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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

affairs, and the establishment of any par
ticular religious sect or denomination.
What need, then, to thrust any such pro-
visions as these in the constitution OF the
United States?
There are some people out of the
churches who are as bigoted and meddling
as Others who are in the churches. They
are just as eager TO restrict, as the devo-
tees are to enlarge the sphere of what
they deem to be religion. There is no
need to tinker the constitution in either
way. 1t is good enough as it stands. The
states are all right on these questions,
and the trend OF public sentiment is
against any extremes IN either direction.
We should think there is no likelihood
OF any favorable action on the bill, al
though it is stated that its projectors de-
sire it to be passed at the present session +,
with the idea that HARRISON would be
more likely than CLEVELAND to sign it.
If it were to receive the executive sign
manual it is altogether improbable that
it would pass the ordeal of popular criti-
cism. Amendments to the constitution
should only be made on vital national
i-cuec
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

THE BILL introduced in the House at
at Washington to name the pansy as the
national flower, with ''union, culture
and peace, as u motto, viii give rise to
an entertaining discussion. A while back
it was thought the general sentiment
favored the goldenrod, with its ''grace-
full, tossing plume OF glowing gold, wav-
ing lonely on the rocky ledge, or Sin
the PASTURES rude embrace, =" but
OF all the bonny buds that blow
in bright or cloudy weather.
OF all the flowers that come and go
The whole twelve moons together,
The little purple pansy brings
Thoughts of the sweetest. saddest things.
But gold and silver, as well as purple,
belong to the pansy's tri-colored orna-
ments, and perhaps this combination is
as close as botany affords to the red,
white and blue, which are our national
colors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20
A Momentous Question.

Our morning contemporary affects to
believe that "outside few chefs OF tie
church and few politicians there is not
the slightest anxiety for statehood. It
Is but few days since it was SO stirred up
over the possibility of immediate state
hood that it sounded the alarm in long
drawn blasts and warned the world OF
what would be the direful consequences.
Last Wednesday it affirmed that:
ssThere are q whole lot OF gentlemen
who expect TO be appointed to territorial
Offices early in the spring. When that
shall De done, those gentlemen naturally
will not be in a hurry for statehood
because statehood might interfere with
their Offices.
But see how quickly it turns about and
declares the opposite. only five days
later it says:
Now, the men who expect Offices are
the very men who are urging statehood. -
Last Thursday it admitted that:
ssThere is no one who doubts the ca
pacity, so far as property is concerned, OF
Utah to sustain statehood. Under nor
NAL conditions every American prefers to
live in a state rather than a territory re +
'sThere is no one who would not be
glad to think that statehood was coming
if he had no fears of what it would
bring"
Now it would have us believe that with
the exception OF three Democrats in Con-
gress whom it names with slur, O. Jew
chiefs of the Mormon church and few
politicians, nobody wants statehood; and
further that
''There is not man in this territory
that can point to an industry that would
be improved by it or any good that would
come OF it.
THE HERALD has not taken the ground
that there is any excitement in Utah over
this question, but it has simply stated the
situation as it is, and the general public
sentiment in relation to it. That the peo-
pie of Utah do take an interest
in the subject is evident from
the attention bestowed on it BY
by our country contempt and the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20
A Budget OF Smiles.

Baltimore american: The roll call is
frequently heard at the BAKERS.
Lowell Courier: 1t doesn't always
take the ruffles out of a mans temper TO
iron him.
Atchison Globe: The trouble is that
when a man needs his nerve most he can't
find it.
Boston Transcript: An Irish friend in
sists that the CHIEF pleasure in kissing a
pretty girl is when she won't let you.
Elmira Gazette: Jagson says the only
thing in his house that doesn't seem to
collect dust is his boys savings bank.
Truth: Charlie-Miss Flyppe's stock
ings are extensively clicked. Jack-Yes.
They re extensively watched too.
Tit-Bits: sob, papal 1 know what
makes people laugh in their sleevesi"
swell. my son, what makes them?''
" Cause that's where their fuzzy bone
is!n
Chicago Inter Ocean: 81 hear Bingley
is trying to make an artist of his son; has
he done any work yet?' Speakquick-
Oh, yes; he draws on his father regu-
larly."
Puck: More Digestible-Charlie Live
wayte-Why do you Bostonians eat baked
beans? Athena Hubbs-The progress OF
evolution. We gave up eating them raw
several links ago.
New York Weskly: Old Friend-And so
both OF your children are studying profess
sions? Hostess y es: my daughter is in
a polytechnic college studying mechani-
cal engineering and my son is in Paris
learning dresSmakinp
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20
Park CITY Troubles.

News from Park City has been rather
depressing of late. The discharge OF hands
on some of the mines and the failure of the
Ontario to pay its usual dividend, with
the consequent lowering OF its stocks on
the New York market, have combined to
give some folks the blues.
The Park City Record contends that
while there is room for complaint, affairs
at the Park ''are not half so bad as the re-
ports that are coming in from all the min
ing camps of Utah, Colorado, Montana,
Idaho and Nevada 1t says that only
$50 men have been laid off, all told, in
Park City. 1t does not see any cause for
alarm and declares that "before spring
men will be laughing at the present
troubles
1t is quite right for the Record to put
on a cheerful countenance and encourage
the people who depend on the mines tor
trade and support. That is far better
than brooding over present ills and an
ticipating further troubles. Still, it is
fact that the winter opens gIoomily for a
good many working people up in the
mountains and for merchants who de-
pend upon their trade.
Miners are proverbially improvident
They earn good wages and spend them
freely. When adversely comes few of
them have anything laid up for its con-
tingencies. Perhaps this may be said of
the majority OF laboring people. Most of
these, however, do not earn miners
wages and it would only be common
prudence for the mining class, being
abundantly able, to put by a portion OF
their earnings and thus be prepared to
look serenely at a clay OFF,
The depression in the price of silver is
the cause of the present blight upon the
mining industry of the west. But the
probability is that this will be lifted.
Silver will be subject to these fluctuations
while it is degraded to the status of
mere commodity. But it has its ''ups''
as well as downs" and the next turn
of the wheel of trade viii doubtless give
it rise,
AS to the Ontario, it looks as though an
effort was being made to bear its stocks.
We do not believe its shares viii go
a-begging, but short time viii develop
the fact that the great silver mine OF
Utah is as good if not better than ever,
and the prosperity of the Ontario means
the prosperity of Park City. We echo
the opinion OF the Record that "Park City
is all right. .
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20
Irrigation Enterprises.

mountain region known that its great
material need is water for irrigation.
Millions of acres OF excellent land are
now desert waste for want OF the fertil-
izing fluid. Some portions of it can be
utilized for what is called dry farming,
which depends upon such showers as may
fall upon it from the skies. But by far
the greater area is incapable OF producing
crops without artificial irrigation. Any
person or company that viii turn
natural source OF supply so that it can be
made to flow upon such soil will become
public benefactor and make money by
the transaction.
In Utah most of the cultivated land has
been watered by individual or coopera-
tive efforts. The policy has been to ar
range matters so that water rights as far
as possible shall go with land rights.
The irrigation companies that have
been formed under territorial laws
have been composed of land owners
and tillers, who have united for
mutual benefit. Corporations to make
canals and sell or rent the water
have not been numerous. This has
hitheto worked well. But as the need of
arabic land becomes more pressing, it is
probable that water companies will be
formed for large enterprises. after the
fashion prevailing in other places.
Considerable mention has been made in
the papers about corporations for the i'm
provement OF lands in Idaho There is
one enterprise of this character which
seems to promise good results, and
which is worthy the attention of Utah
people seeking a new location. 1t is
known as the Bruneau canal.
Fully seven years ago a company was
formed to take out the water of the Blu
neau river and conduct it upon a portion
of the Snake river valley. It is called the
Owyhee Land and Irrigation company,
with capital OF million and half.
The arid region proposed to be watered is
all good soil, but it will require canal
twenty-five miles long to conduct the
water to it.
a large dam has been built, thirty-six
feet high, across the stream where it
comes out OF a canyon 300 feet wide. Re
tanning walls of solid masonry have been
erected on either side, and heavy timbers
and other materials flied in with suf-
ficient slope. The canal is to be thirty
feet wide on the bottom, with slope OF
three and half to one. a little more
than three miles of the canal has been
constructed. About S125, 600 has been ex-
pended by the company and the work is
to be pushed to completion.
The area expected to be watered by this
canal comprises about 500. coo acres. The
stream, fed by the SHOWS of the Owyhee
range, never fails. The land is level and,
we understand, much of if is open for
settlement. 1t will be well for some of
our Snake river friends to investigate this
matter and report for the benefit OF peo-
pie seeking for land on which to make
living 1t is better to own the right to
water as well as the title to the land, but
when this is not attainable, the next
thing for the farmer 8 to secure the use
OF the needful Gaid on the best and most
permanent possible terms.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20
A Journalistic Outrage.

There are many things in recent Jour
nalism OF which decent people disapprove.
Nothing we have seen of late is SO dis
gushing and inexcusable as the wretched
grouping of figures on the first page of
Mondays Tribune. No intelligence is
conveyed by it. There is no wit nor
humor in it. There is nothing novel
about it, unless it may be the shameful
association of domestic affection and low
buffoonery which it displays.
What object there could be in thrusting
before the public view cariacture of an
esteemed young lady there is nothing
visible to indicate. The sympathy which
is felt for the bereaved and the respect in
which they are held in the community
have received shock that arouses great
indignation.
We have not met any one who has seen
the shabby and heartless cut but feels it
is an outrage. The Tribune has published
a great many lampoons of the living and
ISLANDERS of the dead, but its latest effort
is little the worst of anything of the
kind it has ever attempted. THE HERALD
only voices the sentiment of all who have
expressed an opinion on the disgraceful
thing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20
A Needless Amendment.

A bill for an amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States is now pend
ing in Congress. It is a sort of Offset to
one designed to mix religion with civil
government and force undevotiSnal peo-
pie to a sectarian observance OF the Sab
bath. Here is the text of the former pro-
posed amendment:
''No state shall pass any law respecting
an establishment Of religion, or prohibit
ing the free exercise thereof. or use its
property or credit, or any money raised
by taxation, or authorized either to be
used for the purpose of founding, main
tanning or aiding by appropriation pay
ment for services, expenses or otherwise.
any church, religious denomination or
religious society or any institution. So
ciety or undertaking which is only or in
part under sectarian or ecclesiastical con-
troll. -
Perphaps there is nothing Objectionable
in the provisions Of this proposition. 1t
is not desirable that any state sh all foster
or support an ecclesiastical insti tuition or
interfere with the free exercise of religious
belief and worship. But what need there
is for placing such restrictions in the ma
tional constitution does not at present ap-
pear. We do not know of any state in
the union which is doing contrary to that
forbidden in the bill.
Most Of the states have provisions in
their respective constitutions against the
interference of the state with religious
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

comments that are made, both as TO the
facts stated by THE HERALD and the
transparent attempts OF our morning and
evening contemporaries to convey the
impression that nobody cares fig about
the matter.
There is this difference between the two
papers referred to: One says few chiefs
of the church want statehood, the other,
which is the church organ, says neither
the leaders OF the church nor the mem
bers want it under present conditions.
What good purpose can be gained by pub
fishing such mistaken notions it is diff
cult for candid person to perceive.
The indications are that nothing def
mite win be done until the new admins
tration comes into power. Then Utah's
case will be considered on it's merits. It
will be found that the Democratic party
has no "affected affection for the people
OF Utah, - and that the consistent advo-
Gates of her rights will number many
more influential Legislators than the three
statesmen whom our contemporary tries
to belittle, bat whose national reputation
lifts them far above its feeble reach.
Statehood is the one great need of this
Territory. Its affairs will never be in a
settled condition till that object is
achieved. Capital will be withheld from
investment. The manufactures neces-
sary for Utah's prosperity and the en-
ployment of her idle labor will not be
established. The unity OF her people and
the abolition Of factional strife will not be
accomplished. And that greatness, wealth
and power which will be her ultimate
destiny cannot come to her, until she
takes her proper position as a free and
loyal state in the great American Union.
No true friends of Utah will stand in the
way OF that essential contamination.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

THE HERALD acknowledges with pleas
the appreciative notices it has received
from various exchanges of the change in
It's dress and its metropolitan appearance.
The following from the Brigham City
Bugler is a good sample of the rest:
THE SALT LAKE HERALD came out in
6 brand new dress Tuesday morning. Our
esteemed contemporary is today the most
progressive, wide-awake ard metropol-
itan appearing paper published in the
inter mountain region. Denver and
Frisco must look to their laurels.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

THERE WAS a tone OF indignation in the
denial Mrs. BLAINE directed her son to
make Sin answer to many letters Of anz-
ious inquiry, = relative to the report that
Mr.. BLAINE had entered the Roman Cath
che church. The word we have italicized
could just as well have been omitted.
Young Mr.. BLAINE added: cit should
be needless to state that Father DAcEY
has never been at the house" Father
DAcEY is the priest who oficiated at the
marriage of JAMES G. BLAINE, jr., at the
request OF the latter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

OUR HUMOROUS morning contemporary
has invented for THE HERALD the funny
name of The Daily Fake. According to
the Century dictionary lake means ''to
fold; tuck up" Another meaning is Ito
make, or do;" still another ssto grasp
THE HERALD daily fdoes' and "tucks
up' the Tribune, and ''grasps'' in adj
vance OF it the news of the day. 1t is
easy to give names. Let US. for instance,
call our neighbor The Daily DrooE.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

the Training and Care OF the Nerves.
Ideal Foods, TheIdeal Drink, How
Not to Grow Old, andUnsolved Prob
lens in Medicine. We areglad to an
nounce that these articles viii ap-
pear in THE HERALD some time during
the coming year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

EEMUND YATES, in letter to the New
York Tribune from London, says that,
ssAmong New Years honors, the name
of DR.. B. W. RICHARDSON, F. R. S., the
distinguished sanatarian. wiz find place."
This eminent English physician and sur
geon has written i've articles for the Nc
cIuRE Literary Associated Press, on
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

WADE HAMPTON, who was formerly
South Cardinals pride and favorite son.
has wiped the state out of his good
graces. She turned against him and
elected IRBY in his place with the aid of
the Farmers Alliance. But at the last
election South Carolina gave WEAVER
only 2,41O votes, to CLEvELAND's 81, 69S,
and HARR1soN's Is, 3s4.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

MAYORS OF eastern cities have issued
proclamations ordering that, as Christmas
and New Years come on Sunday, the
days following be observed by employees
OF the government, always excepting the
health, fire and police departments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

IT IS generally understood that when
the time comes the friends of Judge JUDD
will press his name for appointment as
United States district attorney for Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

IT HAS now become evident that Mr.
CLEVELAND viii not be compelled to have
recourse to conscriptions in order to Sc
cure sufficient force to run the public Of
fees in Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

NEwsRoYs COMPLAIN of the action of
the treasury department in calling in all
$500 bills, on account of dangerous coun-
terfeits being extant.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

PRESIDENT HARRISON will shoot ducks
on the Chesapeake during the holidays,
but he need not initiate his predecessor
and get his thumb mashed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

A MAN at the Worlds fair city, who
had been robbed, was thrown into the
Chicago river. What an insatiate mon
ster!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20
Have Won Read

How Mr.. D. W. Wentz of Geneva, n. Y.
was cured of the seyerest form of dyspep-
STA? He says everything he ate seemed
like pouring melted lead into his stomach
Hoods Sarsaparilla effected perfect
cure. Full particulars, will be sent if you
write G. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The highest praise has been won by
Hoods Pills for their easy, yet efficient
action. 1872
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

IL Mr.. TATLocK is in the audience he
will please step upon che platform.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

THERE IS a prosecuting attorney in
Michigan who has doubled his majority
at each election since 1884. Then he had
majority; in 1856 he had 2, and this year
~ &c
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20
& co.

Have received and arranged their i'm.
portations special the HOLIDAYS which,
this the largest comprehensive they
shown They impress upon you the ACCESSIBILITY Of
early visit holiday presents that selections
with deliberations first advantage obtained of
first choice from the stock of goods.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

HANG UP your stocking and get presi-
Dental amnesty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

GOOD AUTHORITY says a solid silver
statue six feet high cannot be cast. If 50,
the Montana model must be a hollow
mockery of justice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

BIDwELL, THE Prohibition candidate
for President, did not get a vote in South
Carolina.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

EMPEROR WILLIAM has had his both
photograph taken, andyet there are those
who deny that he is of a negative char
acter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

THE QUESTION whether elections elect
is still hanging fire on the governorship
of Wyoming.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

THE BEST, most useful and most graft
flying present you can provide for an
absent adult friend is years subscrip-
ton to the daily and Sunday HERALD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

WANAMAKER' EULoGY of Senator
SHERMAN is impressive. "He did not
himself go to the war, but he sent his
brother.''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

REHEARsALs ARE now in order for the
New Years swearing off programme.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-20

TIE DAILY HERALD is published every morn
ing. Monday excepted, at The HERALD
block. corner West Temple and First
South streets, Salt Lake City.
,r-p--s ~, ~r-per UPTON
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
HE PAWNED THE sPARKLERS
An East End Young Society Man Under a
Cloud.

An East End Young Society Man Under a
Cloud.
There is young man locked up in the
Central police station whom the detectives
will not talk about His name is said, on
the outside, to- be R. s. Vorhis, the charge
against him embezzlement, and his home is
in the East End He is said, also on the
outside, to be one of the aristocratic resi-
dents of that district and is only under a
dark cloud temporarily by reason of some
unknown hard luck.
Not an officer about police headquarters
will talk of the case, but it is said he got
pair of diamond earrings at the jewelry
store of R. Seidie, of Fifth avenue, one
day last week, for which he was to pay $3.50
in the next day or two. 1t is said he failed
to pay for them, as per his promise. and in
cidentally it became known that the stones
were in Smithfeld street pswnshop. They
had been left there on Monday. and nearly the
full amount OF their value had been loaned
on them. They-were at once lifted and re-
turned to the owner, and Detective Shore,
so it is said, found Vorhis yesterday after
noon He had some 5000 on his person,
which it is believed he realized on the
diamonds.