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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
GOLF CHALLENGE CUP.

I According to Denver newspapers Mr..
Samuel Newhouse of this city has Of
fered a challenge cup to be contested
for next year and in after years on
the Overland golf links.
This is a very popular game just
now. considerable space being devoted
to it in magazines and newspapers, and
considerable time by those who can
afford to play it. Golf is akin to shin
ny" bearing the same relation to this
exhilarating and somewhat hazardous
game of boyhood that solitaire bears to
seven up.
Golf" says an enthusiast. lis the
game of good manners, because so
large a part of the game is etiquette
and rests on the sense of honor
They. say it is as easy to cheat at golf
as ii is in solitaire: yet there are
worthy men and women who feel no
computations about reversing cards
when no one else is concerned or
watching. In golf the cheater becomes
conscience stricken, even IF no one
knows his awful guilt and if the
crime is discovered social quarantine
soon makes the villain or villainess
seek pastures new.
In point OF manners it is away ahead
of football, for instance. There is more
deliberation in golf than in baseball,
and less roofing. 1t is not so difficult
to preserve ones dignity in golf as it
is in basket ball or leap frog. There
is less to provoke the temper in golf
than in school-boy shiny" and still
they tell us golf furnishes the supreme
test of self control How can it?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
EVIDENCES OF CIVILIZATION
CAnaconda Standard

Ar Roberts, the dispatches are at
pains TO inform the world, went to the
house of representatives yesterday in
"A silk hat and black frock suit Evl-
IDENTIFY there had been some fear in
Washington that Mr.. Roberts would
show up attired in war paint and a
breech clout: or possibly in red fan
mel shirt and blue overalls: or perhaps
I'm the t0ga of Roman senator, or a
baseball uniform or a golf suit. or the
pink tights of trapeze performer 1t
is reassuring to learn that Mr.. Rob-
erts MADE his appearance clothed and
in his right mind. The dispatches are
not as full as they might be. Some inn
portant details are missing. We are
Obliged to guess at the texture of the
black frock suit and the size and make
of the silk hat. The world outside of
Washington remains in profound ignor-
ance as to the height of Mr.. Roberts
standing collar. the shape and color OF
his necktie. the hue of his undercloth-
ing and the complexion of his socks.
Deep and dense as the mystery of death
is the mystery of the tint of Mr.. Rob-
erts' suspenders. The dispatches are
disappointing to a degree. They leave
a vast deal to the ina gination- How
ever the description of Mr.. Roberts
habiliments is more exhaustive than
that of many others. One searches in
vain for any account of what Speaker
Henderson wore. For aught that the
kilograms tell US to the contrary, Hen
derson was dressed in patent leather
shoes a plain gold ring and winning
smile. The human race Is compelled to
rise this morning and resume its cease
less pursuit of happiness, not knowing
whether W. A. Clark wore link cuffs
or a linen handkerchief. Presumably
most. if not all. the gentlemen in the
national capitol yesterday were correct
~. or at least decently. dressed. at any
rate. Mr. Roberts was. There is no
further doubt en- that score: every fear
has been dissipated. every misgiving set
at rest Let the world recover from its
groundless alarms and go about its bus
mess today serene in the knowledge
that MIR. Roberts did not swoop down
upon the house of representatives in
the garb OF Il naked savage. but 'in a
silk hat and black frock suit
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FANATICS IN ENGLAND.

Religious fanaticism is in full pos
session of Spain. but the people go
abss.t their worship and their ceremo-
MES without caring whether any one
else endorses their beliefs or SCOTS at
their devotion.
The New York Tribune has recently
printed interviews with American
travellers who incline to the opinion
that there are more pugnacious Chris
.ftians. more people. who want to quar-
rel over creeaai questions. more in
rense fanatics. in fact. than can be
found in any other country.
Commenting on this matter Mr.
George Graham. a prorinent eastern
manufacturer offers The following re-
suit Of his observations in England:
the English people. the masses, seem
u he possessed of deep religious fervor.
The. press recognizes and feeds this SEN
tinieni. You can hardly take up a pa
per in England without finding in the
advertising columns some advertise
mens setting forth Bible text II is
ssually a quotation relating To the
EVERLASTING damnation Of those who
refuse to give up their sinful ways and
''be saved. Frequently you viii see
dozen or a score of these odd adver-
tisements. ali quoting Scripture and
calling on the eiTing TO turn from theii.
path Of wickedness and see the true
light. / am tsld that all of the adj
xertisements. or nearly ali of them.
come from poer people: people who
can ia afford to spare the money to
pay for them. The people with whom
/ have talked say that these people
feel that by Inserting these advertise
lnenss aed paying for them they are
accomplishing a world Of good and Will
pront greatly thereby when~it comes TO
The final day Of reckoning. It is
queer idea. ard l wonder Why if has
never reached this country even in a
small decree. I never recall seeing any
sucn advertisements here There is an
ether style OF advertising also that is
strange. You wsll frequently see a line
saying: This IS inserted in memory
of - by his Loving granddaughter.
II doesn't matter whether the
person remembered has been dead one
year or fifty. the paragraph So ,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
But One Question.

phoenix tAriz.) Republican,
There seems to be only one question
in the case of Brigham H. Roberts. rep
resentative-elect from Utah to the Fifty
sixth congress. That is whether Mr..
Roberts is a practical polygamist Those
who are urging his unseating declare that
he has entered into polYgamous relations
since the admission of Utah into the
Urion of states in blatant defiance of the
pledge by which that territory became a
state. If that is the case Mr.. Roberts
should make way for some one else. Mr..
Roberts and his friends insist on the con-
trary that neither he nor any other Nor
mon has taken a plural wife since the
manifesto of President Milford Woodruff,
and that the compact then ard thereafter
made has been rigiG1y complied with. If
this is the fact and ii ought 10 be cap
able of demonstration or denial Mr.
Roberts Eas an unquestioned right. prima
facie. to his SCAT and can only lose it By
a three-fourths vote of the house of rep
resentetives Representative Roberts
has been drawing his salary as "A member
of tina house OF representatives since
March 9Th last. He has regular creden-
tials as a representative which will entitle
him to Il seat until the house by its SOW
ercign power declares him ineligible to
membership. The house of representatives
Can be depended upon to determine
whether Mr.. Roberts is living In poly
samy in violation of the compact by
which Utah came into the Union. IL he
is. nc should be unsea;ed. If he is not he
will serve out his term.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
COTTON WORKERS WAGES.

Cotton operatives in the FAN River
district of Massachusetts had their
wages advanced 10 per cent last week.
This was followed by a similar in
crease in the factories at Manchester,
in the same state and at Suncook in
New Hampshire In an probability
the advance will he followed in Paw
fucket. r. l.. and in the Arlington,
Everett and Pemberton mills. 1t is
nor claimed hat the tariff has brought
this about, for tariff protection and
cotton have never been on intimate
terms.
1T is due to gold standard prosper
ity,1 says an administration defender.
But there are goldbugs who see moth
ing permanent in this advance. The
Mail and Express cautions the cotton
workers to .'be cautious how, they in
sst on an increase in wages at the
present time"
The New York Commercial Adver-
tsser is also alarmed for fear the de-
crease, which it regards as inevitable,
viii occur during the coming presi-
Dental campaign: Undoubtedly cot
ton manufacturers have been making
money of late. says the New York PSI
per, hat this has been due largely to
rise in the price of the raw material,
much of which had been carried by the
manufacturers for a long time at a
loss, and if the employees insist on q
share Of the profits from this source,
they should be willing to submit to re-
duction in wages when the case is the
reverse. someth 'ng they are seldom
willing to do unless from dire neces-
sity. The most serious phase of the
matter. however, is that further in
crease in wages is apt to check extern
sion OF American foreign trade in cot
ton goods. which. until now, has been
exceedingly promising"
Prominent Republican newspapers
are more alarmed over these wage adj
vancemente than pleased. it seems. al
though some are rejoicing because they
are unable to appreciate the danger.
The Commercial Advertiser seems to.
think that eur ability to compete with
foreign manufacturers depends on
keeping wages down in American
factories and prices up to American
consumers. II says:
If New England cotton manufacturing
is to be permanently profitable in the
future, new foreign outlets for cotton
goods are Indispensable and cotton work
ers viii injure themselves II they handi-
cap manufacturer by insisting on a scale
Gs wages that will put the latter at dis
advantage with foreign competitors. This
ought 10 be obvious 10 these employers
by this time.
evidently making money and able to
stand a raise or they wouldn't have
sdvanccd wages 10 per cent. Whether
or not the present wave Of prosperity
is substantial remains to be seen. There
are Republican newspapers. apparently.
Who can see right through it,
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Entitled to His Seat.
NASHVILLE American. }

tN2Shville Amertcan.)
The house has acted as anticipated in
Directing to Roberts taking his oath of
office. He came forward with his papers
properly accredited. certificate of cleo
ticn from the governor of Utah showing
him to be the duly authorized representa-
tive in congress from that state, yet he
was objected to on two grounds, that of
being polygamist and of not being a
properly raturalized American citizen.
and consequently was not allowed to take
the oath with the other members. The
fact that Mr.. Tayler. the member who OBJ
jected TO Roberts. brought in a doubt as
to the genuineness of Roberts citizenship.
hints at a weakness in the polygamy
case, Indicating that If he cannot be
turned out on one count in the indictment
he will Or another.
But whatever is the matter with him.
he should have been allowed to take the
oath. His constituents knew all about
hina before they elected him to congress.
and If it was their desire that such a man
should represent them he should be al
lowed TO take his seat. Once seated in the
house. they can then constitutionally pro-
coed to eject him. The country is deter
mined. and rightly. that polysamy shall
receive no encoura cement by giving Rob-
erts his seat. The sacredness of the Amer
can home, as Mr.. McRae of Arkansas
said,-is involved in the issue and on this
question there can be no compromises
Roberts should be Ousted. but in a decent
and proper manner. and in a way that no
rash preceaents viii result to come up
to haunt the country in future years.
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Common Sense About Roberts.
New York world.o

tNeW lOTk Worid-)
So far as poiygamy as an institution is
concerned. TO one who cared to think
about the matter could possibly regard it
as "a menace 10 the American nome"
The Aryan race was homogeneous when it
came out of the darkness into the light
of history. 1t has remained homogeneous.
1t is not likely that at this late day. when
polygamous races are turning to mono
gamy. it viii take up with practices II re-
fused to adopt from its neighbors in its
infancy
Utah's poiygamy came about as thou
sand and one other fantastic practices
have come about among queer people
in out-of-the-way places. AS soon as
civilization and the normal standards
reached Utah it began to die in spite of
the encouragement it got from its
martyrs" OF course the child of a
polygamous marriage will defend the
legitimacy of its origin and the honor of
its parents But the young Mormons are
not poiygamous. and that for a far more
potent reason than the statutory enact
ments against 1t.
From the standpoint of law and of prac-
teal morals Roberts is, IL guilty as
charged. not the practitioner of peculiar
ethical principle. but merely an immoral
person who has broken his marriage con-
tract and has maintained forbidden reia-
tons with two women. If Roberts can be
excluded from the house of representa-
tives. if the people of Utah may be de-
-prived of representation on this ground,
then we have established new standard.
a new qualification for membership in the
national councils
Furthermore. the trial of Roberts by the
house of representatives for breaking his
marriage contract and for having been
loose in his private morals means that the
constitutional guarantee that an accused
person shall be tried in the place where
his offerse was committed can be sus-
pended at the pleasure of congress.
If Roberts is a transgressor of the code
of social purity. why do not those whom
he has offended take him to court secure
HIS conviction. with it's penalties of loss
of the privileges of citizenship. and then
lay before the house n fact of which the
house has the constitutional right TO take
CONFERENCE.-The fact that he is legally,
constitutonacly disqualified?
Isn't it possible to be sensible. orderly
and law-abid:ng even if a question of
social purity. with its endless opportuni-
ties for cant and hypocrisy, is under 6is-
cusSiOn?
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-. THE HERALD'S
Home Study Circle.

Directed by Prof. Seymour

most vicious results of the old colonial
system had been the fostering among
our people of a general indolencs. a
dislike for business methods and an
antagonism to law manifested in uni
versal smuggling and in the refusal of
juries to convict for such offenses. The
last twenty years had tremendously
augmented these evils. The mob meth
DDS of the ten years pre-revolutfon
contest. however necessary, would have
demoralized any people. To refuse
obedience to the courts. to refuse to
pay just debts, to boycott officers of the
law. to disgracefully abuse them. to tar
and feather conservative citizens who
ventured to criticise such proceedings.
to terrorize society through its lawless
elements in tavern committees and
nocturnal visitations-all this had been
to no slight extent the evidence and
concomitant of patriotism Then these
regrettable anti-social tendencies had
been intensified. of course. by the long
war. which--aside from the inevitable
disintegrating influence of any success
full rebellion, however just-had ruined
all industry and flooded the confused
country with a worthless currency.
OF course. the reckoning had to come.
Such conditions bring out in any So
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
Applied Science.

1t does not seem unwarrantable to
suspect that Mr.. Stephen Leacock, who
contributed the following to the London
Outlook, has learned in suffering what
he teaches in boarding house geometry.
Here are some of Mr.. Leacock's defini-
tions and axioms:
l. All clearinghouse are the same
boarding houses.
,. Boarders in the same boarding
house and on the same flat are enual
to one another
,. A single room is that which has no
parts and no magnitude.
4. The landlady of boarding house
is paralelOgram; an, oblong, angular
figure which cannot be described, but is
equal to anything.
3. All other rooms being taken, a sin
gle room is said to be double room.
Among postulates and propositions.
the following are worthy of considera-
ton:
/. a pie may be produced any number
of times.
.. The landlady may be reduced to
her lowest terms by series of propo-
sitions.
8. A Decline may be made from one
boarding house to another.
1. The clothes of a boarding house
bed, although produced ever so far
both ways, will not meet.
). Any two meals at boarding mouse
are together less than one square meal.
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go In. Sometimes It's accompanied by
a touching piece OF poetry
There IS a great deal of old fash
Toned pietx in rural England to be
sure. Washington Irving found it
there almost a century ago and the
changes in those aged sections of the
civilized world come on by slow stages.
We doubt the accuracy of observation
which regards the English people as
fighting fanatics. They are naturally
a pugnacious race. and this character
istic may assert itself in religious opir-
ions. But the English people are not
intolerant-there are few countries
where there is so much liberality in
religion CT such freedom of speech in
political matters as may be found in
England. no matter how devoted to the
Bible our New York contemporary s
informants may have considered them.
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New Method of Procedure.
tChicago Inter ocean,


The most noteworthy happening at
the opening of the Fifty-sixth congress
concerned Roberts of Utah. Whe= the
name of the polygarnist congressman
elect was called a new method of pro-
cedure was adopted. This action was sig
niiicant because the programme outlined
by the Republicans was accepted by the
Democrats. No member of any party
cared to make defense of the polygam-
list. Anxio-s as the Democrats are to
make political capital Of every incident
eager as they are to take advantage of
every technical mistake of the Republi-
cans. they heslfated TO oppose the over
whslming sentiment in the United States
against polygamy. 1t had been .prophesied
that there would be uproer and confusion
over the Roberts incident. but by the
consent of one party and by the vote of
another the polyganlist was denied the
privilege of sitting in the house even
while his case was under consideration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
Business Conscience.
CYouth's Companion.l

The Sunday morals of many a COM
munity are an Improvement upon those
of ordinary workdays. Somehow con-
science seems to sleep when the hand is
busy. particularly if the hand be en-
ployed upon some profitable work. A
London artist tells of a curious incl
dent that came under his notice some
little while ago.
! had an old English bracket clock
that l took myself to a wholesale firm
of clock-makers to be repaired. Whilst
in the shop / noticed a peculiar piece
of mechanism, the purpose of which
puzzled me. SO l sought for Informal
ton.
OH replied one of the firm, that's
a special order Cor temple in China;
it is to, work an idol and make him
move
Presumably that clock-maker was an
excellent Christian IN his own estima-
ton. I do not know whether there was
anything in my look that he considered
called for an explanaticn. but he add
ed:
Business is business, you know
You'd be astonished to learn what fun
ny orders we sometimes have in our
trade. Only the otheriday. a firm asked
US if we would make some imitation
genuine Eiizahethap clocks: they sent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
HASN'T He MET THEM?

A correspondent who says that he
voted for b. II. Roberts claims To have
been misled by Roberts promise TO
meet any and all charges that might be
made against him.
why hasn't he done 500" asks the
correspondent. why hasn't he met
them?''
This query recalls the story of a
freight train collision near the little
Kentucky town of Whitlock about two
years ago. The engines were pretty
badly shaken up. but no lives were lost.
One of the engineers was very angry
and the other was somewhat injured by
the shock.
Didn't you have orders at Whitlock
to meet ne?" demanded the angry one.
We'll, d-n it. hain't I met you?" in
quired the other. with some indigna-
ton
Has our congressman-elect been able
TO turn anywhere without meeting the
charges that were made against him?
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SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES.
Phil Armour As a Brakeman.
natr-os.


George A. Sheldon, depot master of
the Lake Shore station, who died on
Oct. 20. after forty-six years of con-
tinuous service with the Lake Shore
company. was a veritable encyclopedia
of railroad incident, and his well told
tales. If repeated in his own select
phrase, would rank as classic litera-
tuIe. His variations were confined to
actualities, thus giving them real
value. He was many years a conduc-
tor, and among the best of the Incl
dents he related is the following:
"One day there stepped aboard my
train well dressed. business appear
ing man, who as he rendered his fare,
remarked:
II see you are still on the road. Mr..
Sheldon
".Yes. | am still at it, replied. 'br5
/ am not certain that / remember you,
though l think I have seen you be-
fore
Yes. you have seen me before en-
phasized the passenger, and while you
doubtless have forgotten it l still re-
member that you once did me the
greatest favor of my life. Come to my
seat when you get time and I'll tell you
about it,.
when l had finished collecting fares
] dropped into the strangers seat and
he continued: Years ago l was four
days brakeman aboard your train. At
the end of the four days you took me
aside and remarked in a tone of SYM
patty: I'm sorry to have to tell you
so. but the fact is. young man. you
are too much of a fool to ever make a
good railroader Take my advice and
quit / took your advice and went
into other business, and the result is. l
made a fair fortune. ] thank you, Mr..
Sheldon, for your wise counsel
What is your name? / asked.
".Phil ID. Armour, of Chicago re-
piled my ex-brakeman, and / shall al
ways remember your kindness. l was
stupid railroader, and you advised
me for my good
Until this interview" added Mr.
Sheldon. II never suspected that Philip
d. Armour. the packer. was the brake
man / discharged years before
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Conservatism-Confict With An
archy-The Struggle For a
Stronger Government

In the midst of the war Hamilton had
met woced and won daughter of
Philip Schuyler. Immediately after
Yorktown the war now plainly over.
declining with graceful dignity repeated
offers of financial assistance from Gen.
eral Schuyler. he set himself to earn
a livelihood for his wife and babe. and
four months rapacious study admitted
him to the New York bar. where he at
once rose to the highest eninence.
An election TO the dscayins congress
of the confederation of 1882 and his few
months futile battle there. along with
Madison. against the inertia of the bulk
of the members and the distressing con-
dition of the times. is memorable only
because this experience seems to have
gone far toward establishing the deep
distrust of Democracy and the ardent
desire for a strong central government
which were to be the controlling ideas
of his subsequent public life
To appreciate this later work we must
bear. in mind certain facts not alto
gether pleasant for an American to
contemplate. Not merely was our gov
eminent marked by political disinte-
grafton at home and treated with de-
served contempt abroad Our whole
society was equally disorganized. The