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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-22
A Filipino's Fatal Thirst.
From he InIuLar DatIu Pr.s,.

native named Pascal MontelSgre stole
three bottles OF Scotch whiskey from the pantry
Of the steamer Esmeralda, which he drank in
four houra. This morning the man was to
have been tried In the Binondo police court for
petit larceny. While the court was considering
how the prisoner might be restored to con-
sciousness to receive trial. the police sergeant
entered tho courtroom and announced that
the whskey-lovlng native had Just died Of in
toxioation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-22
OTTER.

America surpasses all other nations in
dressing and dying Otter and Beaver. OF
ter garments manufactured by me were
awarded First Prizes at the Worlds Fair
las were also garments of Russian Sable
Mink, Seal and Persian Lamb. Otter is the
handsomest and most durable of all furs.
] am making over to this seasons style
Otter garments which | sold fifteen years
ago, and they do not require REDUCING.
They stand rain and snow better than any
other fur.
Jackets, $3.50 to $500.
Coats, $500, $4OO and $500.
Capes, Collarettes and Muffs in proper.
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RUSSIAN SABLE.

1t is evident that our people are prosper
GUS, because there is more money invested
in fine furS this season than for years.
have received more orders for Russian Sable
Nantes, Capes ColarctteS, Scarfs, &c, in
addition to the number of manufactured ar
ticles sold. than in any season up to this
time since l have been in business Many
of the ladies who have purchased recently
admit that they have looked around the
market, hut are satisfied that my goods are
the best for the price, and some OF my pa
irons who have recently returned from
abroad state that am giving better value
in Stables for the money than any OF the
European houses This is accounted for to
some extent from the fact that had nearly
a quarter of a million dollars worth of furs
on hand prior to the London March sales,
when Russian Sable advanced 30 per cent,
Hudson Bay go per cent, Mink so per
| cent, and other natural fur skins from 5
TO 80 per cent.
For the first time in a number OF years
Americans can afford to sell Hudson Bay
Sable, Mink, Lynx, Fox and other Ameri-
can products ut lower prices than Euro
pean merchants, and if they do not take adj
vantage of the opportunity when they can
afford to sell at low prices. they are to blame
if they lose their trade. will sell Mufrs OF
Hudson Bay Stables three skins) at S35,
$50, $65, SIS, 500, S125, $3.50 and 5000;
extra large Muffs in proportion. ] have
also decided to sell Sealskin and Persian
Lamb both Of which are dyed in Europe,
| at European prices.
Note.-lt costs s25 more to produce average
SeAlskin or Persian Lamb Coat In America than in
Europe. This amount will deduct from the usual
profit n order to compete, Ladies' who have in
more elegantly finished and better fitting.
i am anxious to have Americans trade at
home, and will do all ] can to that end.
Americans are patriotic and would prefer
to buy Mt home II they were convinced that
they could do as well. will convince them
that they can buy furs from me at as low
prices as at any other reliable house in the
world, and this season am selling Hudson
Bay Sable, Mink, Lynx, Fox and other
American products at lower prices.
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MINK A RELIABLE FUR.

Handsome Mink Sets, Mun and Neck
Piece to match. S25, $50 $40 to SIS.
Mufrs, Sl2 $40, Sls, $50, S35 and $50.
Caprs Scarfs, Nantes and Victorines in
DrODOrt ion
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STONE MARTEN.

Nicholas and La Rena Boas, SIS, s25.
$40 and SO.
Victoriucs, Collarcttes and Mulrs in pro-
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GENUINE FURS,
ECONOMICAL PRICES.

Some Of our most gentocl people desire to
purchas" a genuine fur article which will
wear a few seasons al an economical price.
the money. | have placed on sale Scarfs
to he worn down or turned M around the
neck, with number of handsome, huffy
tails, Mum to match. complete set, $50.
Colarctt"s Nctorincs and Capes at cor
responding prices.
Wool Seal, n genuine fur is good for the
money
Scarf, with number of tails and Muff,
complete set, SIS.
Have also furs MS low MS SO, 81 and SIS
for Scarfs and Muffs to match at cOrre-
SDnnIiup Drirps
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PERSIAN LAMB neipzir Dyed,.

have just received fresh shipment Of
Leipzig Dyed Persian Lamb Skins. They
are beautiful. They have as handsome
gloss AS any have ever had. Ladies' who
intend placing orders for these fashionable
goods ought to do so at once. After the
skins have been sorted over, and the best
picked out for early orders, it will not he
possible to furnish as good later in the
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ABOUT FURS,
BY g. G. Shayne.

Notwithstanding the warm weather dur.
ing the past two weeks, the demand for fur
garments to order continues.
Cold weather will continue and advise
Ladies who have not placed their orders,
to do SO before the cold weather sets in.
The best time to place orders or buy goods
is during the periods when the stores are
not crowded
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
HOW 1T MAY BE DONE.

Every morning the Republican organ
appeals TO the Gentiles of the city
and to those members of the dominant
church who encourage its course by
mute acquiescence in its wholesale ac-
cusations-a class it refers to as pro
gressive Latter-day Saints''-and asks
them to vote against Mormon candi-
dates on the ground that they are
mosabaoks. aliens, reactionarics, and
subject to the will of ecclesiastical au-
thorities.
If this request of the Republican or
gan is complied with, if its plan is car
ried out, there will be some vacancies
in municipal offices. There are not
Gentiles enough on both tickets to fill
the positions. 1t ought to consent to
the election of two or thre. Mormons,
anyhow
When it is recalled that there are ten
members of the dominant church on
the Republican ticket and fourteen on
the Democratic ticket, it will be seen
that our Republican contemporary
generously proposes to sacrifice half of
the Republican candidates along with
the Democrats of the same denomina-
ton.
There is a characteristic breadth
about this proposition that no doubt
appeals with great force to progress
sive Latter-day Saints
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be abolished? Such a question might
have been expected from the Federal
lists, who stood boldly for broad con-
struction of the constitution and for
limiting the general government TO the
exercise of those powers alone which
were plainly given to it in the conStitu-
ton The right to abolish federal
court could be found only among those
implied powers for using which the
Federalists had been attacked by the
Republicans. But party expediency pre-
vailed over consistency, the circuit
court system. in so far as it called for a
separate grade of judges, was abolished
by the repeal of the judiciary law of
1901. and so the most important of
Adams midnight appointeeS" were re-
turned to private life.
The next important administration
measure was the purchase of Louisiana.
and in supporting this Randolph went
even further than Jefferson himself,
for. while the latter desired an amend
ment to the constitution to legalize the
purchase, Randolph considered an
amendment unnecessary. That is to
say, the Republicans were at liberty to
stretch the constitution, although the
Federalists had been roundly denounced
for doing the same thing while they
were in power. Furthermore. he APP
proved of making the purchase without
any reference of the matter to the
states, although the large increase in
the number of the latter likely to be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
ROBERTSoN'S REASONS.

1t is discouraging to try to ascertain
just what our morning contemporary
means in the mysterious illusions to
financial questions it has formed a
habit of making here Of late.
For instance. when Messrs Robertson
and Buckle, in the city council, voted
for gold bonds and declared that law
full money bonds could not be sold, the
Republican organ minated that there
was undue influence behind them. We
have tried repeatedly to find out what
it was. All that their organ will say
is to assume a knowing air and say
that the bonds they voted for are the
sort of bonds that leading authorities
of the dominant church favor.
This is the only explanation of
Meesrs Robertson and Buckles course
we have heard attempted.
As Mr.. Robertson declared in the
council chamber a few days ago that he
had mo use for the Mormons,'' it would
seem that the organs explanation is
not altogether satisfactory. Then what
did it mean when it said: Touching
the matter of issuing new bonds with
which to take up the old bonds given
by the city, our judgment is that coin
bonds would bring just as much as gold
bonds; that the cry for gold bonds is a
direct insult to the good faith of Salt
Lake City, and the intimation that
coin bonds will be discounted by money
loaners is merely an evideree that such
councilman has been carried of his
feet by the representation of interested
narfies 2''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
DEATH LIST IN, LUZoN.

According to yesterdays dispatches
from Washington, the annual report of
the adjutant general of the United
States army shows that 1906 American
soldiers lost their lives in the Philip
pine campaign up to June 80. 1899. Since
that date ii is estimated that fully $500
have been added to the death list. In
the regular army the total of casualties
in action ana deaths amounted to 4,155
and in the volunteer establishment to
5.921. From the regular army 2,946 cases
of desertion have been recorded on the
islands.
1T comes high, this policy Of forcible
expansion and conquest" said the
Philadelphia Ledger the other day.
"but the men with axes to grind are
keeping the president at his task" The
Ledger is d Republican paper. it must
be remembered.
The Indianapolis News, another Re-
publican organ and a strong supporter
of the administration, says: THE sum
total seems to be that after nine months
occupied in severe land fighting we are
pretty much where we began. We have
Manila. which is the point on the board
that we started with. We have driven
the insurgents up and down the coun-
try and to and fro. But as far as we can
judge from the dispatches, we have
gained no real advantage"
General King and almost every other
military authority who has expressed
an opinion on the subject says that the
subjugation of the islanders may re-
auire many years of time billions of
lives; that when the Tagals are whipped
only one of sixty tribes is conquered.
and that the most peaceabie and en-
Aghtened of the lot
The Chicago Times-Herald. which is
CONCEDED TO be the warmest personal
supporter of President Mckinley among
al the newspapers of the Union, points
out a way for the president 10 end the
war in Luzon within forty-eight hours
from the time the plan is adopted:
Let the president proclaim the rour-
pose of the United States to be paci-
fcation with a view to the ultimate
Independence of the islands. Let
him summon the chieftains of the
principal sections of the country to
a council to devise some system of
home rule until the Filipinos are
able to assume all the obligations of
government. Let him announce that
we have 10 intention of annexing
Asiatic territory and that the pledge
of congress as to Cuban Independence
viii be the pledge of the American
nation to the Philippines.
Republicans who are really. opposed
TO forcibie expansion, as our governor
says he is. would do we'll to urge the
adoption of such plan by the presi-
dent instead of trying to howl down
everybody who offers a solution of the
difficulty which has already cost over
$4,000 American lives and shows no
signs of abatement yet.
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NOTE THE DIFFERENCE.

To the Editor of The Herald:
Just another word: You say it is child
ism to insist that candidates for city
officers should rot be held responsible for
the attitude of their respective national
party organizations on the money question
Did you take the same position when
Grover Cleveland was president? Respect
fully. HEBER NJ. WELLS.
The Heralds contention is that all
Republicans who support the regular
organization and endorse McKinley's
administration. whether city candi-
dates or not. are responsible for the
financial policy of that party. The diff
ference between the local Republican
organization. of which the governor is
an enthusiastic member. and the DEM
ocrats who used to shout for Cleveland
is this: AS soon as Cleveland and Nc
Kinley declared themselves for gold,
the Democrats repudiated Cleveland,
while the Republicans continue to en-
dorse Mckinley.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
NO slckLy SEASON HERE

The Herald tries to make typhoid
point. 1t will not do. November and
December are the worst months in the
year of typhoid.-Tribune.
Why won't it do? Last year there
were a November and a December, just
as there were in 1897.
In 1897 the Republicans were in
power. Since January l, 1898. the Re-
publicans have been oue of power.
In the year 1897 according to the rec
ords of the board OF health, there were
1s3 cases of typhoid fever in the city.
In 1898 there were 123 cases of typhoid,
a decrease of forty cases the first year
after the Republicans were thrown out.
While the Republican organ is trying
to make the world believe that Novem-
Der and December constitute a deadly
season in this city. it is Sc absurd that
no one here at home will believe it. So
far as others are concerned, they would
better come and investigate for them
selves.
This year, 1899. there have been
eighty-two cases of typhoid up to date,
and if there are % cases added during
the months of November and December
we shall be wonderfully surprised.
The city has been gradually recover
ing in financial, moral physical and
general health ever since the Repub-
licans were ousted two years ago. Why
should Republicans themselves, aside
from the. candidates Immediately and
selfishly interested, want to give the
city a backset now by returning the
Republican party to power?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
NOW YOU SEE. NOW YOU DON'T,

Our Republican friends appear - be
greatly alarmed over the prospect of
Mornons being elected to the next city
council. Appeals are made to pro
gressive Latter-day Saints to oppose
on the ground that majority OF the
ceuncilmaaic candidates are members
or the dominant church, wherefore
their presence in the council will roll
back the wheels of progress in this city
ten years.
Lei US examine this appeal as TO its
honesty and the sincerity of the men
making it.
Two years ago Messrs. p Y. Lannan.
c. c. Goodwin. J. E. Dolly. o. ]. Sails
bury ct al, in an open letter TO the
public. bewailed the fact that the city
had ever departed from the good old
days of Mormon rule"
These gentlemen and others signed
an address to the people of Salt Lake
City, in which they contrasted the con-
dition of the city at the end of forty
years OF Mormon control with condi-
items at the end OF seven years follow
ing the disbandment Of the Peoples
party; and they declared without
equvocation in favor Of the former
IN 1890 the administration Of NUM-
cipal Affairs in this city passed out Of
the old and into the new era of devel-
opment. In September, 1897, Messrs.
Lannan, Goodwin. Dolly ct al deplored
the cnange. They wanted to go back.
They were tired of the expense of the
progress the city had been making and
mode no secret of their feelings. Their
exact Language was as follows:
sIn 1890 the aggregate of taxation
in Salt Lake City was II mills; IN
1897 it was 271s mills. Even this
enormous figure will not cover cur
rent expenses at their present vol
cu1e; and when to this is added that
the valuation on which this assess
ment is made is in many instances
greater than the property is actually
worth. there will be none to dispute
That Salt Lake City ears burden
aeavier thar almost any city in The
land. Depreciation in values since
1890 has gone hand in land with in
crease in expenses; the ease with
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
AS A HERO WORSHIPER.

Ever since the Salt Lake Tribune set
the world to weeping over the wees of
Aguinaldo. whom it hailed as a second
George Washington, and convinced
mankind that the Filipinos were fight
ing in a cause infinitely higher than
our revolutionary forefathers engaged
in between 1775 and 1873. it has been
Gliding those who wept at its glowing
eulogy Of the poor unfortunates of
Luzon.
Yet, high as it held the cause of the
Tagals, much as it praised their cour-
age and ambition for independence, it
has found even more to admire in the
Sulus, who have agreed to acknowl-
edge the sovereignty of William Nc
Kinley at so much per diem, on condi-
ton that their institutions OF slavery
and polygamy shall be protected-a
condition to which the president has
agreed.
In worship our neighbor is al
most as tickle as it is in politics or
religion.
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which public money has been expend-
ed is only to be compared with the
difficulty the people have had in sup
plying it. All things considered, the
statement is fairly susceptible of
proof that taxes have increased
more than 200 per cent during the
seven years, while the prevailing de-
preston has many times multiplied
the difficulties of the taxpayers"
How Messrs. Lanpan, Goodwin,
Dolly ct al longed to return to the
good old days of IL mills on the dol
Iar.' How they bewailed the progress
which brought an increase of over 200
per cent in taxation, How anxious
they were to repudiate the improve
ments which had raised the tax levy
from II mills to 27is mills on the dollar..
Tt was actually pathetic to see them
join hands with leading ecclesiastics
and pray for the election of John Clark
and economy of the kind the city en-
ioyed prior to 1890. 1t was amusing 10
see the Storm Starter and the church
organ. the bipartisan Tribune and the
non-partisan News. clinging to each
Olner 5 neck III lamentations anu cOh-
triton for the changes in the city gov
eminent.
What does the Tribune say of those
good old days of II mills on the dol
lar now? 1t says that Messrs. Lam
nan, Goodwin, Dolly ct al. were trying
to deceive the people two years ago;
that they were asking progressive
Latter-day Saints" to revert 10 the
period before taxation had been in
creased 200 per cent-a period which,
the Republican organ now declares,
was marked by "a death-rate equal
per capita to tropical New Orleans"
ineompetency defalcations criminality,
outlawry, ignorance and fanaticism
in civil Offices
1t would be interesting to know if
the Tribune had any confidence in
Messrs. Lannan and Goodwin when
they signed the non-partisan address
the changes since 1890. or if
Messrs. Lannan and Goodwin take any
stock in the Tribune's more recent de-
scription of conditions prior to 1890.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
1.-THE REIGN OF TERROR"

Governor Wells must enjoy the pic
ture his party organ draws of condi-
tions in the city during the long years
prior TO 1890. His father was mayor
for many terms and his excellency
filed many positions of trust in the
city government in the unbroken period
referred to by the local Republican
organ.
From the way the governor, the sec
rotary of state, and other stump speak
ers are whooping things up for the
Storm Starters ticket in this campaign
we are forced to conclude that they
approve the picture and endorse the
reasons their party organ advances for
Ezra Thompson's election. Here is the
picture of the city when Heber NJ.
Wells, George NJ. Cannon. Hiram B.
Clawson and other prominent members
of the Tribune party were public Of
ficials:
Not one foot of sewage, not one foot of
pavement. No sprinkled streets hardly
any grading. \ water system so defec-
tive that not half the city was properly
supplied. Practically no fire department.
Not one school house in the city fit to
herd sheep in. A death rate equal per
capita to tropical New Orleans. though
nature with springs, lake, mountain. val
ley and perfectly pure air. had given all
the needed attachments TO make this one
of the healthiest spots on earth. The
taxes were collected and spent. no one
knew for what. City officers appropri-
ated valuable franchises. There We're from
time to time most serious defalcations
and never a prosecution or the return of
the steal. The police were more a terror
TO decent citizens than to rogues. There
was unequal taxation according to the
religious faiths of the taxpayers.
We trust that his excellency will go
right ahead playing the progressive
Latter-day Saint part in the coIonels
political drama just as if nothing had
happened.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
III. JOHN RANDOLPH.
BY CHARLES H. SMITH, LII. D.

John Randolph of Roanoke was for
many years the most striking figure in
American political life. So great were
his vagaries that many believed he was
not wholly sane. He was born in 1913
and died in 1888. In early life he gave
signs of his unbalanced nature, for be-
fore he was years old he would give
was to ungovernable fits of an
ger, swooning from the violence of his
passion. AS a boy, in a southern slave
holding community, he grew up with
little restraint upon his naturally inn
perious will. In public life he placed
little. if any, check upon his temper.
which manifested itself in invectives of
wonderful violence and insolence, show
ing an utter disregard for the feelings
of those who were the victims of his
tongue-lashings. Probably no man in
American public life has ever surpassed
him in rancorous abuse of political op-
ponents. When member of the house
Of representatives he would enter the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03
LAMSON'S CHIEF BACkER.

Lamson would have been able to Sc
cure all that he demanded of the city
in relation to the waters of the Jordan,
had Councilman Buckle been given his
way.
Mr.. Buckle supported Lamson's
claim and petition as far back as 1897,
and all that prevented Lamson from
obtaining what he sought was the adj
verse report of City Attorney Nc
Kay.
Did the local Republican party re-
pudiate Mr.. Buckles course? Not
much. 1t has endorsed his council
manic record and nominated him twice
since that time.
Does thai indicate that Republicans
are really as disturbed over Lamson's
claims and demands as they pretend to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-03

protect innocent purchasers OF the
lands But on the whole, this part OF
his career showed in a favorable light
his personal honesty. and the high
standard of service for men in public
life upon which he then insisted.
His constructive work as a statesman
consisted in laying the foundations OF
southern political supremacy in ma
tional affairs. This he did by making
a skillful use of adherence to state
sovereignty and devotion to slavery.
which were already characteristic Of
his section Although there was no
necessary connection between the two.
yet on the whole they went together,
both growing stronger at the south,
while they were disappearing at the
north. Randolph saw that the two
could be nAe to support each other
and become me basis of a controlling
force, afterward called from its most
obtrusive element the slave power" In
building up this power Randolph was
the forerunner of Calhoun, who elabor-
ated his views and became the chief
agent in developing at the south that
attitude toward national affairs which
led for a while TO the dominance of that
section. but eventually to secession and
the civil war. That. as we know led to
the destruction OF slavery and the doe
trine OF state sovereignty. and SO to the
complete overthrow of that school of
craftsmanship which Randolph did so
much to establish