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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23
TIE NEWSPAPER AS AN EDUCATOR

Professor Harris, the United States
commissioner of education. has been
addressing the National Educational
society on the newspaper as a teach
er. Among other things he said: 1.-The
newspaper is surprising the libraries
in teaching the people to read" This
lis largely true.
1t is sometimes said that the peo-
pie are ceasing to be readers. They
have not ceased to be readers but
they have changed their reading mat
ter. The daily press and the monthly
magazines have taken the place of the
learned reviews and the works of the
great men in literature. The novel,
too. has become a part of the literary,
or rather semi-literary equipment of
the modern reader.
The modern daily paper is a great
institution. and it's power is generally
used for good. But even the best dali
lies are but ephemeral in their char
acter. and they lack those character
forming qualities that are found in
true literature. no matter what it's
form.
The daily newspaper imparts infor-
nation and a slight stimulus to the
mind. Literature, when il imparts
knowledge. imparts that which the
best minds have deemed worthy of
preservation. 1t does more 1t stimu-
lates thought and reflection. These
are essential in the forming of charac-
ter Of sterling worth Yet they are al
most entirely wanting in the newspa-
per. No matter how able a newspaper
may be, nor how we'll written its ar
ticles may be, the very nature of it
prevents it from having the influence
on the mind that literature does Each
mornings or each evenings paper pre-
sents a series Of articles and mass of
news entirely separate and distinct
from that presented the day before
There must be continuity and concen-
tration of thought and reflection to de-
velop to the utmost the powers of the
mind. If a man is a great reader of
newspapers, he is not general
~ reader of books and
vice versa. 1t is sometimes said
that the reading of newspapers is
worse than the reading of novels. Mel
Their should be INDUCED in to the ex-
tent of excluding the cultivation of a
pure and elevated taste in literary
matters. Nothing can take the place
of the works of the great writers,
whether in poetry, history, the drama,
essays or fiction. There will be found
the monuments that testify to the
greatness of mans intellect.
If the teachings of the press shall
cause the readers of the nation to neg
,eet those works that are mans chief
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23
UTAH POLITICALLY.

There is naturally much surmising
as to what Utah will be when she
holds her first election for state officers.
On the result of the elections in Utah
and Wyoming next year will very
largely depend the control of the United
States Senate. Probably in no two
states of the Union will a more vigorous
campaign be waged.
Everything looks favorable in Wyo-
ming for the Democrats. The same is
true of this territory. That the Repub-
gains since the election Of 1892 is true.
The hard times that had come upon the
country when President Harrison
turned over the reins of government
to the present administration have con-
tlnued, and they have been more or
less charged to the Democrats. The
Democrats have not WINGED under it,
knowing it to be false and being per-
fectly willing to rely on the judgment
Of the people as to the causes of the
hard times. But these are things of
national concern and only affect local
politics incidentally.
The Democratic party in Utah will
be judged by its action locally and the
way in which it has kept the promises
made in 1892. What were those pro-
misses?
First-To bring Utah into the Union
as state. The bill to accomplish this
was introduced by the Democratic dele
gate from the territory, passed by a
Democratic House without dissenting
voice, passed by a Democratic Senate,
slightly amended, without dissenting
voice, the amendments concurred in by
the House the day after the bill was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23
est glory. it will to that extent have
worked an evil.
THE REFORMED CONFESSION.

The Utah Commission, no matter
what may be said by some Republicans
ito the contrary, is organized on the lines
contemplated in the Edmunds Act
which created it. That is to say, there
are only three out of the five members
who belong to the same political party.
The trouble with some radical Repub-
licans is that the three, this time, are
Democrats.
Ever since the morning Obituary lost
control of the Commission it has been
in articulation. Its bowels have been
/ in pain and its temper has been in a
tumult. That body jumped for so many
years as it pulled the string that it be-
came imbued with the notion that the
| Commission was a sort of attachment
10 its establishment. That illusion
has been rudely dispelled. Hence its
anguish and amazement that neither its
orders nor its suggestions receive the
slightest attention.
| Two years ago an attempt was made,
by the only real Democrat in that
body, to obtain an arrangement by
which the two political parties should
have representation on the lists Of
registration officers. He was voted down
and precedent was made which the
present Commission is following after
referring to the record. The morning
Obituary approved the decision then,
but strongly dissents from it now.
Why is this thus? Simply because
the Democrats are in the majority on
| the Commission, and in the first place
| that makes all the difference with the
Obituary, and in the second place that
organ has no say in the matter AS it
! is never guided by principle, of course it
cannot see that if the rule was right
two years ago it is right today, and so
| it has no end of bitterness to let loose
on the Democratic Commissioners, for
acting on the precedent set by their re-
publican predecessors.
| 1t is quite natural for the Obituary to
suspect the present registrars to be de-
sirous of following the villainous tactics
of the registrars whom the Obituary up
held in all their deviltry four years ago
and more. But its rawlings &c not count
The officers appointed should perform
their duty fairly and fearlessly without
regard to any mans political affilia-
tons, mad give US a complete, honest,
and reliable registration.
We believe they will do so. We are
sure that the Commission desire this and
will endeavor to assure it. And by the
Commission we mean all it's members,
Democratic and Republican. Thank
heaven, neither are now under the
thumb or at the end of the string of the
wailing, detected and elected Obituary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

sent back, and then sent to a Demo-
cratic president and signed by him.
Second-The Democrats promised to
open the lands of the Uintah and I'm
compahgre reservations to settlement,
and to keep the Colorado Utes in Colo
RADIO. The bill to throw open these
lands to settlement has been introduced
and will be passed. And the Colorado
Utes will remain in Colorado.
! Third-The Democratic delegate in
troduced a bill in the House for the re-
turn to the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints of half a million
dollars worth of personal property
that was confiscated. This bill was
passed by Democratic House and
Senate and signed by a Democratic
president. The church received the
money months ago. And but day or
two ago he introduced a bill for the
return to the same church of its
escheated real estate.
Fourth-The Democratic delegate
has upheld the cause of silver in man
ner to challenge the admiration of even
| the gold men. He was among the fore
most champions of the white metal.
Every promise made by the Demo-
Gratis in 1892 has been kept. The people
of the territory were anxious to have
the work done that has been done. Is
it not natural to suppose that they
will appreciate the fulfilment of their
wishes? In the past they never have
forgotten their benefactors and it is not
reasonable to suppose they will in the
future.
Considering Utah's past history and
her political leanings, and the inestima-
bic boon of self government as a
sovereign state that the Democratic
party will confer upon her, it is reason
ably safe to say that she will send to
the Fifty-fourth Congress one Demo-
cratic congressman and two Demo-
cratic senators.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Once upon a time lot of ill-omened
birds got together and elected a Crane
to be their leader. Now this Crane was
a wise bird and told all the other birds
that if they would follow his advice
no harm would come to them. So he
picked up a shell from the shore and
wrote thereon these words: Report
all you can discover of the Democratic
plans and operations, and conceal your
own And they all stuck their heads
in the mud, saying: I'VE have done
as our wise leader said and now we
are safe"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

The morning Obituary says: "A year
ago The Herald was sure that the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman law was
what made all the discomfort, misery,
etc" That is another case of sheer in
vention like the lie about Judge Hen
derson's speech. 1t is manufactured in
pure spite and the love Of lying. The
Herald said nothing of the kind. The
obituary has been exposed so thor
o1ghly in its amazing self-contradic-
tions that it is fairly wild and as vim
dfctive and rash as q blind rattlesnal1e.
The Herald stands where it did a year
ago. and so does the Obituary. But
the latter is persistent only in its in
consistency except in one thing and
L as shameless mendacisg,
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the Mormons themselves would be a
guarantee that it would not succeed to
any extent. No church must domin-
ate politics in Utah.
! The desire to make humanity wiser,
healthier and better, which has led to
the projection of many utopias and to
attempts to radically alter the consti-
tuition of society is prompted by praise
worthy aspiration, but, unhappily,
such short cuts to the millennium have
st. Louis Globe Democrat (Rep).
The desire is laudable, but humanity
! is not capable of being brought to
perfection. although it may be contin
ually improved. The recognition of
this truth would greatly aid humanity
In its progress to a higher plane.
A great revival in business would
stimulate immigration again, but it re-
mains fact that the future will in
all probability see a permanent decline
! in the current of population flowing
from Europe to the United States I'm
migrate being checked, the country
will become more and more distinctly
American in its character. The ma
! tive population will become more and
of foreign birth will gradually be as
similated.-Denver Republican Rep.)
The country would willingly take the
chances of stimulation of immigra-
ton if there were only a great revival
of business. All our evils are not at
tributable to immigration
| Utah will probably become the for
ty-ffth state. There is an element of
uncertainty in that respect, however,
because the admitting act prescribes
that the state government shall not
be erected until after the constitution
has been ratified at the November cleo
ton in 1895. Forn1alities may delay
admission a few weeks after that
event. and Congress may pass the
New Mexico enabling act with provi-
sions that will admit that territory be-
fore Utah has complied with all the
requirements. Our Union was estab-
lished with thirteen members; soon it
will have forty-five or forty-six This
table shows the date of the admission
of the states that were not included in
the original compact:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

There is neither "animus' nor
wrong" in Mr.. Cleveland's letter to
Mr.. Wilson. The t'animus and
wrong" so far as Senator Vests re-
marks are concerned, are in the Sena-
tors angry retaliation. He took to
himself the structures passed by Pres
ident Cleveland on statesmen who
stand for a section or a corporation
rather than for the country, and
hence his Incorporate rejoinder. Vest
is a splendid fellow and a good legis-
lator. He has been working for Mis-
souri,, though, instead of the United
States. and so Cleveland's lance has
pricked him sharply and he wants to
e.rpar
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

According to General Carter yester-
day was the day when the industrial
army was to be uniformed and riding
in palace cars. This is another case
Of the best laid plans of men and mice
eroipo . Dlea
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

John ]. ingalls, has been talking at
Fredonia, Kan. Among other things
he said, " Whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth.' Therefore we have this
epoch OF Democratic and Populist ad-
ministration." The Democrats don't
need Christening. When they do whips
may be laid aside and it may be done
with scorpions. What pepper John J.
will make for this lash!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Senator Brice has very slick way of
defending his course in the Senate. He
says the conservatives have been to-
gether a great deal lately and under
stand each other perfectly. This is
very apparent. Mr.. Brice and his fell
low conservatives are endeavoring
TO conserve the trusts and monopo-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Everyone in the city, in the country,
in the canyons and at the lake resorts
had words of praise for yesterday
Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Germany proposes to increase the
duties on petroleum if the United States
places a duty on raw sugar. If Ger
snany wants to cut off her own nose
to spite her own face, no one will OBJ
infaf
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Heaven forbid that the troubles be-
tween China and Japan over Corea
should give rise to another eastern
question. 1t is more to be feared than
the Asiatic cholera.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

The City Council VIII no doubt take
favorable action on the bicycle ordi-
nance tomorrow night. All pedestrians
are anxious for its immediate passage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

If senators were elected by the people
there would not so often be seen the
antagonism between the House and
the Senate that there is now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

George Gould is to be congratulated
on the Vigilant's victory. His pluck in
repeatedly entering his yacht after de-
feat has Won him admiration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

President Dole's little yacht of state is
launched at last It may or it may not
ride the waves safely. No one will
wish it i'll, no matter what may be
thought of the manner of its origin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Gould could not get into the swim
in New York but the Vigilant seems to
be carrying MIN into it in England.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

In the matter of municipal retrench-
ment, the citizens expect every member
OF the City Council to do his duty.
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The spirit of the times-more beer.

Yesterday was not only dry but a
windy Sunday. The police are carry
'ng things too far.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Solomon said there was no excellence
Without labor. But he didn't say a
word about strikes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23
Stock for Pasture.

Stock wanted for fine pasture part
timothy close in. Plenty of feed; terms
reasonable. Inquire SO West Second
South.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23
The human race at present,
We hereby wish to state,
Is handicapped in running
By a swelter weight.
-notrnit Erao Eras

1t is high time that the insolence of
| thessoiien rioters and murderers should
be summarily halted. Where are the
civil authorities of the counties in which
these riots occur? Why are these bru-
tai foreigners not arrested, bound over
for trial, and convicted and punished for
their lawlessness? They are against
all law; they are against all govern
ment; they are against all property ex-
cept what they can steal or destroy;
they are strangers to our free institu-
tons and a curse to the country. Phil
adelphia Times Oem.).
Pennsylvania feels more keenly the
evil of the presence of large alien and
foreign-tongued population within her
borders than any other state. They
were brought there by the protectionist
monopolists. But this does not relieve
the state and county authorities of their
responsibilities. They are to blame for
not SURPRISING the lawlessness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Now these protests and resolutions
against what was done simply and
solely to maintain and enforce law
amount to confession that those ut
terlng them are not in favor of the pol
icy OF sustaining public authority with
in its legitimate bounds, when it is re-
sisted by striking workmen or their
sympathizers. If their professions in
regard to law and order and the pro-
lection of the rights of person and
property were genuine and sincere they
would have made haste to discounten-
ance and denounce the violence and
lawlessness and to sustain the authori-
ties.-N. Y. Times Oem).
The invocation of the law by the
strike leaders after they have turned
the dogs of destruction loose is very
much like the anarchist who has de-
fed the law and murdered some man
and declares he has not been tried ac-
cording to the law. Even such men are
entitled to all the safeguards that the
law throws around a man accused of
a crime, but there is such a divergence
between their professions and their
acts that they forfeit all right to re-
spect from the community.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

President Cleveland signed the bill
for the admission of Utah at about mid
night on the 18th inst. Some time will
pass and sundry formalities must be
gone through with before Utah is actu-
ally clothed with garments Of state
hood, but the date of the president S
signature may be taken as the begin
ming of the end of polygamic Mormon
ism and of the Mormon church as a
political power.-Kansas City Star.
No fear of the Mormon church domin-
ating politics in Utah. Were such an
attempt made the political differences of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23
POLITICAL NOTES.

One of the most unfortunate features
of the labor disturbance through which
Chicago has been passing is the UNI
welcome notoriety forced upon this city
by her enemies The New York press
has persistently alluded to the Pull
man strike as an outbreak of anarchy
in Chicago The matter is never re-
ferred to as a labor disturbance and
determined effort is made to show that
it was revolution aimed at the de-
struction of the government itself
Chicago Dispatch Qnd0-
Chicago has always sought notoriety,
particularly as having the biggest
things on earth.
Cities, like people, are usually val
ued at their own estimation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Labor troubles are not to be prevent
ed by increasing the strength of the
United States army, as was hastily
suggested in the height Of the rioting
at Chicago. The use of force is the last
resort in the enforcement of law and
the preservation of order 1t has moth
ing to do with the regulation of indus
try, with the adjustment of the rela-
tions of employer and workmen; and
it is with these that any effective meas
ures of prevention must be concerned.
Boston Post Dem.).
Nothing could be truer than this, and
nothing worse for republican institu-
tons than the idea that large stand
ing army is needed to maintain them.
The liberty that requires to 7be upheld
by the bayonet is not much of a lib
erty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

1t aimed to benefit the few at the ex-
pense of the many, and in its progress
through senatorial committee, and in
the broader arena of the Senate itself,
it became the football of Wall street
speculations. In one branch of Congress
it was, as we have said, a sectional
made measure, and in the other one it
was nodded by the trusts to subserve
their predatory purposes.-N. Y. Re
corder Rep0.
The Wilson bill is not all that could
be wished. Its gravest defects are it's
resemblances in some items to the Nc
Kinley bill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

Commenting on the resolution for the
reconciliation of silver, adopted by
the Democrats of the Eleventh Hi
nois district, the Chicago Times Oem)
says:
But how much better would it have
been for the Eleventh district Demo-
Gratis to have adopted some such ring
ing declaration of principles as this:
I'VE demand the immediate enact
ment of laws for the free and unlim-
tied coinage of gold and silver at a
ratio of l to 16, without waiting for the
action of any other nation on EARTH
That is a silver plank that means
silver-and means it right away. 1t
has already been adopted by many
Democratic congressional districts-the
Fifth Ohio being the latest-and will
be adopted by more.
The silver sentiment is growing. The
Times puts the case as it should be-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-23

the Mormons themselves would be
guarantee that it would not succeed to
any extent. No church must domin-
ate politics in Utah
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-03-08
SABIN A CANDIDATE.
Said the Saltwater Man Is After His Old
Seat In the Senate.

Said the Saltwater Man rs After His Old
Seat In the Senate.
MINNEAPoLIs, March S.-The Tribune
has the following regarding the Mime
sofa ~senatorship:
Dwight M. Sabin is a pronounced
candidate for the United States senator.
ship, to succeed William D. Washburn.
He has reached the determination to
enter the fight after . satisfactory ar
rangement OF his business affairs. He
considers himself in better trim for the
contest than he was at the time he de-
feated Window, because now he enjoys
good health, while then he was bed
ridden and was unable to lead his forces
in person, as he can now do. 1t is
the plan to secure the nomination this
fall, as candidate for the legislature, of
a large number of Sabin's friends in
various parts of the state-chiefy those
who supported him at the time of his
defeat by Washburn, but who have
beer heard very little of in politics since
that time. Those of this class who are
elected will have charge of the senator's
interests in the legislature. 1t was less
than a week ago that Mr.. Sabin finally
decided to become a full 1edged candi-
date.