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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

to his own as a descriptive soub, .lu. t,
made himself famous.
tits altogether likely that causes nat
ural and unnatural combined are gradually
but steadily exterminating the Chinese
people, Certain it is that no such decad-
ence in point of numbers is anywhere re-
corded in history. Perhaps, within the
lives of many of US who are now in our
prime, the question of opposition to Chi
ness immigration begun by demagogues
and continued mainly by hoodlums and
loafers, will solve itself through the great
demolition that is constantly going on in
the country from whence the obiectiona-
BILE people come. Undoubtedly we can
get along without them; unquestionably
the country would keep on growing in num-
bers, intelligence and wealth, if not
another foreigner from anywhere should
set foot upon our shores; but it is a safe
prediction, because based upon the logic of
facts and past conditions, that the ''little
brown man. will be more missed than
some of the others would be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06
A VILE ISLANDER.

1t does not seem possible that Corporal
TANNER could have made the speech at
tributed to him in the Grand Army conven-
| ton in advocacy of the resolution favoring
an amendment to the pension laws for con-
| tinuing the pensions of soldiers widows
after re-marriage. The speech was sup
pressed and all mention of it eXpunged
from the minutes, but some alleged scraps
were caught by correspondents and sent
over the country. THE HERALD's report
was to the effect that the corporal said that
a continuance Of the pensions would save
the virtue Of many widows of soldiers
| Other papers quote him as saying: 81
want to say that to fail TO adopt some such
rule is TO place a premium upon immor-
atty. There is not a week that there are
not great many cases that come to my
knowledge where women have made lamb
skins OF their virtue to retain a pension"
We say it does not seem possible that
man who had once been a soldier could
make such remarks concerning the widows
of his comrades. He impugns the virtue
of American women, and would make it
appear that it IS money which keeps
them from prostitution. To say
that the s. or Sl2 a month which
the government pays soldiers widow
is the only thing which keeps her pure is
to present an awful charge which the noble
women who gave their husbands to the
country st::indignantly resent. 1t would
be deplorable state of affairs if there were
no other incentive to morality than money,
and the nation were compelled to keep the
widows of its fallen heroes pure by money
brides.
As matter of fact, we believe there are
very few of these widows who would con-
sent to retain their pensions after remar-
riage, and the few is made up of the mer-
cenary creatures who are in no sense
characteristic American women. The true,
right minded American woman is as
patriotic and noble as the American
man, and she would as quickly
resent an imputation that her patriotism
was measured by the money received from
the government. If she accepts a pension
from the nation it is for the reason that her
support was taken from her by the nation
Being again provided for, she is no longer
a willing charge on the republic.
Commissioner TANNER's eagerness to
reduce the surplus and squander the
nations money has led him to make
decidedly bad break this time. if he said
anything that could be construed into the
sentiment he is charged with expressing.
If he did say what is alleged against him.
the Grand Army ought not to have tried
to suppress the utterance, but rather
should have denounced it as an unwar
ranted SANDER on the pure and noble
women who have suffered more than their
share in the loss of their husbands.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06
THE CHINESE ARE GOING.

What with foods and fires, famines and
rebellions and the recent imperial mar
riage, China has hard time of it. The
people are the poorest and the high Officials
the best paid of any nation on the globe.
and it has the greatest population, but if
the Yellow river keeps on as lit has been
going for some time past, the continuance
of the lastnamed condition will be doubt
ful. A few years ago this river broke its
channel and the destruction since has been
beyond computation. 1t inundated an i'm
mense and fertile district has drowned five
or six million persons, and swept homes of
rich and poor alike to the sea at a point
some six hundred miles from its former
mouth. Not far from million of men
have been at work since the Yellow river
began its career of destruction, trying to
bring it back to its original channel. and
millions of dollars have been spent
by the government yet it seems
that it is all to no purpose and
the district through which it runs is likely
% be depOpulated through the direct or in
Is direct action of the aqueous destroyer.
4 short time since, as The HERALD's
readers have already been advised, the Ye!
low river broke from its confines again and
swallowed up half million people ere it's
rapacity for human life was glutted. And
it is thus with everything else that happens
there. When a bosom of destruction
strikes the fiowery land, it does nothing
by halves. Its civil wars kill more men
than those Of any other country on earth
and the reason this is not more appalling is
the fact that dead Cinnamon are seldom
counted, al least not entirely. A famine
there sweeps away human beings by
hundreds of thousands within few
months, and all we know of is that they
are going In immense numbers, nothing fur
ther. A fire, even, does greater
damage as relates to human life and prop
erty than anywhere else on the globe, and
it goes on the record as another big fire
in China; only that and nothing more.
No one knows how many people there
are who acknowledge allegiance nominally
10 the infant KwASG So but really to the
Bismarckian Monaghan Ii HUNG CHANG
The ablest and most industrious among our
ethnologists and statisticians only know
that the figures are colossal, but not so
much so as they were score of years ago
by perhaps a sum representing the total
population of the United States, and it NAV
be more. One proof of this is a reference
to few Of the cities in the interior which
unitedly now do not contain as much popu- |
iation as any one Of them did at the time
spoken of. This was largely caused |
by the great Chinese rebellion in which |
General GoRDoy the Englishman who has
The name Of the Mqugol's erlpire appended
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

the votes of the unthinking masses. The
result is a statute which in time will cost
the country more in dollars than all the
Chinese would have carried away, and all
they would have taken from American
laborers if the doors had been left wide
open to the Mongolians.
To make matters worse now comes a
rumor that agitation has begun, which has
for its object the expulsion from China of
all Americans, and it is said that high
officials are in sympathy with the move
ment. In the United States we could not
blame the Chinese if they were to resort to
this heroic kind Of retaliation, for we set
the example, and did it in defiance of our
governmental theories and institutions. If
we are the more enlightened, the higher
civilized race, we ought not to complain
when the inferior patterns after US.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06
A POINT OF LAW.

a little point of law arose in a local
afford information to others elsewhere,
THE HERALD gives it small amount of
space.
| The question was as to whether or not a
defendant having been convicted of an
offense of which he claimed to be not
guilty, and concerning which he had other
and additional evidence which he had been
unable to obtain on the trial, was entitled
to rehearing when the grounds of his mo-
ton came under the civil practice act but
were not mentioned by the act relating to
criminal cases. There is no question but
the aw-makers meant the penal code to
govern penal offenses and the civil practice
act to control matters coming within its
purview, thus for the sake of regularity
and precision. 1t is always best to estab-
lish system when it can be done without
making an actual departure from the
statutes, the latter course being alto
gathsr out of the question. While
upholding enactments as they are, if there
be conflict, an ambiguity or an unsettled
point, the court errs on the side of right if
he errs at all in constituting such laws in
favor of substantial justice. After all,
this is what the laws are presumed to aim
at and what courts are created to uphold,
the rules of practice, as before suggested,
being merely for the sake of regularity
and the avoidance of confusion.
A man accused of d crime occupies very
unenviable position, whether the ofTense
with which he is charged be light or heavy.
The Whole people are constructively ar
rayed against him. and for that reason and
others he is entitled to various considera-
tons at the hands of a court or jury, among
them being the benefit of any undetermined
or equivocal proposition. While he may
not rely upon the evil code as rule for the
defense of his case, still, it seems TO
US, if there be anything within the
lids of the statute books beneficial to him,
no matter where it appears if it be appli. |
cable, he should receive all the assistance |
from it which the philosophy of the law |
itself and the theory of the case admit of. |
1t is not a part of well regulated and |
justly governed states policy to make |
criminals where by a just construction of |
its code innocence may appear.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06
THE CHINESE RETALIATE.

1t was said at the time of the passage of
the Chinese exclusion act by the Fiftieth
Congress that the Mongolians would find
ways to retaliate The prediction is being
verified, and in a way which Americans
will not relish. Ever since the opening of
commercial relations with China trade
with that country has grown. For twenty
years there was steady and very crafty
ing increase, which promised in the course
of short time to give this country control
of the Chinese import trade, our merchants
and manufacturers fast overcoming compe-
tition. For the first time in nearly a
quarter of a century last year there was a
falling off. and this is attributed directly To
the otfense given by the unwise and dema
gOgic anti-Chinese act. An eastern ex-
change remarks that during the fiscal wear
ending June 30, 1889, the exports of cotton
goods from the United States were valued
at S26, sO6, 030, as against S2S 9l7, 799 in 1885
the decline of more than two million dol.
lars being almost entirely in the trade with
China. In 1888 this country sent to
China 100000 yards of cotton goods
and during the fiscal year recently ended
only "a, 100000 yards, though the prices were
somewhat lower in 1889 than in 1885. Dur
ing the past year the exports of mineral oils
to China aggregated 1857, 76O, while they
amounted to 10, 733, 40 in 1888.
1t is estimated that our trade with China
has fallen off 20 per cent. in one wear. and
no one will dispute that the decline is di-
rectly chargeable to the exclusion act the
Mongolians being angry, and naturally so.
because of our injustice and unfriendliness
They purchase of their friends in prefer
ence to their enemies, just as more enliebt.
ened and higher civilized people are given
to doing, and we should be the last to blame
them.
In time it may occur to American states
men and lawmakers that it is not ALWAYS
wise to submit TO the dictation of the rabble
and make laws with the view to winning
votes. The Chinese exclusion act is as clear
a piece of demagogic legislation as can be
found in the books and both parties are
equally responsible for it. Each tried to
outdo the other in showing obedience to the |
unreasonable agitators. and each went as |
lar as 1t co1ld go in its efforts to secure
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

THE ELECTION of RUSSELL a. ALGER as
chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic for the ensuing year is a good
thing in its way; they wanted him and he
wanted the place, and as it is their exclu-
sive affair no complaints are in order.
assuming the role of prophet even
for this occasion, THE HERALD predicts
that RUSSELL is as high now as he will ever
get, unless he goes to heaven.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

'AlE Too PLAT, of New York, has a
scheme on hand for the colonization of the
Icelanders in Alaska. The reasons for this
remarkable scheme are not stated, but NAV
be an Offset to WADE HAMPToS's plan for
colonizing the negro population of the coun-
try in San Domingo. Colonization seems
the order of the hour, but the snuffed- out
New York statesman should try to concen-
trate his importations where they might do
him some good.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06
Constipation

Demands prompt treatment. The re-
suits of neglect may be serious. Avoid
all harsh and drastic purgatives, the
tendency of which is to weaken the
bowels. The best remedy is Ayers
Pills. Being purely vegetable, their
action is prompt and their effect always
beneficial. They are an admirable
Liver and After-dinner pill, and every
where endorsed by the profession.
Ayers Pills are highly and univer-
sally spoken of by the people about
here. I make daily use of them in my
practice" - DR.. 1. Z. Fowler, Bridge
port, Conn.
81 can recommend Ayers Pills above
all others, having long proved their
value as a cathartic for myself and
family" u. 7. Hess, Leithsville, Pa.
For several years Ayers Pills have
been used in my family. We find them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

THE LIBERALS say they cannot under
stand why the People should begin political
action so long in advance of the election.
The People understand the matter well
enough. They know that in the coming
contest they must fight at disadvantage,
owing to the peculiar condition of things,
the enemy having everything but numbers
of voters on its side; hence early, late and
all-the-time work will be necessary if the
People are to retain their own.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

THE HOT, dry summer has just passed
into history, when are heard apprehensions
of cold, wet winter. One would be ex-
cused for thinking that the terrible exper-
ienceof the past four months would cause
people to welcome all the wet and cold
which winter can produce in the next six
months But man is a contrary amin al, in
spite of himself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

IT IS claimed that Minneapolis has been
guilty of putting hogs in her directory for
the purpose of sizing up with st. Paurs
population. There are precious few direc-
tories that don't contain the names of more
or less Of these animals.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

THE Iowa Republicans demand ''protec.
ton that does not foster trusts or monopo
lies" 1t would also be good plan, and
just as feasible, to have fire without smoke.
earth without dust, and Liberal drum
corps without noise.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

LEGTINE, THE deposed Haytien Presi-
dent, has arrived at New York and he is re-
ported as being red-eyed. He thus main
tains the harmonies in an artistic sense. He
has long been red-handed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06
Effective Remedy

for constipation and indigestion, and
are never without them in the house."
Moses Grenier, Lowell, Mass.
al have used Ayers Pills, for liver
troubles and Indigestion, during many
years, and have always found them
prompt and efficient in their action. -
L. N. Smith, Utica, n. Y.
I suffered from constipation which
assumed such an obstinate form that
feared it would cause q stoppage OF the
bowels. Two boxes of Ayers Pills eff
fected a complete cure. I'D. Burke,
Saco, Me.
az have used Ayers Pills for the past
thirty years and consider them an in
valuable family medicine. 1 know OF
no better remedy for liver troubles,
and have always found them a prompt
cure for dyspepsia. James Quinn, 90
Middle ST., Hartford, Conn.
Having been troubled with costive-
ness, which seems inevitable with per-.
sons of sedentary habits, have tried
Ayers Pills, hoping for relief. I am
glad to say that they have served me
better than any other medicine.
arrive at this conclusion only after q
faithful trial of their merits. - Samuel
I. Jones, Oak ST., Boston, Mass.
Ayers Pills,
PREPARED By
Or. j. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Dealers in Medicine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

A New York policeman recently arrested
little boy and girl for kissing on the
street. There being so much trouble over
our fisheries, he was doubtless ordered to
look out for smacks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

SALT LAkEis getting along very well.
thank you, without boom. If there were
boom on, 1t wouldn't know what to do
with itself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

IT IS not likely that the Liberals OF Salt
Lake viii ''point with pride" to Liberal
rule in Ogden during the coming campaign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

Gray hair is made to resume its youthful
color and beauty by the use of Halls Vege-
table Sicillian Hair Remover, the best pre-
paration known to science -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06

ACCORDING TO the poet, worth makes the
man; but the fellow in Paris who gees by
that name and builds women's gowns,
oftener than otherwise unmakes men.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-06
ANOTHER PRIZE FIGHT

500 per dozen for cabinet photographs
at Newcomb's, in t-Auerbach building.
For this week only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-17
THE CHRISTMAS CLUB.
Seven Hundred Children to be Enter.
tanned in East Washington.

At the meeting of the managers of the East
Washington Childrens Christmas club last
evening the following contributions were an
nounced: Mrs. D. W. Brown, IS; Saks Il Co.,
IS; Frank Weller, ST. T. G. De Moll, 81; O. H.
Hoover, 50; cash, 80; C. T. Havenner, So; DR..
Frank Pitzer, SIS; cash, 25c. cash. &c.. Parker
Dodge, 19c. Mrs. W. C. Dodge, W. W. Dodge,
turkey; W. S. Dodge, 700 plates; cakes, Sum-
ner Bodfish andP P. T. Dodge; Mrs. David Wolf
Brown, cake and l ham; c. G. Carroll, /
turkey; j. t. varnell, turkey, Miss vandoren,
3 cakes. Prof. John P. Sousa will furnish sec
ton Of the Marine band on the occasion Of the
dinner. Clark Bros and Strauss, florists, will
lend plants to decorate the tables, and Jay
Gould will give Christmas card to every
guest. j. H. Soule will donate the tickets Of
invitation, as he done for several years past
stephens assembly, XII, propose to give the
club the use of piano.
The estimates of the dinner committee indi-
cate that 1t will cost about $3.50 to meet all de-
mands. 1t is proposed to issue nearly 700 tick
cts to the poor children of East Washington,
which will entitle them to dinner of turkey.
bread and butter, coffee or milk, apples,
oranges, nuts. raisins and cake, and give each
child a half-pound box of candy and new toy
or doll. The badge adopted is of light-blue
satin ribbon with this inscription printed in
red letters: 'E. W.C.C.C. 49," The pendant
bell is of silver. 1t is expected to realize 1900
from the sale of these badges among the school
children. The names of DIR. J. W. Bayne Mr.
Geo Francis Dawson, Samuel G. Eberly and
DR.. Frank Woodman were added to the finance
committee and Mrs. G. Il. Cook to the dinner
committee. MIR. ]. L. Freeman was made
chairman of the reception committee. Money
may be sent to Mr.. Robert Leitch, treasurer, 326
9th street southeast; clothing to Mrs. G. P.
Hopkins. 635 Massachusetts, avenue northeast,
and toys to Miss Vandoren, 647 East Capitol
street. The club will meet again Saturday
evening next,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-17
AN INDIANA REUNION,
The HOosier Republicans Give a Recep-
ton to the State Delegation in Congress.

The Indiana republican club Of this city
gave a reception last night at the National
Rifles armory to the members of Congress
from the Hooser state. There were fully 600
Indianians present. including many ladies,
whose evening costumes tended to make the
scene brilliant one. The reception was
perfect success, thanks to the untiring and
well-drected efforts of the committee consist
ing Of Messrs W. W. Curry, L. B. Williams
John R. Leonard, Warner Wilhaight, Richard
Durnaw Mrs. Job Barnard Mrs. E. R. Hamil-
ton, Miss Cora Curry, Miss Amanda Garrett
and Miss Mollie Mckee.
Speeches were ruled out and the earlier part
of the evening was devoted to the personal ex-
change of "reminiscences of that part of the world
that is bounded by Michigan. Ohio, Illinois and
kentucky. Refreshments were served and
then the possession of the floor was surrendered
to the dancers. The affair came to an end at
about midnight, to the regret of everybody
present among whom were: Attorney General
Miller, Representatives Owen of Indiana, Fun
ston OF Kansas. Hon. F. B. Posey of Indiana,
Representative John L. Wilson of Washington,
ex-Postmaster General Tyner, United States
Marshal Ransdell. Maj. l.. p. Williams, Hon.
and Mrs. j. N. Huston, Gen. Tyner, Mr.. and
Mrs. P. G. Mitchner Mrs. Palmer, Miss Kelly,
Miss johnson, Miss Marie Lester, Miss Garri-
son, Miss FlorenC, Wilmington, Gen. Whit
tington, Mr. Louis Justice, Mr.. Robert Harris
and Mr.. Will Smith
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-17
c, III. Woodward Arraivned

c. II. Woodward, the alleged bogus employ
ment agent arrested in Pittsburg, wa.
brought into the Criminal Court yesterday
afternoon and arraigned OH the charge of false
pretenses, December 8. He said he had nc
idea that he was doing anything wrong and he
had simply, by failure in business
lost money put in by others. He
did not know where the false pretenses
came in. He had lost his house and home anC
other peoples money with ms own In what he
thought was legitimate business. Having nc
money he could not contend against the Law
and therefore plead guilty.
The court explained the indictment to Wood
ward and he said while he put the letter re
ferred in the mails he denied the false pre-
lenses. He remarked that he was without
means and in custody, while his accusers were
out and would strain every nerve to convict him
His common sense prompted him to say tina
to meet them would be of no avail, although
satisfied if he was at liberty and had a hundred
dollars he could settle the case.
The court declined to take any plea until the
matter could be looked into
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-17
Election of Officers.

The annual meeting of Joseph Henry coun-
Gil, No. 2O7 of the National Union, for the elec-
ton of officers, was held last night at Scottish
Rite hall, No. 1907 street northwest after
which banquet was served at Eders. The
officers elected for 1890 are: President B. Pick
man Mann; vice president, Harry King; speaker
j. b. Boutelle; secretary, Chas. Darwin
financial secretary, G. ID. Davis; treas
urer, j. ID. McChesney; chaplain. Z. J. Som
mer; usher, II. S. Selden; sergeant-at-arms, A.
q. Murlin; doorkeeper. Anton Karl; trustees
/. X. Turnbull, S. c. Brown, Edgar Frisby
representatives in cabinet, B. P Mann, Harry
King, Philip Walker.
The stockholders of the Columbia Title in.
surance company yesterday elected directors as
follows: John Z. Arms, Allen G. Clark, VIM. E
Edmonston, VIM. A. Gordan, VIM. b. Gurley.
Bernard H. Johnston, Jas. NJ. Johnston, Benz.
+. Leighton, Myron u. Parker, Frank T. Raw
hngs, John G. Slater, Edward J. Stellwagen
John S. Swormstedt, Brainard II. Warner ant
Henry K. Willard.