Show liberalism A FIRE that is a strange heading to an article it what does it mean well it mean that the liberal party has ben cuilty of arson that ie to say that that party has actually applied the torch toa building and destroyed property not exactly that yet there was a disastrous fire in this city yesterday a fre which was really fr A magnificent building a proud bonu ia ment to tho sagacity business enterprise and public spirit of bome 0 ogdena cit izau was almost gutted by firo while numerous tenants boet loet lic vily and in most all eliat they possessed what a pity and thia destruction and loss this and damage to a noble structure is the penalty that ogden paya to liberal stupidity or cupidity in other words thia f preat 1 would have been averted had an chief of the firo department been on the ground directing affairs it wae perfectly well understood when the present chief was appointed eliat he was not in any sense a fireman lie was not selected for his knowledge of handling a conflagration but because he biad earned by political work the kc to practice dud learn tho chief is lesa blamable than those who arc response i ble for ilia appointment wo do not know that mr binford bought his position aa alleged knows whet lier he did or did not pay for the privilege of getting his handin on ano most elegant structure in ogden but that phase of the question need not be discussed at this time it is the unexpected that always happens we shall be agreeably disappointed if insurance rates are not raised the ogilee fire department need reconstructing yeckil journal puts an important fact before advertiser saya the newspaper man when it baya that thero are many who think that an ad vertiE ement in a paper of largo circulation is of no more value than one printed in a paper of meager circulation the value of an advertisement is determined altogether by tho ciraula tian oi diio paper in which it is inserted if there was more judgment exercised 1 on the part of advertisers there would bo anwer of bliem robbed it is a de plora blo fact that most advertisers are to pay alio same price for an advertisement in a paper of cincu u r lation they anro for ono in a paper having circulation it is easy lenough bood advertising medium from a poor one let a merchant look around ills own town and aea what paper gaina entrance to alie place and what paper is roost a ought alter and otte spoken 0 is tho most pro paper in which to the people TUB story thatis told of the familiar way used to have when addressing the members of hia a difference in tho dispositions of men eliat 1 to say if alio alletson alle tion true general Gre ahama familiarity with ilia soldiers went to tho extent of naming them all under one general head namely ir offspring of a female canine decision of the united court in alio casa of st union tele graph company it wee held that alio city ordinance exacting compensation from the company for the use of streets for telegraph poles was valid since then a number have discovered in this decision a new source of revenue oakland cal proposes to leavo its city council pass an ordinance requiring each telegraph and telephone company to pay a certain tax for each polo in the city and it is only right that they should do eo they hare been granted valuable franchises without consideration ogden might profet by adopting a THE BILL which a large number of citizens of idaho passed all right but the reapportionment bill providing for representation for them failed to pass the salt lako herald intimates eliat the democrats cespon eible for clift failure of the reapportionment bill which leads the boise statesmen to observe that the does a great deal of talking through its at on idaho it says further that tho bill was killed by democrats and the killing wad done on the ground that the mormons should not bo taken into account in making an apportionment at this time the british columbia banks now refuse american silver except at a discount of 20 per cent until recently the canadian government lias tailed to furnish enough coin for the transaction of bui enesa and american money was a necessity A few year ago the united states lice department ran of mail bags and on investigation it as found than canada was busine usine our backs almost exclusively bever returning any that the line the ogden says we must hare hawaii it better annex jupiter and then propose to make one liala of the moon state in the american union that satisfy its greed for conquest brovo dispatch there ii probably a joke concealed somewhere in the above lines and if wo ever discover it we promise to have a good laugh over it tm dispatches tell us eliat an indiana is likely to be inflicted upon butali in the capacity of governor this indicates tint G rover does not believe there is democratic material from which to make a selection but grover ia probably mistaken |