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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
AMERICAN LITERATURE.

| Foreign critics complain that Amerl-
can literature has no distinctive auali-
ties. that it reflects only foreign in
its own.
There may be justice in this criticism
and there are reasons for the condition
of which complaint is made. The
United States is perfect union, polite
ally, but there is such freedom among
the people that they have not been
forced into homogeneous smass di-
vided only by lines of social distinction.
The vast extent of territory, the youth
of the civilization, as well as the in
dependence of the citizens, account for
the absence of organic unity among the
people of this republic
The New England countryman has
little in common with the Scandinavian
farmer of the northwest, the, planter
and the plainsznan differ in their habits.
views and ideals; while different prob
lens confront each in his section and
different methods are EMPLOYED in the
battles for life and supremacy.
But this cosmopolitanism is one of
the chief characteristics Of the United
States. Why shouldn't it be the dis
tinctive feature of American literature?
There is nowhere else on earth and
never was and maybe never will be
again. such asfield for the student of
human nature as this country presents
at this time. The world has never seen
such an intimate mixture of racial ele-
ments.
America cannot be portrayed in the
large, therefore. 1t is. too complex to
be so portrayed. But if American lit
erature be too variegated to be called
distinctive by foreign critics. it can
not be said to run in a groove. 1t is at
least free from monotony.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
SILVER is PARAMOUNT.

Bryan's nomination next year ia a
foregone conclusion. If he is alive when
the Democratic convention meets he
Will be chosen by reclamation for
standard bearer. No one doubts this
No one advances any other opinion
1t is conceded by Republicans and an
nounced by Democrats. The goidbugs
are bitter and silver men are glad.
Whether ex-champions of silver and
ex-supporters of Mckinley may desire
to keep silver in the background or
not, the nomination of William Jen-
nfngs Bryan will make free courage
paramount.
His name is SO inseparably assoc
cfated with free silver that if he is
renominated for president this issue
viii inevitably be uppermost in the
public mind" says the New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The Chicago platform will be re-
affirned-not only that, but it will be
adopted section by section at the next
rational convention of Democracy;
new planks will be added announcing
the Hahnaism, Algerism, Imperialism,
trust protection and gold legislation
of the Republican party-but the nomi-
nation, of Bryan alone would force the
silver issue to the front. even if the
Republicans had not already done SO
by crowding the gold standard bill
through congress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
HERALD'S ART FEATURES.

From the artists standpoint, the COW
err page of The New Year Herald is one
of the most satisfactory designs ever
issued here. Much of the beauty of
the page centers about the sketch Of
Salt Lake City and the Wasatch noun
tains by II. L. A. Culmer, who made
the sketch expressly for The Herald
and executed it with a perfection of
touch and appreciation of the poetic
qualities of the subject that make it
a contribution to the art of the year.
a companion piece to Mr.. Culmer's
painting. is from photograph by C. r.
Savage, and the two views give Salt
Lake City from the south and from
the north-scenes that illustrate as we'll
as art can the magnificent scenery and
picturesque beauty of the city.
The mechanical execution of the
cover is a matter of pride, with The
Herald, because all of the half-tone
engraving and border designing was
done in The Herald building by The
Herald's staff artists and engravers.
The cover printing was done by the
Utah Lithographing company, under
the supervision of Mr.. C. S. Heer-
nance. foreman of the company's
pressroom. Like the other features of
the work. the printing speaks for its
own excellence. From cover to cover.
The Herald this morning is a tribute
to the mechanical skill of Salt Lake
men and Salt Lakes capability in the
printing line.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
FARM AND RANGE PRODUCTS

With an assessed valuation of $780,
0G0.00c taxable property in the state,
the leading industries of Utah produced
over 100000 of wealth in the year
which ends with today.
Agricultural products, including fruit
and livestock, amount to a little under
s15,000,000 for the year; to which may
be added the manufactured products
of the range and farm, valued at ST.
500, OO0
Or, if beet sugar and dairy products
are included among the manufactures,
the years production of manufactured
ar dcles has reached So 5000
While classed as a mining state, for
it is the mining industry that brings
capital here, it is still noteworthy that
Utah's farms and ranges have pro-
duced more than the value of the out
put Of the mines, while her mills, fac
tories and foundries have turned out a
product equal to the combined output
of the gold, silver and copper mines of
the state.
Utah is a land of fertile valleys, rich
ranges and Industrious artisans, as well
as "a mountain walled treasury of the
gods"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
DEMAND FOR COPPER.

The demands of electricity have in
creased the uses of copper to an ex-
tent that copper producing states have
before them a long period of mining
activity and prosperity, which adverse
financial legislation will not be able
to seriously impair.
At the rate we have been develop
ing the power and adaptability of cleo
tricity for the last ten years, another
decade Will not pass until the use of
wood and coal as fuel viii be practic-
ally gone Copper wires will be strung
on every highway, they will almost
form a roof over tie streets of towns
and cities, unless laws are enacted to
compel companies to bury them; wires
and switches and keys will be in every
house; electricity will heat the rooms
and bake the bread and boil the water;
machinery viii be turned by electricity
much of it is run by electric motors
now-and it will take the place of old
agencies in almost every occupation
Without copper the most effective
commercial employment of this mys-
FERROUS fluid would be difficult. And
SO long as the uses of electricity con-
tinue 10 grow, the demand for copper
will increase
The present call for copper is enorm-
Gus. but it is small compared with
what it viii be in ten years from now
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
IN The MINING STATES.

All the mining states have prosperel
this year. Montana has just had one
of the best years OF her history. An
output Of s66ooo.o0o worth of metals
during the period of twelve months
just ended shows that her mines are
in a most flourisbing condition.
Wyoming possesses some of the rich
est mineral deposits in the west and
their exploration has scarcely begun.
The state has made rapid progress dur
ing the year and gives evidence of be-
coming one of the leading ore producers
in the Union when the rich region along
the northern boundary is worked.
IGlaIho's metal output for the year
reached the high water mark set in 1897
almost $4,000. 0Oo There have been
a number of new mines put to produc-
ing, which made up for a shortage in
some CT the older ones, caused by labor
troubles. AT the rate of progresS being
made, the output will be materially
increased next year.
Nevada contains surprises for the
mineral world when the Utah & Pa
cific crosses the southern part of the
state. and prospectors are fastening
that way now to take advantage of the
opening.
1t has been very good year for all
the mining states. but the best feature
of it is the impetus which has been
given the mining industry and which
will carry it far into next year with a
reserved energy for additional devel-
opment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
HAPPY NEW YEAR.

The Herald wishes its readers a Hap
by New Year,
1t greets them this morning with a
budget of local and general information
that they will do well to preserve, not
only for guidance during the coming
year, but for reference and comparison
in future years.
With fifty-six pages of carefully Sc
lected matter. with scores of illust-a-
lions. with special articles by the best
authorities ON local business conditions,
The Herald gives the news of all the
world with fullnetss and accuracy, and
more local news than can be found IN
any other newspaper printed in this
section ot the west.
To the manv readers of The Herald
$500 more than it had a year ago to-
day-we extend our best wishes for
their happiness and prosperity during
the coming year.
A Happy New Year to all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
GOLD AND COPPER PRODUCER,

Utah's ability to produce whatever
the market calls for was never better
demonstrated than it has been during
the past year. The output of god has
been doubled. The value of gold and
copper produced in the year is a little
more than the value of silver produced.
This is due, in part, to tine deprecia-
ton of silver, but it proves that Utah
is not dependent altogether upon silver
mines for the bulk of her mineral
wealth.
The rehabilitation of silver would
help Utah Just as it would help every
ether wealth producing state in the
Union.
But Utah is a gold and copper pro-
ducing state and when her mines, mills
and srneiters get to running in full
blast she will take high rank among
the producers. not only of silver, but
of ell precious, semi-precious ard use
full metals.
The total output of the mines of the
state for the year 1899 runs close to
s15.O0O,O0O of which $4,612, 351 is silver,
sS,465,32O gold and 81. 600 copper.
OF lead and iron there is an almost
inexhaustible supply
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
SPEED THE PARTING YEAR.

The calendar year that passes tonight
tread5 close upon the heels of the
twentieth century. But one more year
and the cycle into which so much OF
our national history has been crowded
will have passed into the records of
time
The year now drawing to a close has
been an era of commercial expansion
the old ideas of excluHveness are Civ
ing way to the demands for universal
and unrestricted trade We have
ceased to play the baby act and have
challenged all the world to competition
nay, more; we take our goods to the
very doors of foreign factories. just as
we have always taken our foodstuffs
and Farm. produce to the gates of for
eign fields, and we give consumers
there better quality and a better price
than their neighbors make them.
All parties are joining hands in tear:
ing down the, Chinese wall of trade
restriction that trust influences caused
to be erected for their selfish benefit
years ago. Conquests of war are giving
way under popular condemnation, to
the conquests of commerce in which all
are anxious to enlist.
The past year witnessed the assem-
bling of the civilized nations in peace
congress, the avowded purpose of
which was to provide protection for the
weaker against the strong, TO prevent
wars between great powers, by the es-
adjustment of International courts of
arbitration; and, while two of the
powers that participated are warning
with weaker peoples now, the sentiment
of humanity is clearly in favor of
peace, arbitration, forbearance and uni
versal brotherhood.
The old year mas witnessed some sor-
ry sights, has looked upon some fright
full scenes of carnage. has listened to
the whispers of many wicked plot,
but with it the great mass of humanity
has shuddered at the sights and sounds
of war and conquest and the world is
better than ii was year ago.
In this country we are awakening to
a realization of our position and our
mission among the nations of the
earth as a peace maker and a cham
pion of weaker peoples struggling for
independence. The intoxication of
power is passing with the year. With
the dawn oe the new year let us hope
that the nation will have recovered
from its lighting spree to settle down
once more to the vocations of peace
that the Declaration of Independence
will be one Of its New Years resolves
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
The Remedy That Failed.
(Bangor Commercial,

NDduSOr commercially
1t viii only be necessary for YOU to
drop about half a teaspoonftil of the mix
ture into his cup of coffee each morn
ing, the circular said. "and the taste
Tor TOBACCO will gradually depart from
MN. He may not cease the use of to-
pacco immediately but within a week he
will begin 10 abhor tobacco if the mixture
Is given to him faithfully every morn
And SO the young wife sent her little
y on and got fiagon of the tobacco cure.
Pretty bum coffee this morning" he
the half-teaspoonful of the mixture into
the cup.
ITS the same as we've been using right
along she replied, craftily
Now. 10 and behold, he was a pretty
smooth proposition himself and he had.
unpeknownst to her. seen the package
noloing the fagon of agin-tobacco mix
ture when it Was delivered.
80 after dinner that evening he pro-
duced large bulky package of fine-cut
tobacco from his pocket and took there
from a plenteous chew of tobacco. 1t
was the first chew he had ever taken in
her presence. and she marveled greatly
lheredt. but she determined to persist
with the treatment"
Dead rank chicory again this morning
isn't it?" ne inquired at breakfast the
next morning.
she replied
That evening after dinner he produced
snort, black clay pipe and a package of
a rev KIM OF TOBACCO mat was as black
as the groundwork of jolly Roger.
Thought I'd bring this old dudeen up
from the office" he explained cheerfully.
ITS as sweet as a nut
Whereupon he filed the house with the
aroma of punk that was strong enough
TO break rock
This grocery person who gets all of
my wages is certainly doing us on the
coffee game he remarked when he tast-
ed his cup next morning.
Really, she said. gazing innocently at
tne lucent punSn OF aSters IN the middle
ence''
And yet there are low foreheads who
don't believe that all women are actress
es. said ne to himself on the way TO his
office that morning.
That evening he brought home a box of
auction stog.es. and after he had smoked
one of them after dinner all of the people
in the neighboring flats stuffed cotton in
the hall door keyholes and closed the hall
transoms.
I must persist. though" thought his
baftled little wife, gloonily.
Coffee tastes, like stewed gunnysack
again this morning. he remarked at the
next breakfast. She felt bit sorr:L for
that fiagon of ''agin-tobacco' if she had
TO chloroform him ard pour IL down his
throat
That evening. however. her resolution
deserted her. After dinner, for the first
time to her knowledge, he pulled out
package of cigarettes, lit one and began
to smoke ii.
She went upstairs.-pou out the re-
naming portion of her 81 worth of agin-
tobacco and carefully hid the bottle.
"Coffee's. all right this morning said
he at breakfast the next day.
''Yes?" she inquired, absently.
When he had finished his dinner that
evening he lighted one of his usual brand
of good cigars.
Men are mysterious to me- she
thought, regarding him out of the tail of
her eye.
Women only think they're foxy" he
thought. blowing smoke rings into the
Swiss curtains.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
"A Niebt in Time of war

Edmund Gosse in tho Saturday Review.)
Inc clouds are up to sweep and tune
Inat inharmonious harp. the moon;
The north wind blows a harsh bassoon.
An old astroIoger might say.
By signs. by portents whirled this way,
That earth was nearing her decay.
All apprehensions stir tonight
With fiutterlng issues infinite.
ConJunctions, phantoms. famine. blight;
The woodland shakes its aged bones
And shrieks; beyond. in deeper torres
The ceremonial cypress groans:
And l. microcosm of all.
Quake, shuddering underneath the pail
OF Natures hurrying funeral.
Yes, tho my skeptic brain rejects
My sireS chain'd causes and effects.
The nerves retain their deep defects:
And still my heart leaps in my side
A fiuctuant ark upon its tide
With throbs and throws unsanctified.
OF sounds that beckon and shout to her
OF sins that clouds and winds aver.
l shall not sleep tonight for dread
OF spectral lights obscurely shed
About my PLUMB and shadowy bed.
Faint faint. these miIdew'd chords that
twang
So feebly. where the music rang
Deep organ-notes when Homer sangi
All, strange to find the quivering crests
OF Iong-laid faiths. forgotten guests,
Rise UP at memorys dim behests,
All, strange to feel the soul resume
Its caSt-off heritage of gloom
The savage turning in his tomb,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
Literature and Farming.

Farming was the first employment on
this globe. and 1t is still the basis of all
other occupations This is a truth some
times forgotten by people who think they
have risen in the world since their grand
faehers raised corn and potatoes
In a remote little southern settlement a
literary was held not long ago as a sort
of mental stimulus to the community.
The meeting had scarcely been called to
order when old Silas Whitaker obtained
the floor and forthwith began a homely
dissertation on fodder-pulling and cotton
picking, which babe fair to last well into
the next hour. The schoolma am, who had
a word or two to say herself about Long
fellow and the American poets grew
FESTIVE. At length she rose to point of
order.
I'D like it explained" said she. what
contrasting. and fodder-puiiing nave 10
do with a literary meeting.
Wal" said Sllas. Its got 5eS. this ter
do with it: Eff it warn't fer corn n cot
ton m bacon n greens. there wouldn't
be a library man in the hull country,
blame if there would
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
LABOR PROBLEMS TO SOLVE.

immigration statistics show a large.
increase for the year. The rate of gain
may be Judged from the fact that the
arrivals in October and November, 1898,
were 4S,177. while foi. the same months
of this year they were 7O,447. This in
crease is at the rate of 10000 a year..
Labor organizations are troubled by
this growth of population. The immi-
grants are mostly laborers in the mills
and mines. They have been crowded
out OF the denselv populated centers
of Europe. They come to occupy the
broad acres of this country. to compete
with tie American farmer, to increase
his product and decrease the foreign
demand for it at the same time: 10 en-
ter the mills and mines and take adj
vantage of the differences between the
employers and employees; to add to our
social and industrial problems and to
the difficulties in the way of their
solution.
1t would be better to broaden oppor-
tunities for the people already here
and to further restrict undesirable i'm
migration. There has been disposition
to protect capital from foreign compe-
ton and leave labor subject to such
competition. AS Pig Iron Kelley, the
great Pennsylvania, Sid in congress
just before his death speaking for the
party he represented: 'The only free
trade we believe in is the free trade
of men,
We are glad to welcome strangers to
our shores, but when it becomes neces-
sary to cross the Pacific and purchase
Oriental territory at the expense of
blood and treasure for our surplus
population, it is time for immigration
and naturalization to stop.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
SALT LAKE REAL ESTATE.


Evidence of a continued improve
ment of the. real estate market is found
in the figures printed in todays Herald
This awakening has been going on
for the last six monthe-ever since the
mining boom began.
There IS no real estate boom. Salt
Lake wants no such boom. 1t is just a
healthy growth based upon the ever
increasing output of her mines. and the
widening domain of agriculture as a
result of the extension of irrigation
systems
No one who views the real estate
market and understands the conditions
which influence it, can fail to note a
very. marked Improvement upon the
conditions OF a year ago. and a contin-
uous tendency toward better things in
the near future.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
A Diploma at Six.

philadelphia Saturday Evening Post)
United States Senator John c. SDooner
of Wisconsin has ideas Of domestic dis
cipline. as we'll as foreign relations. Sew
eral years ago his young son, aged 6,
importuned him for money after the man.
ner of small boys.
WHAT do you want TO do with it?'
asked his father.
oh. nothing" responded the boy in
definitely.
You have plenty of spending money.
and l buy everything you need or ought
to want. Unless there is some special
reason, / can't let you have ii. There
isn't any reason, is there?"
Not exactly but want it. You know
how 1t is, papa; you Were a little boy
once"
This appeal failed to move the senator $
heart. and a silence followed that lasted
an hour or more. During this time the
father read and the son thought. AT
length he said:
Papa"
Yes. my SON.
Suppose l was to meet highwayman
on lonely street late at night"
Yes, ny SON.
And suppose he should pull out pistol
and say: Little boyI Your money or your
lifep What could do?Y
Ten minutes later the senators son was
whistling to, his chum outside his churn's
window, with new silver half-dollar in
his pocket.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
Paternal Advice.

An now nah son dat yo am erbout to
marry, 'membah dat yo' duty am fust to
yo' family. mex TO yo' self, an lastly to yo'
fellowmen; but, bein a membah OBJ yo'
own family yo' kin nachully wo'k yo self
in twice. One OBJ yo' creates trials will
be to keep yo' family in meat an at de
same time retain yo' reppertashun fer
honesty in de community. OBJ cose il am
er Established fac dat de worP owes
eberybody er libbin, but 1T ain Necessary
fob .yo' to publish how yo' coilec's
youahs Say muffin about yo' nightly
ockerpashun. an always saw er little
wood durin' de day, bein' keerful to make
ez much noise bout IL ez Dosserble. Let
de community undahstan' dat yo' am
willin' to meet dem from de STANDPOINT of
de golden rule; ez yo' won't hab muffin TO
do yo' sheer WIFI yo'l hab de bes' OBJ de
bargain. An tasty should misfortune
obertake yo. doan let no fool lawyer in
JUICE syo to plead guilty. No mattah
whad proofs am ergia yo'. one-half de
people gwine to bliebe yo inherent eff
yo' keeps denyin' de cha ge. Membah.
NAH son. il am bettah to scribe de full
thirty days an hab plenty oh frien's lef'
to glib yo' a helpin' han wen yo' gifts
out. dan TO cut down de sentence one
half by pleadin guilty. an hab cherry
body glib yo' do col shoulder forebber
aftahwa' ds