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TRUE TO SILVER CAUSE.

Some of Bryan's old defamers, "the
subsidized press of 1896, are inclined to
treat him more fairly and honestly than
are those whose conversion is a matter
of recent self-congratulation to Chair
man Hanna.
The local Republican organ, the ex-
champion of silver. which repeats every
Islander and sophism of the goldbug
press it denounced four years ago,
tries to make it appear that Mr.. Bryan,
Mr. TOwne, Mr.. Teller and all the great
advocates of independent bimetallism
are growing lukewarm in their devotion
to the principle.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. than which Mr.. Bryan has no
more uncompromising assailant, asks
why certain men and newspapers con-
tinue to predict that silver win not tri-
umph in the Kansas City convention,
and adds:
Surely the news that every day brings
from all quarters of the land must con-
vince them that Bryan IS TO be renOm-
mated on the old platform and by &C
clamatlon. II Is as good as settled that
The New York paper quotes J. Ster-
ling Morton. an assistant Republican
of 1886, as saying that a majority at
Kansas City for either Bryan or 10 to
1 silver is an Endorsement of BOTH
The Commercial Advertiser says
that Cleveland, Don NJ. Dickinson and
a host of ex-Democrats would take
Bryan eagerly if he would lie about
his principles sufficiently to give them
a chance to say that he is not such
dangerous man after ALL"
But" adds the Commercial Adver-
tiser. he viii not lie and therein lies
the secret of his strength" And it
says further:
It is quite useless for anybody to de-
nounce the platform of 1895, or to call
the men who are determined to cling to
IL fools and dundeTheadS and other con-
temptuouS names. IT expresses what
they ike best, in the same way that
Bryan persOnifies what they like best
They are sincere in what they are doing.
and are direct and open in their utter
anCes and declarations. Whatever else
may be said of them, they cannot be
called either SneakS or hypocriteS, as
many of the curious people VINO long to
get into their company would like to have
them become. From the outset of the
present preliminary campaign they have
made no oVertures to these wOuld-be
allies: they have not expressed any de-
sire for their company even. Bryan has
simply said that if they wished to come
in they would be received without I'M
friendly or nagging remarks. As for the
platform from the first their attitude
has been immOVable.
How is it that these educated idiots
of the subsidized press are inclined to
be more fair ard honest with BRYAN
and. the silver cause than arc Hanna's
later journalistic acquisitions? Are the
proselytes doing penance or merely
showing the zeal for which the newly
bought are noted?
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contrast with the preachers and satir-
lists of his century, he drew over the
world the broad mantle of human
charity
But perhaps the characteristic which
most distinctly marks Burns as the
poet of the revolution is his spirit of
rebellion against the established order
of things. 1t is no calm plea for re-
form that we hear in his poems, but a
note of angry revolt, springing from a
sense of personal wrong and degener-
ating at times into a selfish license.
The gentry and the dOmineering
clergy of his land are the objects of his
keenest shafts of scorn and the widest
spirit of the French revolution finds
perfect expression in the song that
closes the Jolly Beggars':
- fig for those by law protected!
Liberty's a glorious FEAST
Courts for towards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest. :"
Poets of Revolution and Reaction,
Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth
form TRAD Of poets, closely connected
in their lives and work. Alike subject
to the early influences of the revolution,
they alike reacted against it when the
lust of conquest supplanted the love of
liberty.
Southey may be dismissed in a few
words. AS a poet he is dead. His ten
volumes of verse, pOnderous epics and
ludicrous ballads, are relegated to the
dust Of the upper shelves. A mere
handful Of meditative poems survives
to fill a corner in the anthOlOgies, and
if he had not been the friend of Words
worth and COleridge his personality
would be as vague to us as that Of any
eighteenth century laureate. Perhaps
his surest title to immortality is found
in the undying scOTn which Byron
poured out upon him in the Vision of
Judgment" Here Southey appears as
the Epic Renegade who
Had written praises of regicide;
And written praises of ali kings
whatever:
He had written for republics far and
wide,
And then against them bitterer than
ever
Yet SOuthey was never the unprin-
ciDled turncOat these lines imply. He
had honestly espoused the principles of
the revolution and as honestly. re-
coiled from the excuses of the reign
of terror. But there was something
hard, narrow and Philistinie about
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Southey's later work that particularly
exposed him to the onslaught of Byron
His lauded ode During the NegOtia-
tiOns for Peace" is in substance a
savage cry for the blood of Napoleon,
and in his VISION of Judgment"
poem whose dullness is equaled only by
its unconscious profanity, he consigns
Wilkes and Junius to hell because in
life they had dared to oppose that
great and good king, George Ill But
enough of Southey.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the very
antipOdes of Southey. A far profounder
thinker and loftier poet, he was Ia
mentally inferior as a man. But his
rank as poet is little disturbed by his
moral failings, although the quantity Of
his poetic production was undoubtedly
lessened. With a few exceptions all
his verse was written in the last de-
cade of the century, and it could be in
cluded in narrow compass. But 1t
contains infinite riches ir a little room
He broke away as no one yet had ven-
tured TO do from all the traditions of
the century. The exaltation of his
odes, the mystery in simplicity Of the
Ancient Mariner" the haunting
music of "Christabel''-all these are
absolutely new.
Coleridge was inspired above his fell
lows by the spirit Of the revolution AS
a schoolboy he exulted in the fall of the
Bastile. At Cambridge he was the as
sociate of Friend, who was expelled for
unitarianism and sedition. Against
Pitt, whom he regarded as the repre-
sentative of the anti-reVOlutionary
spirit, he launched the dreadful invec-
tive of Fire, Famine and Slaughter"
His finest burst Of revolutionary feel
ing is found in the ode to the De-
parting Year"-1797. But the next year
saw complete change. Already sick
ened by the massacres of the Terror,
he shrank in horror from the French
assault on the liberties of Switzerland.
and the greatest of his odes-"F France
sings his formal recantation of revo-
lutionary principles.
Henceforth Coleridge ranked among
the conservatives. He never became
a tory reactionist, like Southey. But he
abandoned poetry and set himself to
interpret rather than TO alter the in
stitutions political and religious, of
his country OF his influence over the
later thought of England this is not
the place to speak. 1t is enough to say
that he became the spiritual father of
nineteenth century intellectual liberal
ism, and in the last years of his life his
home at Highgate was an oracle
where the noblest minds of his country
repaired for inspiration.
1t is not possible to overestimate the
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fever OF partisanship rather than of
war which has led some men and some
newspapers TO take up and repeat the
Hbels circulated by Spanish officials
in justification for Spanish tyranny
hoping to make them do service for
this government as a justification for
the colonial system under which the
men and women we bought from Spain
are to be ruled.
The English people are getting tired
Of Misrepresentation and abuse of the
enemy. THAT is not the English way
of lighting" says the London CORE
spondent of the New York Mail and
Express. Neither is it the American
way. Friends of the administration
seem to have adopted it, but the Amer
lean people do not and viii not en-
dorse it. When Lincoln represented The
cause of the Union against the south,
no man dared in his presence to say
an insulting word against the foe.
Light hearted brutality and partisan
mendacity is not a creditable method
Of warfare. It is. on the contrary, an
evil omen. It is a forerunner of de-
cline, a sign of weakness and decay.
1t is not the way of the strong man,
the honest man. the man who is con-
scious of being in the right It is the
way and the weapon of the vicious and
dishonest, whether among men or ma
lions, subjects or rulers.
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LIKE MEN, LIKE NATIONS.

An English officer in South Africa
who has had his eyes opened since he
Joined the army of invasion, has writ
ten TO a London paper as follows:
Just now we are engaged in fighting
a gallant foe, the quarrel being Of that
common order. where some right and
some wrong lie on both sides. OF old
we fought this sort Of fight in silence,
and with a sort of grim courtesy. IN
the front the fighting men, both Boer
and Briton. still maintain, one is glad
10 see, this fine ideal But when we
come to the shouters. TO the men who
are busy killing Kruger with their
mouth, alas, a very different standard
OF manhood prevails"
It viii be remembered how these
boosters and fre-eaters considered the
Beers at the beginning of the war. how
they referred to them as ignorant and
insignificant. Even here in salt Lake
an AngIicized contemporary character
lied them as "savages for whom ex-
termination is the only effective treat
ment"
England are the mouth-fghters Of
Notwithstanding the intelh-
gence of the enemy, disappearing
their cause. Hbeling their leaders and
si.encing all fairness by shouting
s.treasonl"
Jerome K. jerome has an article in
an evening newspaper of London
which is quoted because II applies with
force to some OF the same kind Of
heroes on this side Of the Atlantic
some there be among US" he writes,
who think to prove themselves big
Englanders by jeering at and abusing
a sttIe foe. And even the better class
among Us seem TO have allowed the
war fever to blind them to that spirit
of chiyairy and fair play which once
upon time was not denounced as IN
English
It is SO in this country. But it is the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-16
SENATOR CLARK's COUP.


Senator Clark of Montana undoubt-
edly believes this morning that he
laughs best who laughs last. It is also
TO be presumed that Marcus Daily fully
senses the edge of this old saw. The
coup accomplished by the Clark forces
yesterday. that seems to land Mr.
Clark safely in a senatorial seat, be-
yond the reach of Days Vaccinations
or investigating committees, was as
unexpected as it was audacious.
The case is without parallel in the
political history Of the country. A
committee Of the senate, after investi-
eating charges of bribery preferred
against Senator Clark, unanimously
reported a resolution declaring his
seat vacant It is said that the unani-
nifty of this committee was the result
OF some peculiar and devious manipu-
lations, which might be traced to DAILY
sources, but that fact did not affect
the situation. Mr.. Clarks lifelong
enemy, Marcus Daily, had forced him
TO the point where he was compelled
to resign or suffer expulsion. Either
native cltf pal 44lEdllL iAAlilI-
iating defeat at the hands of his ad-
versary, as Governor Smith of Mon
tana is a DAILY partisan and would
never appoint Clark. But Governor
Smith was called out of the state, and
Lieutenant Governor Spriggs. a friend
of Senator Clark became the acting
governor. Just at this time Senator
Clark decided to resign his seat. His
resignation was received by Acting
Governor Sprtggs, who Immediately APP
pointed Clark to fill the vacancy
caused by his own resignation. There
seems to be no question concerning the
regularity and legality of the appoint
ment Senator Clark has snatched
victory from the jaws OF defeat.
There seems to be little doubt but
Senator Clark has had a very large
majority of his own party, ard prob
ably a majority of the Republicans,
behind him in his fight against Daily.
He has been the caucus nominee Of
his party for senator in every legis-
lature, and those familiar with the sit
uation declare that he could have been
of a dollar had no attempt been made
by Days agents to corrupt the legis-
lature His supporters assert that
while money was literally use1 in
Clark's behalf. it was simply a case
of fighting the devil with fire; that
there was no alternative except TO beat
DAILY at his own game. While the people
of Montana do not indorse a corrupt
use of money. the majority in that
state VIII unquestionably rejoice in the
triumph of Clark over Daily, whose
methods and rule have grown intoler-
able.
But the sympathies Of the public will
go out to those spotless lambs of the
United States senate who viewed with
alarm the prospect Of W. a. CIark's
presence in that body. What viii the
Immaculate and incorruptible Hanna
do now What viii become of the vir-
tuous Elkns, and who viii protect the
purity of Plat from the communicating
influence of the Montana senator? Per-
haps these very upright senators will
resign their own seats.
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rank of Coleridge in English literature.
He recreated the ode, the ballad. and
the metrical romance. He Quickened
the stronger but more slowly moving
genius of Wordsworth, and their joint
work, the Lyrical Ballads of 1898, is
perhaps the most remarkable volume
of poetry the eighteenth century pro-
duced; certainly it is the most import
ant in its after effects. Both Scott and
Byron drew their inspiration from the
new music of "Christabel.' To no poet
of his age do we owe deeper debt, not
only for what he did, but for what he
caused others to do.
So much has been written on Words
worth that it seems a hopeless task to
take up the tale and say anything new.
From Coleridge and De Quincy TO
Arnold and Swinburne the foremost
English critics have delighted to dwell
upon his verse, to point out it's merits
and defects, to examine the theory of
poetry upon which it is based and to
eXpOund the philosophy which it con-
tains. And the prediction with
which criticism has turned to Words
worth has its good and sufficient
reasons. For three quarters of a CEN
fury he has been the most profound
and stimulating influence in English
poetry and has done more than any
modern poet to inform and strengthen
English life. For his poetry has a
quality, Certifying and ennobling,
that is at once unique and priceless
He was himself well aware of this.
Trouble not yourself" he wrote to a
friend lamenting the savage criticism
which for the moment checked the sale
of his poems; trouble not yourself
upon their present reception; Of what
moment is that compared with what /
trust is their destiny ITO console the
afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight
by making the happy happier; to teach
the young and gracious Of every age to
see, to think, to feel, and therefore to
become more actively virtuous. The
superb self-con6dence which inspired
these words has been amply JUSTIFIED
and it is we'll worth our while to make
an effort to discover the reason of
Wordsworth's influence and the sources
of his power.
Note-This study will be continued
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JOHN BULL AND THE BOERS.

Los Angeles Herald: London did the
best II could to go wild over the naval
heroes Of Ladysmith, but it had no Adj
miral Dewey to make good with.
Chicago News: According to reports.
Lord Roberts is 200 miles away from
Mafeking's horse sausages and is not
hungry, either.
Houston Post: The British troops in
South Africa Outnumber the Beers five
10 one. This superiority in numbers ap-
pears TO be a wise provision to make up
for the inferioTity of generalship.
Baltimore American: With whisky
selling at $40 a case in Mafeking. Ken
tuckys pomp and pride receives another
whitening blow.
Laramie Boomerang: President Kruger
is said to be discouraged. That being
the case, the British should again be on
the lookout for traps.
Chicago News: Lord Roberts says he
has received "a most CHEEKY telegram
from Colonel Baden-POweil. the defender
of Mafeking. The mule ragOut. with
rashers of fried cat, must have been I'M
usually good in the beleaguered town
that morning
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spairing, triumphant, and reminiscent
Love poetry, silent in England since
the close of the EliZabethian era,
sprang into glorious life in the songs
of this Scotch peasant. For there was
in Burns a quality of sentiment that
invested even the basest passion with
those raDtures of fire and air that
mark our older poets. And even finer
than these raptures is the tenderness
of his sympathy for SHINING and suffer
ing humanity. Not ignorant of evil,
he knew how 70 pity; and, in sharp
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It was only a few weeks ago that
Senator Hanna, custodian OF the presi-
dents policies and conscience, declared
in a speech he made at Cleveland: "AH
this talk about trusts is pure humbug,
my friends, for there are nc trusts"
But now he wants to make the public
believe that he and Mae are real an
cry at the trusts.
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
Yesterdays Record at the Local Office
of the Weather Bureau.

Salt Lake City, Utah, May Is.
Maximum temperature 20 degrees; min
imum temperature. A degrees: mean tenn
perature. 81 degrees, which is ? degrees
above the normal. Accumulated excess of
temperature. since first of month, II de-
grees; accumulated excess of temperature
since Jan J. 517 degrees. Total precipita-
ton from p. m. TO p. m, none; ac-
cumulated deficiency of precipitation since
first of month, IS inch; accumulated de-
ficiency of precipitation since Jan. /, IA
inches
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The Washington Post thinks Uncle
Sam ought to throw the sultan down
and take it away from him." There
is no doubt that the throwing down
could be easily accomplished, but the
chances are Uncle Sam wouldn't be
able to take anything from Abdul
Hamid except, possibly, the Asiatic
cholera.
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Spring Term, 1900.
Mondays: American Political Par
ties Tuesdays: Twenty Lessons in
French Conversation and Recent Sci
entific Discoveries. Wednesdays and
Thursdays: Golden Ages of Literature
Fridays: Photography for Amateurs
Saturdays: Biographical Studies for
Girls. These courses will continue un-
til May 81, 1900. Examinations will be
held at their close as a basis for the
granting of certificates.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-16
GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE
XXu.-GoLDEN AGE OF ENGLISH
POETRY.
BY THOMAS MARC PARROT, PHI. !

BY THOMAS MARC PARROT, PHI. D.
The poetry of the age of Wordsworth
and Byron is the poetry of an age of
revolution It does not, to be sure,
spring directly from the political up
heaval in France, but it is closely as
ISOLATED with it, product of the same
great movement for liberty of thought
and action With one great exception,
the poets Of the age take sides for or
against, in certain cases both for and
against. this movement, and it is by
their common interest in the revOlu-
ton and their varying attitude to it's
successive phases that poets so dis
similar in form and spirit as Cowper
and Scott, Burns and Shelley, Byron
and Coleridge, are mutually related.
And study of their. work from this
point of view lends a unity otherwise
impossible of attainment to one of the
most brilliant ages of English litera-
ture.
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I'm for Hanna this year." says the
ex-champion of silver. Conditions have
changed and I've got the change in my
pocket" And he forthwith proceeded
to make a meal of his arguments on
the other side of the question.
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Hanna doubtless looks upon Repub-
iican denunciation of his "so-called
trusts" as huge joke. He has fine
sense of humor.
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Candidates for the wee presidency
are coming out with the leaves on the
trees. and almost as numerous. How
ever, they win leave soon after the trees
are through leaving.
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in Hongkong at one and the same time,
although hundreds of miles divide these
places.
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It seems that Aguinaldc is not so
dead as was reported. He has been
seen at Jaro, on Leyte island, at Riago,
in the province Of Albay. in Luzon. and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-16
SUMNER JOKES.

Los Angeles Herald: The first kissing
bug of the season is announced from
Anaheim, which speaks much for the
kissable qualities of the young ladies of
that town.
Omaha WorId-Herald: In the spring a
young mans fancy lightly turns to yell
low shoes, and the dusty-thrOated hobo
yearns for some Milwaukee booze. In the
spring Mark Hanna seizes fryingpan and
coat and hat. and goes round the cor
pOrations to rend out a lot of fat
Houston Post: The summer boarder
season down east" which is about to
open, corresponds to our glad harvest
time in the west and south.
Laramie Boomerang: Summer has be-
gun in Texas. They have had a cyclone
that smashed houses there.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Ice has Jumped
100 per cent in New York. Here's to the
free ice funds.
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Secretary Gage has said the Porto
Ricans are lucky TO have anything to
tax. If Gage gets a whack at them
they win not have much TO tax. but
viii have to pay taxes Just the same.
Gage is MeKinley's agent in gathering
funds from the Anne 1csn people by a
system of war revenues. which is
placed in circulation again through the
Standard Oil banks-eompelling the
people to pay Rockefeller. interest on
what belongs to them.
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LEGACY TAX DECISION.

That legacy tax decision Of the su-
preme court is directly in line with
justice and common sense, and as we
believe, with the law and the constitu-
ton. In these days of governmental
favoritism, when all Of the efforts and
influence of the national administrative
forces are expended TO promote the well
fare and increase the wealth of the
'rich and well born" at the expense of
the masses, such a decision as this is
like a glorious shower to a parched
desert. 1t strengthens the peoples faith
in the judiciary of the land, faith
that has been severely shaken during
recent years. It encourages within the
hearts of the citizens a hope that the
corrupting influences that hold undis-
puted sway at the White House will
never be able to utterly destroy the
temple of justice.
In its decision UNFOLDING the consti-
tutionality of the legacy tax provision
of the war revenue act, the court says:
THE review which We have made
exhibits the fact that taxes imposed
with reference to the ability of the
person upon whom the burden is
placed to bear the same have been
levied from the foundation of the gov
eminent"
Every good citizen viii hope that this
principle, SO tersely SEATED by Justice
White, viii continue to guide the su-
preme court 1t is a principle that has
been ignored by congress and the presi-
dent during this administration, and it
was even set aside by the supreme
court itself. when one Of the judges so
swiftly changed his views in single
night on the income tax case. Distri-
button of the tax burden with refer
ence to the ability Of the person upon
whom the burden is placed TO bear
the same" should become the guiding
principle of all legislative bodies.