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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24
UTAH VS.. ALASKA.

Don't rush to Alaska" is the cap
ton of an editorial in the Washington
Evening Star. To that advice we say
amen. No. we join in saying TO our
eastern friends, no, don't rush to
Alaska, come TO Utah. Why should
you rush to Alaska? Gold mining?
Well, you can find all that in Utah
1.-The Alaska summers" as the Star
says, lin the vicinity of the
placer mining are short, hot
and overburdened with mos
quitoes and other pestiferous insects;
the winters are exceedingly long and
excessively cold. Food is expensive and
work for would-be wage-earners is
scarce
In view of all this you had better
come to Utah, where the summers are
long but not excessively hot, where,
though the sun schorches a little some
times, there is no prostration from the
heat; and where, in the hottest months
in the season, in July and August, you
can sleep in peace the whole night
through.
Come to Utah where the winters are
neither excessively long or cold; where
there are more sunny days the year
round than in any other land, the
changing seasons only being sufficiently
variable to put life and mettle into
man. Come to Utah where mining is
abundant and the food is inexpensive
Come to Utah instead of going to
Alaska; for here civilization has sub
dued savagery, the desert has been
made 20 blossom as the rose, and the
white wings of peace and security
spread over all the land. Come to
Utah and you'll stay with us. Here the
freedom of the state is conferred upon
all the religions of men, so that here
you can make your home and have
your children grow up about you in
the faith of their fathers, while the
state provides every means necessary
for their education.
What's the use of going to Alaska
when you can come to Utah. You can
here find all the advantages that you
wodld find in Alaska, and then think
Of what you would escape! The joy
of the true Christian, it is said, con-
sists not only i'm finding heaven,
but also in escaping he'll. So,
eastern friend, come to Utah
instead of rushing off to Alas
ka, not only because of what you'll
positively gain, but because of the dis
agreeable things you'll miss. Come to
Utah, those of us on the ground will
bid you welcome.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24
",1R. CLEVELAND AND THE WEST"

When Mr.. Cleveland made his now
Presbyterian board of missions in
which he spoke of the west in terms
that were not complimentary, what
ever else they may have been, the peo-
pie and press of the west 1--WE refer to
that portion of the country west of the
Missouri resented his words. Then
many of the eastern papers applauded
the president and said his words were
just. 1t was charged that the resent
ment of the western people was owing
to the fact that Mr.. Cleveland was
hostile to silver and not because of his
remarks.
Now comes the Chicago Times-Her-
aid, an aggressive gold standard paper
and heretofore rather an admirer Of
the president because of his financial
views and policy, and takes issue with
him on his views regarding the west
1t characterizes Senator Vests speech
against the president as ill-mannered
and coarse, but says it acquired a
certain amount of effectiveness because
of the pointed illusions to the presi-
dents well known and poorly disguised
Indifference to the west
After telling of his career and how
he had no occasion to broaden his
horizon up to the time he became
governor of New York and in time
president, it says that one might
ir1oa inc hot
of his early lack of travel and in spite
of the love of ease that goes with
forty-fve years and full habit of
body, he would have been impelled by
considerations of state to make a care
full study of the life and industries of
all parts of the country"
This is all very true, but the reason
why the Times Herald realizes it all
so suddenly is because Mr. Cleveland
has never appreciated Chicago
He has been in Chicago twice, but
each time he hurried away in a man
ner not at all complimentary to local
pride. His astounding coldness to the
Columbian exposition was the cause
OF much comment, and the people of
this city never can forget how, after
he had been driven by great urging to
patronize the opening, he fled east
ward without sign of more than per-
functory interest in the undertaking of
the century. To the west he is known
only by report, and to him the great
cities Of the west are empty names.
1t must be somewhat humiIating to
Chicago to think that it too is a city
in the wild and woody vest But
does not Chicago look upon the far
west with somewhat of an air of
superciliousness?
1t is deplorable that Mr.. Cleveland
has been so persistently afflicted by the
notion common to Broadway loungers
that the sun rises in Connecticut and
sets in New Jersey
Very deplorable, indeed but not
more deplorable than to be afflicted
with the notion that the sun rises in
Connecticut and sets in a Chicago
suburb
NO one knows the United States, or
the people who have made them great
who does not realize that the frontier
has been abolished and that the sun
that shines over New England and the
middle states sets in the Pacific ocean.
be he president or be he newspaper
man.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Aside from divinlH law THE justification
for capital punishment is found in the
right of society to protect itself, to
protect the individuals that compose
it, and that by fixing such penalties
upon crime as will tend to prevent men
from committing it; and as death is
the one thing which men fear most it
has a right to exert that fear upon
the mind of man, that by it's restrain
ing influence upon the vicious, society
might be protected.
But it is claimed that the fear of
death does not restrain men from
crime; we think that claim can scarce
ly be made seriously. To what ex-
tent it does restrain them is difficult
to determine, since there is no way of
determining the number of cases where
the restraint has operated, where it
is in existence, and where the fear of
death does not exist because of the
adjustment of capital punishment,
sufficient time has not elapsed to move
it from the experimental stage.
But the reasonableness of the pro-
position that the fear of death does
restrain men from crime-not always,
it is true-is of itself an answer to the
opposite contention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

But str2nsest thing of all, however,
is that our correspondent, A B. T.,
denies that the Bible sanctions capital
punishment and insists, on the con-
trary, that the scriptures are against
it! He SAYS:
Second-The Bible does not command,
does not even sanction the infliction OF
capital punishment The Old Tesla
ment, in its annals of many years of
Jewish history, does not give a recorI
of a single execution for murder, al
though murders are mentioned. 1t can
not be successfully maintained that the
death penalty is sanctioned by divine
authority as duty, neither from the
old nor the New Testament On the
contrary the scriptures are against it.
We are not making the contention
that our modern legislatures must nee
essarily find warrant in the Bible for
their legislation; not would we insist
that they would not be justified in
making laws in some respects out of
harmony with the Mosaic code since
modern times are vastly different to
those in which Moses legiSlated. but to
deny what everyone acquainted at all
with holy writ must know to be true
is absurd. How would "a. E. r" ex-
plain the following legislation in the
writings of Moses:
Now these are the judgments which
thou shalt set before them: He
that smiteth a man, so that he die
shall be surely put to death. And if
a man lie not in wait, but God deliver
him into his hand; then l will appoint
thee place whittier he shall flee. But
If a man come presumptuously upon
his neighbor, to Stay him with guile;
thou shalt take him from mine altar
that he may die. And he that smiteth
his father or his mother shall surely
be put to death. And he that stealeth
a man and selleth him, or if he be
found in his hand, he shall surely be
put to death. And he that curseth his
father, or his mother shall surely be
put to death. And the man
that commiteth adultery with another
mans wife, even he that committeth
adultery with his neighbours wife, the
adulterer and the adultress shall surely
be put to death"
The list might be very much increas-
ed but this is enough to prove that so
far as that very great number of peo-
pie who believe the Bible to be the
word of God are concerned they find
plenty of warrant for capital punish
ment in divine commandment
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The doings. or misdoings. of congress
were never better set forth than by the
Chicago Record of Saturday in cartoon
entitled The daily routine in the con-
gressional shooting gallery 1t shows
Cleveland. JehD Bull, Spain, Weyler.
Carlisle, Secretary Morton and Bayard
as targets and all shot to pieces by a
row of congressman. using the old
yeagers. II is e masterpiece in the way
of political cartooning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

shall his blood he shed; for in the
image OF God made he man"
The plain meaning of the complete
passage is, and il is meaning enfore-
ed by subsequent divine law as given
through Moses-that beast which
killed a man should be put to death;
and the man who killed another man
should be put to death; and this, too,
by requiring the execution at the hands
OF the communicate the hand of
every mans brother will i require the
lie of man" 1t is upon this divine
law and the notifications of it to be
seen in the subsequent law of Moses
where the general principle receives its
modifications-that Christian nations
have bottomed their legislative regu-
lation of capital punishment. And so
far as genuine believers in the Bible
are concerned, they cannot condemn
capital punishment without impeach-
ing divine wisdom and goodness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The sentiment in favor of the election
of United States senators by direct vote
of the people was never more wide
spread and stronger than now. 1t will
be strange if the subject is not taken
notice of by one or both of the great
political parties in their national con-
Ventions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

1t is to be hoped the legislature will
pass a law fornidding the killing of any
deer, elk or antelope, under any pre-
text whatever, until the year 1900 The
increase of big game in consequences
would be marvellous. If this is not done
it will only be a few years before there
viii be no big game to protect.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Still another objection to legislative
elections of senators is the opportunity
it offers for corruption. 1t may in some
cases be practicable for man to buy
enough members of a legislature to Sc
cure his election to the senate when a
much more worthy man would through
this corrupt means be rejected. But this
kind of fraud would be impracticable in
an election by popular vote. In the latter
case corruption would have to be directed
to the nominating convention, and there
after the people would have am oppor-
tunity to repudate nomination in such
a way.-Denver Republican.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The Utah legislature has declared
that Utah VIII stand by the govern
ment in any trouble it may have with
Spain over the Cuban resolution. This
will make Uncle Sam far more coura-
g'eous than he otherwise would have
hnnn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Di Rudini is in favor of no extern
sion of a colonial policy, but he desires
TO save and hold on to Italy's rights in
Africa. In Abyssinia Italy has not
been able to save her bacon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

William Dean Howells is said to look
wholly unlike his published portraits.
If this is so. then he may have a cause
for action against some of the papers
that have published his picture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The passage yesterday in the house of
of a resolution censuring ambassador
Bayard was, on the whole, a rather silly
performance. A few months ago the
ambassador made a speech in Edinburgh
socialism called protection" under the in
fiuence of which, he asserted individual
enterprise and independence have been
oppressed and the energy of discovery
and invention debiltated and discourage
ed" in the United States. He made few
more remarks in the same line but these
quoted were the most definite and tang1-
bic The head and front of his offending
hath this extent, no nlore.-St. Louis
lobe-Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

1.-The house of correction is an insti-
tuition of which the people of Detroit
have every reason to be proud" says
the Detroit Tribune. Is there no fear
mingled with their pride?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

In the death of Thomas Hughes, HUI
mainly loses a benefactor and every
school boy throughout England and
the United States d friend.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Now Mckinley seems to have a walk
over, yet he will have to walk the
(hnanciaD plank before he reaches the
goal OF his ambition.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

OF course Mckinley will be nominated
on the first ballot, but the formality
will have to be gone through with, and
fcrmalities are always annoying.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Cullom counts his strength as a pres
idential candidate by counties in Hi
nois. Other candidates count theirs by
states in the Union.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

At the exposition of the Sportsmen's
association in Madison Square garden
there were no Kentucky rifles. Gov
ernor Bradley was using them all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The speed of the battleship Massa-
chusetts is highly satisfactory to her
builders. But she is not nearly so
rapid for war as Henry Cabot Lodge.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

First the Cuban resolutions were
Hailed by the senator from Maine and
then they were struck by a Hoar frost
from Massachusetts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Eva Booths mission to Chicago is
said to have been a failure. For this
she cannot be blamed when it is re-
nlembered what kind of aldermen they
elect in that city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Mrs. Dimmick should not allow the
general to become a candidate until
after the happy day when they are
made one
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The sentiment in favor of the election
of senators by a direct vote Of the people
has grown very rapidly in the last few
would probably receive a majority of the
popular vote in every state as the case
now stands.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Governor Morton has signed the
Raines bill. This is proof positive that
ne has surrendered all hope of being
nominated at ST. Louis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

A London paper gives data as to
twins, showing that they have a ten
dency to run in families. Our observa-
ton is that they run in pairs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Edison says he has seen right through
a human body with his naked eye. Is
the person so seen through liable to
arrest for improper exposure?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

II the army of tramps could be sent
to the front war would not be such a
calamity as it otherwise would be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

1t is unnecessary, imprudent and not
decisive for Mckinley to win the nomina-
ton before the convention meets.-Phila-
delphia Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

President Cleveland's pie zone mea-
sures 4 feet 514 inches around.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Corbett c1ys. MY voice is for war.
And that voices his sentiments ex
actly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The "censure" of Mr.. Ba-ard seems to
be of the kind that is administered during
a campaign by one stump speaker TO an
other.-Chicago Record
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Mckinley is playing in the back
yards Of all the favorite sons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Many hands make light work. And
many hands sometimes make light fin
GERS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Oklahoma is not fit for statehood
until she shuts down her divorce mills.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The adjournment of the Kentucky legis-
lature without electing a successor to
Senator Blackburn furnishes another
demonstration of the inherent viciousness
of the present method of electing senators
and an additional argument in favor of
their election by the people.-Baltlmore
Sim
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

What 1 know about bicycle riding, y
said Scorchleigh, would fill q, good-sized
volume" What you don't know about
it, said the officer who arrested him for
running down an old lady. would fill a
goodsiZed cemetery. Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

SILvER-6S9s
COPPER-Brokers 105s; exchange, II.
LEAD-Brokers' $40; exchange, $40.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24
Or. PIECES Cream Baking powdee
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

In Washington-Vis that one of
your statesmen" Resident.-"Oh no;
he's a senator" Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

do you believe in hypnotism?' We'll,
1 can't say positively. But if there is
nothing in it, 1 can't explain why large
number Of marriages occur. Truth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Quaker Deviltry.-"It's the pace that
kills." murmured the Philadelphia man,
as he ordered his fourth glass of butter
milk that night.-Puck.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

you don't seem to boast much about
your ancestors?' NO, I'm too busy fix
ing things so my posterity can brag on
me.''-Chicago Record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

There was small sparrow perched high
on d tree,
Singing as happy as happy could be;
But restaurant man, with bow and with
arrow,
Soon made him quail-the poor little
sparrow
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

The boy had smashed his fathers shaw
ing mug when his mother discovered him.
fOh, Freddie she exclaimed, what will
your papa say when he comes home and
sees what you have done?' "Weh,
mamma, l don't think 1 would like to re-
peat it before you."-Pearson's Weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

81 wonder how she manages to keep
her youthful bloom with such large
family of children
Upon a high shelf, suppose"
Far away the music OF the ball rose
softly, and that was all.-Detroit Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

Poor Wiggleby. He is his own worst
enemy
81 don't see how you make that out:
he smokes better cigars than he offers to
any one else. "-Chicago Record.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-24

. OFFICE. THE HERALD block, cor
ner West Temple and First South streets'
Salt Lake City.
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THE HERALD PUBLISHING CO..

r. c. Chambers. President.
Heber ]. Grant. Yice-President.
Richard W. Young, Manager.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-04-16
THE BERMUDA IN COURT.
Fncetious Remarks of the Counsel for
the Prisoners Creates Laughter.

Philadelphia, April 10 (Speclalr-
John ID. Hart. of the Hart steamship
Line, the cklrterer of the steamship
Bermuda. Captain John O'I3rien, OF
Newark. n. j.. who commanded the YES
sci on her recent tilibustering trip from
New York to Cuba, and Mates Edward
Murphy and Albert Sicnonson, of New
York were arraigned before United
States Commissioner Bell this afternoon
on the charge of engaging in the late
expedition. Captain O'Brien and the
two mates came to Philadelphia to-day,
and although they presented themselves
before the Commissioner. Captain Ker,
counsel fer the defendaEEs, declared
that they would not surrender. Deputy
Marshal Myers, however, Informally
placed the trio under arrest
Warrants for the arrest of NIessrs.
Hart. O'Bricn. Murphy, Simonson and
Col MencE. the latter a prominent To-
cal Cuban leader. were issued yesterday
at the instance of DR.. Jose Congosto,
the Spanish Consul at this port Mr..
Hart was arrested yesterday. Colonel
NuneZ. who accompanied the Bermuda
on the recent trip to Cuba, was not in
attendance to-day. and Deputy Marshal
Myers stated that he had been unable
To serve the warrants. Captain ller. in
reply to Commissioner Bell. said that
Col. Nunez, as an American citizen,
would not surrender to n warrant is
sued at the instance of 4 foreign subject,
but that the Colonel would meet the
Spanish Consul in any part OF Cuba
The latter facctious remarks created
laughter.
After Mr.. Brock had asked for post
ponement of the hearing because of the
absence Of Col. NuneZ. and in order to
give him time to issue subpoenas for
the witnesses from other States, Lawyer
Lewis moved that the warrants of arrest
1t. sl,.1 I,,t e
set out that the offense was committed
in the southern district of New York
An extended argument followed regard
ing the jurisdiction of Commissioner
Bell in the matter.
The Commissioner refused toquash the
warrants, and continued the hearing
until 1880 q. IN. Saturday
The sailors were committed in default
of bail. The prisoners We're bailed in
the sum of $500 each.