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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27
THE sPRINKLING swINDLE.

The attention of the City Council is
once more solicited to the manner in
which street sprinkling is or rather is
not conducted. The committee on
streets is, perhaps, the body to be
stirred up in this direction, but the
council can do the stirring.
Complaints are coming in from all
quarters outside of the business por-
ton of the city as to the neglect of the
people who have contracted to do the
sprinkling. Protests come from the east
and the west, from the north and the
south. They are to the effect that pay
ment of the sprinkling tax will be re-
sisted unless better service is rendered.
Some streets get a sprinkle once a day,
others get none at all some days and a
lick and a promise at other times. The
entire business is an aggravation, and
outside of the central district, a fraud
on the taxpayers.
Seven cents per front foot is the
amount eXacted from the property
owners. It is made uniform all over
the city. But the sprinkling is not un:-
form. The owner of a corner lot pays
double the amount charged to others
and sometimes gets sprinkling only one
way and very little of that In the
main streets the sprinkling is repeated
several times a day. They are no more
entitled to it than the other streets.
some of which get none and others but
a spatter
We believe the whole tax for sprink-
ling is wrong. 1t ought to come under
the same rule as lighting. 1t should be
paid for out of the general city rev.
enue. Granting that a special tax is
lawful now-since the latest enactment
on the subject-the principle on which
it is assessed is unfair. 1t ought to be
on the property valuation. At any rate,
that which receives the bulk of the
benefit ought to pay the greater pro-
portion of the expense.
But waving all these considerations.
property-owners have a reasonable OBJ
lection to paying something for moth
ing, or to getting half or one-third the
benefits received by others who pay no
more, but in some cases much less for
the outlay. This at least the city coun-
ell can rectify. 1t should be seen to at
once. If the city is being swindled, it
ought to be known by the city author
tiles. A full and fair investigation is
demanded. Let the people who have
complaints pour them in at the city hall
until something practical is done to
remedy the wrong.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27
INITIATING IT'S LEADER.

The Logan Journal has been quoting
facts and figures so pertinently that it
has stirred up an alleged Republican
sheet near the banks of the Weber into
state bordering on murderous mania.
The climax was reached when the
Journal showed that it's data came
from Republican authorities, including
James G. Blaine. Then the Republican
sheet responded with knock down ar
gument after the style of its leader,
the Salt Lake Tribune This was the
text of it:
How long will the people of Cache
forging, and fraudulent paper to exist
in that county?
Of course that is conclusive. Every
fact the Journal related and every fig
ure it cited must fade out of sight be-
fore so potent and convincing an argu-
ment as that. But the Journal seems
to flourish just the same and sends hot
shot into the bowels of its vituperative
adversary.
The class Of papers that resort to
such exhibitions of spite when cornered
in dispute are among the lowest
hordes of journalistic pariahs. The
Journal can afford to pursue the course
maintained by The Herald. Treat
personal blackguardism and IbeIous
villifcation with profound contempt,
but all the same keep up the reason
ing, the facts and the figures, with the
assurance that the public will value
the truth and sooner or. later despise
the falsehood and relegate the libellers
to their proper obscurity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27
sUBTILTY AND STYLE.


On Wednesday morning the Obituary
described Senator Arthur P. German
as:
"The foremost Democratic Senator,
the man who probably has the most
subtle and comprehensive brain
among all the Democrats in the
United States"
On Thursday the Obituary said of
Senator David B. Hill:
He is the most subtle politician of
the day. 1t was predicted by his
friends that when he went to the Sen
ate of the United States he would, by
natural selection, in a little while be-
come the leader of the Senate
German and Hill, by this record, are
each the most subtle of Democrats.
German was ahead on Wednesday, be-
cause he pitched into Cleveland. Hill
was ahead on Thursday, because he
sailed into German. And then the
term employed in reference to both is
one of the hackneyed phrases used in
the eulogies of dead men, in which the
Obituary finds it's only forte.
Our contemporary sometimes COM
plains of Clevelands style of compost
ton. because anything Cleveland says
is concentrated bitterness to that pa
per. Here is sentence from its har-
angue about Hill, which, for style.
would be condemned in any respecta-
bic primary composition class:
And. as we look at it, a man who
works that way. whatever success he
may make, it cannot be lasting"
Here is another sample, which, for
logic and perspicuity, is a gem, not
of ''purest ray serene" but a genuine
Obituary gem, fit only for the tomb, OF
the columns of our contemporary:
ANY man would be foolish to try to
predict what will be done, because we
saw last autumn that at last, after in
sultinS the Senate once or twice, Mr.
Cleveland cracked the Democratic
whip in earnest, and enough fell down
to carry the tyrannical measure, which
/ he insisted should be carried through
Congress-"
That is reasoning worthy of Jack
Bunsby, and lucidity equal to a Lon.
don fog. It's "subtlety" beats even
that of Hill and German, and as fol-
| style" where is there anything to be
compared with it?
In spite of all, we expect to see the
foremost Democrats" and men Of
most subtle brains" after ventilating
their views freely, come together on a
common Democratic plane and give
the country tariff law which will
not only harmonic present differences
but bring about such business security
and prosperity that the land shall re.
sound with rejoicings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27
GOOD ENDORSEMENTS.

The Democratic press of the country,
and not few Republican journals, are
with the President in the views ex-
pressed in the letter which will be re-
garded in years to come as statesman
like and historic. We clip the following
because it is from a representative
trade journal which will not be regard
ed as biased, either way, by party con-
siderations. The Dry Goods Economist
says:
at seems to us that Mr. Cleveland in
this letter is not seeking to assert per-
sonal authority, but that he is repre-
senting and giving voice to the higher,
in fact the supreme authority of this
country, namely, the national public
sentiment. Unless we are much mis-
taken, the American people generally
will respond to and endorse the doctrine
of that letter-the Democrats openly
the Republicans tacitly. Everybody
wants the tariff settled, and very few
comparatively want to see it settled by
the failure of all tariff legislation, for
that settlement would be but temporary
and the question would break out again
and again until a reduction of McKin-
ley rates could be obtained"
We give place also to the annexed,
issued by Hambleton & Co., of Balti-
more, as another indication of the i'm
preston which has been made upon
the bipartisan mind:
Congress has already strained the
patience of the people to a point at
which it would be dangerous to press
further. The stand taken by the
House of Representatives, backed by
the endorsement Of the administration.
must be successful. President Cleve-
lands letter to Chairman Wilson is
naturally not pleasant reading for the
RepubHcan Congressman or for the
Democratic compromisers. but If will
be commended by the people, who, by
an overwhelming majority, demanded
reform in our tariff laws. We believe
that the Democratic compromising
senators will be compelled to yield.
There is no other course open to them,
unless they abandon their party and
join that of their opponents. Their
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27
POLICE AND FIREMEN.

The Board of Police and Fire Com
missioners has submitted to the City
Council its reply to the request of that
body for its view as to the advisable
ity of reducing the expenses of the
police and fire departments The gen
tlemen composing the board take a
just pride in the efficiency of the de-
partments under their control, and so
does every citizen of Salt Lake city.
1t is not question of pride, this mat
ter of reducing expenses in the vari-
Gus departments, it is a question Of
necessity. The board does not seem
to have taken broad view of the mat
ter. They have rather taken the mar
row view of a department than of the
whole city.
Among the arguments urged by the
board is that of the feeling of safety
on the part of the inhabitants, and
more particularly the manner in which
capitalists consider the situation. The
board says that after the capitalist
and investor has satisfied as to police
protection,
He naturally looks to the other
safeguard, the fire department. to as
certain the amount of protection he
can expect for his investments. should
they be of an inf1ammable nature. and
the rates of insurance, knowing full
well that these departments regulate
largely the successful building up of a.
city"
This is all very true but there is
something more. The capitalist also
-
is run; whether the income is made
to cover the expenses; whether its
power to borrow has been exhausted,
and if so. what the resources for tax
alton are. These are only some of
the questions asked by capitalists. The
rate of insurance is not so potent a
factor in inducing capital to come to
a city as is the rate of its indebted
ness per capita. Capital is always
ready to share in joys, but it is never
known to seek after sorrows.
If it can be said to men of means
who are seeking a safe and profitable
place to invest their money that Salt
Lake city. while she has large debt,
is yet making her income pay for all
her expenses and saving a little, it
viii have a hundred fold better effect
than to say our rates of insurance are
low and our police and fire depart
ments are our pride. And these same
men of means when told what a pride
all feel in our police and fire depart
ments, might reply that pride goeth
before destruction
1t will be a much easier matter to at
any time increase the force Of these
departments after capitalists and in
vestors have put their means here than
it will be to induce them to come.
We believe the members of the board
are sincerely anxious to make the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

As was to have been expected, the
advocates of Capitalization are using
these incidents as reasons for demand
ing an increase of the standing army
of the country. AS a matter of fact,
they present the best evidence in the
world that there is no need for such
an increase. of force. 1t has been
demonstrated that the present force is
ample, supplemented with the court
machinery, to meet any exigency that
can possibly arrive in the future. =
But the events have disclosed a point
of weakness where strength is needed.
1t is in the character and discipline of
the state and municipal forces. The
state militia should be something more
than holiday soldiery, and the police
force of city ought to be as in1exible
in its determination to perform duty
as it is possible for the Federal troops
to be.-kansas City Times Oem).
A good and efficient militia is all the
country needs. They are as much at
the call of the President as United
States troops in emergencies like that
at Chicago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27
LET US ALL RESPOND.

The friends of Utah-all who sup
port the statehood movement-should
heed the semi-ofTicial call of Acting
Governor c. c. Richards for a general
gathering of citizens at Saltair on
Wednesday. August 1st, to unite in
rejoicing over the proceedings in pro-
gress to complete the political eman-
cipation of Utah. He was chairman
of the great Democratic meeting at
that place on July 18th, and in that
capacity he issues the present call in
order to carry out the request Of that
assembly.
partisan meeting next Wednesday.
The fact that the work of the state
hood bin has been Democratic ought
not to enter into the proceedings Of
the occasion, nor do we want par
tisan constitution. The very best that
can be framed for the general welfare
of the inhabitants of the new state
is the desideratum. At the jollifica-
ton at Saltair there should not be
anything said on either side to provoke
contention. Republicans and Demo-
Gratis. Populists and Independents,
should fraternize as citizen of Utah
and have good time together.
People at a distance who cannot
come to the great gathering in the
monster pavilion should assemble in
their respective central towns and
jubilate over the glorious prospects III
view. 1t matters not, if they have
~ 1a7t1>r n
some powder and fred off fervent or
atory already, they can do it again.
Let US have a day of general rejoic-
ing. as requested in the call, and
make the mountains ring with the
glad acclaims over Utahs emancipa-
ton at lastl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

city's expenditures come within the
citys income, but they dwell too much
on the Importance of their depart
ments. important as they are, when
the general situation is taken into con-
sideration. Every department will
answer as has the Board of Police and
Fire Commissioners. Major Daley can
come in with the same arguments and
very truthfully say, 'If my depart
ment is reduced the fire department
viii be insufficient and so it will go.
No one desires to reduce any depart
ment for any improper motive, but
the fact stares all in the face that
our borrowing capacity is exhausted,
the city has no neglected resources of
income. and the city is running in
debt over her income about a hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a year. This
is why the citizens expect and desire
a reduction of expenses in all the de-
partments. AS we have said before,
the City Council must do these things,
the departments never will.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

The president has thrown down the
gauntlet and the conservatives have
accepted it. The position is peculiar
in that the House. the Democratic
press, and most of the Democratic sem
ators favor some such bill as Mr..
Cleveland advocates; the opposition.
made UP of about half dozen sena-
Senate, and insists upon debating
terms to the party at large.-Philadel-
phia Ledger Rep).
The Ledger is right when it says the
House, the Democratic press land most
of the Democratic senators favor some
such bill as Mr.. Cleveland advocates.
The people demanded such bill in
1892
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

The Obituary prints a letter correct
ing one Of its numerous errors and
saws: 'eThe following communication
exrJains itself" Quite right. except
tnat the letter needed no explanation
bu itself or others. But the COM
1nents accompanying intended for an
explanation of that papers blunder do
not explain anything. They are not
confession of error or defense of the
bsunder. but merely an attempt to
contend that it was right while its
figures prove that it was wrong A
great head has the Obituary. but, alas!
Ijkss the boys big caput there's moth
In in it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Reports keep coming to The Herald
that bona fide residents of this city
men with families, are turned off the
work on the gravity sewer and com
parative strangers given employment.
If that is true it is contrary to agree
ment and to good sense. Let those who
have the right to do so investigate and
see that the proper thing is DONE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27
A REMONsTRANcE

Tell me. Mrs. Sarah Grand
(What | i'll can understand,
Why your men are all so horrid.
All with "a retreating forehead?'
Why your women all are decked
With every gift of intellect,
And yet-invariably wed
These knights of the retreating head?
She, as bright as a geranium;
He, a simian type of Uranium
Why, with decent chaps around her,
Choose an atavistic FOUNDER?
We are apes-well, let that pass;
Need she, therefore, be an ass?
Tell me, tell me- Sarah Grand,
For / do not understand
Westminster Gazette.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Prof. Wilder, of Cornell, suggests
that chloroform should be used freely
&c relieve victims of railway accidents.
1t should also be used on the leaders
of the American Railway Union just
before they think of ordering a strike.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Protection to American industries
and free coinage of silver is the motto
which some western Republican papers
claim for their party. But the eastern
conventions chop off the tail end of the
motto and stamp it under foot What's
the use of trying to deceive the people?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

The movement to track the perpe-
traitors of the outrage on General Tars-
ney in Colorado ought to be continued
until the dastards are all in Jail. Any
attempt to shield them on the part of
local officers viii only stimulate the de-
termination to push the pursuit. There
should be no let up to the proceedings
no matter HON they may criminate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

There has been no more successful
Congressman during the present session
than Hon. j. l.. Rawiins. Having no
vote as a Delegate, he has nevertheless
carried through a number of most i'm
portant measures and made some of the
most striking and well received
speeches that have engaged the atten-
ton of that body. The bill for the adj
mission Of Utah is of course the most
important of all to his constituents and
they should stand ready to give him
erecting on his return. See, the con-
auering hero comes!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Judge Mcdonnell and Warden Chase,
of Kansas, have had a personal set-to
over penitentiary affairs. The Bleed
ing State seems to be as lawless now
as during the exciting times Of the
Kansas-Nebrasl1a troubles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

There is no comfort for the free sill
yer coinage men in the Illinois Republi-
can platform. 1t is worse straddle if
anything than the League evasion at
Denver. Il is not a step in advance of
tire Minneapolis blind of 1892. 1t is no
doubt quite satisfactory, though, to the
silver blunderer of the Rocky Mountains
commonly known as the Obituary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

whole course has been one of policy and
they have been recreant to their party
pledges and regardless of the trust i'm
posed upon them by their constituents.
In our opinion, they dare not oppose
any longer. the will of the people, and
we look for them to give way and come
into line as they were compelled to do
in regard to the repeal of the Sherman
silver act"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

1t as so easy to find fault Here are
good people fretting over the partisan
ship of the mayor in appointing so
many Democrats to Office" and it turns
out that there are 1S Republicans TO
Democrats in his list of appointees.
Now let the Democrats make their kick.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Rudy's Pile Suppository is guaran-
teed to cure Piles and Constipation,
or money refunded. SO cents per box.
Send. stamp for circular and free sam
pie to Martin Rudy, Lancaster, Pa.
For sale by Godbe-Pitts Drug Co., Salt
Lake city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

If the women of Utah want the suf-
frage it is probable that they will get
Il. But they will weaken their chances
greatly if they are beguiled into par
tisan politics.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Everybody agrees that Utah has been
ably represented in the Fifty-third
Congress and people of all opinions will
want to grasp the hand of Our Joe"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

1t is expected that Delegate Rawlins
and Governor West will both be home
in time to speak to the people at Sal
tair on the 1st of August.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Gorma1l's favorite balIad-"Over the
Hill to the White House.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

The Chicago Tribune says Sovereign
should be sentenced to six months
silence. That would be equivalent to
hard labor
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Cleveland was not at all disconnected
by Germans attack. He merely said
sPue.''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Senatorial courtesy-Saying officially
of men what no gentleman would think
of saying privately.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

It isn't winter time but the whole
country is shouting to the Senate
Clear the track
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

The presidents standpoint from tho
first line to the last of this remarkable
epist.e is that of a Democratic leader
only. He seems to have completely for
gotten his high office and the patriotic
obligations it places him under to deal
with all national affairs on broad ma
tional grounds.-N. Y. Recorder Rep)
His standpoint is that of the chief
representative of the people of the
country. Party was. a secondary con-
sideration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

A midsummer madness seems to have
seized some of the senators.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

lis voice, quite low and pleading, for him
self was interceding but the maiden
paid 10 needing to the words that
he might say
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

And no lover preserving ever had so
dumb a hearing to his terms of love
endearing as she gave to him that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Until his chance he waited, with a guile
premeditated and with cheek I'M
mitigated, up and kissed her. Then
she cried:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

There, you monster! I just knew it,
1 was sure, or quite near to it, II l
waited you would do it. Now, nope
you're satisfied
Tom Mason in Life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27

Delegate Rawlins is coming home.
He should receive a royal welcome.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

The letter which Congressman Will
son read from President Cleveland was
entirely characteristic of the man.
Courageous fidelity to principle is one
of his most prominent traits, and he
certainly exhibited it in the commune
cation referred to. From first to last it
rings with a dauntless determination
to keep the vows he took upon himself
when he assumed the leadership of the
Democratic party, and to hold the
party to the pledges it made.-Detroit
Free Press Dem).
If the president had called an extra
session when he came in in '99 and sent
to Congress a message on the same lines
as this now famous letter, the country
would have had tariff reform and uni
versal prosperity