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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
SALARIES OF CITY OFFICIALS.

Tuesday evening the City Council
ton of salaries of the city officials
Two reports on them were submitted
one to allow them to stand as they are,
the other to reduce them. Whether
the salaries as at present fixed are
too high or too low we do not say, but
there is one argument put forth in the
majority report in behalf of the pres
ent salaries that is entirely fallacious
1t is that of citing the salaries paid by
other cities, the cities cited being gen
orally very much larger than our own,
such as Denver. Omaha, Los Angeles
and the like. Not what others do, but
what we are able to do should be the
criterion by which our City Council
should decide in fixing salaries. Moth
ing can be worse than to run a city
government on the keeping up-appear-
ances theory. 1t is both pernicious and
expensive. But that is the theory on
which our own city is run. Our munic-
ipal government is organized on the
plan of a city three times the size of
Salt Lake. 1t is the same elsewhere.
The Omaha Bee of recent date, on this
same subject, said:
It is an open secret that taxation has
become almost unbearable in the city
of Omaha. The municipal machinery of
Omaha is run on the high pressure
plan. It is designed for a city Of $780,
900 population, with taxable property
aggregating at least S100,000,00 In
other words. Omaha has been entered
in the class of cities of the size of
Buffalo, Detroit and Milwaukee, when
it properly should be classed with AL
bany, Indianapolis and Atlanta.
And what is true of Omaha is true
Of Salt Lake. Those who manage or
mismanage the affairs Of Omaha so on
the theory that that city is in the same
class as Buffalo, Detroit and Milwau-
kee, just as those who control our mu-
nicipal affairs proceed on the theory
that we are in the same class as
Omaha. Denver and Los Angeles. So
one member of the Council put US.
To administer the city's business sue
cessful!y cognizance must be taken of
just what the city is and not what we
hope or expect it to become. Expendi-
lures nave 4Idu altogether lOO HUGH VI
a tendency to be on a scale commen-
surata with what we expect to be
rather than what we are. The man
of moderate means who attempts the
style of the millionaire is doomed to
bankruptcy. So is a moderate sized
western city that attempts metropoli-
tan airs. There is but one true rule to
go by, and that is to cut our coat &C.
cording to our cloth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

istration. Great Britain does not de-
1nand any new territory on this con-
tinent, but lays claim to something
which she regards as territory belong
ing to her which can be determined in
rational and peaceful way.
Lodge says on this matter: "The
question is now. what was the true
boundary between the Dutch and
Spanish possessions? That question
can be properly settled by arbitration"
England, from the commencement OF
the dispute, has declared her willing
ness to submit the matter to arbitra-
ton. She is ready to do so now.
Where, then, is the necessity for an
cutlery about the Mnoroe doctrine?
If, after the matter is arbitrated, it
appears that Great Britain is en-
titled to possession of the territory in
which are the mouths Of the Orinoco
river, as she claims, will that form
casuS belli? Is it a reQuisition of the
national policy known as the Monroe
doctrine-which is not law-for the
United States to declare war against
Great Britain ON the successful prose-
cution Of a suit in arbitration?
1t is as we'll in an outburst of So
called patriotism to be regulated by
little common sense. If any European
power should attempt by force to ac-
quire territory on this continent, the
policy Of the United States under the
Monroe doctrine would be to resist
that attempt, also by force if neces-
sary. But to say that a foreign power
must not seek to establish what it
deems to be it's rights, by peaceful
means which are in the nature of civil
process, is to utter nonsense and claim
something never contemplated by Mon
roe or Adams when that now famous
American policy was formulated.
Let the Monroe doctrine be en-
forced, by all means, according to the
spirit and meaning thereof. but do not
let the American people make rlinnies
of themselves by Illuminating defiances
and breathing out threats, when there
is no attempt to violate that doctrine
or do anything but what the laws OF
nations admit and sanction. That is
simply balderdash and buncombe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
AS MEAN AS EVER.

In order to cover up it's ignominious
failure to give the public the news in
the Hayken case, the poor old shaky
Tribune says that "Mr. Hayken
promptly reported his presence to the
organ" meaning The Herald, which
gave particulars of Hayken's arrival
while the Tribune declared his where
abouts were not known in Denver nor
in this city. The Tribune, to use it's
own expression, wilfully and meanly
lies, in making that statement. Mr.
Hayken made no report TO this paper
nor to any person connected with it.
He came in on the train at p. M,
was known to be at the hotel, was not
concealed by any means, and the Trib-
une's reporter was scored without
mercy for being "scooped" by The Her
aid as to his arrival. And yet after
all that, the disreputable prevartcator
of that paper, knowing these facts,
tries to crawl out of the hole into
which his paper had put itself, by
stating the miserable falsehood which
we have quoted. If it is supposed that
the public cannot see through such
transparent deception, the writer of it
must think his readers are as foolish
as he is false.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
LET THEM DOWN EASY.

The newspapers of Utah should not
join in the fiction, palmed upon peo-
pie who do not know better, that the
Republican party will restore silver to
the status it held before that party
demonetized the white metal. The
Nephi Times has this editorial para
graph:
The Times is a strong advocate Of
the reconciliation of silver and we be-
lieve the Republican party will do JUS
F, tice to the white metal; but consider
ing the many other important ques-
lions confronting the party, Republi
cans must not lose heart If the great
National body do not tear their clothes
off in righting the wrong done silver.
That is a sort of gentle letting down
Of the Utah silverites that they may
not be too greatly and too suddenly
shocked by the blow which the Ma
tfonal Republican party VIII deal to
its silver advocates in 1896.
OF course not. That party will not
tear off its clothes nor rend a single
garment in any such effort as to right
the wrong which it did to silver in
1873. But it has fought like a tiger.
ever since that time. to prevent the
Fighting of that wrong The Congress
sional Record is a record of Republic
can opposition to every free silver
measure introduced by Democrats in
the national legislature and of expedi-
ents to ward off such a reform of our
coinage laws as would place silver
back in its proper place as a stand
ard money metal.
The gentle cooling of the Times is
the first sincere word of warning, if
it goes to that length, which has been
uttered from q Republican source in
Utah, that the Republican party is not
likely to favor silver in 1886. In the
east the Republican papers are de-
nouncing the ''siGver craze" as Demo-
cratic, and claiming credit for the de
votion of the Republican party to the
sound money policy by which they
designate the gold standard.
Grover Cleveland and Secretary Car
Isle, while denounced by the majority
Of the Democratic party for their
financial policy, are commended and
dattered by Republican leaders and
papers. That is quite consistent For
the gold policy is Repubicanism. The
bonding policy is Republicanism. The
whole financial policy of the present
administration is Republicanism, and
that is why Republicans praise while
Democrats decry the course pursued
by the President and the Secretary.
The Republican papers of Utah
ought to tell their readers the truth
on this matter. And if they dare not
'tell it ALL" they should at least
emulate the Nephl Times and let the
deluded followers of the Republican
party down easy, for they will GER
tasnly reach the bottom facts before
long and realize that they have been
deceived by both orators and papers
Of their party on the silver question.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
WITHOUT DECENCY, MEMORY OR
SHAME.

After publishing to the country for
years the grossest misrepresentation
concerning the Mormon church and it's
domination in politics, until almost
every paper in the country was led to
believe that in Utah there was q most
complete union OF church and state,
the paper which thus maligned the
Mormon church and the Mormon peo-
pie now endeavors, daily, to throw the
blame for this popular belief on the
Democratic party.
Referring on Wednesday to a re-
mark Of a Texas paper, the Tribune
says of the Democrats in Utah: They
started that kind of talk in every
Democratic sanctun in the United
States" Everybody here knows who
IS responsible for the opinion of the
press of the country on this point. 1t
was the persistent endeavor of the
Tribune to start that kind of talk
in every sanctum of every paper Of
every party in the United States.
1t would do the same today but for
the fact that the trend of affairs here
now is in favor Of the Republican
party. Solely on that account it goes
back on it's own record. It is utterly
without principle and therefore is with
out shame When it served it's pur-
pose it published the following lie for
political effect, a lie that was tele-
graphed all over the territory to in
fluence Mormons to vote the Republic
can ticket. It is believed even I'D to
date, a Republican sheet in Logan
having within a few days repeated the
falsehood. This is the language of the
Tribune:
One of the earliest votes cast in
Farmers precinct was that of MILFORD
Woodruff, the venerable president of
the Mormon church. In spite of his
IS years of life, President Woodruff got
out of his buggy without assistance
and walked with firm tread to the
polls. He was handed Democratic
tickets by a Democrat and Republican
tickets by a Republican, and, after
scanning each, handed the Democratic
ballot back. Folding up a blue and
white Republican ticket, and, being
properly registered, was allowed to
cast his ballot for American principles.
Why was that Matched up and tele-
graphed to distant places on the day
of election? Why was the untruth pub
lished in the Tribune and copied into
other Republican papers? We refer, of
course. to the last sentence of the para
graph.
1t was the misuse made by Republi-
cans of utterances innocent i'm them
selves, and the impressions created by
Republicans under the preltence that
they were the views of the Mormon
leaders, against which the Democrats
protested, and which are responsible
for the late excitement on this ques-
ton.
While the Democrats party was in
the ascendant here, the cry of church
and state was kept up by the Tri-
pune necessarily. 1t never changed
its tone in the slightest until it Thought
the church influence was in favor of
the Republican party, and then 1T was
willing to fall in with any disreputable
trick TO foster that influence and aporo-
gize for its exercise. It's present at
tempt to unload all its pile of scan
dalous anti-MornIon faisehood upon the
back of the Democratic party, is under
stood and despised by every decent Re-
publican in Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
TOO MUCH BUNCoMBE.

1t is a little difficult to learn what
the jingoes of the United States really
want done in the Venezuelan diff
Guilty. If it is censure of the Demo-
cratic administrator for it's foreign
policy, they should point out definitely
what they think ought to be done and
wherein there has been any failure.
AS it is they merely growl and grunl-
BILE in an indeterminate manner, and
suggest the adage that "any fool can
find fault"
The favorite expression with that
class is: THE Monroe doctrine must
be maintained" Henry Cabot Lodge
has had much to say on this question.
Pressed for explanations he has finally
made this remark:
'EThe Monroe doctrine, it should be
remembered, is quite distinct from any
question of reparation for injuries re-
ceived by the subjects of foreign DOW
ers at the hands of the governments or
the peoples of Central or South Amer
lean republics. With such questions
we have nothing to do, but we cannot
permit, under cover of a demand for
PREPARATION, or in any other way, new
territory to be acquired by any Euro
pean power"
AS there is no demand for new
territory by any European power at
present, Lodge may be regarded as
having shrunk away and receded from
his position of criticism of the admin
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

THE CHAMPION hunting lie of the
year comes from Bellefont, Pa, in the
shape of telegram to the Globe.
Democrat. Here it is: Between
Brush and Seven Mountains, in the
lower end of this county. Clarence
Slower, 17-year-old boy, had an en-
counter with a deer, which he van
quished by means of two heavy stones
and rusty pocket knife. The boy
saw the deer come out of a wood into
the road. He crouched down in
fence corner with a stone in his hand.
and as the deer passed by he hurled
the stone, striking the startled animal
in the side. After pursuing it for some
distance he overlook the injured deer
and again hurled stone, striking it
on the head. The blow must have
dazed it, for it turned and rushed
straight for its assailant. At this
juncture the boy grew desperate, and
just as the deer sped by him he threw
himself at it and caught it by one of
its hind legs. Both went down to-
gether, and a fearful struggle ensued.
Deer and boy rolled over and over
the marks of the combat were viewed
by many people from the village later
until he finally got his knee on its
neck and held it while he drew his
rusty old penknife and cut it's throat
After it was dead he carried it back
home on his shoulder, and is now the
hero Of the town" And that boy is
no doubt the offspring of Quaker par
ents and knows the Lords Prayer and
the story of George Washington and
his Ratchet by heart
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS.

Periodically the question of the Bible
in the schools comes up somewhere in
the country. 1t came up in Chicago
the other day through the Won1ar's
Educational society of that city pro-
posing to petition the board of educa-
ton to sanction the use of a selection
of Biblical literature in the schools. 1t
is an old question, as far from salts
factory solution as ever. A book held
in reverence by the American people.
still their ideas regarding it are 50
diverse that the proposition to have IL
read in the schools rouses a fierceness
and animosity that is quite inconceiv-
able. The Catholic objects to the
Protestant version, while the same is
true of the Protestant as regards the
Catholic version, and each church con-
dennis the Interpretation put upon it
by every other church. In these very
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
KATE FIELD, FICTION AND FACT.

Kate Field, who stopped in Salt Lake
recently for. some time, has stated that
hundreds of Mormons are still living
polygamous lives. Kate has been nose
ing around there to some purpose if she
knows the truth of which she affirms,
The Deseret News is a little caustic
about the report. "All this may hap
pen, all this may be asserted, all this
may exist-and yet vain and garrulous
penny-a-liner of the female persuasion
can come along, remain few weeks I'M
der unfriendly influences and pass on
by way of soaring somebody or
what ought to be done TO eff
feet the same result" 1t was known
long ago that Kate Field was much given
to mixing fiction with her facts.-Oakland
Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
EXPENSES OFF CANDIDATES.

One of the first duties of the legisla-
ture of New York will be the passage of
bill not merely regulating the expenses
of candidates but defining them and linn
iting them so as to meet the purpose for
which all laws pertaining to election ex-
penses are designed. The reports filed by
the candidates show that every purpose
of such a law has been evaded. The pay
ment OF lump sums of money, amounting
to thousands of dollars, made by candi-
essentially corrupt aud dishonest pay
ments. The system under which they are
possible should not be perrnitted.-New
" rk World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

THE ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Herald says:
Utah will have two Republican Uni
ted States Senator'S. One will probably
be the present delegate to Congress,
Hon. George @. Canon; jr., of Ogden,
who is son of Hon. George @. Can
on, long the territorial delegate in
Congress. The other is likely to be
Colonel H. c. Goodwin. editor of The
Salt Lake Tribune" That forecast is
wrong from its initials to the spelling
of the names.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
GOLD MINES SOURCE OF TROUBLE.

Gold mines seem to be the cause for
not a few of our recent international
troubles. 1t is said that the reason for
the -eagerness of France to get control of
Madagascar is because of the discovery
of the existence of very rich mines on
ella are the attraction which makes a
change Of boundary lines desirable and
no ooubt the cause for seeking more
territory in Alaska is because of the re-
cent rich discoveries of gold on the Yu-
kon.-Seattle Observation-Disclosures.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

Nor man in all the country but
recognizes the blessings of free inter-
state trade, protectionist though he be.
Speaking on this subject Senator Bur
rows of Michigan said: with trade
absolutely unshackled, is it any
wonder our domestic commerce had
attained proportions which are the
marvel Of the age" Still Senator Bur-
rows is one of those who would wall
this country off from the world with
an insurmountably high tariff.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

THE GENERAL Assembly of the
knights OF Labor that has been in
session in Washington passed a reso-
luton censuring the Supreme Court Of
the United States, terming some Of its
decisions travesty on justice. Such
a resolution shows how little sense the
General Assembly of the K. of L.
possesses. Any resolution OF censure
or condemnation of the Supreme Court
it may pass VIII not descredit that
august body in the eyes of the people,
but it viii bring the knights into the
well nlerited contempt Of the AIneri-
can people.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

THE UNFOLDING of the decision of
the Utah courts in the Theide case by
the United States Supreme Court will
meet with the hearty approval Of the
people. Such ffends as Theide are I'M
fit to live. When resentenced the time
set for his execution should be as
short as the law will allow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

CHICAGO trades-unionists want
"choice selections from the writings Of
trades-unionists" read in the public
schools rather than select passages
from the Bible" These choice selec-
tions" would no doubt be choice in
deed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

THE CHICAGO papers reduced their
blow about 1t. Then the St. Louis
papers reduced their price to one cent
and made no blow about it. But peo-
pie naturally expect the Windy City to
make a blow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

THE $4,000 or more women in Mas
sachusetts who were disappointed at
the outcome OF the suffrage election in
their state ougat TO take the first train
for Utah" says the Seattle Post Intel
lgencer Send them along; they will
be welcome.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

MRS. w. K. VANDERBILT parting in
junction to her son-in-law, the Duke of
Marlborough, was: Il want you to
see that Consuelo has nice piece Of
broiled chicken for breakfast every
morning; you know she is delicate.
Now, you'll attend to this, won't you?''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

SOMEHOW or other the Sultan gets
reforms and reformers terribly mixed.
And when he undertakes to execute
reforms it generally turns out after
the facts become known that it was
the reformers who were executed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

PRESIDENT Orr Of the New York
chamber of commerce at the chambers
rnnual dinner made reference to the
Armenian atrocities but had nothing
to say about lynchings and torturing
ct the stake in America.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
HUaIoR OF THE DAY.

The Count-It will cost 100000 to reno
vate my ancestral palace.
Her Father-Gee Whiz! Is the plumb
ing out of order PUCK.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
M'kiNLEY's INDEPENDENCE.

Mr.. Mckinley exhibits a noble indie
ton of the site for a national convention.
holding to the theory that any town is
a good one to be nominated in.-Chicago
Record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21
Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powdes
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Lady Randolph Churchill, who is at
present living in Paris, is leading fig
ure among the cyclists in the fashion
able quarter. 1t is again rumored that
she will shortly marry a prominent Off
Ger in the English army.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

Human life is held too cheaply when
the individual who needs a tonic for
his system, seeks to cover his wants
by purchasing every new mixture that
is recommended to him. Remember
that Ayers Sarsaparilla has we'll
earned reputation of fifty years stand
ing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

THE HoRsELEss carriage race from
New York to Chicago proves one
thing conclusively-that the roads are
bad no matter what it may prove re-
garding the carriage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

THE WOODS are full of able Re-
publican candidates" says Senator
julius Caesar Burrows. Yet what
pity that the world will never know
how able they are.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

A North Carolina poet wrote: 1.-THE
star on that beautiful forehead of thine, -
but the Intelligent compositor" made it
read: THE tar on that beautiful fore
head of thine" and a reward is now Of
fered for the apprehension of the poet
Atlanta Constitution.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

Miss Jennie Sherman Peters was mar
RED TO Abbott Dean Granger at Brook
lyn, n. Y, on Oct. e. On the same even
ing. her mother and father celebrated
their silver wedding and her mother
parents their golden wedding.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

MISS opHEL1A IvEy, of Waco, Tex.
has lust married Mr.. Sam Kee,
Chinaman Ophelia should change
her name to Desdamona.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

SECRETARY CARLIsLE's forecasts as
10 SURPRISES should make him hesitate
to make predictions about free silver,
but they do not.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

IT WOULD be useless to say to our
street lamps, Lead, kindly light" for
they are not bright enough 10 under
stand
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

A SHORT campaign does not mean
sweet one by any means.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-21

MARLBOROUGH WAS perfectly satisfied
with the horse show. He carried off
the Consuelo stakes.