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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
THE CITY MOVES ON.

While the city was almost at dead
taxes. the voting of bonds and the inn
prudent rush OF the Morrisites to create
n fictitious activity for political ends,
there was n wild cry against those ele-
mcnts OF tho community who were com
bining To enforce community decencies
and TO redeem Salt Lake and the State
from the odium OF ecclesiastical and
law-defying tyrannies. Now, when un-
der American party rule safe and In
telligent progress is being made In nnu-
nicipal affairs and more and more
money Is being attracted TO Utah and
Salt Lake than ever before in the his
tory of this commonwealth, some of the
runty- Drained creatures, who reached
tho acme OF their intellectual capacity
In argument by shouting knockers" a
year ago, are engaged today I'm trying
to stem the tide Of growth and pros
pcrity which has set in for the commu-
nifty
Such persons are twice wrong. They
demonstrate that they are quite In
capable OF appreciatlng the sociological
factors Of a States growth In the time
when they pretended to be worrying
about the good fame OF the town and
the commonwealth, Salt Lake and Utah
stood discredited before the Nation and
the only possible hope for n regained
good fame was i'm making revolutionary
hn Of bn 1c
and for the establishment of better
things. In the month before the Amer
lean party was organized we have 1t,
on the word Of a prominent gentleman
Of this city not Of the party, that more
that forty Gentle families deserted Salt
Lake and Utah because Of the prevail
Ing conditions here. No forty families
are leaving now I'm any one month on
the contrary the people who are i'm this
city are glad to remain, and every week
witnesses accessions to our population
from other parts of the country
Now, while the good work of the
American party must proceed, while the
evils for the destruction of which IL
was called into being must be fought
until they are permanently overthrown.
there is no good reason why all the
people of Utah who desire progress In
business affairs. shall not unite TO make
here In Salt Lake the City Beautiful.
the City Prosperous. the City Magnih-
cent, If those persons who were 80
much worried about knockers" few
months ago Will push on the wheels of
progress instead of lying down In front
Lake shall not in five years have her
100000 OF population and be the great
of the intermountain coun-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
DANGEROUS REPosE.

Internal harmony will come 10 Utah
when the cause of distraction is re-
moved II was James A. Garfield, who
said that unsettled questions have no
pity for the repoSe of nations; and It Is
the salient fact of our situation in this
commonwealth that strife is inevitable
until the provocation for strife shall be
brought TO an end.
The one Issue on the particular point
is whether 1t We're better to have the
strife progressing toward evil as 1T did
move in the four years antecedent to
the birth of the American party; or
whether the conflict shall all be making
for good. as since the orga nization OF
that party. The Mormon chiefs were
as much at war then with the commu-
nifty life as they are now; they were
steadily deteriorating the reputation of
Utah before the world and steadily. In
sidiously. and fatally demoralizing the
social life OF the commonwealth The
warfare is not greater now than II was
then; but instead of being passive vic
TINS of community slaughter, the Cen
tiles and the Independent Mormons
have risen in resistance and are MAX
ing victory for the right instead of
triumph for the wrong, as was formerly
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18

duct n kingdom under the flag OF the
Republic. there was and there still re-
mains ample justification for en effort
on the part OF Theodore Roosevelt 10
establish the supremacy of this Nation
and to eliminate the power of an allen
monarchy. The President made a Re-
public OF Panama almost In "A night:
and the world said, We'll Done!' He
can unmake a kingdom-the kingdom Of
Joseph F. Smth-iu one hour. and 1t
would be the most popular act OF his
administration
Something OF this kind, millions OF
people are looking for; and something
of this kind Will more than restore all
tho prestige OF the administration
which the writer for the Republican
thinks the President has lost
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
sELF-DISCoUNTED WITNESS.

SO big. bluff. hearty. manly John
Henry Smith, apostle of the Mormon
church. Is called to Washington to tes-
ttfy for Reed Smoot. The many friends
of Apostle Smith hope that his health
may be recovered in time for this SER
Vice in behalf of his brother The un-
derstanding in Salt Lake City is that
Apostle Smith is expected to testify that
he never told Walter NJ. Wolfe that the
manifesto was merely n trick to beat
the devil at his own game Ordinarily
If John Henry Smith. with his splendid
appearance and jocund air, were 10
make q statement to the Senate OF the
United States or one OF It's committees
on his oath, there would be a strong
feeling OF acceptance II the matter so
stated were something of which he
could and should have knowledge. as is
tho case concerning the point In con-
troversy But unfortunately for Mr.
Smith he Will appear before the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections
at a distinct disadvantage. There are
Der that Apostle John Henry Smith
gave his word of honor-his pledge as
an ecclesiastical leader and his cove
nant as n citizcn-formally to the Presl-
dent of the United States and privately
to scores Of prominent mon in the coun-
try, that he and his people would obey
the law against polygamy and polyga-
nous living If amnesty should be
granted for past offcnses. The solemn
concluding words Of the document
which he signed are these,
AS shepherds of patient and suffering
people, we ask amnesty for them and
pledge our faith and honor for their fu-
turo.
There arc also members of the COM
mlttee who know that when Apostle
John Henry Smith appeared before
them az a witness for the Government
In the same proceeding he admitted
that he had violated the promises which
he gave although he had enjoyed the
amnesty which he received
1t now becomes an interesting aues-
tion whether the word of Apostle Smith
VIII cS ~ pe VI stllS psi Li'uldl
value when opposed by the word of
Walter NJ, Wolfe-who. however much
of a covenant breaker to the dsloyal
organization known as the Mormon
church, has at least not violated his
word of honor given to the Nation of
which he is a citizen. However truth
full Apostle Smith may be in all ordi-
nary matters he is today a victim of
that public Judgment in the United
States which declares that the word of
the Mormon leaders is not worth the
paper upon which 1t is written or the
breath which Is consumed in its utter
ance.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
REsoURCEFUL ROOSEVELT.

a very interesting. If not accurate,
description OF matters mt Washington
is given in an article quoted from the
Springfield (Mass) Republican in this
issue of The Tribune.
The talented writer for the Republi-
can seems to have omitted the most i'm
portant factor In the calculation; that
is, the personal equation. President
Roosevelt possesses. above all things,
the power of initiative and dynamics
Just when the policies which he has
been urging are most discredited or
most endangered. he has shown a facil-
ity for bringing forward some entirely
new question or some old one recon-
structed and driving 1t into the public
attention with force which demands
general recognition.
The correspondent of the Republican
does not prove that the Presidents
popularity is waning. The policies
which the Executive has proposed may
fall and yet the President himself may
still retain all Of the popular good will
and even All addition thereto. His
strength with the people has been be-
cause they believed that he wanted to
serve the people, and no special class
IT. I'm his endeavor 10 benefit all his
policies arc overthrown by class repre-
sentatives or Senators 1t remains 10 be
seen whether this will lessen his popu-
larty with the masses
President Roosevelt is not free from
blunder 1t is true; but his mistakes are
so entirely human, are so clearly the
mistakes of his aggressive American
disposition, that SO far they have rather
cndeared him to the common people
and the Republican does not make clear
any reason why the President has ex-
hausted that generous forbearance and
that the people In the breezy West mis-
judge the general feeling toward this
President with Western instincts, and
Boston may be a better vantage point
from which to view the progress Of
popular opinion concerning Theodore
Roosevelt: but until his critics I'm the
East-Republican critics and independ-
ent critics-can cite this part OF the
country to some more definite cause for
the disintegTation OF his popularity
than the loss of some of his pet meas
ures in the Senate. the argument VIII
scarcely be accepted
We look 10 see some strong and capti-
waiting thing done or said by the Presi-
dent within a very short time-some-
thing so just and so popular that the
failure OF his legislative proposals shall
be lost In the success Of some new pol
icy, For Instance. the greatest Internal
Issue not yet exploited by President
Roosevelt is the attitude of the Mormon
hierarchy and it's alien government to
this Nation. When the president OF the
polygamous cult and his compeers tes-
tilted that they lived according TO their
own laws and in defiance of the statute
and the institutions of this country,
and II was made clear that they con-
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
Chaos a-Coming

If ever the cart got before the horse
by witIess wit in the cartman. It was
In the late upset Of the staDd-pat Sem
ate at Washington. The President has
hia own automobile; but the Senate
was supposed to have safe, "conserva-
tive" drivers who would not let the
vehicle OF moderation and monopoly get
into such a snarl as il has been tangled
up in for n week. The Hanging OF the
Crane" once celebrated by Lonstellow.
seemed to be going on we'll; the Crane
was there and the fire did not strike
one as too hot. but everything went
wrong The pot boiled over. the grain
OF salt thrown into the midst OF the
cookery has only made II more tasteless
the fat is In the fire. Tillman has got
the bill In his ungovernable hands,
and the great Moody. who was to res
cue us from all our troubles, has only
got us In deeper, and is Vehemenuy
imprecated. and retired into the recesses
of the Beef trust prosecution. The Phil
ippine tariff bill Is dead, the Dominican
treaty is deader; and what Will be left
of the Administrations policies when
all this catechising and rafting is over.
who can tell? And amid IT all, word
comes from the West, and from Albany.
that the popularity of the President Is
waning. and that he is getting found
out Nothing could be more inoppor-
tune than this; once the tide OF popu-
larity turns the whole situation al
ters-
Thy ocean fancy know no banks nor damn,
Eut GIBBS down TO pebble anagrnms.
Boston Correspondence Springfield
Republican.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18

the case. There was no repose for the
community during the period from the
election Of President Il IL. Roberts TO
Congress until Two years ago. except
n dangerous reposc for decency while
vicious social forces grew In magnitude
find his house In flames. may not enjoy
the awakening I'm the midst OF fire,
but the continuation OF slumbcr would
be fatal. Utah did not awaken any too
soon; the next time she reposes II VIII
probably be when there is no danger OF
her being suffocated by the hierarchy
during her sleep.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
THE REAL AUTHORITIES.

| While the Senate of the United States
Is wrestling with witnesses to show
that the Mormon church Is an inde-
pendent government alien TO our laws
and antagonistic to our institutions,
the church and the Descret News go on
| proving these facts every day In Utah.
| Here the matter Is now as II has ever
been, except for the brief period sur
| rounding the admission of the State.
entirely beyond question.
Not long since publicity was given to
serious crime I'm a Mormon ward. The
| ofrense which was attempted Is pun
shed in some States Of the Union by
death. and Is everywhere regarded as
worse than murder. No publication OF
the facts took place until after repeated
appeals had been vainly made to the
civic officers. nor until the wicked at
tempt--in Itself a crime-had been sew
eral times repeated
Now the Descret News says that the
case had been investigated by the au-
thorlties on the spot" IT might be we'll
for the people Of the United States to
know whom the Deseret News means
when It says authorities" in speaking
Of offenses against the statutory law of
the country. 1t refers solely to the
priests of the Mormon church. These
not any Justice of the Peace. nor any
Sheriff. not any Prosecuting Attorney.
not any grand jury-these priests OF the
church to which the offender belonged,
investigated the facts on the spot and
prescribed the punishment which was
to make "all the reparation possible"
according To the News. One week after
the News admitted that PREPARATION"
was required 1t attacks the Rev. n. j..
Clcmenson for making the charge and
assumes that the narration by Mr..
Clemenson was falsehood.
II Clcmenson spoke falsely II the man
was innocent why was "reparation" re-
QuIred by the church authorities What
was the "reparation' which he was
asked to make2 Church discipline is
one thing, but no body of priests under
our institutions may properly exercise
the prerogativc of officers OF the law.
III mas Deen notorious tndt IN some parts
OF Utah the arm OF the civil power has
no strength and the brain OF the civil
power no initiative The whole machin-
cry OF the local government is under
the control of the ecclesiasts.
And when the Deseret News, the Off
cial organ of the Mormon church,
speaks of authorities" who investigate
charges Of criminality and prescribe the
PREPARATION" which shall be made, II
demonstrates conclusively what the
United States Senate Is trying to find
the Mormon church is q gov
by the church. of the church,
and for the church, utterly regardless
of the people of the United States and
utterly defiant of statutory law.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
BUTTONS MADE FROM POTATOES.
London It'll

A large number of the buttons now
In use. purportng to be made out of
horn or bone or ivory. are in reality
made out OF the common potato.
which. when treated with certain acids.
becomes almost as hard as stone. This
quality OF the potato adapts it TO but
ton-making, and very good grade OF
button is now made from the we'll
known tuber, The potato button can
not be distinguished from others save
by 4 careful examination, and even
then only by an expert, since they are
colored to suit the goods on which they
are TO be used, and are every whit as
good looking as a button OF bone or
ivory
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
Where The Tribune Is On Sale.

Murray. Utah-Excelsior Stationery Co. Ind
phone I'LL
New York-Arthur Hotalng broadway and
Thirty eighth Street Astor House. Waldorf
Astoria Imperial Hotel.
Chlcngo-Palnior house, Auditorium Annex,
Waehington-Nsw Willard. Raleigh
Omaha-Union Station News -Stnnd.
Porttand--Oregon News Agency.
los Angelcs--hmos's Newsstand
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Scnttle-W Ellis. Hotel Northern. J. r. JUS
ticc Wilson. McTcy & Co.
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Book and Stationery Co.
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Store, Arch. Cunningham & Co, II Seller
& co.
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Goldheld-Huntcr Adv. Pub. Co. @. n.
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Street.
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WYOMING MANS :

F. A. Whitney of Meeteef
spent $1,000 recently rather
turb the grave of a favorite d
%r. Whitney, a rich ranchel
Ging an irrigation ditch. and
called for channel right "a
dogs grave. He changed
giving the ditch a wide detou
grave remained unharmed,
Mr.. Whitney's bank account
NOT he said
Mr.. Whitney Is philanthroI
greatly interested In all cha
help children. During a rece
New York he told a story apf
slum urchin whom he had
months yacati tion into the CO
THE lad was so ignorant.
that he thought we got mus
mushroom and milk from the.
One morning a lady pointed
In a field and said:
Look at the horse, Jimm
That's a cow the boy COZ
No said the lady. lts
'Taint. It's q COW. saio
Horses has wagons to EN-.
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Things to Am
NOT VERY LOGIC,

New York Tribune. H
Poultney Biselow was ar,
a New York man about w. Nv
canal. s''c
You arc not very logical y,
low said at length. "Indoa,,
Illogical as an old men ! uso;
In Berlin. s,
TINS old man. Umbrella a.
out one morning on n shn.
He visited the shoemakcr,s
the hatter's for a hal fha :.
groceries, and so on. and W.
back home i'm the evenino
that he had left his umhra,
him somewhere. =
Accordingly. the nezt ma,
old man set out again i'm 49,
lost umbrella. He was unl,al
The seventh shop he yIsItea
one wherein his umbrella ~,
Well, he said. after tn
shopman. rs he started o1t'
recovered umbrella under y;
must say you are more hn
than they are at those other
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
Various Matters
HOTEL TOWELS

DISAPPEARING HOTEL TOWELS.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
1--WE lose money enough in stolen
towels every week to board half doz-
en- porters." said a hotel clerk. I'VE
never know exactly where they go. but
they certainly disappear, and that
right iast II some of the people who
take our towels would exert their en-
ergies in n more laudable vocation they
would have been rich meny moons ago.
There is scarcely a room ~ the ho-
tel that does not lose a towel at least
three times 2 week. or course. we
place several kinds-tace towels. bath
towels and lust plain towels-in each
one, and some ore fnGs them so at
tractiJe that they are dropped into
grip and HI stled out with the remain
der OF the luggage
When you figure that a good bath
towel costs from 10 to 20 cents. and
other towels anywhere from to 5
cents. you probably can estimate the
dead loss TO a hotel. 1t is very con-
venlent TO drop them into satchels, suit
cases or trunks and they are right
handy to wrap shoes or other dirty ar
ticles OF clothing In"
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
FROM THE JoKEMAK

We'll. no doubt the Legis''
enact remedial laws.
Good Lord, Can't they
enough alone ?"-PucH-
ION, doctor, I'm feeling a"
think I'm going 10 die. i.
Don't alarm yourself; y
very last thing you'll do.
er's TIalf-Holiday.
The Mlnister-That was
sermon j preached this NOR
dear. Do you think IL met
approval of the congregation
His Wife, suppose So Aon
ticed they were all noddin6i
Daily News.
Mrs. Nuwed-Here's the
started 10 make today. ls
annoying? -.
Mr.. Nuwed-Why, II isn't
all. -,
Mrs. Nuwed-I know II isn
just IL. I put plenty OF oahA'
in Il. but IT doesn't seem
worked.-Philadelphia Lcdser'
Hcmprope Harry see "
Is kicking about the lyncmnn
Brush Sam last night. Yep,
tor threatens TO hold sn ino
make il hot for somebcdy.
Cactus Carson-Nev.s whae
ter with thc Doc2 He mas Z
every other Iychin' blsselt
Hemprope Barry-That > %
pulled this sassiety event OF .
and a tenderfoot were cham.
at poker. When Doc iounu ~
out at the lynchin' he e..
started this inquest tclk--A
Times.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18

III Councilman Fcrnstrom really
thought that the additional conduit ap-
preparation was a wasteful one. il
would be almost impossible for him to
oppose IL
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
ECCENTRIC SPoRTsA

ECCENTRIC SPoRTsA,
Tottlcr.
AS those who own shoo,
aware, 1t sometimes happen
spite Of alluring advertIsern
do not succeed In letting then
Partridge was In this unenyi
ton, and after much consid<
decided to let it out by the da,
ever chance sportsman might
way. One day a party ar
paid a days hire They wer
ouSly anxious for the farmer
pany them, but he noticed
they held their guns and dec1
stead he gave them some do1-
rets. told them where to find
rabbits and bade them hav.
days sport. There was a eo<
banging as the day Wore on. 4
afternoon one of the shootisf2
to the farmhouse.
Hello" said the farmer.
the birds ?"
"Er-no." said the sportsma
Been going for the rabbIts
luck2"
well. not exactly" said the
What have you come
them"
'Er-well we want 10 kno
can let us have some more
ferrets. we've used them all ID
The farmer has ceased TO
ing by the day.
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could effect results. The situation af-
fords another illustration of the compli-
cations OF the industrial situation.
which do not allow every tub to stand
on It's own bottom. but different inter
ests are so interviewer that the very cog
In the machinery which WAS overlooked
may prove TO be the key movement to
the whole vast structure.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
WHEN CoMPELLr]

ANN" vi
NJ. j. Irons, who has beer
plants with wonderful succ1
an acetylcne light at the ca
partment of agriculture. said
Plants are like men. Th
themselves to the conditions
ing them. II a plant can't
hours OF sunshine 1t confirm
along somehow on FIVE hours.
"It is like mankind A ma
his friend one day:
Do you think two can live
ly as one?'
Before my marriage ! tho
could. the friend replied.
And afterWard?'
'Afterward l found they n|
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18
CANNY LAD.

Sporting Times.
A Scotsman the other day
London dentist with a tootha
dentist told him he would on
lief by having it out,
Scot-Mon, then l must hae
While the dentist was gettlnI
the Scot began to count his
The dentist said. somewhat
"YoI need not pas until IT'S d
The Scot replied, II ken tha
ye're aboot to max me uncol
jist want to see hoo / stan'."'
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FLOWERS FOR EVENING WEAR.
London STANDARD

Large flowers used singly. or smaller
ones thickly disposed. are in vogue
just now. aS being newer than gar
lands or sprays. Roses are general fn :
vorites, chiefly In dark red. pale pink
or deep cream or yellow, any OF these
three colors forming most happy con-
trast with all black, pale blue and
white or cream gowns.
Parma Niolets look exceedingly we'll
In con1uction with the above colors,
and with pale pink and mauve or pale
green. Just as In anything relating TO
dress, with little thought and taste,
1T is easy to obtain the maximum effect
out of flower decoration
For instance, flowers should In most
cases be chosen preferably OF darker
color than the dress they decorate; red
flowers Will look better on white frock
tnan white flowers on red one
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18

IL MIR. Morris had been reelected
however any fault his friends might
have found with appropriations would
have been on the ground that they
were too small