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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
ANDREW Johnson's Quick Wit.

Exchange: In the Pinch precinct, Mem
phis, the majority of the voters in which
are Irish. Andrew Johnson, then candi-
date for congress. and his opponent, Gus
Henry, met in joint debate. Henry OPP
ened, and as a bid for the Irish vote, he
told in whitening terms how Johnson,
when in congress before, had voted
against bill for an appropriation to as
sist Ireland during a time of famine; he
himself had done yeOman work for the
passage of the bill while this other man,
who was now asking their support, had
done everything possible TO defeat it. 1t
was a fine point, and the speaker made
the most of it, burning before il the lamp
of his eloquence until the crowd were wild
with excitement. Then Henry sat down
and Johnson got up amid cat-callS and
SCOTS to answer him.
What my opponent has told you is
true, he said. ireland was suffering,
and l voted against an appropriation for
her relief, for the money which it was
thus proposed to give away was not mine.
but yours; yours because it was in the
public Golfers. 1 refused to give away
money which did not belong to me; but l
went down into my own pocket, and out
of my own private funds. which | had a
right to bestow. | subscribed $3.50 to the
relief fund which was being quietly
raised. How much of his own money did
Mr.. Henry give? Not a cent, He was too
busy trying to give away yours. Now,
gentlemen. which of us two did the better
part by suffering Ireland?" The effect of
this was magical; the cat-callS were now
for Henry. and the cheers for Johnson
and the votes went with the cheers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
CHARITY AS A CAUSE FOR IN
TERVENTLoN IN CUBA.

Secretary Sherman issued an appeal
to the American people for funds to aid
in succoring the destitute in Cuba,
ard all contributions of every kind
were to be admitted to the islands free
of duty. Now the fact that Spain gave
permission to admit these contributions
free of duty has been construed by
some, the hot-heads could easily con-
strue a gnat into an alligator if re-
quired to. to be an acknowledgment
of the right of the United States to in
tervene in Cuba, That is about the
broadcast construction ever placed upon
an act of charity in the world.
Two or three years ago there was
great distress in Russia and the peo-
pie of this country sent large contri-
buttons of wheat to relieve the suffer
ers, yet 10 one at that time claimed
that because Russia allowed the wheat
to enter her ports that it was an ac-
acknowledgement of the right of interview
ton.
There is said to be a great lack of
food in the Klondike and as a conse-
quence the miners there are threatened
with famine. Congress has made an
appropriation of 100000 for their relief
and the Canadian authorities will per-
nit relief supplies to pass in free of
duty. Is this to be construed as an
acknowledgment by Canada of the
right Of Intervention?
OF course, those who claim that
SPANS action is an acknowledgment
of the right of Intervention in Cuba
contend that the cause of the distress
there makes all the difference in the
world.
The United States may have a right
of intervention in Cuba, but it is be-
cause their commercial and other in
terests are being jeopardized and not
because Spain accepts the charity of
the American people.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
PAY YOUR 1IrT1E BILLS.

You may talk about the tariff, and pro-
lection and free trade,
And party panaceas for depressing hui
man ills,
And improving trade conditions" and
the boom that wheat has made.
But the way to stir up business IS to
pay your little bills
If you owe the grocer twenty. and he
owes the butcher ten,
And five more To the coal man, and 10
the ice man five,
Your payment of the twenty helps along
three business men.
And the payments they can make in
turn make other people thrive
Idle money in your pocket doesn't do you
any good;
Unless Your bills are all paid up in full
it isn't yours.
Just pay up All you're able, as you wish
that others would
That's the recipe for hard times that
invariably cures.
If you pay what you owe others. others
stili can then pay you;
It's the circulating dollar that the pulse
of business thrills.
So set your money working, and then
watch what il will do
For the way 10 stir UP business is to
pay your little bills.
William II. Hills in New York Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
ECKELS AND THE CHESTNUT
STREET BANK.

There is no man in all the country
who has prated more of honest
money and honest banking than has
Mr.. James H. Eckels. He has talked
them by day and dreamed them by
night; on the mountains tops and in
the valleys depths he has talked them:
travelling by rail or travelling by steam
Ter he has talked them; to talk them
| became a part of his very being, an
/ essential to his existence; they and
his name became synonyms; and to
mention the one was to conjure up the
image of the other In truth, Mr.. Eek
els made the fatal mistake of protest
ing too much, and at last he has made
a confession or admission that proves
all his protestations We're but hollow
pretenses. Speaking of the failure of
the Chestnut Street National bank, Mr.
Eckels says:
have known of the condition of the
Chestnut Street National bank for two
years. At that time its affairs were in
bad shape and were brought to my
attention.
One year ago 7 could have closed the
bank but it would not have done. It
was in election time.
This bank was unsound, so unsound
that it had to close its doors; it had
been in this condition for a couple of
years and the comptroller of the cur
rency knew it all the time. He says
he could have closed the bank year
ago, but it would not have done. And
why would it not have done? Because
''it was in election time" That is to
say, Mr. Eckels deliberately refused to
do his sworn duty for political rea-
sons. Why would it not have done to
close the bank in election time? Be
cause it was a Sound money bank
and its president was running a Sound
money paper and showing up the in
herent weakness and dishonesty OF the
free silver propaganda. as he claimed
it to be, and it would never have done
in the world to let the people know
that a sound money" newspaper pro-
prietor's sound money" bank was IN
sound to the very core. To have told
the truth would have hurt the cause of
honest" money, and of the honest
men who were advocating it. The
cause WAS 50 uOlESl lldl lHG SOAHp-
troller of the treasury was perfectly
willing to resort to dishonesty to boil
ster it up. He simply prostituted his
office to further the political cause he
had espoused; that is ALL
Does any one il all the wide land be-
lieve for an instant that if the Chest
nut Street National banks president
had been the editor and proprietor of
a great silver paper instead OF a great
gold paper, Comptroller Eckels would
have forborne for more than year to
do his sworn duty and close its doors
because ct was in election timer" Not
person believes he would. On the
contrary he would have been over zeal
Gus to seize the opportunity to crush
the bank and so silence a silver paper.
And after he had done this, does any
one suppose that he would have let the
bank so into liquidation instead of into
a receivers hands. No, no one sup
poses he would
Ex-Comptroller Eckels' admission re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
a Grand Achievement

Bingham Bulletin: The holiday num-
Der of The Salt Lake Herald was a
grand achievement, and will prove of
much benefit to the city and state. 1t
gave a comprehensive review of Utah's
industries; was thorough without being
tedious. It's comments on Bingham,
present and future. covered much
ground, but was compressed into less
than three columns. Such reviews are
not discouraging to the reader, and say
all that need be said. The edition in
cluded thirty-six pages.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
THE CHRISTMAS HERALD
Always Up-to-date.

Eureka Democrat: The Salt Lake
Herald, as has been its custom for
years. issued an elaborate Christmas
number, containing SO pages of choice
information. Five columns are de-
voted to Tintic mines, over so Of which
are represented. An engraving of the
Eureka-Hill hosting works is given
and adds considerable to the attractive
ness of the write-up. The Herald is a
great newspaper and is always up-to-
date.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
TALES OF THE DAY.
Matthew Arnold and Family Taken
For the Arnold Troupe.

When the late Matthew Arnold travelled
about the United States TO deliver his lee
lures the railroad companies usually gave
him passes for himself, Mrs Ar9o-d' ms
two daughters and mis- agent. One con-
ductCs', on being shown the passes, hand
ed them back, saying: 'Oh, the Arnold
troupe, L supposed"
Just as il we were a travelling circusr'
said Mr.. Arnold, with a hearty laugh, in
telling the incident TO Dean Farrar. who
records it in his Men Have
Known"
Mr.. Arnold was much amused at crit
iciSm on his delivery, published in De-
troit paper. He bought a high music stand
on which he laid the manuscript of his
lecture AS the sight of one eye was
stronger than the other. he placed the
stand at his right, read a sentence and
then raised his head as he delivered it. A
Detroit paper said:
AS for Mr.. Arnold manner, it reminds
us of an elderly parrot pecking at trel-
liSr'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
It Was the Finest.

Murray American: The Christmas
edition of The Salt Lake Herald is the
finest that has ever come to our ex-
change table. It contains entertain
ing reading matter enough for month
The Giant of the Rockies struts over
mountain and plain, holding the fields
in its ample folds, unfurling the hid
den recesses of the banner state, and
rehearsing to the world, the song of our
boundless resources.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
1t Was Splendid.

Utah State Journal: The holiday
number of The Salt Lake Herald, is
sued last Sunday, was splendid. It was
a mammoth forty-page paper, replete
with information of great interest to
the people Of Utah and to those who
are contemplating coming to this state
to take UP a residence here.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
Was a Beauty.

Davis County Clipper: The Christ
mas number of The Salt Lake Herald
was a beauty and contained a lot of
valuable information concerning the
resources of Utah, her state institutions
and the progress that has been made
Davis county is we'll represented.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
A SPLENDID PaDer.

CoalvilIe Times: The Christmas num-
Der of The Salt Lake Herald was a
splendid paper of Sc pages. 1t was full
of interesting and newsy matter and
reflects great credit on the publishers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Irrespective of the merits or dement's
of civil service reform, about the sill
est thing imaginable is the formation
of a secret society, with raInifcations
throughout the whole country, to de-
stroy it. And yet it is said such So
ciety is to be formed. All political
fights should be in the open. no matter
what their object
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
a Great Christmas Paner.

Brigham City Bugler: The Salt Lake
Herald issued a great Christmas pa
per. It contained a write-up of the
various counties of the state. Such
paper would do credit to eastern cities
ten times as large as Utah's capital.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

have seen anywhere. There is a map
of Alaska, the northwest territory and
the Klondike, full page. Any one in
terested in the Klondike can do no bet
ter than to buy the Klondike edition of
the Chronicle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

In the remoter parts of China the
people have only just heard of the war
with Japan. And it is possible that
there will be no China, and they sgont
hear of the fact until several years af
ter the country has ceased to exist.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

''Who is this man HANNAH" asks
Kurtz OF Ohio, ex-chairman Of the Re-
publican state committee. He has no
special ability. He is neither wise, sa-
gacious nor courageous" All Mr.. Kurtz
will have to do to find out who Hanna
is will be to watch the Ohio legislature
for a few days.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

In 1895 the New York legislature
voted s9,OOO,OoO for the purpose of en-
ais. Now s7,OOO,Oo0 more is wanted to
complete the work. 1t has now be-
come evident that whatever other pur-
pose the canals may serve they will
serve to drain the state treasury most
completely.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

There is awfully good material in
brother, says the Atchison Globe. And
it is just as evident that there is no
good material in the bad brother.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

An English prison society has rec
commended Conan Doyle's detective
stories to the police. They might find
more profitable reading, but they will
hardly be able to find more pleasant
reading.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

President Mckinley is working
steadily for Intervention in Cuba" says
a Chicago paper He must be working
by the day and not by the job.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

garding the Chestnut Street bank
shows him to be despicable person, a
trickster. politician OF the lowest
type. a creature to be spurned and
spit upon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Mr.. Letters great wheat deal is
closed and he has a great deal OF
wheat; and he doesn't know what in
the dell to do with his wheat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

First a COW, then a dog. What sort
of an animal will start the next big
fire in Chicago?" says the Baltimore
American. Some ass, most probably.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Brice's Chicago gold factory has been
closed. The Bank of England author
tiles seem to have been just as mean
about accepting Brice's gold as he fan
cied the treasury authorities at Wash
Ington would be.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Chairman Dingley says ne is satisfied
with the results of the operation of the
Dingley bill. Then he finds satisfac-
ton where others find dissatisfaction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Living Issues: President Mckinley is
been stated and generally believed that
he was d little more moderate in his
views than was his secretary, Mr.. Gage.
In order to bring Mr.. Mckinley out, Mr..
Gage offered to resign rather than EN-
barrass the administration, which brought
out protestation from the president
that he is III full accord with Cages
remembered that Gage recommends the
calling in and the refunding OF all the out
standing bonds, and the making OF them
all payable in gold coin. Mr.. Mckinley
is in happy accord, which is equivalent to
his saying TO the goldbug bond thieving
gang: Il am your meat. l am here to do
your bidding. Command me and / will
obey" Cleveland's administration is TO
appear respectable yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
Very Crafjitable

Payson Globe: The Herald got out
very creditable Christmas edition,
which its many readers no doubt ap-
preciated very much.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Denver's chief of police has decided
that highway robberies in that city are
too numerous. What does he consider
to be about the right number?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Cuban autoOomy began yesterday,
iszst the Cuban rebellion did not end
xFsuterday by any means.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Mark Hanna and Tom Reed viii both
appear before the public again this
week, but Hanna's performance will
draw most attention at first.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Eighteen ninety-eight is entitled to
first registration under the new law
requiring births to be registered
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

New York World: Opposition to the
preparation and publication of the list
OF pensioners on the score of the expense
is absurd. The senate has often passed
in half an hour private pension bills that
will cost the taxpayers twice the expense
of publishing the list. The demand for
publicity and purging' of the list is
growing every hour.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

IL the camp Of the McKinleyites Sen
ator Wolcott is regarded as a suspect.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

The powers are telling China to get
off the earth, threatening if she does
not TO wipe the earth with her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

The San Francisco Chronicle of the
29th ult. was a Klondike edition, and
the information regarding the great
gold region was the most complete we
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Mayor Harrison OF Chicago. is dead
set against pugilistic encounters; the
thugs afford plenty of excitement in
this direction.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Cincinnati Enquirer: II wonder" said
the constituent. why that dreary farce
OF allowing congressman leave to prvt
1T is kept up the representative kind
ly explained, because they would speak
EN- if there were no other way"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

1t is just as easy to write 1898 as
1897 when you get used to it; the diff
hculty is in getting used to it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
WIT AND HUMoR.

New York Tribune: II hear John frac-
tured four ribs by falling from his wheel.
rs he badly hurt?'
No; but he feels all broken up
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

"There are no birds in last years
nests" but still the little English SPAR
rows hang around the porches to muss
Them M
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

In the Klondike the thermometer has
registered 73 degrees below zero. And
the miners rightly call it the crime
of e
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Law or no Law. the prize tight never
goes without saying.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

In seeming the battle from afar Sen
ator Morgan beats Jobs war horse all
to pieces.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

VIII Durrant die tomorrow or will
his luck again stand him in good stead?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

The chief tests for the admission of
immigrants seem to be protests.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Turning over a new leaf is not the
same thing as setting a good example
by any means.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

This is the last day of rest that Mark
Hanna will have for some time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Price Advocate: The Republican policy
of cutting the appropriations regardless
of what is needed, in order to try to help
the Dingley tariff lessen that deficit night
mare, has been shown in i striking man
ner by the way in which the house COM
mittee on appropriations Topped off the
recomm sndations OF the secretary of the
interior who had himself under orders
from the White House. cut the estimates
Of I'll his bureau chiefs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Chicago Times-Herald: 1t may be
difficult job to convict those Chicago
aldermen who have been indicted for run
chance does anyone have against Chi
cago alderman?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Washington Post: That Mississippi
negro who is coming TO Washington to
have the government avenge the assassin
alton of his relatives can doubtless be ap-
peased with something equally as good.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
STATE PRESS COMMENT.

Tintic Miner: Wednesdays dispatches
report that President Mckinley and Sec
rotary Gage are in full accord. This is
only a confirmation of what was already
our conviction. The president cannot es-
cape from his owners, if he desired to
do so.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Boston Journal: Great Explorers
Friend Gas the latter is about to starD-
Well, professor, you've arranged for your
lectures and book when you come back,
haven't you?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Boston Herald: What's the matter with
sassiety down in Charleston, S. c., that
undertakes to ostracize pretty actresses
from its midst? In about all the other
civilized centers- these pretty actresses
are extensively patroniZed and coddied
by sassiety, and they are particularly
sought after by the -gildad youth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Detroit Free Press: II asked her to
wear loves letters for me-"
What did she say?''
''She said she couldn't think of it-that
everything was chainless nowadays"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
COMMERCIAL NATIONAL BANK.
CAPITAL PAID N, $500, 600.

General Banking In Ali It's Branches.
Directors-Dr. Theodore Meyer. John J..
Daily, o. ]. Salisbury, Moylan. c. Fox,
Thomas Marshall. W. p. Noble George
u. Downey. John Donnellan. NsWsl
Seeman-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Cincinnati Enquirer: The Fierce One
l de wish the Lord had made me a man.
Amelia, dear. but you haven't been able
to find him yet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

asked. would you love me if 1 were pin
niless?'
She looked frightened and exclaimed:
"Oh, Arthur, have you lost your for
tuner
No" he replied, Il merely wished to
know if you would love me if 1 had no
fortune
We'll" she answered, "since you put
it that way, yes, l would
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

ials are written for the canned goods. the
clothing, the boats and the cooking uten-
sis. All l have to do now is to get lost
and be rescued, and my fortune is made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: TT
seems to me that love is not at all fash
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Provo Enquirer: You might as well pre-
pare for some stirring political times dur
ms the year 1898 in the new state of Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02

Denver News: We have no doubt that
rein TO his natural desire to knock the adj
ministration endwise by the consciousness
that he is indebted to Mr. Mckinley for
many juicy plumS which have been dis
tributed among the faithful in Colorado
Unembarrassed by this load of gratitude
he would probably see his way clear to
land on the political solar plexus of the
president