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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
WHEN POLITICIANS TALK.

whenever a politician talks without
premeditating as to what he intends
to say, he usually gets into trouble.
Congressman Babcock, chairman of
the Republican congressional campaign
committee, has just had an experience
of this kind
A short time ago he did some talk
ing about what the Republicans would
probably do. Among other things thar
he was reported to have said was that
the Republican party would not at
tempt TO restore the Mckinley duties
or to increase the tariff 10 the highest
protection rates. All this was over
heard by a, reporter who put it in his
paper. But now Mr. Babcock. comes
forward and repudiates it all. IT
would not do for man in his posi-
ton to give away" the party's case. SO
Reputation Of the sentiments attribu-
ted to him became necessary.
In doing this Babcock is following
the example set by Tom Reed. At Ann
Arbor Reed uttered some common
sense views about the tariff, and thew
were published. He, too, repudiated
them. saying that his remarks were
never Intended for publication. The
good of the party required that such
views be repudiated, and they were ac-
cordingly.
John Wanamaker advertised in the
Philadelphia papers that owing to the
change of the tariff he was enabled to
sell goods cheaper. The announcement
was seized upon by the Democrats and
presented to the people as an argument
in support of the Democratic tariff.
But suddenly Wanamaker's advertise
ment of this nature ceased. and it was
thought that the cause of it was party
good"
Not long ago an Idaho politician.
who sits in the United States Senate,
made very foolish talk. saving
among other things, that politics was
purely business matter. He has never
repudiated this interview and proba bly
never will. not that he is any better
than his class, but that he committed
the grave political blunder of certify-
ing to the correctness of the interview
over his own signature. Herein he was
not so wise, if wisdom it can be called,
as Babcock and Reed, because. not
having certified to the correctness of
the interviews. they were at liberty to
them. well knowing there
was no documentary evidence against
them.
The trouble with these interviews is
not that they are untrue or that they
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Before the admission Of Arizona the
bill introduced by Delegate Rawlins,
OF Utah, to annex to Utah that part
OF Arizona which lies north of the
Colorado river should become a law.
This part of Arizona is separated from
the remainder of the territory by an
almost impossible barrier consisting
OF the Grand canyon of the Colorado
river 1t ought never to have been
annexed TO Arizona, for it is accessible
only with great difficulty from the
main part of the territory. It is an
easy matter now to attach it to Utah.
Tor neither that territory nor Arizona
mas been admitted into the Union. 1t
would be different if either of them.
and especially Arizona, should be let
IN with the present boundaries" saws
the Denver Republican.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
THE roRr ARTHUR NEWS.

1t is to be hoped that the cable from
Yokohama to the New York World,
saying that when the Japanese troops
entered Port Arthur on November q
they practically n1assacred the entire
! population in cold blood, is untrue. II
it be true, it will put a great stain
upon Japan, one that will be hard
to wipe out Heretofore the sympathy
of this country and Of most of the civ-
ilized world has been with Japan, but
if what is now reported be true, it
would tend, to ALLEVIATE that sympathy.
During the entire war the Japanese
have conducted themselves according
to modern ethics of war. This fact
has done as much TO gain for them the
esteem they have won as their Prov
ess both on the land and the sea.
If there has been a lapse from this
high standard, while it is much to be
regretted yet it is not to be wondered
at. Japan is the most recent of the
modern nations, and; most of her great
reforms of all kinds have been inaug-
urated and accomplished within the
last twenty-five years. No twenty-five
years can eradicate the Characters
tics and habits Of thought of a people.
Is it to be wondered at. then.
that the old spirit and methods of
war that have dominated the Orient
for many centuries may have broken
out in moment of victory and exul-
tation? 1t is not at all strange if
they have. The thing to wonder at is
that the japanese soldiers have main
tanned such splendid discipline and
that up to the present time there has
been no rapine and plumber. It all
shows how thorough and genuine has
been Japan's adoption of European
ways of thought and action; they have
taken root and have found soil where
they will thrive.
If this news proves true, and the
World thus far has had very reliable
news from the seat of war, it will hor-
rify the civilized world and make it
doubt Of Japan's real advancement.
The japanese Minister at Washington
discredits it and believes that the story
is greatly exaggerated. May be he is
right in his views.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

20 not state correct sentiments. but
that they are impolitlc. If the people
We're to be informed semi-oficially
that the Republican party does not in
tend to re-enact the Mckinley law.
the inquiry would naturally be. What
does it intend to do? And they might
make the disagreeable suggestion that
the Republican party used the Demo-
cratic tariff as a mere bugaboo. and
that they themselves will act very
much on the same lines on which that
law was framed. The possibility of
these things shows the impolicy Of
such interviews as Reeds and Bah
cocks and the necessity for repudiat-
ing them. Politicians should learn
from this not to utter their true SEN
timents on public questions until the
party has made a policy for them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
sLANpBRING THE COMMISSION.

The communications from Chairman
Letcher and AIessrs. Dey ana Har-
combe, Of the canvassing board, COM
pletely upset and stamp as false and
malicious, the long harangue of the
Tribune of Wednesday in which the
Utah Commission, the canvassing
board and some persons unknown
were placed in a shameful light before
the public.
But the Tribune, after publishing
those letters, in its usual impudent
manner when caught in gross misrepre-
sentation, puts on a, bold front and, in
the face of the complete refutation of
its falsehoods, claims that it was right
all the way through and that these
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

The Logan Journal, which has been
conducted with vigor and ability, is
now leased 10 Messrs. Jesse Earl and
Charles England with j. W. Hyde as
local editor. 1t will still be a Demo-
cratic paper and stand for the rights
Of all people. The Journal is one of
our esteemed exchanges and deserves
TO be literally supported by the peo-
pie of Northern Utah. We wish the
lessees all the success that they can
reasonably desire and hope they will
receive the encoura cement which their
excellent paper deserves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

In the course of the debate in the
House Wednesday, on the income tax,
Mr.. Mcmillan asked Mr.. Bartlett. who
was defending William Waldorf Aston
a being a large taxpayer, How about
the federal taxi" and when Mr.. Bart
lett in reply said. IF it be your pur-
pose 10 prescribe the RICH he really
gave the case away. From this IT
would appear that to tax the rich for
federal purposes is to prescribe"
them, but to tax the poor through the
tariff for the same purposes is to pro-
ierf,' them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

The editor of the Provo Dispatch has
returned from a visit eastward and re-
ports big returns from the fruit-grow-
ing industry near Grand Junction,
Colorado. There is no good reason
why Utah fruit should not recover its
former prestige and beat the world for
quantity and quality. We bid the
Colonel welcome home and expect to
see the results of his vacation in the
vigor of his trenchant pen.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

A Richmond, Va, paper says the
people of the South are beginning to
see the folly of having two dollars, one
of which is worth 100 cents and the
other of which is worth only 80 cents"
Certainly it is folly to have two kinds
o. dollars, one OF which is worth a dol
lar and the other half a dollar. What
kind Of dollars are they? There are
no such kinds of dollars in this part
Of the country
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Southern California wants to divide
the state and make two states of it.
There could be no advantage in this
save to crafty the ambitions of some
who may want to go to the Senate.
The agitation is not apt to amount to
very much.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

c. S. Thomas. Of Colorado, says that
while ne is not profit nor the son
Of profit he has the temerity to pre-
dict that the war now waging between
China and Japan will be utilized by
the gold power for the destruction of
silver in the Orient.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Debs has the making of a politician
in him. He says Gompers' statement
that lie asked him to aid in the strike
is a mistake. and he declares that if
Gompers says otherwise he can dis
prove it. When he repudiates instead
of saying he will disprove an assertion,
he will show that he is true poll
tician
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Over twelve millions of dollars in
gold withdrawn from the treasury since
December! Another week will no doubt
see the gold reserve below the $1OO, 000,-
900 mark. There could be no better
evidence Of the folly of our financial
system than these now all-teo-often re-
curing bond issues to maintain a gold
reserve for the benefit of SPECTATORS
Il, crrJ5
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Delegate Rawlins is working like a
beaver in behalf Of Utah. If he sue
ceeds in getting his Arizona and mint
bills passed and signed, they will be
more feathers in his cap, which is al
ready so full Of them that he may have
to get another 20 hold the new ones.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

A defaultng county clerk in Wash
ington, when charged with his crime,
coolly replied that his salary was too
small. He does not seem to have an
idea that his style Of living was en-
tireIy too large for his salary. A term
of years in the penitentiary will help
to square the account, and he would
find that his income and outgo would
be about balanced there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

John Burns, III. P, and professional
English agitator, says the agitators
have come to stay. Does he mean that
he and Mowbray are going to dwell
an these United States forever and a
day? Heaven forbidI
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

1t was evident that they were man and
wife and were returning from assisting
at the wedding of two of their friends.
''Wouldn't 1T be awful" she was heard
to say to him, ''if they were to live to-
gether long enough to find out that the
silver We gave them was only plated?'-
indianapolis Journal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

There is no explanation afforded as
to why Democratic election judges
should combine to steal the conven-
ton so that 1t may be controlled by
Republican delegates.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

The country has had a contracted
currency for long while and it should
now have an elastic one. at least one
that viii expand to the same that it
viii contract.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
The president has selected Gene

The president has selected General John
G: Black to fill the vacancy in the Office
OF United States district attorney at Chi
cago caused by the death of Sherwood
DIXON. Undoubtedly the Senate will con-
two congressmen-at-la from Illinois.
he is an able lawyer and he has a. bril-
liant war record. President Cleveland de-
serves credit for so good a selection.
General Black is a man above reproach
in private life, and in politics no one ever
questioned his sincerity or the honorable
ness OF his Misunderstanding Inter-Ocean.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Mrs. Strongmind-If women would only
stand shoulder ito Shoulder they would
soon win the suffrage
DIR. Guffy-But, madam, that is some
thing they can't do with the present
STYLES in sleeves.--Harper' Bazaar.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
OPINIONS OF THE kREss.

IN the progress of bimetallism in Eng
t ian there is some hope for the world
put tbs, progress is slow and, therefor
me realization OF the hope promises to be
iohg deferred. Yet when one looks at
by the bimetallists Of that country. if
cannot be denied that much has been ac
compiished. 1t is unfortunate though,
mat the power of accumulated wealth is
asrrayec on the side of the gold standard.
for wealth can control public sentiment
to the ,detriment of the people them
Republican.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Jeannette-Ma, are you going to give
me another piece of pie?" Io6ler-Wnat
Because if NOT, want to eat tais piece
slowly.-Pearson Weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

About the only thing that viii ever
give New York q thorough cleaning
out will be an earthquake followed by
tidal wave.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

We hear no more of the juror who
was said to be lealSy. Is it possible
that the story has leaked and that
nothing of it is left but a hollow mock
cry?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

1T can't help my dislike for it, said
Meandering Mike; Il oneet seen a sign
in the suburbs that said water works
an l never could have no respect for it
sence washington Star.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Yeast-Didn't Littlehead marry money?
Criulsonbeak-No; but he nIaIl4ei
something else that talks.-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
HERALD Calendar for December.

Mr.. Valentine and Mrs. Mulvaney do
not seem to appreciate Captain Dono-
vars efforts to act as best man.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Mr.. lockwood, the new solicitor-gen-
eral of England; makes very good jokes
and very bad sketches. He is a great
authority on Dickens, and although 1T IS
commonly reported that he once went on
the stage professionally, this is not a
fact.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Rev. S. r. Crockett. of Scotland, the
author of 1.-THE Stickit Minister says
lowed to read in his early boyhood was
Pilgrims Progress. 81 used TO be
fond" he declares, of acting scenes
from it with a. cousin of mine, VINO some
times came to play with me. He always
wanted to be one of the respectable char
acters. but ] Invariably chose Apollyon,
and threw darts from nell with such
force and precision as to make my victim
how'd
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
DIR. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair. San Francisco
WHY WE SMILE.

'.Ah, how I feel for you." said Jags-
ley, as ne funaDled around for the key
hole.-SyTacuse Fost.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Job got his certificate of patience be-
fore he was obliged to go out and buy
Christmas presents for all of his rela-
tions-Minneapol Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Il find a bargain-counter everywhere. %
"Oh, mo- You never see. one at a
church fair. Boston Gazette.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Sir Edward Blount. of Imberhorne, the
popular English banker at Paris, was to
nave celebrated his diamond wedding
few days ago, but the celebration has
been. postponed for a. while. He was mar
ried in 1884 to Miss birmingham, young
er daughter of the late William Charles
JerningtnaIn
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
SOME pEopLE OF NOTE.

Queen Victoria. loves cold weather and
has been going about in the keen Novem-
Der days in an open carriage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

The Prince of Wales is very nice about
Christmas presents. He sends pretty
Things to all his old friends and even to
acquaintances
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

And now arother stock-jobbing cleo
Edison Illuminating company of Boston,
now capitalized at S425, 600, proposes to is
sue SS,O0O,0O0 additional stock, of which it
is safe to predict nine-tenths will be pure
water. In due time this electrified
water viii find its way into bank Vaults
as collateral for big loans and thus one
of the foundation bricks will be laid for
tinanciers would plug up the receptables
for water and help to wiring the water
out of overcapitalized concerns they would
have. no need for a larger volume of
elastic currency.-Omaha Bee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Maynard, the lately deceased editor OF
the Figaro. was famous in Paris for his
Paris newspaper offices have the phrase
''faire I'm Maynard" to express the pro-
cess of boiling down" Even Guy de
long apprenticeship with FYaubert. to
study Magnard's method of saying a
great deal in a short space. Maynard
was an ill paid custom house clerk when
'twenty-nine years he was to ornament.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

w. S. B. OBJ. Robinson, VINO has just
been elected judge of the supreme court
in North Clrolina, is said to be the first
any kind in North Carolina, where there
are perhaps fewer of his fellow church.
men than in any other state in the Uni
on, and the remarkable thing about it is
that didn't run a. vote behind his (Repub-
Hcan) ticket, though his opponent, John
Allen, is a member of the strongest reH-
gious body in the state-the Me.hodists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

1.-THE southern gentleman" who desires
to fight Mantell. the actor, for the trifiing
reason that he has alienated his wife s
is southern gentleman either because
it is reason for fighting or
because he thinks it will strike
southerner, but it is no proof of a gentle
man that he calls himself one. or that
he is parading his domestic trouble, and
his challenges in the papers, Indeed the
whole affair looks like the clever scheme
of Mr.. Mantelrs business manager
Kansas City Star.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

NJ, Ernst earnot, son of the late presi-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

The Louisville Times SCOTS at the claim
of the Missouri colored voters to the
chaplaincy of the national House of Rep
resentatiyes, and asserts that the colored
ministers of Louisville worked for their
party six days in the week and prayed
on Sunday, increasing the registration
621a and the colored vote 100 or more per
cent 1t is true that the Louisville blacks
Republican, but have rot the Missouri
negroes done a great deal more in carry
ing the great state of Missouri over to the
Republicans? Judging by results, how is
1t possible that the House chaplaircy shall
not go to some devout colored man of this
State?-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

Speaking of the low price of cotton and
its cause the Vicksburg Herald says:
We will admit that if. we had been
living by the gold standard all these
the double-standard. The trouble is, there
is a transition from the double to the
single standard, and although we cannot
have declined to point lower than ever
before known. tbs decline has been
reached. although only about one-half
of the people of the world are as yet
on the gold standard. What will be the
result, when silver is only used for small
change, and gold is the only standard all
over the world, no man can tell
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14

The Rev. DR.. John J. Patton. the ia
NOUS missionary in the New HebrIdes
islands, has returned to his work after
visiting the churches extensively in
Great Britain, America. and Australia
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-14
qIM SALT LAKE HERALD FRIDAY. DECEMBER a. 1894.

dent of France, wso is an engineer, has
been appointed private secretary of Nj.
Picard, who is coInmissi0ner-gene OF
the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-25
CAPT. PEGRAM DEAD.
A PATRIOTIC CITIZEN AND GALLANT
NAVAL OFFICER CONE.
Ills Services In Mexican. japanese. Chs
nese. and Parngusyan wsters-
During and Since tho War.

NORFOLK. VA. October 2i.-tspeciaii
Captain Robert u. Pegram died to-day
at his home on east Main street; aged
50 years. lie leaves widow. and also
several children by n former marriage,
and he died n member and yestryman Of
old st. PauIs Epkcopal church. Captain
Pegram was born In DinwIddle county,
Va, and was appointed A midshlpmar
In the navy In is2o, joining the sloop-of.
war Boston. on the John Adams he acted
as sailing master In n cruise around the
world.
IN MEXICO.
Promoted to Lieutenant. he was ordered
10 the Saratoga. David q. Farragut, com.
manding. and was sent % Vera Cruz,
where he served till the close OF ths
Mexican war.
GALLANT SERVICE.
Later he was on the Powha,an on the
Japan expedition. In lsj. while lying IN
the harbor OF Hong Kong. he commando
the American forces-s0 men-that acted
with the Bri;ish-40 men-in attacking
notilla OF pirates. Sixteen junks were
captured. ana the estimated loss Of the
| pirates was so men.
For HIS gallant service he received the
| thanks OF the British Government. convey.
ed through SIR. Buchanan. then the United
| States Minister At the Court Of ST James
\ MOTHERS GIFT.
The State OF Virginia also presented
| him with "A sword. Inscribed "A mother'i
gift 10 her devoted son" H. was %
duty at the nayy-yard here and the,
| commanded the Water witch on N.
| Paraguay expedition. he r. yu-i from
the United States navy IN FOL. was 80.
pointed captain In the Virginia navy
and took command Of the Norfolk sta
ton. He performed many valuable ser.
| vices TO the Confcderacy.
| After the war he was superintendent
OF the Petersburg and Weldon railroad
and after that was in the Ike insurance,
| business.