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Show The new dictionary ought to contain a sup- I plomentary definition of the word "machine." I Otherwise how is a Frenchman or any other pcr- I son learning our language to distinguish a cider 1 press from a ward caucus? I i I As one calmly reviews the results of recent elections he is convinced there is more faith in the hind foot of a rabbit than there is efficacy in big campaign funds. Senator Reams might get Grover Cleveland to corroborate this fact. " - " A I Dowie is snuffed out completely. The religious mountebank is beneath our contempt. He occupied too much of public attention, to the injury of the i Tonawanda preacher with his trade stamps and the Evanston minister's introduction of coffee and sandwiches into religious services. Dowie has ceased to be even an object for humor. i. i The Italian minister of finance, Signor Rosano, committed suicide at Naples. He could not face the charges of corruption which the Socialists threatened to bring against him in the chamber of deputies. Some of these Italians are remark-fibly remark-fibly thin-skinned. We do different in America. "We laugh such charges out of court through our statute of limitations. 1- It's a wise politician who takes his defeat cheerfully cheer-fully and consents to stay whipped for awhile. Xot so with the Salt Lake Tribune, which now urges the council to appoint a chief of police and forestall fore-stall the nominee of the incoming Democratic mayor. This in spite of the fact that the Tribune's choice was one of the "issues" the people so emphatically em-phatically condemned. t Apostle Grant's ungovernable tongue has again ' got him into trouble and the Mormon church into trouble. The report around town is that he is taking the underground route to Europe to avoid summons of a writ charging him with polygamy. It would be safer for the church to have, kept Apostle Grant in Japan until he forgot all he knew -of the English language. r T ... The campaign of the ministers and the women's wo-men's organizations against the seating of Senator Sena-tor Smoot has precipitated debate in the United States senate. Although presenting one of these anti-Smoot petitions from Massachusetts, Senator Hoar stoutly maintained that the question of the Utah senators right to a seat was purely a ju dicial one and should be treated as judicial' matters mat-ters are treated in the supreme court. Senator Dubois of Idaho takes issue with Senator Hoar. Now let them fight it out. A Some idea of the growth and prosperity of the diocese, under the direction of Bishop Bron-del, Bron-del, during the last two decades, may be formed on the figures given in the last edition edi-tion of the San Francisco Monitor, taken from the ''Catholic Directory." We find that there were at the beginning of the current year, beside the bishop, bish-op, fifty-three priests actively engaged in the work f the ministry, thirty-eight diocesan priests and fifteeen priests of religious orders. Thirty-two churches have resident priests; there are thirty-three thirty-three missions with churches, and twenty-five chapels. chap-els. More than two hundred hnd fifty religious ; women and men other than priests, and eleven ec clesiastical !;idents speak for the instruction of ihe young anx? ,jf the future of the ministry. There is one collejL? for boys, with 125 students; seven academies for girls; nine parish schools, with an i enrollment of 1,700 pupils; ten Indian schools, with an attendance of 52."!, besides an orphan asylum, industrial school, eight hospitals, and other chari- j I ' table institutions. The present Catholic population popula-tion of Montana is estimated at more than 50,000. The full significance of these statistics can scarcely scarce-ly be grasped without a familiar knowledge of conditions con-ditions iu the territory they cover during the period of Bishop Brondel's residence in Helena. 4 Among the amenities of the campaign in Xew York, was the reference of District Attorney Jerome to Bourke Cockran as the "Mulligan Guard Demosthenes" and the counter reference of Mr. Cockran to Jerome as "a termagant in trousers." Xew York's district attorney finally turned up as "Dennis," which also applies to another part of the country where an election was held. - T The Associated Press contains a lengthy account ac-count of the "first secret consistory of the new pontificate," going the length of describing the emotions of the cardinals present, "who exhibited exhib-ited excitement, all but the pontiff." If this was a secret consistory, th? reporter who wrote it up made no secret of it. His presence there is not explained, unless it be like that of the mouse which creeps into the Salt Lake Herald's cartoons. Xo red hats were created for cardinals in this country. coun-try. Wc can wait awhile. Congress is in extra session, called by the president presi-dent to put in operation the treaty which Cuba ratified to promote reciprocal trade between the , two countries. The treaty was initiated in the senate sen-ate at the last session. Of course the beet sugar interests of the country will do their utmost to defeat any such plan for the benefit of Cuba, and j the Republican majority may decide to reject the j senate instrument. Other matters of importance arc under way in both houses, including Senator Smoot's right to a seat in the upper body. 1 If we put credit in all the railroad stories printed print-ed from day to day, Salt Lake will have as many lines of steel stretched over the country she has routes for trolley cars in the city. David Moffat's line to Mexico, with its northern terminus at Salt" Lake City is the latest report. "We hope there is J some foundation for the story. Any way it is interesting in-teresting reading, true or false. It is too bad to spoil it with the short announcement at the end, stating that "the men interested in the enterprise have kept their plans very quiet." By no means should it keep the reporter quiet. Butte will be, again "a bute" and resume her place as the great copper camp of the world. Ihe governor of Montana lias called an extra session of the legislature in response to the universal demand de-mand of the people of the state. Following this call came the welcome order from President , Scallon. of the Amalgamated company to raise steam to start up the mines and smelters, and part of that steam escaped through the mine whistles anid the general rejoicing of everybody. Scallon says all he wants is "fair" treatment, and he expects to get it from the legislature. Ueinzc replies by saying that "fair" treatment is all he requires in order to do business, and he is getting it now. The two corporations have always and will always differ about the true definition of "fair." The legislature undoubtedly will 'put it outside the' pale of a Clancy interpretation. T Many temperance people have queer notions of reforming ' drunkards. "We thought, the Germans were exempt from impractical ideas in this direction, direc-tion, but a novel plan to cure drunkenness at Kieff proves the contrary. There the police have orders to carry such persons as are found intoxicated on the streets to comfortably equipped halls. They are under the control of a doctor , who sees that the "guests" are properly attended to until they become sober, when they are liberated. The average aver-age time required for becoming sober is ten hours. This is carrying compisssion too far, and the ex--periment will result in increasing rather than diminishing di-minishing the drink habit, although the theory is that nobody hut .a confirmed drunkard will risk being seen by his townsmen lying drunk in a public hall. But it is only the confirmed drunkard who is seen intoxicated on the street ) the other is out of sight and cared for. What a delight this Kieff institution would give the Weary Willies if it were established in this country. T - To Xew Orleans, as perhaps nowhere else in the world, is the term "city of the dead" so appropriate appropri-ate to a cemetery as in this quaint delta town. Here, since the water oozes copiously when one digs even a few feet beneath the surface, all bodies have to be interred in tombs rather than in graves, those of wealthy families being often elaborate mausoleums surmounted ' by statues and adorned .with bas-reliefs; those of poorer people, vaults of brick covered with stucco. It is difficult to conceive how one can banish the impression that the persons per-sons sealed up in these brick vaults and mauso-. leums are really without life and unconscious of our presence. Man's meditations could not be the same as those which the grave inspires, disclosing the actual fact of dust returned to dust. So it suits I us better to gaze upon flowers growing from tombs in our mountain cemeteries and imagine they had " speech with the loved one beneath. Bather the silent si-lent tomb than the mausoleum with its statues, and bas-reliefs, the city of the dead guarded by these eternal hills about us, out from which God speaks if we but supplicate his voice. ' i Old Confederate soldiers are indulging in retrospective meditations these days, provoked by the alacrity of this government in recognizing the republic set-up by the Panama seceders from Colombia. Co-lombia. Xo matter how artfully the United States may interpose treaties to justify its course; no matter how important an isthmian canal through Panama is to the trade of nations, our action does not absolve us from the charge of repudiating all. we fought to sustain in the civil war between the states. If Panama is right in her position, (and by the federal act of recognition we admit she is right), then we were wrong in making war upon the southern states. It is lucky for this country that our shiftiness is not censured by strong nations. na-tions. Criticism only comes from the "clerical" press of Mexico (whatever is defined by "that word in Mexico we are unable to say), and from somebody some-body in France who has entree to a Paris news-paper. news-paper. This is harmless, and it also measures the limit of harm Colombia can inflict upon her re bellious citizens. Colombia is in the throes of revolution just now; therefore a nation not able to take care of itself is not worth the bother of international jurisprudence. This is the opinion of a people who, since the Spanish war, can blow hot and blow cold ' upon every proposition presented. pre-sented. A . T The optimistic view most people took over the settlement of the coal strike in Pennsylvania through a commission is obscured now by the coal strike which affects nearly every mine in Colorado. The strike is complete, no considerable number of non-union miners offering to take the places of the strikers. It seems to us that this Colorado strike could be settled upon the lines laid down by the president's commission; but there was no proposal pro-posal for such adjustment of contentions on the part of the mine owners. Bather did suggestion meet with opposition. We note that the non-union miners of Utah have been given a raise in wages in gratitude for loyalty to their employers. If all employers of labor were as generous there would be less necessity for unions. But would that "gratitude" be manifest and substantially extended did no coal miners' union exist? It looks as if the Utah mine owners baited a sprat and caught a whale. : i |