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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
DEMOCRATIC TARIFF PROGRAM.

The Democratic members of the SEN
ate have held a caucus and deter
mined upon a tariff programme. Some
narts of the plan, as outlined in the
press dispatches, are hard to under
stand. The part to which we refer IS
that which says the caucus decided TO
inauguraae the fight on the ball by
making a motion to strike out the IN
ternal revenue features in relation to
beer and tobacco. It seems that 1t was
urged that the tax on beer was war
tax and therefore objectionable That
is exactly the kind of argument the
Republicans have used against Demo-
cratic tax measures at different times
If every form of taxation is to be con-
demned and avoided because at some
time it has been a ''war tax, there
will be very few methods of taxation
left. If the motion to strike out the
revenue features in relation to beer and
tobacco is to be made merely for the
purpose of inaugurating the fight on
the bill. all well and good. If it is
really intended as a declaration against
internal revenue taxes it is wrong
The caucus did wisely in refusing to
bring in a substitute for the senate
finance committee bill. though Senator
German urged the bringing in of such
a bill. Perhaps the senators remem-
bered how his influence on the wilson
bill proved so baleful and did not care
to trust his judgment again, though
of course any bill introduced could not
pass.
The decision of the caucus not to fill
buster nor to attempt any unnecessary
delay of the tariff bill, but to antago-
nize the bill only to the extent or show
ing up the enormities of the proposed
increased rates, is to be commended, as
il shows conservatism and patriotism.
To do less than this would be for the
Democratic senators to be derelict in
their duty.
Whatever delay i'm the enactment of
a tariff law there has been, the Demo-
Gratis cannot be held responsible for
the same, though there are those VINO
would hold them responsible. They
have not sought to put a single block
in the way of its passage, nor have
they sought to make any political cap
ital out of the matter. They have
been content to do their duty as pa
triots, and being perfectly willing to
let the Republicans have the sway the
people said they should have, fully
convinced that their position was the
right one, and that time would prove
it to be. The attitude of the Demo-
cratic party in congress towards the
tariff question has been most admir-
able; it could not have been more adj
mira BILE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
SCHOOL BOOK AGENTS.

No doubt members Of the board of
education and the principals of the
schools have been besieged by book
agents so much lately that they must
at times feel that life is not worth liv-
ing, especially if there are to be book
agents around. But they can take con-
ISOLATION in the thought that the school
boards of other cities are now going
through the same ordeals as them
selves. Baltimore is one of these cit
les. The members of the text book
committee of the school board there
have been in consultation With the
leading principals of the schools over
the question of books which have given
the best results. Who these principals
are the members will not make known,
while the reports Of the principals are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
Pencillings.

Somerville Journal: The man who al
ways pays cash for what he buys seldom
runs the risk of being called extravagant.
This world will be considerably hap
pier than it is now when it is possible to
build the kitchen fire successfully the
night before.
1t is 50 much easier to write poetry than
ii is TO sell It,
How do people know that there is plen-
ty of room at the top? Very few of them
have been there
All men may be born free and equal.
but they don't retain their equality ten
minutes.
The man who boasts seldom has any
cause for it..
A girl though engaged, is never COM
Dletely happy until she has some idea
how much her engagement ring cost.
The wheelbarrow is a good thing, but a
man is lucky If he gets 81 a day for>push-
ing it along.
Pretty soon the summer sun will say
''Wilt thou and all of US will wilt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
F1rzs1MMoNs MEETS HANNA.

After all there is nothing in the
whole world so interesting to man as
man. The biographies of the great men
of all ages are the most interesting
reading. We want to know what they
did; what they said; how they looked;
in fact we want to know as much about
them as the blase members of society
do about the latest lion or debutante.
And if the great men are living the
interest in them is increased instead OF
diminished.
Two great men met in the capitol at
Washington the other day, both Of ma
tional fame, one of International fame.
These men were Marcus Alonzo Hanna
and Robert Fitzsimmons. When the
pugilist first saw the politician he
seemed somewhat disappointed. He
thought he did not look the part he
played. A little later the senator came
along and the pugilist and politician
were introduced. The pugilist said he
had come to hear Senator Mason S
speech on Cuba, whereupon the poll
tician asked if he thought it would
be a lively scrap" And the pugilist,
with gravity worthy of Gladstone, re-
piled that he thought it would be "a
spirited debate A Washington COR
respondent describes what then took
place as follows:
Mason says he is going to land a
right cross-counter on Wellington S
solar plexus," smiled Hanna
"a right cross-counter is never
landed on the solar plexus,' corrected
Robert with the dignity of one familiar
with all the details of his profession,
and Hanna looked perDlexed.
A moment later they retired to the
marble room and Bob there illustrated
the blow with which he knocked out
Corbett - -
You see," he said. .'it was like this.
I smashed him in the wind So and
Hanna was banged against the marble
room wall, MINDLESS and dazed. Then
1 got him on the jaw, SO fashion, and
the dung-hill run home"
And the big paw of the prize fighter
was banged into the inferior maxiIIiary
of the senator from Ohio in a way that
caused him to turn purple in the face
and hang on to page for support.
Your explanation is perfect" he
moaned. Il can see at a glance lust
what happened to Mr.. Corbett," and
with dazed, uncertain air he reeIed
into the chamber and fell into his seal.
Bob was pleased at his exploit, and
moved an executive session at the bar
1t is much to be regretted that Mr.
Hanna did not enlarge on the merits
OF prize fighting and give to the world
his opinion of the pugilistic champion
Did he go away with the idea that the
champion is a veritable Robert the
Devil?" But Mr.. Hanna was ever q.
silent man with little inclination to
talk, so the world need not expect to
know his opinion of Champion Bob.
why was not the kintescope there TO
catch the picture of the illustrious
American having the blow on the solar
plexus illustrated? What a loss was
suffered through it's absence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
The Basis of Chewing Gum.

Confectioners' Journal: Four million
pounds of gum chicle, the product of
the Mexican sapota tree, entered the
United States during 1896. This entire
product, valued at nearly $1,000, 000, be-
: came the basis OF chewing gum. A
walk through a leading chewing gum
factory is interesting. Here over 1,000,-
600, 900 pieces of gum are annually pro-
duced and shipped to every portion of
the world. Three hundred employees
are engaged in the manufacture of the
gum, the first step of which is the i'm
portation of the raw chicle, which is
gathered by the poems in Mexico and
exported in bales containing about 100
pounds each. The gum is taken from
the bales and chopped into small pieces.
These are freed from the tree bark and
chips by steaming and picking; then
it is ground in mills making 3,400 revo-
lutions a minute. The ground gum is
subjected to a continuous heat of 40
degrees Fahrenheit in drying rooms
From here the gum is sent to the
| ''white-aDroned cook who adds the
purest sugar and the freshest of cream,
graduated pepsin. powdered guru or
kola or other desired ingredient to it,
and cooks it in steam jacketed
cauldron, where it is turned and mixed
by an ingenious double-acting heater or
rotating paddle until it has assumed
the consistency of bread dough. Now
the dough boys" take hold of it and
knead it in finely pulverized sugar,
passing it to the rollers" where it is
rolled between steel rollers until it is
of the proper thickness, when it is
whisked away to the markers The
markers are steel-knived rollers, which
leave their impression upon the long
sheets of appetizing gum before it goes
to the seasoning ROOM" after which it
is broken on the lines left by the mark
ers. Now the gum finds it's way to the
wrapping room" The nimble fingers
of $50 dainty maidens are here at play.
Under their deft touch waxed paper,
tinfoil and pretty wrappers envelop the
gum quick as a wink and in another
moment the packers have the gum
to place in jars or boxes, wherein it is
shipped for sale to the general public.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
SPRING wHoPPERS.

Every season brings its liars
Who have wonders to relate,
All forgetting Ananias,
And his melancholy fate
Oft in winter they surprise us
With some tales that cause dismay,
But in spring their fancy broadens
And they give it fullest play.
When the fishing season opens
Truth receives some fearful shocks,
For there's startling fabrication
Every time the angler talks.
He will spend the day in fishing.
But when to his home he HES
He brings back no finny trophies,
Just a string of fishing lies.
But all liars are not fishers.
There are other men of fakes,
And among them may be mentioned
One who's always seeing snakes.
Every time he goes out strollins
We are certain to be thrilled
BY wild yarns of monstrous rattlers
That he ran across and killed.
But the fish and reptile fakirs
Have a rival who's no SLOUGH
When II comes to telling whopperS,
And to this we all can vouch.
He'S@the man who sends us tidings,
And he swears the story's straight,
OF an awful fall of hailstones.
Each a pound or more in weight.
There are others. and they're legion
Who for truth have no regard,
And in time, like Ananias,
They will ell get their reward.
Every season has its liars
Who give fancy fullest swing,
But the greatest fabricators
Tell their whoppers in the spring.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
The True Remedy.

W. NJ Repine, editor Tiskilwa, Ill
Chief, says: We won't keep house with
out DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con.
sumption. Coughs and Colds. Expert
mented with many others, but never
got the true remedy till we used DIR
Kings New Discovery. No other rem
edy can take its place in our home. as
in it we have a certain and sure cure
for Coughs. Colds, Whooping Cough
etc. 1t is idle to experiment with other
remedies, even if they are urged on yor
as just as good as DR.. Kings New Dis.
covery. They are not as good, because
this remedy has a record of cures and
besides is guaranteed 1t never fails tc
satisfy. Trial bottles free at q. c. NJ L
drug dept.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

If there is a stalwart Republican pa
per in all the country, it is the New
York Press, yet it comments on the
jingoism of Gallinger and Mason in
these terms: 1T is difficult to believe
that Senators Gallinger and Mason re-
alize the gravity of the charge to
which they lay themselves open, the
gravity rather of the offense of which
they convict themselves, in their threat
to force a preference of the Cuban bel
ugerency resolution to the tariff on the
senate calendar"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
CITIES AS STATES.

The Boston Herald says the PROPOSE
ton that was made a few weeks ago
that the City of New York be created
into a state of the Union brings to
attention the claim that might be adj
vanced by Boston for similar distinc-
ton. In point of population there are
Is states in the Union that are smaller
than the city of Boston-that is, on
the score of population the people OF
that city are quite as much entitled to
statehood as several states in the
west and south, and New Hampshire
Rhode Island and Vermont in the New
England group. On the score of wealth
there are, out of the entire group, but
ten states in the Union that have the
taxable wealth that Boston possesses,
or that contribute, in consequence of
wealth, so large a share to the national
treasury. If population and resources
are the determining factors in state
ship, says the Herald, then, if this
honor of responsibility is thrown upon
what is now New York City, it is a
favor or a burden which Boston might
be fairly asked to assume on account
of the fact that in number Of respects
she nearly resembles her municipal
rival at the mouth of the Hudson
river.
Some weeks ago when there was some
talk about erecting Greater New York
into a state we said the same argu-
ment that would justify such a pro-
ceeding would justify the comforting of
statehood on all the great cities of the
Union. And so it would. The argu-
ment in favor of creating g state out
of Greater New York is equally ap-
plicable to Boston. 1t would apply
equally as we'll to Philadelphia or
Chicago.
But it is idle to talk about the posi-
bility of such things. 1t was never
contemplated in the original scheme
of union and no scheme for such a
modification of the theory of our gov
eminent will ever receive any serious
consideration. In New York the idea
Immediately back of the proposition
(and yet it can scarcely be called
proposition) was to free New York
from the pernicious control of Albany,
bdCh VI llidl 10Cos e~A1N 'iON SOh
fined to New York, is the idea of
equalizing the representation of the
states in the federal senate.
Population and wealth alone are not
sufficient to constitute a state; there
must be territory in which to expand.
Rome was certainly the greatest city
the world has ever seen, but she made
the world tributary to her. Confined
to her seven hills with no facilities for
expansion, she would never have made
the figure in the worlds history she
has. Where would the facilities for
growth and expansion be found were
New York and Boston erected into
states? They would very soon be
wanting to extend their boundaries,
and this they would find impossible.
Then they would begin to realize the
folly of their changed condition. They
would also present the very anomalous
condition of being states without cities
and without an agricultural country
or population.
1t may be quite possible to improve
the general scheme of government
that the country has adopted, but no
suggestions that are an Improvement
have been made, and least of all the
proposition to create states out of the
cities of New York and Boston.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

How good it seems to the people of
the wild and woody west to read in the
society notes of the papers of the Gull
tured east about the American Duchess
of Marlborough, the American Bar
onne baroness would never do) Gas
ton de Fontenilliat, the Comtesse de
Castellane and the other native born
nobility. For ardor and intensity the
fanaticism OF the new convert isn't
to be compared with the artistocracy
Of the new aristocrats.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
BITS OF WORLDLY WISDOM
Reflections of a BacbeIor.

New York Press: AS soon as a man gets
too fat and acts eccentric, he begins to be
known as an able man.
Love is good deal like a radish. The
part you see is all right, but the deeper
YOU go the smaller il tapers of.
A great man never knows how little and
mean he IS or little man how great and
noble he IS. till they get married.
A woman can never understand what
her husband did before he had her to tell
him when to take off his thick under
clothes.
When she explained about how she came
to leave the Garden of Eden. Eve prob
ably said 1t was on account of the inso-
lence of the janitor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

The Indianapolis authorities claim
they have unearthed a gold brick trust
which has been operating for three
years from Indianapolis as head
quarters. One hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars is placed as the trusts
profits from guileless farmers. 1t may
only be a coincidence yet it seems
rather strange that Indianapolis should
have been chosen as the place where
the gold men held their convention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Miss Emillie Grace Briggs, daughter
of Professor Charles A. Briggs Of
heresy fame, has just graduated from
first woman to receive the degree of
bachelor of divinity. What a divine
bachelor girl she must be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

The assessed valuation of Kentucky
property this year is s549, 4oe,771. The
richest county is Jefferson, the assessed
valuation being s11s,52O,2SS Menifee
has the smallest assessed valuation, it
being $436,ss1.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

For fit and quality. Wilson and Man
haitian shirts; variety of patterns; all
sleeve lengths and neck sizes.
BROWN, TERRY & WOODRUFF co.
New Store. 166 Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
WHAT WOULD CAUSE WAR
WITH SPAIN.

The Morgan resolution recognizing
the existence of a state of war in Cuba
will come up in the house of repre-
sentatives again this week. If it passes
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

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
specific. It's 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, 1897-05-24

Mayor Harrison of Chicago says he
is executing the civil service law. AL
ready he has taken off the heads Of
three of the civil service commission
erS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

The Illinois legislature has reached
that stage in its career where the
members throw inkstands at each
other. They must have been reading
the life of Luther.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Massachusetts wants free hides and
Pennsylvania wants free iron ore. The
riffs in the protection lutte are becom-
ing many.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

If President Mckinley visits the
Pioneer Jubilee celebration he will
come in a special train. Will he bring
prosperity in his train?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

I'm my prison cell I sit thinking,
mother dear, of you," sings Broker
Chapman all the day long.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

st. Gaudens' equestrian statue of
John A. Logan looks more like a jean
OF Arc statue than anything else.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Rev. Sam Jones declares that hence
forth he will fight the devil only. That
h<1tt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Ex-Governor Waite says the country
is going to the devil. And yet the coun-
try is not drifting toward Waiteism. He
should explain himself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

It is said the Morgan resolution may
embarrass the president. So far as
important issues are concerned the adj
ministration has an embarras de
riolaac
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracey
talks about 'the duty of Republicans -
1t is very specific and the rate is about
$50 per cent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

It took Canada thirty days to enact
a tariff law. But then Canada doesn't
enjoy freedom of speech like we do in
this country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Had the test not been made no one
would have believed a patient could
have survived the treatment of six ply
sicians.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

More people were killed in the peace
full Armenian massacres than in the
bloody Greco-Turkish war
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Lillian Russell is probably the most
optimistic person in the world. Dame
Rumor has it that she will become a
bride once more in June.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Boss Croker may run for mayor of
Greater New York. and why shouldn' t
he? He has been racing in England
for several seasons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

A state of war exists in the senate.
If not in Cuba
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

There is much majesty about Lii
oukalani's style and manner" says a
Boston paper. It must be Palmer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Some how or other Foraker's fire
alarm doesn't alarm like it used to.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

The European concert is the pianis-
simo part now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Jerry Simpson is known to be in ia
vor of belligerency at any and all times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

May Ogden's power plant bring
forth good fruit.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Governor Black is just as black as he
is painted.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Philadelphia Times: That the bicyclers
object to the ministers running them
down on Sundays, should make them very
careful of others at all times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

New York Times: viii Mr. Aldrich kind
ly explain where the workingman comes
in in a protective tariff which seeks to
put down competition in all cheaper goods
OF common use by taxing them twice as
much as the goods bought only as lux
uries ,by the relatively wealthy? Why,
for instance, is cheap linen buck for cloth
ing taxed 70 per cent while fine linen used
for the manufacture of shirts is taxed
only So per cent?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
Ice Cream
They are Celebrated

like il Paris. at the Royal. 252 South
Main.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Household Words: do you think your
sister likes me- Tommy"
Yes. She stood up for you at dinner
stood W for me, Was anybody say
ing anything against me?''
NO; nothing much. Father said he
thought you We're rather donkey. but sis
got I'D ard said you weren't and told
father he ought to know better than
judge man by his looks
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
New Fedora Hats

In pearls, brown, and black colors.
BROWN, TERRY & WOODRUFF co.
New Store, 166 Main street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24

Boston Herald: The Cuban circus in
Washington has it's clown, and his name
is Senator Billy Mason of Illinois.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-24
MiSO1arad

Judge: Misplaced Confidence-Mr
Cohenstein-"Va Oppenheim enchoying
hinselluf since he fa:lt?"
Mr. Rosenbioom-"En choying himselluf?
Mein craciousi He vas ruinedt. Dot re-
ceiver vas a t'ief He paid dose CRED
itors ninedy cents on der tollar. Open
helm nnighd shoost so veil not hat failt
at ALL