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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
ON THE DEWEY PLAN.

When the Washington admirers of
Admiral Dewey started subscription
for a present to him they forgot that
Dewey's common sense is his greatest
trait. 1t was proposed to give him a
home to be paid for by subscriptions
from the people, but some way or other
the subscriptions have failed to come
in largely because everybody was wait
ing TO hear whether Dewey was will
ing to accept a gift of that sort Most
of his admirers had a strong suspicion
that he would refuse to cheaper the
fame he has won by accepting an hon.
orarium that came through any other
than national action.
The gift of rank with Farragut and
all the honor the rank implies seem to
have satisfied the hero of Manila bay.
In cablegram from Singapore to
friends in the east Admiral Dewey says
he will not accept the proposed pres
ent, but that he would be willing to
administer the fund already collected
and devote it to a home for sick and
disabled seamen of the United States
navy.
There's diplomacy as well as modest
good sense in that: and the institution
ought to be called the George Dewey
Home
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
TRIBUTE TO VOLUNTEERS.

In his report to the war department
General Charles King, a graduate of
West Point and a regular army officer
of long and varied experience, says of
the volunteers in the Philippines:
II beg leave to call attention to the
fact that this is the only exclusive vol
unteer brigade in the corps, and that
IL fought with all the steadiness, dash
and discipline of their comrades, the
regulars"
This is good reading. 1t is interesting
to the people of the United States. and
il ought to be instructive to admins
tration cuckoos, like the New York
Sun. who have been passing over the
gallant work of the volunteers to claim
that the mainstay of the army in the
archipelago has been the regulars.
All honor to the regular soldier. He
is a fighter by trade and profession.
He enlists for whatever work the gov
eminent may have for him to do. But
the volunteer who leaves his life's work
and goes forth to battle enlists for a
certain purpose and fights for a stated
cause. He is not professional war
rior, but in all the hard campaign in
the Philippines, when has he faltered?
He has faced death in ambush. in the
open, in the pestilential swamps, under
the tropic sun, and everywhere that
duty called him or his superiors in rank
have ordered him.
Side by side and shoulder to shoulder
the regulars and volunteers have gone
TO glory and to death together.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
to find Much virtue in

Tombstone, to find Much virtue in
If"
If certain individuals have their way
in the next national campaign, silver
VIII not be the leading issue, it SAYS.
and HES away to the Hanna camp.
If things continue as they have been
drifting there will be other issues than
silver issues. says out morning con-
temporary in explanation of its renun-
citation of silver and it's abandonment
of independent bimetallism.
If the Republican party can have its
way it will force war issues to the
front in order to draw Republicans of
the Tribune stripe to its bosom again,
while it continues to work by stealth
for the single gold standard.
IF is the only peacemaker," said
Shakespeare's motley fool; and IF
is still a power with political tricksters
who seek excuses for Topping and shut
fling, making true their own predictions
concerning the corrupt use of money
and the power of gold and the attitude
of a subsidized press.
IF the Democratic party refuses to
make silver the sole issue in twelve
months from now, that is the reason We
changed front on the silver question
two months ago., says the Salt Lake
Tribune, in substance and effect.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
EXCUSES FOR CONQUEST.

Germany's purchase of the Caroline
and Marianne islands from Spain re-
calls the desire Of our own imperialists
to seize them after the destruction of
the Spanish fleets. So long as Spain
had a navy and was thought to be ca
pable of defending herself every in
snuation that we were after Spanish
territory was Indignantly resented.
In his first official declaration to the
American people after taking his place
as commander-in-chiefo of the army and
navy, President Mckinley said:
I'VE want no wars of conquest; we
must avoid the temptation of territorial
aggression"
Had any skeptical foreigner said:
you viii change your mind the first
time your resolutions are put to the
test You will fall at the first tempta-
ton. All you want is an opportunity.
If you ever get your hands upon any
thing in the name of humanity you
will hold it in the name of avarice. If
your attention is called to this breach
you win make all sorts of excuses. You
will claim that conditions have chang
ed; that new obligations are upon you;
that you dare not shirk -FOUR resp1nsi-
bilities, and so on. But every conquer
er OF weaker powers from time imme-
mortal could have given the same ex-
cuses."
Had a foreigner said such thing at
the beginning of the war with Spain,
Americans, without regard to party,
would have hurled the innuendo back
into his teeth"
Yet it wasn't forty days after Dew
ey's victory at Manila that the New
York Tribune set the pace for expan-
sionists by saying:
THE proposition to take possession
of the Marianne islands is one to be
considered entirely upon the merits. of
the case and according to the inter-
ests' of this country. OF our right to
take them there can be no question.
We are at war with Spain, and are
therefore entitled-indeei, it is incum-
bent upon us-to strike at Spain wher-
ever we can. If We can do so in the
Marianne islands. We should. And if
at the end of the war we see fit to re-
tain those islands, the justice of orr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
DRESS REFORM IN RUSSIA.

According to the National Dress
Gazette" there is police regulation in
st. Petersburg requiring lady cyclists
to ride in boomers or short bifurcated
skirts The long skirt is condemned as
a menace to the safety of the wearer
and an annoyance to the public gener-
ally, as every accident causes a crowd
to assemble, contrary to the peace of
mind and precautions of the car.
If long skirts are really dangerous to
wheelwomen. they might as well be
abolished everywhere that wheels are
used, for they save nothing tG mod
esty in case of an accident, and but lit
tie in the usual run. They must be
clumsy and uncomfortable in riding
any considerable distance. And when
people take up with a new method of
travel they should attire themselves
accordingly. Those who swim must
not expect to do so in evening dress
Neither can those who scale mountains
meet with any great degree of success
if they wear high-heeled slippers and
trailing skirts.
The Gazette thinks that this law of
st. Petersburg reveals too much of that
paternalism for which Russia is noted.
1t certainly does eradicate some of the
evidences of maternalism.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
Why Did He "JokeP"
CPittsburg News.)

An Irish inspector employed by one OF
the traction companies has reputation
as a crOsS-eXamlner OF conductors and
mOtormen whose cars meet with an acct
dent. He had conductor before him a
few days ago. A drunken man had board
ed car and acted dlsorderly. The con-
ductor elected him. He picked up stone
and threw it at the conductor. who dodg-
ed ii, and it went through one of the rear
car windows and hit a German carpenter.
who had no part in the affair at all. The
carpenter was badly hurt. The conductor
made report setting forth the facts as
stated. He was taken in hand by the in
spector for cross-examination, and this is
what was said:
You knew" began the inspector, when
this fellow picked up that stone and
for him 10 do the like of that, didn't
you?"
4 did" replied the conductor.
What did you say TO him whin you
saw him pick ii up?'
Il told him to drop that Stone?'
And he didn't drop it?''
No; he threw ii at me-.
Thin what did you dO?"
Il juked and ii went over my head and
through the car window.
You knew that, accordin' to the rules
and regulations of this company you were
in charge of the car and that il was your
july 10 look after il as if il We're your own
property. which it isn't, fer it's the COM
pany's?'
Il did
And 1 suppose you read in the news
papers of a raycint decision of the court
in which the Judge said IL was the july of
the lives and the persons of the passen-
gers on their carp
Il did"
You knew that was the law?"
Il did"
Thin, sor, woul ak you. why did you
juke?"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
Got Back at the Preacher.
Pittsburg News.)


A Pittsburg minister of the gospel tells
this story on himself: He has a reputa-
ton as collector" He is always ready
to raise money for any purpose within
the scope of the work for the church. He
allows few Sundays to pass without re-
minding his people in one way or another
of their duty to give freely within their
means to church and charity. He preach
ed a sermon on 'Plato's He'll" He de-
scribed it as a place where those con-
demned to it would suffer the torment of
having their ruling passions on earth up
permost at all times without the means of
gratifying them. AT the conclusion of the
sermon he called the attention of the con-
gregation to a collection that would be
taken up for worthy object. After the
services he met an old parishioner, gar
dener. who spoke bluntly.
Did the sermon make any impression
on you today. james, he asked.
1T did. sir, indeed. it did, replied
James. and l may venture to hope, sir,
that you may continue to serve the Lord
well, sir to the end of your days, and
never fall from grace, sir?"
Il hope so, too, James, replied the min
lister. But what particular connection
has that with the sermon?"
Well sir answered James, I've been
thinking that if the devil ever got you.
il would be sorry time for you in hell,
where YOU can't take up a collection
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
"Play Ball"

(Willimantic, Conn, Journai)
Bill Jackson, the hero of Willimantie.
has a new story of FL Caney. 1t is about
the Twelfth regulars, of which Bill was
one The story dates from the night at
tack. Captain Clarke, who was a fine sol
der, and who seemed never TO sleep, hur-
ried back from the trenches to where the
men of the company slept and cried: ITO
arms, Get up, They are coming at usi'
One or two men sprang to their feet and
a few set up and drowsily rubbed their
eyes. The rest slept peacefully on, dream
ing of home, perhaps. They We're dead
tired. Then Captain Clark began to swear.
We will hope that in the excitement of
the occasion the Angel Gabriel failed 10
set it down against the captain. Clarke
began to swear and to go from man TO
man, kicking each one in turn. We
are attacked Rally at the trenches" he
shouted.
But still the weary. fagged-out men
were slow. They reused. but seemed I'M
able to shake off the mesheS of Slumber
which clOgged their brains.
For God s sake. wake up, boysr cried
the captain-and then, with sudden in
SEPARATION, he shouted: Company +, play
balI!'
That settled it. The men were wide
awake in an instant and, led by their cap
tain. every man dashed for the trenches
TO the relief of the detail already there,
and the enemy was thrust back-as his
tory will tell U.S.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
SPOILS AND M'KlNLEY.

Gingerly but dutifully, a few Repub-
dents defense for trampling down the
merit system of federal appointments
and inviting ten regiments of ward
heelers and place-hunters up to the
government crib where Mark and his
friends have been feeding for some
time.
One of the most eloquent, exhaustive
arguments in favor of the spoils policy
of the president was made at the Ohio
state convention by Chairman Kerr In
justification of President McKinley's
order, he explained that the motive of
President Harrison in extending the
civil service rules after his defeat in
the Democrat who had been chosen to
succeed him, and took the position
that all Republicans take who have
anything to say in favor of McKinley's
surrender to the spoilsmen, that every
thing is fair in war with the Demo-
Gratis. 1t is another version of a local
contemporaries motto, Anything to
beat the Democrats"
Like the Provo Enquirer, Congress
man Kerr believes that the country
turned the government over to the Re-
publican party merely to empower it
to divide the spells of Office among its
campaign whoopers and its camp fol-
lowers. And SO he is delighted that
President Mckinley has made arrange
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
RELIGION AND LAW.

Sunday laws are enacted in these
modern times for the purpose of regu-
iating the manner in which the weekly
day of rest and recreation is spent,
rather than to have a programme fol-
lowed out according to the notion or
belief of any man, creed or party.
Puritanic laws which recognize only
the rights and pleasures of church.
goers are out of tune with the spirit
of our institutions, and shut out from
healthful and innocent recreation a
large number of people who need out
door excitement once a week, but can
not afford it on work days.
1t is not the business and should not
be the intention of a purely secular
state to concern itself with holy days,
except to preserve the usual order and
to secure to all men, whether church
members or not, equally their rights
of conscience.
Laws in this country ought not to be
construed t. prescribe religious observ-
ances of any kind, creedal or general,
and 1t is a mistake to enforce them to
lEdI extent. Inc law OF every udy
should be enforced every day of the
week, but something should be left to
private opinion in the selection of rec
reations on days of rest.
Religious people should not be dis
turbed in their worship; churches and
churchmen are entitled to profound
respect; health and human happiness
require one day of relaxation out Of
every seven; and the peace and morals
of communities should be protected at
all times. But when the state has Sc
cured to every man the right to OBJ
serve the day as he pleases, or when
it has allowed the majority to name
the day when there shall be no work
done Except on morning papers), it
has done quite as much as it can be
expected to do and remain consistent
with our system and theory Of govern
ment.
Sunday laws that go beyond that
limit and seek to establish special
code of morals for the day, are I'M
American. They belong to the Cotton
Mather era
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18

ments to discharge eight or ten thou
sand government employees, not for
inefficiency or bad character, but for
the objectionable sin of being Demo-
Gratis.
No Hannaized Republican cares
continental for the fact that the plat
form on which President Mckinley was
elected declared The civil service law
was placed upon the statute book by
the Republican party, which has al
ways sustained it, and we renew our
repeated declarations that it shall be
thoroughly and honestly enforced and
extended wherever practicable"
Since the president surmounted that
obstacle without turning hair" why
should the vast army of spoilsmen who
expect benefits from the new order of
things hesitate when they reach it?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT.

People are beginning to complain Of
the heat in Utah. Yesterday was very
warm and the prospects are good for
a scorcher today. But there has been
little cause for complaint on this score
this year. May was a cold month. 1t
held back the fruit and grain. 1t came
IN with heavy snowstrom and dis
tinguished itself with one cold, cheer
| less rain after another. June has been
temperate until the last day or two;
and even now it is showing little wrath
to what other cities and other states
have felt. Not only has the tempera-
ture been higher in the east and mid
die west, but the heat has been OF the
| close and suffocating kind. There pee
pie have been dying by the dozen. as if
some frightful scourge was upon
! them. Farmers have fallen in the
| fields, workmen have been Frustrated
in the shops and pedestrians have died
on the sidewalks of the larger cities,
stricken by the heat that kills.
The stories of the sufferings end
fatalities that have come to us over
the wires should make US forget our
own slight discomforts, the most dis
| tressing part of which is to walk
few steps to find a shade There never
was country with sun so warm aud
conditions so favorable to mans com
fort as here in the valley of the Great
Salt lake. There is a breeze blowing
from lake or mountains all the tIme
In every tree shade the breath of ma
ture fans the brow" and every night
the cool air sweeps down from the
snowy peaks to freshen the earth and
sweeten repose. East of the grelt
plains, in the vast basin of the Miss;s-
sippi and along the Atlantic coast the
night is hot when the day is not, ana
people roll and toss in their beds wish
ing for morning and when the sun
comes up and begins to broil the forms
that parboiled in the sultry heat of
night, they wonder why they made the
wish.
In this happy land we never know
what heat-destructive. wasting, dead
ly heat is like. For there is plenty Of
room for all who live here, and for all |
who spend the summer, and for thou |
sands more. There are no crowded |
tenements. There is no excuse for |
poor water. 1t comes dashing down |
the rocky canyons from the everIast- |
ing SHOWS. There are groves and |
walks, and drives, and hill tops, and |
mountain streams for the poor and rich |
alike to enjoy. And there are parks |
and picnic grounds and a score of |
resorts around the city and scattered |
through the state. And there is the
lake with mountains all about-the
lake whose buoyant waters
are source of health and pleasure, a
tonic and a treat
And when we think of all these
things that we have. and remembeC
the babies, and the mothers, and the
invalids of the eastern cities gasping
for breath, asking, not for greater
but for life itself, why should
we complain?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
Bernhardt and the Bard.
lCIeveIand Plain DeaIer.)

NSie'eldnu ram DedleI.)
Shakespeare leaned heavily in Ben John
sons direction. His hand trembled.
that"
And he pointed down to a slender figure
advancing from the wings.
his pedestal. That's Sara b.
And who in deepest Erebus is Sara
'Oh, say growled rare old Ben with a
strong sarcastic accent, you ought to
take the papers"
We'll, you know" said William. apollo
getically, I'm not particularly in favor
now. and perhaps I've gone little too far
i'm an effort OF get even. They care MOTH
ing for me; why should concern myself
regarding them?"
Ben's harsh features softened.
That's sara Bernhardt. and she's the
very newest Hamlet, he said.
Hold on" cried Ben; you'll certainly
do yourself an injury. Brace up. The
woman is well enough in her way, isn't
she?'
Yes" said Shakespeare. but what is
her weight? Fifty pounds2"
And he groaned aloud.
oh. come" said Ben. IF the freaks
didn't help you out, you wouldn't get on
the stage at all"
But think" groanod the Bard. think
what fat part it is. Why. the very name
is she?"
She is a Partisan by residence" said
Ben.
''she looks more like Pole" snarled the
Bard.
Well" said Ben, you must admit she
has a princely air.
Can starched string have prineely
ARP cried the Bard.
''Starched string is good" said Ben.
with hoarse chuckle; why don't yo1
let her play Cord-elia?'
Don't, gasped William.
'-Or Juliet? But, perhaps. Juliet too
much"
'Avauntw snarled the Bard. "Fl do
you some frightful injury if you don't let
up"
But just then the ghost came on and
they settled back on their freScoed pedes-
tails
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
OVER THE WAY.
(Chicago Record.N

over the way of your dreams, my boy,
Are wondrous things for your eyes to
And wonderful paths to a world of Joy
And the marvellous land of the Ought-to-
Be.
There is gold in the dust that your feet
will tread.
And diamonds CLEAN on the wayside
grass.
And wreaths of laurel to grace your head
Hang waiting TO crown you as you pass.
There are marble castles and broad es-
And servants to every wish fulfill.
And armOred hosts at the castle gates
Stand ready and eager to DO your will.
There are living springs to renew your
youth,
And dreamfuI shades for your least re-
And -breezes to fan you with love and
truth.
And gardens that blossom like the rose.
There are wildwoods ringing with songs
of birds;
There are sumptuous feasts where
friends are met
To greet you with tender and honest
words.
And never a theme that you might re-
gret.
All! over the way of your dreams it
lies
This land of the Ought-to-Be, so fair;
This paradise of the cloudless skies,
Where the Best and Right are every
where.
Your childhood lives in this happy land.
And the loved ones lost in the years ago
In the glow of its glorious sunlight stand
And tenderly beckon you there, L know.
What care if your present path is bleak
And the shadows clutch at your gar
ments' hem?
It's over the way that your soul muse
seek
For the light that will ever Danish them.
Just over the way of your dreams. my
boy,
Are wondrous things for your eyes tc
see,
And wonderful paths TO a world of joy
And the marvellous land of the Oughts
TORE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-18
An Experiment In Love.


Tremoirs lifted his chin from his chest
and his eyes from the toe of his shoes
and sighed dolefuly.
Il don't believe she'll have me-" he said
for the some doZenth time.
l smoked on.
why should she?" he asked, argument
atively.
.'Wh?" I asked, refiectively.
Tremoirs glanced at me. What can she
see in me2' he demanded.
True" 1 replied '.What?"
Tremoirs regarded me doubtfully. IT'S
Grass presumption in me to dare to love
her" he asserted.
| nodded an enthusiastic assent.
Tremoirs glared at me for full min
ute. She's so lovely and pure and-and
beautiful, that for a rough, grabbed,
worldly fellow like me to marry her
seems like an insult" he said.
1T is" / agreed.
''Confound your' cried Tremoirs, holly.
''I'm as good as you are.
Undoubtedly" l observed, in as Sar-
castle a tone as / could manage.
And I'll propose to her this very night,
if you do think I'm too big scoundrel
to-" Tremoirs announced, bitterly, as he
hastily departed.
well, / suppose I'm out a wedding
present but I've proved my theory. which
is that the self-abnegation lovers indulge
in simply unconscious hypocrisy.