Show SOUS SOME CURREN J POLI bics the struggle for patronage in congressional elections is 19 getting to lie tie a feild subject there is no branch of in industrial i dil politics poli lica that can compare with wi t it it in pint ol 01 existing ai activity ard and promise of future opa sion nt to multiply mulli ily tx champlee ampIe wo we will illustrate with kith one of ila its most prom luent ident fade the grand army sentiment save that alie abby ia is gerlog Bome hat ahat jaded with ith overwork it is doing the moat marvelous political j job 0 b service ot of any respectable ettAl lo 10 institution of modern times there is is a class of peranna peraL nit indigenous indig erime to the halls balls of he the capitol ft hose bole sole qualification for offic a conal consists ti in the clever manipulation for their personal pera ocal onal pama gains of juch highly reputable e att but easily beguiled or as the grand army their political morality and an 1 pirt partisan isan P principles rin e plea are symbol symbolized izad in ex commissioner comp tanners gaspart pa spart to great nesa which was in substance god help the how peculiarly apro apropos I 1 0 O a this rem triE Is will be sen seen by an examination of what this order of 0 I 1 legislators legisa tors arc are at pr sent endeavoring to do tor for the glory 0 of lie government the approved pensions pension now on the books of the treasury deput ment call for foran an annual payment to boex ex united states soldiers and their dependants of about no other nation in the world has anything like such a pen bon liatas th a but complied with the tile generous ambitions ambitious of self constituted solicitors Boli ciora in in the present con preas press tins this is is a mere rifle trifle 1 there here are pension bills under consideration now which should they become laws law s would call for an annual baym nt from the U 8 treasury of a modest to participants in the war of the rebellion liou in view of the infinite possibilities cf his this sentiment which has suddenly taken possession of the congressional I 1 mand president warm es ca of tariff reform might geem seem to be premature the presidents motives are eire undoubtedly all right for a number of years the nations pat biotic tp nta have been wrestling with this same tariff and revenue question with an honest wih with to ad just our til tax but butan an to the actual wants auts of tho the government but if these persons and the president vi ill only accommodate their fe elirga 0 to o ilia enterprise and N w aslies of tins this new school of statesmanship the tile tariff problem will wili need no fuit lier regul aion if they will just take hold with ilith ther grasping gras Ding fellow patriots and hoist the hood flood gates of the treasury to every pension that a demand may beem seem to create cot lot only will the pet of a A surplus disappear but 4 right soon they would experience a sharp need of a reverse policy the growing void in the exchequer and the tile multiplying obligations w would cause them to open their hearts with a mighty joy to the return of the old war revenue sent packing afew years agi ag we might then without the slightest apprehension of overburdening our money vaults an enjoy the sweet solace of a tax on hair 0 I 1 and a tax on matches and after the next annual growth of lie the pen sion bion order ye we could add with safety a tax on tooth picks button hooks finger rings etc etc we believe tha the good sense of the american people wants to see the th veterans and the veterans depend cn en farni families lies provided ded forout fo roat odthe of the nations bounty there may maybe be no precedent in he the legislation of oilier other cotin countries tries tor for such heavy expenditures in in this direction as tha the united states ia in willing to make but there need be no precedent pe for them any more than there was foe tot the es of the republic Ite public or for such a dreadful war as was necessary to kept it intact the tills country can afford to be generous and it ought to be but there is a business limit beyond vi aich neither the beneficiaries nor the ilia body of the ilia people should permit the appropriations to go the money which the government thus distributes comes out of tha the pockets of the tile people its disburse disbursement nie t should be just not reel rec lles leks there ia is food for young americas rising ambition in in this subject more ito ite and exhaustless than anything yet proposed by current statesmanship an item for the salt lake papers col column headed heard in hotels 1 I like salt like city pretty well especially ally that part b tween the tile additions lor for which there is no water and those these in which w kiich there were is nothing but water but that part is small and the speculators are ruining it this remark u was ai heard in a salt lake hotel yesterday KI 40 As ABOUT 0 UT M metropolises ses or r met or whichever is the proper plural of this tills sin gular noun wo we feel called upon to fay toy that it more people arc are to congregate and travel upon streets than waa was cate case yesterday eight rod th elior orthe are Pear cely coly wido enough for or comfort com tort the genus homo was w as out in thou thousands sandi IT m w a shame that secretary win som tom and his wall street friends VM ill not practice the golden GoIden rule in the matter ot of silver |