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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
TO BURNS.

Lines written on being asked by a
friend why the name of Robert Burns
was revered, and his birthday observed
more than any other poet who has lived
in modern times:
You ask me why the name of Burns
Is loved and honored SO,
And as his natal day returns,
That feeling seems to grow.
Why people everywhere are found,
In every land and sphere
AS Burns birthday comes around,
To greet it with such cheer.
1t IS because no other name
Has such a magic spell
To light the patriotic flame.
Or sing of love so WELL,
No other name the world around
Can come so near our hearts.
With song sublime and laurel-crowned,
To stir our better parts.
He sang of love in lowly cot
And made the theme. sublime:
In natures solitudes he sought
For beauties all divine.
OF manly independence, too. 81
He sang in stirring strain
The ring throughout was ever true -
To manhoods noble name.
The clarion call of liberty.
He sounded long and clear. -,
In Scots wha' haze wi wallace bled -
Tot every Scotchman dear
With hypocrite he had no grace
In Holy Willie's prayer.
Burns tore the mask from OIL MS 1ace,
And laid his nature bare.
And now again we change the scene;
The Cotter's home we see;
The family met to worship COO
On lowly Bonded knee
Such scenes as these are Scotland's hope,
Her glory and her pride;
then let us pray that come what may
These with her may abide.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
REMEMBER IDAHO.

The senatorial contest has been on
been elected, the nearest approach to
such an election having been yester-
day. What the final result may be no
one can saw, but until it is reached
it is well for the legislature to bear in
mind the lesson of the Idaho election
In that state long and bitter contest
resulted in the election of a gentleman
of whom practically nothing is known,
of whom it may be said, and this with
out any derogation of him, that he
was elected because he was unknown.
Nothing of that kind is wanted in
Utah. 1t too often happens that an un-
known man is a negative man. At the
present juncture, with the great inter-
ests of the people of Utah and the west
in the silver question still needing the
most watchful care, no negative man
should be chosen senator. If that should
happen in the Utah legislature which
happened in the Idaho legislature,
such a man might be chosen. That
would be deplorable. If the legislature
will but bear in mind constantly what
the great issues of the last campaign
were; how the Democratic party won
its victory in Utah; what the probable
issues will be in the next presidential
campaign, there is little probability
that any such mistake will be made
in Utah as was made in Idaho. The
senatorial contest having gotten to its
present stage, it should not be a diff
cult matter to elect a senator during
the early part of the week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
LYMAN j. GAGE.

President-elect Mckinley has Sc
lected his secretary of the treasury.
He is Mr. Lyman ]. Gage of Chicago
He is a banker, having been engaged
in that business for over thirty years.
| This gives him a knowledge of finan-
cial matters that can scarcely be OBJ
! tanned in any other way. 1t makes
] him a complete master of the details
of finance, and this is almost indis-
pensable in the great position he will
soon occupy. OF course he is for the
gold standard: nothing else could have
been expected, for the platform on
which Major Mckinley was elected de-
clared for the maintenance of that
standard The New York Evening
Post, which keeps a double-entry ac-
count of the financial views of the
leading men of the nation, says that
Mr.. Gage is not for bimetallism, ma
tional or international, that he is a
believer in a banking system regulated
by but otherwise Independent of the
government.
1t is to be hoped that this is all
true. for it is much better in every
respect that the secretary of the
treasury be either an out-and-out gold
man, or an out-and-out silver man; a
milk sop secretary who is neither
the one thing nor the other
is the last thing wanted. The
people having decided in favor
Of the principles declared for in
the st. Louis platform, they should be
given a fair trial, and the trial should
be made by men who are thoroughly
in sympathy with those principles.
The influence of the secretary of the
treasury on the financial policy of the
government is really less than is gen
orally supposed. He is an executive
officer who can make what recon-
mendations regarding the currency he
deems advisable, but action upon them
rests with congress. If the majority
in congress is in harmony with the
administration, the influence of the
secretary of the treasury upon finan-
cial legislation may be very great, but
otherwise it will amount to little.
AS the policy of the incoming admin
istration, so far as finance is con-
cerned, will be a gold policy, probably
the selection of Mr.. Gage for secretary
of the treasury is as wise a one as
Major Mckinley could have made.
That he will be able to figure esti-
mates and to know as nearly as pos
sible what income and expenditures
will be, his training as a banker as
sures. That his administration of the
treasury may be a success in every
particular will be the wish of all who
desire the welfare of their country,
and this irrespective of politics or ad-
herence to different financial systems.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
CIVIL SERVICE REoRGANIZA-
TON.

There must be a complete reorgan-
ization of the civil service as soon as
the Republican party comes into
power says Speaker Reed, if. a Wash
ington correspondent quotes him cor
rectly. This statement by the speaker
comes in the category of important
if true" 1t simply means that the
'rascals" are to be turned out of of
flee that other "rascals" NAV be put
in their places. The advance made to-
wards complete civil service reform
has been very satisfactory, too salts
factory entirely to suit those who are
devoted to the theory, "1'o the victors
belong the spoils."
If with the advent of the new admin
istration there is "a complete reorgan-
ization of the civil service" it will
mean the almost complete disorganiza-
ton of the civil service; that is all.
Mr.. Cleveland has been a very good
advocate of civil service reform gem
orally, but he seems to have permit
ted his prejudice against all who ad-
vOcated or believed in free silver to
overcome his devotion to civil service
reform in many instances by removing
federal officials for the crime of being
free silver men. If the next admins
tration inaugurates a to-the-victors-
belong the-spoils policy, there will not
be lacking an abundance of cases dur
ing the present administration that win
serve as examples to justify such a
policy. But Speaker Reed. even if re-
ported correctly, is not authorized to
speak for the incoming administration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
STORIES WITHOUT A MORAL
They Changed the Hymn.

Chicago Times-Herald: Rev. Simon j.
Mcpherson yesterday morning preached
on He'll in the Second Presbyterian
church. His sermon made a deep i'm
preston on the congregation. At the con-
clusion of the discourse the pastor usually
announces the hymn to be sung. as a
response. The organist had not known
the subject of the sermon when he Sc
lected the response. and thought no
more about it after he had complied his
list of hymns. The pastor fumbled with
the list, coughed and looked trifie en-
barrassed. The organist began to play
the air pianissimo, and broad grin
spread over every face. DR.. Mcpherson
looked appealingly upward to the organ
list and then turned over the leaves of the
hymn book with desperate eagerness.
Mr.. McCarrell left his pipes and hurried
down to the pastor.
1--WE must change that response -
whispered the pastor.
''Why? asked the organist. limo
Gently.
y have been preaching on HELL said
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
SHERMAN AND OHIO POLITICS

There appears today some doubt af-
ter all whether Senator Sherman will
be secretary of state. If he is not,
Ohio politics, which, like Ohio WOOL,
has almost come to dominate every
thing at Washington, will be at the
bottom of it all. In fact it seems as
though the Ohio idea had got to be
inextricably mixed up with every ma
tional question.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says that
private information from an inside
source at Washington is to the effect
that the Ohio men at the national cap
ital are greatly stirred UP over the
Sherman question; that some OF the
senator's friends are after him
hot and heavy not to leave the senate,
and one of them openly declares ms
belief that Sherman will not go out OF
the senate into the cabinet. The Plain
Dealer says the simplest solution of
the Ohio problem is for Sherman to
remain in the senate and for Hanna
to go into the cabinet, as this would
enable Mckinley to discharge his debt
to his manager.
The whole business is Ohio politics.
1t is the general belief that Mr.. Hanna
would be glad to succeed Senator
Sherman, but it seems it is not GER
tain that Governor Bushnell will APP
point him. The governor was loyal to
Mckinley at st. Louis, but it is said
he considers that he discharged him
self of all obligations to the president
elect at the Republican convention.
It is hardly likely that President
elect McKinleI would have selected
Senator Sherman as a member of his
cabinet had there been any doubt
whatever about his accepting and per-
forming the duties of the position of
secretary of state. One thing is GER
tain: the people do not care to have
Ohio's dirty political linen washed in
Washington; that is a privilege that
has heretofore belonged to New York,
and the people want the privilege
taken from al the states.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
A MAN WHO MADE HISTORY.

There died in New York last Mon
day man who did much twenty years
ago to make history in this country.
This man was John c. Reid, who was
managing news editor of the New York
Times from 1872 to 1883. What Mr..
Reid did was, practically, to make
Rutherford B. Hayes president of the
United States. How he did it is told
by the Times itself in its account of
his death. ITO the public generally, ;,
says the Times, Mr.. Reid was, per-
haps, best known because of his con-
nection with the Tilden-Ha cam
paign. On the morning after the votes
had been cast the New York Times
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
This Was In Atlanta.

Calhoun Times: The newly arrived
stranger in Atlanta started up Whitehall
street in search of information On the
corner of Alabama street he encountered
a TALL yellow-faced individual in a droopy
coat and soiled tie.
My good SIR said the stranger, II
am in search of information concerning
this great state of Georgia and feel sure
that you can assist me very materially.
What is your population?"
Dunno"
What kind of a school system have
you here2"
Dunno"
How about your tax rate?"
Dunno"
rs your government friendly or I'M
friendly to manufacturing corporations?
Dunno
Lets see-how does Georgia rank
among the other states of the south in
it's agricultural products?"
Dunno"
''Ah, you don't live here, then?'
'Yaas."
What do you do?"
'Oh, I'm jest member of the legisla-
tur''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

was the only paper in the United
| States that claimed the election of
Rutherford 3. Hayes as president over
Samuel ]. Tilden. kilograms from
correspondents, coupled with inquiries
sent to the Times office by W. H
Barnum, then the chairman of the
Democratic national committee, led
Mr.. Reid to doubt if the states had
been carried by the Democrats as they
claimed. After the Times had gone to
press, Mr.. Reid, as he told at length
in the columns of the Times of June 10,
1887, hurried to the Fifth Avenue ho-
tel, where were the headquarters of
the Republican national committee,
and, meeting William E. Chandler,
then about to start for his New Hamp
shire home, firmly convinced that TIL
den was elected, set about the work
which resulted in the Republicans get
ting the electoral votes of the three
states that were absolutely necessary
to the election of General Hayes.
Whatever of credit or discredit is due
to any one for the idea of securing the
electoral votes of the three states was
due to Mr.. Reid, and he was always
willing to shoulder the responsibility"
These states were Florida, Louisiana
and South Carolina. What transpired
before the presidential electoral COM
mission was appointed and before it,
is well known; the whole affair is
black page in American history. Mr..
Reid himself never profted by what
he did for his party, he neither ask
ing for reward nor was it offered him;
this was to his credit. He was an able
newspaper man, one of the ablest in
the country, but 800 has come at
loc
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
ZERO.

Oh, let the wild wind blow,
And all the bulldog shrivel,
And make him whirling go,
AS if blown off the swivel,
And moan and wheeZe
Among the trees,
Its weird. fantastic drivel.
Oh, let it on mans nose
Discourse a rosy luster,
And round his ears and toes
Its forces madly muster,
Until he signs
For summer skies,
And summers linen buster.
In flames of green and blue,
1 watch the glowing camel.
And let my thoughts pursue
Their ordinary channel,
Or blithely shout
And dream about
The cloak yclept the flannel"
Oh, let the cabby spry
For warmth perform the breakdown
Where here reposing |
Appreciate the shakedown,
With thoughts sublime
OF breakfast time
TO put the buclSwheat cake down.
What if the cyclone rips .
Ard rants and whines and wheeZeS,
And for the plumber clips
The boiler till it freezes,
Ard chills the cat
Until, thereat, .
He Snivels till he sneeZeS?
Unto my coy bed
III casually stumble,
Around the rose that's red
As happy as a humble.
Where | will snore
And hear no more
The storm kings rough and tumble.
R. K. Munkittrick in New York Journal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

When Utah's new senator is elected
he will not have to wait long before his
country will call upon him for his serv-
ices, for President Cleveland, before
concluding his official labors as presi-
dent, will issue a proclamation sum-
moning the United States senate to ex-
ecutive session to meet March next.
The senate is always so summoned by
a retiring president to enable his sue
cessor to nominate his cabinet and to
make such other nominations as he
may deem necessary. When in such
session the senate can only consider
nominations and treaties
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

The HERALD ia a franchise men,
"e< or The United Press, and re-
cses the complete leased wire
overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports OF The United Associated Press
eA' embracing accurate Intelligence
oA all current events in the whole
world. With it's special wire and
operator I'm it's own Office THE HER
AID As daily in immediate possess
sion Of the latest news ND ALL the
ho0r of sSOirR to DresE-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
Mr.. Asbury Peppers.

say as smart as a steel-trap?' asked
the laxative boarder. Il never could
see anything particularly intellectual
about a steel-trap.''
"A steel-trap 4 called smart ex-
planned Mr.. Ashbury Peppers in his
sweetest voice, because it knows ex-
actly the right time to shut up
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

but since they prefer to take up their
residence in the hearts of our cities we
shall have to teach them to obey the
laws to which the rest of us are sub
iect.''
If the death of Little Pete shall have
accomplished what the Examiner
thinks it may, then he will not have
lived in vain. But after all, the doing
of evil that good may come is not the
way to bring about reform in any
thing. The existence of the highbinders
in San Francisco is a disgrace and
menace to that city. They should be
cleared out if it is possible.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

For truth. honesty and right,
Burns strove like hero bold;
With spirit kin to Wallace Wight,
Who fought in days of old.
Through all the pilgrimage of l:fe,
And changes not a few,
To nature and humanity
Our poets heart was true.
Then as the years pass one by one,
And his birthday returns.
Let us acclaim with might and main,
The fame of Robert Burns
CHARLES STEWART.
Salt Lake CITY
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

The indications are that Senator
elect Platt viii make war on the Nc
Kinley administration if any anti-Platt
Republicans are recognized in New
York appointments. Mr.. Plat tried
that game once before and came out a
big loser.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

The people hear of the decline of the
silver craze, the decline of the gold
fever, the decline of the Indian and
many other things, but they never hear
of the decline of an Office.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

If the legislature has any notion of
passing the anti-high-theatre-h bill
it should be amended so that the exact
dimensions of a high theatre hat may
be definitely known.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

The Mail and Express says if there
is an extra session of congress it will
not be because the Republicans want
it. but because the country needs it,
but that it is simply a case in which a
physician can't get to work too soon.
The country would be delighted to
forego this need.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

If Police Commissioner Dinir ny were
not so deeply engaged in de yOtional
exercises of a Sunday he might see
half, or more, of the saloons open on
the Sabbath.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Say what they will, the Nevada leg
islature has done a signal service for
the American people. By passing a
bill authorizing prize-fghting it has
effectuaIly closed the mouths of the
pugilists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Mr.. Lyman J. Gage may be an ex-
cellent selection for the treasury de-
partment. but he is sadly lacking in
one essential, that is humor. He took
occasion to deny formally, through the
public press, that he had ever attended
such an institution as Coins School.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

It is said the new immigration bill
will enectually bar out all undesir-
able foreigners. 1t should be supple
mented by one that will insure the
emigration of undesirable Americans.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Sherman and Alger have agreed that
the buying of southern delegates as a
topic of discussion, in OF out of the
cabinet, shall be tabooed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

The New York World has sent a
greeting to the United States senate
The United States senate has not sent
an answer to the New York World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Dr. Mcpherson, land the response you
There?' We cannot have that
Even the solemn organiSt grinned as
he climbed to the organ and started up
art Thou Weary?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

It is said that Mr.. Chauncey NJ.
Depew has signified his willingness to
accept the British mission. Barkis is
always willing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Police Commissioner Hininny's great
solicitude for the moral welfare of
Salt Lake City is one of the moving
spectacles of the time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

If Old Ironsides is completely over
hauled and made as good as new, the
question arises: VIII the new ship be
Old Ironsides or not?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

It may be that all the world loves
a lover but it does not appear to be so
in the case of Princess de Chimay's
lover
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Cullom viii not go into the cabinet;
he will have to content himself with
looking like Lincoln.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

There win be no dives in Salt Lake
City so long as H. J. Dininny is a
police commissioner. No, never! never.
npf
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Reciprocity with Canada will go no
further than a formal exchange of
visiting cards.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Some one asked Max Nordau to define
the difference between genius and in
sanity well" said the author of De-
generation" 1.-The lunatic is at least, sure
of his board and clothes"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

os the legislature yesterday resembled
a Cuban expedition getting under way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

In the senatorial contest yesterday
it looked as though the hour and the
man had come.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

''The canal for the people, exclaims
the San Francisco Examiner. Certain
ly; the alimentsry canal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Puck: He Explains-She-"T dom
think you were really anxious to hear
me sing
He (earnestly)-'Indeed was. I never
heard you before"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Here is a 4-year-old boys definition
of a girl: An animal in dresses with
long hair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Senator Arthur Brown has been to
Canton. Pie?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

The Bradley-Martin ball is sharing
paragraph bpnors with the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Mrs. Bradley Martin believes in
keeping the ball rolling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Ohio seems to slop over with great
men
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

The senatorial toga still hangs on the
wall. ''Thou art so near and yet so
far"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Philadelphia North American: Look
we're. subj said Washington Whitewash,
''whut yo' mean by runnin' inter me
dat away?'
go way, black man. replied jackson
Chickcoop, us color-blind, l is.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Truth: Still Well Fixed-"One of YOU
wife's lungs is gone, my dear sir.
THAT doesn't do me any good, doctor
the one she has left is a star"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

The early extra session bird gets the
tariff worm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Household Words: New Roomer (sar-
castically)-'Is this all the soap there
is in the room?'
Landlady (decidedly)-"Yes, sir; all 1
can allow for one ROOM.
New Roomer-"Well I'll take two more
rooms l must wash my face in the
morning"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Truth: A Question of Quality-'You
will get over it. 1t was only your puppy
love-"
"Oh, but he was such a nice puppy
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31
WIT AND HUMoR.

Indianapolis Journal: Il hear. sir. thai
you called me fat-headed."
Dear me- how ones remarks do gel
misrepresented, If I said anything of the
sort at all, | must have said that you
were broad-minded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-31

Tit-Bits: What a small mind Mrs.
Venlynne hasi'
Naturally She has given her hus-
band so many pieces of it.