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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
THE TRANs-M1ssIssrPP1 CONGRESS

These ns-Mississippi congresses
have been quite popular in the West,
although it would be a somewhat diff
ficult matter to point to any tangible
good they have accomplished beyond
drawing attention to the West
The one now in session at Omaha
has taken quite a political turn. When
two resolutions on silver, one for free
coinage and the other against it, are
introduced and resolutions for the
restoration of the reciprocity clause
of the Mckinley bill also, the congress
immediately becomes political and it
will be almost If not quite impossible
to prevent the proceedings taking ON
partisan character. The West is very
nearly unanimous in it's demand for
free coinage, but the gold standard
man has the same right to advocate
his views before the congress that we
who favor free silver have to advocate
our views. We of the silver producing
region may not like his ideas but they
are as much entitled to be
ventilated as our own. So
unanimous is the silver senti-
ment in the Far West, so endorsed by
Democrats and Republicans alike, that
it is scarcely looked upon as being ca
pable of becoming political question.
Not so the question of reciprocity.
That is markedly political, and can
be looked upon in no other light.
If there has been a political question
in this country during the past two
or three years certainly it is Hawaii,
yet the congress discusses this also.
Nothing is more apt to spring into
political prominence at any time than
the Nicaragua canal, and this is IA
vorite topic at the annual sessions.
The introduction of political matters
into the Omaha congress suggests the
question whether or not these con-
crosses can in future be kept free from
politics and party feeling. If they
canaTot then their usefulness will be
gone. The abyss of politics has been
as nearly approached as is possible
without falling into it. There must
be a withdrawal from its dangerous
brink, OF there will be plunge into
the gulf.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
SHERMAN AND ALGER.

In his remarks about General Alger
and the convention of 1888, Senator
Sherman seems to have tripped him
self. He accused the Michigan aspir-
ant of having corrupted southern
negro delegates who were pledged to
the Ohio aspirant. General Alger NOT
only denies this but produces a letter
from Senator Sherman, written long
after the convention, in which the
Senator assures General Alger that
since our interview on the cars last
summer, 1 cherish no prejudice or I'M
kindness for the incident at the ma
tional convention of 1888"
He would seem to have forgotten the
existence of this letter when he penned
those lines about Alger in his "Recol-
lections." and it would ordinarily be
deemed sufficient to estop him. 1t GER
tainly weakens the charges he makes.
The very making of the charges is
proof that he does cherish unkind feel
ings towards the man against whom
he said he had none. He can scarcely
expect the public to look upon what
he says as the calm Judgment of a
totally DISTINGUISHED person. On the
contrary, the public will look upon
him as a very interested if not preiu-
diced party. Whether his charges are
true or not. the publishing of them
after having written to Alger the let
ter he did will detract from Sherman's
reputation as a fair recorder of events.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
THANKSGIVING DAY.

Let us all be thankful! It is a good
and wise custom to set apart at least
one day in the year as a time of re-
joicing and gratitude, over the boun-
teous gifts of Providence or Nature,
whichever people please to recognize
as the Dispenser of good things to
mortals. No matter how many trials,
privations and vicissitudes one has to
endure, there are so many benefits to
rejoice over that he must be heartless
indeed who fails to feel grateful for
them.
1t is a pleasant faith that, over all
human events and earthly circum-
stances there is a Divine power which
evolves good out of apparent evil, as
light was brought forth out of dark
ness and order out of chaos, when
this globe of ours rolled into form and
position among the organized systems
of the universe. The effects of such a
faith on the mind of man are good and
society is the better for it.
Non-belief or disbelief never of itself
accomplished anything for the welfare
or progress of humanity unless it
might be to stir up believers to
stronger faith, and closer research into
the causes of things on the part of
the over credulous.
At any rate. gratitude is a wholesome
and exalting emotion and its exercise
is natural and happyfing to mankind
Without some object it is an iInpossi-
bility. The Giver Of all good should
therefore be adored for the wonderful
gifts enjoyed by all, and that with
out envy towards those who at pres
ent appear to have more than their
share. There is not a being who
breathes the breath of life but has
cause for Thanksgiving, and it is mete
that a special day should be designated
on which every one should entertain
and express that sentiment.
The Herald will not attempt to
enumerate the many causes for thanks
giving there are for the people of this
nation and of this incipient state
They would be too many for the limited
space at our command. But The Her.
aid joins in the general gratitude
which all should feel for blessings en-
joyed. and expresses the hope that all
its readers will enjoy the bounties of
the season with temperance and good
will, and with kindly and practical re-
membrance of those who have but
comparatively few of the good things
of life and whom we have always
with u.s. Let US all be thankful.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
THE NATION AND THE NEGRO.

Bishop Petty, a prominent negro OF
South Carolina, recently delivered an
address ON The Nation and Its Duty
to The Negro" at the Atlanta exposi-
ton. It was able and eloquent. He
treated the negro problem conserva-
lively and sensibly. He said that what
they asked was an equal chance in life,
that they be given an anvil or loom
beside their white brethren, with equal
wages, and if they did not prove to
be as skillful workmen after a fair
trial. to turn them away. Surely this
demand is not unreasonable.
There was justice and pathos in his
request that his white brother remem-
Der that most of the negroes were born
slaves and started out with nothing,
not even good advice, but with many
odds against them. This fact, a sor-
rowful fact, is too often forgotten by
those who discuss the negro problem
and the ineptitude of the race for
self government.
Speaking of race pride and social re.
lations, the speaker said there was
but one favor on this line that he
and his colored brethren would ask of
their white brethren, and that is when
any white man, who is so unworthy of
his ancestry and unconscious of race
pride, as to attempt to corrupt negro
society be punished as negroes are
(save the lynching) by the just laws Of
our country. This, we believe, to be
another duty Of the nation to the ne
gro" That is simple justice, asking no
more than what is theirs of right.
He made no truer, more thoughtful
statement than that 1.-The United States
and not the negro is responsible for
the negro's identity with this country,
and also for his past and present con-
dition in America"
His peroration was really eloquent
1t was in these words
Today we stand beneath the Amer
lean eagle, which bears in his talons
the stars and stripes for which more
than 100000 of our fathers and brothers
have fallen ON yonder battlefields. We
stand here begging for peace, protec-
ton and a just recognition of man.
hood. We stand here under the flag
for which our fathers fought in COM
mon with the white man, and plead
for civil rights. Yea, in the name of
God and the blood of our dead, we ask
a shelter meath thy wing. Shall the
stars of the American flag, our only
hope as guides to higher manhood, the
reflective rays of American civilization
and liberty, hide their shameful faces
behind the clouds of American preju-
dice and bring night at noon?
Shall your red stripes, oh, flag! a
worthy token of our fathers blood,
which has mingled with the white, in
all American conflicts, now be used as
a signal of welcome and protection to
non-Americans, anarchists and social
lists, While the sons of American slaves.
soldiers and citizens, are left standing
without protection and rightful recog-
milton, reaching forth their brawny
hands for labor in vain? Oh. may the
goddess of liberty hear US today, and
may the true American pulse be found
forcing life, liberty and protection
through every artery of American SEN
timent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
THANKSGIVING.


Among the feasts or gala days
That cheered the youthful heart;
oh one shone out with brightest blaze
From all the rest apart:
l hailed it with a boys delight,
With eager eyes and appetite,
And wished instead of once a year
Thanksgiving might be always here.
Let others sing of Mardi Gras
Where Rex holds hideous sway;
Or boast of Ober-Ammergau
The German passion play.
Or carnival, or festival,
Thanksgiving day was worth them ALL:
Eor better than painted toy
Its offering to a hungry boy.
Thanksgiving day; the name recalls
In sweet confusion blent,
Dim memories of country balls,
And youth on pleasure bent:
And staid oId-faShioned danes and sires
In high backed pews; and rustic choirs
With violin for anthem set
Turned fiddle when the dancers met.
a meagre prospect you will say
For memory to review;
Yet fame. nor gold with potent sway
Brings pleasures half so true
AS those-the simplest ones of earth
The song; the play upon The hearth;
The merry dance in festooned hall,
And ample Viands crowning ALL
n. ALBERT SHERMAN.
Thanksgiving, 1895
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
THE WoMAN's BIBLE.

1t is hardly possible to take 'The
Woman's Bible seriously. SO much of it
a sober and significant aspect The names
Of the women who prepared it, SO far
as it has been given TO the public, are
represent in distinct and practical sense
the cause of the emancipation Of their
sex, as they call it, and nobody is dis
posed to question their sincerity. But it
may well be doubted if their attempt
to discredit the Scriptures in the interest
of the mothers and daughters of the
world will prove TO be successful. On the
contrary, it is likely to retard the prog
ress of the movement to enlarge the
sphere of woman and abolish the dis
examinations which are alleged to be I'M
just and injurious to her-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
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THE SALT LAKE HERALDl THURSDAY. NOVEMBER %, 1895.

to the national convention pledged to
work for the nomination of presiden-
tial candidate on platform declaring
for free silver coinage" and it makes
the remarkable assertion that "Repub-
Leans can better trust the Republican
party than any other to do justice by
the white metal. 1t says: Uphold the
bridge that carries you safely over.
Stay with the Republican party until
it deserts you"
THE bridge that carried them safe
ly over to what? To the demonetiza-
ton of silver with all the terrible con-
legislative work. That is a nice kind
of bridge for silver advocates to
trust to, is it not9 The Republican
party has already deserted the silver
men in its ranks. or rather regards
them as having deserted its policy and
purpose.
OF course the advice to send silver
delegates is all right to those who
are determined to stand by the party
which dethroned silver and continues,
as it has continued for twenty years or
more, to refuse to restore it. That is
the best they can do. But those dele.
gates will be very lonesome in a con-
vention composed almost entirely of
goldubgs, or that kind of silver men
who wait for the consent of England
to remonetize the white metal.
The idea of free silver men clinging
to a party that is utterly opposed to
Co. of 4l,a q &C n
political conduct. But it is still more
remarkable to see a silver paper urging
silver people to still support the
treacherous bridge which dropped them
into the whirlpool of goldism.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

THE BIGGEST bell in all America, and
the largest swinging bell in the world,
was cast in Cincinnati October 80. 1t
was founded for St Francis de Sales
church, Walnut Hills. The pouring of
the metal occupied forty-one minutes.
The bell weighs approximately $4,000
pounds, and its dimensions are: Diam
eter Of rim, 9 feet; diameter of crown,
feet; weight of clapper, $40 pounds.
The cost was $4,000, which was mainly
contributed by Joseph Buddeke, de-
ceased, a wealthy merchant, born and
raised in Cincinnati. The tone of the
bell is E. old concert pitch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
DOES DOT MEET WITH FAVOR.

Tine proposal that the United States
pension men who fought to destroy the
Union does not seem TO meet with much
favor among eX-Union soldiers. And
with reason. To forgive men for fighting
against their country is magnanmous and
may be laudable; TO reward them for it
is a different matter. 1t is hardly the
thing to pension the men who put tine
country to the enormous expense of pre-
serving the Union by SURPRISING the re-
bellion. Such men assuredly have no
claim upon the treasury on account of
disabilities incurred in making war on
the country. If it is proposed merely as
a matter of charity then there are other
unfortunates who are quite as much OBJ
jects of charity but whom Congress would
not think OF pensioning. Chicago Chron-
icle
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neM have just purchased 1000 head
OF stock sheep, which will be wintered
in Carbon and Sweetwater counties.
William DAILY has been investing heavi-
ly in increased accommodations for
shearing and also for protecting his
hocks during the winter season. He is
building large shearing pens and clip
ping works at Separation station on the
line of the Union Pacific railway, from
which place his shipments will be
made.
BY the time the next years crop Of
wool will be gathered, the leading flock
masters of this place wild have a steam
shearing plant in operation. There is a
breed for mutton qualities without at
the same time sacrificing the wool-pro
ducing qualities of the stock, and a
number of Oxford Downs and other
high grades are being imported.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
running THE SHEEP INDUSTRY.

In view of the terrible ruin wrought
to the sheep industry and the story
repeatedly told by contemporary that
the Democrats have killed off the
sheep in the United States" as we'll as
destroyed the wool market" the fol-
lowing dispatch sent a week or two
ago TO the Denver Republican is Of
special interest. 1t is being copied into
eastern journals, with the reminder
that the Republican is a strong pro-
lection paper:
Rawlins, Wyo.-The sheep-raising
business Of this county is in a more
fourishing condition than it has been
for several years. Men who have been
in the business for years are buying all
of the sheep they can pay for, and are
anticipating a good season next year.
Ex-Sheriff Hadsell and John a. Don
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

Mrs w. K. VANDERBILT sent Police
Commissioner Andrews, treasurer of
the New York police department, note
the other day containing check for
$500 for the police pension fund. The
note read as follows: 1T win be a great
pleasure to me if you will accept for
the police pension fund the enclosed
check wish it were in my power to ex-
press in words to the men who kept or
der the day of my daughters marriage
my full appreciation for the great serv-
Ice rendered me-" If it was not in the
lady's power to express in words her
appreciation. she need not worry.
Money talks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
THAT THANKSGIVING TURKEY.

L meandered through the market on a
cold and frosty morn,
Gazing in the Turing wndows-where
hung the birds with feathers shorn.
Looking lonS-admiringly-on those birds
SO fair and neat,
Thinking how they'd roamed the wild
wood-or their own well known re-
Till at last 1 had determined, if for money
L could buy,
To secure that fat old turkey which Ger
the board did lie;
crossed the way
And bought that plump old turkey, just
for Thanksgiving day.
Hugging to my breast that biped-with
my heart SO full of glee,
Casting out all solemn thoughts, bidding
all my sorrows flee,
Striving to be blithe and happy in this
wild, chaotic world.
And banner of good feeling to the
breeze L quick unfurled;,
Struggling meath the weight of that
turkey that I'd bought,
Straightway to my humble home where
my dear spouse | sought;
And on throwing down that turkey /
sang out a jovial lay
OF the merits of that animal just for
Thanksgiving day.
But little thought of the heartaches, or
of what we had in store
What a wave of evil influence had passed
our humble door
That great ''cyclonic cloudlet' seemed
Ger our cot TO wave
Through the little inconvenience" that
fine old turkey gave;
And the morrow being Thanksgiving
with our guests assembled there,
To help us at the dinner-and for each
OF them to share
In the mastication OF that turkey-or to
view the troublous way
OF the animal" I'd surely bought
just for Thanksgiving day.
The folks had quickly gathered round
that hot and steaming beast,
Looking forward to the cutting time-of
the glorious feast,
And when l took that sharp old carver
and started into shave
The meat from off that gobbler-Oh! how
the folks did rave;
But when | came in contact with the
2 flesh of that old bird,
My breast with Indignation heaved-my
wicked feelings stirred
To think that I'd been taken in" that
misfortune surely lay
Within that chicken that I'd bought
just for Thanksgiving day.
I carved for an hour and quarter upon
that beastly thing,
Until upon its hollow bones my knife be-
gan to ring;
The folks found out that patience was
quite jewel rare
In the manner that | cut that bird-that
bird that looked so fair;
But the oaths and muttered comments
which that biped made me say,
Will nevermore be uttered upon Thanks
giving day
1 hacked at that old turkey till my
nerves it sore did tax,
Until that bird my feelings vexed-my
cheerfulness relax,
Until l loudly swore as had never swore
before,
Of that turkey that I bought lying near
But sweet is retrospection- when through
the mist I gaze,
On a sort. of blurring vision, as if from
out a daze-
OF the form of that old turkey looming
up in wild array,
And the way 1 saw I'd hacked it on that
Thanksgiving day.
Salt Lake City, Nov. 26.
ssr- Prica'S Crearss RaE,irp Powder
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
OUR NEW WARSHIPS.

What is this story that our new war
ships are so constructed that the engine
rooms are uninhabitable for any length
of time by the men whose presence in
them would be indispensable during any
critical and prolonged action? Fancy a
great ship paralyzed during a brisk en-
engineer had fallen at his post struck
down by the sitting atmosphere! Surely
here is d vice of construction which needs
immediate attention and correction
New York Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
BEET GROWERS RIGHTS.

The Norfolk Beet Growers association
has sued the sugar manufacturers for
refusal to accept sugar beets as con-
tracted for. The latter claims the beets
declined We're not up to the standard
contracted for, While the plaintiffs as
sert they were and will attempt to prove
it in the courts of the state. 1t is just
as Well to have this matter settled by
competent authority. 1t is vital point
upon which hinges the success of the
industry next year.-Omaha Bee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
STATE UNDERGRADUATES RUN
MAD.

The able and eloquent president of
Brown university wishes to take children
at the age of two and half years and
gartens. This is almost but not quite
logical. To be entirely material it will
be necessary to take them as soon as
they are born and teach them the proper
UniVerSitY
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

CHICAGO PRIVATE detectives having
gained much notoriety by killing an
innocent man, three Chicago police in
citizens clothes, DESTROYS of emulating
the detectives deed, no doubt, shot
boy Sunday morning who started to
run from them, thinking they were
footpads- The poor boy seems to
have had the right idea.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

STOVE POLISH MORSE, according to
the Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times-Herald, proposes to ban
ish tobacco smoking from the House.
Elijah had better Danish the thought;
he will find it much easier.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

THE POLITICAL situation, so far as the
presidency is concerned. may be sum-
men up thus: Reed. Allison and Nc
Kinley want q. first term; Harrison
wants a second term, and Cleveland
wants d third term.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

DOES Mr.. MORTON speak officially ?"
asks the Chicago Evening Post The
Secretary does SO much talking that it
is hard 10 draw the line between his
official and non-official speaking, but
whichever it is, it is mostly words.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

SPEAKING OF Presidents whom he has
known, Tom Reed says no one could
fiatter Harrison. He came to Wash
ington with such a good opinion of
himself no one could add anything that
would please him."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28
A POOR SORT OF "BR1DGE.v

In an exhortation to the Republicans
of Utah to stand by their party al
coinage of silver" northern contem-
porary urges them to send delegates
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

ARE THE Cuban patriots waiting to
see what Mr.. Cleveland has to say in
his message before they send out the
news of any more victories?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

A WASHINGTON youth has sued his
mother. charging her with neglect and
fraud. Apparently the neglect consists
in having spared the rod.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

Spoken by the Card Statesman-'1
hardly know how to deal with my people
on this money question"
His Secretary-"That's easy; when they
tackle you, don't deal, but continue to
shuttle. Indianapolis Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

AN EXCHANGE announces that Reed
is in the saddle for the presidency. He
seems to have placed no one on the
pillion as yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

GovERNoR-ELEcT BRADLEY is receiv-
ing bushels of letters each day. Still
he does not purpose to hide his light
under bushel
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

JOHN SHERMAN's experience should
teach those ambitious to become Presi-
dent not to place themselves in the
hands OF their friends.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

WHEN PEOPLE get the football craze
1t is at all strange that players of the
game are knocked "silly?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

next year would be a short message
from Mr.. Cleveland this year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

ALTOGETHER" Du Maurier's new
heroine will scarcely be so great
success as Trilby.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

CARLISLE SAYS, Retire the green
backs" Sovereign says, Retire the
national bank notes" Is it a case of
which, both or neither?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

BABY ANsoN thinks he has diamond
hitch on acting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-28

RAISING TIE price of theater tickets
isn't elevating the stage.