The daily sentinel., 1905-09-20

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business ONCE. 115 S. Fourth St.
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Another year will witness Mesa
county's people coming to the annual
fair on that modern system of trans
Dortation, the electric railway.
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The Daily Sentinel is offered
every day to the city's thousands of
visitors as a strictly up-to-date news
paper with modern ideas. complete
" covering the field in which it is
published
From every side comes disclosures
Of official corruption. Two inspectors
Of the government in the immigration
department were removed yesterday
for assisting in smuggling Cinnamon
through the government port. No
one seems too high or too low to be
engaged in betraying their govern
ment. In the glare of Rooseveltism.
official corruption seems to run ram
pant.
No public fair has ever been able
to stand out against the suspicion
that its program OF race events has
been manipulated to suit the jockey
class. The American public is gull
liable. because ii is generous. but once
its resentment is aroused or its con
ldence betrayed, it pays back in coin
Of its own choosing. The general
effect of this retaliation is loss of
patronage.
There is no advertisement compar-
able at any time to the clean cut. in
cisive newspaper published in any
community 1t is reflex of the bust
ness, social and progressive life of
the inhabitants. People understand
when they read its contents that, the
statemnets contained therein are not
Congregations, but reflect the every
day life of the people Special edi-
NAoAAo nave AAA'ii flhif anu pun lNOHN,
but the sober judgment of any indi-
yldual would be more quickly and
permanently influenced through the
homely every day news contained in
the regular editions of the home pub
lication, than through any special
or auxiliary publication.
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II will be the hardest money ever
refunded, if Attorney General Meyer,
of New York. eompels the directors
of the big insurance companies to
refund the colossal campaign contri-
buttons TO the Republican party. In
the case of the Equitable alone the
amount was $15O.0O0. But simply
returning the money will not consti-
tute satisfaction. The inquiry will
be directed to establish the crimin-
ality of the directors in appropriate
ing monies, which belonged to the
policy holders of that association
Verify, for once, it would appear that
those in high places have gone so
far that they must suffer for their
acts,
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The charges of corruption in the
opening Of the Uintah reservation are
multiplying. That corrupt lobby
at Washington. backed by officers of
The government have connived to Sc
cure the Raven and Florence Mining
companies. all the valuable gilsonite
deposits in the reservation, is not now
II matter of mere speculation. but a
generally acknowledged. though as
yet unproven fact. No one has yet
attempted to explain why these com
panies were specially selected bene-
lciaries of the government. No one
pretends TO explain under what con
ditions two private corporations were
permitted to select several hundred
mineral claims on government terri +
tory. from which all other American
citizens were excluded. No explana- (
tion. no excuse, no pretense that the .
act was legal or permissible has been .
offered by the interior department .
1t was done and an unuttered what .
are you going to do about it," isl
about the entire satisfaction vouch- /
safed But a day OF reckoning must
come. to such defiant measures in n
government which supposedly offers
special privileges to none.
HE GOT \ LONG SENTENCE.