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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
CONCERNING DEMoCRATIJ HAIR
MoNY.

The St Louis Globe-Democrat says
that ex-secretary Whitney's hopes of
Democratic harmony in 1900 must be
based upon a belief that the Democrats
of the entire nation will do in that year
what the Democrats of New York,
Maryland and some other states did
this year-dodge the 16 to issue; that
Hill, Whitney, German and many other
Democratic leaders on the Atlantic sea-
board doubtless want the party to
straddle or ignore that issue, but the
western Democrats will have something
to say on this point; that the eastern
end of the party wanted a shuttle on
this question in 1896, but they were
overruled by the western and southern
Democrats. 1t is to be hoped that these
two elements will be equally success
full in the Democratic convention of 1900,
says the Globe-Democrat; and that if
silverism is to be involved at all in the
canvass of 1900 the country wants it to
be defined clearly in the platforms of
the parties, so that a square vote can
be taken on this question. as in 1896;
and that another fight on silverism
would kill that folly eternally.
OF course no one can say what will
or will not happen in the Democratic
national convention OF 1900 but it is
pretty safe to say that the convention
will be controlled by the Democrats of
the west and south rather than those
of the east 1t is not at all improbable
that the eastern Democrats who did
not support Mr.. Bryan and the Chi
cago platform in 1896 Will be in full
harmony with the majority of the party
three years hence; they are thoroughly
Disguised with the administration,
though many of them supported Major
Mckinley. while the Indianapolis move
ment is as dead as a red herring.
If silver is to be the issue in 1900,
and we are of opinion that it will be,
the country will certainly want the is
sue defined clearly in the platforms of
the parties, and it will be so defined in
the Democratic platform. But an
other fight will aid rather than injure
the silver cause.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
GERMANY AND CHINA.

1t has been conjectured that EN-
peror William is pursuing the course
towards China that he is for the pur-
pose of influencing the reichstag to
adopt his naval programme. This may
possibly be SO, but it is far more likely
that he is pursuing the policy towards
China that he is that the whole world
may understand that Germany will
protect her subjects wherever they
may be. The emperor has been just
as prompt to act in the Haytfen matter
as in the Chinese. And he is in this
matter Of protecting German subjects
pursuing the same policy that his
maternal grandmother's government
has always pursued in protecting Brit
ish subjects.
1t is true that the massing of a very
considerable squadron in Chinese
waters, following upon the seizure of a
Chinese port, looks as though Germany
might have some other object in view
than merely to exact reparation and
indemnity for the killing of two Ger
man missionaries, but what the object
want to establish herself so as 10 be-
come . successful trade rival to Eng
land in the far east as she has become
a rival in other parts of the world.
That she anticipates the breaking up
of the Chinese empire and its partition
among the powers Of Europe, is not
probable. Certain it is that Germany
is today the most ambitious country
in the world so far as colonial posses
sions are concerned, and she is rest
less TO crafty that ambition. She is
no longer contented to remain entirely
within the confines of the fatherland,
and she will seize almost any pretext
to add to her dominion, and this does
not mean that she will confine herself
to Europe. Germany is ambitious to
be the greatest power in every respect
in the world.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
THE LONG AGO.

I'm thinking tonight of the long, long
And a pair of blue eyes that We're
bright
And a form that was timid and shrinking
and 1.-THE,
And a hand that was pretty and white.
We sat on the banks of the swift running
In the heat of the summer Moons glow,
And padded our feet in the water and
played
In the sweet, in the blest long ago.
We talked of the time when, as women
and men, -1
We would launch our small boat on the
stream. 5ft
And float in repose its smooth current
And life would thea be like a dream;
When we'd gather the flowers from its
grass-covered banks,
And dance to it's ripple and flow;
But that was time when we We're both
young
In the beautiful sweet long ago.
The hooking bird came and sang a
sweet song.
And gladdened our hearts with his tune
And we fingered and played on the banks
of the stream,
Till we saw the red crest of the moon
Through the willowi tops green that bent
er the stream.
And mingled their branches below
And dipped in the clear and swift-running
brook
In the sacred the sweet long ago.
We fingered and played till the sun
chased the shade,
And the shadows grew narrow and long,
And the .whippoorwill came to the banks
of the stream
And sang US his sad, plaintive song.
We fingered and played in the gathering
shade.
Meath the willow boughs bending down
low,
And we tripped along home in the fast
coming gloom,
In the beautiful, blest long ago.
I have foated. dear Ettie far, far down
the stream,
Where the current is bold, rough and
strong,
But L gather no flowers from it's steep,
rugged banks,
And I miss the sweet hooking birds
song:
My sky IS o'ercast with great shadows of
doubt,
AS I view the swift current below,
And my heart will turn back to the
stream where we played,
In the sweet, in the best long ago.
I sigh for the sacred and sweet trust we
Where the willow boughs bent DER the
stream,
And the hooking bird sang, and the sun
chased the shade.
Although like a child I may seem.
l long to return to the dear, blessed spot
And catch the departing suns glow
And gather the flowers on the banks of
the stream
AS We did in the long, long ago.
Willis T. King from "A Little Book of
Missouri Verse
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
SENATOR WoLCoTT WILL Elk
PLAIN.


1t is said that on the second day of
the coming session of congress, SEN
ator Wolcott. of Colorado. viii make
q speech in the senate. and that the
subject of it viii be a history of the
failure of the mission of the Interna-
tional Bimetallic commission. If the
promised speech is made it will be read
by the people as few speeches are
read. 1t can hardly fail to tell far more
than the official report made to the
president, and the anticipation that it
viii is the chief reason why the speech
VIII be awaited with so much interest.
The story was recently sent out over
the country that the commission would
not have failed had it not been stabbed
in the back by the president; that
just as the commission was about to
obtain the consent of Great Britain to
the reoDening of the Indian minis and
the charging of the holdings of silver
by the Bank Of England as part of its
reserve, Ambassador Hay was in
structed to inform the British cabinet
that the whole affair was a mere make
believe, and that that which was asked
by the United States through a special
commission was really not wanted by
the administration which had sent it
abroad. It is a most unlikely story, as
the administration by pursuing the
course it is said to have done would
have stultified itself in a manner that
would have brought it into contempt
at home and abroad Had it been de-
sired to give the British cabinet any
intimation such as Ambassador Hay
is said to have conveyed to it, it would
have been conveyed to it before the
Bimetallic commission went abroad.
If Senator Wolcott does make any
speech giving the reasons why the COM
mission failed to secure the objects for
which it went abroad, he will probably
refer to this story either to confirm or
deny it, most probably to deny it. But
whatever he may say will be very
much more interesting than the formal
official report. He win give his own
opinion as to what the prospects for
international bimetallism are and the
grounds upon which he bases that
opinion, if he holds there is any chance
for an international bimetaIIisn. II
he shall so hold surely he will show
that he has faith as grain of
mustard seed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
TWO SCHOOL HISTORIES.


Recently two school histories of the
United States were published, one Civ
ing the southern view of the war of
the rebellion and the other giving the
G.. a. r. view of it, at least the his
tory was written at the instance of
the c. A r. Mrs. Susan Pendleton
Lee is the author of the one, which
was published in 1896. and John Bach
McMaster o fthe other, which has Just
been published. Mrs. Lees history has
come into prominence within a few
weeks because of an extract or two
made from it by the Boston Herald,
and the Herald's editorial comments
on the same. Professor McMaster's
history may be said to have came into
prominence before it was written. and
this because of the complaisancy shown
by him to write such a history as the
G. A. R. wanted. The objectionable
parts of Mrs. Lees history, as quoted,
were these
For this firing upon Sumter the
south has been charged with begin
nlng the war." In fact, the war begun
When the Washington government sent
armed vessels and troops to enter
Sumter was purely in self-defense.
Now. how does DIcNIaster treat this
same event? Ee says:
One OF the places Lincoln thus
pledged himself to hold" was Fort
Sumter to which he decided to send
men and supplies. As soon as notice
of this intention was sent to Governor
Pickens Of South Carolina. the con-
federate commander at Charleston,
General Beauregard, demanded the
surrender of the fort. Major Anderson
stoutly refused to comply with the
demand, and at dawn on the morning
of April Il, 1861, the confederates fired
the first gun at Sumter. 1t was
promptly answered by one from the
fort, and civil war began.
The difference in the accounts is
very slight, and whether the sending
of supplies to Fort Sumter or the firing
on it constituted the beginning of the
war, is q question on which people
viii differ and over which they will
argue. The war began when South
Carolina seeded from the Union.
And now as to the reasons why the
south seeded. Mrs. Lee says:
Not so much to preserve or extend
slavery, nor to have more power to
reclaim their fugitive slaves-which
must be more difficult to do from
foreign country than from sister states
did the southern states secede from
the Union They took the momentous
step, because for years they had
striven in vain to secure and main
tain the rights assured to them under
the constitution. The northern states
had taken their stand against the
equal rights of all the states in the
possession of the territories. They
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

ginia. and father of John S. Wise, the
New York lawyer and staunch Republic
can, y. r. S., in the Richmond Times,
relates an anecdote Illustrative OF the
character of the famous South9rner-
On his way to or from Il Maryland court
MIR. Wise was once spending a day with a
friend not far from what afterward be-
came Crisfetd, although the town and
railroad Were not then ever dreamed Of
While thsre he accompanied his host to
the sale of a deceased mans personal eS-
tate. Among the effects was q large bowl
the old-time punch or egg-nog bowl. 1t
was fun OF sugar belonging to the widow.
Not thinking that the bowl would be put
up so soon she left the room TO get
bucket in which to empty the sugar.
friend soon ran after her to tell her that
in it.
The widow FASTENED back to stop the
sale of the bowl until she could empty it.
1t was Knocked down to u party just
as she. entered the room. 1t was in vain
that she explained to the purchaser. lie
refused TO give up the sugar and allow the
bowl 10 be resOld. Stung by the indignant
looks and remarks of the crowd, he OPEN
~ appealed to Mr.. Wise whom he knew
and know whether L am right or not.
ask you, in the presence of these peo-
pie, am l entitled TO the sugar in this
bowl or not? If you say l am not, 1 will
titled to it, then I shall keep it,
My friend said Mr. WISE, in his gen.
lleSt tones, ana with deprecatlng man
ner, you put a delicate and an unpleas-
ant responsibility upon me. Hadn't you
better decide this yourself?''
mo" said the buyer, II know what
your opinion is going to be, and I want
you to give it so this whole crowd can
hear it.
Then" said Mr.. Wise, Il advise you
that the sugar is yours. The widow can
not take it from you. She has no redress
in the matter
At this point the man cried out: what
did l tell your
''Stopl' Numbered Mr.. Wise I've given
YOU nay opinion; I've advised you, at your
persistent request, as l can prove by all
these people. 1t remains for me to tell
you that [ charge you S. for the advice
and my service in the matter, and l de-
mand immediate payment. If you trihe
with me moment in the matter of pay
ment, it will be the dearest bargain of
your life
AS Mr.. Wise concluded, he walked to
the crestfallen individual and extended
his hand for the money, While the crowd
yelled it's approval.
But the crowd became suddenly silent
as Mr.. Wise walked over to the widow,
and, placing the So in her hand said
Madam, this money is honestly mine. L
have a perfect right to dispose of it as
l please. Take it, and with it buy more
sugar for yourself and your fatherless
children"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

There continues to be some talk about
nutting up some other candidates for
members of the school board than those
already nominated. That is a right
anyone has If he chooses to exercise it.
b,,t those already named are all in ia
vor of the high school and the common
school system, and the maintenance of
the high school and the efficiency of
tbe graded schools has been the only
question before the people: and by the
nominations made, and the absence OF
candidates opposed to the platform on
,vhich they stand, the people may be
said to have declared for that platform
end ali that it stands for IT should
ard n,in be Sustained.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
soME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.


San Francisco Chronicle: An Indian
woman 116 years old is living in southern
california and there begins to be a sus-
Diclon that she was once arrested for
muruer and sentenced to be hanged.
There is no better assurance than that
in this state of green old age.
Atlanta Constitution: Tammany had
charity at the close of the campaign. This
is good Democracy and is better than the
Republican plan of spending money for
purposes of corruption.
New York Mail and Express: To apply
the term of Holy Alliance to q combi-
nation of European nations in opposition
to American commerce, as is seriously
proposed in Vienna. would be d case of
misnomer scarcely less preposterous than
the scheme itself. They might just as
we'll organize monopoly to destroy COM
petition in trade and call it a benevolent
society.
Louisville Courier Journal: Notwith-
standing the sneers of scoffers, there is
nothing improbable in the story of that
Long Island man who swears that he saw
two 5O-foot sea-serpents at the same time
the other day. They are usually seen in
pairs.
Boston Herald: 1t is announced that the
new government up in Newfoundland has
begun business by abolishing a lot of
superftuous officers. That is a good way
to start. Less shrewd ministries usually
start off by retaining all the sinecures
and putting their friends in them. Then
they get upset.
Pittsburg Dispatch: A Chicago inventor
has occupied a great deal of space in the
newspapers of that city with q process,
alleged to he in operation, of making gold
out of anthony. which costs 800 per ton
and yields S2.6S0 of gold. But as the
product comes out in the form of bricks
that have to be pulveriZed and treated
in order to get the gold out. it appears to
be inferior to the operation practiced by
the head of the Pennsylvania Republican
machine. who furnishes the gold bricks in
the finished FORM
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
Confined to Her Bed.

MY wife has been in poor health
for long time and unable TO do her
work, and a part of the time was con-
fined to her bed. A few months ago
she began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
and now she is entirely we'll and able
to do her work. We are grateful for
Hoods Sarsaparilla." Gabriel Greago,
st. Johns, Arz.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

Twill Mr.. Cages currency message
be written in blank verse or in such
noble rhyme as he read at the cham
Der of commerce dinner in New York;"
asks the Chicago Record. So far as
results are concerned it will be written
In blank verse
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

Senator Shoup tells a Chicago paper
that he believes that relief can only
come through the Republican party
The senator viii have to admit that the
relief is slow in coming.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

4 New York man asked to be placed
in ar asylum because, he said, he
knew he was crazy. Surely this man
had needed the great Spaniard's ad-
vice: MAKE it thy business to know
myself, which is the most difficult
lesson in the world"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

A Paris correspondent says that the
late Or. Evans made his millions not
in pulling teeth. but in handling real
estate. 1t was good pay dirt that he
handled, then.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

In his Thanksgiving day talk Bob
Ingerson asked: What has the church
done?'' It has soothed and made happy
millions and millions of people in their
lives and driven away the terrors of
death in the hour of dissolution. What
has Ingerson done?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

If Mayor-elect Clark wants a model
for his inaugural mayoralty message
he can do no better than to obtain
copy of Mayor Glendinning's first mes
sage. 1t was really admirable. and so
FAR ee NE can recall it is the only adj
rrlirable thing about his administration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

There have been horse shows, dog
shows and other kinds Of shows in New
York this month. but the Republicans
and Mugwumps have had no show.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

Croker can take the starch out of
Senator Murphy's leadership just as
quick as the laundry man can take it
out OF Murphy's collars and cuffs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

The currency reform people offer the
country the choice of about one hun
dred evils, and there doesn't seem to
be a least one among them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

The latest dictum from a gold stand
ard man is that any financial legisla-
ton must provide for an elastic cur
rency. 1t is a Chicago man who ut
fore 81
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

Queen Victoria owns dress manu-
featured entirely of spiders webs.
Presumably there are no flies on such
a dress as that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

mo citizen of Salt Lake should OPP
pose any branch Of the public schools,
when the fact that some of the judges
of the late election didn't know how
to count is taken into consideration.
The coming generation should know
something at least about figures" says
the Payson Globe; and the Globe is
right.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

\ St. Louis car driver has travelled
271. $50 miles in 81 years. and all on one
street. This must be the historic long
lame that has no turning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

About the only difference in the looks
Of football players is in the size of the
picture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

What a football player Samson would
have made before Delilah trimmed his
hair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

what splendid model Emperor Will
lam would make
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

Park City Record: If you wish to find
real, genuine Christianity in these days
of show and sham, you have only to en-
ter the barracks of the Salvation Army.
The force of that declaration was fully
exemplified in Salt Lake City on Thanks
giving day, when the Army fed a multi
tude Of the CITY of the Saints - poor
and homeless people. Between 1900 and
1.400 grateful souls passed over the
Threshold to the Army banquet hall on
that day and as many appreciative NOR
tails gave thanks to God for the blessing
and prayed for the preservation of the
Army. OF all the churches in Utah. with
their thousands and thousands of mem
bers. not one of them held service in
any way comparable with the service
rendered to God and man by the unpre-
tentious lads and lassies of the Salvation
Army in Salt Lake on Thanksgiving day.
Provo Utonian: We not only have
party without an organ in Provo, but
since the death of the non-partiSan party
we have an organ without a party.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

General Weyler's type-writing and
telegraph facilities are not nearly so
great in Spain as they were in Cuba.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

a Cuban storm is said to be brewing.
Well, it is about time for the rainy
season to set in in the Antilles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

The Hungarians in the reichsrath are
quite as lawless and riotous as the
Hungarians in the coal regions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

Baltimore is to have a germ proof
barber shop. What is wanted is talk
proof barber shop.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

No secretary of the treasury who
quotes poetry in his speeches can ever
hope to reform the currency.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

It doesn't look very well for a mem
Der of the supreme court of the state
to be in Washington endeavoring to in
1iuence federal appointments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

The New York papers pay no tribute
to Croker, but the people do.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

How those Dingley law deficit acorns
do grow
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

The reichsrath seems inclined to
make a ram of President Abraham
oVich.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

The country is far more likely to have
a permanent tariff squabble than a
permanent tariff commission.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29

Successful yellow fever cures are
strangely coincident with the advent OF
cold, frosty weather.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-29
STATE PRESS COMMENTS.

Richfeld Censor: Congress is to meet
soon. There should be law to prohibit
The whole world needs better quality
and q less quantity of laws just now.