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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL.


The assaults upon the Mayor by the
! President OF the city council on Tues
day evening was one of those regret
table acts which occasionally stir ur
| acrimonious feelings and prevent that
harmony among public officials which
is essential to good government.
Any one who viii take the trouble to
read Mayor Baskin's temperate and
augumentative paper containing his
veto of the contract for light
ing the city, and contrast it
with Mr.. McCornick's intemper-
ate, sarcastic and evasive har-
engue. will see the difference between
reasoning and invective. The Mayors
position is not controverted by the
jeering remarks offered by members of
the council. and no matter how much
they may have felt justified in passing
the contract over his veto, they did
not prove that justification by their
speeches.
Is it not true that at first the lowest
price said to be obtaiAable was $3.50
per lamp? Is it not true that $40 was
minimum? These being so. is it out Of
reason to suppose that even less than
$3.50, the latest proposition, can be bet
tered if there is chance left for fair
competition?
1t may be that the Mayor is not a
practical electrician. How many men,
bers of the council are? His message
contains at least as much evidence Of
close research into the meaning of the
obscure terms used in the contract
and the relative costs of electric light
Ing in different cities. as anything ad-
vanced by the council.
The Mayor holds the lawful power OF
veto. He should be protected in the
exercise of that right, as much as the
city council in theirs to pass meas
ure over his veto. We believe he has
acted with an honest purpose to de-
fend the taxpayers against unneces-
sary expenditure, and think he offered
very substantial reasons for interpos-
ing his veto in this instance.
1t may be that nothing better can
be done just now than the $3.50 con-
tract. But it does not look well to see
the President of the council, who is a
prominent officer of the contracting
company, displaying animus against
the Mayor for opposing something in
which the President of the council is
pecuniarily interested
Suppose there have been lavish ex-
penditures for lawns, fountains, sta
tues and mugs" to repeat the elegant
phrase used in relation to the Mayor,
is that any argument in favor of ex-
cessive prices for electric lighting?
Observe. we do not say the price
agreed upon is excessive. 1t may be all
right. But the Mayors reasoning to
the contrary is not disproved by gal
lery'' speeches about the cost of other
things to which the city council is
equally committed with the Mayor.
The whole lighting business has been
involved in fog and IS distinguished,
If at all. by obscurity and the dark
ening of good counsel The contract
will now be made. There will be an
attempt to enforce collection Of the
special tax to pay the money. There
should be and we suppose will be legal
resistance to the whole scheme. The
outcome is in as much fog as the coun-
ell has been IN on this subject from
the beginning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
SPEED OF BICYCLES.


Here, is a pointer for. the newly-ap-
pointed bicycle police: ,Apropos of the
regulation of the speed Of bicycles. a
Write, Writer in the Springfield CMass) Repub-
lican says: Bicycle riders who think
that no one can tell how fast they are
riding as they "scorch'' along the streets
are very much mistaken 1t is the
easiest thing in the world to measure
their speed accurately enough to swear
TO 1t without reading the cycloIneter they
carry or Knowing the distance they ride.
All that is necessary is for the observer
10 note carefully the number of revolu-
tons the pedals make in a given period
or time, say five seconds, or single
second. and then if the gear is known
the speed is known also. TO determine if
the rider is going faster than the eight
miles an hour allowed by law it is not
necessary to know the gear of his
bicycle; it is only needful to count the
number of revolutions second. A very
little figuring will then show whether the
rider is breaking the law or not When
ever rider revolves his pedals once in a
second it is practically certain that he is
riding faster than eight miles an hour.
If his bicycle is geared at 90, one revolu-
ton second will carry him 10A miles an
hour, if at GO his speed is a nalf mile
faster, at 6S it is 12la miles, at Y it is al
most ID miles, and at rs it is little more
than 1315. One revolution Il second is,
therefore, faster than the rider of a
90 gear can legally ride. Any rider can
easily satisfy himself that these figures
are substantially accurate, and. having
done so, can no longer plead that he does
not know how fast he is riding"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
SONGS AND LAWS.

Dr. Lorimer quoted at the meeting IN
honor of DIR. Smith the memorable say
ing, Let me write the songs of nation
and j care not who writes its laws I"
DIR. Lorimer is sharer In a common
mistake. This quotation is nearly al
ways a mis1uotation, perhaps in mean
ing, surely in test. Years go ballad
was used to specify a popular song cele-
hrating or scurrilously attacking persons
or institutions. These ballads We're often
printed as broad sheets. 1t was in 1704
Tempted to all manner of Iewdness by
infamous ballads sung in every corner
of the streets. l know very wise
man that believes that if a man were per-
mitted to make all the ballads he need
not care who should make the laws of
a nation"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Our Provo contemporary talks about
''bad blood" and people going wild"
ever the suffrage question. If any pa
per has gone wild over this matter
and exhibited bad blood" it is our
friend the Dispatch. The 'franspar-
ent humbug," which it is chewing
over so much, is the threat that the
President would CONTEMPORARY re-
turn" our constitution if 1t had equal
suffrage in it. That is a hollow sham,
an empty threat, and we have proved
1T to be that kind of a bug which
has hum before 1t. That's ALL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
Very Queer Indeed,

Daily. nay. hourly experienced. are the
sensations of the dyspeptic. nervous
invalid. Ask him and he will tell you
that it is well nigh impossible to de-
scribe them. Palpitations of the heart
uggest-erroneously- the organ is
affected, buzZing in the ears. queer
metallic taste in the mouth and ting
ling along the edges of the tongue.
restless, broken slumber at night. an
inclination to sleep during the day,
which disappears when the recumbent
posture is assumed. frequent uneasi-
ness of the stomach between and after
meals when digestion ought to have
performed it's office. These are few
among the indicia of the complaints
speedily removable by the use of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters. which also
cures and prevents chills and fever.
biliousness. constipation. rheumatism.
neuralgia and kidney trouble.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
PULPIT sLANDERING.

The testimony of prominent gentle
men of both political parties that the
aspersions cast upon President Cleve-
| land by the Rev Isaac J. Lansing are
| totally untrue, and that there. was no
| foundation for his statements, puts the
preacher in a very uncomfortable hole
When a minister arises in the pulpit
and accuses by name any individual CT
improper acts he is exceeding his au-
thority, whether what he proclaims be
true or false.
We regard the act as exceedingly
wrong and cowardly. That is not what
preaching is for. 1t is prostitution of
the pulpit. The evils of the age. the
excuses of mankind, the wrong-doing
of public officials, the bad examples set
by people in high station are all topics
that may be properly treated Of by
ministers of religion. But to attack
any man personally for alleged errors
or crimes, is not the province of the
parson. and the victim of his person
alities is placed at an immense disad-
vantage.
Pulpit ibels are worse than press
libels. except that they may not often
have so wide a circulation. a man
assailed in the public prints may posi-
bly, be able to talk back through the
same medium. He cannot do that in
case of a pulpit libel. Public opinion
ought to be. so pronounced against at
tacks on individuals through the pulpit
that it will not be attempted again.
Lansing's apology is all very we'll as
far as it goes, but it does not absolve
him from the wrong he has done.
1t would have been au outrage, for
the reasons we have given, even if it
had been true But it is now so
clearly established that it was not true
that no room is left for doubt about it.
How much greater, then, is the offense
committed by the Reverend defamer
of the President of the United States.
1t is a sample of the impudence and
rashness of some men, who assume to
be regulators OF other mems acts and
to sit in judgment upon their fellows.
That is not one of the functions of the
religious ministry. To denounce evil,
proclaim against sin, and endeavor to
win people to lives of rectitude, So
briefly and purity are the duties of the
clergy, and in that they will not be
found fault with, even if they become
somewhat extreme. But they have no
right to become personal and charge
with crime or vice any individual by
name in the pulrit whether he be the
chief executive of the nation or the
humblest citizen who iabors with his
hands for his daily bread.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

As an illustration of the allegation
that prohibition does not prohibit, it is
stated that in Bath, Ne. the police
have at last succeeded in finding liquor
IN a place that they had supected for
over twelve years and which they had
frequently raided during all those
years without success. Some fresh
tacks in the carpet at the head of the
stairs gave them the clue. Under the
carpet was found d board containing a
knot hole, under which was a jar of
iiquor A small force pump was also
In close proximity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

The House of Commons, by a vote Of
IFS to 15S. has declared in favor of
salaries for parliamentary services.
Mr.. Csoschen opposed the motion urg-
ing the tine-worn objection that the
payment OF members would lower the
status OF parliament and faint the
purity of public life" Sir Vernon Har-
court secuted the idea that such would
be the result and urged that the pay
1nent of members is the logical out
come of the extension of the suffrage, 1"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Dandy Jim. who was supposed to be
dying of consumption. is now leading
an Apache outbreak in Arizona. If
Jim knows which side his bread is
outtered on he will cease to be an
agitator ana organize a company for
handling Dandy Jim's Apache Lung
Restorer''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
A FEMALE INDUSTRY.

Four hundred Irish girls came over in
one ship last week to take places in New
York as domestic servants. Here is one
industry in. America not crowded and
with cooking schools I'm every city. We
still continue TO import nearly all our
cooks and domestic servants. while Amer
lean girls crowd the stores as clerks
to starve on small salaries.-New York
World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

4 man and his wife stood on the
Brooklyn bridge. He was philosopher
and talker; she was woman of action.
A tug was hauling a. long line of barges
up the river. Look there, my dear"
said he; 'such is life. TIae tug is like
the men. working and toiling, while the
bargeS, like the women, are His wife
gave him no time to finish the sentence.
II know" she said, the tug does all
the blowing, and the barges bear all the
burden"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

1t is said that 500 Maxim gun can
cut down a seventeen inch tree in
fifteen seconds. This appears to be
a modern instance corresponding TO
that ancient saying about turning
swords into pruning hooks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

As viewed from the office of the New
York Sun, the women members of the
Colorado legislature made a very re-
spectacle record, though not a brilliant
one. They were certainly as smart as
the men members.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

macy at the district attorneys office. New
York. asserts that leprosy is not conta-
gious in that latitude, and that it would
be impossible to inoculate healthy AM
erican with it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

The Mayor very properly objects to
a contract which gives the Electric
Light Company a discretion as to the
volts and amperes in each light but
bonds the city to a fixed payment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Colonel Morrison is seized with that
same atrophy of the tongue concern
ing the financial question that has
silenced the other fellows who believe
they hear the voice of the people.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

The latest picture of Henry Irving re-
presents him in the gown and mortar
board of doctor of letters, an honorary
degree recently conferred upon him by
the University of Dublin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

The oldest alumnus of Princeton coll
lege is William C. Wallace, of Newark,
n. j., who was member of the class of
1928. OF the 1888 graduates of Princeton.
260 are still living
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

tor, win celebrate his golden jubilee in
July He was born in Hanover sixty
years ago, and came to America a lad of
10. He played inlNew York while a
youngster as a kind of Juvenile prodigy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Jones-'"The fire alarm came in from
the box on my block this morning and
almost ran my legs off trying to get up
TO my house.
Brown-"Why don't you have It in
sured ?'-Detroit Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

authorities. The powers, of the gas
company under their franchise cut an
important figure in this arrangement
and it ought to be enquired into at
once.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

do you call this spring chicken?'
asked the diner of the waiter, after sew
eral efforts to detach portions Of the
tissue with knife and fork. Yes, sab.
OATS spring chicken, for sure, sah.'
Then the patent on the spring must have
expired"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Austin Abbott, dean of the University
Law school, OF New York, in a paper
which he prepared for the meeting of the
Society of Medical Jurisprudence, advoca-
ted closer study of medical questions
which arise in the treatment of inebriates
and suggested that the liquor traffic
should be subject to medical supervision.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

The original of Little Billee, whom Du
Maurier exploited in tTrilby," is sup
posed to be Frederick Walker, the young
English artist, an account of whose life
and works has just been published.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

If we are to pay all night rates Tor
out street lamps. the Mayor very prop
erly objects that our electricity should
skip with the light of the moon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

A Minnesota legislator demands $500
Of a barber for running his beard. We
would be willing to sacrifice even John
Henry's beard for one-half that sum.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Facetious Friend-"Well, have you and
your wife settled as to who Is to be
speaker of the house?' Young Husband
MOT yet. We usually occupy the chair
together. "-Pearson's Weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
HERALD Calendar for April.

The new woman's spinning wheel
the bicycle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

Austin Corbin, the railroad king, is old
and gray, but he is big, strong and active,
and he gets around like a snappy business
man in the prime of life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

San Francisco has set the pace. It
will now be quite the proper caper for
society men to indulge in brawls in
billiard halls of fashionable hotels.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Our new navy is all right, but there
IS 10 occasion to blow about the blow
holes in the armor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Vaszary, the primate of Hungary, is
he first entered Office his task was render
ed doubly hard by the fact that hitherto
he had been but poor Benedictine monk
he drove to the primatiai palace at Gran
in public cab, carrying on his knees
cage containing his pet canary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Mile. Columbia's back hair of late
shows SILVER threads among the
gold"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

When the blood is kept pure and the
system thoroughly invigorated by the
use of Ayers Sarsaparilla. sudden
changes of temperature and extremes
of heat and cold. so characteristic of
certain climates. are rarely attended
with injurious results. Take it now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

And now the soda fountains are
vending a Trilby connection. We sup
pose it is sold by the foot.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Judge Seneca o. Griswold, of Windsor.
Conn, bequeathed $4,000 to Yale univers-
ity without special directions. His rela-
tives may contest his will.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

How strangely are men constituted
William Black, the novelist. while writ
Ing is disturbed by the slightest football
Pinero, the playwright on the other
hand, thinks out his plots and pens them
in the best manner in a crowded and
noisy hotel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Every door seems to swing open to
the man with push or a pull
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11


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American Fire ms. Co., Philadelphia 600
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

"Cubberly rather gave himself away
when lie went to church with Miss Sum-
nit, the other day" What did he do2"
He wanted the usher to check his hat
and co ti'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11

Order your Suits or c. H. HUH. tbs
Tailor. II W. First South street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-11
SEVERAL SMILES.

The oftener hearts are broken the
easier they are mended.-Atchison Globe.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-09
WHAT OF THE FUTURE ?
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
 But now, what of the future? We have seen the party brought to the verge of ruin and disruption as the result of three years of repudiation of democratic prin- cipes by an administration elected by democratic votes. The south, which held together in a solid and determined pha- lafix for twenty years against the repeat ed onslaughts of the republican pArty, has been broken and dismembered until 1t can scarcely be said that there are three states left which can be counted a $ being absolutely and unquestionably democratic. West Virginia crossed the line last year and so did North Carolina Tennessee was shaken to it's foundation and consternation was spread in the ranks of the party in every state. Now Kentucky and Tennessee have gone over and unless there is to be change in the federal administrative policy the end is not yet in sight. The people are dis heartened, discouraged, disgusted, but determined. They have been repudiated by those whom they put in power and they in turn will repudiate the repudia- tors if they can secure no response to their appeals for relief They are in a mood not to be triffed with any longer and the results of the general elections of the last two years should convince even the stoic indifference which sur rounds the atmosphere of the administra- ton at WdSnlngtOn that the penalty Of political assertion is political death.
 In two years we have seen the solid south broken into fragments and a dem ocratc house of representatives sup planted by a republican majority of nearly 150. We have seen state by state transferred from the democratic to the republican column and republican sen- ators elected to succeed democrats whose predecessors for time immemorable have been democrats. All this has happened in two years, in which brief time more has been done toward the wrecking of the democratic party than the combined results of all that has been accomplished for the past thirty years
 Our people must face the issue! Dem ocrats understand that the only salva- tion of the party is in political honesty, and in adhering to the fundamental principles on which the party was found ed and around which was built the most brilliant achievements of its history. We must go back to the beginning once more and let the repudiators understand that they have been caught in the act Of scuttling the democratic ship and that their piratical conduct will be no longer tolerated. The democratic party cah get along without them, for things cannot we'll be worse than they are now, and if they are thrown overboard there will be at least no danger of further assassina- ton from them. Let them go and God speed them on the way!
Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-09
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
A Long Cabinet Session-Confederate Naval War Records Are Very Incomplete,
 Says Commander Rush.

Washington, Nov. S.-Commander Rush, superintendent of naval war reG ords, recommends in his annual report made public today, that the selection of the original manuscript for the records of the union and Confederate navies be made by board to be composed of one naval and two civilian members.
 The second volume of the records will soon be issued. There is enough original manuscript on hand to make between twenty and thirty volumes. The rec ords of the union commanders are full and capable, and Commander Rush regrets that the Confederate records are not equally so This is due to the, great difficulty in collecting them. and also to the fact that the archives of the Confed- crate navy department were burned at the close of the war. A special agent Of the government has brought to llgh many duplicates of these papers. obtained from participants in the Confederate cause.
 Secretary Carlisle will tomorrow hear Ex-Senator Manderson of Nebraska in op- position to sending to the court of claims the Oxnard beet sugar case, involving the constitutionallty of the bounty law and decided by Comptroller Bowler ad- versely to the claimants
 All the members of the cabinet were present at the regular semi-weekly meet ing today The president drove in early from Woodley and managed to transact some business before the cabinet assem- bled at II o'clock. The cabinet remained in conference until after O'CLOCK D. H., an unusually long session.