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Show Looking around the world, the Amer-Ii:in Amer-Ii:in soldier is the only person we see with a gun to his shoulder, leveled at f'V.oihor lighting for liberty with only a ; 1 ..1... Having ended the Boer war by giving giv-ing the burghers everything they asked, what's the matter with Kitch-. Kitch-. eiier coining over here and settling the war between the sheepmen and -cattle-nien of Wyoming? But perhaps Tracy, the outlaw, could d it quicker. Four hundred carloads of prunes j w ?re shipped from California to Eu- I rope the other dav. Now if a Hoosier n oonshiner were aboard the phip that uried those prunes across the ocean, the Europeans would soon learn what J a lot of fun there is in the American I'i-ure. j Oh. what is fame! Now, if the snirit ii." John W. Mackay and the spirit of) KoiKTt Emmet would meet, how easily v could imagine the Irish millionaire offering to exchange his palace tomb for the little grave in Ireland without ; stone or inscription to te'.l who sh'pt beneath! This is, indeed, fame. , more enduring than the wealth' of the Indies. The interview with Archbishop Ireland Ire-land which the Associated Press puts nit may be taken as an accurate state-. state-. mont of what has already taken place and will further on be accomplished by Governor Taft and the Vatican regarding regard-ing the settlement of the Spanish friar question. No Catholic prelate has been closer to the administrations of Republican Repub-lican presidents since the civil war 'ban John Ireland, chaplain in the I I'nited States army and archbishop of j St. Paul. Some time ago we remember reading of a giri who attended a country sho'v. and something in the performance ii m used her so heartily that she hiughed herself to death. It happened in Kansas, where all funny freaks of nature turn up, and nothing is surprising. sur-prising. Now comes a story from Iowa." giving an account of the effects j of a hand-shake upon a politician. The ; grip his. ftinnd gave him resulted in mj h injury that the arm had to be I amputated. Pulling a candidate's leg is nut so dangerous and oftentimes is j I proiitabU- to the puller. ' Thos- who remember the Salt Lake Triouii' when it was a mighty power j m this western country for Ameri- : ran ism and the lights of the common p-uple. cannot read its insipid paragraphs para-graphs now without a feeling of lone-S'inieii-ss and. perhaps, resent ment. What a grand champion of the white - metal was i lit Tribune in the halcyon '. days of Goodwin. How logically was t i the financial suhje.-t treated and made ! as easy of con: prehension as A " C. ( What a staunch supporter of Bryan whs this greatest paper in the inter- j mountain basin. Now mark the change j siri'-e it fell into carpet-bag manage- j iner.t. Here is a little paragraph in- tended to be funny: "Missouri Democrats declare again ' for 16 to 1. the desirability of abandon ing it not having been sufficiently exhibited ex-hibited to them." The position of the Missouri Democrats Demo-crats today is exactly the same as that .' .. uphtld by the Utah Republicans in ... j 3!,G who joined the silver forces, per suaded principally by the unanswerable unanswer-able logic of the Salt Lake Tribune." In round numbers, out of 82,000 votes cast in I.Ttah at that presidential election, .ri3.00n were counted for Bryan and 16 to 1. Since that time Utah has been debauched, de-bauched, and no one entered more zealously into the act of debauchery than the "imported" editor of the Tribune one of the links in the chain of carpet-baggers who made life a burden bur-den to the white men of the southern states during the years of "reconstruction." "recon-struction." What 'a lonesome, insipid paper is the Salt Lake Tribune f j The Review of Reviews points out that In the wild scramble, some years ago, for the ownership of coal lands and the control of what were formerly independent mining companies, fictitious ficti-tious prices were paid and immense sums of money invested upon false economic principles. The existing combination com-bination is for the purpose of making the public pay interest and dividends upon a huge volume of improper capitalization. cap-italization. But for this artificial situation, sit-uation, which morally, if not technically tech-nically constitutes the most flagrant violation of the Sherman anti-trust law to be found in the whole country, the public could have cheap coal, the miners min-ers could have fair wages, and the railroads could charge a reasonable price 4"or transportation. President Roosevelt, when called upon in June to try to Taring about a settlement of the coal strike, showed that the law under which the Pullman strike was investigated had subsequently been repealed. re-pealed. But Colonel Carroll D. Wright, head of the department of labor, made certain inquiries into the facts for the president's information. The public would like to read them. |