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Show of them calls, (lie $8.40 swindle. 1 One calls the other a liar and the 1 other says "you're onother," After lliinking the matter over carefully we conclude that it is an easy mat-ler mat-ler to agree wi.h both of them. President Harrison's last message which was sent to congress Tuesday, Tues-day, contains very listle of general nlerest b?ing, in the main a review of his administrataion. The president presi-dent says that the country's pros-erity pros-erity is due to the protective system, sys-tem, but a little further ori he states that tho result of the late eloction must be accepted as a demand for the repeal of the same. The president presi-dent seems very solicitious for the welfare of silver, which to say the least is a point in his faror. The I reports state that the reading of the message met with but little at. tention, EDITORIAL JOTS. And still the cranks are studying up the ct uses that led to the results in the last election. And still the Tribune is fighting the civil war over. We remember hearing Frank Cannon remark that the Tribune was like n old bg blind and deaf, mumbling and grumbling, praying for the dawn, when the sun was already shining brightly. The Ogden Standard has made a aew departure in journalism and announces that they are agents for ihe anti-rust tinware, which they say is cheap at any price. Had they opened a brass foundry there would have been nothing particularly particu-larly surprising in the matter, but a tinware establishment is something nw. The Provo Enquirer stands a good chance of having several libel suits on its hands. It has been in the habit lately of calling members of the city council thieves and robbers; rob-bers; but we are surprised to hear of the threatened suitj. We late such utterances from that paper to mean a testimonial to the honesty of the person attacked. Eastern papers are having quite a debte as to whether Cleve ar.d said damn in talking to Tammany. We believe he did. We have seen several pictures of him, and as vr-. failed to discover any signs of wings, we conclude he is human, hence liable to say damn if the provoeation was strong enough He would not be a man if he didn't, and there is considerable manhood about Grover. It is pleasing to note that all the larger cities have decided to leavp the school election outside the pale of politics. It is a much better way than to allow partisanship to crop in, to the detriment of the school system. It is to the interest of all to obtain the best material for the control of our schools, and our party lines should be entirely abolished. The precedent now being established should be kept up. Jay Gould has at l?st been worsted in the game of life. While he could outwit the best financiers of the day, the king of terrors at last scooped him in, just as he will the rest of us some day, Gould Las always been a hard worker and for years has been suffering with consumption, to which disease he at lest succumbed, on Friday morning. morn-ing. His wealth probably amounted to about a hundred millions. Tne proposal made by the American Amer-ican at the Brussels convention : 1. Unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver into money of full debt paying power. 2. Fixing a ratio in the coinsge between the metals. 8. The establishment of a uniform uni-form charge, if any, to the public for minting gold and silver coins. This would give us all we a?k for no more than justice demands, no les3 than necessary to make the standard solid, The coal combine in Salt Lake. City is causing a good deal of well merited criticism. It may be hard to legislate in such a manner that the evils may be remedied, but it is eridently an illegitimate method of gaining wealth for any set of men to unite, for the purpose of preying oa the needs of the community. It is to be hoped that the efforts at preaent being made to bring the monopolist! to reason will have the desired effect. The nations of Europe are in a state of unrest, and the outlook in many is gloomy. Armed mobs are rising in the various capitals against the oppression of the governments, and the rulers are in no desirable situation. The fact is, monarchy has proved its inefficiency, and the light of freedom is penetrating every nook and corner of the world Men are learning the fact that they are men, and demanding more of their natural rights and striving to gain their proper place as freemen. Provp japeis sre just as crs uky (is ever on the subject of, what one |