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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
PROTECTIONIST VIEW OF
SUGAR DUTIES.

1t is rather surprising to find so
good a Republican and protectionist
paper as the Boston Journal protesting
against high duties on anything.
Speaking of the demands Of the sugar
men for protection, it says that it
should be made perfectly clear that
any sugar duties that may be imposed
by any new tariff bill should be for
revenue and not for protective pur-
poses. Then it makes this very start
ling statement:
IAN industry which, after years of
fostering care, can produce only one
tenth of the sugar which the country
consumes does not, deserve protection.
The request of the Nebraska beet
growers for a hundred per cent duty
is preposterous.'
That is sound economic doctrine on
the question of protection to an in
dustry and is never looked for from a
protectionist quarter; it scarcely ever
comes from such a quarter. There
could be nothing more preposterous
than what the Nebraska beet sugar
makers asked-that the duty on sugar
be made 100 per cent-unless it would
have been to have raised it to a still
higher figure. They wished to double
their profits at the expense of the
people.
The Journal goes on to say that if
the sugar duty could be abandoned,
it most certainly ought to be done, be-
cause the sugar duty, like the former
duties on tea and coffee, is a revenue
and not a protective duty, and prac-
tically every cent of it comes out of
the pockets of the American consum-
ers. Herein, it says, is where it differs
from the duties on such articles as
wooden cloth, cotton cloth, cutlery,
ETC.; that these duties are paid in large
part, at least, by the persons who ship
them from abroad, and they serve be-
sides as protection and encourage
ment to American producers.
There isn't a single tax raised by
the government for the purpose of de-
fraying its expenses that does not
eventually come out of the pockets of
the people. Whatever duties are levied
upon any article imported into the
COunlIy SIIOulu Dc Luz rev.
enue and for no other purpose. If such
duties afford Incidental protection, all
very we'll.
The Journal reverts to the old the
DRY that the foreigner pays the tax.
1t does not make very strong state
ment on this point, qualifying the
original theory by saying that the
duties are paid in large part by those
who ship the goods into this country
AS yet no means OF determining how
large a part of the duties paid by
the foreigner has ever been devised;
Yankee genius has been unequal to
this task.
The sugar industry is one we'll
adapted to this state at least and
needs no protection. But any industry
that cannot get along without govern
ment aid all the while doesn't deserve
to get along.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
COLLEGE ATHLETICS.

Professor Victor c. Vaughn of Mich
igan university vigorously attacks
college athletics. declaring that the life
of the average college athlete does not
extend beyond middle age, and he is
peculiarly the victim of heart or kid
ney disease. Professor Vaughn would
begin his reform of college athletics by
prohibiting football. There is no doubt
that it is the game that has brought
them into greatest disrepute of all
and this because OF the many fatalities
that have attended it
When a man occupying the position
in the medical profession that Profess
sor Vaughn does calls attention to col
lege athletics and points out the dan
gers attendant upon them, serious
heed should be given to what he says.
No doubt he refers to the abuse rather
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

they felt it necessary to do something
to prevent their own states going over
to Populism; and that the Republic
ans admitted a lot of mining camps
to statehood, with a view to securing
their electoral votes, and an increased
vote in the senate, and they were re-
warded by all of those states going
Democratic in November last except
one, and that one gave the Republic
ans only one electoral vote out of
three in 1892.
If there is more precious pair in the
United States senate than Don Cam
eron and Matt Quay of the Keystone
state, they do not come from the Rocky
Mountain states. The Globe-Democrat
and the Ledger would do well to care
fully read and consider the comments
of the Post upon who is to blame for
the degeneracy of the senate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
"DEeENERAcY" OF THE SENATE

It has become a fad to denounce
the senate and to tell how degenerate
it has become; how there are no longer
in the senate any Clays, Websters or
Calhouns, or others who made history
for us half a century ago. The. blame
for all this is laid upon the west, the
Rocky Mountain west, as though the
west were in any sense responsible for
the class of men sent to the senate
from the east and the older states.
The ST. Louis Globe-Democrat re-
Gently took up the question of the
degeneracy of the senate. 1t said that
if the men who framed the constitu
ton, who defended it in the series Of
essays collectively called the Federal
list, and who pushed it to ratification in
the state conventions, could see the
senate as it has revealed itself since
the entrance of the later prairie and
Rocky Mountain states inflated its
membership, stif1ed its traditions and
destroyed its balance, they would
change their notions as to the poise
of that body.
The New York Evening Post, a paper
that has no pro-western leanings, COM
ments on what the Globe-Democrat
says as follows:
For people in the older states this is
very easy and comfortable way of
answering the question as to RESPONSE
bility for the senate. But candor COM
pelS the admission that it is grossly
unjust. An analysis of the body will
show that the older and larger COM
monwealths of the east, the interior.
and the south have done far more TO
degrade the level of the senate than
the later prairie and Rocky Mountain
states" Let us drop hypocrisy
and cant. Not the later prairie states,
not the Rocky Mountain states, not the
remoter commemorative on the Pacific
coast today degrade the senate and
threaten the perpetuity of that cham
Der. Excuses can be made for any
plumbers that they may commit. 1t is
the older states in which the signs of
the times are most alarming; New
York, which talks of sending as Hills
successor a Republican Hill; Pennsyl-
Yania, where Quay is trying to name
Quay's man as his colleague: Illinois
where the Republican machine seeks
to send a doodle alderman" from Chi
cago to occupy General Palmer's seat;
Missouri, where the Democratic party
mas nOlninS Dellef TO OIIer imam SIX
more years of Vest.
That is very sensible talk. If the
western states have not always had
Clays or Calhouns in the senate, neither
have the eastern states. If the stand
ard of admission to the senate has
been lowered it was the older states
that lowered it. The new states> of
the Rocky Mountain region have usu-
ally endeavored to send their best
men to the senate. Have the New En-
gland and middle states always done
that? If the Rocky Mountain states
have sent divers to the senate the
eastern states have not been slow in
sending Rolands there. They have
seen the mote in the western senatorial
eye, but they have been wholly un-
conscious of the beam in their own.
Thus the Philadelphia Ledger says the
southern Democrats in the senate have
surrendered to the Populists because
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
GENERAL F. A. WALKER.

The very sudden death of General
Francis A. Walker will be regretted
by ALL When Senator Wolcott sailed
for Europe last week it was General
Walkers intention to accompany him,
and much regret was expressed that
he did not, as General Walker was
recognized as one of the ablest BIZ
metallists in the country, though he
was not in any sense a free coinage
man.
He was a comparatively young man,
being Sc years old last July. He had
an honorable career as a soldier, hav-
ing gone into the war as a sergeant
major and having come out with the
rank of brevet- brigadier- general. He
was a prisoner in Libby prison and
his confinement there impaired his
health to such an extent that he never
fully regained it. But it was in the
civil walks of life that he gained his
great reputation. He was made super
intendent of the ninth census and also
of the tenth census, and his thorough
ness and methods made him famous
while his work then is still pointed to
as the ideal for a census. In 1873 he
became identified with the Sheffield
scientific school of Yale college as pro-
fessor of political economy and his
tory. He was member of the Paris
monetary conference of 1873. In 1881
he became president of the Massachu
sets Institute of Technology, Boston.
and continued in that position until
the time of his death. He made it one
of the foremost schools of technical
instruction in the country. 1t will be
a difficult matter to secure anyone to
take his place and who will fill it as
he did.
He was a citizen of whom not only
Massachusetts was proud but of whom
the whole country was proud. In the
best sense he was a progressive and
broad-minded man. His loss will be
felt particularly by all who are in
terested in technical education and the
advancement of economic studies of
every kind, while the entire country
will feel that it has lost one of it's
foremost citizens.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
He Sowed the Wind.

San Francisco Examiner: Holy smoke,
What have l fallen into?"
He was just entering the parlor of the
girl to whom he had been paying much
attention.
Pandemonium greeted him.
The shrill voices of score of women
rose and fell in earsplitting, bloob-curd-
ling cadence, and the windows ratified
one corner sat man with ashen face
and trembling limbs, TO whom volley
of unintelligle language was ofttimeS
hurled. and then again he sat. with star
ing eyeballs. listening to those awful
voices as suggesting, vociferatlng and
quarreling among themselves.
Twenty women with 20 voices.
What could it mean.
First one shrill voice and then another
predominated.
Il must have two columns for my essay
on Women of Note
If you dare to cut down my article
on The History of the Sleeve, I'll simply
quit
Il have 6S receipts that are just lovely
And I have'-"You should just hear
my poem on"-(all off in a bunch)
Then the pale young man spoke
YEARLY.
But. ladies. space forbids-''
Again a shrill voice above the others:
where's my manuscript on The Chll-
drens Corner? Don't you think, MI
Spifkins. that l should
The pale man tainted.
The man AT the door recognized the
unconscious sufferer. He was the editor
of the Billville Blublazes. He had been
trying to issue a woman's edition OF his
paper for sweet charity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
MY SWEETHEARTS.

My first was young and very fair.
With bright blue eyes and yellow hair
A surplice white in church he wore;
loved him for a month or more.
My second, he was gaunt and thin.
All round the hemisphere he'd been;
He'd shot at lions. killed bear;
loved him for about a year.
Ny third had flowing coal-black locks
Ct wore then green and yellow frocks).
He played and sang my heart away;
loved him for one year and a day.
My fourth was handsome. but so poorl
That only nude me love him more;
wept and sighed, but had to part,
1t almost. almost broke my heart.
NV fifth was-well. l cannot say
What he was like: but one fine day
swore to love him all my life:
And now he calls me Little Wife"
My sixth? My sixth is very Sill,
lie hardly seems q man at all;
But o. | could not bear to part.
With either Fifth or Sixth Sweetheart.
London Weekly Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

than to the use of athletics. There
for the sake of the health of the stu
dents. That they may easily run to
excess all know. And that is what
they have done. So much has this
been the case that college education
has come TO be associated in the public
mind with great proficiency in ath-
letics, while the association of the two
has come to be a common jest.
Thirty years ago the complaint that
Professor Vaughn makes against col
lege athletics in the United States was
made against them in England. So
great was the interest in the ques-
ton there that it was made the motive
of one of the most popular novels of
the day; and Geoffery Delamaine was
the athletic hero who died of heart
failure soon after one of his greatest
maine had a very considerable influ
ence in checking an excess of athletics
for a number of years. 1t made
palmer than anything else could have
done the danger arising from over in
diligence in athletic sports, but since
the novel of which he was the hero
has ceased to be read to any extent,
the influence of his fate has not been
felt to any appreciate extent.
Professor Vaughn's protest may
serve the purpose of calling attention
to the dangers of college athletics
more than the protest of other col
lege professors VINO are not eminent
in medicine. If it does, and restraints
the great tendency to excess, it will
have done much good.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

THE HERALD is n franchise MEM
be- Of The United Press, and re-
ceives the complete leased wire
Overland snd Pacific Coast news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
es. embracing accurate intelligence
OF all current events in 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 till the
hour of SoirE to press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
TALES OF THE DAY.
Reputation for Truth and Verac

Reputation for Truth and Veracity.
Washington Star: do you mean to call
me to testify to that mans reputation
for truth and veracity?'
Certainly, replied the lawyer.
We'll. wish you wouldn't
''Why?'
We'll, you see. he's a lifelong friend
of mine, and L wouldn't hurt his feel
ings or damage his interests; not for the
world
But all you have to do is to say that
his reputation for truth and veracity is
good"
Now. hold on. Remember that / have
some trath and veracity of my own to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Henry King will succeed the late ].
B. McCullagh as editor of the Globe
Democrat. He was Mr.. McCullagh's
right hand man for many years, and
is an able and brilliant writer. Under
his management the Globe-Democrat
will maintain its old-time prestige.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Hewlett Bros Three Crown spices
are put mp in quarter, half, one and
six pound cans, also ten pound box
es. Refuse all others, these are
home ground ana retain their full
strenGAA.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The people of Washington seem to
consider the inaugural ball of far more
Importance than the financial and
foreign policy of the incoming admin
istration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The legislators who are coming in
should not conclude that Salt Lake
City is lighted with oil lamps. The
lights that they see on top of the poles
are electric lights. They may not re-
alize this at first, but it is so. The
vouchers that the city treasurer pays
Tor light show the city is lighted co by
electricity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The San Francisco Chronicle of Jan.
g, 1896, is one of the best papers ever
put out anywhere. It is in no sense SEN
sational but in every respect solid, re-
liable and interesting. 1t contains So
DageS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The New York papers are very much
opposed to the idea of a bipartisan
police board for Greater New York.
They are very tired of the one they
have
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The New York Tribune says that
plumber of the Greater New York will
require cleverer sleight-of-hand than
that of the clumsy old-time thimble-
ringers who made Tammany their
fortress ana fence. The chances are
that Tammany's sleight-of-ha will
improve quite as rapidly as the art
of municipal government.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

If Major Mckinley should offer the
good offices of the United States to
the state of Ohio, it is generally be-
heved that they would be accepted
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The late county court had a profess
sional fruit grower as a member, still
that court never did any such pruning
of salaries as the new one is doing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

"How many people are there in the
world?" asks an exchange. All agree
that there are lots of people in the
world they wish were not.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Washington Star: A Comprehensive
man with a wide range of taste. Hes an
artist Yes. but what kind? Does he
dance. paint pictures, or walk the tight
rope?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06
WIT AND .HUMOR.

Puck: visitor-Chicago doesn't grow on
me.
Native with asperity)-Indeed? Why,
they accuse her of growing on almost
any pretext.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Just at present the most important
thing for this country to do is to stop
the bank failures. They are coming al
together too thick and fast
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Harper's Weekly: A New Man.-"Sah,
Mistah Johnsing. Is done turned ODER a
new leaf - No, Den pay me dat hat
dolIah you borrowed las yeah" "Sh-h
hi [ hain't de same man | wuz,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Cleveland Leader: In the Wrong Place.
Guest Gin New York RaineS hOteD-
Water, bring me some water. Waiter
Great Roosevelt, What do you take
this fora bath-houSe?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

In the midst of so much depression
it is somewhat of a relief to learn that
there has been considerable of a rise
in the mississippi
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

J. ]. Corbett has begun to train for
his coming fight with Fitzsimmons. AL
ready he has given out one or two in
terviews.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

In the olden days the merchants
motto was, IF we trust, we bust" In
these days it is. III we don't trust. we
bust
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Puck: Johnny-Mama. this looks as if
it would be a big snowstorm, doesn't it?
Mama-It does. indeed.
Johnny (moCrnfully)-But | guess
there'H never be any more snowStormS
like the ones they used to have when
grandpa was boy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Flieeende Batter: She-"Today is my
nth birthday" He-"How strange. Then
this photograph must be older than
YOU.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Household Words: She-"I see they
have now a Womans Dictionary Do
you suppose that differs from any other?"
He-"Runs into more words, L should
say"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Sweet reasonableness is a thing en-
tirely unknown. in politics. The two
things are incompatible.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Casey-..rll wager you an Casey had
good tonnes when We was young FELIX'S
together" Gallagher-"Faith we had,
Mrs. Casey, Many's the tonne we painted
the town green.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Mark Hanna realizes that there are
times when one would be alone.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Weyler's days are numbered. So are
the hairs on his head, but what the ex-
act number is no one can say.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Leadville's strike promises to become
one of Colorado's permanent institu-
tons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Are the tariff hearings the result of
any tariff cry? If so, why was not the
cry heard more during the campaign?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Why don't the powers instead of
sending a collective note to the sultan
send a collectible note to him?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The X rays might enable one to see
the dawn of prosperity The experiment
is worth trying at least.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The old, old story-Business will re-
vive shortly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: Said
Bagsley. Il hear that Newdule sold him
SELF to the rich girl there by his side.
Wonder how much he got?' Said Jaw
kins. as the handsome heiress moved
away, Il should say pretty good
figure
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

well-known Republican leader Of
Indiana tells the Washington Post that
if the Hon. Benjamin Harrison had al
lowed the persuasion of his friends to
induce him to say that he would ac-
cept the United States senatorship, the
office would have been handed him on a
gold platter. He having refused the
senatorship, what has become of the
gold platter2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

It is already evident that the senate
did not wish the president happy
new year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

mount issue before the country and
things are rather dull in consequence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

look after. Why. sir and his voice
sank to melodramic whisper, that
mans been a trusted employee of the
weather bureau for more than four
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

he has given a halfpenny)-"Now. my
man. what shall you do with that coin?'
well, l hardly know, guv-nor whether
to purchase an annuity or invest in rail-
wa, stock Which do you adviser
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Attend the Great Clearing Sale
of winter goods this week at
F. AUERBACH & BRO.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Populism has been showed under for
once in Kansas.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

The legislators are beginning to
gather in town. Welcome, gentlemen.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Detroit Tribune: If the lumberman who
wants a tariff of 81 a thousand on lum-
ism. what is to be said of the motives
o. the man who wants it fixed at 81.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Chicago Chronicles: A reduction of
from 20 to 80 per cent has been made in
the wages of certain Carnegie employees.
Yet those who supply the lumber with
which those men build their houses, and
those who make the glass for the Win
dows. the woolens and cottons the
families wear and the sugar used upon
the table. and Mr.. Carnegie himself are
all at washington demanding protection
through higher rates of duty. But this
is the logical outcome of voting for Nc
Kinley.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-06

Detroit Free Press: A Serious Case
Mrs. Newly, is it true that your husband
is SO very absent-minded?' Perfectly.
We've been married six months and
many an evening at II he gets up. takes
me by the hand. tells me what delight
full time he has had, and would leave II
l did not remind him"