The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-06
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS

Chicago Chronicle: Shoot first and
investigate afterward" are the epigram-
matte instructions issued TO the tram
hands of a western railroad which mas
recently suffered at the hands OF tram
robbers. The injunction seems somewhat
sweeping. 1t is well TO be on the alert
for train robbers. but 1t would be awk-
ward to have innocent people shot ana
the law might not take the fear OF ban
dts as an excuse The tralnInen VIII 40
well to be certain of their men-wnlch
ought to be no very difficult matter
Then let the rObber be shot full of holes
and hailed off TO prison If any lie Is lett
in him. Otherwise, turn him over 10 the
coroner. In case of doubt. give the cor
oner the preference. But first be sure OF
the man.
Philadelphia Record The British man
ufacturers are not sentimentaliSts- They
do business for the money they can make
out Of it. This viii account for the oe-
termination of Welsh tinDlate makers 10
abandon their establishments IN wares
and remove 10 the United States here
they can get or make cheaper black
plates than they can obtain in Wales
and they will have the opportunity to
go into the tinplate trust, ana, unqer
favor of the Dingley tariff, help to skin
The American consumer.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: BY verdict
recently rendered a Bunalo Jury estap-
lished the legal precedent that IL Is an
actionable affair for one woman 10 say
that another woman owed the DerIectlon
OF her figure to padding. That Is Just
what the Buffalo woman did say with
reference to a sister citizen, and the SIS
ter citizen promptly sued the defamer.
She sued her for $4,000. which seems nke
a heavy price for few words lisntly
spoken. The jury apparently thought SO,
too. for they cut the award down 10 949-
But it establishes precedent that spite
ful women must heed.
Nf;,,,aa,.oI;e 1;p,as. E,varv mound or
yard or bushel that we get from abroad
in exchange for what we cannot use at
home is d clear gain. If every yard OF
cloth now in Europe were sent mere as
a present and distributed among our peo-
pie, would they not be just that much
richer for it? Yet here are the orators
and organs teaching the absurdity that
If we get wealth from abroad IL Will make
us Cheap men" So we are taxed high
to prevent US from impoverishinS our
selves by importing wealth from abroad
Omaha World-H Herald: The moment a
naval chaplain made statements charging
Wrougdoing in the navy he was sum-
moned to a ccurtmartial. But none of
charged incompetency and brutality in
the war department has been summoned
before a courtmartial- Courtsmarttal gen
orally get at the exact facts, and exact
facts are not wanted by the war depart
ment at this time.
Boston Post: The forest fires in Colo
RADIO are doing for that state what the
timber thieves and their friends in con-
gress tried TO bring about at the last
session by the attempted repeal of reser-
walton orders of President Cleveland. The
people recognize the new danger now that
the elements have taken in hand the
work of destruction. The lesson may be
a pertinent one.
Wheeling Register: Web" Davis, as
sistant secretary of the interior, gets a
salary of $3.50 a day from the govern
ment. Web" is now campaigning out in
Missouri and purposes TO keep at it until
the close of the campaign. He also pur-
poses to keep drawing his salary of So. 80
a day from the government. This is civil
service reform under the present regime.
Lewiston Sun: Hypocrisy consists in
pretending to be something that you are
not The people of Maine are getting as
drunk as other people and at the same
time pretending that they abhor intern
perance and forbid it. We challenge any
champion Of Maine prohibition to show
that any part Of Maine is better than it
would be ln1er local option law. 80.