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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
OPEN THE UINTAH RESERVA-
TION.

Tomorrow Senator Rawlins will call
up his bill for the appointment of a
commission 70 make an allotment of
lands in severalty to the Indians on the
Uintah reservation, and to obtain the
cession of all lands not allotted. The bill
has been favorably reported by the
committee on Indian affairs, and should
receive no opposition in the senate. If
it passes that body all right, it should
go through the house without any diff
ficulty.
It is not at all improbable that some
one in one branch or the other of con-
gress will raise the cry against the bill
that it is intended to rob the Indians
of their lands. Nothing is more foreign
from IFS object than that. 1t is to Sc
cure them their lands in severalty, a
first and necessary step towards self
support ard independence. The herd
ing oe Indians on reservations like
sheep and cattle is becoming impos-
sible. Civilization is fast crowding up
to the borders of all Indian reserva-
tons, and cannot long be prevented
from crowding on to them. How much
better. then, for all concerned that the
Indians be given their lands in sew
crafty, and what are not so disposed
of be sold to bona fide settlers.
The Uintah reservation is one of the
best portions of the state for grazing
and agricultural purposes, and if Sen
ator Rawlins' bill becomes law, it will
be thrown open to settlement, and will
be rapidly settled. Many of our young
men and women are seeking homes in
Idaho. We all know that there are no
more desirable settlers in the country
than they. and their emigration is a
loss TO the state. Why not open the
Uintah reservation and let them go
there and make homes, thereby build
ing I'D our own grand commonwealth,
in place of supplying Drawn and brain
for other commemorative? Everybody
in Utah will wish Senator Rawlins sue
cess with his bill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
THE MAYOR.

The Herald. is perfectly well aware
that Mayor Clark does not look to it for
any advice regarding the affairs of the
city. 1t did not support him during the
campaign, and it would therefore be
unreasonable to expect that he will look
to it for advice. Naturally he will look
to the papers and committee that sup
ported him for advice, in so far as he
may seek it. He will very properly
stand by those who stood by him.
This being SO. he must expect those
who were not elected on the same
ticket with him to stand by those who
stood by them.
1t is but a week since Mr.. Clark was
indicted into Office What his policy
will be, further than announced in the
platform on which he was elected, the
public does not know, for he has adj
dressed no message to. the council. The
reason he has not is said to be that he
is waiting for reports from the heads of
various departments. If the message
could wait, Why could not appointments
to offices have waited as well until his
honor knew exactly the condition of
municipal affairs? The promptness with
which appointments We're sent in saw
ored much of the undue haste supposed
to characterize those who are said to
be more ambitious for the spoils of
office than for the public veal.
His honor has already discovered that
some of his appointments, notably that
for chief of police, have stirred up po-
htical strife between him and the DEM
ocratic members of the council. He
must have known that it would do this
when he sent in his list of appoint
ments. Must he not expect that Demo-
cratic councilmen will refuse to confirm
an appointee who fought them so hard
as Mr.. Pratt did? The Democratic
party expects them to.
There are other appointments yet to
be made, and if some names are sent
in that rumor says will be, the fight
against the confirmation of their ap-
pointment will be bitter and deter
mined. Is it wise to invite such hos
tility? The Herald thinks not, espec-
tally when there are plenty of men
available to fill any and all positions,
men who, during the campaign, es-
poused the non-partisan cause. Govern
ment, from the exigencies of the case,
is more or less of a compromise, and
particularly is this so where there are
coordinate branches. If this is re-
membered in the mayors office it will |
not be forgotten in the council cham
ber
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
SIZE OF NATIONAL CoNVEN-
TIONS.

The Brooklyn Eagle has begun an
agitation for the purpose of having ma
tional conventions made smaller. In
part it says:
The bigness of the throngs is hostile
to elaboration. The delegates number
! twice the representation of each state
and territory in congress. The alter
mates are as many more. The crowds
accompanying them are treble the
number. They put a great burden on
the exchequer of each party. They
make the surroundings those OF clam0r.
They tend to sensation, unwiSdOm and
tumult, and not to judgment or hon
esty. They are the terror of states
men, the burden of managers. the hot
bed of cranks, the harvest of dema-
gogues, and the opportunity of corrup-
tionists. The idea that only by big
ness and .thusiasm can representa-
tive results be assured is error. Ma
tional committees are hlndered by the
folly consequent on the unrulinesS of
these big bodies-hindered before and
after they meet. They will be probably
averse to saying no-but they are
A rule of both parties could limit the
delegates to exactly the representation
of a state in congress, and TO an equal
number of alternates. That would
halve the official attendants. 1t would
double the Importance of the delegates.
It would perfect each conventions re-
semblance to congress. 1t should raise
the standard of selection. 1t could be
accompanied by a encouragement of
the attendance of gangs of cranks,
shouters. and corruptionists. That
would greatly reduce expense and scan
dial. The conventions could be restored
to a representative and respectable
character. The present vulgar and
W.T. ~ -aa
which can have the biggest. brashest,
loudest, and most senseless body
would cease. Not q reason of sanity,
dignity, efficiency, or order exists for
the present rivalry for mere bulk and
roar.
The idea is far from new one. In
the Chicago convention of 1892 General
Pat Collins, of Boston, introduced
resolution to reduce the size of the
Democratic national convention, but
nothing ever came of it.
The conventions are too big and I'M
wieIdy, and for dehberative purposes
would be if reduced to the same MEM
bership as congress has. The conten-
ton of the Eagle that to reduce the
size of the conventions would be to
improve the quality OF the delegates is
by no means certain.
1t is very doubtful if the size of ma
tional nominating conventions can be !
reduced; an attempt to do it would be
certain to meet with much opposition. /
So far as being deliberative bodies, /
these conventions have become some
what like the electoral college itself
a place where there is no elaboration
and nothing but registering of the
will Of the people.
The Eagle starts its agitation at a
very inopportune time, when it can do
little good and when the people are not /
at all interested in the subject a !
year hence would have been a much
better time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

served that a portion of the modifiers
wish all the higher officers of the gov
eminent exempt from the provisions OF
the act, while others wish all the lower
positions left unclassified. Between
them the whole body of officials would
be left out and the law nullified. So
far as the discussion has proceeded
the most violent denunciations of the
law have come from those who claim
that they do not desire its repeal, but
only its modification. These do not
desire to destroy the house; all they
ask is that the roof be removed and the
weather. boarding torn off. They are
also certain that the original architec-
ture of the structure was defective. If
the law is in danger it is more in peril
from its ostensible repairers and re-
formers than from the style of enc
mics who make no bones of the matter
and who openly declare that they are
hungry and that the law stands in the
way of the distribution of provisions"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
THE PARTY OF THE GOLD
STANDARD.

During the course of his remarks
Friday, resenting the absurd charge
that he was seeking to SOW dissension
in the cabinet and cause a rupture be-
tween the president and his secretary
of the treasury, Senator Teller said 1T
is perfectly plain that today the Re
publican party is the party of the gold
standard, and it is equally plain that
there is no distinction between the SEN
timents Of the president and the sec
rotary of the treasury upon this ques-
ton"
Such declaration as that from such
a source should be sufficient to con-
vince every silver Republican in the
land that silver has nothing to hope
from the Republican party; that all it's
pretenses about doing something for
silver by means of international bimet-
allism is just so much moonshine and
nothing more. 1t may be that the
United States will never again have the
free coinage of silver (they certainly
never will through the agency of the
Republican partly, but it is sure it viii
not come about through any interna-
tional bimetallic agreement
The senator declares there is no fur
Their use of dallying with the interna-
tional bimetallic scheme, this not in
terms, but in substance. Nor is there.
Why, then, should any one continue to
deceive himself longer in this respect?
Such self-deception only has the effect
to weaken the silver ranks, because it
prevents them from becoming serried.
The Republican party is the party of
the gold standard, and is likewise the
avowed enemy of silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

no government bonds should be issued
or sold except by specific act of con-
gress, and then only in case of press
ing necessity; that the government in
the discharge of its obligations should
use its option as to the kind of lawful
money in which they should be paid
and that such options should be sur
rendered
The part relating to the free coin
age of silver is all right; also the part
relating to increasing the bonded in
debtedness, but it is not so certain that
what he says about experimenting free
coinage with safe and sound national
currency is. If such supplementary
currency means the issuance of ma
tional notes redeemable in gold and
silver. it is a. good idea; but il it means
fiat money with no redemption in gold
and silver. it is bad. A government
currency not redeemable in gold and
silver is not a whit better than any
other irredeemable currency notes, and
the making of such notes legal tender
is nothing more or less than using the
power of the government TO perpetrate
a wrong. As a Populist Senator Allen
probably has in mind, when he speaks
of safe and sound national paper
money, fiat money pure and simple;
if, such is not his idea he should have
been particular to so state. He prom
Uses at a future day to elaborate on
his resolution. Until such time final
judgment on it should be suspended.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
His Pepper Half Peas.

st. Joseph Herald: At the gathering of
the retail grocers last Tuesday night
"reminiscences were exchanged, and many
were the tales which the grocers told on
each other. One grocer, who now enjoys
the distinction of being the leading grocer
in his section of the city. tells tale on
himself which bears repeating.
1t happened when he was new in the
business. One day a spice salesman, rep
resenting an eastern firm. called on him.
The grocer said he didn't need anything
in his line That was the natural thing
to say, however, and it didn't worry the
salesman bit. He talked on the hope of
getting an order. Said he:
Where do you buy your pepper now?"
Il buy it of s. & CO..
oh. I wouldn't buy their pepper, it's
half peas.
ooh. you are mistaken there, they do
not adulterate anything. That's the way
with you statesmen, you are always run
ming down your competitors"
I don't care what you say, I'm willing
to wager that s. & Co.'S pepper is half
VERY well. III bet you a dollar it
isn't
The money was put up. whereupon the
travelling man proceeded TO prove the
correctness of his assertion. This was
easily done. Taking a pencil he wrote
pepper. Half p's,' he explained.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
SENATOR ALIENS RESOLUTION.

Senator Allen. of Nebraska, has Of
fered in the senate a resolution declar-
ms that the United States should in
dependently and without delay begin
and continue the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1, that such coin
age should be supplemented by a safe
AID sound national paper money. to
be issued by the government without
intervention of the banks. the notes
to be full legal tender and TO be is
sued in an amount sufficient to meet
the business demands of the country;
that any increase Of the interest-bear-
ing debt should be prohibited and that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
TALES OF TIE DAY.
She Had Been Waiting.

Detroit Free Press: As if utterly I'M
aware. that a new bicycle ordinance was
il foree. she jauntiiy wheeled along the
sidewalk of a brick-payed street, when
she might Just as well have been jim the
road One of the special bicycle police de-
tail was within seeing distance, and ne
increased his speed until q little ahead of
her. Chen he dismounted and waited for
her to come along
He was evidently embarrassed for hav-
ing to interrupt the ORGANIZATIONS of a
lady awheel, especially one of middle age
and of matronly measure t
stAh--ah--excuse me. madam he ner-
vously explained. but III have TO take
you down to the Justices Office"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
TELLER AND THE CHINESE.

1 PnlladelDh1a Inquirer: To interfere in
/ emma would be to turn one great Euro
pean power of the future, Russia, from a
friend into an enemy, and to give Europe
an excuse for violating the Monroe doc
trine on this side of the Atlantic. Prac-
ticaIly, We could do nothing to help China.
| We do not want her territory, and, there
fore, our national policy should be simply
to go on with the Hawaiian annexation as
speedily as possible, 10 strengthen our
navy and TO begin the building of mer-
chant ships letting Russia, Germany and
England fight it out if they will.
San Francisco Chronicle: Expressions
like these sound trifie hysterical When
We bear in mind the fact that at present
OFT trade With China only amounts to
about $l6,000,O00 annually. we are irresisti-
/ bly, forced to conclude that the situation
I is not nearly so menacing as the senator
assumes 1T to be. There is even a suspi-
clon that we might get along in the flu
ture. even though this sum was entirely
extinguished. although that is hardly
probable Indeed. some observing per-
sons are more than convinced that If the
semi-civilized Chinese were westernized
through German or any other influence,
our exports would be immensely in
creased.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Senator Tel
Ter is disposed to indulge in hyperbole, but
even making allowance for his rather
alarming predictions, the direction by
great power like Germany or Russia of a
vast and docile people like the Chinese
will result, before many years in an en-
tire change in industrial conditions.
Helena Independent: Reduced to a few
words. the argument of Senator Teller is
that the United States should become in
Volved in q frightful war solely for the
purpose of preventing the spread of civili-
cation, forsooth. because civilized people
viii compete with us in the markets of
the world. This seems to US an argument
so utterly at variance with the motives of
the civilization we have achieved that it
is difficult to believe it was made by Sena-
to Teller. But, as it has not been denied
by him. we are forced to conclude he was
correctly reported,
Chicago Chronicle: Senator Teller is
one of those statesmen who discover a
menace to the United States in almost
everything that any European power may
do that is at all outside of the usual
course. He is one of too many American
statesmen who resemble those unfortun-
ate inmates of asylums for the mentally
alienated, who imagine that they are con-
tinually. pursued and beset by enemies
Just now Mr., Teller is seeing dreadful
things in the far east.
Sioux City Tribune: The fact is. there
can be no Improvement in China in the
direction of civilization which will not be
of more benefit than injury to the United
States. Those who are inclined to SYM
DathiZe with Mr.. Tellers views should
ask themselves. what the United States
would amount 10 commercially if all other
nations We're on level with China.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

And now it is said that Kathryn Kid
der viii not retire from the stage. OF
course she win not. She got too much
valuable advertising out of che an
nouncement that she would retire to do
such a foolish thing. And the adver-
Using didn't cost her a cent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Speaking of the attack on civil ser
vice law. the Kansas City Star says:
'The underlying principle OF the civil
service law is that persons shall be
appointed to official trusts with re-
their continuance in Office shall de-
pend on the faithful performance of
their duties Those who propose what
they call the modification of the law
attack this principle. 1t will be OBJ
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

1t is charged against Chicago million
aires that as soon as they have made
their fortune they quit Chicago Isn't
this commendable as showing a desire
for intellectual elevation?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Major Handy was a pleasant, genial
writer, but far from a profound one.
He made his fame as a reporter, and
like so many other men prominent be-
fore the people he stepped into promi-
nence through the newspaper. And
there is no better avenue through
which to step into prominence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

John Russell Young says that China
is e glacier among nations" Eighteen
ntnety-eight being an epoch making
year in China henceforth in the chron-
oiogy of that country it will probably
be known as the glacial epoch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Jackson's day has come and gone, and
once again have the Hero of New Or
leans and his brave men been made to
live in the minds OF the people. Through
a slip of the pen the day was yester-
day referred to by US as being the an
niversary of Jackson's birth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

A deputy sheriff and an ex-deputy
sheriff of Chicago had a shooting bee
the other day. The ex-deputy was
killed while the deputy's life was saved
by a box OF ice cream. The bullet
that was intended for his heart en-
tering and lodging in the frozen sweet.
Ice cream may kill in most cases, but
it saves in others.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Why not adopt the Canton excursion
trains plans to the Columbus situa-
ticn? Send the workmen, whose friend
Hanna is. down to the state capital to
demand that the friend and cham
pion of labor be sent to the senate.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

But what are three votes-to get
to 8 politician like Mark HANNAH asks
the Kansas City Star. They are a con-
tinuaI source OF worry by day and
sleeplessness by night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

1t is proposed to give ex-presidents
pension for life and at the same time
to create them senators. They would
certainly be worthy representatives of
a state of innocuous desuetude
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

The voice of the cuckoo is no longer
heard in the land and it is to be hoped
that it IS nowhere preserved on the
cylinder OF the photograph.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
STATE PRESS COMMENTS.

Logan Journal: On Wednesday Presi-
dent Mckinley appointed Ex-Governor A.
l.. Thomas postmaster for Salt Lake. The
appointment was a great surprise TO the
other applicants. and proved conclusively
that ex-senator Arthur Browns endorse
ment counts for nothing 1t also proved
that Mckinleys recent statement to the
effect that 10 postmaster would be dis
placed until his term of office expired was
a romance, as Mr. Barratts term has not
yet nearly expired.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

With a GOODNESS that entirely disarmed
him. she smiled as she replied:
.Oh, sir. that's just what I've been wait
ing for for over 30 years. Come on
He escaped around the corner and look
ed back TO see her continuing up the side
"a Il
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Arkansas starts out as though it in
tended to capture the lynching pennant
for 1898. If it keeps up its lick it will
succeed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

To furnish free lunches for schools
would be class legislation in the strict
est sense of the word.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

It seems that Actor Radcliffe had a
wife in England. It must have been
upon her that he first practiced wife
beating.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
WIT AND HUMoR.

Chicago Record: women are smarter
than men,"
why do you think so?
when a widow marrieS again she gen.
orally surprises all her friends, but when
a widoWer marries again all the women
who know him say he showed signs. OF 1t
the day after his wife was buried
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Republican papers call Kurtz a po-
Itical trickster and Hanna a patriot
What difference it makes whose OK is
gored.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

The Son of Heaven should get a
Yerkes telescope and take a different
view of the approaching eclipse of the
sun from what he does.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Wipe out the postal deficit" exclaims
the Chicago Times-Herald. That is
easier said than wiped.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

The name of the president of the
Greater New York board of police COM
missioners is York. He seems to be a
lesser new York.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

1t begins to look as though it was
nothing but "a tempest in a China tea
pot after ALL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Life: what is your idea of a cynic?''
well, a cynic is humorist who has
had the misfortune to be born with his
smile a trifle on one side"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Yonkers Statesman: Papa-That Mr.
Higgins has a hard face.
Daughter-It never felt that way tC
me.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09
SECURE A BUSINESS EDUCATION AT

sohoH
Our
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specially
touchm A only
visit Salt Lake
College deciding school
wone no a
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English branches
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Cincinnati Enquirer: 1T is sad" muir
INJURED the Musing Theorizer, ITO think
that every man has his price.
Yes added the Intensely Practical
Worker, land it is a sad fact that half
the time he can't get it,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Philadelphia North American: Papa
what is moonshine whisky?"
stuff that makes you see the stars
my boy, whether they are shining OF
not"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Those Ohio legislators can have their
bread buttered on both sides and have
their cake and eat it. too.