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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

act, that right can be construed to
them. We think the Constitution is all
right. We think there will be no
trouble about its ratification. The Tri-
bune has supported it from the first,
expects to support it until election day,
but The Tribune does not believe that
the women have any right to vote this
year, any more than would a boy 20
years old have a right to vote on the
ground that he would be a voter when
Utah would be admitted as a State.
1t is little difficult to reconcile that
with the jeers and sneers INDUCED in
every now and then by our erratic con-
temporary. But perhaps it means all
right in the main, though it has ridi-
culed woman suffrage with all its
might. And the argument with which
it closes its explanation is without
force because it is without logic, and
the illustration it uses is without rele-
vance to the subject. However. that
is nothing new in that quarter. 1t is
gratifying TO know that now at any
rate it believes the Constitution VIII be
ratified and says it is 'all right
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
TR0T HIM OUT.

The Ogden Press has this to say in
reference to a prominent presidential
candidate:
At Salt Lake it is understood that
Governor Mckinley will soon visit this
territory en- route to the Pacific coast
1t wouldn't be a bad idea to have him
! express his views on the silver ques-
ton although it is pretty well under
stood that he and John Sherman and
Grover Cleveland are in full accord on
that subject.
Why not, indeed? The gentlemen is
one of the idols of the G. o. P. He
ought to be set up for the alteration
of Utah Republicans. 1t would be in
teresting to hear him discourse on the
principle that "a cheap coat makes a
cheap man." and show how a nation
is benefited by enriching one class of
the community at the expense of all
the rest. How wealthy it makes Uncle
Sam to take money out of a half a
dozen pockets and put it into one He
could show, too, the great benefits de-
rived from high tariff law under the
operations Of which the industry of the
country became paralyzed, frightfu1
financial panic set in, millions of work
ing people were thrown out of employ
ment, and hundreds of thousands of
tramps roamed desperately over the
country seeking for work or aid and
finding none
But as the sad conditions which pre-
vailed while that law was in full blast
have almost entirely passed away,
since the Democratic tariff measure
has come into operation, we can af-
ford to let that matter slide and take
up one that is, just now, more vital
question.
Governor Mckinley ought to be in
vited, as suggested, to expound his
views on the silver question frankly
and without reservation. It would help
the rising cause of Democracy in Utah
and prove an eye-opener to such silver
Republicans as may still entertain a
faint hope that the leaders of the G..
o. P. have any real friendship for the
white metal as the money of the United
States
Mckinley is still a prominent candi-
date for the presidency. His views on
silver ought to be interesting, but we
fear would not be very satisfactory
to the Republicans of the inter-moun-
tain region. Anyhow, if he comes. trot
him out and let US have an oppor-
tunity of comparing the silver views
of the little Republican Napoleon of
Ohio with those of the little RepubIi-
can Napoleon of Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
THE TERRIBLE EFFECTS.

The abolition of the sugar bounty nv
the late diabolical Democratic CON
gress so completely ruined" the beet
sugar industry that the Chino ranch
people announce the largest acreage
of beet planting and the prospect of
more sugar making at the factory this
year than occurred in any year pre-
vious. And it is also announced that
beet sugar factory will surely he
established at Anaheim-to be stint
larry ruined
The foregoing is from the Los An
geles Herald. The terrible Demo-
cratic tariff law has had a similar '.ru-
nous effect upon the sugar industry
in Utah. A larger acreage than was
ever planted before is raising an
abundance of beets for the Lehi sugar
factory. Those works will probably
produce a much larger output than
ever before during the present year.
When an additional bounty to that
Of former years was demanded in this
territory for the support and continu-
ance of the sugar interest, it was de-
clared that without that aid it would
be impossible to continue that import
ant industry. However, the demand
was not complied with. The bounty
principle was perceived to be wrong
and unjust. The legislature very pro-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
THE PROPOSED TAX LEVY.

y contemporary which very seldom
gets anything right, announced few
days ago that the city council had de-
cided TO fix the rate of taxation for
the present year at seven mills on the
dollar The truth is that the council
had not passed on the question and
has not yet decided what action ii
will take in the matter. The finance
committee agreed to report to the
council recommending that rate, but
even that has not yet been attended
to.
We hope that the city council. after
carefully investigating the subject,
will find that the proposed rate of
taxation will be sufficient to supply
the financial necessities OF the city
for the fiscal year. It will Zoe only by
strict economy that the revenue thus
derived will be sufficient to cover all
the city's expenses.
But the great OUTLAWS of the past
are over. With the finishing and fur
nishing of the city and county build
ing the enormous expenditures from
the city treasury have ceased. For
some time to come our municipal
authorities may devote themselves to
decreasing instead of increasing the
public debt. The interest due on bonds
is large, and the expenses of the city
are necessarily much greater than
they were a few years ago. The value
of property has also suffered a shrink
age. All this necessitates the levying
of a considerable tax.
No reasonable citizen will object to
a sufficient levy to cover all needful
requirements. But it must be re-
membered that though the times have
greatly improved, the business depres-
sion-consequent largely upon the
Gripping of the silver interests-still
exists and money is not yet extremely
plentiful. The taxpayers will have to
make a great struggle to raise the
funds to meet even the levy of seven
mills on the dollar. Anything addi-
tional to that amount will, in our
opinion, be resented by the general
public, unless it can be made clearly
to appear that the needs of the city
absolutely require such an advance.
We think as much as seven mills will
be required. We believe it would not
be wise for the council to go beyond
1t. Wise economy will be greatly ap-
preciated by the burdened taxpayers
of Salt Lake city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
\ SHALLOW DECEPTION.

The Houston, Texas, Daily Post is
a live paper, but it is dead wrong on
the silver question. In an attempt to
reply to ex-Congressman Bryan's ar
guments for reconciliation, that pa
per shows that free silver coinage
would not add one cent to the money
value of the 423,OOO,OOO legal tender
silver dollars which it alleges are
now in circulation and says:
The most stupendous speculation
and profit, if realized, that the world
has even known is behind the move
ment. We want silver money and
plenty of it, but the farmers of Texas
and the people generally are not in
terested in helping to boost the vast
special and utterly selfish scheme of
the silver interests.
1t would be a dreadful thing, of
course, if the owners of silver mines
should receive great benefit from the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of
16 to 1 with gold. But why is it not
just as wicked TO benefit the owners
of gold mines, by permitting them to
take their product to the minis and
have it coined at the ratio of l to 16
with silver? We can see no evil arts
ing from either. providing that coin
ing these metals into legal tender
money is beneficial to the people of
the entire nation.
If the farmers of Texas want sill
Yer money and plenty of it, which is
what other folks need in every state
of the Union, it is not likely that they
will worry because by the increase of
silver money the silver mining inter
ests would be stimulated. But if
they should object to the revival of
the silver industry by the restoration
of the white metal, why should they
not also object to the free coinage of
gold because it boosts" the mining
industry of the yellow metal?
The great mistake of the gold mono
metallists who are sincere in their
views is the idea that the movement
to restore the metal which was the
money of the United States for over
four score years to it's former posi-
ton, is "a selfish scheme of the sill
yer interests" 1t is advocated by
gentlemen who have no personal as
ISOLATION with silver mining interests,
directly or indirectly. And the rea-
sons advanced in support of the
scheme are not based upon any
special interest or the good of any
particular industry or locality. 1t is
advanced as a great economic neces-
sity of the times, in the general inter-
est and for the welfare of this great
country.
Why do not the goldite organs adj
vance some sound reasons for what
they incorrectly call sound money"
instead of deceiving themselves and
their readers by such shallow asser-
tions as those we have clipped from
the Houston Post?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
THE FURNITURE SCANDAL.

The further investigation by the
county court into the furniture scandal
makes the matter look worse as it pro-
crosses. Unless when the other side
Of the question is presented it shall be
shown that the witnesses who have
testified are greatly in error, it will
/ be evidence to the public that a great
swindle has been perpetrated. Taking
the testimony which has been intro
duced as one extreme, and the amount
paid for the furniture in the city and
county building as the other extreme.
the mean between the two will pro-
badly show about what ought to have
been paid for the goods.
The departure of Mr. Haykin, after
having promised to appear before the
court, has a very suspicious look
Every person who can throw light on
this matter ought to be required to
testify. Both sides of this question
able transaction ought to be fairly
given to the court and to the public.
From what has been disclosed it ap-
pears that the city authorities, as well
as those of the county. are interested
if not implicated in this unpleasant
business. The purchase of the furn-
ishings Of the city and county build
ing were entrusted to joint commit
tee composed of gentlemen from the
city council and the county court.
Probably the actual business of that
committee was referred to a sub-com-
mittee, SO that all of the members
were not personally engaged in the
actual purchase of the furniture But
be that as it may, the city is as much
interested in this affair as is the
county. Should not something be
done by the city as well as by the
county to get at a clear and complete
understanding of the whole proceed
ings?
The purchases made for school pur-
poses were not anything like so large
as those for the city and county, but
if we mistake not the Board of Educa-
ton is interested in a small degree in
this same transaction. School furni-
ture, we understand, was purchased
of the same firm if nor in the same
deal That being so, the Board of
Educati>u ought, on its own part, to
institute an inquiry into the affair so
far as it affects the city school dis
trict.
The Herald makes no charges
against any of the officials, either of
the city or the county or the school
board, who entered into the contract
which has turned out so. unfortun-
ately. We should be very sorry to
think that any gentlemen, elected bv
the people to transact public business
should be either so weak as to he
taken in and done for by eastern
spectators, or SO wicked as to divv
with swindlers who prey upon public
corporations and thus rob the tax
payers who furnish the funds for pub
lie purposes.
1t is due to all of them that the
investigation which has been com
menced shall be made thorough and
complete, and we think that each Of
the bodies we have named is equally
interested in principle, if not to the
same extent in money, in having this
affair thrown fully open to the light of
day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

perly declined to further impose upon
vate enterprise.
The sugar industry did not collapse.
On the contrary it fiourished and
grew and supplied sweetening mater
ial for the people of Utah in compe-
tition with the article that came from
other parts of the country. But the
claim was put forth that without the
government bounty which then eX-
| listed, the concern could not possibly
maintain its position. That assertion
has met the same fate. as the other.
The government bounty law is re-
pealed but the sugar works still sur
vive and we hope will live for ever.
Stimulated by necessity. greater
! economy in management, better facil-
tiles for conducting the work and the
exercise of still further ingenuity in
the application of the best methods
prevailing in this country and in Eu-
rope, are resulting in that success
which should come from self-support-
ing and independent energy, determin-
alton and persistence in the conduct
of business affairs
Every private enterprise should be
able to stand on it's own feet and
move forward without crutches sup
piled by government aid. If it can
not, it is not fit to live and move and
have being. Public money must be
put only to public uses. The bounty
system is fraud and the sooner the
American people understand that fact
fully the better it will be for this
great nation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
STATEHOOD AND SUFFRAGE.

!
The Rocky Mountain News has an
editorial on the admission of Utah, in
which it refers to the report that
Judge Goodwin is to be the Republican
nominee for the United States Senate.
and wants TO know why he is "nipping
his golden prospects in the bud" What
| the News means will be seen from the
following remarks of that paper:
It is represented that a strong effort
will be made to get Congress to re-
consider its action, and that the presi-
dent will be prevailed upon to with
mold his proclamation of statehood I'M
I'll after the matter is brought before
Congress. The Tribune says:
The argument will be that the clause
comforting the voting franchise on wom-
en- is not intended to benefit them: that
1t is no evidence of woman's progress in
that state, and that its practical effect
Will simply be to restore the absolute
control and dominance of the Mormon
! hierarchy.
1t is not likely that any such argu-
ment will convince reasonable people
because it does not appeal to reason.
When suffrage was given the women
of Utah before, it was given by the
MormonS, and because the national
government had threatened to enfran-
chise the women, thinking that in that
way polygamy would be abolished. 1t
did not have that effect and the con-
sequence is that the opponents of equal
suffrage criticise the women severely
for not using the ballot to bring shame
upon themselves and LEGITIMACY upon
their children. Plural wives could not
be expected to do this, nor could the
daughters of plural wives cast obloquy
upon their mothers. The action of the
Mormon nor without
cuse. In any event it does not enter
into the merits of the case now
Plural marriages are prohibited in the
enabling act and in the state consti-
tuition. and the younger members Of
the Mormon church are no great adj
mirers of that peculiar institution.
Now that it has been done away with,
it is against reason to suppose that
women would desire to revive it, They
did not take kindly to it in the first
place. The Mormon women are quite
as intelligent, if not more so, than
Mormon men. There is no argument
against the woman's vote that does
not apply with equal force to the
other side of the family. 1t is piece
of reasoning which can only appeal to
what Miss Shaw calls 'the legal male
mind to enfranchise the men who
created the peculiar institution" and
keep out the women who endured it
because they must, and supported it,
no matter how insupportable, because
to have done otherwise would have
been to have made themselves out
casts.
As we desire to give both sides of
this question, we clip the following
from the Tribune of Wednesday, in
reply to the foregoing:
The editor of the Rocky Mountain
News is a careless reader. He has
taken up the idea that The Tribune is
opposing the ratification of the Con-
stitution because it is opposed to wo-,
man suffrage. The News has woman
suffrage confused with the proposition
of certain Democrats to give women
the right to vote at the coming cleo
ton. claiming that under the Enabling
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
THREE VIEWS.

give you n peep at all sides. There's
also a short view, n long view, and
n broad view, but all views from all
sides, short, long and broad, show
exclusively that we have the call in
the Furnishing Trade in Salt Lake
City. Our Collars, Cuffs, and Neck
wear, Shirts, Underwear, Hosiery,
Gloves, ETC., are admired by all and
criticised by none. Come to us for
Fashions Latest Flashes in Fur
nishings. There's chance
for argument when you've seen
our goods and prices. Logic is
logic, and the logic of quality and
prices cannot be disputed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

These unprecedented New York
police commissioners are still worry
ing the finest" by providing around
IN out of the way places at the most
unexpected hours OF the night. What
is worse, they are not respecters of
persons, patrolmen and captains alike
being yanked UP unceremoniousiy for
renriunand upon occasion. The latest
exhibition OF Teddy Rossevelts idi-
osvncracy is in requiring the police to
LEI Justice fall upon the male well
% ,,pon the female in cases of disor-
deriv conduct. If this sort of thing
keeps up politics and law breaking
viii cease to be irridescent dreams in
the sity of New York.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
opPoRruNIsT REpuBLICANIsM.

The Republican party is the child of
sentiment and passion. Brought into
power by Democratic dissension. and
necessity, and then by the impetus of a
great national victory, for which it
claimed exclusive credit, and had its
claim allowed, It has been. for twenty
years, the merest opportunist, profiting
rather by the follies of the Democrats
than by any inherent worth or virtue of
it's own.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

The conference in Memphis Of citizens
of the United States who believe that sill
YER should De restored to the place it
occupied in our currency system prior to
1873 was successful in the highest sense
The attendance was actually large, and
in its representative capacity enormous.
The expectations OF those who brought
about the conference were more than
realized. Over nine-tenths of the dele
gates We're Democrats, though the pre-
determination was that the conference
should be non-partisan III its character
The effect of the declaration will be felt
when the great party conventions shall
be held next year. 1t cannot be ignored
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

With the ships building now in Eng
land, and the vessels captured from
China, Japan has forty-three warships,
only four of which are obsolete. She
has also over forty torpedo-boats.
NO wonder" says the st. James Ga
zette, that Russia don't want to
fight" Some OK these ships are very
pOwerful
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
BANQUO'S GHOST.

The Salt Lake Tribune says of Charley
Thomas: HE IS Democrat, but he
can't stand his party now Yet his
party is a good deal nearer bimetallism
than the party of the worthy editor of
the Tribune, and Judge Goodwin still
stands with his 80 per cent against silver
outfit. It's time to quit talking party
Denver News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

Denver is in the throes of a water
works agitation. That city was so
unwise years ago as to sell the sys-
fem and ROW the citizens are reaping
the results Of that mistake in extor-
tionate rates. The company is capt.
allied for seven and one-half millions
and bonded for eight millions, and is
engaged in the task of trying to pay
dividends and interest on this watered
rn,nifal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

The Republican papers of the east
are unanimous in branding the Dem
ocracy with the infamy of favoring
free silver-and it really seems that
the culprit can't prove an alibi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

Some enterprising goldbug organ in
Baltimore succeeded in getting what
few sound money papers there are
in the south to express their gold
plated opinions. But the overwhelm-
ing majority of newspapers of the
south are for the free and untram-
meled coinage of silver and will be
heard from.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
IN THE MAINE WOODS.

While sprucing up for the contest, in
the Maine woods, Tom Reed should pro-
vide a little balsam to rub on his disap-
pointed ambitionS.-Herald.
Never worry about Reed, he is not the
kind Of a sapling that pines away
Ogden Standard
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

The furniture business seems to be
very profitable. especially when run
with prices and prices" and more
particularly so when goods are sold to
a city or a county or both.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

Jim Hill, of the Great Northern pro-
poses TO teach the Chinese to love
wheat bread in the certainty that rice
will be discarded as an article of food
upon the requirement OF the taste.
Thus he expects to double the wheat
market and enrich our farmers and
his railroad and steamship lines. He
anticipates that we shall all become
rich in this wheat by and by.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

Vegetarianism receives a serious
body blow in the antics of the festive
cucumber-a six-pound roast Of beef
would be a harmless meal in compari-
son with it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

Rockefeller lost million dollars at
law-of course that will not bother
him much, the public, the real judg-
ment debtors, viii make it UP in a
higher price on petroleum.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

The rallying of the ladies to the De-
mocracy makes the Republicans Crane
their necks in surprise and strike the
flute which us not an organ" with
dumb dismay.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

The size and character of the attend
ton were sufficient to give its utteranCes
the respectful consideration Of the coun-
try. A significant feature of the conven-
ton outside of its radical utterances was
the fact that, although advertised as Il
mass meeting of the friends of free silver,
regardless Of party. it was distinctly
Democratic gathering. Senator Stewart,
of Nevada, was the only prominent man
present with any claim TO RepublicaniSm.
and as ne some time ago read himself out
of the party his presence had no signif-
canoe from a Republican standpoint
PittSburg Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20
WOMAN WITH \ BABY.

They do say that the patrons of the
English theatres have at last grown
aweary of the Woman with Past. The
Woman with Baby now has the call.
This is more encouraging and ennoblinS.
Boston Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

The bicycle repairers are replacing
the horse shoers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-20

We observe that Governor Knute
Nelson is at Cleveland. He should be
compelled to tell what he thinks about
that financial question.