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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

have seen him eat. heard him talk.
watched him drink and smoke and en-
joy himself as only mortals can. But
the others are spirits of shadowland.
But some mysterious influence seems
to control the old diplomat as well as
those about him. He is periodically
deprived Of power, by whom or why
power as regularly and no one can ex-
plain the way in which he does it.
The dowager empress seems to be
the controlling spirit. She makes and
unmakes emperors at viii, poisons the
troublesome great, beheads the refrac-
tory small. rules with a rod Of iron and
makes 100000 600 people suffer in the
whimsical eruptions of her childish
wrath.
She is old, querulous and headstrong.
All the imperial power of China has
been in her hands since early in the
SOS. She pays no attention to the peo-
pie, but runs the bureaucracy to suit
herself. She is opposed to all com
munion with the world and believes
in keeping the Chinese market for
Chinese producers exclusively. She is
an ra-protectionist and governs ac-
cording to her whim and viii. regard
less of law or precedent.
The fact that she resumes power ev-
cry time a progressive edict is issued
by an emperor and throws him into a
dungeon or selects his successor has
BODIED i'll for a long time. It indicates
that she is bigoted. ignorant and bar
barous as we'll as masterful and crafty.
There is little hope for China under
the Manchu dynasty. The dowager is
driving to destruction. The emperor is
drifting to dissolution. The one is too
vicious and willful; the other too weak
and vacillating.
It is hard to forecast events for the
next twelve months in the Orient 1t
is difficult to foresee the end of the
present trouble. Tt may be a protec-
torate. It may be division. If division,
universal war is likely to follow. There
are too many claim-jumpers there for
arbitration to play part. Besides, all
the powers are involved. Who would
| be the judges?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
BENEVoLENCE MIsAPPLIEO.

There is s class of imperialists in this
country who always insist that it is
our bounden duty to take possession of
the Philippines as England took India,
to govern the inhabitants whether they
like it or not, Just as England has done
with the natives Of the East Indies.
and to bring them happiness and pros
perity with our gold standard exactly
as England has spread peace and
plenty over the peninsula of Hindu
stan.
The force of this argument is we'll
night irresistible.
There are others who point with
pride to the condition of the American
Indian of today. After three centuries of
benevolent assimilation there are still
a few left and one of them recently at
tracted attention in a college oratorical
contest.
But once in while our determination
to carry our benevolence across the
Pacific and practice philanthropy in an
other hemisphere is somewhat discred-
tied by conditions nearer home like
those described by a special from
Phoenix, Ariz., to the Chicago Record.
Eight thousand Pima Indians on
the Pima Indian reservation, thirty
miles from Phoenix, are destitute, and
a like number of Papagoes, human
parasites of Pima, are in distress, -
says the Record special, which explains
the situation as follows:
The famine is more depIorabIe, because
Indians who boast their ignorance of the
white mans blood and for generations
have constituted self-suDDOrting nations
have been reduced to DauDerism and a
slow process of starvation at the instance
OF the white SS%tlers. The Pimds are en-
during the present famine patiently. They
are SubStsting on dry beans picked from
mesquite shrubbery. aud mescal, a paste
of little nOurishment made from a plant.
Their status daily grows worse and the
outlook for immediate relief is gloomy.
In desperation these natives frequent
~ revolt against the agents and au-
thorities of the government and SOL
diers are sent to restore order, kill the
leaders and otherwise assert the right
of might. when famine tightens it's
grip they will resort to stealing
ana OepfeudJOnS, not uncommon
among them when rations run low, and
which usually leads to bloody encoun-
ters with cowboys and settlers" If an
Indian war ensUes, woe to those Amer
leans who suggest other remedies or
a removal Of the cause of the uprising.
They are "cOpperheads and traitors -
/ The time has gone when peaceful re-
forms may be suggested without incur
ring the displeasure of the pie-counter
patriots who care not how much trou-
bic or expense the nation is put to if
it makes a place for some ward heller
or other.
It does seem that we are neglecting
millions of acres of land on this con-
tinent for a. chance to exploit Oriental
islands and that we are too lavish of
benevolent intentions in the eastern
hemisphere when too much unfinished
work and too many ignored obligations
are neglected right here on this con
tinent 'If this be treason, make the
most of it."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

was therefore an object Of pity rather
than censure.
Whenever anybody caught him in a
watermelon patch or lie, which was
twice a day on an average. he dropped
the subject or the melon and began
to assaiI the ancestors of his accuser
for as many as three generations back.
Our morning contemporary reminds
US of the alabama slave, not alone be-
cause of a similar condition of servi-
tude, but mainly on account of the
identical methods of explaining away
its words and conduct.
The Tribune editor says ne sold out
to Mark Hanna and abandoned the
cause of silver because he had an idea
he would have disliked the grand
mother of some one connected with The
Herald, had ne known her. We have no
doubt the lack of admiration would
have been mutual But what has this
to do with explaining these never
again" editorials?
The fact Of the matter is there is no
public explanation to be given. There
is nothing to do but writhe and Shrek;
nothing to say but swear.
Ever since that gold brick I-n on the
ex-champion's head he has been grow
ing more abusive, more incoherent and
more like the old darby debater every
day he is permitted to put himself on
exhibition.
He isn't to blame. The Simon Legree
of the local goldbug organization holds
a bill or sale for him in one hand and
d whip in the other.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
SELECTING JUDGES.


Let the bench be removed as far as
possible from the bargain counter of
professional politics.
In making up the general ticket it is
well enough to consider questions of
eXpediency, providing always that the
main requisites of honesty and ability
are kept in mind. Geographical distri-
button, racial representation, fractional
harmony, official rotation and sectarian
Jealousy usually have to be considered
in the construction of state and local
tickets. But when delegates meet to
select a judge these considerations
should be laid aside. Nothing but abil-
ity. common sense, integrity, fairness
and knowledge of the law should be
thought Of in this connection. The peo-
pie want a competent, Independent, up
right judiciary.
The judge means justice. Justice
means the triumph OF right. The en-
forcement of the law means order and
liberty.
One unjust judge, one judge who
can be secretly swayed by sinister in
huences, one judge who can be uncon-
sciously moved in favor of prejudice
or oppression, whose personal likes and
dislilzes are stronger than his sense of
justice, whose mind is not free from
bias and whose de ions can be regu-
lated by any boss g. -ue, is a menace
to society and a drawback to the COM
munity.
There are a number of excellent law
yers who aspire to judgeships in Utah
Let their qualifications be scrutinized
closely. The primaries will soon be held
in the several districts of the state to
select candidates. Only men should be
selected as delegates who will carry
out the viii of the people in this par
ticular.
The Herald has called attention of
Utah Democrats to this matter several
times already. It is of such import
ance that too much cannot be said in
its favor. NJ. better appeal for the suf-
frage of the people can be made than
by placing on the judicial ticket can
didates who have the confidence and
respect of the bar. No one should be
nominated whose knowledge has to be
magnified and whose career has to be
explained or defended.
Like Caesars wife, the Democratic
nominees for the judgeships of Utah
should be "above suspicion"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
ELECTING A POPE.

Salt Lake City.
To the Editor of The Herald:
How is a pope elected and what body
elects him? SUBSCRIBER.
The pope is elected by the college of
cardinals. The procedure is as fol-
lows: On the morning of the eleventh
day after the death of a pope, the
cardinals gather in st. Peters. After
mass they proceed to the vatican and
enter the concIave. From this session
a cardinal may not retire, even because
of illness, and reclaim his seat The
session is continuous. If one leaves he
does not return. The windows are
walled up. the doors leading to the con-
clave are sealed. Strict watch is kept
that no messages be sent in. ANY
Christian believer, even a layman, may
be elected pope. In practice he is al
ways taken from the list of cardinals.
Three cardinals chosen by lot act as
tellers, A large vase. shaped like
chalice, is placed on the altar of the
chapel where the cardinals are assem-
bled. Each cardinal takes, before de-
posting his ballot, this oath: 'I calf
upon God. who will be my judge, to
witness that I choose the person whom
before God I judge ought to be elected"
The form of ballot is: 81 choose for
supreme pontiff the Most Reverend
A two-thirds vote is necessary to
elect.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
SODA WATER TIPPLIN0.

Habit covers a multitude of evils.
To it may be traced most of the weak
nesses of humanity. Men drink from
habit, smoke from habit, swear and
give the same excuse, lie abed and
otherwise from force of habit A fam
Gus doctor once said that men could
acquire the habit of eating sawdust to
excess if they stuck to it as persistent
~ as they do to the cultivation of other
excuses.
Nero1ogists contend that liquor drink
ing is on the decrease and that drug
taking is on. the increase. In this con-
nection a leading medical journal men
lions the large and constantly growing
trade of druggists and bottling estab-
Hshments in the sale of so-called soft
drinks.
And this reminds us that the soda
water habit is quite as marked as is
the more pernicious habit OF the brandy
tippler. It's slaves are women, children,
teachers, preachers and temperance
workers as well as men who smoke and
keep late hours and drink the strongest
decoctions known to the liquor trade.
This weakness cannot properly be as
cribed to those who occasionally drop
into a candy shop or drug store to cool
off with a glass of vichy or lemon or
a dish Of delicious ice cream or sherbet.
With such people it is not a craving
but a refreshment. The soda water
slave cannot pass a fountain without
longing for q drink. The fountain tip
pier has regular hours for his regular
soft drink tipple. He cannot miss one
without becoming nervous, discomfort
ed and often irritable. Every fountain
in the city has its tipplers as well as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
WAR CLOUDS m sHADowLAND


Now that China has become a the
atre Of almost universal war, upon
whose stSge the troops of all the lead
ing powers of earth are playing prom
inent parts, the world may get a chance
to peep behind the scenes.
Modern civilization knows but little
of this mysterious abode of shades and
superstitions. Hedged about by cere-
mony and tradition, isolated by a, policy
of commercial seIfshness, held sacred
for centuries by blind idolatry and
fierce fanaticism. the Chinese empire
has seemed a realm of shadows. a re-
gion not of this earth or of this time.
The history and the mystery of China
are one and inseparable. ChronicIers
are in constant perplexity be-
tween the mendacity OF the officials
and the ignorance of the masses. It
has been difficult to ascertain what
the political institutions of China are,
who are its public men and what they
do or have in view. Chinese diplomacy
is a dark lantern prowl in the night
Chinese valor IS portrayed on banners
and practiced with dirks. Chinese pol
itics goes on behind screen upon
which the shadows are thrown from
time to time and these are the char
acters with whom the powers are sup
posed to transact International busi-
ness. We are told that one is the en-
peror, another the dowager. While still
others are the Tsung-i- Yanen. Other
shadows fit and fade and are forgot
ten. The only one we have reason to
believe is real flesh and blood is Ii
Hung Chaps. He is the medium. We
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
HIT WITH A BRICK.

? There used to be an old plantation
darby down in Alabama who was
famous in debating circles up and down
the river for his wondrous powers of
augmentation. He seldom referred to
the topic under discussion. but filled out
his time on every programme with
abuse of the opposition. He had a
choice assortment of epithets and his
use of billingsgate would turn a fish
wife green with envy. Strangers often
wondered why the old man had not
been arrested for the use Of vulgar and
profane language, but the neighbors
never for moment entertained the
notion Of doing so. The old man had
Eeen hurt on the head; a brick had faI-
len on him in infancy and he never got
over his childish ways. In fact they
became more conspicuous with age. He
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
A s2oo,oo Prize Picked Up at Sea.
(Philadelphia Record.)

(Ph1ladeIpnla Rec0rd-)
One of the richest prizes ever picked up
at sea is now making her way across the
Atlantic to Gibraltar in charge of six
seamen from the British ship Senator.
The vessel is the Norwegian iron ship Su-
perb, with a rich cargo of ore, which was
picked up in latitude Sc north, longitude
SO west, totally abandoned but in first
class condition, vessel and cargo being
valued at fully 5000
The prize was spoken on May "A in lati-
tude 1904 north. longitude 20.04 west, by
Captain Jones of the British steamship
ChiVerstone, which arrived at this port
yesterday from Carthagena- Despite the
fact that the Superb, which is a full
rugged ship, was manned by Only six
men, there were no requests for assistance
made to Captain Jones, who stated that
signals displayed showed that the vessel
was proceeding for Gibraltar. When last
seen he calculated she was proceeding at
the rate of about four knots.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
(Baltimore American.l

Baltimore American.)
Il will consent to run for president"
said the Advanced Woman, upon one
condition.
Name it. said the committee
THAT you hire a man to nail the cam
paign lies
Although she was an Advanced Wo-
man, she had not advanced to that point
where she could drive a nail without cut
ting the fingers out of her glove the next
morning
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

If those Utah miIionaires really gave
$1,000 to the goldbug campaign fund,
they were lucky to be able to take that
amount out of their silver mines for
the aid and encouragement of an or
ganization whose motto is Death to
silver" and whose policy is to destroy
the silver mining industry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Chicago builders have contracted to
construct for the crown prince, Of
Japan a palace which viii be absolute
ly earthquakeproof," says an eastern
contemporary. 1t viii probably be a
castle in the air.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Another man has discovered the
elixir of life" But the medical colleges
continue to turn out regiments of grad
yates. Perhaps to counteract the life
frightening properties Of these elixirs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

George Clark Musgrave, who was mar
under the British flag in the Ashantee
campaign, fought with the Cubans under
Garcia, then served under the American
lag in Cuba and has just returned from
O. Transvaal, where he was with the
English colonial scouts
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

San Francisco supervisors have made
it a misdemeanor to bet on prize fights.
They have evidently concluded that the
suppression Of the boxers like charity,
should begin at home.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

The Chicago Times Herald says
Roosevelts nomination has cost Nc
Kinley New York and possibly the cleo
ton. Still, without Theodore, McKin-
ley's chances were slim indeed. Which
will pull the other down?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

There are no sea serpents at the sum-
mer resorts of Utah, but one may see
seTpents along the mountain roads or
elsewhere if he partakes too freely Of
mountain dew.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

An exchange remarks that Roose-
velt's effort to raise Mckinley to
higher plane than Lincoln occupies in
the estimation of the American people
was enough to make the martyr pres
ident turn over in his coffin and .groan."
Hardly that But it might have made
him smile It should be remembered
that Lincoln had a keen sense of hu-
NOR
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

An attempt will now be made to prove
that Roosevelt was commander at San
tiago. Shafter doesn't. care. He con-
siders himself lucky to be left alone
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Coxey is said to be the author of the
good roads plank in the Philadelphia
platform. Weary Willies will govern
themselves accordingly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

The British forces in pursuit of Dom
PauTs movable seat of government are
open to the charge of driving capital
out of the country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

McKinley's Tagal amnesty proclama-
ton viii deprive several mouth-fight-
ing patriots of this city of a pleasant
and lucrative occupation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Tommy Atkins Kearns is a great ad-
mirer of Salisbury. The English pre-
mier's recent remarks on the Irish
question, his avowed determination 20
reduce the South African republics to
a condition similar to that Of Ireland
and his evident understanding with Nc
Kinley have completely won Tom over
to the Anglicized party that looks to
London for its financial, colonial and
military policies. Anybody by the name
of Salisbury can get the support of
Tom Kearns.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
His Motto.
(Puckl

City Nephew understand that old IN
Gle Enoch DOder died a short time ago.
Country Uncle-Yes; he passed away at
the age of 81. Slow but sure" was al
ways Uncle Enoch's motto; an l s pose
it might be said that he died up to IL.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Roosevelt will never be able to cover
the dark stain of Algerism with his
rough rider hat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

To take $50, 900 from a silver mine and
pay it as reward for the demonetiza-
ton of silver is like compelling a man
to sign his own death warrant.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Old Man Kruger might obtain peace
if he were to cease firing leaden slugs
and begin throwing his gold bricks at
the invaders.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

If Ed Loose has one pulIable leg left
the Republican state committee will be
glad to have a tug at it upon his re-
turn from Philadelphia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Bryan says he never wrote to a Fill
pino in his life or even sent them am
nesty by wire. The fabricators will
have to try again.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Emile Zoa has announced to a Rus
sian newspaper representative that so far
as he is concerned the Dreyfus case is
finished. He worked for the accused Off
GERS liberation, and that was obtained.
At the same time, the novelist said, he
and his friends are still at the disposal of
the liberated man in case the latter should
want their help, but they do not see the
necessity for the re-eStabhShment OF
DreyfuS' innocence
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Mckinley seems to have stolen a
march on Edward Atkinson with that
amnesty proclamation to the Tagal in
Surgents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Roosevelt's testimony before the en-
balmed beef commission may be added
to the Republican platform as a post
script.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Catholic Standard: Simms-I can't i'm
agine why Stutterton married Miss
StrOnSmind
Timms-Nor T. However, she's curing
him of the stammeTine habit.
Simms-You don't say?
Timms-Yepi She doesn't give him
chance to talk at all now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Ii Hung Chang, the Chinese multi
millionaire, maintains at his own expense
a we'll equipped force of about 5000
soldiers, all devoted to their venerable
chief and ready to do his behest, be the
same what it may.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
NOTES OF NOTABLRS.

The queen of Roumania's pen name,
Carmen Silva, is to be the name of a new
villages which has just been founded on
her Danube delta.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

F'ire-alarm Foraker missed Wanna
makers hose cart at Hanna's blaze of
glory the other day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Another crack in the liberty bell was
found upon the adjournment of the
Anglomaniacs at Philadelphia last
week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
The Real Essential.

It takes courage and ability to succeed
in literature. doesn't it2'
1 don't know about courage and abil-
ity, but it takes postage stamps"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

After all, these Kentuckians are not
as bad as they fatter themselves they
are.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Office
Of the Weather Bureau.

49,
Maximum temperature, 50 degrees; min
imum temperature, 20 degrees; mean tenn
perature, 81 degrees. which is Is degrees
above the normal: accumulated excess Of
temperature since the first Of the month,
IA degrees; accumulated excess Of tenn
Derature since Jan I, sos degrees. Total
precipitation from p N. tc p. m.
inch. accumulated deficiency of precipi-
tation since first Of the month. 81 inch;
accumulated deficiency Of precipitation
since Jan. !, 3.S3 inch.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Ira D. Sankey, who is likely to visit
England in September, has been asked by
Rev. Thomas Sturgeon TO take part in the
reopening of the Metropolitan tabernacle,
London.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

For the ninth time General O. Q.
Howard of Burlington, VT, has been
elected president of the Congregational
Home Missionary society. Thomas G. Nc
MILAN of Illinois is among the vice pres
idents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

Dewey's boom, like that of his can
non, is only heard in the echoes now.