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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS.

The legislature has passed a libel
law that is extremely just and lloerdl.
1t does not give newspapers any
license but it gives them needed pro
lection where there may be technlcal
libel but which is wholly unh1ten-
tional and without malice IL was
proper Legislation and will work IN
Jury to no one. 1t was the putting
into the form of law the public senti-
ment on the question, and such peihs
the case it meets with approval. NOW
there is another bill before the leglsla-
ture in which newspapers are rnueh
interested and in which the people also
have deep interest. 1t is senate OH
No. 101. introduced by Senator Glen
Miller, of Salt Lake county, emitted
can act to protect journalists in the
securing OF news" The provisions OIL
the bill are as follows:
No person engaged in, connected
with, or employed on, newspaper OF
journal shall be compelled to disclose
in amy legal proceedings or trial or De-
fore any committee of the legislature or
elsewhere, the source of any news or
information procured or obtained by
him for and published in the newspa-
per or journal on which he IS engaged
connected or employed.
This act shall not abridge or impair
the right of the people to commence
and maintain criminal prosecution
for libel, or the right or remedy OF any
person to maintain an action for dam
ages on account of said publication.
We believe there is no necessity for
any such a law. 1t is rare indeed that
a newspaper man is called upon In
court to divulge the source of his in
formation If the information he may
get is of such a nature that he can
publish it then it is not of the class
that public policy deems it wise to
privilege. What the husband and wife
tell each other, what the client COM
munfcates to his attorney. the con-
fidences between a doctor and his pa
tient the secrets of the confessional.
these are deemed privileged communi-
cations and in most states are so
treated by the law. But those to whom
they are made cannot tell them to others
and if they attempt it the courts step
in and forbid them to. They are privi-
legged that they may not be made known
to the world. the state holding that its
welfare is best served by protecting
them as secret and sacred. No such
necessity exists to protect a newspaper
man, for his sole object in getting the
information is to make it public. 1t is
because we believe it the duty of a
newspaper to uphold, so far as in its
power lies. the general good that we
oppose this bill, and for no other
reason. No public good is to be furth-
cred, no more legitimate news is to be
had through its enactment into law.
Through such a law a paper might be
enabled to cause an upheaval in a
city that might in it's turn result in
serious affrays or riots yet the courts
would be unable to investigate the
cause. the source of information being
privileged. We do not believe the legis-
lature will enact it into law.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

The silver Democrats of Missouri
seem determined to send solid dele
cation to the Chicago convention.
They have a right to do so and they
may by pursuing that policy accom-
plish great deal for silver in the Ma
tional convention 1t begins to look
as though the silver men would have
majority of votes at Chicago. If they
compel the convention to declare for
the unrestricted coinage of silver with
out regard to the action of other ma
lions, and then nominate candidate
in harmony with their view they will
cause the gold fanatics to bolt. That
will do the Democratic party no harm
and it will tend to clear the silver
problem in this country from some of
the uncertainty which obscures it's flu
ture at present
The above is from the Denver Re
publican. What the Democrats of
Missouri are determined to do the
Democrats of other states are deter
mined to do, and with very good pros
poets of success. We believe that pro-
silver Democrats if energetic can have
g, majority in their national convention.
and put the free-coinage question in
way eff settlement, and that within
the next presidential term Of office. if
the men who believe silver to be the
paramount issue will rally to the
standard that we believe Democrats
will raise in the pending presidential
campaign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
REPUBLICAN, OVER CONFIDENCE.

Some how or other by the very ma
ture Of it the Republican party is ar
rogant. 1t is so even in defeat. From
all against 1t, its leaders will look up
and say-'cIaim everything" If AFRO
CANT under these circumstances it is
doubly so in the anticipation of victory,
and still more so when there is really
bright. prospect of success. Taking
into account this disposition of it, and
the unusually bright prospect just now
for its success in the approaching ma
tional election, it is no wonder that
the Republican party displays this Of
fensive quality of its character. And
not only is it displayed towards the
opposing party, but to the pro-silver
elements within its own party. A
Washington correspondent to an east
ern Republican paper said that the
Republican leaders in congress regard
ed with indifference the threat of the
pro-silver Republicans to bolt the st.
Louis convention.
This indifference grows out Of the
fact, of course, that they have made
the count of electoral votes they re
quire to carry the election, and have
made up their minds that they can get
along without the assistance of the
Republican silver states and their
forty electoral votes.
The anti-silver Republicans build
their hopes upon carrying the follow
ing states. whose electoral votes we
append:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

it a man who can cordially support the
platform"
Continuing much in the same strain
and alluding to the Democratic situa-
ton in Kentucky through putting ''u11-
sound money candidates on sound
money platform" the Times-Herald
finally remarks:
The leaders Of the Democratic party
have been brought face to face with
questions they cannot ignore or sink
out of sight. They must choose which
master they will serve, and under
which king they will carry the banner
They must declare for sound money
with no uncertain meaning or throw
their fortunes in with the mining
camps. They are in no position to put
before the people a declaration of pr1n-
IN one section of the union and an
other way in another section.
We rather like to hear that kind of
talk and we trust that the courage of
the single gold standard Democrats
will not fail them in the national con-
vention, but that they will be as deter
mined to write in the platform a
straight single gold stand plank, as we
hope to see the pro-silver men de-
terrnined to write in that platform free
coinage plank. If each wing of the
party will have the strength of cour-
age to do that and either accept the de-
cision arrived at, or leave the conven-
tion, we shall be able to begin to each
respect the other however widely we
may differ on the question of finance.
and by such action we shall put the
great question of bimetallism in the
way of right settlement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
THE BEAM IN HIS EYE.

The address delivered by President
Cleveland before the board of home mis-
sions OF the Presbyterian church at New
York on Tuesday evening is curiously
illustrative of his mental attitude toward
the new states and growing communities
that constitute the great west. He saw
in the home missions of New York a
means to convert not New York but the
new states and territories, and to that
theme he devoted the greater portion of
his speech. Cleveland, of course,
is not the only offender of this kind.
There is a numerous class of people in
the east who are persuaded that they
have all the honesty, intelligence and
righteousness of the country. 1t is from
this class comes the cry that the west is
opposed to honest" money; that it is
ignorant of finance; that it seeks TO
''defraud" capital of its rights. 1t is
class which ignores the salient fact that
the west Eas been settled by the best
elements the east could send forth from
north or south. Those whom the New
York board of home missions intend to
send out to convert US Will find it 50,
however, and after their arrival will
have TO send back word that instead of
meeting heathens OF the vicious element
they have been met everywhere in the
west by men who offer them cordial CO.
operation in building up communities
that manifest every element of the best
civilization Of America.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Edward w. Box in the March num-
Der of the Ladies' Home Journal writes
the following:
No section has given our country
stronger men; no section is yet as
marked or as strongly defined in it's
contribution to American manhood or
womanhood of today as New England.
She sends her people to the west. and
centers of cultivation spring UP about
them. She sends them to the north
west, to the southwest and to the Pa
cif1c coast, and they at once make an
impress upon the intellectual life of
the community in which they make
their new homes. Such is the inf1u-
ence of Boston and of New England
that wherever her people go, there
reading, a love of arts, an understand
ing of the sciences begin.
So we all thought, until the Presi-
dent of the United States at a home
missionary meeting of the Pregbyter-
ian church in the city of New York
overturned this doctrine and substi-
tuted in its place the following; 'Tt
must also be confessed that removal
from old homes and associations to
new and more primitive homes has a
tendency among honest and respecta-
BILE settlers to smother scruples and
breed evils Indifferent to Christianiz-
ing and elevating agencies. These con
ditions. if unchecked. fix upon the
community by their growth and ex-
pansion a character and growth which.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
AT THE DOOR.

thought myself indeed secure,
So fast the door, so trim the lock;
But, 10! the todGltng comes to lure
My parent ear with tinorous knock.
My heart were stone could It Withstand
The sweetness Of my baby's plea
That timorous, baby knocking, and
please let me in-it's only me"
threw aside the unfinished book,
Regardless of its tempting charms
And, opening wide the door. l took
My laughing darling in my arms.
Who knows but in eternity,
1, like a truant child. shall wait
The glories of a life TO be
Beyond the heavenly fathers gate?
And will the heavenly father heed
The truant's supplicating cry,
AS at the outer door L plead.
Ills 1, o father, only II?
Eugene Field.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

while dangerous to peace and order
in the early stages of settlement, de-
velopes into badly regulated municipal
tiles, corrupt and unsafe territories,
and undesirable states"
Now, of course, Mr.. Edward w. Box
may be thoughtful student, man
of wide travel, and keen intellectual
powers; but can he expect his thought
full deductions to stand against the
bombastic words OF a self-admired
President. for the moment speaking as
a sort of home missionary in a re-
ligious meeting?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

The fastest trotter ever reared, Alix,
has just been sold for a price some
where between $4,000 and $4,000.
Large as the price seems it is very
small when compared with the prices
paid for some other famous trotters.
A few years ago Robert Bonner bought
Maud S, paying about double the
amount that AIix was sold for, and
shortly before Governor Stanford
death Bonner bought the Electioneer
AIIy Sunol from him for $4,000. It is
doubtful if such prices are ever again
paid for trotters, no matter what their
speed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

General Henderson has got the
presidential fever very bad when he
can talk as he did in Omaha the other
day, declaring that "those who keep
their fingers on the pulse Of the politi-
cal public say that It is growing more
end more certain every day that
neither Mr. Reed nor Mr. Mckinley
can be nominated by the next national
convention OF the Republican party.
In that event 1t is felt sure that the
nomination win 60 to western man
Among the western men the contest
viii doubtless be between Senator AL
Iison, senator Davis ana myself
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
.rhe Elevator Exnerts.

The two salt Lake county selectmen
have returned from their eastern 'ele-
vator" Junketing trip and both are fully
convinced that they have discovered the
best system OF elevators, but, unfortun-
ately they are not OH the same tack. In
fact, their trip was enlivened by a gen
uine scrap and now perhaps neither ele-
vator company VIII pay the fiddler" so
the taxpayers viii attend to it.-Spring-
vile Independent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

The man Hends who shot the wo-
man Egan was fined $500 and SEN
fenced to sixty days imprisonment.
Such a sentence for such crime is
wholly inadequate. If he We're under
the influence of liquor it was no pal
liation of his crime either in morals or
law. Such sentences for such crimes
tend to bring the law into disrepute
because the public recognizes that they
are altogether disproportionate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Every American boy and girl thinks
Of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker
Hill as armed with squirrel rifles,
pitchforzs and scythes, for it is thus
they have been pictured in history.
The Cuban insurgents are better armed
than were those great patriots, yet
there are those who assert that they
are not worthy to be recognized as
belligerents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

To remove dandruff. keep the scalp
moist, clean and healthy, and give
vitality and color to weak, faded and
gray hair, use Ayers Hair Vigor. 1t
has no equal in merit as hair dress
ing and for the prevention of badness.
scalp humors and dandruff
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
Rights Of a Towu.

A town has no more right 90 depend
for success on its natural advantages
than a man has to depend on his wifes
religion to get into heaven. It's the narrn-
onious work of the whole people or the
progressive plane that lifts a town out OF
the ruts and puts it on the SOLID road
which leads to unalloyed success.-lIillard
Progress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
THE STATE PRESS.
Brown,s PoIiticaI Grave.

The opinion seems to be quite general
in Utah that Senator Brown dug his poll
teal grave by his affirmative vote on the
Morrill, motion.-Tintic Miner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
THE GOSPEL OF THE GROUND.

Today I stretch me on the Swallowed
grass,
And hear my heart say yet again to me
How sweet it is to let the bad world
Float, float, it says, with lightest things
that pass;
Leap with the gauze-winged vaulters,
glass to glass,
Drink with the bees-mix In the revelry
OF those the mother loyeth tenderly.
her own, to whom she giveth all she
Ay, heart, we viii forswear the old vain
round.
Forestall wise death. betake us to the
ground.
John Vance Cheney, in Harper's Mag
aZine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

King Humbert, it is reported, wants
TO conclude an honorable peace with
the Abyssinians and withdraw from the
country. II such is really his desire
t shows wisdom on his part Abys-
sinia has been nothing but source of
disaster and expense to Italy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Unquestionably Pillsbury is one of
the greatest chess players that ever
lived. He did not win at st. Peters
burg Il is true, but on his way home he
played at Hastings, Eng. There he
played thirty-four simultaneous games,
winning thfrt- and drawing four.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
ur. Prices Cream Baking Powdef
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
MARCH.

He comes in like a lion bold,
With rOars which rudely sound;
But lamb-Iike, presently, we're told,
Our lion will be found.
For oft a lion who denied
That aught could make him quail,
Has gently turned hA back to hide
a somewhat twisted tail.
washington Star
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

The London Saturday Review de-
votes almost two pages in it's issue
dated February to its critique of
Mr. Hardy's Jude the Obscure. 1t is
more than an appreciation; it is an ex-
ceedingly able, and, as may be seen
from the following excerpts, an
enthusiastic defence of the book in
question:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Corbett still claims the champion
ship and will defend it. Let's see, what
was that great sentiment John L.
uttered in his play which always
brought the house down? It was
something like Corbett's. Now we
have it. a mans house is his castle,
and I'll defend mine" The noble
sentiments of these noble championsI
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
The south For silver.

Any one in doubt as to how the south
VIII stand on the silver question can get
a pointer from the Mississippi state Iegis-
lature, which the other day passed a reso-
luton with one dissenting vote, in favor
of independent free coinage at the ratio
of 1G to bingham Bulletin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
CLEVELAND AND THE WEST.
Where the President Got His Idens
From.

We would not like to accuse Mr.. Cleve-
land of being addicted to yellow-colored
literature, but his knowledge of the west
sterling works as Rocky Mountain Pete.
or the Wild-Eyed Corpse Accumulation of
Grizzly Gulch,' Tombstone Gallagher, or
the Deadly Avenger of the Lop-Eared
Mule The Bandits of Whisky Straight,
or Calamity James Fatal Bet ON the High
Card" and the like. The president may
also have derived much of his exhaustive
and accurate knowledge of the west, its
people, customs and manners, from care
ful and constant perusal of that able and
influential exponent of western journal
ism, The Arizona Kicker Anaconda
Standard
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

The prohibition people of Brooklyn
propose 10 pray for Mayor Wurster
It can do no harm to pray for him but
the probabilities are that the net re-
suits Will be nit
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Autoboom is new word in politics,
meaning the putting of ones self for
ward and sounding his own praises.
An autoboom is prima facie evidence
of incomDetency.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
Did the Proner Thing.

Our Utah senator's have done the proper
thing IN voting on the emergency tariff
bill. We need more protection. less one
idea doctrine and better legislation for
the whole people.-Logan Republican.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Nebraska has ever been famous for
It's thunder storms, accompanied by
heavy lightning, but no presidential
lightning will strike that state for
many years to come.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

1t seems almost incredible but it is
none the less true that the mineral
output of the Butte, Mont, district for
The past fifteen years has been over
Sooe Cos. GOO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
Am Unsatisfactory Explanation.

Senator Browns e-~~anatton of why he
voted against Utah interests may be salts
factory to him, but we don't believe it
is or ever will be to the people of Utah
Park City Patriot.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
LITERARY NOTES.

The March number of Romance is
the most interesting of the series, since
it's change into an illustrated maya
zine 1t contains a pathetic little
story, a charming poem by Eben Rex
ford, and illustrated articles upon a
half dozen timely subjects.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

British rule in the American colonies
was mild as a summers breeze COM
Pared with SPANS rule in Cuba, which
has been like the destructive cyclone.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Spain has got her back up. She can
keep it up or bring 1t down. Which
ever she does will be equally matter
of indifference to the United States.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

An Astronomer.-NIrs. S.-''By the way,
1 hear Jupiter-the evening starts worth
seeing Just now. Can either of you girls
tell me where to look for it?"
Bertha-"Yes, 1 can. It's exactly two
yards and a half to the right of the Great
Bear
Mrs. S.-"Two yards and a half! What
on earth do you meanY'
Berth9-"Well, I've measured it care
fully with my unbreIaI'-Punch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

The late Governor Fred T Green
halge. OF Massachusetts, was an Eng
lishman by birth, but he was an Ameri-
can through and through.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
To XIII ObnOxious BiIIs.

Senate bill NO 90, "an act to destroy
obnoxious weeds" etc. ought TO be sup
destruction OF obnoxious bills.-Manti
Messenger.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Senator PETER predicts an early de-
mise Of the two great political parties
The prediction is simply another Popu-
list fanacy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Wanted Further observation-disclosures
Colonel, L want to ask you about that
Patrick Henry you were abiding TO in
your speech, the one that said, Give me
liberty or give me death Z"
Candidate-"What about him.
Citizen-"Did he get his divorce?'
Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

The publishers of McClure's Maya
zine have decided to spend $4,000 for
short stories during the coming year.
They announce that new writers will
be especially welcome. Payment will
be made on very liberal scale, and it
is believed that this will be more sat
isfactory than offering prizes. Stories
should run from 1000 to 5000 words.
The shorter the story, the better
chance of success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
Richard Macl1intosh For senntor.

How would Hon. Richard Macintosh
suit for successor to Arthur Brown in the
United States senator He is a good man
and one that viii always be found voting
for the interests of the west.-Park City
Patriot.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
Game Laws ZOE sports.

1t appears that the proposed game law
is intended to meet the convenience Of the
Salt Lake sporting fraternity only.-Pay-
son Globe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

The police and fire commission be-
gins TO realize what is meant by the
term persona non grata-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

McKinley's boom is the only one
that seems to follow the schedule
closely Evidently the major believes
in punctuality.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08
GREAT SIX SALE.

Fancy Silks CSC. per yard, $1.OO and
$125 qualities. All new.
R. K THOMAS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

4 New York florist has just paid
$4,000 for a new carnation. It must
be of the Midas variety
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

An electioneering dodge-trying to
catch presidential lightning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-08

Already the Cullom boom has en-
aountered the deadly cold wave.