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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

The immigration bill is causing any
amount of discussion by the press, and
the views expressed are by no means
unanimous. Thus the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, one of the leading
Republican papers of the country. says
that mo one will be deceived by the
twaddle that the enactment of the
pending immigration bill would result
in separating wives from their hus-
bands, thus repeating the cruelties of
slave days. Such separations at the
worst would be comparatively few, and
they could be avoided altogether by a
little preparation on the part of the
wives of intending immigrants. These
people devote years to saving money
to enable them to come to this country,
and it would be no hardship if the
women among them We're compelled to
be able to read and write their native
language fairly. But what if some
separations did occur? Are not Ameri-
can workingmen and workingwomen
entitled to some sympathy from Ameri-
can legislators?" The reference here
to the separation of wives and hus-
DdnuS Is 10 d speech by Representative
Andrew R. Keifer, of Minnesota, in the
house in which he pictured the case of
a man and wife arriving at Ellis island
from the cid country. He said:
The man is well educated. He can
read and write in his mother tongue
But his wife, like many of the peas
antly of the old country, may not have
enjoyed those advantages. She is an
excellent housewife and is in every
way capable of being with her hus-
band to bring up the family The hus-
band passes the inspection; he reads
and writes the slip upon which is
printed the 25 words required to be
read taken from the constitution of the
United States of America, which
is itself a guaranty to liberty all over
the known world, and under the pro-
visions of which we as a country are
known and recognized as the greatest
nation on earth.
His wife, with the flush of youth and
health upon her cheeks, cannot read
the long and to her unmeaning words
as she looks at them in cold print.
What is the result? The husband and
father is permitted to land, and the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
IAN MACLAREN ON AMERICAN
NEWSPAPER MEN.

Ian Maclaren has been giving his
opinions on American newspaper men.
He is fully justified il so doing, for
American newspaper men freely gave
their opinions of him when he visited
US. They were pleasant opinions and
his are equally pleasant. He says
if the American press takes q
dislike to a man, they can
make it uncommonly uncomfort-
able for him; while on the other hand,
he says, if the newspaper man in this
country is inclined to be kind to
man, no one can be kinder.
He says they have lively
Imagination, because the climate is
electric and the people are vivacious -
How nicely this charge of exaggera-
ton, at times, is put. Certainly, a
lively imagination is a finer phase than
gross exaggeration.'
The distinguished Scotch novelist
was very favorably impressed with the
newspaper men of this country, judg-
ing by what he says. Take this for
example:
Then take the interviewer, about
whom such terrible things are said in
this country. They really don't ask
the questions imputed to them, as to
how often you have been married?
What your income is? What you pre-
fer for dinner? and such matters Oc-
casionally they do ask questions which
it is not prudent for man to answer.
but which they are at perfect liberty TO
ask; but they don't put answers into
them. They put down what you said,
gracefully touching it up, but in sub
stance quite correct. And they never
have any i'll will against you because
you cannot answer questions that they
ask. Many of them are exceedingly
bright men and an increasing number
Of them are university men, men of
Yale and Harvard or other UNIVERSE
ties, men of perfect courtesy and in
telligence.
What strikes one so much in the
American press is the tendency to
brevity. Everything they do is gov
erned by brevity, not only in their pa
pers but in their conversation. This
is a characteristic of the people. You
never read a column report of a meet
ing. What 1 can best liken it to is as
though you were to take an orange
and squeeze it, giving simply the juice.
Everything in the paper is set out in
the headings, which are, of course,
very remarkable, but when you cast
your eye down the paper you find ex-
actly what you want. Brevity and an
ingenious paragraphism are the two
which mostly impressed
me in the American newspapers.
Whether the press on this side of the
is to copy the brevity, or
the press on the other side
is to copy certain higher tone and
dignity which are the characteristics OF
the press in England, 1 don't know.
but I have very shrewd idea that
the press of America will tell on the
press of England in the direction of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
A TRULY MORAL SHOW.
That Little Prize Fight at the Ath-
letic Club.

''Oh. yes" said the commissioner of
police. 1.-The prize fight before the Scrap
pers' Athletic club was a truly edifying
and soul-nourishing exhibition" He
rubbed his hands with ecstacy, says the
New York Journal.
"Of course. l know that there was a
little stir made over the fact that one
man had his head punched all over the
ring like a football; that two men are
laid up in the hospital with broken
noses. damaged ears and peppers closed
up with left-hand swings; but those clas-
SIC left-handers were such beauts that
must forgive the natural results He
bit off the end of a black cigar resemb-
ling a dynamite torpedo.
Then, too. there was some murmuring
about the referees giving the decision to
the fellow who was struck below the
belt and whom it took four doctors three
hours to bring to. He is probably Grip
pie for life. but the mitigating in that
round was glorious. l never saw any
thing better at Harvard or during my
several fights with Indians out west He
licked his chops with the delicious
thought.
''Of course, now that the fellow who
got it in the jugular in the fifth round is
dead | must chip in something for his
family. But, of course, any fool who
GOES into the ring with his heart three
inches out of place must expect TO get
it hard. He should have had post NOR
tenn examination before he went up
against it. But altogether, it was a
highly edifying and moral show"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
ESTIMATED REVENUE.

If the estimates of those who are
engaged in drawing up a tariff bill are
correct, there will be an increase of
sec, 600, 900 from the new law This
estimate is made upon the basis of
importations under the present tariff.
If this estimate holds out when the
new law goes into effect, there will be
no deficits, and the people will stand
a good deal in order to get rid of the
deficits. There is this to be considered
in making these calculations as to
what the revenue will be: Will the
importations under the new law equal
what they are at present? That is a
question that must be answered by
time. When Mr.. Carlisle assumed con-
troll of the treasury he was continually
figuring out estimates of SURPRISES,
but the SURPRISES never came. The
invalidating of the income tax pro-
vision of the Wilson-Gorman bill very
materially reduced the revenue, it is
true, but still he made very erroneous
estimates notwithstanding.
The estimating of government rev.
enue is a very difficult task, there
are so many factors entering into the
matter. Experience teaches that peo-
pie, no matter whether acting for
themselves or for someone else,
whether as private individuals or pub
lie servants, have a seemingly innate
tendency to underestimate their ex-
penditures and to overestimate their
income. And this tendency is as
strong with secretaries OF the treasury
as with others. All will hope that
when the new tariff bill shall have
been enacted into law that it will pro-
duce the revenue and induce the pros
perity that its friends promise for it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
rHE Lake HERALD: TUESDAY. FEBRUARY >. 1897,


yes sab. Use willin' to rest dis case
in de Lawd's hands. De Lawd knows
neber stole dat cotton
Hadn't you better have a lawyer?
suggested the judge.
mo. sab. Use been gwine ter church
fur de last fo'ty years. an | m restin dis
case right in de hands of de Lawd.'
II shall have to give you four months
in jail, Abraham
Huh What fur?"
Stealing that cotton"
The prisoner received his sentence with
out a word, seeming to have expected 1t,
and was taken away. Two weeks later
l met him on the streets of Selma, 80
miles away, and said to him.
why, / thought you were in Jail for
four months over at Florence.
"Yaas. 1 was" re replied.
Il remember that you put your case in
the hands of the Lord"
''Yaas. sab; an l come out all right"
But you got four months.
$50 L did, sab; but arter servin' fur
nine days de Lawd showed me how to
dig outer Jail, an yere 1 am, an dey
won't git me agin.' NJ QUAD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
His Faith Was Rewarded.

They were going to try colored man
for stealing quantity of raw cotton and
when the hour arrived l went up to the
court house to hear the case. The pris-
oner was a man about 30 years or age
acd had been elected to plead his own
case. The prosecution proved that the
be- of cotton was found in his cabin.
and the property was fully identified as
belonging to the owner of compress.
The prisoner asked no questions but said
he wanted a make a statement and rest
his case wild de Lawd." After awhile
he was given an opportunity to speak,
and he said:
Il war gwine by that compress at 'leben
o'clock at night when a voice called out
to me: Hold on, dar'. Abraham Jonesl
Yo' was q pore man an yo' jest take
long dis bag o cotton to buy yo' some
shoes fur col weather. Den de bag fell
at my feet an l dun took it home"
Did you recognize the voice." asked
the judge.
mo. sab; but reckon it was an angel
who spoke
.''Then why did you hide the bag when
you got homer"
well. sab. jest as got frew de gate
anodder voice tol me dat d better hide
de cotton fur a few days"
Did you recognize the voice?
No. sab; but | dun reckon it was
voice from heaben."
And that's yousi defense. is it?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
MIDwINTER EvICTIoNs.


The American people are an optimis-
tic people. They have been wont to be-
lieve that their own dear country could
never become the scene of such dis
tress as is to be seen in Europe But
they have seen it, and they shall yet
see more.
One of the things that has appealed
most strongly to the sympathy of the
American people of late years has been
the eviction of tenants in Ireland.
Their hearts have gone out to those
tenants who, like the Son of Man, had
nowhere to lay their heads. But evic-
tons as bad in every respect as those
Of Ireland have taken place in New
York City this very winter. Tenants
who could not pay their rent Git was
found that the sums due ranged from
So TO $50, with an average somewhat
less than s20). were turned out in the
same unfeeling manner that tenants in
Ireland are turned out, but far less is
said in the United States about the
turning out OF these tenants in New
York CITY than probably would have
teen had they occurred in Ireland. The
magistrates before whom the proceed
ings were brought never hesitated to
enforce the law. though one of them
allowed a family in great distress ten
days time in which to pay up or find
new quarters. These magistrates have
no other alternative than to enforce
the law as theY find it, and becNuse'
they enforce it is no sign that they
are without sympathy for those against
whom it is enforced. In this country
we too often see the ills and sorrows
of other lands and seek to alleviate
them while overlooking those of our
own This should not be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Among the bills introduced in the
legislature are one to send inebriates
to a gold cure at the expense of the
county; one to stop any train at any
station where any passenger desires to
get off, one to force corporations to
completely disclose their business and
surrender to the municipality all profits
over 6 per cent; one for the confiscation
of the plants of corporations, and one
TO regulate any minister, priest, or any
person having charge of church,
when he fails TO practice what he
breaches. Did we omit the name of
this legislature? Is it necessary to say
that it is the Kansas legislature?' says
the Louisville Courier-Journal. This
list should be supplemented with
bill to compel the legislators to OBJ
serve the laws they make.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

THE HERALD is a franchise MEM
beg OF The United Press, and re-
cefves the complete leased wire
Overland and Pacific Const news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
es, embracing accurate intelligence
of all current events I'm the whole
world. With it's special wire and
operator in it's own Office THE HER
AID is daily in Immediate possess
sion of the latest news up tia the
hour of SOipE to press-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

wife. almost heart broken and dis
coufaged, is compelled to return to the
land whence she came.
Mr.. Speaker, this indeed is inhuman
treatment. 1t is on plane almost
equal to that of slavery. where fami-
lies were often broken up.
1t is said that this picture had a great
effect upon President Cleveland, while
the possibility that husbands and wives
might be separated by the illiterate
clause of the Lodge bill has practically
determined him to veto it How to ex-
clude the unworthy from our shores
has always been a problem. 1t is very
doubtful if the Lodge bill solves it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Mr.. Edison is about to give another
great discovery to the world regarding
the x rays. He has made. many Won
derfu, discoveries. He has also prom
tsed 10 make some that have not ma
.erialized: for instance. his wonderful
tight that so much was heard about a
veaq or more ago. That wonderful
iipb; II still hid under bushel, so far
AZ The public knows.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

The sultan Of Turkey has been COM
PEELED to don stays to support him
self, his sides shake so with laughter
when he thinks of that European con-
cert to coerce him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

The New York World is reproducing
its prophetic editorials of a year or
more ago about the Venezuelan Incl
dent How fortunate that it is not
an older paper than it is. else it might
go right on reproducing prophetic edi-
torials. for all know that history re-
peats itself.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

It appears that the secretary of the
Sugar trust has been to Canton Civ
ing the president-elect taffy, and it is
reported that in return the president
elect has said he favors a tariff on
sugar and a bounty to the producers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

No one need worry about the future
OF Democracy. It viii go right along
sometimes scoring triumphs. sometimes
meeting with defeat, but always striv-
fng for the cause of liberty and the
people, always cherishing the honor
and welfare of the United States
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

It IS impossible that the creation of
one more cabinet position will be
wholly adequate to fill the demands on
President-eIect Mckinley for them. If
he really intends to recommend the
creation OF another cabinet office, he
should recommend the creation of
enough to go around.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
WIT AND HUMoR.

Washington Star: NO" said the ma
tu-e but attractive woman, with empha-
sis. they are no longer in our set
What can have happened?"
1T was IA financial discrepancy"
Gas bad as that?'
Yes. We have learned that they re-
ported the cost of their latest social di-
version to be several thousand dollars in
excess of what it really was
Chicago Journal: Yes. =" said the SUI
pervising architect of the y hotel. that
room is 40x6O feet. perfe1 : ligl' i and
living man can get into it unless has
the combination It's absolutely burglar
proof
But. holy smoke, man. We don't need
any such vault as that" protested the
proprietor.
Vault? Vault? Who said anything
about vault?" retorted the man of skill.
THAT is the bachelor supper ROOM
Yonkers Statesman: what is a crank,
papa?"
"A crank, my son, is fellow who goes
around with his wheels
Washington Times: 81 heard your min
iste- resigned from his charge"
well, no. not edzacly."
How was it, then?"
why, you see, we'd been resigned ter
him as long as we could stand it, and
we thought it wuz time for him to re-
cippercate. He didn't resign; we re-
signed him.
Philadelphia North Americans: Il sup
pose you suspect what l came for he
said, as he prepared to ask her father for
her hand.
oh yes" replied the father; you
want to borrow money, but L haven't
cent
And the young man deferred his pro-
posal.
Cleveland Leader: What do you sup
pose old Tappington is always so ready
to stand up for DR.. Middle? That man
doesn't know any more about medicine
than pig does about theosoDhy."
But remember that no matter what
your ailment may be, he always pre-
scribes whisky and something for it,
and he never insists very strongly upon
the something if you don't seem to want
it,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Since Sherman has consented to go
into the cabinet. Governor Bushnell
has become as silent as Major McKin-
ley was before the st. Louis conven-
ton
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

The eastern papers are letting up
on Nevada as the butt of their ridi-
Guile 1t is true that Nevada is no
Sunday school state, but it is also true
that SeeIey dinners are unknown there
and she has no Lou Payns among her
officials
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

The Chicago Dispatch says that no
gold man will be nominated for mayor
of Chicago by the Democrats This
viii dispose of Wash Hesing's boom.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Every time Mark Hanna looks at
that senatorial seat to be vacated by
Sherman, he finds placard placed
upon it reading: ''All hope aban-
dom
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Chicago declined the train load of
corn rendered BIZ Nebraska for her
poor. Chicago was probably afraid her
poor would be inoculated with Popu-
liSnl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

The New York Sun says that Lyman
J. Gage is Democratic to a degree But
viii he be Democratic to the president
who has chosen him?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Some of the vessels of the squadron
came very near laundering off Charles
ton, it seems. The safest place for them
is in dry dock
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

A Pittsburg undertaken has commit
ted suicide because of lack of business
This was pouring water on his rivals
wheel.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Mr.. Dingley will scarcely feel like
lending his name to the new tariff bill
He has had enough honors of that
kind already.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Chicago Times-Herald: A Detroit dis
patch saws that an uncle of the Princess
de Chimay will go to Europe at once
to check her career" 1t is devoutly to be
hoped that he will not check it through
to the United States.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

When charity begins at home it usu-
ally makes a rather bad beginning,
with a bad ending almost sure to fol-
low
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Because there are two sides to all
questions does not justify a man in
getting on all sides of a question.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

President Eliot wants s1O,OOO,OOO for
Harvard. If he Will insert a want ad
IN The Herald he will get it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Kansas City Times: Mr.. Wilson seems
to be the next secretary of seeds. 1t is
to be hoped he viii not think it neces-
task of reforming the currency, settling
the negro question, and saving the state
generally.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
THE WILD, WILD EAST.

Jim allus was wild 'un since the day he
fust saw light,
Allus nosin' after trouble, or a huntin'
fur q fight;
Got to be a Injun killer gobbled many a
redskins har.
An was happy in a scrimmage with a
catamount or bar.
Used to shoot the town up often in a
sporty sort o way,
An defy the vigilantes fur to make their
usual play
But the west got rather quiet fur the
disconnected beast,
An now he's gone to settle in the
wind.
- wild
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

something equally as good" when
man doesn't get what he first wants.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Presumably Mr.. Kohlsaat win have
charge of the pastry if not of the pie"
in the kitchen cabinet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

1t really looks as though the new
tariff would be nothing more than the
Mckinley tariff revamped.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Reform in Turkey and reform in
Cuba seem to go hand in hand.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Did Senator Matthew Stanley Quay
fiddle while the Harrisburg capitol
burned?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

What Uncle Sans navy needs is not
more battleships but more dry docks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Detroit Free Press: While it may b,
natural and reasonable to expect alien:
to assume the duties and burdens of citi
ZenshiD under our government it is alsC
their own nativity as a residence just a:
Americans who go across the border t.
sell their labor or goods elect to con
tinue their fealty to the stars and stripes
To deny to Canadians access to our coun
try means that Canada will close the
doors to our laborers and tradesmen, an6
we will thus realize the folly of trifine
with freedom.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

1 warned him O. the dangers he would
meet on every hand,
tur you see l read the papers from that
wicked eastern land,
But that only seemed to fan the discon-
tentedneSS in HIM.
An he said. with eyes snappin', That's
the very place fur JIM
Said his soul war jest yearnin' fur that
natur of game,
That the border war a gittin too Internal
slow an tame,JI~r
An the more l preached again it, why
the more his wish increased
Fur to plunge into the dangers O. the
wild,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Seattle acknowledgements: Villas pro-
poses to spend another Sl.O0OOO0 IN the
employment of commission to inquire
into the Nicaragua canal project Must
we read another million dollars worth
of reports on the subject?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-09

Pittsburg Dispatch: A division of SEN
timent and difference of opinion between
the appointing and confirming soowers
have always produced unpleasant politics
and it seems to be such a situation that
is developing in Ohio. But what if Sher-
man should reconsider his cabinet decis-
ion, after all?