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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS AND
PATERNALISM.

Elsewhere in this issue will be found
a communication from Mr. Frank
Stephens on the subject of postal saw
ings banks. Mr.. Stephens favor5 their
establishment by the government and
The Herald does not. He says that it
seems to him that if there is one thing
needed in this country above all others,
it is to place the control of the money
in the government, as far as possible.
This statement, remembering in what
connection it is made, must mean that
Mr.. Stephens believes the government
should have control. as far as possible,
of the money belonging to the people.
Why should the government have con-
troll of the peoples money any more
than of their lands and personal prop
erty? If Mr.. Stephens is right in his
position on the control of the peoples
money by the government, then the
control of the peoples other property
by the government follows as a logical
consequence.
1t is said that government, state,
county and school district bonds
postal savings. Are the holders of
those bonds going to surrender them
for the purpose of providing the gov
eminent with a safe investment for
postal savings? And even if they would
surrender them, why should the gov
eminent undertake the task Of invest
ing the peoples money for them?
Nv hot hot
lack in this country is a system of
government which will give ito each in
dividual citizen, as far as possible, a
direct interest in the stability of the
government The founders of the
government thought that they had
done this when they established re-
publican form of government which
derived its just powers from the con-
sent of the governed. The citizen who
doesn't feel that through his civic
rights and privileges he has a direct
interest in the stability Of the govern
ment will hardly have that interest in
spired in him by the establishment of
postal savings banks. And what of
those citizens who, though the postal
banks were established, have no saw
ings in them? What is to be done to
promote their interest in the stability
of the government? Should they be
given a pension that it may be fos-
tered?
1t is also said that give "our common
people, as soon as possible, a direct
financial interest in our government,
and it will do more than any one thing
to breed spirit of patriotism" We
must beg to dissent from the PROPOSE
ton. 1t would rather have a tendency
to breed a spirit of greed and grab.
Mr.. Stephens argument is an argu-
ment in favor of paternalism, and
nothing else. What he says about pos
tai savings banks and the government
| having control of the money of the
people, is equally applicable to ordinary
banking and all commercial pursuits.
There is too much tendency to state
control of the business and other af-
fairs of the people and anything that
tends to encourage it should be frown-
ed down upon; and postal savings
banks have such a tendency. The Her
aid is against paternahsm in govern
ment in any and every form.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
TALES OF THE DAY.
Had the Advantage of Him.


Kansas City Journal: Speaking of
gall said q western Kansas man, as
he threw away the stub of the cigar
he had taken from the pocket OF the
real estate agent, "the sublimest chunk
of it / ever witnessed was at Hutchin-
son in 1879, when President Hayes and
General Billy Sherman and other celeb
rites were making a tour across the
continent: When the train stopped at
Hutchinson, the president stepped out
on the platform to give the crowd
chance to see him and shake hands.
Among the crowd was a harum scarum
yahoo by the name of Stan Parsons,
whose widowed mother in New York
had stocked up cattle ranch for him
on the Medicine in the hope that he
might do some good for himself. Stan
spent most of his time in town loading
up with voluminous jags, and was en-
gagged in this sort of business when the
presidential party passed through Hut
Crimson. He staggered into the line
which was passing the car platform,
and as he came opposite the step Pres
ident Hayes reached out, caught his
hand with cordial grasp and remark
ed in his hearty way: How do you do
sir? / am glad to see you.
Stan stopped, balanced himself I'M
steadily, looked carefully at the presi-
dent. and remarked, with the apparent
regret of a man whose memory had
failed him:
"'Well, mister, you've got the ad-
vantage of me. Can't remember, to
save my life, where ever met you be-
fore -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
AMERICAN ARIsTocRATs.

The important announcement comes
from Massachusetts that of all those
who came over in the Mayfower only
twenty-nine were entitled to armorial
bearings. The descendants of these
twenty-nine are duly impressed with
the idea that those armorial bearings
were the most important things that
came in the historic ship, far more i'm
portant than liberty and the right to
worship God according to the dictates
Of conscience. The New York Com
new Order of the Twenty mine in this
delicious fashion:
AS Rome was full of horrid portents
on the fateful night preceding julius
Caesars death, so, no doubt, did ghosts
Sibber in the streets of a country
Blinded to occult phenomena while the
mighty events Of yesterday were
wrought. In the one short space be-
tween moon and moon deeds We're done
which in an age less dead to social
glamour would have lighted the
streams and set mems hearts afire. An
order has sprung to life before which
even the Sons of Their Fathers and the
Daughters of American Grandmothers
must bow their heads.
The Order OF the Twenty-Five has
been formed in New England. In New
England, already rich with the glory
of leading a free civilization, is to be
started something as select as any
order in China or Austria. There are
only tWenty-nine good families in New
England, because there are only TWEEN
ty-nine which brought over coats of
arms with them. Everybody we hap
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and many who do not. have coats Of
arms. If they have no footman they
imprint it on their letter paper. But
this sort of thing won't go down with
the Order OF Twenty nine. A member
of the Order said yesterday: at is in
closest sympathy with that which be-
gat American Independence, a hatred
of shams. The Order of the Twenty
nine is a protest against snobs It sub
stitutes the genuine for the question
able We realize that our society will
deal a. blow to the other New England
societies which have boosted of late
of their aristocratic origin. The Order
of the Twenty nine is a logical neceS-
sity. If we are TO have an aristocracy
let us have it official and historical. .
Let every true American think of the
lethargic calm with which the birth of
an Official and Historical Aristocracv
was received in the land, and blush
for his country. On the same pregnant
day the Knickerbocller Chapter OF the
Daughters of the Revolution gave a
reception to the Continental and Colo
NAL Chapters of that organization, and
the New York Society of the Sons of
the Revolution listened to four set
speeches and several informal ones.
Mayor Strong, who has lately been
knighted by one of the queens of one
of the Colonial or Revolutionary Arts
tocracies, was allowed to address the
assemblage. o Temporal, mores
What are we Americans engaged in
that aristocracies rise and fall among
us and we know it not?
How pleased with rattle, how
ticlled with a toy are our American
aristocrats with armorial bearings!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

lawyer and the witness stand in about
the same relation as the pitcher and
the batter.
Nov the lawyer makes the worst
kind of witness just as the pitcher
makes the poorest batter. The expert
ence referred to above has taught me
that. You know that L am not prone
to lying, and l fiatter myself the world
that knows me believes me truthful
''Well, 1 was recently called to the
witness stand. What I intended to
say was clearly shaped in my mind
before I was sworn. But once sworn
everything was different 1 was two
hours upon the stand. In that time 1
told two separate and distinct stories,
each fatty contradicting the other and
neither like what had intended to
testify.
''The sitting judge knew 1 would have
told the truth-if L could. Everybody
in court saw that l was in tangle
My testimony didn't count one way or
another. 1t had been struck out
And that, [ take it, is how the
pitcher fares at the bat"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
TOO SOON.

She came. how sweet and fair she came
To our rude earth, and stayed awhile,
A tender spirit free from blame,
And lit with an angelic smile.
All met that smiles so sweet should fade
From ewes that in the grave are laid
She was so young, the light intense
That seemed to guard her from her
BIRTH
Spoke but of stainless innocence,
And purity too great for earth.
All me! that light so pure should fade
From eyes that in the grave are laid.
And then she left us, as a bark
White;;winged sinks dimly from our
sight,
Or as some sweet song burdened lark
Scars upward to the realms OF light.
Ali me! that youth and hope should fade
When beauty in the grave is laid.
r. c. Lehman in Chambers Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

| realizes how many lives are failures,
how unavailing has been the struggle,
how great the disappointment, is when
he sees an account of some ones sui
eide. There was never suicide save
where the life that was DESTROYED had
been a failure. There may have been
a seeming material success and to out
ward appearances all may have been
happy and contented, but somewhere
there had been an ambition never at
tanned, longing never satisfied, an
ideal never realized.
And what were the dreams of this old
miner that We're never realized? He
had delved in the hills, but there was
no fortune there for him, though he had
seen others find it But behind his
dream of fortune what was there? Few
men desire wealth for its own sake
alone, and that alone was not the dream
of this old man. Perhaps he desired to
return to the home of his childhood,
there to show to such friends of his
youth as still lived that he had not
gone forth into the world to seek for
tune in vain, and to erect in his native
town some memorial that should serve
to remind future generations that once
there had lived there one who took a
pride in his native place. If some such
we're his dream there came in place
of its fulfllment bitter disappointment.
But what of the spiritual state of him
who destroys his life? He throws aside
religious teachings and traditions, fear
ing neither death nor punishment for
its self-infiiction. AS life was a dis
appointment so he has no hope of a
future, but dies as die the leaves on the
tree, the birds of the air. Darkened is
the soul that has no hope of a future
life, though the entrance thereto is
through the portals of death. 1t is
that hope which has cheered and must
cheer the millions who have found life
dreary thing of itself, continual
series of blasted hopes. The hope of
future life may never be realized; men
may believe but men may not know,
but happy are they who do believe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
THE CANDLE IN THE WINDOW.

1t is a very practical age and people
are often inclined to think that there
is no longer any sentiment or romance
in the world; that they are things only
to be found in novels, and in rather old
ones at that. But there is still romance
in the world and every once in While
g case of it comes TO the notice of the
public. Such case came to light in
Massachusetts a few days ago, and it
was q case in which there was deep
pathos.
In Springfield there died last week an
old lady who had lived to be 81 years
old. and all her life she remained I'M
married In the days of her youth,
in the DAYS when the century was
young-7O years ago-this old lady had
a love affair Her true lover was a
sailor boy and when he left on his last
voyage, it was to be a voyage from
which he was never to return. On the
day when the sailor boy babe his
sweetheart farewell, she promised to
place every night q lighted candle in
the window to greet him if he returned
at night. He never came back, but his
sweetheart never failed to keep the
light burning in that window at night
during 70 years nor abandoned hope of
seeing him. And that light did not go
out until the night before the light
forever departed from her eyes.
1t was beautiful, holy thing that
this woman did for 20 long years. And
in the day when the sea shall give up
it's dead this sweetheart and her sailor
lover may perhaps he united, never
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
Legal Light on Baseball.

pitchers make such bad batsmen? 1
can tell you" said the lawyer in the
party. The doctor had put the ques-
ton to the banker, who had confessed
that he did not know. All three were
enthusiastic lovers of the national
game, and in their chat upon it at the
club had exhausted about every other
phase of it.
ut is a psychological problem" be-
gan the lawyer in answer, land [ know
why the pitchers swing wide of the
It may truly be said, 1 think. that the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
A DISAPPOINTED LIFE.

Yesterday an old miner at Tecoma,
Nevada, just across the Utah line, com
mitted suicide by stabbing himself to
the heart with a butcher knife. Sev-
enty-seven winters had passed over his
head, seven more than mans allotted
time.
It is rare thing that person who
has reached the Biblical age of man
commits suicide. and when person
does his life has been a disappointment.
In the nature of things dissolution can
not be far off; then why hasten it?
Perhaus the nnlv tirae person frHv
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

THE directors of the company have
decided that no further information
shall be given cut about our factory.
we have been ridiculed, but we don't
care for that. We wish that the news
papers would drop this matter en-
tirely. 1t doesn't do US particle of
good says Brice. the Chicago gold
maker. What he says about the news
papers unquestionahly reflects his true
sentiment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Banker spaulding cried when he was
sentenced. But into how many eyes
did he make the tears come when his
bank failed, thereby robbing hundreds
OF families of their hard earnings that
they had put away as savings? He
may cry and be imprisoned, but he can
never suffer as he has made others suf-
fnr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

According to the Washington Star, it
is 2. difficult matter TO suit the heads Of
the various departments in the matter
of carpets. 1t is a popular impression
that all government employees in
Washington, from heads of depart
ments down, wall on velvet carpets.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Round trip tickets from Milwaukee
to Kenosha, a distance of 20 miles, cost
81 on the trolley line. At this rate 1.0O0,-
mile books would cost about s14," says
the Milwaukee Sentinel. At that rate a
man could take a trolley tour at COM
paratively small expense.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Congressman DingleY is reported to
have said that he did not expect the
revenue law bearing his name would
supply enough revenue to meet the
government expenditures until next
year. His expectations have been more
than realized.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Secretary Case advises agitation OF
the currency question. Before he gets
through with it he will be so agitated
that he will be in danger of nervous
prostration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

President Andrews of Brown univer-
sity. recently addressed the members
Of the Harvard Graduate club upon the
subject, Home Rule in Greece in the
Fourth Century, B. c." That subject
was far enough away from the silver
question to sui so rabid a goldbug as
Congressman Walker.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

The new German ambassador to
Washington has been in twenty-five
duels If he had been in half that
many football games he would not be
alive to tell about them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
STATE PRESS. coMMENT.

Iron County Record: We learn definite
" that there is to be a change of post
masters in Cedar, Parowan and kanarra
Offices We had all the time hoped that
there would be no change in the Cedar
office. but it seems that the victorious
spoilS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

The presidents message is in the
hands OF the printer. 1t is a pity that
presidential messages are not subjected
to the blue pencil editor after coming
from the printer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

The Dingley law produces a monthly
deficit as regularly as the month comes
round. There is a growing conviction
that there are other deficiencies in the
administration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Detroit Free Press: "You say you
felt it in your bones that there was a
burglar under your bed?"
Yes; you see, [ stuck my foot out
from under the covers, and he grabbed
it."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02
WIT AND HUMoR.

Chicago Record: I'VE always eat our
Thanksgiving dinner at noon"
why do you do that?"
Our doctor doesn't like to be called
out in the middle OF the night"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

The privy council of the Netherlands
has decided that Queen Wilhelmina
must not ride wheel. Mgr. Satolli
rides one, but then he is only a prince.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

AS a revenue producer the Dingley
law is a hollow mockery; at least it
produces a hole.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

ogden VIII have its sugar factory.
Success to it, and congratulations to the
Ogden people on their pluck and energy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

The football season is over. Next year
the rules should be so amended as to
read: You should never jump on a
man when he is down"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Indianapolis Journal: Afraid To.-'I
believe [ didn't give you any tip yes
terday when I had my wife with me-
said the regular patron
''Oh, don't mention it," replied the
waiter. 'I notice that gents is always
more economical when they has their
wives along''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Murderer Martin Thorn has no appe-
tite. The verdict was quite as much
as he could stomach.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Germany seems to be of the opinion
that Selling China by the pigtail is
taking time by the forelock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Senator Cullom is said to be the
smoothest man in the senate, notwith-
standing he is of very angular build.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Tod Sloane seems to be the most
prominent American in England at the
present time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

About the only thing left to be done
for International bimetallism is to get
up a memorial service.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

In opening the reichstag Emperor
William did not arrogate everything to
himself. He partially admitted that
God is a power.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Winter came right on time. 1t isn't
always that a season begins so
promptly on the day that it is an
nounced.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

A Philadelphia man has written a
poem on Cuban autonomy. Here is a
man worthy of Weyler's discipline.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Natural gas continues to be burn
ing issue in the city council.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Ogden Press: Abner Mckinley, a
brother of the president, is to become
professional lobbyist for certain measures
before congress. If Abner Mckinley had
any regard for the future of his brother
or the good name of the administration
he would stay away from Washington.
his labor. whether deservedly or other
wise.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

City Councillor NIulvey dreams
dreams Very naturally others see Wis
ions Out with it, Councillor Mulvey.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Tod Sloane makes a better display in
the chutes than in the shoots.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Another battle of Prague is in prog
ress. It will hardly become so celebrat-
ed as the old one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-02

Secretary Long wants more dry
docks Why not utilize Doc. Cleveland?
Come to think of ii, he isn't a dry doc