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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
IN THE SENATE.

The house has passed the Dingley
tariff bill and it now goes to the SEN
ate. If its author has some doubt and
trembling as to its fate there it will be
but natural, for last year an emer-
gency revenue measure bearing his
name met with an ignominious defeat.
That defeat was accomplished through
the free silver senators holding the bill
up There is small probability that
there will be any repetition of the
same tactics now; it is not desirable
there should be. No matter what lack
of faith the friends of silver may have
in the Dingley tariff or any other tariff
to cure the ills from which the country
now suffers, the country declared
against a trial of the remedy they adj
vocated. Even in the cure of political
ills it is often necessary to let the pa
tient try his own remedies though it
is known beforehand that they will eff
feet no cure, while to force on him,
against his will, those remedies that
would effect a cure is often unwise, for
the mental excitement consequent upon
such forcible administration has
very bad effect upon the patients gen.
eral health.
Last November the people declared
against silver and placed in power
party that has always favored high
tariff taxes as the remedy for all the
ills of the nation. That party having
been so elected, it should be allowed a
fair opportunity to inaugurate and
carry out its policy so far as being
freed from filibustering in either house
of congress is concerned. This does
not mean that the fallacies and certain
failure of the present bill should not
be pointed out and discussed; they
should be, and have been in the house
and most likely will be in the senate
The bill having passed the house, it
is to be hoped that there will be no
unnecessary delay in passing it through
the senate.
The agitation over the tariff question
is having a disturbing effect on bust
ness; commerce and industrial devel-
opment are waiting for settlement of
it and they will not move forward or
become at all active until this. tariff
question is settled for at least a couple
of years. But because of the excessive
ly high duties Of the Dingley bill, it
contains the promise of great tariff
agitation year and a half hence. This
fact will scarcely have beneficial in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
THE MAGAZINES.

The Century for April is called the
Grant Memorial Number" and well
it justites the name. The frontispiece
Is picture of the Grant tomb in River
side park, New York. Nothing could
be more interesting than General Sher-
mans opinion of Grant, written in No
vember, 1879. He says that to him
Grant was always a mystery, and he
knew him as a cadet at West Point, as
a lieutenant in the Fourth infantry as
citizen of ST. Louis, and as a grow
ing general all through the civil war
John r. Proctor tells of "A Blue and
Gray Friendship" the heroes of which
were Grant and Buckner General
Porters Campaigning With Grant"
is continued. He also describes the
tomb in Riverside park. "Old George
town-A Social Panorama" by John
Williamson Palmer, with numerous
portraits, is a delightful article, light
and gossipy, yet not frivolous. Wheel
ing in the Tyrolese," by George E.
Warning, jr., is a pleasant bit of read
ing The illustrations are beautiful w.
A. Collins "A New American Sculptor.
George Gray Barnard" with illustra-
well Catherwoods The Days of Jeanne
dare" is begun in the present number.
1t promises to be very interesting
New Conditions in Central Africa
with Illustrations. is study of the
progress of civilization between Lake
Tangauyika and the Congo. The ar
ticle consists of extracts from the jour-
mails of the late K. J. Glane
The Century Company, Union Square
New York. Price. 81 cents.
The Bookman for April is interesting
throughout. Chronicle and Comment"
is accompanied with portraits of Mat
thew Arnold Hawthorne, Lowell. the
Countess Guiccioli and Lady Caroline
Lamb George Brandes is the subject
of the second study in Living CONT
mental Critics" Harry Thurston Peck
has a study of the late administration.
On the whole it. is appreciative There
is an interesting article on william Gull
len Bryant, which is copiously ilflls-
trated. From the Bookman we learn
that the three best selling books dur
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
PLEADING THE BABY ACT.


Many of the gold Democrats who
supported President Mckinley in the
campaign are now making loud COM
plant that the issue on which he was
elected has been abandoned by him,
in fact that they have been BETRAYED.
1t is true that the issue on which he
was elected has become qu;esoent, but
1t cannot be said that it has been aban-
doned. That issue was whether the
present gold standard should be main
tanned or whether there should be a BIZ
metallic standard with free coinage for
both gold and silver The people said
that the single gold standard should be
maintained, and certainly no one can
point to a single act or saying of the
presidents indicating that he has
swerved in his devotion to the declar-
atoms of the st. Louis platform on the
monetary question. Wherein, then, is
there any foundation for the assertion
that the gold Democrats have been be-
trayed?
It is true that the president has
called congress together in extra ses-
sion to consider the tariff question, but
it must be remembered that he was
not elected on reform of the currency
issue but on the issue of the single gold
standard. 1t should also be borne in
mind that during all the time those
delegations of workingmen We're being
sent to Canton by the Republican lead
Frs Major Mckinley devoted far the
greater part of his talks to them to the
tariff. When a delegation representing
a particular schedule was presented to
him, he discussed the articles contained
in that schedule.
1t is nothing but pleading the baby
act for the gold Democrats to say they
have been betrayed. If they have been
it was by their own blind stupidity.
Their hatred of Bryan and the Chicago
platform was so intense that they knew
not where they were going but were
willing to go wherever they heard any
one denouncing Bryan and the regular
Democracy. Had not their blind fury
been so great they would have realized
how absurd it was to expect that their
new-found Republican friends would
abandon their foundation tenets be-
cause they had temporarily gone into
that fold. 1t is true they brought
strength to the party but they brought
no new principle to it. It now seems
that these same gold Democrats ex-
pected, when they went into the Re-
publican camp, to gather figs from
thistles, grapes from thorns. BY this
time they should have learned a lesson.
But will they profit by it? No one can
say, least of all they themselves. Hav-
ing attempted to betray their own
party they are hardly in a position to
cry that they have been betrayed by
Mckinley and his party.
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Dreams.

Over the long, rich, billowy grass, VI
and down are the footsteps nylng
OF viewless winds that pass and leave
no token of their flight;
With never a tree TO mar the stretch OF
the prairie around me lying.
A dark green sea, whose rolling waves
the sun has tipped with light.
The iron weed sways on the wind-swepi
ridge, the wild rose blooms in the
hollow.
A hawk wheels round in circling SWEEP
through trackless paths on high,
And over the grass the breezeS go, and
the tremulous echoes follow
Filling the crannies of eddying winds
from earth to sky
Horizon-ward and far TO the west. like
the smoke of a distant steamer,
Mounting slowly up the skies, on the
steps of a hidden stair,
Vague, so vague, as vague and dim as the
dream of an idle dreamer
A curling cloud-wraith, spiral formed, is
rising through the air.
Sun and wind and the far-off sky; the
sun that shines and the wind that
passes;
The life that is. and beyond the clouds
the life that is to be
Dreams. all dreams, that come and go,
as the winds light footprints over
the grasses III
What is my life but a drop of rain that
falls in a shoreless sea?
Ernest McGaffey, Songs and Lyrics.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

The Washington Star saws that a
project has been originated by repre-
sentative railroad men to build a prf-
vate car for the use of the president of
the United States, from material and
| appliances contributed for the purpose
by the car-building and affiliated in
dustrles. 1t is proposed to construct a
private car eXcelling anything of this
kind which has been done before in the
substantial character of its construc-
ton and in the completeness and con-
venience of its furnishings and decora-
tons. The projected car will be a COM
plete exposition of the art of car build
ing, demonstrating to the world the
surprising excellence of this industry
in the United States; and that it is to
be presented to the nation as a tribute
from the car-building fraternity, for
the personal and official use of the sue
cessive presidents of the United States.
The designs and specifications for the
car are being prepared under the SUI
pervision of a committee of % promi-
nent and representative master car
DuiiociS anu Superlnten0entS OF motive
power of various railroads, thus insur-
ing the end that the proposed car shall
represent the skill, ingenuity and ex-
perience of the American car builder.
Much of the necessary material re-
quired for its construction has been
rendered by leading dealers and manu-
facturers in the railroad supply trade.
and the projected movement offers an
exceptional opportunity to firms en-
gagged in business which, while not di-
rectly associated with the car-building
industry, make and supply various ar
ticles and materials which will be de-
sired for the furnishing and decoration
of so elaborate vehicle as a private
car for the use of the president
As to the propriety of such a gift
there may be some question. If the car
is to be for the use of the successive
presidents it would be the duty of
Uncle Sam to maintain it, and if he
is to do this he should supply it in the
first instance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
EXPORT COUNTIES.

The Lubin proposition to pay a
bounty on all agricultural products ex-
ported from this country is again being
agitated. 1t is not so absurd as it
! seems at first, that is if one is a be-
lever in the protection theory. If one
class of the community is to be per-
mitted to take from the pockets of the
people by means of the tariff what it
may choose. why should not another
class be allowed to take from the
treasury for sending things out of the
country? 1t, again, raises the price of
things in the home market. for under
an export bounty system the price of
agricultural products in the home mar
ket will be the price of the same
products in the foreign market, plus
the bounty. The money for paying the
bounties will have to come from the
people, of course. No more money will
be brought into the country than as
though no bounty had been paid, for
the bounty will not raise the price in
the foreign market; on the contrary the
tendency would be to reduce the price
as the exporters from this country
could afford to cut under those who
received no bounty, for they would be
made whole. But at whose expense
would all this be? AT the expense of
the American people. The proposition
is always to bleed the people of this
country for the benefit of a portion of
it. About the only difference between
a protective tariff and an export
bounty is that the former is somewhat
of the nature of an indirect iniquity
while the latter is a direct iniquity. Be
tween the two evils it would be quite
impossible to choose the lesser.
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fiuence on the development of business,
either
THE MAYoRALTY.

Already there is much talk about
candidates for the mayoralty, though
the election is some seven months off.
This being the case, there is no urgent
need to do any great amount of can
wasting yet awhile; candidates must
possess their souls in patience for some
months to come. That which has
caused the present talk is probably the
formation of the Municipal league and
OF the city officials. 1t is more than
probable that the stir, and all the talk
arising in consequence of it, will die
down in short time; unfortunately
such is the case as a rule.
But it is good thing that the Mu-
nicipal league has been formed and that
the stir has been made, for it seems
to draw the attention of the people
TO the condition of affairs in the city.
They are not so desperately worse
than they have been, but they are not
nearly in so good shape as they
might be. But who is responsible for
it all in the first instance? The peo-
ed the present city government and if
it isn't what they wish they have no
one to blame but themselves. The
trouble is that they allow themselves
to be manipulated by scheming poll
ticians And then they put I'D for Of
flee men about whom thew know COM
paratively nothing. Those who are usu-
ally nominated seek the office and the
people are but too content to form
their estimates of their capabilities
from their own representations When
there is another municipal election all
that should be changed. Let only the
best men be chosen, but above all
things care should be exercised to avoid
selecting for office narrow-minded men
who belong to some clique and who are
self-seeking and not too scrupulous
about using their official position to
further their personal ends.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

A Mail and Express correspondent
tells this on Speaker Reed: Speaker
Reed has had a great deal Of time on
his hands, for he always calls some one
to the chair to preside over the COM
mittee of the whole while the bill is
being discussed. The other day the
speaker went over to the senate side
for lunch, and when he finished he
lighted big cigar, and, forgetting his
own order against smoking, he started
across the long building, putting away
as unconsciousiy as could be. He had
not gone far, however, before he was
STONED by q senate official, who told
him that It was against the rules to
smoke. The speaker smiled, and TAX
ing his cigar out of his mouth, carried
it in his hand until he reached the
house side, and knowing that he was
in his own domain, he began smoking
again, and passed along to his own
room unmolested. but it was very
bad example to the employees" Bad
example it may be, but the house and
house employees must do as Reed says
and net as Reed does.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
TALES OF THE DAY.
The Sultan and the Grand vizier.

Minneapolis Times: Sultan-Well, what
is it, my good fellow?
Grand ViZier-A note from the British
ambassador He says you must reform.
Sultan-What have we done now?
Vizier-He says your dogs hang around
his gates ell night and set up a most
dismal bowling.
Sultan-Tell him the dogs will be
taught to sing, and, Vizier-
Yes. your OttomanneSs.'
Here is a telegram to the governor of
Sniperburg on the Euphrates. | hear the
Armenians are breaking out there, and
I'm telling the governor to quiet
them
Vizer-But l hear it is measles they
are breaking out with.
Sultan-Oh, is that it. Well, recall the
orde. after he gets good start; say in
a week. Bring me n cup of. aconite and
a copy of the New York Sunday Journal
containing my illustrated special on the
a cigarette. I'm feeling chilly as the
devil this morning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

There is a very good lesson in the
antitrust law decision for those city
officials who enforce or suspend the
city ordinances as they think best. The
lesson is contained in these words: 1T
may be that the policy evidenced by
the passage of the act itself will, if
carried out, result in disaster to the
roads and in failure to secure the ad-
vantages sought from such legislation.
Whether that will be the result or not
we do not know and cannot predict.
The considerations are, however, not
for US. If the act ought to read as
contended for by defendants. congress
is the body to amend it, and not this
court, by a process of judicial legisla-
ton wholly unjustifable."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
LAKE HERALD; THURSDAY. APRIL /, 1897.

Il beg your pahdon, sub, but I can see
by your looks that you came from the
south. and as that is my paint of the
country ask you to do me the honah.
sub, to join me in a toddy.
The tall man said: Il thank you, sir.
for the invitation, and will join you with
pleasure"
Il never drink alone sub. If [ can help
it. Bad for the stomach, sub, and gen.
crates selfishness, sub. What part of
the south did you come from. sub. if
might ask?''
From the south of Maine. sir
Explanations and apologies followed,
and Captain Dow, the famous Maine
fighter. and Major Withers of Morgan s
command warmed uD to each other so
fiercely that we all knew the war was
ove-.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
Sp-g, G. Sp-g.

Now the boisterous wind is screening
Through each avenue and street,
And the rheumatism's reaching
From your shoulders to your feet,
Now you pant, and cough, and Wheeze,
And sniffle worse and worse.
You choke and sneeze and sneeze,
Till you're mad enough to curse.
But the calendar and poet
And the poster of book beer
Aver, though you don't know it,
That Sp-g. G.. Sp-g, is here.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

THE HERALD - a franchise MEM
Oe% of The United Press, and re-
cefves the complete leased wire
overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports OF The United Associated Press
es, embracing accurate Intelligence
Of all current events in aIse whole
world. with it's special wire ana
operator I'm Ats own ONCE THE HEIR
AID is daily in Immediate possess
sion OF the Iatest news MP till the
hour of aSOinG to press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

When Chairman Dingley consented
to restore works of art and books to
the free list, he pleaded guilty to one
count in the indictment against him.
of them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

A Washington correspondent says cit
is remarked in Washington that Mr..
Hanna goes to the White House less
frequently than any other Republican
senator" Perhaps the mountain goes
to Mahomet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

A California man has obtained a di-
vorce from his wife because she was a
new woman" Men usually seek
divorce from their wives because they
are the odd woman" while they have
got struck on a new woman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Moen, Fountain, Mimi, says: Aver
Cherry Pectoral has had a wonderful
effect in curing my brothers children
of a severe and dangerous cold. 1t was
truly astonishing how speedily they
found relief after taking this prepara-
ton
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

CIR. Grosvenor hit the nail on the
head when he said that the German
Wilson bill wrecked the country and
also wrecked the Democratic party"
says the Boston Journal. Very true,
but Mr.. Grosvenor hit the wrong nail.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

A Wisconsin man has arisen to ac-
cuse Tennyson of plagiarizing from
another Wisconsin man. Strange that
the Wisconsin poet should never have
been heard of.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
Detroit .Joui

Detroit Journal: Truly" unused the
sultan. "943 queens would make a full
house" II wonder what his game is
now?" muttered the grand vizier. But at
. that moment the Dostman came with a
number of ultimate from the great Chris
tan powers and the conversation natu-
rally sought other channels.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Puck: His Escape.-He-"Did you know
that our minister once had a narrow es-
cape from the Fiji Isanders?" She
How" He-"He was on the point of
going out among them as a missionary,
when he received a call from a conSre-
CATION in Boston,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Detroit Tribune: Prom this moment
we part forever" he Kissed. She turned
upon him haughtily, regal even in the
hour of her humiliation. No, Fitzmau-
rice Maurice Maurice" she answered, Il
am accustomed to exact a weeks notice
from all of my husbands
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

A Kansas City woman sued for a di-
vorce and got it. When the JUDGE
granted the decree the husband pre-
scented his ex-wife with a thousand
dollars, so great was his joy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Boston Transcript: Fuddy-'I hear thai
Roshus is going on the stage. In what
line of business is he to apnear?" buddy
-"Oh, first along. he will only take small
parts. such Us Richard III. Othello anC
Hamlet: but in course of time he hopes
to be able to tackle something larger
something in the farce-comedy line or the
burlesQue opera"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Puck: The Ruling Passion.-"The mar
riage of the star and the leading lady
couldn't agree as to whose name should
be put on the wedding Invitations
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
How Thew Met.

New York Press. He of the frock and
SLOUGH wandered from the lonely Aquar-.
ium into a nearby joint to invest in some
refreshment His eagle eye espied the
other of six feet three, and, approach
ing him. he said:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

And when Dingley had needed the
protests of the people of the nation
against a tariff on paintings and stat
uary, he quietly remarked: art sat
isfied %
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Truth: Say, boy, what did you kick
that dog for?'' Hes mad" NO he
isn't mad, either well, if anyone
should kick me I'd be mad
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

So the tariff is to be retroactive. Well.
that means that the overthrow of the
Republican party in 1898 is made doubly
sure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Yonkers Statesman: Bacon-"None of
the women will speak to Penman since he
wrote his last book" Egbert-''Why is
that?" why, didn't you hear the name
of it? Women of All Ages -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

The constant strain on President
Mckinley is beginning to tell. Why
don't those 1000 Ohio fffce-seekers
give him a rest?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01
IndianannliS

Indianapolis Journal: Definition
Faith" said the little boy after a week S
study. faith is believing something that
you know can't be true.r
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Those who are having promises of
pie" made to them should remember
that promises, like pie-crust, are made
to be broken.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Queen Victoria is to visit William
Waldorf Aston. That will be going
the vanderbilts one better, and a very
big one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Weyler is tasting some of the real
fruits of victory these days Hereto
fore these fruits have been but dead
sea apples.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

There is going to be a Moody revival
in Chicago. If Moody can get up a
good revival in that town he is a.
trump.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

Cleveland Plain Dealer: II notice that
some people claim that a Doctors whis-
kers may carry disease germs why
don't the doctors boil their whiskers?'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-01

If there were only one day in tho
year when fools were in control. how
happy the world would be.