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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-10
TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST.
COLLAPSE OF FORUS THEATRE.
APPALLING FATE OF GOVERNMENT CLERKS
IN WASHINGTON
CONGRESSIONAL ECONOMY RESPONSIBLE.
NEARLY FIFTY PERSONS INJURED, SOME OF
WHOM MAY DIE-sCENEs AT THE WRECKED
BUILDING-PossIBILITY OF OTHER AC.
CIDENTs OF THE SAME KIND IN

CIDENTS OF THE SAME KIND IN
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRiBUNE.l
Washington, June "a score and more OF
human lives sacrificed to a policy Of economy
and rctrcnchmcnt this is the indictment which
helpless and outraged community hurls to-day
at that intangible power known the Government
Of the United States. The miserly Congressional
fingers are red with the blood that a few hours
ago coursed through the veins of active manhood.
Widows and orphans weep for the husbands and
fathers offered to the Jugsernaut of legislative
reform and administrative indifference. Over
the whole city there is mourning for the dead,
lamentation for the dying, sympathy for the in-
jured.
The following list Of dead, with the States from
which they were appointed contains twenty-five
names, including one unknown.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
TO SEC'Y CARLISLE.
An Open Letter from Hon. Charles S.
Thomas.
Says Now-Disappointed
Silver Men.


Whilst THE HERALD would have pre-
ferred to print the facts Of the subjoined
letter without the attack upon Secretary
Carlisle, we make room for the entire
production at the request of mining men
as a matter of nformation.-ED. HER
AID.
DENVER, COL, June 29.-To Hon. John
G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury.
Dear Sir: For nearly twenty years you
in the foreground OF Federal politics.
Your profound learning and tireless in
dustry, coupled with sincere patriotism
and love for the truth, have made you an
oracle of the Democracy and brought you
the respect of your opponents. You have
been honored by the people of your state
with the highest positions they could
bestow, and the great party to which you
belong has on three successive occasions
made you, next to the president, the high
est civilian of the nation. Today you ar e
at the head of the most important of all
the administrative departments and the
only Democratic statesman of national ex-
perience and reputation to be found in the
executive cabinet.
Since 1882 your labors in the cause Of
revenue reform have more, perhaps, than
those of any other man, wrought ire
mendous change in the sentiment and
policy of the Democratic party. Your
views upon every phase OF economies,
parliamentary procedure, the relation OF
the general government to the state, ano
its foreign and domestic policy have been
accepted by that party almost without
question as the reflex of its position and
the compass by which all its movements
should be governed. It's regard for yor
has perhaps been greater than that which
| it has in recent times extended to any
other leader, and geographical considera.
tons alone have deferred it from confer
| ron fidapce
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
Take It to Heart.

In this period of financial pressure,
when s'every man for himsslf'' seems to
be the motto, applied to banks and bust
ness houses as well as to individuals.
would not little practical Christianity
be good thing for all? BY that we do
not mean the discussion of any theology
cal tenent or connection with any partic
ular sect, but the practice of the princi-
pie: whatsoever We would that men
should do unto you, do ye even SO unto
them.''
This is said to be Christian nation.
Not that any form of religion can or
ought to be established by statute. But
the customs, laws, observances and
spirit of the country are considered TO be
Christian as contrasted with those of
heathendom. What we have quoted is a
Christian precept. 1t may have been ut
tered ages before the parsonage who gave
il particular force drew his first breath at
Bethlehem. But it is nevertheless en-
bodied in the Christian faith.
Is it not a good one for practical life?
Would its general application not be a
great benefit just now? Lives would be
saved, great private and public interests
and institutions would be preserved,
much ruin and distress would be averted,
and more pleasure, satisfaction and con-
fdence would be felt, if this precept were
made popular in deed as well as in theory.
The present disposition is to seize every
debtor by the throat, saying: ''Pay me
what thou owestl' The demand is i'm
possible fully to comply with. There
will be general crash if more accommo-
dation is not extended from man to man
and firm to firm. Stopping all credits
and requiring money settlements are
cramping the body social and squeezing
the life out of business, ''Let up!' is
the agonizing cry, and humanity echoes
the sound.
There must be some regard for others or
the selfishness OF the times will make ter
rible havoc. 1t will be found that in
business and finance the prevalent money.
grinding individualism without grain
of human sentiment will not do. The
precept we have cited is founded in an
eternal law and out of the soul of the
universe comes the command: 'Thou
sHaIb love tiiy AeigHuor as tnySeiI. 30
ciety founded and built upon the mega
tive of this cannot endure.
On this day of rest, let all people reflect
on the principle of human interdepend-
ence and see the necessity OF mutual as
sistance. Just now it appeals to the
minds and the heart of every creditor
and every firm and person able to stem
the tide of financial ruin that threatens
to overwhelm the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

THERE IS Baptist church at Jericho,
L. l., into which during service last Sun
day CHARLES SEAMAN entered whilst in
toxicated. Nearing the Dew his parents
occupied, he broke out in wild, rollick-
ing song, dancing lively accompani-
ment. Promptly knocking down the
sexton, who approached, SEAMAN started
to the pulpit, where he jammed the min
lister against the wall and thumped him.
By this time the Mortified worshippers
had recovered themselves, and some of
them went for the terror, one deacon.
however, receiving fearful blow in the
face. The young fellow, who must have
been possessed OF devil, was finally Sc
cured, and though his folks are-rich, will
probably be severely punished.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

THE NEW York World is certainly mis-
taken in saying in an editorial article
that Mr.. BLAND 'shas recently publicly
denounced that he is not Democrat on
the silver question:, !" and therefore it is
not to be supposed that he will be chair
man OF the' coinage committee. We
have read Mr.. BIS. utterances pretty
closely, and have seen no expression
from him of this kind. He holds that his
position on the silver question is the true
Democratic doctrine, and interprets the
Chicago platform as justifying this view.
At any rate, if the World undertakes to
read out Of the Democratic party those
who have always voted the Democratic
ticket, and whose views coincide witt
Mr.. BLAND's, it has on its hands Job OF
no mean dimensions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

enes. RoBT. DICKSON, of the San Fran
cisco board OF underwriters, writes to the
Examiner that he is now ready, on the
part OF the insurance companies, to in
dorse any project looking to the restric-
ton of the use OF explosives within the
city limits. He says:
The Chinese fireworks make all the
trouble. The American made goods are
far less troublesome. In fact, they cause
us no trouble whatever.
Whether the Chinese fireworks are not
naturalized or registered, and thus Amer
icanized, is not stated. Most anything
that is Chinese is bad in California, and
we are not surprised that their skyrock-
cts, dou ble- headers and bombs are of a
superlative incendiary character.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

IF SENATOR PRATT, OF Connecticut,
will feel more comfortable during the
August dog-days i'll sitting up in the red :
hot capital listening to free coinage
speeches, than in cooking up his heels in
the shade on the margin OF the Great
Salt Lake, he is welcome to his prefer
ence. The proposed Senatorial junket to
Utah would have been an Instructive as
well as pleasant one, but what is our
gain is his loss,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

A CERTAIN expression of countenance
that congressman and office-seekers at
Washington have become familiar with,
goes by the name of s'the HoKE SMITH
stare" 1t seems the secretary of the
interior, who is very much sought after,
receives visitors with a taking smile, the
vestiges of which are retained until wea-
riness approaches, when it experiences a
collapse. Unlike the well-known ibaby
stare" it is indicative of sense of
goneness as well as of complete incom-
prehensibility. 1t shows state of tax
ing punishment which in due time ope-
rates upon the caller, and makes him feel
that if he has any business at all it is
somewhere else.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

MILE. PA DE VERIANE has come to
this country from France, bringing
with her couple OF the smallest feet in
the world, which she is going to take to
the Worlds fair. She is an attractive
woman five feet tall in her stockings, and
with slender and graceful figure. The
length of her foot is trife more than
seven inches, and the New York Herald
gives map of it, life-size, inside one OF
that paper's narrow columns, making a
fat take for the printer. MILE PA is a
bareback circus rider.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

CARTER HARRIsoN's paper in Chicago
roasts Governor STONE of Missouri for
getting into rough and tumble fight
with a constituent. By implication, this
is severe reflection upon its own editor.
who is Mayor, and who recently burned
off the whiskers of an office-seeker who
insisted on forcing himself through q
door ajar into his Office.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

AT THE United States mint in San
Francisco there is now SS5, 900. 900 in sill
yer coin and bullion, and $15, 100000 in
gold. The establishment is being cleaned
up preparatory to the new superintendent
going in. The other day more than
SIS, 500 was taken from the ashes of a
carpet that had been for seven years on
the coiner's floor, and that had received
the golden atoms falling from the erosions
OF the golden metal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

A FEMALE in New York going by the
name OF ALICE killed and actually ate her
own offspring, twelve days old, one night
last week, and not a vestige of the little
one was to be seen next morning. This
cannibalistic deed was done at the Zoo
nv g lionesS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

IN HIS sedalia (Mo.) sermon Rev. SAM
SMALL declared that that place is "only a
short way from hell.'' This will not put
a damper on the competition for passen-
ger traffic between the Missouri Pacific
and the M. Z. & T. railroads.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
The Worlds Far win Be Closed.

AT 10 O'Clock every night. enabling
guests of the Park-Gate hotel, Sixty
third street and Stony Island avenue,
Chicago, to remain until late hour and
avoid the discomfort of long trip to the
city in a crowded car. Hotel opposite
main entrance to grounds. European
and American plan. Absolutely fire
proof. Rates S1.50 per day and upwards.
Write at once for plans. All outside
rooms, single or ensuite.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

Many poor sufferer VINO submits to
the surgeons knife, in consequence Of
malignant sores and scrofulous swellings,
might be cured, without an operation, BY
taking Ayers Sarsaparilla. This remedy
expels from the blood all the impurities
BY which disease is generated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

Ii ABDURRIM ABDI, the Moslemite,
finds it "difficult to understand our gov
ernment' from glimpse at New York,
let him come to Salt Lake, see a session
of the city council, and then go drown
himself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
They All agree.

That the through Pullman Car Service
from Salt Lake to Chicago via the Chica.
go, Union Pacific and Northwestern is
unsurpassed by any other line. This is
the only dining car line, 4S hours be-
tween Salt Lake and Chicago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

THE KENTUCKY general assembly lately
and half, costing $500, 600. The old
Kentucky home would seem to have lost
its attractions for legislators.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

THE CONSTITUTIONAL debt limit of New
York City is s156. 25s, 229, determined by
the assessed valuation of property, which
is nearly two thousand millions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

A WICKED young man who at st. Louis
went up with balloon on the glorious
Fourth, was so scared that he is deter
mined to lead new life hereafter and be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

Two MEN have been employed by New
York newspaper to advertise it by walk
ing to San Francisco. Counting ties is
not new to the members OF the journal
istic guild.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

ALL communications should be addressed to
THE Herald, Salt Lake City, Utah.
SUBSCRIBERS will confer favor by forwarding
information to this Office when their papers
are not promptly received. They viii aid
us TO determine where the fault lies.
SUBSCRIBERS removing from one place to an
other, and desiring papers changed, should
always give former as well as present ae-
dress.
Communications will not be returned
Anonymous communications willnot be noticed.
THE HERALD reserves the right TO append
tlle name of the author to any communication.
and accepts no manuscript with pledge to
Withhold the name from any person mentioned
IN the communication.
TIE HERALD is on sale at the principal news
stands and on all morning passenger trains
leaving Salt Lake. Orders for city delivery to
either residence or place of business may be
made by postal card or through telephone.
THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
n c. BRowNLEE. Business Manager.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

THE RETURNS have been coming in
ever since the 4th of inquiries from burst
ed anvils, cannon, etc, and of fires origi-
mating from different kinds OF pyrotech-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

On THE question of repeats, we should
like to see vote taken to repeal PATTI
SON, PENNoYER and ALTGELD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

Look for l. M. Barratt's great auction
ad in this issue.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

Greatest Strengthening shoe sale ever
known in Utah, at Davis Shoe House, 10
Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

elegantly furnished residence
Folding
Bedding Folding
Bedroom Suits Hall Tree sidebOard
Chairs, Machines China, Sveware,
Range complete reserve
must bes
l. M. BARRATT, Auctioneer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
RELIEF Is POSSIBLE .

Midsummer finds our exposition in full
blast in the center of a great nation
stricken with paralysis. 1t is like para
disc in the miasmatic jungles OF India.
How long must this condition continue?
You occupy at present the most COM
manding position in the land. Pay but
single bond in coin, in gold or silver
money, give but q single order to the
minis to proceed with the coinage of
| both metals, announce to the world your
! intention to administer the laws as you
| find them written upon the statute books
| of your country, and see how speedily
our present progress to ruin will be ar
rested.
You will bring dismay to the pluto
Gratis of New York and London, but you
Will feel the nations throb OF exultant
/ Joy. You may be retired from high po-
sition, but the current once started, the
| hoodgate will not be shut for long by
any mortal power. You may disappear
! for few short months from the public
gaze, but as Mr.. Lincoln once said, you
may trust the result to the plain people
| of the land, who in three short years will
| bear you on their shoulders to a lasting
| triumph.
| E3If this is not done, if Congress fails in
the discharge of its duty to the nation, or
if discharging it, the administration shall
interpose its powers between the legisla-
tive will and its enforcement, and deter
mine to pursue its present policy to the
end, signs fail If they do not pretend dis
astsr to those who rule the world with
their rod of gold. To them, now so Sc
rene and self-coEscious of silver's final
overthrow, should be commended the
warning of Pennsylvania great advo-
cate: SAT present you have us down and
under your feet. Never had you better
right to rejoice. Well may you say
We have made covenant with death
and with hell are we at agreements; when
the overlooking scourge shall pass
through it shall not come unto us; foi
we have made lies our refuge and under
falsehoods have we hid ourselves But
nevertheless wait a little. while. The
waters of truth will rise gradually ant
slowly but surely, and then look out for
the overlooking scourge. The refuge o
lies shall be swept away, and the hiding
place of falsehood shall be uncovered.
This mighty and puissant nation vii
yet raise herself up like strong man af
ter sleep and shake her invincible locks il
a fashion you little think of now.
G. S. THOMAS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
LAST PHASE OF THE CONSPIRACY.

LAST PHASE OF THE CONSPIRACY.
The last move on the chessboard of the
conspiracy is the closing OF the minis of
India to free coinage. That move was
preceded by forced withdrawal of gold
from this country and to a large extent
from circulation. Within a week the
white metal has fallen more than 20 cents
an ounce, and in the worlds dismay is
reflected the calm satisfaction oft finan-
cial masters. You have said that ''the
absolute and instantaneous destruction of
half the entire movable property of the
world'' "would not produce anything
like the prolonged distress and disorgani
cation of society that must inevitably re-
suit from the permanent humiliation of
one-half the metallic money in the
world" That is true; and it is equally
true that the humiliation of one-half the
metallic money is the destruction of one
half the worlds property.
The shrinkage of values since January
| last is the measure of the injury which
still goes on. It's volume is told by the
constant crash of great commercial
| houses, by the suspension of enormous
industries, by the topping of banking
institutions, by the enforced idleness of
thousands of your fellow men, by the de-
struction of confidence, by the stagnation
of trade, by the ruin of agriculture.
| Its future is written in lines of poverty,
of misery, OF hunger, cold, and starva-
| ton, in the foreclosure of mortgages, in
the defalcation of interest, which alone
| continues active, in the rapid acquisition
OF all material wealth by the Insurer,
through contracts payable principal and
| interest in gold.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09

Office to fconsu inmate scheme which,
in your opinion, will ultimately entail
more misery on the human race than all
the wars, pestiience and famine that ever
occurred in the history of the worid.''
Has the prophet consented to become an
active instrument for the swift accom-
plishment OF his own prediction? If so.
what influences have operated to effect go
startling transformation? They are
not apparent, since no man who knows
you as | do would even suspect you OF
dishonor.
INITIATING JOHN SHERMAN.
If in January, 1878, the payment of gov
eminent securities, principal and interest,
in silver dollars was not in your opinion
violation of the public faith nor in
derogation of the rights of the public
creditor, the same has been true ever
since and IS now. Yet as secretary you
have followed with the most scrupulous
eXactitude in the footsteps of John Sher
man, and paid him nothing but gold. II
it was the duty OF all public senators in
1878 to labor for the preservation OF all
the metallic money of the world the same
has been true ever since and is now.
Yet the practices of those who engi-
neered the conspiracy OF 1878 have be-
come yours, and the money current with
more than 1 loo, 100000 of people is
tainted with the curse of financial lep-
rosy. Have you not, in the extreme de-
sire to serve your countrymen by reliev-
ing them from the burdens of unjust and
oppressive taxation, bound yourself to
the car OF plutocracy, been deluded
| by the siren song of the honest
dollar and hypnotized by the glittering
| influence of political successes achieved
under the leadership and inspired by the
character of great man whose sincerity
all must concede, but whose convictions
are no more infallible than yours and
mine? Have you not forgotten that con-
spiracies like that yous denounced in 1878,
based upon money and organized by
wealth, are never abandoned and seldom
defeated short of revolution? That this
one is the strongest, most dangerous,
most extensive, and according to present
appearances the most successful one ever
organized for the confscation of property
and the enslavement of the human race?
Since March 4. 1873, sd administration
have waxed and waned, political parties
have successfully umphed and been de-
! feated, but the firm grasp of Wall street
interests and influences upon the treasury
department and financial policy of the
national government has been constant
and ceaseless. The contraction of the
currency and the establishment of all
credits and contracts upon gold basis,
begun with the conspiracy which cul-
minated in 1873, have continued with all
shades OF political power like the ebb and
flow of the tides which know neither
June nor January.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-09
FoMENTING DIscoRp.

Tariffs ard anti tariffs, force bills and
local self Capitalization and
state rights, czarism in the House and
Senatorial privilege in the upper cham
Der, labor agitations and the growth OF
! monopoly, railway determinations and
interstate commerce regulations have
within that time been cast upon the can
vas OF public opinion to inspire discon-
tents and provoke discussion. Over them
all the multitude has wrangled, the press
has fought, the great political parties
have ranged themselves in strife. This
man and that has risen and fallen as
popular sentiment has determined these
questions, but through all their muta-
tons the pilot of the ship OF state has
received his instructions from, obeyed
the orders of and followed the course
mapped upon the chart by the financial
magnateS of Europe and of Wall street.
They have cared not what party exer-
cised the sovereign power, so long as can
didates identified with and selected by
themselves have been nominated. With
steady and unfagging persistence these
interests have driven in the outposts Of
bimetalism until they have at last disap-
| peared, and the citadel is now in state
of siege. One by one its defenders have
deserted, and those who still remain
faithful are stigmatized with the reproach
OF lunacy.
If the public were not mis- informed you
determined last April, in ODE dience to the
impulses of duty and in conformity with
your previously expressed convictions, to
pay some demands against the govern
ment with the silver money of the con-
stitution. The same evening bore to the
capital a delegation of New York bankers,
which successfully urged the president to
prevent the inauguration of such policy.
You acquiesced in the conclusion, and
since then silver has received from you
the treatment to which for twenty years
it had been accustomed.