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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The Kansas City Star SAYS that Con-
gresham Jerry Simpson demonstrated
two things by his speech in the house
OF representatives in Washington yes.
terday. The first and most important
was that the lion who occupies the
speakers chair may be bearded in his
den, and the second was that the
speaker is simply the agent of the
house, amenable to the will of the ma
Jority and not the omnipotent car
which current opinion makes him. 1t
is possible that Mr.. Simpson might
have accomplished this in a milder
manner than that which he adopted.
but that would not have been charac-
teristic of the man or his constitu-
ency. He wanted to be heard and he
made himself audible, just as a man
undertaking the construction of a
watch with blacksmiths tools would be
certain to attract notice. The only
mistake that Mr.. Simpson made was
to take the manifestly erroneous state
ment of Washington newspaper as
the subject of his question of per-
sonal privilege" The policy of the
house to restrict legislation to certain
lines is, of course, offensive to the
Washington newspaper, for it robs the
lobby of its opportunities But the ig-
norance which ascribed this fault to the
speaker ought not to have deceived the
member of the Seventh Kansas dis
tr1ct- He ought to have known before,
as ne knows now-thanks to the cour-
tesy of the speaker-that the failure
to appoint committees is the action of
the house and not of the speaker.
jerry showed his courage and did not
show his heels as might have been ex-
pected from all the stories told about
his socks
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL
ASSOCIATION.

f5fything that is worth having is
worth working for. The National Ed
ucational association meeting is worth
having; let Salt Lake City work for
il for 1898. If the work is done there
is very good chance that we can get
it. What would it mean if it were
secured? The amount of money that
it would bring into the city, while
very considerable sum, is a matter of
very secondary Importance compared
with the fact that the meeting would
bring to our city 10000 or 12,0 900 strang-
ers. That of itself is an important
matter. But who would these strang-
ers be? They would be those whose
business is teaching. In their care is
very largely the forming of the minds
Of the youth of the country. Now, the
youth of this country has heard good
deal about Utah and her people, and
much of their information has been
Incorrect. If 10000 or 1900 teachers
could come to our city and learn at
first hand what Utah and her people
are, what an unparalleled agency for
disseminating information about Utah
they would be. They would prove to
be a veritable bureau of information
such as no commercial agency could
get up. Each teacher would tell the
pupils under his or her charge what
he or she had seen in Utah. And what
an immense amount there is to see,
tool Take a few thousand intelligent
teachers through some of our great
mines, the Ontario, the Bullion Beck,
the Centennial the Mercur,
any of them, and what an effect it
would have in modifying their views
OF the financial question
Utah is being pretty we'll advertised
this year on account of her approach
ing jubilee. The interest this has
aroused should be taken advantage of
to secure the meeting of the National
Educational association for 1898 for this
city. If other cities can get it there is
no reason in the world why this one
cannot. We can have it if we want it
and will work; let US work for it, for
we all want it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
"a MOST SOLEMN WARNING. y

Commenting on the recent municipal
elections, the New York Evening Post
says:
These things should not be passed
over lightly. In more than one instance
yesterday the successful Democratic
candidate was a pronounced silver man.
Bryanite. This is the most solemn
warning of all, for this is the crop
which the Republican party is sowing
by its boss domination, by it's contempt
tuous treatment of the wishes and ex-
pectations of its sound-money Demo-
cratic allies in the last campaign, and
by its tariff of denominations. 1t is not
only working its own overthrow, but it
is doing its utmost to bring into power
forces which the entire honest senti-
ment of the country united only few
months ago to defeat
No, do not pass over these things
lightly; do not mistake their import.
Many man who was elected last week
was a. silver man, Bryanite, if any so
choose to call him. 1t was a very sol
emn warning. and those who heed it
may learn wisdom from it, but those
who do not will yet pay for it with a
sad experience The Post sees very
plainly what it means, and what it
means is that the Democrats, the advo-
Gates of free silver, will be returned
to congress a year from this fall. And
if they are returned to congress there
is small doubt that many legislatures
will also elect silver senators; nor is it
at all impossible that the silver men
may have such a majority in congress
that they can pass any measure over
the presidents veto they may choose
to.
The treatment that the sound money
Democrats are receiving from the party
in power is precisely what they might
have expected, though it seems they
did not expect it. Yet these same sound
money Democrats will be very likely
to refrain from rendering any assist
ance whatever in the next congress
sional campaign to those with whom
they were lately in league.
And ever since the election the silver
take their natural course. They have
not kept up the agitation in favor of
free coinage, but have been content to
let those who won the election pursue
their policy without any obstacles be-
ing placed in their way by them. The
result is that the trend of public senti-
ment is all their way and no one is
able to say that the silver men have
done anything to thwart the will of
the people. And this is as it should be,
for it allows the people to see things as
they are and with nothing to cloud |
their vision. Already the handwriting |
on the wall is becoming visible, and it
must be a dull eye that is unable to
discern it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
The Two Bishops.

Indianapolis Sentinel: Bishop Seymour
of Illinois who has just paid Indianapolis
visit, was recently travelling on the
same train with Bishop Chatard of this
city. who, as every one knows. is a re-
markedly fine looking gentleman The
Ohio bishop eyed Bishop Chatard fol
some time. then nally went over to his
side and said:
Il see you are a priest?"
Yes said Bishop Chatard. 81 am
more than a priest, l am a bishop. But
you. 1 see you are a priest
Bishop Seymour smiled.
mo, l am more than a priest |. too
am a bishop. 1 am Bishop Seymour OF
Illinois,
And l." said Bishop Chatard. IAN
Bishop Chatard of the diocese of Vim
cennes.'
Are you?" exclaimed Bishop Seymour.
Then you are the man l have been try
ing all my life to find / heard for many
years that 1 resembled you and have been
anxious to see you. But he continued
shaking his head, now that see what a
fine looking man you are | shall have to
give up trying to look like you
Which was as delicate as any compli-
ment ever paid lady.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
GOOD CITY GOVERNMENT.

Rev. DR.. Rainsford, who made him
self so notorious by his Bradley Martin
ball sermon, has been turning his at
tention to municipal affairs III New
York. He has proclaimed what he
thinks is a new test Of patriotism, and
which probably is to him but not to
others. We want, he says, men who
will not merely die for their country,
but who are prepared to live for it,
When dying times come round most
people will be found willing to live for
their country, and also perfectly Will
ing to make every preparation with
that object in view.
The doctor says that those who want
good city government must prepare
for a long fight. and that it is not
enough to denounce political machines;
they must advocate measures that will
commend themselves to the public.
That is all very true, and those who
would have good municipal government
must offer good measures to the public
and never cease advocating them. The
trouble with municipal and other re-
formers is that they are generally very
much better critics than creators; they
see defects and point them out, but
rarely offer a remedy for them.
But after all municipal reform is not
so difficult a matter as is generally
supposed, nor is there so much need
of it as people often think. People
think that it is reform that is needed
when most often all that is needed is
honest and able administration. Take
our own city of Salt Lake for instance.
1t is now very well provided with a
complete set of ordinances, and could
get along very we'll indeed if not an
other ordinance for it's government were
passed in the next two years, save, of
course, those that are required to raise
revenue and provide for expenditures.
What it does sadly need. though, Is a
better administration of those ordi-
nances, though in so far as these ordi-
nances may be defective, it is better
to bear the ills we have than fly 20 \
others we know not of.
If the people of this city want good
government they have got to fight for
it. If eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty, it should never be forgotten
that good government is liberty. And
in selecting their officers it will al
ways pay the people to bear IT. mind
that character is worth more than
ability.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

ton which it was clearly the duty of the
court to grant. He got up and was stat
ing his reasons with considerable detail
when he noticed Hubbards apparent
mods of approval. Concluding il was a
mere waste of the judicial time to say
anything more he sat down. But to his
surprise Hubbard overruled his motion.
Turning to ingalls,; who sat near. he
remarked: Why I'm surprised at that;
l thought the judge certainly intended to
grant my motion. He evidently fails to
see the point involved
:. What made you think he would grant
it,? asked ingalls,.
all the time
Ingalls, faced around toward the win
dow, and holding his hand up said. Do
you feel that gentle breeze coming
through here?'
''Fenelon said yes, and looked interro-
cation points at ingalls,. who continued:
Well, light as that breeze is. it sways
Hubbard's head back and forth. That's
all there is to his nodding.'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
THE SALT LAKE HERALD. SUNDAY, APRIL ii, 1897

is very doubtful if they will ever ac-
cept party leadership as it is under
stood in the house of commons. though
1t must be admitted that the powers of
the speaker have become so great that
he virtually has the power to say what
legislation there shall not be, if not to
say what there shall be-
The American idea of party govern
ment is being rapidly modified, if not
radically changed; it is assimilating
more and more to the English idea, and
it is this fact which makes the people
seem so unstable in their adherence to
political parties and that accounts for
seemingly unaccountable reversals of
popular verdicts at the polls. Our
ideas of party government are under
going change and we do not realize
the fact as yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
STORIES OF MEN.
ingalls, Told What Caused tn
Judges Head to Sway.

Washington Post: Half dozen Mis-
sourians. including one or two members
of congress. were discussing ex-senator
John ]. ingalls,, of Kansas, in the lobby
at Willard hotel in Washington. One of
them remarked that the ex-senator's
sharp reply to the Kansas bishop was a
type of his best efforts in the line of
scathing sarcasm. 1T was that DISPOSE
ton to stick pins in people that first
brought ingalls, into prominence and was
ultimately responsible for his failure in
public life,'' said one of the party
81 remember an instance of the kind
which came TO my notice years ago when
ingalls, and | were both practicing law in
Atchison. There was a Judge on the
bench by the name of Hubbard whom
ingalls, took delight in nagging on all oc-
casions- Hubbard had way of nodding
his head slowly back and forth when
listening to an argument. Young attor-
neys who were not onto me judges
curves frequently mistook this movement
for acouiescence in the points of their
argument One day Tom Fenelon who
was then a young practitioner. had a
motion to make before Hubbard, a mo-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
81 WONDER WHY

There comes a query oft to me.
From one who thinks l ought to know
The height and depth of mystery
The wherefore of the lit is So.
And childish form. with bated breath,
With parted lips and pleading eyes.
Stands waiting for the What he saith,
In answer to Il wonder why?"
What gives the violet its hue,
The fern its fragile form and grace?
Why doth the rivulet pursue
Its ceaseless course for us to trace?
Why bloom the flowers, why grow the
trees.
And spread their branches wide and
high?
On leafess bush? 1 wonder why?"
All these 1 answer as 1 can.
And yet the little maid asks on,
And her soft eyes my own ewes scan.
Perchance a new reply to con.
Till | am fain to ask with Zest,
For clearer knowledge from on high,
OF my own duty Gods beheSt
And, like my child, Il wonder why?'
Deep problems meet us in the wood,
Afield. and by the stream and sea,
We see what is not understood
About us. and that ne'er can be.
Whether we wander far or stay
In cloister. hid from mortal eye.
We 'bide with mystery night and day,
And of it all we wonder why?'
So tbs not strange a child oft asks.
To know the wherefore of the fact;
To understand what vainly tasks
Philosophy with all its tact.
We all are children, striving oft
To know what comes before the eye.
Childlike. we Vainly look aloft,
And ask and ask, Il wonder why?"
Boston Transcript.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
LONGING FOR EGYPTs FLESH
POTS.

1t is said that language was given
to man to conceal his thoughts. Be
that as it may, that very happy say
ing explains many things that would
otherwise be difficult of explanation,
Now when President Mckinley was in
Quoted into office he said in his in
augural address that he was a firm
believer in true civil service reform.
The only trouble with the declaration
was to know what his conception of
civil service reform was. 1t was here
that language concealed his thought.
He is about to let it be partially known,
at least, what his conception is. Thus
Mr.. Walter Wellman, the Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Times
Herald, says that everything about the
White House goes to show that the
president is sincere in his civil service
reform declarations, yet The has been
placed in possession of q great fund
of information concerning the opera
tons of the government under Presi-
dent Cleveland's last civil service or
der. and the president has been COM
PEELED to take cognizance of some of
the administrative system as it is now
organized. There is a radical difference
between genuine civil service reform
and a hasty, wholesale, indiscriminate
dumping of offices into the classified
hopper. This difference President Nc
Kinley recognizes, and while he is as
good a civil service reformer as Mr..
Cleveland was, there are plenty of in
dications that he has the courage to
winnow the wheat from the chaff. and
put the civil system upon a more bus
iness-like basis
He goes on to say that it has been
suggested that congress take the in
itiative by passing a bill or joint reso-
luton restoring the civil service to the
condition in which it was at the ex-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

1T is rumored that the senate will
put a duty on hides. Certainly it
ought to, and we heartily hope it will.
For our part. if we are going to have
protective tariff at all we want one that
is severely logical. Hides on the free
list are as monstrous lapse from pro-
lection consistency as free wool would
be- says the New York Evening Post
That is right. Seeing that the coun-
Try is going in for protection let it be
the whole hog or none.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

piration of President Harrison's term.
such a measure, says Mr.. Wellman,
President Mckinley would doubtless
approve. Doubtless, indeed. How the
best and most religious of the civil
service reformers long for the flesh pots
of Egypt. yet fear to make known
their longings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The United States supreme court will
not hear arguments on the subject of
railroad pools until next October. What
a blessing it would be if the people
wouldn't hear any more arguments on
the same subject until next October.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
WIT AND HUMoR.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: "That de-
faulting alderman is the most sensitive
public official l ever met. | asked for
his written consent to our using his por-
trait. and he inquired if that was neces-
sary. L told himeit was and he said he
couldn't give it..
'.Pshaw. man. the alderman can't
write"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

There is every promise that this will
be q great season for bicyclists. Al
ready the trade is starting in very
we'll and there is a great deal of en-
thusiasm among riders. There is no
healthier. no pleasanter exercise than
wheeling.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: 1t is stated
that Rudyard Kipling will receive So. 600
a month for serving the London Times as
It's war correspondent in Crete. After he
has been scooped several times by a $500
man, Rudyard viii begin to know some
thing about newspaper work
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The Mail and Express, speaking of
the recent elections, says that the free
siIverites and the free traders will in
terpret them as a revolt against the
Mckinley administration, and as re-
versai of the Overwhelming Republican
victory of last November. The cleo
lions certainly cannot be interpreted as
an Endorsement of the Mckinley ad-
1ninistration. can they?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

New York Commercial Advertiser: Ras-
perl notice that critics are denouncing
Dickens. Zola, Oliver Optic and other
well-known writer's.
Canter-What critics?
RasDer-Tm sure 1 couldn't tell you
their names. Never heard of them be-
fore
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

prosperity kills more people than
adversely" says the Atchison Globe
Has our Atchison contemporary heard
of any fatalities arising from prosper
isy this year?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

And now the sultan is sending let
tiers to his ambassadors at the various
courts protesting against the way
things are going on in Crete. That
old fox is master of every trick and
turn in the game of diplomacy. What
a sense of hunor he must have.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

st. Louis has just gone Republican
and Evangelist Dwight L. Moody has
left Chicago, which went Democratic,
TO go down there and hold revival
meetings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

Detroit Tribune: Mr.. Pingree has neg
lected his gubernatorial duties in his de-
ready saved. He will find wide field
for his energy at Lansing. 1t may be that
he will be able to whip the state legis-
lature in line and compel it either to do
something or adjourn. Certain it is that
the governor need not pine for the lack
of something to do and the sooner he
begins to do it the better it will be not
ONLY for the state but for himself po-
litica1lV
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS

Philadelphia North American: The an
pearance of a team of Australian bali
tossers in this country suggests at once
the ACCESSIBILITY of inserting a baseball
clause in the new arbitration treaty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

President Mckinley is very rapidly
turning thousands of optimistic pa
triots into pessimists. AS a good Meth
odist how can he do this?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The San Francisco police are arrest
ing all who spit in street cars and pub
lie buildings. They have had one or
two lively spats already.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

Never was it truer than in this, the
first year of McKinley's administra-
ton, that one half the people don't
know how the other half lives.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The tariff tinkers do not believe in
the adage: There should be modera-
ton in all Things"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The Detroit Free Press talks about
the passing of Pingree. Every time the
potatoes are passed the people Will be
reminded of the passing of Pingree.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The action of the powers in Crete
makes ore feel like exclaining: o
Christianity! Christianity! how many
crimes are. committed in thy name!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

DR.. James B. Angel. of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, is to be minister to
Turkey The Turks have a way Of
making angels out of ministers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

New York World: The people who are
pushing the retroactive clause of the
Dineley bill will not be much older be-
fore discovering that public opinion of
political idiocy is also retroactive.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

last, but the elections show that they
are the mills of the gods.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The Kimberly mines should do some
thing handsome to make Queen Vic
toria's diamond Jubilee a success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The Dolphin having been used by ex-
President Cleveland and by President
Mckinley it may be considered strictly
non-partisan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

Washington Star: Nothing will be
neglected that may contribute to the
success of the queens jubilee. Some of
Americas best society will be imported
for the occasion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

1t is said the president is very anx-
ious to have harmony. Why doesn't
he join the European concert?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

to death again. He must find this
sentencing business monotonous.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

An English actress jewels have been
sold for $1,000. Had they been stolen
they would have gone for ten times
that amount.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

Ambassador Hay is said to be the
master of five languages. Do the five
include that of diplomacy?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

When it comes to resolutions about
Cuba, Senator Morgan runs Spain
very close race.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

City ordinances should either be en-
forced or repealed. To have them on
the ordinance book merely to look at
is a fraud and a snare.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

Tit-B;ts: "How lid that beetle-de-
stroyer go that 1 sold you the other day?''
Like hot cakes. The beetles won't eat
anything else answered the customer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

OF course the worlds a stage, but
how terribly crowded with supes it is.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-11

The Greeks have invaded Macedonia.
Where was Philip?