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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26

The attempt 10 have uniform rules for
all the superior courts of the state should
be successful. Judges and practitioners
have long been aware Of the need Of uni
form rules. and only opportunity has been
lacking to harmonic them
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26
THE STATE PRESS.

Cowlitz Valley Journal: Gov. Rogers
says he will unite all the reform forces
on the money question. You are too
late, Rogers; Turner has already done
this.
Spokane Chronicle: Queer ideas they
have back in Sioux City. They discovered
the other day that - man named Davis
had two wives. and II wasn't half an hour
before they had him on trial for lunacy.
Lincoln County Times: II Is said that
the bill introduced IN the legislature pro-
hibiting officials from receiving passes
from the railroads has been amended 10
include newspaper publishers along with
officeholders. Fortunately the bicycle is
left, and IL is not a crime to travel on foot
Chehalis Tribune: The Golden Gate.
Washington's first steel vessel, was
launched at Seattle Saturday. The vessel
was constructed by the Moran Bros. Com
pany. and viii be used as a government
revenue cutter. with headquarters at San
Francisco. This Is q big advertisement for
Puget sound and the state of Washington
In general
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26

est In Eastern Washington. Portland has
scored another point. One of her most
popular young men has Just carried off to
that place a waIla waIla belle.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26

II the people of the state do not profit
most wonderfully from their present ex-
psrience. they are not the people they have
been credited with being.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26

1t seems incredible that the governor of
Guanabacoa should have killed Ruiz with
his own hands. yet the condition OF the
body gives rise to suspicion that there was
violence used.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26

President .CIsneros was a true patriot.
He risked and lost all his possessions and
renowned his title N order 10 advance the
cause OF the republic.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26
BITS OF HUMoR.

That rich Engiishman. Charles Thorp,
who has recently married a spirit bride.
who had been dead. the way we think OF
death. for nearly half a century. will have
only ghost Of chance to rear a fam
ny.-Portland Tribune.
When the poor law was first introduced
q Dublin beggar woman, whom a gentle
man referred TO the poorhouse, said:
This poor laws a grand thing for the
sowls of the gintiemen."
why so?'
'BekaiSe now when we axes for aims
they only say, go TO the poorhouse, but
before there was a poorhouse they used 10
say, Go to the divil" -
One Charles Cavill has performed the
feat of crossing the Golden Gate at San
Francisco in one hour and fifteen min
utes. Perhaps he viii now attempt the
feat OF climbing UP the golden STAIRS
Boston Globe.
"Spifiln thinks he Is man with a mis-
sion" remarked Manchester.
Does her replied Birmingham who
knows something Of Splffin's debts. ''He is
a man with a nission-au owe mission"
--Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26

When this little legislative furry Is over
Seattle viii have its great Touring MIL to
point to with pride.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26

Major Mckinley had his hand grasped by
thousands OF people. but It seems he got
one grip too many.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26
COAST PAPERS.

San Francisco Call: AS Victoria has or
dered a new steam yacht II is evident she
still feels sporty enough to hold the throne
down.
Portland Oregonian: The reelection OF
Kyle is the best possible result OF the
South Dakota senatorial contest. Kyle is
an honest Popuiist. His chief competitor.
Picker, is dishonest Republican. who ad-
vocates free coinage OF silver for office
only. He and all like him deserve defeat.
They are more dangerous to the public
credit and national safety than pure Popu-
lists.
San Francisco Bulletin: In mapping out
Miss Barton's work in Cuba, and planning
that she shall visit only Spanish hospitals.
leaving wounded Cubans to die like dogs
after the Spanish method. there Is bare
possibility that Gen. Weyler has taken
one more contract larger than he can iii.
He has the excuse. always, that he does
not know Miss Barton. When they be-
come acquainted-we.l IL win not be the
woman who Will not have her way.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-02-26

Naval experts are writing ara -rs-s--
O. 1oN 70 step torpedo re- r,a@
%'oo gsts - ,Tont O. Al earnest. .x~stsbls
eas whez rs F@H % nllIk = hssrw 49,
irto ;s@ asruyar1 msgAt give SON. vs. -
sais Eoia'sxs--AliEzeapolls Journal
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Sundays-Flyer or state q Wsshn,~>~
leave Seattle 40 a. m. iA:0o m. RI
Leave Tacoma $50 a. m. In ~ =
U. sEELEY. Jr. Assuk
Seattle Telephone. Main liz
Tacoma Telephone. I'll.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23
WHAT MAY HAPPEN.

The call for a convention at ST. Louis
which the strike leaders have issued is
addressed to all reform, social, edu-
cational and scientific bodies as we'll
as to organized labor throughout the
country. Educational and scientific
bodies will not be represented at that
gathering, because while as individuals
men may express their adherence for
government by injunction, questions of
this and like character are outside the
domain of science and education. Alb
stract subjects engage their attention;
besides the members of scientific asso-
Citations are not yet ready to rub noses
with the coal miner. How many dele
gates viii represent reform associa-
tons is only a matter for guess work.
Not many; perhaps none. Yet it would
be a great step in the evolution of la
Dor if all comprehendeG in the call
were there to give counsel and avoid
disaster.
So the chances are that on the S0th
these leaders of labor will ind no one
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23
TEE CHIEFS TRIAL.


The trial of Chief Pratt by the ere
and police board has developed into a
great big farce. and clearly demon
strates the wisdom of the legislature In
repeating the fire and police board law.
We do not say this by way of con-
demnation of the present board of. COM
nlissioners, or out of sympathy for Mr.
Pratt. The members Of the board are
probably as earnest in their efforts to
do their full duty as any other gentle
men would be under similar circum-
stances, and Mr.. Pratt is simply look
ing out for his own personal interests
in his attempt to regain his position.
When the first of January comes
Salt Lake City. it is to be hoped, will
have new deal in every department
of municipal government. The mayor
elected in November will have to name
a chief of police and a chief of the fire
department, and the voters should re-
member this. A good, level headed
man in the mayors chair, who is ia
miliar with the needs of the city, can
do more in a minute to straighten out
the tangle in these two departments
than a fire and police board, under the
present law. can do in a year.
That the city needs new deal is
very evident, and we believe the people
will so order when it comes to an cleo
ton. 1t does not necessarily follow
that all of the members of the fire
and police force in this city should be
dismissed and new men put in their
places, but it does mean that the force
should be reorganized and every man
required to line up and do his duty,
conscious of the fact that he has some
thing else to do besides watching out
for charges and devising ways and
means to compel the city to pay back
salaries.
The members of the fire and police
force should understand that so long
as they do their duty they are all
right, and when they don't they are
liable to dismissal, and that there will
be no long wind" trial before a board,
with charges and counter charges and
appeals to the courts, but that their
case begins and ends right there.
fire and police board law may be
a success in some places, but it is far
from being a success here in Utah,
and especially in Salt Lake City. 1t
mas cost more. has kent the two depart
ments in turmoil most Of the time,
and has been a constant source of an
noyance to the people generally Where
the fault has been does not matter,
now that the end is in sight
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23

at that conference but themselves. and
the only question before them to de-
eide the one that called them to St
Louis. That question resolves itself
into a plan to persuade labor organiza-
tons every where to abandon every
thing that is in the remotest degree
connected with the handling and trans
portation of the products of the coal
mines. The call does not say this in so
many words, but no one can fail to I'M
derstand its intent. What the scope
imagine. It contemplates the greatest
strike ever made in this country.
So far these labor leaders have not
lost their heads. The strike has been
conducted in a manner that commands
not only the respect but admiration of
law abiding people. These leaders have
exhibited remarkab bic tact, remarkable
control of themselves and remarkable
ability to control others. But they will
make the mistake of their lives by at
tempting to carry out the plan pro
posed.
They will discover their first mistake
when it is ascertained that all men do
not surrender their conscience when
they join labor organizations, and We
believe none are required to abandon
conviction if the trade union is inter
preted correctly. Moral ethics is OPP
posed to the idea that the end justi-
fies the means. no matter how laudable
that end Men working for wages and
supporting families can find no sensible
reason for leaving an employer who has
inflicted no grievance. Yet this is con-
templated in the proposed plan and the
argument urged in favor is the one of
expediency, namely, that the business
of A helps the business of B who is
the oppressor, and therefore in order to
bring B to terms it is necessary to in
Jure A. This is an attempt to correct
one injury by inflicting another.
Therefore, there will be found a lack
Of unanimity among the working men
to assist in carrying out this improper
measure, and in such lack is found the
most potent means of defeat. But leav-
ing moral ethics aside, and supposing
that every body engaged in the trans
portation business was called upon to
quit work, is there any reason for
thinking that the engineers would obey
the mandate now any more than they
did in the Debs strike?
Properly realizing these difficulties
when they come together, the leaders
may abandon the idea of sympathy
strike and appeal to the American pub
lie for material assistance in supporting
the one now in hand. The American
public viii take kindly to any such ap-
peal. The American public is aroused
to the grave dangers which threaten
personal liberty through the injunc-
tons of courts, and is almost ready to
make this miners strike an issue in ma
tional politics. We trust that sound
judgment and tact will govern at the
labor meeting in St. Louis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23
THE REDS OF PARIS.

Paris, Aug. 1O-Within an hour after
the receipt of the news of the assassina-
ton of Premier Canovas by the italian
anarchist a score or more of men i'll the
Service de Surete, or Secret Service, were
circulating through the Rue de Venice
and its dingy cross streets.
1t was mercy a precautionary meas
ure on the part of the police, as they ex-
pected to receive word at any moment
that the plot to kill Canovas had been
Matched in some of the anarchistic llaunts
OF Paris. Later adyices place the origin
OF the crime among the London colony of
this, the secret police did not relax their
vigilance. it being feared that when the
news of the Spanish crime penetrated the
Sums IL might exert a sinister influence
ana cause some frenzied man or woman
to attempt to emulate the deed of the
Italian.
An anarchists are easily stirred, but
the French anarchist is exceptionally
emotional, the smallest spark setting
his brain afre. Experience has taught
the. police that anarehistic crimes are
epidemlcal in their nature and that a
notable out break, like the assassination
of Canovas, invariably leads others of the
red stripe TO spread the terror. 1t IS, in
fact, part OF the doctrine of the an
archiSt to follow up one crime with an
other, and thus display his power TO the
world.
In Paris the police carry out the
system of concentration to all branches
of crime, and all real believers in
anarchy. whether really dangerous to
the public peace or not, are forced XIV
the system to live in the same districts
inhabited by thieves and black legs of all
stripes.
The Rue de Venice is the central
thoroughfare of this inner city of
crime. In its immediate neighborhood
are the most viliainous dance halls of
Paris, patroniZed by men and women
who are well known i'll all the prisons
and many OF them have tasted of life
in the penal colony of New Caledonia
Here are the cabarets where it IS never
safe for the. stranger to enter and Dur-
chase a drink of wine. In nine cases out
OF ten he is almost certain to be served
with drugged liquor and robbed of every
thing to the clothes on his back.
1t may seem q cause for wonder to
Americans that the police do not clean
the district out. That is the very thing
which they do not want to do, as it
would disorganize their whole system of
controlling crime The police realize that
certain per centage of the population of
a large city is bound to be criminal that
to every thousand inhabitants there are
g. certain number of sthieves. strangers
thugs, swindlers and their consorts.
Instead of permitting them to live
where they will. probably among re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23

spectacle people, they are i1uddled in
the Rue de Venice neighborhood. When
one is caught living elsewh1 Fe ne is
bounded out of that district. and If he
goes into another respectable neighbor-
hood he is again made to move, and the
process IS continued until he is finally
forced to seek a refuge in the criminal
district
1t is a system that has its disadvant
ages. particularly from the stand point
thief" is the motto of the police, and
they enforce it with relentless energy to
the letter. There is no doubt that it
deters many who ara making an honest
effort to reform, driving them back into
the paths of iniquity. But the police
argue that the salvation of the many
has superior claims 10 the doubtful re-
form of, the few.
So well is the system understood that
the. respectable people never venture to
make their abode within the district. Il
is stunned by the honest poor as II It
reeked with a deadly Destilence. Thus,
by this system. the contamination of the
honest by association with the wicked is
avoided; the districts inha bfted by the
respectable poor being as clean morally
as the we'll to do neighborhoods, a con-
dition which is noticeably absent in most
American cities.
It has a still more substantial advant-
age. and that is the celebrity 1t affords the
police in making arrests. Through the
agency of Intermediates living in the
district the police are enabled to quickly
locate the perpetrators of crimes who
might otherwise escape punishment. It
is also preventive of crime, as the police
are frequently informed beforehand of the
plans for some evil work. All of the
places where stolen goods can be sold are
here located and these are permitted to
exist solely for the aid they furnish the
police.
The same can be said of the cabareto
in which the safety of the stranger would
be JeoDardized. 1t is also true of Pere
Lunette's, the cabaret which for years
has been the particular haunt of the
anarchists. There would be no legal diff
ficulties in the way if the police wanted
to wipe this place out, but they permit
Pere Lunette to carry on business simply
because 1t affords them an opportunity of
keeping the most dangerous of the an
archists under constant surveillance.
In this cabaret. a dozen or more of
them men and women, can be found at
any hour of the day or night up to 5 a.
M. when the place is closed for few
hours. Here they drink the vilest of
wines and brandies. attack the bour-
geoisie in song and harangue, the women
being more violent in these displays than
the men.
Not few of the regulars of the place
are artists of discreditable habits. who
make a great noise and draw fierce pic
lures of the rise OF anarchy and the fall
of the bourgeoisie, but who are regarded
as very harmless reds by the police-all
buster and nothing else. They bear
watching, however, as every little while
one of them. under the stimulus of ac-
scumulated troubles. the result of reck-
less living, commits a desperate act, not
so much for anarchistic principles as
from besotted lunacy- MALL1ARD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23
TEE DREAM OF GILPIN.

Before the civil war William Gilpin
was governor of the territory of Colo
RADIO, and perhaps there are people in
Utah who remember the governor.
What passed through the governors
thoughts in his leisure land he had
plenty of leisure as a governor those
days. was a. scheme for the construc-
ton of a railroad which should extend
from the Atlantic ocean off the west
coast of Europe to the Atlantic ocean
off the east coast OF the United States
by way of Behring Strait thereby
making it possible to abandon the
big pond as necessary highway of
the worlds commerce.
What was then regarded as dream,
visionary and impossible of realization,
is fast becoming a reality. and is fol-
lowing almost exactly the same route
marked out by the governor. Russia's
great trans Siberian railway is more
than half completed. Financiers in
Europe and America are considering
plans for the construction of a line
from Vancouver to and across Behring
Strait to connect with the trans-Siber-
ian road. with every prospect of ap-
prevail. When these works are COM
pleted (and perhaps both may be in
1909, New York and Liverpool will be
joined by a tie of shining steel; and
old Governor Gilpin viii not have
dreamed in vain.
1t is reported in London that apph-
cation has been made to the British
parliament by certain parties believed
TO be in the interest of three connecting
trunk lines forming a trans-continental
route from New York via Chicago, Mil
waukee, st. Paul, Helena and Port
land, to Vancouver, for a concession or
privilege to construct a line of railroad
from the northwestern boundary of the
United States through the British pos
sessions bordering the Pacific ocean to
the southern boundary of Alaska. Sim
ultaneously with the consent of the
British government to this scheme,
bonds will be placed upon the market
for the construction of the information
al line through Alaska to Behring Sea,
where, by joint arrangement with the
Russian government, by the use Of
bridges and a ferry line, connection
will be made with the Siberian road
through Russian. territory. One of the
lines depended upon to produce funds
for floating the gigantic scheme is al
ready preparing maps and advertising
matter for distribution, thus showing
its faith in the outcome eight years; in
advance of its inauguration as a COM
plete fact.
A glance at the map easily convinces
one that Behring Strait presents no
great difficulties for crossing. To call
road engineers it is not a, serious prob
lem. The strait is filed with islands
so close together that no difficulty will
be encountered in connecting them with
bridges, which need not be of expensive
construction. Three miles of open
water Will then divide Russia and
Alaska. But this is an easy matter to
overcome with a three-nlile car ferry
line. Boats carrying loaded cars are
seen every day in, our laks cities.
Thus will be realized Jules Verne's
dream Of Around the World in Eighty
Days." (with a discount of over so per
cent?, made glorious by old Governor
Gilpin of Colorado.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23

A good many million dollars represent
claims by American citizens against
Spain growing out of the Cuban insur-
reetion, and these have been presented
TO the Madrid government To offset
this Spain will present claims against
our government for damages resulting
froTs fnibuster expeditions; and the
circunlocutfon of diplomacy will
stretch the litigation into the years
when the claimants are slumbering in
their graves. John Bull would manage
things differently. Seeing that Spain
Is ON the threshold OF reputation he
would take a mortgage on Cuba. and
when the bond became due his big
ships would be ready to enforce its
terms TO the letter. The forbearance Of
the American people initiates against
rheir national and individual interests
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23
PASSING AWAY.

Passing away-paSSing away
On to the grave they GO,
Another hour or another day
And who VIII be left 10 know?
Back to the dust-back to the clay
Surely we go though slow
A down hill walk. a rocky way,
The grave waits just below.
Passing away-passing away.
How soon the old friends die,
BY the fount of youth we stand, day,
And Azrael's power defy
A moment then-Our hair Is gray
The grave seems strangely night
o, Mortal, why build hopes, l say?
The Spirit answers: "Why?"
Passing away-passing away
Down with the silent deadi
Each minute ends some bitter play
Where many tears were shed;
Why weep at death?-though flesh decay,
The soil has only fed
To brighter regions far away
Where graves wait not ahead.
Passing away-passing away
Friends of the long ago
Like flowers that bloom a single day,
Like melting fakes of snoWi
Who is to knoW-WhO is to say
Why God DEGREES it so?
But all must tread the down hill way
And meet the grave below.
Passing away-passing away
OF what avail the sigh?
A transient guest who could not stay
Is called beyond the sky.
All things must pass to swift decay
The grave is strangely nigh.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23

Marion Crawford says, in a recent
novel treating Of the divorce problem,
the tendency OF the age is degeneracy,
growing out of an unwillingness to face
pain and suffering with feroism. Might
rot Marion's philosophy be also applied
to the mania for suicide which is be-
coming eDidemical throughout the
country? And, perhaps. when we get
down TO the bottom of the cause in
order TO apprehend this unwillingness
to face pain and suffering with hero
ism. we find it in the hard times. which
takes away all strength of the present.
and leaves for hopeless poverty no re-
ouital but the slumber of the grave.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23

General James B. Weaver, Populist
candidate for president in 1892, opened
the s'.ate campaign for the Iowa Dem
ocrats at Sioux City. He characterized
the platform and state ticket of the
Republicans as pitiable. The party is
afraid to condemn the leaders pecula
tions and too timid to nominate any
one connected with them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23

We are waiting for poem, the sub
ject of which shah be Prince Oscar
Bernadotte, second son of the king of
Sweden and Norway. He resigned his
place in the line of succession to the
throne in order TO marry Miss Muncl1
snd conduct revival services. Plain
prose to perpetuate such romance as
this is inadequate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-23

Tweedledum and tweedledee in poll
tics is aDtly illustrated in the anxiety
which Mat Quay displays in having his
course in the senate recognized in a
resolution before the Republican con-
vention rather than an endorsement for
senator What's the difference. so long
as de gets theres