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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
A RAILWAYS BLUNDERS.

One can understand how an Individual or
railway company can make mistake
which will bring evil results upon him or
it; but one cannot understand why an in
dividual or a railway company will repeat
its mistake, all the time knowing that the
consequences viii be bad The Union
Pacific persists in pursuing a mistaken
policy in its treatment of Cache valley.
when it must know that it is getting the
worst OF it. few years ago the company
thought 1t had the people of Cache where
they could not help themselves, and it pro-
ceeded to squeeze them in most merciless
manner. Freight rates were raised and the
price CT coal was placed at an exorbitant
figure. Protests were unheeded, because
the railway company had an idea that the
community was at its mercy and would
have to yield. 1t was a mistake on the mart
of the railroad, and costly one The peo
pie refused to patronize the company.
Teams from all parts of the valley
were put on the road and a
formidable freight line was established be-
tween Ogden and Logan. Hundreds of
tons of coal and thousands of dollars worth
of merchandise were hauled into the valley
by horse and mule teams, and produce was
taken out. The people patronized the
teams as patriotic duty, and boycotted
the railroad. Finally the railway officials,
who had been lordly in their bearing at the
outset weakened and grew humble. and
they were glad to make peace on rea son-
able terms. That mistake was an expens-
i've one, costing the company good manv
thousand dollars, and the people have never
since come to feel a very high regard for
the Union Pacific. Similar blunders along
the same line as that referred to have since
been perpetrated, and few days ago the
the company increased the freight rates so
outrageously that heavy firm refused to
submit to the extortion, but sent
a hundred thousand pounds or more
of freiget forward by mule teams.
The error of applying the ''cinch" has again
been seen, and it is said that the railway
company has again weakened, the mule
team competition being too much for it.
These malicious blunders will be carried
too far one of these days. BY and by the
people will conclude that it will be cheaper
ana better to lnaugurate permanent boy
colt of the Union Pacific by building, or in
ducing another company to build, a road
into the valley. The oppressed people are
steadily being aggravated into a frame of
mind which in time will induce them to see
to it that they are no longer at the mercy of
company whose treatment of their rich
county has been unfriendly, to say the
least One of these days the Cache folks
viii make it to the interest of the Central
Pacific or the Rio Grand Western to
run branch into that valley, and
when that shall be done it will
hardly be worth the while of the Union
Pacific to maintain stations in Cache, so
little patronage will it receive from the
community which it has SO long oppressed.
1t would be better for all concerned if the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
A FANATICS PROPOSITION.

Representative SWEET, of Idaho, has pc
culiar ideas of the authority of Congress
over the persons and property of individ-
uals. The other day Mr.. SWEET introduced
in the House bill providing that the chart
ers OF national banks which loan money on
specific gold contracts shall be forfeited
The right to do with his own as he pleases
so long as he Injuries nobody has been pretty
well confirmed to the Individual. If JOHN
SMITH wants to loan money and in lieu OF
cash to receive potatoes and onions for both
interest and principal that is the concern of
himself and the borrower, and of nobody
else. The contract is between them, and
Congress has no more to do with it than it
has to do with the number of courses in a
citizens dinner. So if SMITH loans BROWN
gold and insists upon payment in gold con-
tract to that effect being agreed to and
signed by Brown, we fail to discover the
moral or legal right of Congress to punish
SMITH or say to BROWN that he may re-
pudlate the contract and pay in silver,
paper, copper or carrots. If the note were
payable in lawful money and the lender
should refuse to accept anything but gold
then the government could step in and
compel SMITH to receive any lawful money
which might be rendered. California set
tied the question involved in Mr.. SWEETS
bill, when it kept its finances at a gold
basis during the war, Notwithstanding the
fact that the money of the country else
where was greenbacks and gold was at a
varying premium. Only gold circulated in
California, and government was powerless
to enforce what Mr.. SWEET would attempt
with his bill. And so it will be if the Idaho
statesman's bill shall become law A
contract calling for gold will be valid and
courts will so hold. 1t would be a sad con-
dition of things which would follow if
Congress could and would punish man or
bank for asking only its rights.
But the bill will not pass. IT will be
merely considered as an evidence of the ex-
IRENE to which a mans mania may lead
him. Congressman SWEET is fanatic on
the subject of silver
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
FUN FOR FREE TRADERS.

Fridays HERALD contained the follow.
ing: 1--WE had occasion to remark the
other day that the price of pig iron abroad
IS about Sl5; in this country about $50.
The tariff tax of S6.72 On each ton is thus
added to the price of every ton of domestic
pig iron sold here.
The wages paid in the production of a
ton OF pig iron is 1886. That is, the tariff
tax, which enables each manufacturer of
pig iron to get $6.72 more for each ton than
the foreign iron sells for, pays the wages
OF all employees and also bonus of 1887
over and above every cent of wages paid
IN the production of the iron.
Here is the Tribune's latest attempt al
answering this fact:
Now, if a ton of iron can be produced in
England at S335, what THE HERALD saws it is
produced for in this country is it not clear &C.
cording to THE HERALD's figures that for every
ton of iron they make they clear the outrageous
sum of So so!
mo, it Is not clear; to produce ton of
Iro costs from $40 to S13 either here or in
England; Of this amount S3.35 is paid for
wages in this country, and more than that
amount in England. But to eqlalize the
difference N labor cost, in wages paid, in
the respective amounts paid to the work
men in each country 1--WE wish we could
make this clear to our dull neighbor), q
tariff of S.. is levied by the government
and charged by the home producer on each
ton he sells, thus paying the wages of all
his men and leaving him as much more in
his pocket.
''Notice that the tariff is not levied, nor
has the most brazen defender of it ever
dared to say it was levied, to enable the
home producer to buy his land, machinery,
mills, raw materials, etc.; but only to make
up the difference between the wages paid
in production here and abroad and as the
total wages paid here on ton of pig iron
mot the difference, mark is only So 35,
while tie tariff taxed and charged is Sc. 70,
it will be seen what the latest subterfuge
of the protection organ amounts tor
The reply the Tribune makes to the fore
going Is so rich that we here quote the
whole of it:
Surely the HERALD was in a bad humor when
1t published that, else it would not have pub
lished it at all. because there is no sense in it.
looked at from either way, but in point of fact,
the men with capital do not mean to invest that
capital where they know they are going to lose
it; but when the government lays a certain
tariff On an article and men with capital see
that under that tarin they will, by investing
their money, be able to make fair interest
upon it, they make the investment The tariff
is not levied to enable the home producer to
buy his plant but it is levied to induce home
capitalists TO establish plants. That is the diff
ference.
Our aversion towards cruelty to animals
prevents US from following the argument
of our opponent with more facts on this
point.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
REDFERN'S LATEST IDEAS.
Newest Hats That Delight the Eve and
Deplete the Purse,

New YORK. Feb. 10, 1S91.-TSpecial cor
respondence of THE HERALD. l.
AS passed down the street, I saw on evar1
side signs that the season of flowers had been.
Here we're girls bearing baskets of sweet-smeII-
ing violets, and there, a street stall with it's
fragrant load of humble prmroses.- Ualte,
BeSdBt.
AS we walked the Avenue and Broadway
where novelty seekers most do congregate
1t is to find the florists windows quite
eclipsed, out-blossomed, if one may use the
phrase, by the display at the fashionable
miiliners'. For, early as it is, the spring
millinery are nevertheless already on hand,
to be studied and admired and to make
Womankind collectively yearn for the balmv
days to come when she may cast aside felt
and feathers of the present, and shine forth
radiant butterfly in straw, and lace and
flowers galore, personification, at least as
far as the bonnet goes, of spring itself
FROM the indications of these first SAMPLES
IL Is evident that the succeeding season will
be one OF flowers. This is not surprising.
Tor no more appropriate trimming can he
found, and the flowers are such perfect
limitations OF nature that it is impossible to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

sists in none but the ''unco' guden men,
oers OF the Idaho legislature can discover.
II Is unconstitutional by the fourteenth
amendment, which provides that ''No state
shall deprive any person Of life, liberty and
property without due process of law, nor
deny to any person within its Jurisdiction
| the equal protection Of the laws.''
The right to vote and hold Office is at first
political privilege merely; but when once
acquired it becomes vested right, prop
erty, kind of liberty that is highly priced !;
1t cannot be taken from those who possess
1t without due process of law"
A legislative enactment is not "due pro-
cess OF law;" if it were, then bills of at
talnder, of pains and penalties, acts di-
rectly transferring one mans estate to an
other, ETC., would be good law if only some
such body of evil ignoramuses as the
Idaho legislature should pass them, and the
constitution could be nullihed at the within
OF state legislators.
due process of law signifies the cor
rectiand orderly proceedings of trial before
some Judicial authority, and nothing less
than trial by competent court is ''due
process of law
Law" as here used in the amendment
to the constitution, means the general law
as embodied in the constitution, and the
usual Interpretation of known and estab-
lished principles of common law that can
not be dispensed with, principles that have
come down to US through Mag IA Charta, the
Petition of Right, the Bill of Rights, and
the Habeas Corpus Act. Law in conflict
| with the constitutional summary of these
charters is not law, and the judicial au-
thority will declare it void.
"By the law of the land" says WEBSTER,
lis most clearly intended the general law
law which hears before it condemns,
which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders
| Judgment only after trial"
The latest outrage in Idaho is worthy OF
the serious consideration of every Ameri
can, as it strikes at the very foundations of
human liberty, and nullifes the constitu-
ton of the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT SYSTEM.

CoALvILLE, UTAH, Feb. 70, 1891.
To the Editor Of THE HERALD.
Please publish in your paper synopsis of
the Australian mode OF voting. Yours respect
fully. W.T.BAII.
THE HERALD has heretofore explained
the Australian system of voting, but as
many requests similar to the above have
lately been received we viii again briefly
explain the operations of the plan which is
gaining so in American public favor, en-
ploylng for the purpose explanatory letters
which were published in the New Haven
Register last summer. In Australia the
election writs are issued by the governor.
these writs appointing the day and place of
the nominations, the day for taking
the poll and the return of the writ. The
nominations are made at public meeting
presided over by the returning officer. who
also supplies the rooms or erects booths
for polling places, appoints presiding of
ficer and a poll clerk for each and has the
ballots printed. They are of the simplest
character, and contain the names of all the
candidates TO be voted for. None but of
fetal voting papers will be accepted at the
polls. In each polling booth are compart-
ments into which voters can retire and be
secure from observation, and in each is a
shelf and pencil for marking ballots. Each
candidate may appoint representative for
every polling place. Ia the polling booth
there can be present only the presiding
officer, the clerk, the candidates and their
representatives and the electors actually
engaged IN voting. On entering
the booth the voter whose name is
on the electoral roll receives one
ballot paper, on the back of which the pre-
siding officer has placed his initials. At
the same time the electors name is checked
off the roll. The voter takes the ballot pa
per into one of the compartments, and with
the pencil strikes out the names of the can
cldates for whom he does not wish to vote.
NO other person than the voter is permitted
to enter the commandment while he remains
there. The voter folds the ballot so as to
conceal the names, brings it out, shows the
back, on which are the initials, to the pre-
siding officer for Identification, and depos
Its it in the ballot box. He then leaves the
booth and is not permitted to re-enter. If
the voter be blind or unable to read. he
may state the fact to the presiding officer.
who thereupon strikes out such names as
the voter may direct. AT the conclusion of
the poll the presiding officer opens the box
and counts the votes in the presence of the
representatives of the candidates, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
If THEY SHOULD LEAVE.

The Idaho state legislature has passed an
election bill which is even more infamous
In its provisions than the old test oath act
of the territory. A synopsis of the bill ap-
peared in THE HERALD's Geographic
columns on Saturday, and a portion of it is
re-stated on this page. Tue Mormons COM
prise fully 35 per cent of the population of
Idaho, and it is saying only truth which
many fair-minded Gentiles of the state
have confessed TO US, to assert that the
Saints are not behind the other people in
the commemorate qualities. They are
honest industrious. hard working, econom-
ical, trustworthy, faithful, law abiding and
progressive. Their towns and villages are
models of peace and good order. Their
farms and gardens are well cultivated !;
they make comfortable homes; they gather
wealth to themselves and the state, and be-
ing permanent residents they form an ele-
ment of strength of which any other COM
monwealth would be proud
Yet Idaho degrades them to the condi-
ton of political slavery; denies them the
rights which good people elsewhere enjoy
and treats them as if they were no better
than the cattle which range on the hills Of
the Gem of the Mountains
OF course they will not do it, but suppose
the Mormons were to pull I'D stakes and
leave Idaho, just as they pulled up stakes
elsewhere to go to the ter1itoryl What
would be the results The entire eastern
and southern sections of the state
would be practically depopulated
The residents would be confined
to the railway stations and the few
stock ranchers, while broad farms and
thriving towns would return to the
wilderness from which they have
been reclaimed by the money, the
enterprise and the toll of the Mormons.
If the Mormons were to gather their be-
longings and cross into Wyoming or come
TO Utah, there would be left in Idaho coun-
ties which would not yield enough taxes to
paw the salaries of the officials. If the
Mormons were to go there would not be
left in some villages enough law-abiding
citizens to preserve order, and the lawless
element would hold sway over vast sec
tions of country.
We say, of course the Mormons are not
going away, and are only indicating what
HOuAu Oo bne CSTOdlu consequence OF Lnelr
departure. They are not going, for all they
have is there. They have reclaimed and
made the country and are going to remain
and enjoy as best they can the fruits of
their toll; and in time sense of decency, of
humanity will come over the people of
Idaho, when justice will be done to the OPP
pressed and prosecuted Mormons, whose
only offense is belief in an unpopular re-
ligion. Meantime it may be well for the
Idaho statesmen to reflect upon the conse-
quences of more than one-third of the pop
ulation of the state going elsewhere to find
homes and Justice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

DOES Mr.. BACON say he and those CAPT.
tallsts back of him will not build railway
to Deep Creek unless the city will sell or
give them the Old Fort block? If he does
say this, then Mr.. BACON and associates
would do well to drop the railway project
and the city should declare with emphasis
that it will not part with the square Mr..
BACON should drop the project because if
the road will not be profitable without that
block it will not be profitable with it;
and the city should refuse to let the square
go on any such terms. because the corpora
ton ought not to induce anybody to invest
money unwisely. What twaddle some
people indulge in.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

makes out statement of the number of
votes cast for each candidate. The
ballots and the lists are then
sealed and sent to the return
ing officer of the district When the
returning officer has received the returns
from all the polling places of the district,
he casts up the total and Immediately
makes public declaration of the return. In
case OF tie he casts the deciding vote.
Inc ballots are held for five years and may
be produced in evidence in court of
justice or before an election committee of
the house.
The Australian ballot laws'' which
nave been adopted in this country have
been greatly modified, but they are based
on the principles in the Australian sys-
tenn, which are secrecy, the proven tion of
intimidation and the avoidance of ballot
box-stuffing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

THE PRESIDENT has selected as the sue
cessor of the late Secretary WINDOW, ex-
Governor FOSTER, of Ohio. If we were a
Republican we would regard the choice as
an excellent one, Governor FOSTER being
not only leader of his party but SPLEEN
did financier. In his ideas of finance he is
in hearty sympathy with the policy of the
administration and the foremost men of the
party. Even Democrats will be glad that
the President has not picked up some
obscure chap and placed him at the head of
the most important department of the gov
ernmant
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

ACCORDING TO the New York World 90
600 men were recently thrown out of en-
ployment in Youngstown, Ohio; $4,000 in
Pittsburg; $4,000 in Cincinnati; 5000 in
St Louis; 100000 in Chicago, and 2OO, 900
in New York. Thus $4,000 men who are
in the habit of working are driven to idle
ness because of disagreements with en-
ployers or the unproftableness of the in
dustries in which they were engaged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
ELECTRIC BITTERs.

This remedy is becoming so well known
and so popular as to need no special men
tion. All who have used Electric Bitters
sing the same song of praise,-A purer
medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed
to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters
will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kid
neys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt
Rheum and other affections caused by i'm
pure blood.-Will drive Malaria from the
system and prevent as well as cure all
Malarial fever3.-For cure of Headache,
Constipation and Indigestion try Electric
Bitters-Entire satisfaction guaranteed,
or money refunded.-Price so cents and
sl.00 per bottle at A. G. Smith g. Co.'s drug
store. 5
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

Union Pacific were to act as if it were not
a monopoly and expected to retain the bust
ness and friendship of the people by treat
ing the latter fairly and with proper con-
sideration; but the experience of the past
fifteen years inclines one to believe that
there viii be no change of policy until change
will not avail
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

accord them too much praise The most
spring-nke OF these artificial blossoms are
the ever charming yiolets, the graceful
lilac sprays, and those hardy spring heralds,
the crocus and daffodil. And they will all
be used in profusion and in combination
with lace and fancy straw braids. The fol-
lowing artistic sketches are from the large
millinery department of Redfern's New
York establishment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

We guarantee this to be the best cough
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
A QUESTION IN ARITHMETIC.

The HERALD is a jolly hgurer. 1t tells how
many men were emplo Jed, how much CAPT
tai was employed, and the value of the product
OF the manufactures Of the United States in
1860 and 1880, and figures up that in the latter
year the product was lproportionately1 1O2 pei
cent. less than in the former We thought iOC
per cent. was all there was to anything
Tribune
Now, in all seriousness, we venture to
MAINTAIN that THE HERALD should not be
held wholly responsible for the Trlbune's
ignorance; for though we have been its
teacher for fifteen years, yet we know that
on some points it prefers to remain an i'm
penetrable dullard, and will not learn. We
are panied to near that the Tribune Thought
100 per cent. was all there was to any
thing" and also to observe that
by leaving out our words, Gin pro
portion" it pretends to suppose we
said that $500, $40, 19l was 1O2 per cent.
less than s1,SS5, SCI, 676. For fear our dull
neighbor should commit some such blunder.
Intentionally or otherwise, and thus get a
chance to fly off and discuss some other
than the question in hand, we were partic-
ular to add these words:
We mean, of course, that by school problem
in proportion, the hands, capital, materials and
the time for 1860 are to the product of 1850 as
the hands, capital, materials and time of 1880
are to the product of that year increased by the
percentages given above, which mark the loss
of 1880 as compared with the productiveness Of
hands, capital and materials in $780,
If the editor will perform the operation
we indicate he will find that the actual
product of the free trade ratio of 1860 is rela-
lively 1O2 per cent. greater than the
actual as compared with the theoretical
product Of the projection ratio of $780,
The census furnishes an illustration that
even the Tribune may understand The
population of North Dakota increased 395
per cent. during the last ten years, and that
of South Dakota 234 per cent, while Ne
vada went backward in population 26 per
cent. Would it mott be correct to say that
the last-named state was 421 per cent.
behind North Dakota and 26O per cent be-
hind South Dakota in it's increase,