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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-28
ACT PROMPTLY.

The idea advanced in THE HERALD the
other morning of the taxpayers combining
in an effort to enioin the city council from
selling 100000 worth of municipal bonds
has struck popular chord. If somebody
Will take the initiative the movement will
receive the support Of pretty nearly every
body who owns a dollars worth of taxable
property within the corporation limits
Seemingly everybody is thinking of the
future. Everybody is impatiently await
ing the arrival of February. 1892, when the
present incompetent government, to use the
rlildest term applicable to the city hall
crowd, will be kicked out erybody wants
to be in at the kicking, and those who were
active in the work of turning the city over
to the gang are most eager to engage in the
booting. But all realize that thirteen
months must pass before the coming of
February, and rejecting upon what the
past eleven months have wrought, all are
fearful that before the next election Salt
Lake viii be so heavily afflicted that it will
require generation of high taxes and rigid
economy to recover from the two years of
recklessness, extravaganza and incompe-
tency. If the municipal expenditures dur
ing the coming thirteen months shall keep
pace with those since February last. not
only will the revenue of the corporation be
exhausted, but the city debt will be at the
| legal limit and the municipality be simply
stranded financially. Congress has wisely
prohibited municipal corporations in the
territories from mourning debts which shall
J o in no 4
assessed valuation of the taxable propertv
within the city. 1t is unfortunate in cur
case that the Indebtedness limit was not
made much lower than it is. Congress knew
that there was apt to be recklessness in the
western towns, but it certainly never con
templated that such gang as is in control
here would ever be placed in power.
Already this city has bonded debt of hall
a million dollars and unless something shall
be done to prevent within a month the OBJ
legation viii be increased to $500, 900, OF
one half the amount which the corporation
can legally borrow The remaining half
will be no more than the council will
squancer at the rate it is going, and the
new council will be installed to find that
the entire revenue will be consumed by the
interest charges and tae absolutely neces
sary expenses Of government. not d ollar
being left for needed improvements
We submit that to allow this condition
of things to exist viii not only be disastrous
to the municipality, giving it black eye
before the world and retarding it in the
splendid progress which it should make
but will be unjust and cruel to the gooc
men who will be chosen to succeed the
present gang. If anything is to be done i
is time that action was taken In few
days it will be too late. The bonds Will bt
sold, the debt incurred and the money
squandered, as SO much has been squan.
dered since last February
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ALASKA.

The people of Alaska are enterprising
and they have chosen an enterprising
gentleman to represent them in Washing
ton. His name is JAMES CARROLL and last
fall he was elected Delegate to Congress
from that territory, proceeding at once to
the national capital where he has just ar
rived. As Alaska is without an organic act
and virtually without government, Mr..
CARRoLL's election meant nothing and his
application for seat in Congress is not
likely 30 meet with a favorable response.
He seems TO have understood the matter
before he left home, and went up to Wash
lngton prepared to make the government a
business proposition in the almost certain
event of the denial of his claim to Dele
gateship. The proposition is nothing less
than an offer to buy Alaska from the
nation, He will tender Sl4.000,000, or
twice what the country cost when it was
purchased from Russia quarter of cen
fury ago, and he will offer to pay the
amount in $50 gold pieces. The people up
there want a government of some sort, and
as the United States do not seem disposed
to favor them they think that the thing to
do is to buy the land and set up govern
ment of their OWL and according TO their
liking. 1t is hardly among the probabli-
ties that the government will sell, as it is
not in the real estate business; but it is
worth while to mention the matter for the
purpose of calling attention TO the fact that
wherever you ind Americans you will
find enterprising men, eager for office,
eager for politics and eager to engage in
real estate speculations.
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DRIVE THEM OUT.

Isn't it time that the public took some
action towards breaking this reign
of terror and relieving the city from the
odinm of furnishing a safe asylum for a
band of thieves and footpads! Ever since
last winter honest citizens have lived in
more or less fear They have felt that
their lives were in danger, and they retire
at night more than half believing that in
the morning they will discover that burg
lars have ransacked their houses and helped
themselves to such valuableS as were re-
movable and could be easily disposed of.
Probably half the men in the city are car
rying pistols, and if they go on the streets
after nightfall they walk in the
middle of the road or nervously
turn corners. Burglaries are of al
most nightly occurrence, and if belatcd
pedestrians are not 'heId up'' every night,
on some nights several parties are as
saulted and made to hand over their money
and watches. At least two men were muir
dered by the sand-baggers last summer,
and that more were not killed is due to the
precautions and watchfulness which indi-
viduals We're obliged TO take and main
tain. The police seem absolutely
powerless in the premises Matters
could hardly be worse if there were
no policemen, for men have to protect
themselves or so without protection, and
the arrest Of foot pad or burglar is such
rare occurrence that when one of the
fellows is gathered in the entire community
is astonished quite as much as it is pleased.
In times past Salt Lake has been terror
to evil doors. The tough element found
this city good place to avoid If roughs
and desperadoes came here they were very
early impressed with the idea that the eli
mate was peculiarly unhealthy for them,
and that the best thing they could do
~as to move on. We believe that the repu-
taton of the city in this matter can be
restored, and that the scoundrels who are
herding here in such numbers and eXercis-
ing such an awful influence over the com
munity can be driven out or made TO serve
the public behind the bars. The old plan
for protecting the public and getting rid of
the toughs was for special officers TO patrol
the city beyond the beats of the regular
policemen. Private citizens of good repu-
tation were commissioned to this duty, and
were given authority to compel suspicious
characters found proving about at I'M
seemly hours of the night to give an &C
count of themselves. It would require but
a lstle while of this watchfulness to scat
ter the toughs, and convince them that thew
and not good citizens were in danger. We
believe that if hundred, or even fifty,
citizens were to patrol the city away from
the central district for few nights hold
ups and hurglaries would cease, and the
sand baggers and thieves who lind here
such pleasant and profitable field for their
operations would seek other pastures.
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and if he did not think it wicked, as well
as unlawful, to take his beverage over the
bar on Sunday, we believe we are stating
the truth when we say ne could to- day
enter the front door of any OF dozen
whisky saloons and get just what he might
call for by paying the regular price. We
also believe that if he were in doubt as to
his ability to enter the front door
any of the policemen whom he
has appointed would take pleasure in
escorting him. We also believe that
marshal and police that the Sunday closing
ordinance must be enforced against whis-
KY sellers as well as against BARRIERS,
merchants and shop keepers, saloons
would be shut on Sunday, and on Monday
morning the police magistrate would not
pass sentence on an assorted collection of
DRINKS. Why doesn't Mayor SCOTT say
this to the marshall Is it because his
honor remembers last February and re-
calls how hard the whisky men worked for
his election. Is it because he has in his
possession a list of the contributors to the
campaign fund, and finds in that list that
a large portion of the money which was
spent by his party last winter came from
bar tills?
Bat this is the last Sunday in the year.
Let us hope that it will be signalized by
some sort of effort on the part of the mu-
nicipal authorities to close the saloons and
let the rum sellers understand that there is
an ordinance against their traffic, and that
the public sentiment is overwhelmingly in
favor Of the strict enforcement of the law.
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Put to the Test.

Travers-I want to ask you question.
Suppose that five years from now l should
be walking the street clothed literally in
rags, wearing battered old hat and shoes
full of holes. Would you think enough
of me then to take me by the hand, buy
me new outfit, give me a bath, put s. in
my hand and send me away with your
blessing.
Dashaway-Why, of course 1 would
How absurd
Travers-Then bring the scene little
nearer. Suppose that in four years from
now you should meet me as I have de-
scribed myself, with this eption-that
had on good hat. Would you still do the
square thing?
Dashaway-Why certainly. What
Travers-Make it still nearer. Call il
three years, and say 1 didn't need bath.
Throw off the blessing and make it two
years.
Dashaway facetiously)-Make it year
with good pair of shoes, Ell? Substitute
new suit and-(a great light dawning on
him) Obi
Travers-And if you are man of your
word yon let me have that $5-Tom Mas
son in Clothier and Publisher.
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NOT LUCKY ENOUGH TO LOSE 1T.
The Disappointed Traveller Whose Bag
-ape WAS Found for Him

The Disappointed Traveller Whose Bag
Gage Was Found for Him.
He entered the lost baggage room with
truculent air and said angrily:
Now, Pm not going to wait any longer
for that trunk or come here again tC find
it. My wife cannot get along another day
without her sealskin sacque, so shall go
aud buy her another at once and you must
pay for it. Her diamond earrings, tool
shall be unable to match them, | am sure,
at any cost, and what can your dirty
money do toward restoring my fathers
gold medals awarded him for personal
acts of bravery on the field of battle? It's
a shame, sir, that the carelessness of the
employees of the road has caused me so
serious loss, not to mention the time I
have spent in running after you to demand
my trunk or its equivalent. Now, when
will you settle up? Five hundred dollars
is the figure, and I'll not take one cent
lessP' and his voice rose almost to n scream
as he stamped on the floor in his indigna-
ton.
what did you say the number of your
check was?" asked the imperturbable of
fetal.
you've asked me that, sir, at least
twice every time have called here to de-
mand my trunkr' shouted the aggrieved
traveller. 81 should think you would get
to remember it after while. 1t is 0,616,
and don't you forget it."'
''We have no trunk with corresponding
check on" returned the baggage master,
''buG there are number of boxes that
were hauled out of the wreck up the road
last night in slightly damaged condition
! al in No mil ta.
yours may be among them"
mo such good luck" growled the in
jured man, but he turned and scanned
with some anxiety the loads of trunks be-
! ing wheeled in.
mo. 940616," shouted the baggage mas
ter, as he hauled down battered box.
Here you are, sir! Sorry to say the lock
has been smashed off and the cover knocked
cornerways. But / dare say the sealskin
and diamonds and medals are all SAFE"
and he lifted the lid.
stop thatp' yelled the owner, as he got
red in the face. Glow dare you open my
trunk sir?'
But the baggage master was too quick
for him and whisked off the top of the con-
tents soiled linen buster, displaying I'M
derneath pair of long leather boots, some
celluloid cuffs, q patent clothes wringer
and bundle of circulars expatiating on
the virtues of the latter. Only these and
nothing more.
"Why, you lying''- began the baggage
master, as he turned On the claimant, but
the man was gone.
Next day boy came with the check for
the trunk and carried it away on his shout.
der.-New York Tribune.
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A PROTECTION paper hereabouts has been
lauding France as specimen of country
growing rich under protective tariff.
The wealth of France, which is consider
ably less than that of England, is not due
to protection, but to the economy of its
people. The French are the most economical
people in the world, and it is said that a
French family will live on what an English
family wastes. The national debt of
France is now $6,O6O 600, 600, more than
three times the debt of the United States.
The national tax per head of each person
in France is $50 a year, as against IS year
in this country; and the annual deficit in
the French budgets is nearly as great as
the surplus in our treasury. The French
are not resorting to heavy taxation for the
purpose Of growing rich, then, but merely
for the purpose OF meeting the tremendous
expenses of the government.
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year, was 81 cents a pound. In 1872
scarcity ran the price up again, but since
that year the price of home wool has de-
ciined from year to year, the average east
ern price in 1890 being 80 cents.
Not only did the tariff iniuriously affect
the price of home wool, but it diminished
the wool clip in most of the older states,
while that of the whole country has fallen
lar behind what it should have been had
lhe WOOL industry even kept pace with the
population. The total clip in 1867 was
l60,OOO0O0 pounds, and ia 1890 26S, 0O0, COO
pounds. Meantime the population and
wealth OF the country had doubled, while
the wool product failed to keep up with the
development Of the country in other di-
rections.
still worse showing is made
II we compare the number of sheep
before and since the enactment Of
the wool tariff. In 1867, the num-
Der OF sheep in this country WIS SO, 100000;
IN 1877, after ten years of protection it
was 30, SEQ, 900; in 1880 it is only 100000.
Had the number of sheep kept anywhere
near the increasing population, the number
OF wool-backs should now be about $4,000,
600.
There is no politics in the statements
here given. The National association of
wool manufacturers say the same thing.
Their president in 1885 said: ''The Ameri-
can manufacturer to compete with the
fabrics of other nations in the endless vari-
ETY. demanded by our times, must have the
power of selecting a portion of his raw ma
terial from all the worlds sources of sup
ply. To-day England, France and Ger
many enjoy practically monopoly of the
trade Of the world in wooden manufactures.
These countries, by admitting woods free,
have created a demand for their home
WOODS in excess Of the total amount of all
woods required to clothe their people; and
after giving their laborers additional en-
ployment, export more wool than they
have imported. Our tariff at once deprives
our farmers of their market for wool, and
gives to English, French and German oper-
atives the employment that naturally be-
longs to American workmen''
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IT HAS been limited that agents of Senator
INGALLS, have ''won'' enough Farmers
Alliance members of the Kansas legislature
to insure his reelection to the Senate. II
this is true the Kansas farmers win here
after, when in distress, appeal to an un-
sympathetic public, and when they burn
corn for fuel because there is no market for
the grain, people will say it serves them
right But we are not going to believe
any Farmers Alliance men are either sc
stupid or SO corrupt that they will vote tc
keep INGALLS, in the Senate.
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An OVERSIGHT.

First Traveler-It is remarkable how
quickly the savage takes to style. When
l was in Africa [ gave one of the chiefs an
old dress suit, and, do you know, he would
not wear that suit before shutdown. Seem
ed to know instinctively what was the
right thing.
Second Traveler-Pshawl did the same
thing, but the chief gave my suit to wore
it all hours of the day.
First Traveler-Yes. 1 remember. But
you evidently forget that your suit was
made in st. Louis.-Clothier and Fur
niSher.
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Hard OH Poor Willie.

WEAKLY" said Willie Washington, 81
am not always mildly conversational.
Sometimes speak my mind, you know"
Eyes" replied Miss Pepperton, II have
frequently noticed your long silences."-
Washington Post.
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A Little Good Advice.

Jones suddenly stopped eating his break
fast and shouted: 'These outlets are
abominablel Why, those you bought q
week ago were lovely"
"Well, | bought 'em Of the same butcher,
any way"
'Well, you miserable idiot! what's that
got to do with it? You don't shave outlets
off the butcher, do you?"-Judge.
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tor, which in the case mentioned, we should
think would not be difficult to do. This
payment is legal because that is the law;
it is unjust, and. we think, unconstitu-
tional, but to prove this would require
legal contest with the city by the taxpayers,
and a decision of the court.
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AT HER afternoon tea one day last week,
Mrs. AsToR received 5000 guests. Either
MCALLIsTER is as bad in his mathematics
as in his grammar, or the Four Hundred
have increased very rapidly within two
wears
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An Exnansira Smile.

Hostetter McGinnis-Did you give the
bouquet TO the young lady?
Sam Johnsing-Yes, sab.
did she smile?"
''She did, sah.''
''Did she smile pleasantly"
eyes, sab; she smiled jess like I mout if
you gives me half dollar.-Texas Sift-
ings.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

ESTATE OF WILLIAM ]. PLAYER, DE3
III ceased. Notice is hereby given by the unl
tersigned, administrator OF the estate of WI.
liam j. PLAYER, deceased. to the creditors oil
and all persons having claims against the said
deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary,
vouchers within ten months after the first pub
ication OF this notice, to the said administrator
at his residence, No, 245 North Fifth West
street, Salt Lake city, in the county of Salx
Lake. GEORGE c. RISER, JR.
Administrator of the estate OF William Z
Player, deceased.
Dated Salt Lake City. Nov. sc, 1890
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Large Results.

Johnny Cumso-Did you go fishin
yesterday?
Freddy Fangle-Yep.
Johnny Cumso-Wojjer catch?
Freddy Fangle-Five fish and whip.
pin'.-Judge.
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Dirty Dickson-Puggsy's gittin' to be
reg'ler dude.
Weary Watkins-Whaz he done?
Dirty Dickson-He washed hisself this
mornin'. West Shore.
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Hard Job.

Hard JOB.
Children" said their mother, "you
must go out of doors if you want to
play. You will disturb your father a
The next room"
"What is he doin'?"
"He is deeply engaged in literary
work, my child, and he needs absolute
quiet"
"Writin' book?'
"More difficult than that, my dear"
answered the mother, in a hushed tone.
"He is trying to read dialect story in
one of the magazines. Chicago Trib-
uue.
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Sohmer Pianos.
TOO Much to Expect Even of Him.

TOO Much to Expect Even of Him.
$50 you are looking for an honest
man." said a friend of Diogenes to him.
Eyes, sir"
"How will you recognize one when
you see him."
"He will return a borrowed lead pen
Gil. Washington Post.
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Cunning Jack.

Ethel cannot be your wife. I'm sure
we couldn't be happy together. g.
Jack-Oh, you do not know me well
enough yet.
Ethel have known you all my life.
Jack-But that isn't long
They were married next week.-New
York Herald.
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A Fortunate Find.

"Here, waiter, what's this I find at the
bottom of the soup bowie"
well, sab, declar to goodness if dem
amt de cooks false teet what she's been
lookin' for high and low. "-Binghamton
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Conductor-Ticket, please!
Dead Beat-I travel on my cheek.
Conductor-Very well; which cheek
do you prefer to travel on?-Pucl.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

n Cottages or Residences for rent, accounts
for collection or wishing to either Purchase or
sell business of any description, will find it to
their advantage to call on LEON DELANEY,
of the Salt Lake General Commercial Agency,
for we have tenants for residences with from
two to eight rooms, in all parts OF the city.
Restaurants, Laundries, Groceries, Lodging
Houses, Meat Markets, ETC., for sale
MONEY TO LOAN, ISL S. NAM
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The Same. Yet Different,

First Amateur Photographer-Did that
expert show you how it was done?
Second Amateur Photographer-Yes,
but he didn't show me how to do it,
Life.
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Over.cted.

She Gin the background)-I wonder who
those people at the other table are. Pm
sure it's a bridal couple.
He-Why?
She-Well, they look as if they didn't
know each othes-Life.
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Entered at the Postofice Of Salt Lake City
Utah, for transmission through the mails ~
second class matter
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PG,Giss re'1o0,79 from ons ploce 10 another, ana
desiring papsrs changed, stottd dE'0ays QtueJofzssr
as aeH az present address.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

ESTATE OF NANCY PLAYER, De-
~ ceased. Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, administrator OF the estate OF
Nancy Player, deceased, to the creditors of, and
all persons having claims against the said de-
ceased, to exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers, within ten months after the first pub
iication of this notice, to the said administration
at his residence, No. 245 North, Fifth Wesr
street, Salt Lake city, in the county of Sals
Lake. GEO G. RISER JR
Administrator Of the estate of William j.
! Player, deceased.
Dated Salt Lake city, November 30. 1890.
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Leader.