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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28
MAY TAKE CANADA.


The New York Journal is fast getting
to be lingo paper. Commenting on
the rumor that there is a strong feel
ing in Canada favoring the exclusion of
Americans from the Klondyke gold
fields, it says:
Nevertheless, we doubt if the men at
the head of affairs in Canada will be
so shortsighted as TO decree that no
citizen OF the United States shall be
permitted to dig for gold in the
dominion. Such a decree, however we'll
warranted on grounds of retaliation.
would prove extremely irritating to this
country, and it is profoundly to
Canadas interest, as she regards it,
not to Jar the temper of the over
shadowing republic. Let the decree is
sue, and every American who is not
MugWumD would be moved TO say to
his neighbor: I'VE can't dig for gold
in Klondyke, it appears, because
Klondyke is in Canada. All right, let's
transfer Klondyke to the United
States" OF course this transfer might
not be made at once, but beyond ques-
ton the public mind would be aroused
to the inconvenience and absurdity of
allowing a European monarchy to
divide this continent with us and
interfere with the freedom and bust
American side of the world. The
reaSonableness, as well as the material
advantage, of anneXing Canada would
be impressed upon great multitudes
who have never as yet given the sub
ject a thought. And it is as manifest
as destiny that when the United States
really wants Canada, Canada will be-
long to the United States.
That kind of talk is brag and bun
combe. Heretofore Canada has not
shown any disposition to exclude
Americans from working her mines,
and it is not at all likely that she
will now. If she should take a notion
to exclude all foreigners from her
mines she has perfect right to just
the same as this country has the right
to exclude aliens from its mines. Is
there a paper in the country that would
not denounce as silly and absurd talk
like this of the Journals if it came
from a Canadian paper about the
United States? 1t shouldn't be INDUCED
in by any person or paper pretending
to ordinary common sense. Canada
shows no signs of acting in a mean
and churlish manner about working
mines within her borders, and there is
no reason for such outbreaks as the
above by the Journal This threaten
ing to transfer Canada to the United
States on certain foundations, is
absurd to stupidity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28
THE KISSING OF TANNER.

When Governor John r. Tanner, of
Illinois, appeared at the head of the
Illinois troops in the Logan monument
parade, he was Kissed and hooted at
at several points along the line of the
procession. There were cries of
''Yerkesr' ALLEN bill" "Boodlew as
he passed along.
The Chicago Times-Herald comments
on the incident at length. 1t says there
have been unpopular governors of Hi
nois before, but that it remained for
Tanner TO be publicly Kissed and ihoot-
ed in the streets of the principal city of
the state in which he was elected gov
ernor less than nine months ago by
over 100000 majority. 1t does not de-
fend the hissers, but neither does it
condemn them, though it thinks that
out of respect for the memory of Lo-
gan they should have suppressed their
feelings. 1t concludes its comments in
these words:
THE climax of the episode, though
unexpected, was entirely logical The
governor stopped in La Sale street be-
tween two massive human walls that
could not have been more Indifferent
to his presence if he had been built of
granite. Not a hat was lifted nor
cheer arose from the mass of men and
women. who up TO this time had en-
tered into the holiday spirit of the oc-
casion with abundant enthusiasm But
after brief pause a man stepped out
of the crowd to do homage to the gov
ernor of the state of Logan, Lincoln
and Grant. 1t was Mike Mcdonald,
former gambler and. Democratic boss.
The bond of friendship between the
men was apparent. In the presence of
the multitude, under the streaming
banners, the governor and the gambler
clasped hands.
WAS it not beautiful sight? Could
any citizen of Illinois behold it without
a thrill of pride? The greeting from
Mike must have reconciled Captain
it is to the Mike McDonalds of this
city, not to the honest men and women,
that John r. Tanner appeals for judg-
ment on the rectitude of his course"
1t is to be regretted that any state
in the Union has a governor who de-
serves to be Kissed, but that is exactly
the kind of a governor that the great
state of Illinois has. This same gov
ernor signed a bill that turned over TO
a ring. for fifty years, the streets of
Chicago, and against the protests of
the people of Chicago If such gov
ernor does not deserve kissing, what
does he deserve? It is the only method
of showing the peoples disapproval of
and indignation at his acts that they
have. Were an election~on and were
he a candidate for reelection, there
would be other ways of expressing dis
approval of his course, but there is no
election on. And while the procession
in honor of the memory of Logan was
not a proper occasion to hiss Tanner.
still the love and esteem in which the
memory of Logan is held only made
stronger by contrast the detestation in
which Tanner is held.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28
SENATOR HoAR ON THE GOV
ERNMENT.

In his address at Clark university the
other day, Senator Hoar said:
Another thing we must preserve.
That is our nicely adjusted and bal
anced system of state and national
powers 1t is better that we submit
TO almost any temporary evil; it is
better to have a generation or a. CEN
fury of mistake, of hardship, of pow
erty. rather than, on the one hand. to
make separate nations again of our
forty-five states, or, on the other, to
blend and fuse them into a, single mass,
to be governed by the unrestrained i'm
pulses of a numerical majority. l do
rot agree with John c. Calhoun in
many things. But l thoroughly agree
with him in the belief that govern
ment of this country by a popular
majority, with the states oblitera4ed,
would be the worst government on
earth.
These remarks by the Massachusetts
senator will bear a reading and a re-
reading. for they show a true appre-
citation of our form of government. 1t
is perfectly adjusted and balanced in
its distribution of powers, and those are
granted to the general government,
that are needful to it, while THE powers
of the states. are limited as needful
While there is always a strong ten
dency to the Capitalization of power
in the general government, and this
concentration is the great danger the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

people have GENERALLY feared. yet there
is quite as much danger to the liberty
OF the people in the powers of the
states themselves. Were their powers
rot limited by their constitutions, and
also by some provisions of the federal
constitutions, they would at times be-
come very tyrannical. If the forty
five states of the Union were each a
separate and independent government,
1T would be forty-five curses on the
American continent. If they were all
blended into one great government,
with concentrated power and a single
Legislature, they would be one great
curse TO the country.
The checks and balances in the fed
eral and state constitutions are per-
feet, and if maintained will preserve
liberty to the people forever. What
they should do more frequently is TO
study and ponder these checks and bal
ances to see that they are being main
tanned. If they will do this, they will
be maintained.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28
GRACE ALIENS TRIAL.
It Is One of the Most Sensational
Ever Held In Kansas.

Guthrie, Okla. July N.-Miss Grace
Allen, who is undergoing a preliminary
trial at Chandler for poisoning Miss
Phrona Eckes, her rival, and her
mother, is attracting big crowds Miss
Allen is a handsome woman, about "A
years old. She is a school teacher IN
Wilson county, Kan, and was attend
ing the county normal. When it closed,
July ,, instead of going home. she came
to this territory, as she admits, to see
Miss Eckes at the territorial normal at
Edmond Not finding her there, she
went to the family home near Baker,
where the poisoning followed, first the
daughter then the mother partaklng OF
the poisoned food.
Miss Allen says she learned While IN
Kansas that w. G.. Smith, with whom
both the women are in love, was writ
ing to Miss Eckes. She was going TO
Texas. she claims, and she stopped on
at Edmond, Just to see what kind OF
girl Miss Eckes was"
Miss Phronia Eckes graduated at the
territorial normal at Edmond last June,
and was valedictorian of her class She
also won the medal in the territorial
contest in the same month. w. e.
Smith is a former school teacher. living
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

The manufacture of asphaltum by a
new process of taking the product from
crude oil has opened up a new industry
for the enterprising people of Ventura,
says the San Francisco Chronicle An
initial shipment of So tons was made
to Pennsylvania last week and orders
have been received, so it is stated, for
1000 tons more, all for eastern points
The product is superior to tho ordinary
asphaltum of commerce and as such Is
likely to come into wide demand.
If asphaltum can be manufactured
from crude oil then those congressman
who have been so fearful that the as
phaltum beds of the Uncompahgre res
ervation would be "gobbled" up by
some wicked western people. will have
a new cause of worriment; or else the
Uncompahgre beds will lose most of
their value, and the dear congressman
will have had their trouble for their
pains.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28
THE RIGHT TO STRIKE.

1t is curious that anyone should
question the right of workmen to
strike. yet some do. Suit was recently
York supreme court for an order re-
straining some capmakers and others
from striking. The matter has been
taken under Amusement
A man has just as much right 10
quit work as to go to it, and if any
injunction is issued forbidding him to
quit work it is simply an act of ty
ranny. It was tried in Nebraska
few years ago in the case of the en-
ployees of the Union Pacific railroad,
and it was everywhere regarded as
tyrannical proceeding. To say that
men shall not quit work when they
choose, and compel them to work, is
nothing but slavery When that day
comes in the United States the time
for a revolution will have arrived
But the right to strike doesn't carry
with it the right to prevent other men
taking the places of those who quit.
That would be tyranny no less obnox-
ious than that of compelling men to
work against their wills. Yet too often
strikers assume to prevent others
taking the places of the men who have
quit work. Nor have the leaders of
various organizations any right to go
upon the premises of an employer to
induce his workers to quit. though
these leaders assume that because they
belong to these organizations they have
such a right.
Every man has a right to strike the
same as every man has right to con-
tinue at work, but the rights of one
are no greater than those of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

The st. Louis Globe-Democrat is in
rartures over the passage of the Ding
ley bill. 1t says the new law goes into
effect under particularly happy aus
pices. Seldom it declares, does for
tune furnish so many favors to any
country in a single season as it brings
to the United States at the present
time. A shortage in the wheat crop of
the rest of the world is accompanied
by a large increase in the yield in
this country, and consequent exDan-
sion in expectation, which is already
beginning to test the facilities of the
steamship companies. Not only has the
American farmer more wheat to sell
than he had last year, but market
for it is provided for him at fair
prices"
1t is not said in so many words yet
this is nothing but rejoicing over the
misfortunes of others. The bubonic
plague in India and the starvation of
the people there is a fortunate circum-
stance for this country How strange
it is that the blessings of one people
are often nothing but the ills and evils
that befall another.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

Speaking of Utah's semi centennial
celebration, tine New York Commercial
Advertiser says: Utah is celebrating
this week the fiftieth anniversary of the
advent of Brigham Young and his
Mormon followers in the Salt Lake
valley, and, startling as the observation
may sound, the event is one into the
spirit of which every American may
properly enter. The settlement of Utah
was inspired chiefly by religious mo-
tives, but the present celebration is
largely of a civil character. Some idea
of its nature may be gathered from the
fact that at the unveiling of the statue
to Brigham Young on Tuesday the ex-
ercises were closed with a benediction
pronounced by Bishop Lawrence Scan
Ion, of the Roman Catholic diocese of
Salt Lake City. The affair is really a
jubilee of the people of Utah over the
material progress they have made in
the last half century,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

The Iron County Record of July %
is a special Jubilee edition. 1t contains
special articles on Cedar City. with
description of its business. commerce.
resources and attractions: on the mines
and mining industries of the county
and an extremely interesting article en-
titled Some of Our Iron County Plo-
Eeers.'' The Record is to be congratu-
lated on its Jubilee edition. " Rah for
Utah's 5Oth birthday. Rah for Iron
oO1pfvf,'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

Ex-Governor Campbell of Ohio does
not think the gold Democrats will hold
the balance of power in the coming
election in that state. In an interview
in New York the other day. he said:
My opinion is that nothing but bad
methods or egregious mistakes on the
part of the Democratic machine can
lose the state to the Republicans next
fall. The drift is in favor of the Demo-
cratic party and do not see whatScan
stop it, unless the machine. as l said
does something peculiarly foolish. Mr.
Chapman, the regular nominee of the
Democratic party, will be elected. The
force of gravity, the momentum of pop
ular sentiment. will carry the state for
the silver Democrats. do not think the
single standard Democrats can change
the tide and effect a different result
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

"A special dispatch from Washington,
in another column, relative to Utah
appointments, will be found very in
teresting. Not the least interesting
portion of it is that which refers TO
Hon. George @. Cannon and the part
he is beginning to play in Republican
politics. That the gentleman. still has
senatorial ambitions is an open secret.
There are others who also have sena-
torial ambitions. among them Senator
Cannon himself 1t is more than a
year before the election for members
of the legislature that will elect a
United States senator viii be held, and
no one can say what a year will bring
forth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

"a society, said to be composed ex-
cIusively of college graduates. has
been formed in an eastern city with a
mission that would certainly attract
general attention il it should ever be
reduced TO a practical working basis.
Their object is to secure laws providing
for the painless determination Of idiots,
lunatics, deformed children and old
people. says an exchange. It is moth
ing more than a new suicide club.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

New York provides no employment
for her convicts and khey are said 10 be
going insane in large numbers The
reason the sease does not provide en-
ryloyment for them is because its poll
ticians have listened TO all the dema-
gogic cries about. convict labor must
not be permitted 10 compete with free
labor. All convicts should be provided
with employment and made to support
themselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28
Convention Will Meet In Baltimore
Today.

Baltimore, Md, July 27.-The Demo
cratic state convention will meet at
Fords Opera House tomorrow at noon
to nominate candidates for comptroller
and clerk of the court of appeals.
A new state central committee will be
chosen, and it's chairman will be de-
signated by the chairman of the con-
vention. A great deal of hard thinking
is being done by the party leaders over
the construction of the platform 1t has
been decided that the monetary ques-
ton must be ignored or straddled- II
the leaders can control the convention
as they WISH there will be a, noticeable
absence of any reference to the great
bone of contention last fall.
Should the silver element in the con-
vention not be satisfied with the
scheme, a concession may be granted
so far as to declare for currency based
upon gold and silver at some ratio TO be
determined after the results of the con-
ference upon the subjects now being
held in various parts of the world are
known.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28
An Unfaltering Egotist.


Detroit Free Press: The actor whose
confidence in himself waivers tor an an
slant is lost. A member of the histrionic
profession who mad tried "a new character
was c0nversing with an acquainsanc
about -le manner in which he had per-
formed. 1t wasn't so much that he cared
for anybody else's opinion. but he liked
the topic.
Il was little bit. frightened AT first. .
he said confidingly. but | soon got over
it. Il didn't take me long to feel sure
of my ground. And when I got to going
| was perfectly easy.
Yes replied the frined. II didn't OBJ
serve any signs of nervousness
You saw the performance. did your
Yes.
.'Of course you liked it?'
We'll. in a certain way. Sometimes you
were very good. And, 10 be candid with
you. at other times you were very bad. I
hope l haven't hurt your feelings"
Hurt my feelings; Not bit of It. I
wouldn't have been good adj the time for
anything. II there is any quality upon
which | pride myself more than on all
others, it is versatility
A Buckwheat Cake Walk.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

The enchanted mesa Of New Mexico
has been explored, and little sign Of
any habitation there discovered. The
exploration was made by Professor
Libby and party of Brooklyn. The top
of the mesa was thoroughly investi-
gated. There was monument of rocks
pil6d UP in a way that looked very
mitch as If it was the work of man.
but with this exception. there was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

nothing whatever to indicate that man
had ever seen the top of the table rock.
The top is about 16 acres in extent. and
about 500 feet higher than the imme-
date surrounding country. and fully
700 feet higher than the valley south
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

japan is taking so much trouble to
protest TO all the powers Of Europe
against the annexation of Hawaii by
the United States. that she will yet
succeed in throwing all the anti-an
nexation sentiment of the country into
pro annexation sentiment 1t may be
said that Japan is not the only cherry
on the tree
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt says eve are naturally a
peace loving people" In this case
Roosevelt has no right TO use the Dlu-
raj. and he couldn't possibly use the
singular pronoun and make this asser-
fion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

Cleveland Leader: Mr. Parks-By the by.
| saw Miss Darlington on her wheel to-
day.
Mrs Parks-What kind of hat did she
have on?
Mr.. Parks-I declare, didn't notice.
Mrs. Parks Gnnorently)-Did she wear
high boots or golf stockings?
Mr.. Parks-Gof stockings, and they
looked very trim, too. Still, don't be-
But it was too late. She had him in
corner. and he had to thaw for the new.
dress that she wanted to present 20 her
mother
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

1t is said that Dick Croker wants
the New York Democracy to white
wash him. He will probably have to
wait until he dies, and then have the
whitewash put on his tombstone
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

near Altoona, Kan. He is % years old.
and is quite prominent in that section
of the state.
Both Smith and Miss Aliens elder
sister are attending the trial.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

1t is said the tax on hides viii Grip
pie the leather industry. Doesn't the
leather industry, in one shape or an
other, cripple the feet of the country?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

The Seattle Post-Tntelligencer says
that it is not Klondike; it is not Clon-
dixie; the name. as officially returned
on government maps, is Troandik, the
Indian meaning of which is Hammer"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

The house of commons sustains Cecil
Rhodes Nothing else was to have
been expected, and it would have been
black ingratitude not to have done so.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28
And thousands and thousands of golden
WIT AND HUMoR.

Brooklyn Life: ''Where shall we go?"
She on her second ride-'.That | think I
shall have to leave entirely TO my wheel"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

A minister says there are no
female angels in heaven, they are all
men," How immense must be the
bump of conceit OF that minister
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

Jake Worth, the Republican boss of
Brooklyn, is sulking. Is Jakey trying
to play the part of Achilles2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

Roger Williams went to Providence
when driven from Plymouth colony.
Where will Benjamin Andrews go to
now that he has been driven from
Providence?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

Powderly may not be in touch with
the labor organizations but he is in
touch with the treasury through a
soft Job.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

ST. Louis papers are trying to make
out that Missouri has gold fields the
equal of the Klondyke. Tut. Tut!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

It is a cold day when miner in the
kiondyke country gets left.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

1t can hardly be otherwise than that
the fate of the Bonner party will often
be repeated in the rush to the Tklondyke
gold fields.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-28

The Kaiser is to visit Russia. VIII
he take in his train carrier pigeons
that ne may send messages hack to
the fatherland?