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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
REFORMS NEARER HOME.

His excellency, the car, is discour-
aged, it is said. over the prospects for
an international arbitration agreement.
He ought to cheer up. There are many
things he can 90 for suffering humanity
besides putting an end to warfare
things he can accomplish without the
aid or consent of other powers, reforms
he may begin at home.
The convict exile system of the Rus
sian government is one OF the blacklist
blots upon civilization today. The harsh
treatment of the Jews in Russia, the
grinding of the peasants between the
millstones of tyranny and taxation, the
injustice of wholesale convictions upon
bare suspicion and the brutality of pun
ishments inflicted for the simple exer-
else of free speech, are matters with
which the car might easily expert
ment, abuses he could well abolish to
his own credit, the glory Of his reign,
the honor of his nation and the. good of
mankind.
He has been considering the PROPOSE
ton to free Siberia from the curse of
horror which the czars have placed
upon it. When he does this the world
will put more confidence in charities
he would like to see practiced farther
from home.
In the meantime all hope of an arbi-
tration agreement at the peace congress
should not be abandoned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
STILL MAKING EXCUSES.

Administration papers seem TO be
very much annoyed at Mr.. H. o. Have
meyers recent tariff talk They are
making all sorts of excuses for him. at
tempting to discredit his statements
with Republicans, asserting that he is
disgruntled because other trusts have
had more protection than his own has
had, and claiming that, like Carnegie.
he has eaten his fill and is ready to
overturn the trough.
None of these explanations denies
the truth of what Mr.. Havemeyer has
said. None attempts to prove the con-
trary. AS a rule they confess Judgment
and simply seek to shame the sugar
king for not standing up for the sys-
tenn which enabled him to become a
multi-millionaire at the expense of the
American consumer.
It is useless to intimate that Mr..
Havemeyer made his statement for
partisan effect. He is a Republican,
and has contributed thousands of dol
lars to Republican campaign funds. In
all probability the organization whose
head he is has given more than a mill
lion of dollars to the success of pro-
tective tariff candidates and measures.
He told the industrial commission the
other day that he was a lifelong Re
publican and a protectionist. He sup
ported Mckinley for president and used
his influence to induce thousands of
employees to vote the same way.
Therefore, when he declared the pro-
tective tariff to be the mother of all
trusts he was not speaking as a par
tisan, nor as a free trader, nor yet as
a man who cared no longer for gov
eminent favoritisn; but as rich out
spoken man, at the head of power
full and solvent institution that has
grown so great and influential that it
no longer cares to conceal its methods
from a people upon whose puny efforts
to restrain its growth it looks with
supreme Indifference and contempt
AS who should say: Il am rich and
potential. L collected my wealth from
you in this way. I expect to keep it
up. What are you going to do about
II 90
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
TWAS AL WAYS THUS.
Lake George Mirror.)


An angler with a costly pole
Surmounted with a silver reel,
Carven in quaint poetic scroll
Jointed and tipped with finest steel
With yellow flies
Whose scarlet eyes
And jasper wings are fair to see,
HES TO the stream
Whose bubbles beam
Down murmuring eddieS wild and free
And casts the line with sportsmans pride
Where the fishes meath the bushes glide
A shock-haired boy, with birch wand
light,
Pronged somewhat like fish's spine,
Ard on the end a bit of white
The common kind of grocers twine-
With naught but great
Ground worms for bait.
Tramps to the water full of glee;
His hat beneath,
Observe the wreath
OF smiles most beautiful TO see,
While he casts in the splashing brook
A Bonded pin--his only hook.
The angler with the costly pole
Comes homeward full of airy grace
If rapture thrills the urchin's soul
II doesn't blossom in his face.
The former he has twenty-three
Fishes that speckled in the sun.
The shock-haired boy
Is reft of joy
He's caught what's known as nary
one"
The rod and reel have won the day
Somehow ii sometimes works that way,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
$4,000
hong quer ree-e-e-e-e-e-e.

If we understand the essential prin-
ciple of music we will be ready to al
low a broad margin for what may
properly be termed musical suggestive
ness. A bird sings and suggests a
melody to one person and nothing
whatever to another. For the one who
hears no melody it simply means that
he was unprepared to allow his imagi-
nation to trace or follow the bend of
bird music. If l detect in the black
birds notes a tendency toward a clear
musical third. 1 count it as a fact that
he sings a third; anyway, l am sure
he tried his best to do so.
If we listen for something we are
the more likely to hear it. A musical
cal forms. 1t is the musical mea; ne
ment between C. and E in the natural
key; a musical fifth would be the
measurement between c and G. Now,
we cannot expect birds to make any
such accurate measurements of tones;
that was left for a man to do on the
keyboard of piano. But it is very
plain that birds very often do sing
correct thirds and fifths, and even
octaves; so when we find some little
Individual bird-mind striving unsuc-
cessfully to express itself in correct
musical form, it is reasonable to credit
the creature with the attempt.
1t is impossible for me to describe or
initiate the red-winged blackbird's
note; it has a charm like the Pied
Pipers fiute-it draws. but the reason
why is not plain. The syllable rec
e-e" resembles the sing" of a small
buzz-saw, but the buzZ-saw of some
fairy factory, where they make the
wooden pipes for the bullfrog's
orchestra,
There is a little bird, however, who
does successfully strike third or a
fifth or even an octave without the
shadow of a doubt. This is the white
throated sparrow. sometimes called the
peabody bird (Zonotrichia albicollis),
a true woodland bird which has a clear
whistle and a perfect ear for tone and
pitch. Once in awhile some less gifted
individual falls away in flats and slides
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
His Distinction.
ATLANTA Journal

1.-THE Schultze brothers." remarked
Ed Brown at the Aragon, have had a
slight financial setback
They We're doing a good business
right along when one day a young man
entered the store and said:
You are not doing much in the ter
ritory of the southwest. Now, you give
me that territory, and I'll work you up
a great business down that way.
After a brief conversation Hans
was engaged and put on the road.
AT the end of three months he got
to San Antonio. Tex, and telegraphed
back to the firm:
L have finished my trip. We're shall
1 go next?'
The elder Schultze whistled up
through the tube to his brother:
Hans has telegraf he flemish hees
treep-vere shall L go next? Vat is it
We does?'
See on der books vat ees hees OK
pense account, and vistle me back
THE elder Schultze looked over the
books and whistled:
'HeeS expenses air $3.50 dat eet. ees.
Vat 1 shall telegraf imp
Now loolh to see on der books
vat ish der goods he sell and whistle
CUP me
Once again the elder Schultze ex-
amined the books.
''Yawcob, oh, Yawcogr' he whistIed
up. He sole der goots up to $1,44O
dollah.
Shust S1.440 dollah, and he telegraph
we're L shall go next?
Dots rite was the reply.
Vel. you tells i'm l say dot ee go to
hell nit 'imself, and sent der telegram
collects-dos was you dor"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
THAT CHANGE OF FRONT.

Among the many newspapers which
have noted morning contemporary
change OF front on the silver question
is the Capital, published at Boise. 1t
says that ex-silver organs like the
Salt Lake Tribune seeking some ex-
cuse for going back to the Republican
party, are fond of asking: What has
Democracy ever done for silver?" And
it answers the question as follows:
Democracy has defined what the
silver issue is. We demand the free
and unlimited coinage of both gold and
silver at the present legal ratio of 16
to l, without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation This is
bimetallism as defined by Democracy.
Anything short of this is not Demo-
cratic bimetallism. Many people of the
United States in a crude. underlined
way, believed in silver. Some wanted
it at any ratio. Some wanted TO coin
the American product only. Some
wanted to let go of the accused single
gold standard, but wanted other ma
tions to help them let so of 1t. De-
mocracy presented a clear cut, forci-
BILE, Ineligible definition, and outlined
the American as opposed to the British
financial policy. Democracy gave to
bimetallisTa the championship of
great national party. Behind the silver
proposition as enunciated by the Chi
cago platform Democracy massed her
victorious legions. For the first time
in the history Of the nation a great
national party took up the cause of the
white metal in the interests of human
ity. Is not this something done for
silver? In the cause of silver Democ-
racy polled more votes than ever be-
fore elected q president in this coun-
try. True. she failed; but is failure a
test of loyalty TO a truth? None but a
fool viii say so. Then what are such
sheets as the Tribune bowling about?
Why, Democrats failed to elect Good
win or Cannon to the senate in Utah
and Dubois in Idaho. But what has
the victory or defeat of any of these
gentlemen to do with the silver issue?
Has Cannon of Utah gone back to the
goldites because he was not elected to
the senate last winter? Not so. He is
a loyal silver man and will be found
under its banner, whoever carries it.
Did Dubois sulk in his tent, whine like
a sick girl and say it is useless to make
another stand for silver because he
was defeated for the United States
senate in 1896? Last year he paid his
OWE expenses and stumped the state
for Steunenberg and the entire Demo-
cratic-Silver Republican ticket, and
s+apdc forth now the Achilles Of l,ir,a+
aIlism, hurting defiance at the minions
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
She Was Emma.
Chicago Record.l

good story is told of the wife of a
certain lord mayor in England. 1t
would not do to give her name or her
city, because she is good woman and
was unconscious of her mistake. 1t so
happened that during Queen Victoria's
last visit to London her majesty, with
her favorite daughter. visited the train
ing school for nurses, accompanied by
the LADY mayoress." The governor of
the institution, as they were departing.
requested them to write their names in
the visitors book. The queen removed
her glove. took the pen and wrote vic
toria" at the top of a new page. The
princess followed her mother, and in
scribed her name Beatrice" The gov
ernor then handed the pen to her lady
ship, the wife of the lord mayor. She
took it and simpered and on the third
line wrote Emma"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-26
TRUSTS AND THE RECORD.

How are the Democrats going to get
up an issue with the Republicans on the
trust question:" asks an administra-
ton organ, which adds: THE Repub-
lican platform will doubtless declare
just as strongly against trusts as the
Democratic"
1t may be so. But it will be a most
unnatural thing to do. 1t will be like a
parent casting off an heir merely be-
cause the latter has outgrown his
clothes. 1t would be as if Alger should
repudiate embalmed beef after trying
to convince the world that it was
wholesome food for soldiers.
The whole record of the Republican
party is fatal to any antitrust plank
that can be placed in the Republican
platform. Some of the most radical pro-
lection organs in the country are advo-
eating a relief from tariff duties as a
remedy for the trust evil. They say
that nothing will be so effective in
checking the growth and restricting
the power of the monopolies as placing
the articles they control on the free list.
There is no better way to cure a
disease than by striking at its cause.
And this, they argue. would close up
the fountain from which trusts derive
their dangerous strength and arrogant
control of the labor and products in
their respective lines of industry.
Nor can the Republican party point
to any stand it ever took against trusts,
either in denunciation of the bad effects
or by Svay of prevention. 1t has no
pledge now standing against them. It
has done the bidding of the trusts
whenever it has had the opportunity
1t has repudiated every official who has
made an honest effort to suppress these
congregations of wealth. The chairman
of the Republican national organiza-
ton stands at the head Of a half-dozen
concerns of this kind. The president is
the tool of this man and the influences
for which he stands. The vice presi-
dent is a trust official in a dozen trusts.
The attorney general is trust attor-
ney from a state that is a veritable
hotbed of trusts.
And still Republicans will declare
against trusts. they say, because it will
do them no harm and because they
have no more intention of carrying out
the pledge than they had of standing
by their civil service declaration.
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coat. 1t is like that of the robin in
construction, but entirely unlike that
OF any other woodland singer The
notes are not clearly whistled. nor are
they thrilled or warbled: they are the
scarlet tanager's own. and that is all
l can say. To initiate them l must
hum and whistle at the same time
His notes are almost invariably
grouped in twos; rarely there are
three notes connected together, and
often there occurs a note that sounds
like a trill, but upon careful analysis
proves to be rather a rapid interchange
between two notes, perhaps a fifth
apart Here are two songs recently
heard in the Arnold arboretum, close
by but not in the somber shades of the
hemlOck hill beside the eastern gate
way
The greatest charm OF the scarlet
tanager's song is its soft quality. It
is vigorous yet not loudly whistled as
the orioles song is. 1t is like the
robins song, but there is not an atom
of that nervous quicknesS which char
acterizes the robins music The scar
let tanager's song is well worth taking
a long tramp to hear. And when it is
once heard, 1 am sure the memory of
1t will abide with us always. 1t is one
more thing to be added to the list the
heading of which naturally is:
"A thing of beauty is joy forever"
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ton. This is sometimes done by under
selling. in some particular article, until
the foreign competitor either retires or
is willing to come to an arrangement
Eigth-There is no attempt at monop-
oily or at making close trade in any
part of the combinations; due regard
is paid to claims of an applicant for adj
mission to combination. Any one who
has been in the trade for a number of
years as a workman or in any capacity
is admitted free. He is simply charged
for the printed information supplied,
but he has to subscribe to all the con-
ditions OF membership. Should he have
no claims, he is asked to pay an en-
trance fee in proportion to the amount
of capital he is putting into the bust
ness.
The employees are treated with every
consideration and are offered the fol-
lowing inducements to enter the alli
ances:
First-The wages, hours and condi-
tons of labor existing at the time the
employers alliance is completed are
guaranteed as long as the alliance lasts.
| PCNOiiU- na6Co anu
board is formed, in which the workmen
have an equal right in every way. This
board has absolute power to settle all
disputes which cannot be arranged in
| the respective works, on terms in keep
| ing with the rules of each alliance. AL
though this board has not the power to
| deal with the old wages and conditions,
it has the right to settle all new con-
ditions, as they arise. purely on their
merits It's power is absolute in these.
| Until the dispute is settled the work.
men accept the employers terms under
protest. When the question is settled
by the board, the decision is retroactive,
so that the delay necessary to adjust
the matter is not prejudicial to either
party. Strikes and lockouts are thus
made impossible.
Third-The first Encouragement of the
selling prices carries with it a wage
bonus for the workmen in proportion to
the amount of the average advance. In
any trade subject to accidental condi-
tions manufacturers may alter their
selling prices without interfering with
the bonus. Only actual and continued
increase or decrease of profits will af-
feet the bonus of the workmen.
Fourth - The employers, having
formed a union among themselves, give
their support to trades unionism in
every way. They employ none but
unionists, so that the workmen must
form a union if none exists. On the
other hand, the workmen refuse to
work for any but associated employers.
Manufacturers and other large en-
ployers of labor are inclined to look up
on this scheme as chimerical at first
But it is the only one ever devised
which secures perfect harmony and in
sures perfect understanding between
employers and employees. Workmen
are given an interest in the business
and they are as anxious for it to pros
per as the owners are. Besides, the
common suspicion that employers are
making big money when they are run
ming at a loss is removed from the mind
of the laborer. There are no restric-
lions upon any person entering an alli-
ance which keeps the trades open to all.
1t is plan we'll worth investigating
if it will accomplish one-tenth of what
is guaranteed for it.
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SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
Some Sense of Humor.
washington Starr

washington Starr
The mountaineer of Kentucky, West
Virginia and southwark is deficient in
the sense of humor. He takes life Sc
riously, and. it may be said to his
credit, he takes it frequently. Indeed,
his widest reputation is as a shooter.
1t is not surprising to the outsider who
is acquainted with life and its environ
ments throughout the entire mountain
section that the inhabitants are Of
somber temperament. Still there are
individual instances of a sense of hu-
NOR as bright as one would find in Ire
land in days travel. On one occasion
a Kentucky school teacher proved the
rule. Being interested in education
never saw a country schoolhouse in
operation during my wanderings
through half a dozen counties that
did not have a talk with the teacher.
and / invariably introduced myself by
saying: We'll, you are teaching the
young idea how to shoot, are you? L
had asked it dozens and dozens of times
and always received serious reply in
the affirmative. That is to say. l Al
ways did with one exception. The ex-
ception was a young chap of about 20.
with the making of a popular congress
man in his drawing speech and his
good-natured srewdness.
No" he said, I'm not. don't have
to. They are born that way. What m
trying to teach them is how not to
shoot"
Another time it was a school teacher,
but of different type. a kind of a pa
thetic humorist. 1 had ridden twenty
miles along the banks of the Cumber-
land, a pretty, shaded stream. by the
way, and hadn't seen fisherman, and
by the time l met this man I had be-
come curious, as well as tired, for the
road was hard one to travel.
why don't somebody fish in this
stream?" 1 asked without much prelim-
inaries.
Amt any fish," was the laconic re-
ply.
why not?" l asked in surprise.
The man looked at me and my turn
out with a real humorist's smile.
IF you could git out of this country
he said with a cross between twinkle
and tear in his eye, las easy as fish
can, would you be here?'
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spurgeon Helped By An Echo.
youths Companion.)


No orator ever less needed the aids of
art than the great London preacher.
Charles H. Spurgeon, and none ever
used them less, but when nature helped
him, not only in himself, but outside
of himself, he welcomed the effect, as
he had a right to do. One striking in
stance of a sermon reinforced in this
way is related by a clergyman of the
Church of England, the Rev. D. A.
Doudney.
Mr.. Sturgeon was holding outdoor
meetings in the county of Hants (oppo-
site the Isle of Wight, and one after
noon he preached to a great throng
of people in a beautiful valley near the
market town of Havant.
His text was from the F'ifty-first
Psalm, Then will teach transgressors
thy ways" and the sermon was d gos-
pei invitation. The air was still, and
a clOudlesS sun was sinking as he ap-
preached the end of his discourse, while
the attentive hearers caught every
word.
Apparently they had not noticed,
carried along as they were by the sweep
of his powerful voice, that the valley
was the home of echoes. Mr.. Spur
geon had discovered the fact. At the
close of his last appeal, raising his
voice, he called 10 the congregation:
"All things are ready! Come! The
spirit and the bride say comet and ma
ture herself accents the heavenly in
vitation again and again. Come,
Gomez"
The echoes took up the word, and
from side to side the breathless assem-
bly, heard the repeated call, Comet
Comet Comet" till it sank to whis-
per in the distance.
The narrator describes the effect as
like an electric shock" 1t was as if
the preachers eloquent peroration had
awakened supernatural voices.
We have no written record of the
fruits of the meeting, but there was a
solemnity in the aptness of its close
that lifted it above mere dramatic arti-
flee or any of the devices employed to
trick.
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of the gold standard, ready for another
fight in 1900 What recks it if indi-
viduals fail. so that righteous prin-
ciple triumphs? There are men who.
in the profound of their grand souls,
are loyal to a principle and want to see
it victorious at any sacrifice of them
selves"
The only people who sulk, whine like
sick children and declare that silver is
dead, when it is merely their own re-
gard for it that is dead. are disap-
pointed office seekers like PETER, or
chronic soreheads, soured upon the
whole world. like our neighbor.
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ueechcr-

Then there is another unmusical bird
whose note is commonly interpreted as
kong quer ree-e-e; this the red-winged
blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), a
haunter of reedy ponds, Doggy places
and wet meadows. He is glossy black,
all but his shoulders, which are decor
ated with scarlet epaulets. 1t is
pity to call him unmusical, though, for
he is not at all noisy, and even if his
note has no decided pitch nor clear
whistle, it is not without some musical
cadency. Indeed, a particularly soft
singer which L heard this spring dis
tinctly suggested a musical bird. Here
are the notes:
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His coat is a magnificent scarlet, with
wings and tail of a glossy black. The
female is in wide contrast with her
mate and the robe of aesthetic yellow
olive which she wears only sets off her
respondent husbands scarlet raiment
to a greater advantage, and one for
gets that she is a pretty bird herself.
The scarlet tanager's home is in the
depths of the forest shade. but he also
frequentS the scattered trees by the
roadside One may often see him in
the deep woods, it is true. but his color
there is not so easily displayed, and
as consequence it does not readily