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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
=. Refund OF PAVING TAX

~ sun aI =, :, a: Alft recommended that
Va On J F,so on paving extensions
st;set, A. "st street from state to 4
b he Tb,r1 GeoTee had been rendera1
he pro sS',u district court finding tbot
,,,i,vvpg owners were enti,Ied nay az
viii consld.. .1e engineering COMMITTEES
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
RELIG1ors HATRED.

Theirs is the same kind of a class
hatred crusade that was started
against the Roman Catholics and the
Masons. Here is some literature I
picked up IN the east along that line.
And he showed some pamphlets on
"The Evils of the Confessional and
"The Menace OF Masonry
This fight against Utah and Nor
monism is in the same class.
40, | am not giving lectures and
passing around the hat answered
Mr.. Poet IN response TO question II
am doing my work through the news
papers and the business men Of Utah
are putting up the money for my OK
penses. ! am askug the papers which
presented Rev. Ilin's statements IN "A
spirit OF fairness, to give MS the same
kind Of "a show"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
ANOTHER REMOVAL.

ssunes , ot Police Sheets ,o,,ss
4,r. Ans, Of the removal 30 ap'll ned, the
., De dep,rftalo,IIoo,. driver FOR the good
OH, vas ' cor unenl, The action OF ,bs
vote Vo0cHrred IN by a unenIn,o ,me
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
LICENSE GOES ovrp

granting S'ort Of the license committee
Dom y, q liquor license TO Mathew
SIrtS W. W. a saloon on second sonth ' u rS
enc weeL ~, streets was laid over for
,ono N upon request OF Barnes as
NcinIty u nls property owners In thai
n wanted to be heard in the mat.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
a.. ~ONE APPOINTMENTS.

aVpsintSsSrl,ais Nore,on submitted ~.
ilsSDss y, n his once at : s sa,aS
y a, :, ,,s year and Miss Helen sa's ~. OF
VISION, ,Ion Of The c Gpnsr IN the criminal
nsn, q Mss s T Toy. court. The APPOINT.
sy'r NTH n. Miss ". Mcdonald Was ,a,a
Increasing n ~ Passage Of an o rSs 'ald
,r. vac salary of the 0i poslp,oO
oriDs 'ioR NEEDS HELP.
s n.nt.d thar ny ", Auditor Ain ree cTrs
cspaly b. Gc,asnns salary Of his cb,a,
increased So per month v en nnd
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
CASE OF REED sMooT

Take, for instance, the case Of Reed
Smoot. The charges against him We're
the greatest calumny ever heaped on
a man. They were inspired by some I'M
successful gentle preachers m Utah, d.
rectly contrary TO their promise 10 SUP
port n good Mormon II he were elected.
Nothing was proved against SmoOt II
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
ASSISTANT For STEWART.

N ordinance was passed creating the
,s A. N assistant health commissioner
s s,S sying the salary Of the office at
.S nor n Year. The appointment Is to
l. made BY the mayor and the APP
ro,rtse must be graduate of a reput-
XXI medIcal college Fernstrom OPP
p p0.d ,be ordinance but all the other
rc,rdlmen voted for It and 1t was
NsS,d.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
.urrnnrNr LAID OVER.

INV Attorney Hiles was asked for an
W. os Ia whether or not the bond
S 1.nId he ieopardized by the passage
IN ,ss amendment and replied that ne
1,o VA moi ike 10 say definitely as TO
wy, ,v,', mill ne had had time to look INTO
~ matter Upon that statement n tl.e
,~spdment was laid over until Thurs-
Sy pleht In order that the attorney
-lght investigate the matter me
. ssT adjourned until Thursday eve
, ,Iov when the amendment VIII prob
ably be passed.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06

that ne be allowed 70 appoint a book
keeper at a salary Of 500 per month.
The matter was referred to the finance
committee,
The independent., 1906-02-08
PREVENTING AN INVESTIGATION

Powerful efforts are being put forth in New
York to prevent banking investigation, which
would probably result in revelations many times
more startling than the insurance revelations:
More powerful influences than Governor
Higgins and Superintendent Kilburn are at
work to head off the banking investigation.
These influences are not open but hidden.
They do not act by proclamations of legis-
lative impotency or by arguments advanced
to the intelligence of the public. Theirs are
the same subterranean methods which de-
feated the 8Ocent gas bill in this same senate.
No investigation of the state banking depart
ment will be complete unless it includes the
reasons for official blindness as to transac-
tions in the great New York banks and trust
companies affiliated with the life insurance
companies and the public service corporations.
What was Superintendent Kilburn doing in
New York last May and June in connection
with the Mercantile Trust, the Equitable
Trust and the Bank of Commerce? How did
it happen that yellow dog accounts which
were thrown out from national banks by ma
tional bank examiners were carried for years
i'm state banks and trust companies? The last
time there was an Investigation of the trust
company through which the Metropolitan
Street Railway company did its business
there were disclosures of loans to Office boys,
of borrowing by messengers of stock ac-
counts carried for politicians, and of other
scandals as fragrant as the life Insurance
iniquities This particular trust company
changed it's name. but it is yet to be proved
The independent., 1906-02-08
AN UBIQUITOUS MERGER

An inquitous merger of the transit lines In
New York was affected by the usual process OF
initiating the capitalization The New YORK Worid
points out what the new company must do 70 pay
dividends on the watered stock:
The Metropolitan is not earning interest
and guaranteed dividends on its immense
capitalization The Interborough does not
earn interest and dividends on the stock and
bonds which are its share of the traction
merger. An increase of $10S,OO0O00 In STOCK
and bonds must find its interest and dividends
somewhere. What the source of this addi-
tional revenue will be the experience of past
mergers indicates Cars will be run slower
and crowded even worse than they are now;
the all-night service will be placed on the
basis of an irreducable minimum; the equip
ment will not be kept up; the number OF
employees will be reduced, and the public Will
be informed that If it is dissatisfied with the
service 1t is privileged to walk. Until New
York has crown up to this additional capital
ization the only way that profits can be earned
is to crowd the public more and to dimin-
ish the cost of operation.
The independent., 1906-02-08
LIFE INSURANCE REFORMS

Interest in life insurance matters seems Il
are revived as result of the Chicago conven
on called to devise reforms in the business:
The chief reform planned by the con-
vention is in relation to deferred dividend
policies. 1t is proposed to have the various
states enact laws requiring the companies
to make annual distributions OF their profits
to the pocyholders. This would do away
with the huge sums that are accumulated
under the deferred dividend system now in
vogue, and thus leave no opportunity for ex-
traVagance or speculation with the FUNDS.
But this method only such surplus will be
maintained as will guard against the deprlca-
tion of securities during periods OF financial
depression The efficacy of the plan has been
demonstrated by the companies which for
years have made a speciality OF annual
dividends, for in every case the cost OF in
surance has been reduced to the policyholders
while the companies have remained strong
sound. The annual dividend feature also
acts as an incentive to economy In manage
ment as well as to the judicious investment
of funds. This results from the fact that the
company that pays the highest dividends
gains an advantage over it's competitor in
securing new business. Uniform state regu-
lation of life insurance ought to be easily OBJ
tainable, and there is no reason why 1t can
not be made efficacous in protecting the IN
terests of the polcyholders. In this way their
interests will not depend upon the integrity
or vigilance of the state in which a company
is originally chartered for its methods and
management will be scrutinized by the insur-
ance departments of every state in which it
does business. Under the present laws the
examinations by state insurance departments
are largely perfunctory and altogether ineffec-
tive-Kansas City Journal.
The discussions and the final action of
the national insurance conference in Chicago
were marked by praiseworthy moderation.
1t was recognized by those composing the con-
ference that the deysing of safe and bene-
fetal regulations for the business of life in
surance is an extremely difficult and compl-
Gated problem, and that hasty and extreme
action would be sure to do more harm than
good to policyholders as well as to the COM
panies. 1t was therefore decided to unite
in few conservative general recommends
tions and turn over to committee the task
of maturing the legislation which it is believed
should be adopted by the various states.-
Chicago Tribune.
The independent., 1906-02-08
PURE FOOD AGITATION

Twenty leading physicians of New York sent
to the senators and representatives of that state
in congress a request that they strive to secure
the passage of a bill prohibiting the adulteration
of foods and drugs. Commenting upon the peti-
ton the New York World says:
This is not a case where doctors dis
agree" The medical profession is practically
unanimous in the knowledge that such a bill
The independent., 1906-02-08
PAGE 5

should be passed. Nor Is there any popular
dissent. One need not be specialist In
peerng through microscope and test-tube to
know that tale In sugar, clay in candy. chicory
in coffee and "preservative'' posons In milk
are at their best fraud and at their worst
a menace. The evils of adulteration reach
dramatic climax in the drugs that the ply
sician relies upon for quick effect in critical
case When they have been mixed with
cheaper substance to double the makers profit,
and when even the drugs by which the Iraua
might be tested are themselves useless sub
stitute, something like manslaughter follows.
If the expert knowledge of physicians and the
clear interests Of the entire public outweigh
with congress the private interests OF COM
paratively few manufacturers who live by
wholesome fraud, we shall have pure-food
and pure-drug law.
The independent., 1906-02-08
66e Nebraska Independent

that its methods have changed The moro
these powerful influences shrink from pup
licity the more insistently should the probe
be inserted The more strenuously they snirk
the sunlight of public knowledge the more
persistent should the public be in demanding
full information. What are the facts, and
why seek to conceal them if they are inno-
cent? The resolution of investigation wnlch
unanimously passed the assembly can be de-
feated in the senate only by improper innu-
ences-New York World.
The independent., 1906-02-08
CORRUPT PRACTICES ACTS

The New York Tribune Farmer explains the
,urport of the bills introduced in the New YORK.
legislature at the instigation of the association
o prevent corrupt practices at elections:
For long time the penal code has
forbidden bribery in general and particular
practices which tended to the corruption Oh
the franchises, such as the entertainment OIL
voters or the compensation OF person Tor
procuring the attendance Of voters at the
polls Now the plan OF particular pronDl-
tion is abandoned, and the proposed measure
carefully enumerates the things which may
be done in the way OF campaign expendl-
ture and declares everything In excess
corrupt practice, thus changing the burden OF
proof and making any extraordinary expendl-
ture presumptively corrupt. Another section
forbds any corporation not organized Ior
political purposes or its attorney, director or
officer on its behalf, to make any political
contribution, and every Such corporation Is
required to file a sworn statement that IL
has not so contributed. Failure to lille the
statement or making false statement is
misdemeanOr for which domestic corpora
tion's charter shall be revoked foreign
corporations permission to do business in
the state be withdrawn, and for which any
offending officer shall be ineligible to hold
Office Or employment in a domestic corpora
ton in five years. Candidates for judicial
Office are forbidden to contribute to party
own campaigns expend money for purposes
specified by the bill as legitimate. All party
organizations and corporations formed for
political purposes must make detailed re-
ports Another bill proposes to add new
article to the election law prescribing pro-
cedure to enable citizens to obtain judicial
INJURY into the correctness and complete
ness of election statements. Under it any
citizen by filing bond of $3.50 might COM
plain to a supreme court justice or county
Judge that a statement required by law
had not been made or was false or incom-
plete Then the court would have to make
inquisition, and person could refuse to
testify on the ground that he might hlmseH
be prosecuted, but no person other than those
proceeded against would be subjected to any
penalty on account of any transaction con-
cerning which testimony was taken, nor
could testimony taken be used in any Grim
inal proceeding If the court found failure
to file statement or declared statement to
be false or incomplete without intent to de-
feat the statute, it would order the filing CT
a true statement and payment OF costs.
Failure to obey such an order or finding
that a statement was wilfully false or IN
complete, would subject the offender to fine.
PURE FOOD AGITATION
The independent., 1906-02-08

The Chicago Tribune charges the Illinois pure
ood commission with grave neglect of duty ant
chronic inactivity:
1t is time this situation was ended. The
people of this city and state should receive
a proper return in actual benefits for the
100000 appropriated for this commission.
Any one informed on the subject knows tnat
Chicagos food supply IL not adequately
guarded Yet what important dement's are
derived from this commissions efforts? one
rarely hears of it, and then only OF incon.
seouential efforts Multitudes of residents OF
Chicago can recall how, in the farming days
of their childhood, nearly all the family Iood
was produced and prepared at home. Inc
grains were grown in the fields and ground
at the local grist mill, the vegetables were
raised in the garden and stored in the cellar.
The farm yielded beef, mutton, pork, poultry,
eggs butter and milk. The purity OF these
supplies was assured by the fact that tney
were prepared by the very people who were
to consume them. Today the food OF these
multitudeS Is produced and prepared entlfey
apart from the household and by strangers
whose ultimate aim Is business profit me
processes too are often complicated and aD-
srse 1t is impracticable for the cosumer,
by his own action, to protect hmseH against
fraud. He must rely on public acllon. Inc
state purefood commission should, therefore.
be his protector. 1t should keep close anu
scientific watch over all foods handled In the
state should promote appropriate leglsla-
ton on the subject, should be continually
analyzing samples, giving needed warnings,
and prosecuting offenders. It should eHec-
tually guard the public against imposition ana
harm through fraudulent practices In the pro-
duction and purveying of food. Instead the
Illinois commission simply performs sufficient
work to show color of justification for It's
existence The governor should deal with lnls
state of things without further delay lie
should do SO unswerved by political cacu-
lations, and without fear or favor respecting
the numerous and important special interests
concerned. The head of this commission
should he a highly qualified and energeuc
snecialist and should be held responsible
for its organization and work. Illinois should
have a pure-food commission worthy OF the
great food producing state which 1T is, or the
high reputation which it ought to have as
such, and of the popular need for protection
against fraud in foods. The governor should
act.
The independent., 1906-02-08
FEBRUARY 5. 1906

adopted many years ago. There is no good
reason why the American states and the fed
eral government should not be as strict in the
supervision of corporations as the British ad-
ministration is. The feasibility of this regu-
latiye legislation has been amply demon
strated abroad. And has not Rogers proved
it's necessity in Missouri?-Kansas City Times.
The independent., 1906-02-08

Meantime the air is filled with rumors OF
scandal in the state banking department Ii
is asserted with every evidence OF seriousness
that there is banking House OF Mlrth IN
New York city, dedicated to precisely the same
general purpose that were covered in another
branch of business and legislation activity by
the Albany "House of Mirth" OF insurance
fame. The declaration that certain trust
companies have carried margins for certain
legislators and state officials is daily repeated,
and one of the most conservative members Oh
the state senate said recently: Il am opposed
to the banking investigation; If 1t once starts
you will have revelations dwarfing the Arm
strong insurance scandals completely Al
bany Dispatch to New York Evening POST
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-30
In an instant. I held out both my
hundA. dropplng my sunAhaoe IA my

tlfAEA
aren't YOU pleased to sec me?"
Ila fnce changed. The look l knew
so we'll Mashed into his eycs-yes, those
sunny eyesi-and in another moment
We were walking side by side, as In
the old days long ago. Sir John had
not know.
And SO you actually intended to
take no notice of me? Pray, what have
/ done29
shall / tell o -" he retortod fierce
ly. Il can't answer You in fine words
or graceful speeches, Bcryl. If you
want the truth, you must have it from
me in an unpublished tate"
Don't be cross l whispered softly.
cyril. dear Cyril
And then he broke down utterly. l
had been cruel, heartless; had tlirted
with him o~utrageously; l had made
him love me, care for me, far more
than all the world beside.
The wind was signing among the
roses. the sun was shining in the sum
mer sky, and | was young, Needless of
all save the present. And he had been
my first sweetheart, the lover who, 10
my Inexperienced eyes, had worn the
guisc of a fairy prince.
After all. what does life hold of rap
ture quite like a girls first love? Where
does one find such trust. such faith.
such utter and complete belief as hers
in him? L turned toward him flushing,
and my eyes said all the rest.
The rustling of n wc,nan's skirts re-
called us to the present.
"Cyril!" cried. horror-stricken.
that was Lady Mabel!'
cyril laughed n little foolishly. 1
thought. and murmured something
about bad luck.'
cyril" | said quietly, will YOU cx-
plain to my people!-o1 shall II"
"EXplain?" He stammered and
looked blank.
Explain that l have discovered my
mistake. and chat. after all. 1 DO not
care for John. but you
The mere fact that / was able to
express myself in such plain, straight
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-30
GOOD HABITS.

= distinct unaffected and sympa-
shctic voice of low, rich tone is worth
more 10 a woman than almost amy
quality that can be acquired. Shrill,
harsh voices DO more to detract from
Il pleasing personality than almost any
one quality, while a soft. soothing voice
n q hearty musical laugh add meas
drably to Il woman's attractiveness.
The art of listening is n habi that
can be cultivated merely by a little
lhoughtfulness for the pleasure of 9TH
ers. Every one, even the extremely
quiet person. enjoys, upon being drawn
out, telling of the incidents and affairs
that are of particular interest to him.
y memory for faces and names can
also be cultivated and will prove of
vast Importance in the long run.
Little favors and k~indnesses shown
to all those with whom n comes in
daily contact are Implanted in the
years after they have been forgotten
by the donor they bear fruits that prove
a source of happiness to many.
The giving UP of personal pleasures
that are of little or no consequence, or
the sacrificing of ones own wishes in
q natural way, as if it We're a pleasure
to do what some one else preferred, can
be acquired with a little patience. The
person who gives up his OWE desires
with the air of a martyr had better
never have made the sacrifice at all.
The habit of saying only good of
others-there are generally some few
points deserving of favorable comment
in every one, and if one cannot truth
fully say u kind word he can at least
keep quiet-it is not necessary to say
an unkind one-proves a boon to all
mankind. A boost is always a hun
dred times better than a knock and
cultivates for the one who is careful
to follow this rule a sweet disposition
that on the other hand will soon become
our and cynical if unkind thoughts
are long INDUCED in.
To give every one the benefit of a
doubt follows close upon the habit of
saying only kind things, and forms a
generous broad spirit of charity-the
greatest thing in the world.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-30
VIM Tickets Are Lona.

Prom the Kansas CITY Star.
"Wonder YOU wouldn't quit building ad.
ditions i, fbese things the traveller said.
stuffna mo lonp Green excursion ticket in
Tho side rocl,a+ of bfe coat can fool busi-
moss Wen ha0a 10 nav excess BAGGAGE on
,on, soon WIN, do,,+ Won have a card or
j, littIa hook %,
IRA mental tickets arc mysteries TO
Tho ,y.r,oa tralelar Having hourht one
ba s+a,-s 10 ,oad il NM someone elbows
him away from tho window ana he bastens
10 The IRA N 4rue.inp 10 Providence and the
conducto. Few nersons know what long
tickets win allow them to do If they do
road Thorn and fewer sim have any idea
of The intricate and vet simple system con-
trolling thoul-how the money is divided,
why and when. I1cy nasscnsers feel Ter
fectly at case until the conductor has been
around. scratinized the tickets aud stuck
red or yellow slips i'm the holders hat
bands.
a road that carries a passenger only
forty miles soils him a ticket for a 4,Ge1-
mile "trip. TITS a matter Of arithmetic and
system, !" the chief clerk i'm the ticket office
sa.d. 'SUppose we sell a ticket from Jop-
lin TO Honolulu. The passenger travels
only a few miles over our line, but we sell
the whole ticket. The money is divided
pro rata among the several lines over
which the passenger is taken. Each com
pany gets a share depending on the length
OF It's maui and the rate 1t charges q mile.
The other roads keep check on us by cou-
pons that are detached by the conductors.
AT the end Of each month the auditors of
all railroads report TO a central passenger
association and later divide and remit the
money collected from joint ticket sales"
Tickets are not made long merely to
annoy passengers or to prevent them haN-
ing a clear idea of what they're all about.
They couldn't we'll be any shorter. the
railroad officials say. Each road the tick
ct goes over must have a coupon to be
detached: twelve railroads means twelve
coupons. If side trips are allowed a cou-
pom must be attached for each. Also
where railroad lines do not enter the same
depot transfer coupons are appended.
There are in North America eight pas
senger associations. These associations
have charge of making all rates in their
territory. The Western Passenger asso-
citation has charge of rate making in the
territory between Chicago and Denver;
the Central Passenger association between
Chicago and P~ittsburg; the Trunk Line