an actuality. I 4 I The most sterling character, unadorned by gen- tie manners, is no more satisfactory to the would- I be admirer than is the uncut gem buried in the earth; the substance is there, but its charm is all vi n recognized. v ' j It i" gratifying and encouraging to realize that j in President Koosevelt snd Mr. Bryan we have two I great political leaders who' can rise superior to I partyism and unite their (moral) forces on qucs- 1 tions of the public weal. . I , There seems to be no present probability of an immediate report in the Smoot case, and it is bc- lieved that a subcommittee will visit this state dur- 1 "K the sumir. . j sS of the United States senate j to further piv its investigations. ! : , . J President Po.vvclt seems to be in deadly I earnest in his warfare upon the gigantic trustsThe jj beef trust, railway freight discrimination and "Standard Oil'' arc just at the present time reeciv- '"ff his strenuous attention. Perhaps the greatest I obstacle whim he has to encounter in his effort to I check the depredations of these unlawful institu tions is the reliance he must, of a necessity, place in his subordinates, If these prove recreant, he cannot accomydis.li much. Piety does not necessarily nor, indeed, in any true sense consist in the exhibition of a solemn, woe-begone countenance or the manifestation of ; freukif-h Kent imentality. If a man's chief concern is the infinite God and the things of God; if his ideals rest with infinite truth, goodness and beauty - ad he is consistent in his devotion to his ideals, he is a pious man, and therefore a consisetnt, well-rounded, well-rounded, an estimable and an admirable character. . The horrifying catastrophe, resulting in the destruction de-struction of more than ICO human lives, in the Virginia mine, near Birmingham, Ala., which occurred on the afternoon of the 20th instant, once more calls attention to the importance of the exercise exer-cise of greater vigilance in the protection of life in our coal mines. The failure to provide the necessary neces-sary safeguards in this respect is but one phase of the crying evil of exalting the dollar above the man. 4 Salt Lake City is now assured of a water supply sufficient, for a city of a quarter of a million people, j The bitter opposition of a minority of the city council coun-cil brought out all of tho objectionable features of - .'1he proposition and enabled the public to weigh the ! question intelligently. The result was tho approval of the taxpayers. The continued opposition of the minority to tho carrying out of the details will serve tho further good purpose of preventing anything like jobbery or favoritism, and the city will get the I water supply at the lowest possible cost. If the city continues to grow as it has during the past five . j' J1'3 will not bo long Lefofe'tlw water will all : .ha needed. |