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Show H BUSH IS TOTE MAN. H That is good news from Denver, quoting B. F. Bush, the new H president of the Denver & Eio Grande railroad, as declaring that the H road has plenty of money available for whatever" plans the board H of directors may adopt and that extensive improvements will be H started in the spring or early summer. H J Therpadbed of the Denver & Rio Grande, from the eastern H i boundary of this state to Ogden has been neglected for years and H the equipment of the road has been unequal to the demands of Lraf- Hl fie. This deplorable condition is said to have lieen due to the drain H on Ihe -Gould treasury in the maintaining of tlic Western Pacific. H "With available funds to put. into the roadbed and to obtain more H equipment, the handicap so long suffered by the Rio Grande in Utah H can be overcome. The first great benefit to flow from these im- Hj provements will be the releasing of an ample supply of coal for all H purposesjji this state. The conl fields of southeastern Utah could H furnish double the tonnage now supplied the market, were the Rio H Grande equipped to haul the fuel to the consumers. During past H winters there has been imminent danger of a coal famine due to H nothing other than the inability of the Gould road to haul the coal. H The traffic is highly profit-able to the railroad and should have B been cared for, but a short-sighted or crippled management, has H failed to grasp the opportunity. If President Bush has been keen H 4 cnougliand sufficiently resourceful at the very beginning of his H control to solve this problem, then the promise is that the Rio fl Grande is"Jabout to enjoy new life and a period of greater usefulness. H ' HITCHCOCK'S SENSATION. H" Postmaster General Hitchcock, as the voice of the administrates administra-tes tion in his. department, has recommended the purchase by the gov-H gov-H eminent of the telegraph lines of the United States. Evidently there H has been indecision on this subject, as an effort had been made by H the administration to recall the recommendation after it had H reached the newspaper men. H "When Bryan, on his return from his European trip, advocated H government control of the railroads, every Standpat paper in the H . United States denounced him for daring to suggest government H ownership-of public utilities. Now Hitchcock is attempting to rival H Bryan as a champion of this Socialistic doctrine, and poor Taft, H i in a quaudary, not knowing whether to endorse or reject the pro- B posal of his postmaster general, has had night sweats until, final- H ' ly recognizing the weakness chargeable against his administration Hn if open discord were to be acknowledged, he half apologetically has fl" stated- that there is absolute harmony in his official family and Hl Secretary Uitchcock has his love and affection in all his uuder- B takings. H The administration undoubtedly is floundering about for an Hl issue with which to relievo itself from the accusation of being sub- Hj servient to the big intorcsts and this public ownership has been Hi seized as a piece of progressiveism affording ample defense. Hr The course of tho administration is disgusting and its atti- H tude trifliu. There is every sign of insincerity, with ample proof H of a play at politics. There is nothing big or broad or appealing H in the public policies of the men at the head of the government and, H sooner or later, the voters will see through the veil of insincerity K which covers this hypocrisy. f .. . . SALT LAKE'S BLUE LAWS. I Cliief of Police Grant of Salt Lake, backed by the city commis- H I sipners, is attempting to make SJalt Lake City a very good place H and one of-his first efforts in that direction culminated last Sunday H in the cigar stores, saloons and clubs being made to observe the H "blue laws" which forbid the sale of cigars or liquors. The county attorney of Salt Lake county has refused to lend H his office to the enforcement of the extreme regulations and a test H case is to be made in the court to decide the validity of tho city; H ordinance. The comity attorney declares it would be just as H logical to sjop the sale, of a glass ofmilk. plate of ice cream or a H box of candy on Sundaj' as to stop the sale of cigars and tobacco. H Chief of Police Grant is by nature a radical. No doubt he is a H man of deep convictions, honest and sincere in his purposes, but he H is an extremist. Men of his temperament are born leaders, their H enthusiasm and uncompromising devotion to a cause carrying them H over all obstacles, and yet they often inflict as much injury as they H accomplish good. B During the "wet" and "dry" campaign in Ogden, Mr. Grant B was one of the public speakers brought here by the "drys." On two H occasions he nearly started a riot by his severe denunciations of H: those whodid not accept his views. He entered into the liquor H fight with spirit and he struck right and loft with his philippics. He H angered those not of his side, consigning a majority of them to the H ncther-mosh regions. H As a cliief of police, he will kindle a hot fire under every vic- H tim of his dragnet and the indications are his net will gather in a H multitude. H Thosenot of Chief of Police Grant's way of thinking, who are H forced to live in Salt Lake, have our sympathy. H WHY KNOX DIDN'T "RUN AMUCK." H We have not had in some time so sweet au example of unsoph- H istication as bonnie Andrew Carnegie before the steel trust probers, H says the Los Angeles Tribune. Prohibited by tho Sherman law H- from restraining trade br what we know as trust methods, he and H liis equally guileless partners did it by pooling. Honest Injun, H they were utterly unconscious that -it was wrong, albeit it served H to evade the Sherman law. " H v Not even his astuto lawyer dreamed it was wrong. And who H was this lawyer? Odd coincidence! It was Philander C. Knox, H afterward the trust-busting attorney general who busted no trusts; Hjl attorney general, it is now shown, by grace of Mr. Carnegie's cas- Hlt ual recommendation to Mr. McKinley. Needless to say that during Hlj Mr. Knox's tenure Mr. Carnegie, screno in his clear conscience and Hl with trusting confidence in his protege, Knox, had no fears of dis- H turbancein the plans of the Steel corporation, whose millions of Hj watered bonds he holds. B It will be recalled that during the" Knox term, the attorney general hastened to reassure the interests that 'there was to be "nol running amuck" among business interests. It is certainly trite to 'remark in Ihe light of facts now revealed that big business had no i 'lipcnsQ to throw any Fits Over Knox's activities then, any more than ' 'it n,oeds fear the' present secretary of state when he turns his hand to dollar diplomacy. |
