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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
A TRUSTS OPERATIONS.

We are continually confronted with
evidences Of the viciousness and dan
gerous character of trusts. Recent de-
velopments in connection with the wire
nail combine are particularly interest
ing. A Chicago jobbing house is in
trouble with the trust because it sells
nails ait a price lower than that fixed
by the parties to the agreement. The
| controversy has brought out the fact
that the trust set a figure of $3.50 a
key to be charged by all jobbeTs. That
the price is outrageoUsly high is shown
by the fact that the recalcitrant firm
finds it profitable to sell at $2.4O.
OF course the house making this fig
ure does not rely upon nails manufac-
tured by the trust In the first place,
the trust takes good care thar there
is no such profit for the jobber, and in
the second it would shut off the sup
ply if the rate were cut. The nails
handled by tlis concern come from
small manufacturers outside of the
trust, whose number is continually in
creasing.
But the trust does not propose 20
have its business undermined by fur
ther increase of independent mills. II
has laid it's hand on the manufacturers
c. wire nail machines and forced them
TO cease supplying plants for new fac
tories. The mandate is SO unyielding
that the manufacturers of machines
have stopped in the midst of contracts,
Out of this has grown a suit in IN
diana by a firm that had a, contract
for forty machines. Delivery ceased;
the proposed new mill cannot start up,
and the parties now ask the courts to
give them $500, 600 damages.
It is recognized as legal maxim that
contracts and combinations in restraint
of trade are unlawful and the thought
that arises when one reads of operations
like that OF the wire nail trust is that
tlne parties to 1T should not cnly be
obliged TO pay heavy damages but that
they should, in addition, be sent to
prison for long terms
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
CHANCES IN THE HILLS.

The Denver Republican has an "old
prospector" whom it occasionally inter
views for the benefit of its patrons, and
he generally has something to say that
is well worth reading. One of his late
utterances is as follows:
There's been too much waitin' fur
somethin' to turn up here these late
years. Too many fellers been thinkin'
a time was comm when opportunities
would run up to them on the street
when they stood Iookin into store win
dows an wishin' they had things. Us
fellows who follow the dragons trail
got a better training than that, and we
know no blamed lead is agoin' to
climb out on the hills and come down
to the Brown Palace and ask US to put
a stake on it. If we want a gold mine
we know we got to go out into the
mountains where they haint been too
many of us snookin' around, an we got
to go to the top of the hill and dig
around and maybe go to the tops of
d whole lot of hills an dig around afore
we git 20 the right place an then we
got to stay with it an do a pile of dig
gin.
There is a lot of useful advice in
that paragraph. In this western coun-
try there are hundreds of young men
who live on dreams of what they would
do if they should stumble upon a bo-
nanza. Moreover, they are firmly con-
WINGED that they are going to meet
with such good fortune though they
confine their efforts to parading the
avenues and building castles in Spain.
There are opportunities for all willing.
energetic men in the hills, but, as "Old
Prospector" says, the lodges will not
march into town to be staked.
Again, the philosophical old gentle
man says:
When you find the right place to
mine-mine. Don't break more rock
than you can tram. More good propo-
sftions have been ruined by $1,000 men
tackling $4,000 schemes than will ever
be made, and the state is full of s., 900
propositions for $4,000 men, just as it
is full of $4,000 propositions for $4,000
men. Start from the right end. Get
your property before you hire an Office
ana buy a dividend register. 1 never
knowed mine that was staked on the
eighth floor of a million dollar block to
turn out much beside sheriff's calm
cards and the orphants tears, but I've
seen plenty that started on a 50-cent
pole pick and 81 worth of grub produce
eight story blocks and choice of rooms.
Don't think all the big mines have
been opened or all the big camps found.
The fellow who located the last camp
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
THE CLOTHES AND THE MAN.

Among all the gold papers there was
none during the campaign that was
more bitter in it's hatred of Mr.. Bryan,
more savage and biased in its attacks
upon him than the New York Times.
And now that the campaign is over 1t
is still snarling and swapping at him.
This is from a recent issue of the
Times:
The bulletins began coming in while
the family were at supper. Mr.. Bryan
slipped on a velvet smoking jacket and
sat down in his nbrary.-[Lincoln
(Neb.) dispatch to the Herald
Mr. Bryan was very tastefully
dressed, however, a conspicuous part
of his attire being a splendid corduroy
velvet jacket that set off his athletic
figure finely.-[Dispatch to the SUM-
He wore a black velvet jacket and a
pink carnation was stuck in his but
tonhole.-[Dispatch to the World
Amid the universal thanksgiving for
an escape from major Affections let the
judicious return thanks for this minor
mercy, that the favorite evening attire
of opulent BARRIERS and retired faro gen.
tlemen is not to be worn in the White
House this season, or any other.
1t is an old and accepted saying that
1.-The hood does not make the monk. :"
The Times does not accept it; it be-
lieves that the dress is everything, that
the man is nothing. Carlyle himself
never went half so far in his philosophy
of clothes as to lay down any rules for
measuring mems capacity for political
leadership by the clothes they wore.
The Philosopher of Chelsea was too
canny a Scot for that.
Lincoln was never an elegant dress
err, and that fact always initiated
against him with eastern society. Eng
lishmen Of social position who met
General Grant and noted the absence
of formal etiquette in his relations with
those around him and his frank man
ners, could never realize that he was a
great man. He did not measure up to
societys formula, that was all.
Had Mr. Bryan been elected presi-
dent every propriety would have been
observed, and never would the Ameri-
can people have had to blush for any
gaucheries on his part.
The Times should get beyond the
tailor-shop conception of what consti-
tutes a man.
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THE SALT LAKE HERALD; THURSDAY. NOVEMBER IL. 1885,

and got it named for him because he
found the first bonanza didn't get yours
nor ne didn't drain the bottle. The
reason they amt found faster is be-
cause they amt enough huntin' for EN-.
HE spy moves d whole lot faster if
they's 20 kinds playin' stead of 10, an
prospectin's the same kind er game for
growed up boys, only they's more fun
in it and it's nicer when you git to be
sit''
And the old man is right.
The great difficulty with multi
tudes is that they think they
should be swinging some large opera
ton. Being incapable of handling such
and scorning to proceed upon a modest
scale, they never accomplish anything.
Many men would be fitted to handle
large properties if they had acquired
experience and confidence in the sue
cessful management of small ones, and
they lose their opportunities by de-
clining to start in modestly. Their
heads are turned with dreams of some
thing big and they fritter their lives
away waiting for the chance that
never comes and that never can come
until the individual goes out and takes
it by the horns.
OF course, men who are comfortably
located and who are contented with
their surroundings and with their pros
poets. are not to be urged to pursue
tickle fortune in the hills. But
the hills have rewards for those who
go after them with determination. Hard
knocks and hard work will be exper-
fenced, but the chances held out for
ambitious. willing men are such as to
encourage those who are earnestly look
ing for an opening in the world TO go
forth and seek fortune where it has
been hidden by the hand Of nature,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
AN INDIAN SUMMER REVERE.

What visionary tints the year puts on
When falling leaves falter through mo-
tionless air,
Or numbly cling and SILVER to be gonei
How simmer the low flats and pastures
bare,
AS with her nectar Hebe autumn fills
The bowl between me and those distant
hills,
And smiles and shakes abroad his misty,
tremulous hair!
No more the landscape holds its wealth
apart,
Making me poorer in my poverty,
But mingles with my senses and my
heart;
My own projected spirit seems to me
In her own reverie the world to steep;
tbs she that waves to sympathetic sleep.
Moving, as she is moved, each field and
hill and tree.
How fuse and mix. with unfelt degrees.
Clasped by the faint horizons languid
arms.
Each unto each the hazy distances
The softened season of the landscape
charms;
Those hills, my native village that en-
bay,
In waves of DREAMER purple roll away,
And floating in mirage seem all the
glimmering farms.
Lowell
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
BRYAN's LEADERSHIP.

1t has been given out that Mr.. Bryan
proposes to educate the people as TO
the correctness of his views. Not
few of the Bryan worshipers have de-
clared that he will be a candidate for
the presidency again in 1900. SUCH de-
liveranceS assume that the prlmacy OF
Mr.. Bryan in the so-called Democratic
organization and the Populist organiza-
ton is not a matter for this year only,
but for all time Nobody else is to be
considered. according to this view The
propaganda is to be, not in favor of
the principles of any party, but as to
the correctness of Mr.. Bryan's views" y
The American people. in spite of the
rather emphatic verdict of Tuesday.
are supposed to be still interested in
Mr.. Bryan's views.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
1t alarms all the goldite papers to
know that Mr.. Bryan, in defeat, re-
mains a leader. They had hoped he
would be extinguished, but that hope
is dashed to the ground by the univer-
sal manifestation of confidence in the
Nebraskan among all those who fol-
lowed his banner. He established his
right to lead by demonstration of grand
capacity for leadership.
1t may or may not appear wise to
nominate Mr.. Bryan for the presidency
four years hence, but that he will be
a leader during the intervening years
and in the next campaign is a foregone
conclusion. It is not improbable, if he
lives, that he will be the standard
bearer in 1900, as he has been this year.
It is knowledge of this that brings
out protests from deserters like the
Courier-Journal; they know that, I'M
less unlikely conditions arise, nothing
can stand against the young statesman
from the west in the next contest.
Nor will the Courier-J Journal
of leadership similar TO that
devolved upon Mr.. Bryan. The
history of Jeffet \, and Jackson
is too familiar to the people for anyone
to think that il is an unheard-of thing,
or that it is of doubtful wisdom, to
keep a man at the helm when he has
shown that he is a safe and competent
navigator. When the public mind is
stirred over the necessity for some
great reform, the people instinctively
look for a leader; and when they find one
who measures. I'D to the requirements
of the situation they do not hesitate
about following him, not through one
campaign alone. but through as many
as shall be needed to accomplish the
result sought to be attained.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
A 1RIusipH Foa ARBITRATION.

Eleven months ago Git was the 18th
of December) Mr.. Cleveland startled
the world by sending to congress his
famous Venezuelan message. In an in
slant the markets were disastrously
affected to the extent of hundreds of
millions of dollars, and the worlds
conception of the United States en-
tirely changed. That message was the
strongest and most brusque entrance
into a diplomatic correspondence that
was to end amicably and with salts
faction and justice to all, that was
ever witnessed. What was once
black and threatening war cloud has
become but a fleecy cloud promising
blue skies and fair weather.
The fact that this Venezuelan con-
troversy is to be settled by arbitration
is the great and important thing; it is
a matter of small moment whether the
claims of Venezuela or those of Great
Britain shall be upheld by the COM
mission Of arbitration to be selected.
That King Oscar II of Sweden and
Norway is to be the head of it, and
that the chief justice of the United
States and the lord chief justice of
England are to choose the other arbi-
traitors, makes it certain that they
will be men of great eminence and the
highest character and ability. When
the claims of either party shall have
been established before this tribunal to
be appointed all the world will &C
quiesce in the decision. That Vene-
zuela will cheerfully accept it if it
shall be adverse to her, there is no
doubt This country has been to her
a friend in need, and she appreci-
ates it.
The result of the message of De-
cember II lit seems so assured that it
may be spoken of as accomplisheO
will be a very distinct triumph for the
theory of arbitration of international
disputes, and for the Monroe doctrine
at the same time, that the American
people may congratulate themselves
upon it. 1t win give to that doctrine
a distinction and recognition among
the powers of Europe that nothing else
could have given. 1t is not at all likely
that in future any European power
will attempt to ignore it and say that
it is not a part of international law,
and therefore not binding upon it.
They may not recognize it formally
as a part of international law, but
they will take heed of it as a rule of
action in dealing with American gov
ernments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12

United States, has been fully verified
from authoritative sources. The final
announcement is likely to be made DIT
an early day. Those best acquainted
with the facts have stated that the As
ISOLATED Press report covered all the
essential particulars.
Yesterday morning The Herald, which
discarded the Associated Press service
and took the United Presses Association
service that its patrons might have the
best, published the following regarding
the selection of King Oscar as an arbi-
traitor:
The king of Sweden and Norway,
Oscar IL has been chosen by treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain as the fifth official arbitrator OF
the boundary question. The other ar
bitrators, four in number are yet 10 be
designated-two by the lord chief JUS
tice of England and two by the chief
Justice of the United States supreme
court. This is the final and most i'm
portant feature of the treaty for COM
plete adjustment of the long-pendlng
Venezuelan controversy
AS a king seldom leaves his country
except on state visits to other sover-
eigns, i is not expected that King
Oscar viii go outside Of Sweden for the
meeting Of the arbitrators, and the
court is likely to sit at Stockholm, the
capital of Sweden.
Why the Associated Press should
have put forth its unfounded claim it
is hard to understand, and especially
when the claim was so easy of refuta-
ton. The A. P's. instance of piece OF
exclusive information" was very un-
happy.
The United Presses Association is not
blowing about the service it gives,
but still If gives the best service.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
A. p. "ExCLUsIvE INFoRMATroN.-

To those who know its methods it is
a surprise that the Associated Press
has not claimed the earth and the full
ness thereof. 1t is a very good news
service, but its claims are far beyond
its merits. These comments are
brought forth by the absurd and I'M
founded claim that the Associated
Press had exclusive information" that
King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway
had been selected as an arbitrator in
the Venezuelan question. In its after
noon dispatches of yesterday, the A. P
said:
Washington. Nov. 1.-THE exclu-
sive information by the Associated
Press that King Oscar II of Sweden
and Norway has been agreed on as the
fifth and final arbitrator in the Vene-
zuelan question, and that the other
four arbitrator will be named by the
judicial authorities of the two coun-
tries, two by the lord chief justice of
England and two by the justice OF the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT NOTICE@UTAH &
Salt Lake Canal Company. Principal
place of business, Salt Lake City,
Utah. Notice is hereby given that at
a meeting OF the trustees held on the 18th
day of September. 1886, an assessment OF
seventy-five cents per share was levied on
the capital stock CT the corporation, pay
able to the treasurer at the general Office
of the company, room No. 81 Amussen
building, Sc S. Main street, Salt Lake City.
Utah. before the 18th day of November,
1896 Any stock upon which this assess
ment may remain unpaid on the 14th day
Of November, 1896, will be delinquent and
advertised for sale at public auction, and
unless payment is made before, will be
sold on the 18th day of December at II
a. M, 1885, to pay the delinquent assess
ment, together with the cost of advertis-
ing and expense of sale. Respectfully
GIDEON A GIBBS. Secretary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
WILL HAVE TO STAY OUT.

The Democrats of Frankfort, KY,
have taken steps to prevent the gold
men from participating in the party
councils. 1t would be foolish to admit
those to fellowship who have openly
opposed the candidate and the plat
form of the party. When the Chicago
convention met it rescued the party
from the attempted control of the
money power and conducted it back
upon the highway along which Jeffer-
son and Jackson led it. Those who
cannot march with it upon the old
path Will have to form some other
alliance; the party would be glad &c
have them ro4---- and assist in the
great work thar is before it, but, in jus
tice to itself, it must decline to permit
them to sit at the council board until
they shall have recanted and embraced
the true faith.
It is going to be a very interesting
question to handle. but the party must
maintain a consistent, honest position,
and it would not be doing that if it
should recognize those who have
fought it as being in good standing.
The truth is that those who aided the
Republican party should not ask to be
recognized as Democrats unless they
are now willing to subscribe to the
Democratic platform; but if they in
sist on being recognized without this,
the party will have to decline to ad-
nit their claim. Every effort should
be made that can properly be put fortis
to draw the deserters back, but no
concession whatever should be made to
them. Those who supported the ticket,
though doubling the wisdom of the
platform, if there are any such, retain
their party standing and have a right
to appear in the councils of the party
and advocate their views; but those
who have fought in the ranks of the
enemy, or as auxiliaries of the opposi-
ton, cannot be permitted to come in
as a disturbing element in the party
organization.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
Phiiosophic Father and Son.

Youths Companion: Janet Livingstone.
who died recently in Edinburgh, was the
younger sister of the great African ex-
plorer, David Livingstone. She told
many quaint stories of her brothers boy
hood. Once when six years old he stayed
out beyond the prescribed hours, and on
returning home found the door barreu.
a punishment for the second trans
erosion of the kind. David made 40
fuss, and his father. when he opened the
door some time later, found the young
hopeful sitting on the doorstep munching
a penny loaf.
I'm having my supper he. observed
resignedly to his astonished parent.
Mother has shut me out.
Livingstone. ST., was as great a philoso-
pher as his son. One day David brought
home the news that a heavy duty was
to be put on tobacco.
Neil Livingstone, who was not a rich
man, was just lighting his pipe as the
news was broken He put it down I'M
lighted.
s.If we have to give it up" he said,
1--WE may as well begin now" He never
smoked again.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12

Even the Democratic supporters of
Mr.. Bryan in the recent contest who
voted for him simply because they
recognized him as a Democratic candi-
date and believed that as such he was
entitled to their support, must per-
ceive and admit that it would be folly
to expect Democratic revival under a
leadership that has been so thorough
ly repudiated and so overwhelmingly
defeated. In the Indianapolis plat
form they Will find a genuine Demo-
cratic platform a basis for future po-
litical action in the state and in the
nation. These principles will retain
their vitality and their strength.-Buf-
falo Courier
Is it not little contradictory to
claim that Bryan and the Chicago
platform should be abandoned because
of the measure of the defeat sustained
by them, and in the same breath to adj
vocate support of the Indianapolis ar
rangement? To be sure, Bryan was
defeated but there is nothing left on
the surface to indicate that the In
dianapolis aggregation ever had an ex-
istence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12

THE HERALD is a franchise MEM
be- of The United Press, and re-
cefves rhe complete leased wire
Overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
es, embracing accurate intelligence
of ell current events in the whole
world. With ita special wire and
opera for in it's own ONCE THE HER
AID is daily I'm Immediate possess
sion of the latest news up till the
hour of aoirE to press.
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nence.

secretary Carlisle waited until after
the election before removing from Of
fee two men who had been on the
stump for Bryan and free silver If he
had done so while the campaign was
still in progress, no fault would have
been found by people who do their own
thinking and think in the right way
says the New York Tribune. The en-
forcement of the civil service rules is
not Objectionable when it is impar1iai.
but it has not been Impartial. If an
Office holder chose to stump the
country for Buckner and Palmer,
or was sufficiently pronounced
against Bryan. he had all the leeway
he wanted. as witness the case of
Postmaster Hesing of Chicago and John
P. Irish. If he advocated Bryan he
was called down, and in many cases
his head taken off. This has made civil
service reform a farce.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12

1t seems most unlikely that any con-
siderable number of orders for goods
should have been legitimately given on
the condition that they should be can
celled in the event of McKinley's de-
feat. Men do not do business that way
In this age of the world we have tele-
graph lines and any man could place an
order the morning after election if he
wished it. In view of these conditions,
It is reasonable 80 suppose that there is
good foundation for the claim that the
conditional orders were distributed for
political effect. Tt can readily be I'M
derstood that a powerful influence over
political results could thus be welded
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
TALES OF THE DAY.
Sylvan.

Washington Star: Your father must
have very romantic disposition" said
Maud to Mamie.
Il don't think so,'' was the answer
His mind is too much taken up with
politics.
I'm sure he must be poetical, though,
or he wouldn't be so fond of nature"
What gave You the idea that he's
fond of nature?'
"A remark that my father made. He
said that your father was always hol-
lering before he got out of the woods
and that whenever he went on the
stump he was sure to be found up a
t-ee sooner or later"