Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-02-18
lots BY THE WAY.

;r,n,ediate friends as Dlch, "ho' III
ANY wears. has been editor OF the
m l,rr World-Herald, has resigned
bis nosition to become associate edl-
NV 49,, If the Commoner, under William
Rrvan. Metcalf is an able writer
ord sincere Democrat; thoroughly
bnlieving in the principles OF that
Ut &c advocated by himself, which
principles are in accord with the teach
mos of Bryan. He is competent
nnwspaper man, too, having served in
nearlv every capacity. The writer
i,nnw him as a reporter on the Omaha
Doc Rosewater did not care to admit
tbat he was more than ordinary, so he
went over to Hitchcock and was rap
;dIv advanced. In early life he con-
ducted a weekly newspaper in Missouri
and was a power in his section of the
State He goes to the Commoner
about May 1, and carries with MIN the
good wishes of all who know him.
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The Nebraska legislature has de-
clined to buy a silver service for the
battleship named after that state So
the captain. the crew, the first mate,
the second mate, the little middies,
too. will have to drink out of the ordi-
nary CUBS. bottles and mugs furnished
by the government.
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The death warrant against Mrs. Ed
wards, the woman sentenced to hang
at Reading, Pa, yesterday has been
withdrawn and the convicted female
will doubtless escape the death pen
atty This is right.
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Senator Bamberger is being COM
mended for his bill which permits
the punishment of people holding
public office. Perhaps it is a good
measure, inasmuch as all other work
ing people are liable to possesses OF
that sort. But there are many thought
full people who believe in the abolition
of all laws for the collection or ordi-
nary debts. If such laws were abol-
ished credit business would give way
to cash transactions and the country
would be better off. Under the pres
ent system men run bills without
thought and too late find themselves
in hole. Managers of railroads and
big corporations have contended and
still contend that this punishment bust
ness is bad on all parties. Officials
have no time to answer garnishments
and as a result the men are dis
charged. They lose their employment
and have no way of making a liveli-
hood. OF course every man should pay
his debts, but the minute a man is de-
prived of job he cannot earn the
money with which to do so. The eX-
emption laws of this state are an ex-
emplification of the scriptural quota
ton, ITO him who hath shall be givAn,
and to him who hath not shall be taken
away even that which he seemeth to
nave" The Utah farmer can sit Sc
cure on his homestead and watch his
growing crops; can hitch up his ex-
empt team; feed and milk his exempt
cows; look at his exempt pigs. drive
out IN his exempt wagon and all that
sort of thing, but let him sell out and
go TO work on some job and the bill
collector falls down on him. The work
lhgman is not protected as is the
Iarmer, and is at the mercy of every
shSsJer lawyer and bill shark. Mat
ters should be evened up in some man
ner. 1t is contended by many that the
repeal of the garnishment law would
&c good thing. The legislature six
years ago did repeal it, but Hewlett
and Hamlin, two well known states
men from this county, had it re-en