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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

The Western Pacific has filed its
$50,0O0,00O mortgage in Salt Lake
county. All of which must make the
knockers squirm. Our esteemed
friend, Bill Glasmann, up north, who
has been predicting all along that this
road would not be built, is respect
fully directed to the announcements
of this action on the part of the West
ern Pacific.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

The inaccuracies of Historical state
ment are sometimes funny. For in
stance a Logan speaker recently as
serted that just prior to Trafalgar,
Nelson spoke to his men, saying: Re
member, boys, England expects every
man to do his duty" For the benefit
of the misinformed listeners it should
be said that instead of speaking to his
sailors Eat parting" Nelson hoisted
the signal: England expects every
man to do his duty" The great ad-
miral had in contemplation another
signal, but the flags used for convey
ing messages were not adequate to
convey it in it's strlctest and briefest
sense, so, at the suggestion of his
signal officer, the above words were
used.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

China wants to be in at the coming
peace commission meeting between
the representatives of Japan and Rus
STA. China evidently believes that
when dissection is to be performed
the corpse should be present.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

Truth is glad the boulevard propo-
sition is again being agitated. The
boulevard should be constructed and
finished in a manner that will be a
credit to the city. 1t would be enc Of
the greatest advertisements the town
ever had. This paper is glad the city
council and the Commercial club are
getting together on the proposition
and hopes some good may come out
of it.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01
Powerful BattIeship.

The battleship King Edward WI 10
the most powerful warship ahoa..
When she was undergoing armamen.
trials the recoil of the guns pucAieo
I'D the steel deck plates.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

A prominent colored man of Boston
advocates the intermarriage of ne
groes and whites as solution Of the
race problem. He doubtless made
his argument without giving the sub
ject the thought it deserves. The in
termarriage of whites and negroes
would mean the determination of the
latter in about six or seven genera
tons. The offspring of a white man
and a negress is a mulatto. The de-
scendants of two mulattos never re-
produce their kind, except with the in
tervention of some of the original
blood, either black or white. While
we have no doubt this negro meant
well, the wisdom of his judgment may
be questioned in this respect alone, tc
say nothing of the other reasons tat
might be advanced.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

vocate the right of members of the
Mormon church to free speech within
their communion on questions of pub
lie policy without the pains of excom-
munication; the right of members of
the Mormon church to an accounting of
the funds of the 1.-THE payers; that
the Mormon church retire from it's
ccmmercialism; that the implied and
expressed pledges of the state with
the nation shall be kept; that the
church officials shall cease their DOM
ination of the state, and that civic
righteousness be maintained and that
evils shall be corrected. All of which
is easily construed to mean that the
Ogden Journal can in future be re-
garded as a close ally to the Knockers
Journal of Salt Lake City. Who care
anything about Furious j. and Mr.
Smurthwaite being communicated?
Certainly not the general public
Neither does the public care, and it is
none CT the publics business what
regulations and rules the Mormon
church makes regarding membership
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

Bill Glasmann has been sued for
$4,000 damages for alleged libelling of
County Attorney Halvorsen. We knew
Bill would get a law suit some time
or other. He has been praying for
enc for quite while. He threatened
to sue this paper two or three years
ago, but thought better of it, but we
presume he will get just as much adj
vertising by being defendant as he
would in being plaintiff, and advertis-
ing is what William is looking for.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

From the Logan Journal is clipped
the following: "The enemies of Pres
ident Kerr, and of the Agricultural
College, will now have to RIB up
new set of fables, the old ones having
been so thoroughly exploded as to be
absolutely of no further use for the
purposes intended. Truth is mighty
and will prevail and while lies may
wear seven league boots and travel
with the speed of the wind, eventual
ly Truth will overtake them.'" Thanks
awfully. We infer from the bowling
the Logan press has INDUCED in since
Truth exposed affairs at the college
that Truth has already overtaken
some of these lies and that a lot of
CALLED jades are wincing.
Charles A. Smurthwaite, of Ogden,
who achieved considerable notoriety
some time ago by being eXcommuni-
Gated from the Mormon church, and by
filing a suit demanding an accounting
for tithing money collected, succeeds
Furious ]. Cannon as president of the
Ogden State Journal company. Char
lie announces that the paper will ad
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

The following unkind stab at lot
of great and good men is taken from
the Vernal Express. We wonder at
the hardihood of the Express in throw
ing bricks at such righteous outfit
as that composing the management
of the Salt Lake Tribune and it is re-
produced: First, because the Tribune
will not use it; second, because we
want to show people that there are
some men in this country who will
shy dornicks at the pious and right
eous:
"The Salt Lake Tribune again pro-
fesses great gobs of friendship for
Uintah county, and claims that it
goes out of its way to get news about
the reservation. Perhaps it does, but
the only mention the natives out this
way have noticed lately has been the
Associated Press dispatches. Every
other daily paper in the country
printed those, even if the Tribune
| hdu hOI. IL lIt lIlDuHe WIFI 20 d
few steps farther out of it's way, and
visit the Uintah reservation it will
find the biggest mineral land grab
and steal in the history of the coun-
try. But, as one individual suggest
ed, that would be getting it's nose in
the wrong pot of mush, as it has al
ways been considered out here that a
certain ex-senator, who is said to con-
troll at least three Salt Lake dailies.
has plate at that pie counter"
Jules Huret, a Frenchman, recently
wrote up the cattle slaughtering bust
ness for the Chicago Tribune. 1t was
well composed article, but we think
that his expression describing the
steers bounding over the vast prair-
: les of Arkansas and Kentucky" was
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01
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about as far-fetched as would have
been a diagram of the animals chas-
ing each other over the lofty mountain
tors of Iowa or Kansas.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

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ent address.
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-07-01

Disturbances.
Remember that the publisher must be noti-
fed by letter when a subscriber wish es his
paper stopped; all arrears must be paid in
full.
The Washington times., 1905-04-16

fellow-men that we are probing for
the truth and insisting upon integrity
and honor alike in plans high anG
low. 1t is from our abiding faith in
the ultimate honesty of humanity and
the eternal triumph Of truth that VIC
are impelled to turn our searchlights
into the darkened highways and hid
den byways of our national and in
dustrial life in order to prepare FOR
something better
We are not of those who say:
What is the cause that the former
days were better than these?' for we
know wisdom dwells not with the lips
that so inquire; but we ashland the
very asking is a sign of better things
why are not these times as. good
as the best, and why are We not bet
, ter than our fathers ?" And the an
swer comes, as it has always come,
for it is nothing new: You are liv-
| ing in an age of great change and of
great stir and hustle among the peo-
pie. Your ideals are mostly false and
| you have deserted the God OF truth,
| justice and honesty to fall down and
| worship the golden calf of Ma1nmon
and the brazen Beial of material
! prosperity
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
Starting Right.

Not SO very long ago a well-known
author wrote a little dissertation
which he entitled The Advantage of
Being Earnest" F." Even to the most
hopelessly trivial nature the title
must have commended itself, regard
Jess OF the subject-matter of the story,
as complete argument in itself To
the reasoning mind it probably sug-
gested a great many more things
Recent events to the south of us
suggest a comprehensive, with a
much more serious story to develop
out of IT, "The Advantage Of Start
ing Right might be made a readable
treatise for President Castro, of Vene-
zuela, if accompanied by few maps
of the region between that country
and New Orleans, and some census
statistics of any time in the last third
of a century or so. With such data
at hand he would not have fallen
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
Perjury.

The present attitude of the judges
of the Supreme Court of the District
of Columbia toward perjury is de-
serving of the support and commenda-
ton of all good citizens. OF course
the law upon the subject remains
Just what it was. OF course the
judges have not received any new
light either upon the Interpretation of
that law or upon their moral obliga-
tion to enforce 1t when brought to
their attention. The change in atti-
tude is marked mainly by concerted
action between the Office of the Dis
trict Attorney and the judges in TAX
ing immediate and official notice when
the testimony in pending trials de-
velops that perjury IS being or has
been committed.
Heretofore. there has been some
laxity in this matter. the judges were
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
FRENCH PLAY PLANNED
FOR "DIET KITCHEN"

Quite the most delightful past Easter
event is the performance. planned TO
take place at the New Willard, when
the actors will be prominent society peo-
pie. and tae audience, those, Who wish
to benefit the Diet Kitchen. one of
Washington's most beautiful charities
*. .esson in Acting is a short play
with Miss Maud wetmore- and Henry
Nav as the principals, and an invisible
parsonage with a voice. besides.
FURNISHED Apartments will be play
cd i'm French and Mr.. Van Swinderen.
the Netherlands Minister; Miss Berry.
Miss Wetmore, Mile des Portes de la
Fosse. Miss de Smirnoff. Henry May.
and Count Zichy. of the Austrian en-
bassy, wifi take the parts.
Between the two plays, there will be
a musical promenade, the patronesses
having both of the large bathrooms.
After the performance. a supper. most
elegantly arranged, viii be served and
large number of people will entertain
parties. Baroness Won Sternburg bought
number of the most expensive seats
as did Mrs. Wetmore, Mrs. Morton,
and . number of others.
Furnished Apartments was once
PLAYED in Rome for charity, by society
people, and so pleased the Queen Mar
suerita that she had two special per-
formances arranged. that all of her
friends might have the pleasure of at
tending.
The Washington times., 1905-04-16

slow to take the initiative, the prose-
cutting attorneys were not on the alert
officially to recognize what they
could not fail to see, and even parties
in interest and their attorneys were
reluctant to invoke the criminal law
when their opponents had sworn them
out of court with obvious untruths
and willful perjury.
There were reasons for this, fore
most among which may be placed the
technical difficulties in proving per-
jury the natural disinclination of a
defeated litigant or an unsuccessful
prosecutor to incur the opprobrium
of seeming to attempt to blacken the
character of the successful party, and
the dilatory Incidence of human ma
ture.
But the change has taken place, the
atmosphere of the courts is clearing,
full and plain notice has been served
upon the weak and the criminal, and
hei Cesitci We udy uopo+oHo. lhO ooui DC
of justice will be less obstructed by
/ the suborner and his slave.
| The courts of our country should
stand upon as high a plane as those
of any country. and little bit
higher. It is within the province and
the power of our judges to attain this
result, and the present step TO purify
the testimony produced before them
is in the right direction.
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
NOT ONE OF EVERYBODY.
APPROVING CIVIL SERVICE

To the Editor of The Washington Times:
Referring to your editorial, Where
Examinations Fail. in issue of April
IA
1t is not true that Everybody in
Washington believes in the merit of
civil service based upon competitive
examinations, unless we admit that
non-concurrenee in your opinion fully
proves the dissenter a nobody
These nobodies constitute a multi
tude. They are as patriotic, as SUBJ
stantiai, as law-abiding, as progressive,
as useful, as intelligent. as your every
bodies are-and, | think, more numer-
Gus.
Why, then. tell your readers such
bare-faeed untrutit.s The people of
Washington are not unanimously OF
the opinion you allege. You know that
they are not. Hence, you do not mere
ly make a mistake when you assErt
unanimity, wherefore, the word .sun-
truth" is not too strong.
1t may be that civil service is. In
your opinion, right in theory but
there are many men who neither are
nor ought TO be in 1unatic asylums;
who are not imbeciles; who are not des-
titute of capacity for logical thought,
who consider civil service wrong in
theory and detrimental in practice.
You merely dognatize- Civil service
is dogmatism gone wrong
Proof is lacking-does not exist
that sit has been proven right by
about twenty years trial" etc
Poll those who have to visit public
Offices on business, and, am confident,
the verdict will be that the most super
ciIious and inefficient service is found
In the protected places; the greatest
courtesy, promptness. efficient, and at
tentive responses accorded the public
in those places not yet blighted by the
deteriorating. impraeticable fad.
That everybody would like to see
the entire clerical force" suhJugated
by civil service is merely repetition
of the first Everybody assertion, and
as false. 1t may be that everybody
worth enumeration by the civil service
hobby riders so agree.
But there are others; and these
would be sorry, for their countryss
sake to see the system at ali extended
These regard civil service as very bad
for the country, wholly at variance
with democratic and republican govern
mental systems; sure, in time, TO en-
tall very great Evils heiiS1 W
the elimination of which will induce
disturbing conditions and impose heavy
cost.
Few, indeed, are the present threats
against the future tranquility of the
people. which are as serious as is this
eucroaching perversion of our govern
mental system. Perhaps it would be
more exact to say. This parasite that
has been planted upon our Govern
ment.
Whether parasite planted upon our
Government or bacillus with which 1t
has been innoculated, the effect will be
equally disturbing. ~
H.B. JEFFRIES.
Fifth street S. E.
Washington, d. c., april Is, '05
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
A Revival.
nation.

From time to time we have been
reading of the great revival which is
now sweeping over the. British Isles,
and there are whisperings in the air
it come 1t cannot come too quickly
if it comes in substance and divorced
from the tinkling of cymbals and the
too blatant sound of brass.
We have been waiting for the dawn.
our eyes are weary with watching for
the dayspring in the East, all the
night long our heart mas yearned for
the sun-the sun OF public and per-
sonal righteousness, the broad noon
of civic and Individual truth and hon
esty
The darkest hour is just before the
daybreak, and, thank Cod, that hour
has passed. Already there is more
than one streak of ethereal gold In
our orient and the banners of right
eousness are afloat in our sky.
Today there is demand for right
eousness such as has never been
heard before; today the people in
dividually and collectively, from one
end of the country 10 the other,
through personal effort, and through
their servants, the newspapers, the
legislatures, and the general govern
ment, are calling aloud for the truth
and honesty to which they are en-
titled: and today comes the answer:
Wait a little, you, shall have the
truth, for it is your due, and YOU
shall have honesty also if you, the
people, will make it possible"
We Americans are not built upon
the lines of the melancholy Dane who
lamented: The times are out of
Joint Oh, cursed spite that ever |
was born TO set them right" We
have amended Hamlet, and while we
admit the times are out of joint, we
add: 'Oh, glorious gift that we are
here to set them straight"
1t is a great and noble profession
that of making straight the crooked
joints and binding up the bruised
limbs But the first requisite to its
| successful practice is wise and
careful diagnosis. We must know
I first of all what the trouble is and
what the real cause of the injury.
Widespread throughout the land il
is written SO large that he who runs
may read, that corruption in politics
dishonest, sharp practice in business
and defalcation of fiduciaries are ram
| pant among us. The call of the peo
pie comes like the rising of the wint
and with the insistence of the swell O
the ocean for a change and for a bet
ter order Of things. and woe to hin
who heets it not
1t is not the dark lantern of Diog
4 enes, however, that guides our steps
it is not from any cynical doubt 0
our own powers or distrust of ou
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
OIL INVESTIGATION
ON IN EARNEST
Garfield Sees Men Primed
With Facts.
MAKES TRIP TO HUMBOLDT
Assistants Examine Chanute ProducerA
R. c. Rawlings, Signer of Me-
mortal Witness.
MAKES TRIP TO HUMBOLDT

CHANuTE, Kan, April l5.-The real
work of the Garfield investigation ne-
gan here this morning.
Mr.. Garfield and his stenographer
left on an early train to spend q
half day in Humboldt. There he is in
terviewing ex-State Senator, Stewart,
the Allen county member of the exc
cutiye committee of the Kansas OIL
Producers Association; also c. D. Web
ster, OF the Webster refinery, both of
Whom, II is said, are well loaded with
testimony damaging TO the Standard.
Earl, Caswei1, and Conant, GarheId's .
three assistants, today examined the
Chanute producers. r. c. Rawlings,
who was one of the signers of the me-
mortal that led TO the Investigation.
was the first witness.
Mr.. Garfield and his party viii re-
main in this vicinity some days.
The Washington times., 1905-04-16

into the mistaken impression that the
way they have been accustomed to do
things in that country would apply
equally we'll to an expedition north
ward along the continental backbone
to this free land of ours.
Of course, Castro probably never
said anything of the kind--that he
would invade the United States after
an overland march with his grand
aggregation of 1899 or more fighters
and capture New Orleans as the best
groundwork on which to dictate. terms
of peace. But supposing that some Of
his strong military advisers did say
the words which have been put into
their Presidents mouth, their sol
emnity from the standpoint of the
tropical patriot is not to be COM
pretended here except by Americans
acquainted with. the circumstances
surrounding Castro own rise to
powe. e.s
The Venezuelan dictator owes his
present position to just such an over
land march. 1t impressed his coun-
try that it was a good way to do
things. He started from the noun
tains with q handful of men to march
on Caracas. He sent ahead the tid-
ings Of his all-conquering journey.
He played into the hands of all the
local factions which were dissatisfied
with conditions then existing and
gained numbers as he proceeded.
Rallyings thus all the enemies of the
government he overthrew 1t and made
himself the chief of state
Now to the average Venezuelan
mind it is highly probable that the
present circumstances seem to offer
an opportunity for making another
demonstration on that splendid model.
To all tropical or Oriental natures
the Withholding of force is interpreted
as confession of weakness. The
only nation which is Immediately re-
spected is the one that is ready to
bully, and does bully, without delay.
Germany and France and Italy made
their show of force in blockading the
Venezuelan ports over year ago
and got themselves much more highly
regarded in consequence by the ma
tives there
1t will be much to the advantage oi
Venezuela if its President arrives al
a full understanding that this coun-
try, while following its customary
| plan of avoiding buster, must mo-
be pictured as shrinking from meet
ing the issue when it once has al
the facts in hand.
That time has not yet come There
| is not yet unanimous opinion or
! the legality and propriety of all the
American claims in dispute Thi.
/ calm and deliberate method of pro
cedure may well commend itself te
/ the restless Castro as a straight til
/ on the advantage Of starting right
! and of being right, before planning
an opera bouffe invasion of a neigh
boring and assuredly well-disposet
nation.
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
THE GuNNER's PRAYER

IT. P recalls good story of British
piety on the eve of battle. lieutenant
of FL. M. 5. Revenge, just before the bat
tie of Trafalgar, discovered one of the
sunners on his knees before his gun.
shouted the amazed and angry iieuten-
ant You're not afraid. are you?
Afraid cried the gunner, scornfully,
rising from his knees; mo, I'm not
afraid; ] was praying"
WHAT were YOU PRAYING for If you're
not afrati?' rctorted the heuSsnant
L was rzraying, sir" was the response.
that the enemy's shot may oe distrib-
uted n the same proportion as the prize
money-aimost all of II among the Of
ficers,.. ''-Harper's Weekly.
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
AMERICAN PEN WOMEN
MEET AT HEADQUARTERS

The regular meeting of the League of
American Pen Women took place Mon
day evening at headquarters. Mrs.
Rhodes, acting president. IL the chair.
A special feature of the meeting was
the memorial resolutions for these mem
bers of the league who have passed
away during the year just ended In
this connection an affecting tribute to the
late Mrs Ruth Shaffner-Etnier. pre-
pared by her devoted friend, Mrs. Agnes
Greene-Foster, of Chicago, was read by
a resident member.
A beautiful poem, entitled "A Cruise,
by Mrs. Katherine Haden. of East
Nashville. Tenn, was read by another
resident member who lent to rhyme
of the poet the music of her voice.
The Washington times., 1905-04-16

II the bill now pending in Wiscon-
sin ever passes, bachelors resident in
that State will have to move else
where. forsake their blessed condition.
or pay $40 per annum for the privi-
lege of still remaining in the market.
Perhaps it may be in order to sug-
gest that rider be added taxing the
married bachelors under the race sui
eide clause Of our new and unwritten
constitution.
The Washington times., 1905-04-16
ORDER.
he chairlady raped sharply

The cha;rlady raped sharply
1T ought not be necessary for the
chair to remind members. she said
severely, that under our rules OF order
to say nothing Of common courtesy, only
one member may be silent at time
ANY member who becomes silent ar
the same time that another member Is
silent is distinctly out of order.
The ladies of the club yisibly cringed
under the Inerited rebuke. Many of
them flushed to the roots of their hair,
and several there were who burst into
tearS.-Lifs-