davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
PENNSYLVANIA SERvILE LEG
STATURE.

The eastern papers are very fond of
pointing out the shortcomings of the
legislatures of the few western states,
rity they compare favorably with the
best of the eastern legislatures. What
ever the shortcomings of the western
legislatures, and they have them in
abundance. they are no greater than
those of the eastern legislatures, while
they are far less boss ridden. On no
western legislature could the following
comments on the Pennsylvania legis-
lature by the Philadelphia Ledger, an
unusually conservative paper have
been made:
Never before in the history of Penn
sylvania has the public welfare been
so threatened by bills introduced in
the legislature for the sole purpose OF
strengthening the political power of a
party leader as at the present time.
The welfare OF such great municiDali-
ties as Philadelphia and Pittsburg is
disregarded in the desperate effort
made by Senator Quay to strengthen
his control of the Republican party.
The Ripper" bill, which would make
PHILADELPHIA in everything but name q
third or fourth class city and dfsfrall-
chise PittsburG in order to give Quay
supreme power in the latter city, was
halted for a time, but q western rep
Fesentative prophesies that Quay will
put it through the legislature on We'd
nesday OF this week. Senator Quay, it
appears, has not been impressed by
the representations made to him re-
specting the effect of the measure upon
Philadelphia, and intends to push the
bin that he may get control of The
offices of Pittsburg, and from this van
tage ground fight his enemies. OF a
similar character IS the bill depriving
the mayor of Philadelphia of the exec
utive authority given him by the Bull
lit bill and giving a gang Of Quays
henchmen in councils the power TO die
tate appointments to Office. The in
fanny Of such legislation is inconceiv-
able. 1t threatens the destruction of
sound system of municipal government
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
RESULTS oF THE WAR

The war in the east is practically
over but no one knows on just what
terms peace will be had. Without the
intervention of the powers they would
be vhatev Turkey choose TO imposes.
but this the powers will not permit
Had the Greco-Turkish war been a
duel arranged in accordance with all
the rules and technical regulations. the
principals could rot have been more
completely in the hands of their sec
onds than have been Greece and Tur-
key in the hands of the powers. They
have undertaken to say when honor
was satisfied and when both should
leave the field. All this raises the very
interesting question: When there shall
next arise a conflict between any two
European nations will the other pow
ers undertake to say to what extent II
shall go and where it shall stop? 1t is
understood that there are circum-
stances in the present case that would
be absent in a conflict between two
European powers. The present con-
fict involves a nation that has a strong
antipathy for all Christian powers
while all Christian nations have a
strong antipathy for Turkey. But this
Christian antipathy for Turkey has
been subordinated very largely to po-
litical interests and no nation has more
quickly or fully realized this than Tur-
key herself. And it is the recognition
of this fact that has made her so bold
and aggressive all at once and has
IL n n
tor in European politics. And this is
why one wonders whether in a future
war between other countries the pow
ers will intervene as in the present in
stance. While one of the parties to the
present strife is an insignificant nation
the other is a great one from a mill
tary point of view, one that would be
worthy of any nation as a foe and that
none could afford TO despise. so it
can scarcely be said that the powers
interviewed because both combatants
were insignificant from every point of
view.
Is Europe determined to maintain its
peace and insist upon wouldbe dis
turber obeying the mandate for peace?
Is the world to see the Inauguration of
what may be termed an information So
cialism? Steam and telegraphs have
brought independent nations into closer
communication than the various prov
inces or departments composing them
were seventy-fiye years ago, while they
are more interdependent than were the
provinces or departments composing
them were hundred years since. The
people of the leading nations Of the
civilized world are rapidly being as
simulated to each other. Are their gov
ernments to remain autonomous or to
be subordinated 10 the will of the
whole? The tendency of modern po-
ntical ideas being towards state social
ism, why should not the tendency of
ideas among governments as such be
towards international socialism?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Commenting on the Logan McCook
controversy, the Kansas City Tlmes
very pertinently and properly remarks:
The whole affair is an amusing exam
pie of the insufferable presumption OF
such foolish fellows as Mr.. Logan and
Colonel Fred Grant. 1t is gratifying
that they are being taught the whole
some truth that having a distinguished
father carries responsibilities, not
privileges. Unless they live up to their
obligations they are not even so much
entitled to consideration as an honest
man who never had famous relative.
Colonel Grant is now sulking over the
discovery that he did not inherit any
government position he pleased to pre-
fer. 1t is appropriate for Mr.. Logan
to appear equally childish and an
nounce grandiloquently that he can
now accept no office. we think, how
ever, that the United States govern
ment can be carried on, at least for
while, without the active aid of Messrs.
Grant and Logan"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

people Of today exceeds that of the
people of the past generations and the
period of life was never as great. as it
is now. ! know It because in the Tower
of London l have tried to wear the ar
NOR of the so-called giants OF the mid
die ages, and 1 could not ger into any
of the suits. They were all too small
for me. All thinking men must con-
cede that the world has made progress
in its material and moral civilization,
and that the Intellectual faculties of
man have also been, advanced. We
have begun to unlock the secrets Of the
worlds mighty forces. But the ques-
ton IS asked: Have We made any
moral advancement commensurate with
the material and intellectual advance
ment?" From the stories of murders,
defalcations and wars printed in the
daily newspapers at the first glance one
might think the world was growing
worse. But it is not getting worse, but
better Five hundred years ago crimes
were committed. but the people had not
daily newspapers then, telegraph wires
did not girdle the globe and loop con-
tinent with continent and the people
did net know what was happening IN
distant places. We find that the world
has made moral advances and TO-DAY
the moral ideal is much above what IL
was considered to be in past ages.
There never was so much religion as
there is in the world today.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

for no other purpose than TO promote
the political ambition of Senator Quay.
He has already obtained such control
of TIE legislature that there IS danger
of the passage of such bills, notwith
standing their infamy. 1t is humiliat
ing to think of it, but very few acts
pass the legislature of Pennsylvania
without they have first received the
stamp of approval of Senator Quay or
his representatives; a bill bearing that
stamp can be stopped only by an over
whelming expression of public senti-
Ylent, if at all. The situation is dis
couraging, yet il is the duty of Phila-
delphians to protest vigorously against
any tamDering with the CITY charter
through the Ripper or ether bills de-
signed to give Quay and his henchnen
control of the offices. And if the bills
should be passed, as Quay's friends
claim they will be, Governor Hastings
should be besieged by such repre-
sentation OF the business interests Of
Philadelphia and PHtsburg as will COM
pei him to interDoSe a. veto against
measures so clearly injurious to their
interests. The time is ripe for revolt
against an exhibition Of autocratic au-
thority that is not only hurnfliating to
free people, but endangers their gov
ernmental institutions and threatens
their welfare.
Quay has been posing as a friend of
the people and good government for the
past two or three years, but it was
all pretense. He never was and never
will be anything but a. political boss,
working for his own Immediate ends.
And here is the legislature of the COM
monwealth of Pennsylvania, the sec
ond state III the Union, doing his bid
ding as though they were a, lot of
lackeys, which, to judge by what the
Ledger says, they are. Were such
Legislature to be found west OF the
Missouri rive how very shocked and
Mortified the eastern papers would all
be. In the west such a body's exist
ence would be explained on the theory
of half-civilized state Of affairs. In
the east the existence of such a leg
islature is owing to state of high
civilization.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
SOFT SOLDER FOR NEVADA.

The people of Nevada do not seem to
be worrying about themselves and
what is to become of them as a state
nearly so much as many good people
outside the state. The latest worri-
ment over the state is by the Chicago
Tinles-Herald. 1t declares that it is-un-
doubtedly an unequitable thing that a
state whose population is constantly
decreasing should have an equal rep
resentation in the United States SEN.
ate with any one CT the great and pow
ticularly unjust at this moment, when
senator from that state has had the
power to dictate to the senate the terms
of tariff bill.
Such talk ignores the fundamental
principle of the union of the states.
which is the perfect equality of the
states in the federal branch of con-
gress. Then so far as any one senator
debating" TO the senate the terms of
tariff bill, is such a thing more OBJ
noxious when done by a senator from
one Of the smaller states than when
done by a senator from one Of the
larger states?' Is the objection to the
principle or to the person? It is alb
surd TO Stiffness to talk about Senator
]. P. Jones or any other senator die
tating'' 10 the senate the terms of a
tariff or any other bill. He NAV have
q deciding vote, as any other senator
may, but he could not have it if SEN
ators were not evenly divided. Such
talk should cease.
This from the Times-Herald is ex-
tremelv amusing:
But when a state falls into the con-
dition of Nevada-is the weak sister in
the sisterhod-are there not implied
duties toward her on the part of the
other states or of congress? a reDub-
lican form Of government is guaran-
teed to her; should she not be assisted
in maintaining it?
How very nice and considerate it was
not to call Nevada an erring as we'll as
a weak sister. Where in the constitu-
ton would the implied duties to-
wards Nevada be found? The guar
antee of a republican form of govern
ment to the states of the Union could
scarcely be made to mean that the
general government should maintain
the population of any or all of them
at a point never below a fixed mini
mum. Nor can it be made to mean
that the general government shall fur
nish the means of carrying on the state
government because its maintenance is
a burden to the people. a republican
form of government is guaranteed, not
a prosperous state.
1t really looks as though the Times
Herald, which comes very near being
Nevada a little soft solder with the
hope that Dictator Jones would be
somewhat Modified and not insist on
protection for western industries while
voting for it for eastern industries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
True 10 Instructions.

Ny friend, the newspaper man, told me
a funny little story which happened dur
ing the last election in a certain news
paper office in this city, says the St
Louis Republic.
They We're pressed for men, and had 10
take or some of the old printers that
went out of the office with the arrival
the tyDesetting machines. One of the
editorial writers whote what he con-
sidered a fine effort of rhetoric and the
fiat had gone forth that nothing should
be loaded. not ever editorials In the
the sentence: 'McKinleys name led all
the rest
This piece of copy was turned over TO
one of the old discharged men. TIE every
body's establishment half the editorial
in point was loaded. making a very Of
Tending column to the eye
The old printer was sent for. He de-
clared that he had followed copy strictly.
Asked to bring proof he hurried upstairs
and from bundle of written sheets ex-
tracted what he wanted.
In the meantime the editorial writer had
discovered that lied all the rest had
been omitted entirely, and he was mad
der than ever
Where is the rest of that sentence?7
he growled, when the ancient fossil APP
peared with the copy. You've chopped
this off ct McKinleys namel'
There is the copy said the aged file.
Right after McKinley's name you wrote
lied all the rest-and l loaded ii. of
course
The editorial writer had nothing more
to say after that.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
THE VAMPIRE.
written for the picture by Philip Burne
Jones in the New Gallery.J

(Written for the picture by Philip Burne-
Jones in the New Gallery.j
A fool there was and he made his prayer,
Gwen you and ID
To rag and a bone and a hank of hair
eve called her the woman who did not
care)
But the fool he called her his lady fair,
Gwen as you and ID
Oh. the years we waste and the tears we
waste
And the work of our head and hand.
Belong TO the woman who did not know
'(And now we know she never could know
And did not understand.
A fool there was and his goods he spent
(E-Sn as you and ID
Honor and faith and a sure intent
(And it wasn't the least what the lady
meant
But fool must follow his natural DENT
Gwen as you and ID
oh. the toll we lost and the spoil we lost,
And the excellent things we planned,
Belong to the woman who didnt know
(And now we know that she never knew
Why
And did not understand.
The fool was stripped to his foolish hide
(E.-en as you and ID
Which she might have seen when she
threw him aside
lBut it isn't on record the lady trie:D
So some OF him lived, but the most OF him
died,
CEven as you and ID
And It isn't the shame and it isn't the
blame
That stings like a white-hot brand
It's coming to know that she never knew
why
(Seeing at last she could never know
Why
And never could understand.
-Rudyard Kipling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
TALES OF THE DAY.
An Interesting Conversation.

Answers: Sir a. Sullivan went to see
Rubinstein at his hotel in London. The
Russian composer asked him to step out
on the balcony and smoke 4 cirgarette.
They sat down, twisted their cigarettes,
and 1uffed the blue clouds into the air
After 2 long pause Sir A. Sullivan OBJ
served:
you are great admirer of Beethoven,
1 presume?"
Yes said Rubinstein.
And Wagner
NO" was the reply.
Not another word was spoken. They
rocked themselves. in their chairs and
smoked away. After very long time
Sullivan sa-d
II think il is time for me to be going.
Don't say So, said Rubinstein. Stay
q bit longer. IT is so nice to talk to YOU
Sullivan stayed, and went on rocking
himself into the small hours of the morn
ing, when he got up and said:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

At the Women's BAPTIST Home Mis-
sionary convention held in Pittsburg,
Pa, this week, Miss Emma Parsons of
Springville, Utah, read an interesting
PAPER on her work in Utah. She said
that the Mormons are reaching for
power west Of the Rocky mountains.
They are also extending their church in
states in the east, and they expect soon
to have ten men in the United States
senate, who viii hold the balance of
power. It is to be feared Miss Par
sons imagination has run away with
her. Those ten men in the senate show
that the lady looks upon the Mormon
church as a regular Sugar trust.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

a California fllev has beaten the
worlds record for four miles. held for
twenty-one years by Ten Brock. And
Ten Brock made his record when he
beat the California mare Molly Nc
Certhy, July 4, 1876. What a race it
wasl Cheers for California.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

The members of the Reformed Pres
byterian church have entered into a
public covenant to refuse to incorpo-
rate with any political body by any
act until the national constitution is so
amended as TO acknowledge God and
his Christ and their revealed will.
These members will, in all human
proba bility, flock by themselves for a
long, long time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

1.-The only earthly currency worth
anything at the gate of heaven is the
silver of tears" says Rev. DR.. Tai
mage. We have always counted our
selves pretty good silver advocates but
we cannot feel justified in going so far
as DR.. Talmage has.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Now the Chinese claim to have in
vented the bicycle two thousand years
ago. and Ii Hung Chang, as an au-
thority on Chinese history, certifies to
the fact VIII he please explain why
the Chinese discarded the bicycle
nineteen hundred and ninety-nine
years, eleven months and thirty days
ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

In Chicago they use scenes from
shakespeare's Tempest" as a curtain
raiser 70 Henry B. Fuller's greater
THE Stranger Within the Gates"
Henceforth Stratford-on-Avon must
take a back seat as Mecca for lit
erary pilgrimages.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

The Chicago Inter Ocean says that
"the special message sent to congress
On Monday by the president will oc-
cupy a much larger place in history
than in current news" The message
was all right. but TO talk about it oc-
cupying a big place in history is tom
my rot. It was biggest when it was
horn
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Cincinnati ENQUIRER: In the Republican
notifies OF this state Governor Bushnell
has been picked out for denomination ana
Senator Hanna has been marked to be re-
datas anDear on the surface. A nice cut
and-dried arrangement. The hope of Re
publican victory has been damDened. or
there would be other candidates
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

As prosperity doesn't come because
of the delav in passing the tariff law
it is TO be assumed that prosperity and
tariff are synonymous terms. This is
a great discovery, though the two have
not proven to be synonymous in the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

On the vote to refer the Morgan res
olution to the foreign relations COM
mittee. Foraker and Hanna did not see
eye TO eye. In truth their votes looked
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

No Doubt Greece precipitated the war
and has been badly beaten by the
Turks; but all this does not make the
Turks any the less Turks with all their
anti-Christian fanaticism.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Mr.. Bayard bringing the log of the
Mayfower back with him suggests that
beautiful poem that captured the heart
of Mr. Pickwick wherein occurs these
lines:
"On a log.
Expiring frog"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Denver News: The row between John
A. Logan, jr.. and the McCooks over the
uniforms they wore and didn't wear,
the conoration ceremonies in Moscow is
assuming dimensions threatening to OBJ
scure the tariff. Up TO this time both
sides adhere TO the belief that the pen
is miehtier than the sword. or pistols at
20 PAGES.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Before putting American battleships
in the harbor of Havana it should be
ascertained whether they can be got
out Of our own harbors without sink
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Kansas City Times: McKinley's vfgor-
o,1s foreign policy has simmered down to
a few chunks of meat and loaves OF
bread for the starved Americans in Cuba
But. as Senator Stewart says: Mr.. NC
Kinley is a very pleasant gentleman"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

For every variety and phase of the
many diseasec which attack the air
passages of the throat and lungs,
Ayers Cherry Pectoral will be found
a specific. Its anodyne and expectorant
qualities are promptly realized and il
is always ready for use.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

of George Washington that he was left
childless in order that he might become
the Father of his Country. Stephen
life: but of him it may be said that he
was left practically childless in order
that he might become the Father of
Orphans.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Broker CHAPMAN was Jailed because
he wouldn't talk before a senate COM
mittee. This lesson viii teach him to
do in Rome as the Romans do.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

EHshur Sage has paid off Uncle Rus
sells mortgage Of $50 on his farm. This
lifts a lead from Elishur's back and
makes Uncle Russell in easier circum-
Ct
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Loie Fuller setting herself up as an
authority on Cuban matters is rather
rich.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Between the senate and house the
eilsonite lands are having a rough time
of it. But the gilsonite sleeps in its
beds undisturbed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

The Cubans asked for liberty and
Mckinley gave them a loaf.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Ex-President Cleveland has become
an attendant upon baseball games.
''To what base uses we may return"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Spain is trying to reconcile the in
surgents and Uncle Sam is trying to
reconcile Spain; and both appear ir-
reconcilable
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Missouri papers are making much
over the discovery of a wild man. Dis
covering wild men in Missouri is much
like carrying Goals to Newcastle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

The powers have given a check to the
sultan, but he can't cash it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Charles T. Yerkes says that Chicago
capital needs embarrassment. Poor,
unfortunate Chicago capital
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

The proposed tariff on hides causes
the leather and boots and shoes manu-
tacturers 10 show their hoofs and horns.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Governor Black, of New York. has
removed the whole viseera from the
civil service law of that state
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

1t is proposed to erect Valley Forge
into park. Washington used it as
winter resort.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

st must be off now; 1 think we have
chatted long enough"
Rubinstein drew out his watch.
Half past two he said. Strange
how quick time flies in pleasant COM
pany''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

It certainly isn't a state of peace and
plenty that prevails in Cuba.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Turkeys terms are of the gobble or
der.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-22

Professor Andre is doing lot Of
talking about going 10 the north pole
in g. balloon. He talked just the same