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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11
OLD FASHIONED
METHODS.

Everyone knows that the doughnuts
and gingerbread of today cannot com
pare with those of his youth, and if
told that the fine flavor was. not in the
doughnuts and gingerbread, but was
the accompaniment of youth, he shakes
his head in doubt, and still praises the
good things of the days of his youth
The world moves and humanity ad-
vances, and the slowness and fogyism
of the past are smiled at. AS the rail-
road train Of today is far in advance
of the coaches of last century; as the
double-turreted battleships of today are
better than the wooden walls of 1872;
as the Krag-Jorgensen rifle is better
tnap the smoothbore of 40 so are all
our notions today higher than We're
those of 81, particularly so far as Off
cering an army is concerned. Secre-
tary of War Alger has secured an APP
pcintment for his son. This is the
modern, up-to-date way, and shows
what an advance has been made since
Linooin's time. In the last year of the
var Lincoln was anxious to crafty his
sons ambition to serve in the army,
and so he wrote to General Grant as
follows:
Executive Man5ien, Washington, JAN
IL, 1S65.-Lieutenant General Grant:
Please read and answer this letter as
though 1 We're not president, but only a
rr'1 d. My son, now in his 22d year,
having graduated at Harvard, wishes
To see something of the war before it
ends. do not wish to put him in the
ranks, nor yet to give him commits
sion, 20 which those who have already
served long are better entitled and bet
ter qualified to hold. Could he, with
out embarrassment to you or detri-
ment to the service, go into your mill
tary family with some nominal rank, 1
and not the public furnishing his
necessary means? If no, say 50 with
out the least hesitation, because 1 am
as anxious and as deeply interested
that you shall not be encountered as
you can be yourself. Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN.
Very old fashioned that And peo-
pie who still believe that the dough-
nuts and gingerbread of their youth
were the very best ever made, also be-
lieve that Lincoln's way was the best.
What q pleasant old fashioned fellow
he was, but how sadly lacking in up
to-dateness.
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give OF his patriotism is to offer his
life to his country, for all that man
hath will he give for his life. Thou
sands of free silver men in the west,
and all over the country as for that
matter, have offered their lives to their
country. Can good patriots do more?
From all the free silver states hum
dreds and thousands of men have vol
unteered for the war, and they were
all advocates of free silver. If this
isn't patriotism, what is? No free
silver man would be fool or knave
enough to soiemnly and hypocriticaHy
say that no gold man could be good
patriot when the United States are at
war. The patriotism of the American
people does not depend on their finan-
cial or economical views, and for any
paper or person to say that a free sill
Yer man or a single gold standard man.
free trader or a protectionist cannot
be good patriot when the United
States are at war is to write itself or
himself down as an ass or scoundrel.
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the best example he knew how. Such
is the Bryan case, and if political
capital is to be made out of ii for
Bryan, the president would seem to
have been the manufacturer.
The Pittsburg Times. another Re-
publican paper, published in the Re-
publican state of Pennsylvania, re-
cognizes the fact that. though Mr..
Bryan is a defeated candidate for the
presidency he is still the representative
of very large and thoroughly
patriotic element
The Times said further: There can
be little doubt but that Mr.. Bryan will
make good soldier. In his campaign
for the presidency he showed that he
was gifted with wonderful energy.
pluck, endurance and enthusiasm.
These same qualities ought to make
him az efficient leader of troops. He
takes up the profession of arms almost
too late in life to become a great SOL
der, but both his political friends and
foes will be glad to see that he has
been given the opportunity to do what
he can. A very large majority of US
Vecaite of free silver, but we are all for
Colonel Bryan as he draws his sword
for free Cuba
A very different opinion from that
expressed by the Brooklyn Eagle, the
whole tone of whose malevolent edi-
torial seemed to say, between the lines:
I'VE must rid the country of this man
Bryan; If possible, send him to the
front OF battle, like Uriah, while
Hanna further defiles the nation; if he
escapes the bullets of the enemy, see
that some worshiper of the golden
calf in our own ranks puts a bullet in
his back"
From the disposition shown by the
Eagle and papers of its ilk, their
editors might do the bullet act for a
moderate sum and without a qualm of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER.

| What really strikes the foreigner in
our unprepared-for war is not so
much the quality as the small extent
of it,. Some portions of our army have
challenged the admiration of foreign
military men by its excellence. Thus
Captain d'Arville of the French en-
bassy at Washington, speaking of the
engineer corps landing service and its
completeness, says:
Il had no sort of appreciation of the
completeness of these American officers
landing equipment until 1 saw a part
of it. Figure to yourself a poutremer
tsea bridge or pontoon) of over half
an English mile long, compact enough
TO bear UP a train of six field guns. Do
you know any service in Europe that
has ever ventured upon such a daring
experiment? I do not But it is sue
eessful. In gunnery they excel in ac-
curacy any artillery I have ever seen"
High praise this, and we'll deserved.
If the land operations of the war take
on any considerable dimensions there
will be many surprises for foreign mill
itary critics of the American army. One
Of the great errors they make in esti-
mating the American soldier is that
they think he does not realize the diff
culties to be overcome nor the danger
that .confronts him; he realizes both,
but they neither discourage nor over
awe him. 1t is his appreciation of facts
that has always made him 50 success
full in the field. If he has a mountain
TO climb he prepares himself to climb
a mountain and not a mole hill
The difference between the American
and the European may be illustrated by
a reference to the differnce between
American and European railroads. In
Europe rOadbed costs three or four
times as much as in America, and it is
an axiom with European railroad men
that unless the roadbed is perfect there
can be neither speed nor safety; and
they almost shudder when they behold
an American roadSed. Yet in America
the roadbeds answer their purpose as
well as in Europe, and travel on Amer
lean roads is as speedy and safe as on
European roads. The difference is
largely one of standards, the American
believing that it is not necessary to go
beyond the practically safe and useful.
And this explains why he has more re-
lance on hurried preparation for war
or anything else than the European
has. His nature is more mobile, his
talents more versatile, his self-reliance
greater.
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TALES OF THE DAY.
The Blood He Shed.

The men who entered into Intervention
in Cuba for humanitys sake, who tried
to prevent declaration of war, who have
slandered Democrats ever since its be-
ginning. because the war was made GER
tain by their insistence, reminds one of
the story told on General Bob looms Be
fore the war of the rebellion he declared
that he would drink all the blood that was
spilled in the conflict. After the close of
the war the general was surrounded by
friends one day in on Atlanta hotel and
as usual was holding everybody en-
tranced by his brilliant conversation An
ey-confederate soldier was in the group.
He, had heard the speech about drinking
all the blood. etc. and S raightway he
brought Il UP. General Toombs, did /
hear you say you would drink all the
blood that was shed between the north
and south?"
Well confound it. suppose did; what
have you got to say?"
Only this, general, that you were quite
right-you meant that you would drink
all that you shed yourself
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11
THE FALL OF HAVANA.

CAS- 1t Will Bel
Above Havana's harbor Shrek the speed
ing shot and shell;
The flames of burning vessels light the
scene of struggle we'll
In the heavens their reflection makes an
oyerhanging hell,
While Cuba halls Columbia,
Upon the heights of MORO flashes bright
tho Yankee steel,
On the ruined and rocking ramparts its de-
tenders run and reel
In the dust of degradation drags the ban
ner of CASTLE
And Cuba halls Columbia!
We have shown the titled tyrants how a
freeman dares to die;
From ship and shore the battle-roar goes
UP to storm the sky
Till back the God of justice sends our
soldiers His reply
While Cuba halls Columbia,
Victory's voice rolls downward from the
mountain TO the main;
IL sweeps aback the pillows track and
strikes the shore again
Each crested wave is crimson with the
naughty blood OF Spain,
And Cuba halls Columbia
Oh. the ecstacy of conflict when it claims
tho cause of right
Oh. the ardor of the onslaught 'gainst
throned wrong nd might,
On. the strength thai GU mes for shifting
~
When Cuba, .iaiis Columbia.
We have struck the singing shackIes
from the limbs of starving slaves.
we have filed with Spanish carrion full
W., an hundred thousand graves,
we nave torn the sword and sceptre from
the neryeless hands of knaves-
And Cuba halls Columbia.
me mailed host of murder from this hem
=. isphere is hurled
lnelr leaders sank and strangled where
the smoke of cannon curled-
we nave swept the swart oppressor from
tho regnant Western World
And Cuba halls Columbia
the world no more
NOR carrlon-call to blade and ball is heard
on sea or shore
me psalms of peace and wars release
proclaim the struggles DER
Still Cuba halls Coumbiai
waiter Hurt, in the Calling Gun
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11
JAPAN PROTESTS AGAINST THE
TEA DUTY.

Japan has entered a strong protest
against the duty on tea provided for in
the war revenue BILL The protest is
based on the ground that a uniform
duty of ten cents a pound on all teas,
cheap or dear, will have the effect of
running Japan's tea trade with the
United States. The protest was sent to
the state department and by it re-
terred to the conference committee,
where it was no doubt most respect
fully pigeon-holed.
This war tax may affect to some ex-
tent Japan's tea trade with the United
States, but not greatly; the burden will
fall on the consumer, and the for
eigner will not pay the tax. The heav-
lest part of this particular tax will fall
upon the consumers of the cheaper
grades of tea, as they far outnumber
consumers of the expensive teas. But
the present. tax is just half what was
imposed by the law of December "a,
1861. That law provided that the duty
on all teas should be twenty cents per
pound. Japan has no ground for pro-
treatment that other countries are. and
this she is. The government has the
right to raise revenue from whatever
source it chooses and it will exercise
the right.
Tea has always been a favorite sub
ject for levying duties upon from the
very first tariff act ever passed. It's
trea tmant in tho vor;O,c to,iee oo+- =;
rather interesting.
The tariff act of July 4, 1889 (the
firsD laid the lduty on tea at from 6
cents to 40 cents per pound The for
mer rate was levied on bohea and the
latter on hyson.
The act of August 10, 1870, changed
the rate to 10 cents and 80 cents per
pound, the extremes being on the same
teas in the former act.
The act of January 20, 1895. made the
rate on gunpowder or gomez, the same
as that on Tyson teas. viz. 80 cents a
pound.s s
The act of April q, 1916, made the
rate of duty from u cents a pound on
bohea. to 68 cents a pound on imperial,
gunpowder and gomez
The act of August s. 1851, made the
rate of duty on all teas 10 cents a
pound.
The act of December "a, 1861, made
the rate of duty on all teas 20 cents a
pound.
The act of June 80, 1864, raised the
duty on all teas to % cents a pound
The act of July IA, 1870. reduced the
duty to Is cents pound.
The act of March 3, 1883, abolished the
duty on teas, and there has been none
on teas since.
The rate imposed by the war revenue
bill cannot be said to be excessive, in |
view of what the rates have been in !
the past.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11
TESTS FOR GOOD PATRIOTS.
The Portland oregonian says:


No free silver man can be a good pa
triot when the United States is fight
ing.
1t would be difficult, indeed, to get
more untruth, more bigotry. more
spite and venom into single sentence
than is contained in that. If silver
man cannot be a good patriot when
the United States are fighting he can
never be good patriot. And why
cannot free silver man be a good pa
triot when the United States are fight
ing? There could be no reason why
he. could not, but the Oregonian would
probably reply that he could not be-
cause he. does not accept the single
gold standard.
The supremest test that man can
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11
TWO KINDS OF DARING.

New York Journal: At the time when
Lieutenant Hobson and his men were SAL
ing into Santiago's harbor, thinking only
of how the brief moments of life that then
seemed eIt TO them could best be used
in their country.s service, some other
was making large demands upon them.
MIR. Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil
company, and Mr.. Havemeyer. of the
Sugar trust. were tossing on restless pill
lows thinking how they could evade con-
tributing even the smallest percentage
of their gigantic incomes toward defray-
ing the expense of the struggle.
Hobson and his brother heroes escaped
death, and if the experience of the past
IS any guide, Havemeyer and Rockefeller
will escape taxation. To think otherwise
victories no less renowned than war.
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had been placed beside me- and how it
could have happened at a temperance
convention do not know. but it was a
beer mug filed with water. Well, 1t
was a warm day. and where there is con-
vention food spread out on warm day
there are likely TO be flies. There were
flies, and one had lighted trustingly on
the surface of the water in that mug
saw him as lifted 1t, and did the most
sia1ulaI and humane thing that I could
think of-blew him off the water. Well.
they cheered for five minutes. And to
this day l suppose you can't persuade a
Green Bay man that anybody from Mil
waukee can drink glass of water even
at temperance convention, without first
blowing off the foam
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

Harlem Life: The PLAINTIFFS LAWYER
Those two witnesses swear that they do
not know each other: never saw each
other; never heard of each other. | offer
apartment house for the last Is wears.
The Defendants Lawyer-ObiectI Inn
material and irrelevant
The Judge-Objection sustained
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

Mail and Express: Bismarck denies that
he has been saying unkind things about
America. This shows that the enterpris-
ing correspondent who claims to have in
teryiewed the venerable statesman a few
days ago must have been suffering from
Inflammation of the ina gination.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11
WIT AND HUMOR.

London Punch: A Believer in Dieting
Hostess Ito friend who has been brought
IN TO take pot-luck)-rm afraid Mr.
simpson, we've only got a very poor din
ner to offer you. -
Mr.. Simpson-My dear Mrs. Jones. I bee
you not TO apologize. | assure Won
think 1t quite desirable TO underfeed oc-
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Harlem Life: Heirlooms-He (wonder-
ing II that Williams has even been ac-
cepted)-Are both your rings heirlooms?
She (concealing the hand)-OI. dear,
yes. One has been in the family since
the time of Alfred. but the other is newer
and (blushing) only dates from the con-
quest.
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Married men who enlist under the
second call for volunteers will have to
get the consent of the regimental com
pander. Evidently Charlotte Smith
has been getting in her work
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Mr.. Bryan evidently fears that the
national administration will cut his
cable. Chicago Times Herald. Ad-
ministration organs have shown a de-
sire to cut his throat.
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Lieutenant Hobson and his compan-
ions are not TO be exchanged just at
present. 1t must be admitted that we
haven't captured anything from Spain
so valua BILE as Hobson and his com
panions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer says that
Secretary Alger goes right ahead Civ
ing away his plans. IT should be re-
membered that they are sort of chrome
plans.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

Overtlres are being made to General
Lord Wolseley to accept the governor
generalship of Canada. These over
lures are not part of the European
concert
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Those strange and mysterious ships
that have been seen in the Gulf of
Mexico in the last few days will prob
ably turn out to be Barclays ship of
Fools
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Washington Star: What do you mean
py forcing the price of bread up?' in
quired the philanthropist
:, didn force 1t up. replied the specu-
lator. with look of injured Innocence
After l got possession of all the wheat
1t went up of its own accord
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Atlanta Journal: The south has given
the country another hero of the war with
Spain in young Hobson of Alabama and
he has been spared for other deeds of dar-
ing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

The continued announcement of the
cutting of the Cuban cables is about
on par with Weyler's typewriter
victories.
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According to the st. Louis papers the
manner in which the Humane society
Of that city conducted its election of
officers was most inhumane.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11
One Rv EXPERIMENTATION Peck

Ex-Governor Peck tells a story about
his visit 10 Green Bay. Wis. He had been
asked to speak at Good Templars af-
fair there.
When stood up" Mr. Peck tells. It
looked about for some water. mug
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

Atlanta is just now the pleasantest
summer resort in the land" says the
Atlanta Journal Who would care to
disillusion the Journal of this idea?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

Rear Admiral Dewey will have to
take note of the fact that there is an
other Richmond in the feld-Richmond
Pearson Hobson.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

There is nothing more deceptive than
a prevailing opinion.
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insanity of one of the parties
stopped wedding. in Perry, Oklahoma
the other day. It is the general cause
of weddings elsewhere.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

what has become OF the old-fash-
toned boy who had to churn ?''-Atchi-
son Globe. He has gone with the warts
and freckles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

The value of a battleship in peace
is about S5,O00,0OG. What its value in
war is has not been finally determined.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

Kansas City Times: In Cuba the people
are starving for food. and in Spain the
government is starving for money. The
first the president can remedy by ordering
a forward movement. The latter we care
nothing about. 90.
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Cervera refuses to come out and fight,
and. yet he objects to having shell
game run in on him.
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Even "the Oldest inhabitant" doesn't
remember when the town was duller
than it is today.
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Why not employ the press censors to
suppress the Spaniards, SO effectual1y
have they suppressed the news?
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Perched upon the hillside the batter
les at Santiago could not be better sit
uated for playing a game of bluff.
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All fresh war rumors should be taken
with a grain of salt.
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Irving Scott built the Oregon, but he
didn't build better than he knew, well
built as she is.
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1t is to be hoped that the war reve-
nue. bill will produce revenue instead
of deficits.
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BY taking a porcelain bath tub to
Tampa General Miles seems to have
put his foot in it.
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Washington Star: Time was when Hob
sons choice was a phrase that meant ho
choice at all. Now it means about the
bravest and noblest choice a man can pos
Sibly make.
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To check a run on a bank-stop tht
checks.
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Spain can have peace, but it will not
be peace with Spanish honor.
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The various diversions of the navy
department afford a good deal of di-
vertissemeut.
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Manifest destiny, like charity, covers
multitude of sins.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

Large bodies move slowly may
account for the slow movement of the
army.
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The embarkation of troops for Cuba
indicates that the army is going to sail
ip
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We move to substitute Lieutenant
Hobson for the board of strategy.
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A little cool weather now and then is
appreciated by the best of men.
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COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

Washington Star: 1t is to W. j. Bryan's
credit that while he desires tent. it is
not for sulking purposes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-11

Chicago Record BY the bombardment
of Santiago we avenge the savage attacks
made by the Span!ards on the nerves of
Bostons most erudite citizens.
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Talking about carrying the war into
Spain is building castles in Spain.
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Los Angeles Herald German newspa-
pers complain of the transferable tyran-
ny of the American petroleum ring" Why
don't they appeal 10 the powers-tne
other powers?
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Bravo. Iobson. EravadO. cevera,