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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-15
HAMMOND's BIMETALLlSM.

Candidate Hammond admits that he
knows nothing about the Porto Rican
tariff. he has demonstrated that he
knows even less about the financial is
sue. In Logan the other evening he
declared that "the Republican party is
the party of bmetallism."
James is either a joker or a joke.
He is either playing the clown or the
eapper. If he is trying to poke fun at
the people Of Utah they will call him
down on election day. If he is uneon-
seiously affOrding them amusement,
the Republican state committee should
take him off the stump.
Think of a man who holds the posi-
ton Of secretary of a state, who claims
% be a public man, who aspires to go
to congress. saying that the Republi-
can party is the party Of bimetallism!
Why, there isn't an administration
newspaper in all the land but boasts
daily that the single gold standard bill
which has passed both houses and
awaits the presidents signature is not
only a direct blow at the hopes of BIZ
metallists. but is proclaimed a fulfill
ment of the financial pledge in the St.
Louis platform. international bimet-
.llism,7 said Hanna in 1897. lis an ir-
descent cream; it can never be 1'e-
allied: but the law (passed under
ClevelanO required a commission to
be sent abroad to confer with other
governments. and it had to be sent"
This BILL" says Representative
Overstreet. its author, "holds out not
the slightest hope of international BIZ
metalltsm under present conditions.
say frankly that this bill viii make it
practically and absolutely impossible
ever to have international bimetallism
at the ratio of IS to l."
Now the question arises, and James
T. HammOnd owes it to the voters Of
Utah TO answer it, Does he endorse
and approve this measure Of the ad-
ministratiOn?
1t holds out not the slightest hope
of International bimetallism." Is this
the financial doctrine Mr.. Hammond
believes in?
This bill makes it practically and
absolutely impossible ever to have in
ternational bimetallism" so long as it
remains on the statute books of the
nation.
is this what the Republicans of Utah
advocate? Is this the legislation they
approve? Is this vicious warfare on
bimetallism what causes Mr.. Hammond
20 speak Of the Republican party as
the party Of bimetallisn? VIII Re an
swer? Dare he answer? Can his news
paper hackers explain his position OF
their own
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never dreamed of the free republic they
established embarking on colonial ca
reer similar in system to that from
which they had rebelled.
But what was their notion OF sucn
matters? What was the spirit Of the
trainers Of the constitution. that we
may the better interpret the document
itself?
Go to American history for your re-
ply. Ask any school boy what was the
chief cause Of the American revoiu-
ton. ASK him what the American rev.
olution wac a protest against. he VIII
tell you Taxation without representa-
ton"
Did the trainers of our constitution
the founders of our government, be-
lieve in the sort of tariff the admins
tration proposes to levy upon the peo-
pie OF Porto Rico? Read your answer
in the story Of Boston harbor and the
tossing overheard of tea upon which
colonial importers were asked to pay
tax.
The curtailment OF the constitution
is a menace TO the republic: it is an act
of usurpation by public servsn,s-an en-
eroachment upon the sovereignty Of the
people. The attempt to vest the offie-
iaIs at Washington with a power that
is denied the people, to extend the do
minion Of the president where that OF
the republic cannot and is not allowed
to extend, is dangerous.
Imperialists claim that these islands
which once belonged to Spain are not
territories, but dependencies" of this
government; that they are to be ruled
and taxed as England ruled and taxed
the American colonies prior TO 17T6;
that they are to be governed outside
the constitution" as Senator Lodge de-
elares the policy of the administra ion
to be-
What does this mean? Where does
this lead the republic?
1t means outside of the ,aw: in the
discretion OF the money power; at the
mercy Of the trusts which dominate the
present administration. 1t means ar
exercise of power by the servants OF
the people that has never been delegat.
ed to them. and which still belongs tC
the people.
This policy leads the republic to mill
tarism; commits it to English colonial
ism; taints it with Toryiem; involves
it in disgrace and exposes it to dis
aster
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HUMANlZING WAR.

In the name Of humanity the presi-
dent wages this war upon the Fill
pinos
For the sake of Christianity the chief
executive of this great republic has
put the Tagals to the sword.
The holy influences which surround
President Mckinley are well known.
Benevolent assimilation beams from
the faces of Hanna. Plat and Quay.
But how goes the conquest? Upon
what meat doth our Caesar feed these
days?
The war goes merrily on. The admin
istration is satisfied. Our great and
good president has reason to rejoice.
Towns are destroyed daily. Families
are driven to the hills. Yesterday s
Associated Press correspondence told
Of recent battle.
After the fighting was over and men
had time 10 talk. an officer said:
BY God! is this what I've been wait
ing thirty years to see-the shooting
down Of black men as If they were rab-
The distorted. shattered and bloody
bodies of our former enemies lie in two
rows in Legaspi's principal street, two
blazing warehouses glare ana roar in
diers are stumbling through the village
streets, working TO get settled for the
night.
The demoralizing tendencies of this
niger killing" business of the adj
ministration are bound to produce a
lasting effect on the young men who
are carrying it on under orders from
Washington.
Not long ago Sergeant Erb wrote
home to Allegheny, Pa, as follows:
We have been in this killing
business for owe year ard while II
seemed hard at first we look on 1t in
the nature Of sport now.
A Minnesota paper prints two OF
three letters from soldiers and COM
ments as follows:
The zest of the sport which some sol,
diers have in nigger-killing" has not
been so feelingly portrayed by any Other
participant as by Burr Ellis. when he tells
! his brother John how Il HAD lots of fun
| that morning" having killed seven thai
know of, and one more I am almost sure
of.
There were scores of letters printed
last year from soldiers in Luzon, de.
scribing the fun of rounding up and
shooting the niggers ike jack-rabbits.
1t will be a relief to the country
when our "humanizing war" in th'
Philippines is over. Gospel by tbs
sword is too Spanish TO rest well on The
American conscience. If the admins
tration would permit the passage o.
some such resolution as that offered BY
Senator Bacon the trouble would enc
without further bloodshed If nothing
Of the kind is done, we suppose thi
niger killing" will continue for sew
l oy.al wears
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dispatches that the reason why the
Beers asked this favor Of our govern
ment was because the pro- British syn
pathies of the Mckinley admin
istration were so prominent and motor
ious that our minister at London could
count upon a gracious reception from
her imperial majesty's premier. But,
nevertheless. Lord Salisbury CURLY re-
fused to receive the message from the
South African republic. and Mr.. choate
bowed himself out Our ambassador.
it further appears, took particular pains
10 impress upon her majesty's govern
ment that the administration at Wash
ington had not the slightest desire to
intervene or to mediate in behalf Of re-
publics struggling for independence. or
to do anything that might incur the
displeasure Of Mr.. McKinley's great and
good friend at Windsor castle.
All through there are evidences
that the task was most dis
agreeable to our state depart
ment 1t was certainly a most incon-
siderate and presumptuous act on the
part of those low and vulgar peasants
of South Africa to ask our aristocratic
and exclusive diplomats to convey their
ridiculous peace proposition to her
maiesty's government, and the state de-
partment no doubt hopes that in the
future these tiresome people will tell
their troubles to their friends. or. bet
ter still, consent to be wiped off from
the face of the earth that British civili-
cation may prosper.
And the Hanna editors profess to
think that this reluctant service which
our government. even though it is
completely dominated by British in
fiuence, could not have refused to per-
form, is a spiking of Democratic
guns" and a vindication of an admin
| istratiOn that has thfottled every at
tempt to secure from congress an ex-
! preston of sympathy for the Beers. 1t
is quite possible that these "re-1o-
cratic guns" will yet make it so u n
for the weak and webbing oceui ant
of the White House that he viii be
forced to take some action in the in
terest Of peace, but at this late day
any such course would be regarded as
merely an attempt to escape the wrath
Of the people. No half-hearted, elev-
enth-hour change Of policy will wipe
out the pro-British record of the past
/ six months.
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:. THE HERALD'S -.
Home Study Circle.

Copyright. 1859. BY Seymour Eston-y
Directed by Prof Seymour Eaton


reduced chaos to order, faction and in
ternecine contention to cohesion and
strength. He paid the price OF his
achievements with his life After his
assassination (B. G. 49 faction and
contention raised head once more, and
chaos again ruled everywhere. But
only for short time. Caesars work
had been too well done, and Caesar 5
granddaughter and heir. Octavianus,
known TO fame as Augustus (B. c. S.
A. D. I'D perfected and made permanent
the great consolidation which Caesar
had planned and inauguratsd. With
the order and peace which Augustus es-
tablished mems minds had opportunity
to develop along the lines of their nat
ural bents. Literature blossomed out
once more into beauty and strength,
and the glory of letters in his reign
was such that his name as applied to
a literary epoch, has ever since been
regarded synonym for tranScendent
excellence. The Augustan age OF lit
erature IN Rome was, in good reality.
a golden age"
And yet that age derived its principal
ulster from only two great names. Both
OF these were poets. So that while the
ClceroElan age was an age of prose
tfor LucretiuS, it win be remembered.
was but little known in his day., the
Augustan age was an age Of poetry.
The one epoch represented, indeed. the
elimination Of prose literature among
the Romans; the other. the elimination
of poetry.
Virgil (B. C. 1919 ranks as one Of the
worlds greatest poets. For many CEN
turtles he was named with Homer,
Wnlch, OF course, WAS TO place him in
the highest rank Of all. Then a reac-
ton set IN, and he was looked upon for
a tine az somewhat thin and artificial.
/ vi late years a truer criticism has
/ placed him back in a position CORE
spending closely TO his earlier one.
/ While not the equal Of Homer in force,
IN rapidity of movement, in pic
turesqueneSs or vital interest, Virgil yet
] possessed qualities which Homer did
not have. and which no other poet
showed till comparatively modern ages
were reached. For wi h all his brilliancy
OF objective description, Virgil also was
z. subjective poet. He brooded over the
pathos of life, the tears of things, -
to use his own phrase. His heart went
out in pity for the dlstresses which fate
imposes on humanity. Whereas Homer
is as uncOncerned with the destinies of
human beings, except to portray them
accurately, as any pagan god upon
| Olympus.
Virgil is read today mostly for his
"Aeneid." an epic poem, describing
/ chiefly the fall of Troy. taking up the
| story where Homer left it in the III a i, .
but dwelling chiefly upon the exploits
and adventures of Aeneas, a Trojan
hero who. after the fall OF Troy, came
to Italy and became the reputed pro-
genitor Of the Roman people. But the
''Aeneid" was a po5thumas publica-
/ ton. On his deathbed Virgil made il
his last desire that the manuscript of
his poem should be destroyed, for
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With John Henry Smith pushed to
the front at the Hammond meetings
as the head and front of the Repub-
lican party IL Utah: with Mr.. Ham
mond standing on a platform that ap-
proves the appointment of polygamists
to federal Offices; with a Republican
organ ar Provo urging Hammond's
election as a protection for polygamists
the situation is certainly full of dis
enlargement for the Storm Bureau
wing Of the party. But the widely
known editor is undismayed and the
gall of the Storm Starter is equal to
any emergency. 1t goes right along
telling the people that the success Of
the Republican candidate would be a
reputation Of polygamyl
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in polite literature, philoSopher-aIl
of the first rank; and as such he has
always been regarded. His main am
bition, however, was to be successful
practical politician In this he failed.
His character was not strong enough.
either on its good side or on its faulty
size for effeOtual coping with the mas
terful unscrupulouSneSs Of his age.
In the end his head was struck of,
taken to Rome and displayed in the
senate house-a proceeding which,
though it seems wantonly atrocious,
was only typical of the time
Cicero is known to scholarship prin-
eipally for his parliamentary orations
and forensic addresses. his philosophic
treatises, his essays and his familiar
letters These have served as mex
haustible fields of study for the aca-
demic youth of twenty centuries. But
Cicero's greatest title to fame rests
upon the splendid fact that ii was he
who by his literary art and literary
power fixed the character of the Latin
tongue as a vehicle of literary express
sion for the greatest nation of ant guilty
during the whole period of its great
ness, and instituted models of style and
construction which oil subsequent Lat
in authors followed And when we re-
fleet that the Latin language was for
sixteen centuries the language of the
whole civilized world. this great
achievement of his measures up to a
much greater magnitude than even first
appears. Indeed, it is scarcely too
much to say that the models of literary
style and rhetorical construction which
Cicero set up are the models that have
been acknowledged wherever oratory is
practiced or literature written right up
to the present day.
Caesar Oh. c. 1OO-44), the other great
name Of the Ciceronian epoch of Roman
literature, was a greater man than even
Cicero was. Caesar was, indeed, the
greatest man in all antiquity. And, I'm
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UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION.

1t seems. then. that by The constitution
congress might sell out and out Porto
Rico or the Philippines. and the con-
is It would be entirely constitutional to
make the Sales.--future.
What balderdashi What childish
prattle, The constitution is intended
to extend wherever this government
extends. 1t should follow the flag, and
where the constitution cannot go the
flag should not remain. The flag is but
a symbol of the free government which
rests upon our federal constitution The
fundamental law of this republic should
not be trampled under foot and repu-
dated that the flag may be exalted.
This is. or should be a government Of
the people. founded and maintained
for their happiness and content, rather
than for the glorifcation or aggran-
dizement Of the chief executive and his
satellites.
Wherever the constitution extends
this government of, by and for the PEG
pie. is reasonably secure. Begin to
curtail. to ignore, to abrogate the con-
stitution, and the liberties Of the peo-
pie are in grave danger.
Why dc we nave a federal eonetitu-
ton?
Because in a government which de-
riyes it's just powers from the consent
Of the governed a code of principle
must govern the general conduct Of
public servants. The people cannot
keep constant watch over their inter-
csts and their liberties. There must
be a foundation for the one which NAV
serve as e bulwark for the other. The
constitution is that foundation Of our
welfare. that bulwark Of our liberties.
The constitution provide. for a re-
publican form Of government; it like
wise indicates. not specifically alto
gether. but in general terms. what
federal officers may do and what they
may not do; it specifically does say.
however. that public officials may not
do anything which the constitution does
not expressly give them permission to
do.
The constitution forbids the levying
of tariff duties on goods sent from one
part Of this republic to another. This
is exactly what it says and means.
ouibblers contend that it doesn't ap-
ply to colonial dependencies
Possibly they were not considered by
the founders Of this government. 4 is
more than likely that they
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like the case of Cicero, the more crIti-
cally Caesars character and achieve
ment are studied the greater do they
measure He was a great general.
great statesman, a great empire builder
and codifier of law; also great poll
tician and orator. In literature, how
ever, Caesar was great, not because Of
conscious effort spent on literary Ia
bors, but through the sheer inevitable
ness of genius. His only literary labors,
% far as the world now possesses the
fruits of them, were his anonymous, or,
rather. impersonal, records Of his own
exploits In war. And yet these simple
records, notes." he called them, or
commentaries, as we now say-Were
in his own time, and have ever since
remained, in succinctness, persplcuity
and brilliancy of phrase the despair E
all who tried or have tried TO initiate
them. Even Cicero acknowledged this.
The age of Cicero and Caesar was IL
Illuminated by other great names IN lit
erature besides the two greatest ones.
But these need not be mentioned here
There is one writer of the age, how
ever. who merits special mention Luz
cretius- (B.s c.. 1852. the author of De
Rerum Natura" con the Nature OF
Things'') was a poet whose genius was
so remarkable that il lacked adequate
recognition almost down to our own
day. Only with the advance in science
and the explanation of the causes Of
natural processes which the nineteenth
century has witnessed, has the far
reaching scope Of the great poem of
Lucretius, written nearly twenty CEN
turtles ago, been fully understood. In
is own day il was but little under
stood, and, indeed. but little known.
Caesar achieved the unification and
consolidation of the Roman world. he
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An exchange says the Democrats
forced the nation into a war with
spain when our people were unprepared
for war. and now when we are pre-
pared the Democrats want peace"
What logic. IF The American people
were unprepared when they whipped a
European power in less than three
months and the best showing made by
Otis is a result Of preparedness, in
heavens name. let US always go into
war unprepared. With precedent. pre-
cept. preparation and every man and
munition he has asked for, Otis is still
fooling away his time with one tribe out
of the sixty that inhabit the Philip
pines. With so per cent Of the natives
on his side and the hostiles armed with
wooden cannon. yet Otis is unable to
report progress.
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SOCIETY NOTES.

The marriage of Miss Frances BeI
tina Benedict and Mr.. Charles CowaI
will take place this evening at the
home of Dr. w. +. Beer, 1S1 D street
The ceremony will be performed BY
Bishop Whitney. and Immediately of
terward the happy couple will leavt
for California, where the groom is en-
gagged in business.
g @ q
Mrs. G. d. Piper entertained infor-
mally yesterday afternoon
@ @ @
Mr.. Ashford Twigg of Fort Douglas
left for San Francisco Tuesday night
where Mr.. Twigg hopes to regain his
good health.
o &. Z.
Miss IVA LezeOut of Evanston and
Mr.. Oliver Emert. a young business
man of San Diego. Cal, will be united
in matrimony at the home of the bride
at Evanston, Wyo-
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THOSE "eoOD OFFICES"

Another Democratic gun spiked. So
soon as either of the South African
belligerents requested Il. our govern
ment rendered its good offices TO try 70
arrange the differences in that country
Tribune.
Just to show how many miles away
from the truth a subsidized Tory or
gan can get without half trying, The
Herald publishes the facts in the case.
as given by the Associated Press cor
respondent at Washington, and this
correspondent, it must be remembered,
is at all times under the thumb Of the
administration:
It is stated again on the highest au-
tEOrity that in its present capacity the
airy but is simply ''go-hetW eea.' Not
a single proposition to serve as a basis Of
a peace agreement between Great Britain
and the South African republics was set
out in the communication to Lord Sails
bury. All that was ventured in this first
overture was an inquiry as to what Great
Britain was likely 10 demand as the price
Of stopping the war.
And the London correspondent Of the
United States cabled as follows:
The representations made to Great
Britain were so put that they assumed
nothing of desire TO intervene. but
simply transmitted the communications
made to the United States Consul Adel-
bort 5. HaY.
The truth about the matter, as clearly
shown by the above statements, is that
the United States consul at Preoria was
requested to send a communication to
the British government. asking upon
what basis peace negotiations could be
opened. anf that our state department,
in a purely perfrnctory spirit, consent
ed to act as a messenger in the trans
mission Of this message.
And to the shame of this American
republic, it is explained by the foreign
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Was ever there a more side-splitting
burlesque than this Republican cam
paign? Starting with a convention that
dare not adopt platform, and with a
candidate who confesses ignorance of
some national issues and lodges and
straddles the others; who repudiates
his organ, but dare not explain why;
with George A Smith and .Sc:pio Afri-
canus Kenner the only orators in the
field; with one newspaper organ hold
ing the candidate up az the savior of
polygamists. another claiming him as
an anti-polygamist and a third saying
nothing at all; with orators and organs
taking all sides of all questions and
treating Grover Cleveland as the great
issue Of the day. surely here is an
opera boufIe performance worth the cost
of the election. Approached from any
side. this Mckinley campaign can
scarcely be regarded as anything more
than a joke.
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There are two epochs in the history
Of Rome when literature shone resplen-
dent The earlier epoch was that of
Cicero and Caesar. 1t is generally
spoken OF as the Ciceronian age The
later epoch was that of Virgil and
Horace. This epoch is generally called
the Augustan age.
The b story of Rome Tor the nifty or
sixty years that ended with The death
Of Caesar was a fearful thing. No mod
ern history parallels it. except that Of
France for little while during and Just
g = or the revolution. There was no
leisure, no room. no possible chance for
the development of the literary spirit
as a factor of general culture The ma
tiOn-if Rome at that tine can be
called nation-was wholly engrossed
in the turmoils, the embroilnlents, the
upheavalS Of fierce internecine struggle.
And yet, out of the chaos of those
times were developed two literary prod
ueis that had the quality and matter Of
universal fame in them.
Cicero (B. c. 1O6-43) was a great man
If mere intellectual qualities be con-
sidere6, one of the very greatest men
Of antiquity. He was an orator. a
pleader at the bar, a parliamentary
debater, scholar, d critic, an essaylSt