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Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-05-25
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF
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DEPART EASTBOUND

PART EASTBOUND - DAILY
10 The Valley Ex-
press, for Provo, Heber,
Manti, Marysvale, and
intermediate points..--..-...S a. m.
Io2 The Park City Local,
for Park City and all in
termediate points......--.-8:I5 a. m.
6 The San Francisco
Chicago Express, for
Denver, Omaha, Chicago
Kansas City, St. Louis
and all points east......-...S:5o a. m.
b.. The Atlantic Coast
Limited, for Denver,
Omaha, Chicago, Kansas
City, St. Louis and all
points east.......-...--.....-..--.3:5 so p. m
}. 8 The Tintic Local,
for Provo, Payson, Eure-
ka, and all intermediate
points ....----.---..---...-------.---5.l 10 p. III.
}. a The Atlantic Mail,
for Denver, Omaha,
Chicago, Kansas City,
St. Louis, and all points
east .................................8:oo p. m.
IS. IIo and IA, for Bing-
ham Junction and Bing-
ham ...8:Io a. m. and 800 p. m.
9PART WESTBOUND - DAILY
}. II The Valley Express,
for Ogden and all inter-
mediate points ..............Io:25 a. m.
o. S The Chicago-San
Francisco Express, for
Ogden, San Francisco,
Portland and all points
West and North........Io:35a a. m.
}. The Pacific Coast
Limited, for Ogden San
Francisco, Los Angeles,
and all points West. AS p. m.
,. 10 Ogden Local for
Ogden ............................ 600 p. m.
,. 3 The Utah California
Exp. for Ogden, San
Francisco, Portland and
all points West and
North ...-.-.-.............. II:Io pm
Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-05-25

Time Card in Effect June 3, 1906.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04
RECRUIT THE G. A. II.

Everyone should make II his business
Grand Army of the Republic. Let him
fix in his mind some man who is yet
in. and then appeal to him to come into
camp and help his comrades take care
Of those veterans who need assistance,
and Of their widows and orphans. If
this is presented to the recruit as mat
ter Of duty TO those who stood by him
la the great hour of the Nations trial,
il cannot help being effective. If every
present member of the Grand Army OF
the Republic will make up his mind to
bring in at least one recruit this Sum-
mer. we can soon have every eligible
veteran inside the ranks, and the power
Of the Grand Army for good will be i'm
menseIy increased. The Order should
have solidarity in this way that will
make its influence overwhelming for
good, not only to the veterans generally
but for the country. Never has the
country been more needful of a solid
united, forceful Grand Army of the Re-
public than at present, when all sorts
| of seditions and discussions are weak.
ening the influence for loyalty and good
| Government. The high standard which
the Grand Army has always main,
! tanned as to the duties of those in Office
is of incalculable Importance in these
days of graft, self-seeking and genera
slackness as to official responsibilities
Such lamentable exhibitions as we have
had in San Francisco, particularly
would not be possible If the Crane
Army there was built up to its utmos
strength and exerted its influence
strongly in the direction of its funda.
mental principles.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04
TIE KANSAS FLAG Law.

Ever since tON- tt0cn. OF hdfSaSr
entered upon his Office there has been
a marked increase in the number of
the men who sighed whenever remind
ed that they had voted for him. There
has. il is true, been little or none of the
fierce charges that have been made
against other Governors, but rather a
sadness and WEAKNESS that a Sub-cali-
Der piece should have been mounted
weight and power. We have never
really appreciated this feeling of Kan
sans until reading his veto of the Flag
law. From the intellectual poverty of
the paper it suggests that the Cover
nor'S mentality is one of the stunted
products of the arid region. His first
objection is to the expense of providing
each school house with flag. Possibly.
including the staff, this would cost SIS
or even S25 for each school house.
Kansas is now building very fine school
houses as a rule, and wisely spending
a liberal amount of money to give them
an attractive appearance. She has got
ten past the time when any kind of a
shabby shed would do-would have to
do-for a school house. In the sod
house period any sort of shelter for the
scholars was better than nothing. Now
that Kansas has pushed herself forward
into the ranks of such solid, well-to-do
States as Ohio, New York and Pennsyl-
vania, she is erecting handsome, sub
stantial school buildings and scanting
nothing to make them attractive. Next
to d good coat of paint nothing adds so
much to the appearance of a building
at so little expense as a fine large flag
flying from 1t. The Governors first OBJ
lection, therefore, would have just as
much pertinence against painting the
school house or setting out shade trees
or laying sod.
Next, the Governor fears that the
morning flag salute will have tendency
to bore the children and engender a
feeling of aversion rather than love for
the banner of the country. People who
differ markedly from the Governor in
knowing what they are talking about
are cOnlueHt tHdl lne nag salute Is
most agreeable feature of the daily rou-
tine, and that the children take to 1t
with a relish as they do to singing and
other pleasant variations of the course
of hard study.
Even If they did not it would not be
strong reason against the morning
salute.
Grammar. arithmetic, penmanship,
geography are all at times quite bore
some TO little students They do not
thereby conceive a lifelong distaste for
them. They are much more likely to
look back upon the hours they were
obliged to spend upon these as among
the happiest in their lives, and the di-
rection then given their minds as their
very choicest possession.
The Legislature wasted no time on
the Governors musty-minded veto, but
promptly passed the bill over it. "...--..
The National tribune., 1907-04-04
ADDITIONAL BOUNTY.

Before writing TO the Auditor of the
Treasury for the War Department, with
relation 10 additional bounty, every
veteran should examine his discharge
and see il it has not stamp upon il
showing payment of such bounty. Let
it be remembered that to those who en-
listed before the bounty was raised
there was only 500 additional due
That is, the Government did not under
take TO make up TO $500. which 1t was
paying the recruits after October, 1868
Those who enlisted prior to that time
were only entitled to 500 bounty, and
the Government merely gave such an
other 800 Nearly all of these have
received this additional bounty, and
there is only coming to the small num-
Der who did not get it another 800
Look over your discharges carefully be-
fore writing.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04
A, Ex-Priso,er's Narrative.

Editor National Tribune: Abram
Storms. who has resided in Bakersfield,
Cal, for the past Is. years, where he
Hurlbut Post, G. A. R., relates the most
thrilling narrative of personal expert
ences and observations ever recorded
by any veteran of the civil war. From
his statements made to me the follow
| ing facts have been obtained:
He served in the Army of the Poto-
mac from the first battle of Bull Run,
July Il, 1851. to the three-days' engage.
| ment at Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1868. In
that fierce battle he and his two broth
ers were captured, one of the latter
| being wounded and paroled on the bat
tlefield. The other brother was cap
tured July 1, and he himself on the
| next day, and both were held as pris-
oners of war until the surrender of
Lees and Johnston's armies at Apo
mattox and Raleigh. He Is the sole
survivor Of the three brothers. He was
taken prisoner in what was known as
THE Devils Den," corresponding to the
Hornets Nest at Shiloh, or 1.-The Tri-
angle" at Atlanta, in which the fighting
was as fierce as in Pickett's famous
| charge on Cemetery Ridge. He suffered
all the horrors of imprisonment for %
months and % days on Belle Island, in
Libby, Andersonville, MilIen, Savannah
and Blackshear. from which last place
he was taken back to the foul prison
| house Of despair in Andersonville. The
highest honor ever earned by the men
who gave everything to save their coun-
try was won by the $4,000 prisoners at
Andersonville In 1864, when Stoneman
made his unfortunate raid against the
Confederates for the purpose of reieas-
ing the men held at Andersonville. In
| IL. l--A
movement a force was sent out to meet
Stoneman, which succeeded in captur-
ing his command. At the same time
the prisoners were removed to Millen,
where they were led out of the stockade
and formed in line to receive from the
Confederate authorities an offer OF re-
lease on condition of taking the oath OF
allegiance to the Richmond Govern
ment. Full rations, uniforms and garri-
son duty were the inducements held out.
! Those who were willing to take the oath
| were asked to step out of the line. but
not man did SO; none of those brave
men were willing to accept life, liberty
and plenty to eat, drink and wear at
the cost of honor. One old man Of
three-score years, who was unable to
walk and had been carried out of the
stockade by his comrades. promptly re-
piled to. the Confederate authorities:
IF that is all you want you may as well
open the gates and let us go back to
prison life. have five sons IN the army
who will avenge my death. Such an
instance of devotion to cause has no
parallel in history. except that afforded
BIZ the Christian martyrs who freely
gave their lives for the right Of personal
freedom of thought and action. The
narrative of Comrade Storms not only
takes in his long prison experience and
his service in the Virginia campaign,
but also his later experience of 40 years.
He was a member of Co. K, 4th Mich,
and a fellow-prisoner Of Comrade John
McElroy at Andersonville.-M.D D. Gage,
Bakersfield. Cal.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

Another one of the last survivors OF
the person of John Moran, of Liberty.
Clay County, Mo. As we have before
remarked, there probably never was an
organization that was completely killed
off so many times on SO many different
battlefields in such widely-separated
Tigers In his "reminiscences Mr.. Moran
gives some facts which we think will be
revelation as well as OF decided inter-
est to cur readers. particularly in his
statement that at Manassas the Louisi-
ana Tigers won impershable fame By
charging the seth N. Y. crack regi-
ment. with their bowie knives. The
Federal regiment was captured and
driven p -sorlrs 20 Il p Confederate
camp" While we have studied the his
tory of the battle of Bull Run pretty
carefully, We have to admit that this
striking incident has heretofore escaped
our notice. The next feat OF the Lou
isiana Tigers was at Gaines's Mill, where
they charged across a mill dam and
captured a battery of guns on a hill
beyond, but were exterminated in the
hour of their triumph. 1t seems that
there were some left, however, to be
taken prisoner at the Second Bull Run,
but they made their escape from Fort
Delaware in manner quite az thrilling
as anything in the Louisiana Tigers
history.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

In spite of all that has been said
about Temperance in France, that coun-
try is suffering quite as much from
alcoholism as others. and the temper
ance movement Is making marked prog
ress there. The more conspicuous evil
is that Of absinthe drinking. Absinthe
is Il body and brain destructive form of
alcohol in which NORWOOD Is distilled
with the alcohol. Much has been said
about the dcadiiness of this beverage,
and the admiXture of wormwood has
been pronounced particularly destruc-
tive. This is probably Incorrect When
Il man gets pretty far along In alcohol
ism he wants something still sharper to
jade his dulled palate. and the bitter
ness of the NORWOOD is the necessary
spur. The real evil is, as It is in all
other forms of drinking, in the alcohol,
and probably absinthe is not much
worse than ibeer, which loads up a
mans culdtinE system with whole
mass Of sepii-decomposed starch and
clogs all his organs and faculties. The
Committee On Hygiene of the French
House of DEPUTIES has reported a bill
in favor of the total prohibition of the
distillation. importation and sale of alb
sinthe in France. The bill proposes
that the Manufacture of absinthe shall
cease in one year, and in two years all
sale Of it shall be declared illegal. This
is all right as starter, and it Is to be
hoped that it will be followed by other
Legislation. ., 4
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

profits on investments in railroads to
four per cent. We call this claptrap.
because the last thing that this Govern
ment should do would be to try to
hamper enterprise by a limitation of
profits. There is no reason why an
investment in railroad stocks should be
Disseminated against. Railroads are
absolutely necessary, and everywhere
men should be encouraged to put money
into enterprises that the community
needs. Mr.. Bryan proposes something
that the worst tyranny in Europe would
shrink from. We fear that the screws
in his thinking machine are getting
looser and looser.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

The report Of the corn crop for 1906
Is startling in It's immensely. The total
product reached the incomprehensible
figure of 2.921.4l6.39 bushels, or near
~ 80 bushels apiece for every man
woman and child in the country. Iowa
led all the rest OF the States. with 3
production Of 3I3,275,000 bushels
closely followed by Illinois, with 34I.'
16S.5S5 bushels. These two States pro
luced nearly one-fourth the total crop
Nebraska came next with 24e.7S2,50t
bushels. The Pacific Coast produced
comparatively little corn, Califoraia
having less than 1000. 900 bushels, with
Oregon. Washington. Idaho and Utaf
falling down under the haif-million fig
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

The next thing we shall have the cor
poratisns making wild appeal to be
saved from the courts. Judge Sutton
of Omaha recently gave Samuel f.
Howell, President of the Omaha Goa
Trust, the limit of the law. which was
six months in Jail and a fine of $4,000
The Judge also rubbed it in on Howell
by telling him that he was mo better
than d common highwayman who put
a revolver 10 a mans face and made
him give up his money" If 1T had no,
been for money and good lawyers How
ell would have been I'm Jail long ago
where he belonged"
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

Mr.. Bryan shows that he has not that
martyrlike devotion to principle that he
seeks to be credited with. He has
climbed away down from the perch he
took In regard to Government owner
ship when he came back from Europe,
He is not for it Immediately. but at
some time in the dim future when the
people are reader for it than at pres
ent. He throws a sop to the States
Fighters by saying that in any event
he only advocates Government owner
ship of trunk lines, with the subsidiary
lines controlled by the States. At pres
ent, however. he will be content with
Governmental regulation of the roads,
and then proceeds to befog the situation
with lot Of ciaptrap about limiting the
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

Realizing the absolute dependence OF
the battleship upon coal, the naval
officials have begun the building of the
largest collier in the world. Her name
is the YestaI and she will be $50 feet
long, 62 feet beam and &c feet draft
with a speed of is knots an hour. sc
that she will be able to keep up with a
fleet of cruisers or battleships. She
will carry four three-inch gums to beat
off torpedo boats. and have a crew OF
15e officers and men. -
The National tribune., 1907-04-04
The Fleet on Fort Sumter.

Editor National Tribune: AS the only
correspondent of a Northern newspaper
The New York Worldwide was
present at the bombardment of Fort
Sumter with the naval forces. sent down
with men and supplies for Maj. Ander-
son. I desire to call your attention to
the fact that John McElroy. in his very
Interesting series of articles in The Ma
tional Tribune, in Chapter X, "Surren-
der of Fort SUMTER ignores the pres
ence of the steamer Harriet Lane. Capt.
John Faunce, Revenue Cutter that had
been turned over to the Navy after she
left New York on her way to Join the
fleet at Charleston. McElroy also is In
error when he says the Powhatan was
of that fleet. 1t was supposed she was
to Join us off Charleston, but she was
sent to Pensacola, and never even COM
municated with us Off the harbor of
Charleston. The only reliable stOry of
that memorable event, as seen from
outside the harbOr. was published in
The New York World April 10, 1861.
The story is deliberately told in "a Sail
or of Fortune" written by Capt. B. 8.
Osbon and published by Mcclure, Phil
lips & Co.. New York, 1906. If re-
member right, Mr.. Felix FOntaine, of
The New York Herald, represented that
paper in the city of Charleston during
the fight, but left Immediately after.
and was nearly as long reaching Wash
ington as we were in the Baltic, for /
left the Harriet Lane and came home
with Maj. Robert Anderson and his gal
liant garrison, and to-day have rem
nant of the flag that waved over tile
historic old fort during the fight that
began the civil war. l am writing this
in the interest of correct history.-B. s.
Osbon, 1872 East Esd Street, New York
City.
1t was stated that the Powhatan had
been detached by Stewards Interior
ence, but no mention was made of the
Harriet Lane.-Editor National Trib-
une.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

is iegitimately within the power and
the duty of the State to safeguard the
investments of the people precisely as
it safeguards.nto a. certain extent. their
deposits in the savings and other banks.
We are confident that Gov Hughes is
man Of SO much firmness in the pur-
suit of whatnis right that he will adj
here to his program and carry 1t thru.
even tho it shatter the machine.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

The venerable Senator John T. Nor
gan, of Alabama. is opposed to Bryan
and is out for Judge George Gray, of
Delaware. Senator Morgan says:
in my opinion, Judge Gray is the
best equipped man in the United States
to lead the Democratic Party to sue
cessfui result next year. AS a Demo-
crat no man has lived since the organi-
cation of the Government who has
clearer views and principles of the creed
Of the Democratic Party
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

Few professions seem more prontap'e
than that of Friend of the WORKING
man." That distinguished champion oil
labor. Abe Ruef, of san Francesca
gathered more than s1,000,O0o into MS
bank In a few years by the indefatigabie
labor of his tongue.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

The senior Vice President of the New
York Railroad implores the public 10
he fair with the railroads" That Is all
that anv man of sense wants to be.
The railroads have no reason TO rear
anything else. Only the professional
wind-jammers, whom nobody regards
very seriously, propose anything but
absolute fairness.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

The people of the Ohio Valley have
had an Old Testament judgment on the
wickedness of stripping the hills OF theif
forests. A tide of water 60 feet hlsh
rolling down the valley has SAVIOR OIL
the Book of Genesis TO 1t.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

Comrade c. II. Seilig has been unani-
mously nominated for Mayor of Eldor-
ado, Kan. al a great mass meeting. II
is claimed for him that he is the young
est Union ex-soldier in Kansas, having
enlisted at the age of 13 AID served
four years. He was one of the early
settlers of Eldoradc, and is leading
business man there.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

Uncle Shelby Cullom is not given to
loose talk. Far from it. No man ever
knows better what he is talking about
And when he says that Hartman
should be in the penitentiary it goes for
a heap more than many pages of SEN
sational scribbling.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

II is convenient for the Wall Street
..dnanciers," who have been blowing
buhh,es with other peoples soap, TO
denounce the State legislatures 10
puncturing their mutations. Ii Is the
old old fashion OF blaming everybody
but themselves.
The National tribune., 1907-04-04


Prof Frank Parsons has been maxi
ing study of Government ownership
of railroads in Germany. He finds that
there are many economies In this. as
the President of a Railway Division gets
but $3.50 a year and the Minister of
Public Works. who is the head Of all
of them, gets but $4,000, with the use
of a house. The safety of the railroads
has been raised to a high point, and
only one-sjxth as many are killed and
but one twenty-fifth as many injured
on the railroads as in the United States.
While the quality Of the service Is far
from being as good as ours. it is yet the
best in Europe The average passen-
ger rate is less than one cent a mile,
but the freight rates are higher than in
this country. On the other hand, into
freight rates enter the higher charges
which are made on such goods as in
this country are sent by express. fast
freight or private car lines. The en-
ployees have a share in the manage
ment of the roads thru voice In the
election of Railway Councils. They are
pensioned for old age. and a provision
is made for the care of their widows
and orphans,
The National tribune., 1907-04-04
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS PREFER
ENCE.

That indefatigable comrade. Patrick
H. Coney, Commander of the Depart
ment of Kansas. G. A. r.. succeeded In
getting the Legislature to pass the fol-
lowing act:
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
Section /. That section $500, Gener-
al Statutes 1901, be amended so as to
read as follows: In grateful recognition
of the services, sacrifices and suffering
of persons who served in the army and
navy of the United States in the war Of
the rebellion, and have been honorably
discharged therefrom, they shall be
preferred for appointments and en-
ployed to fill positions in every pubic
department. and upon all public works
of the State of Kansas, and Of the
Counties, cities and towns of this state
if competent to perform such services;
and the person thus preferred shall not
be disqualified from holding any posi-
ton in said service on account OF his
age or by reason of any physical dlsa-
bility, provided such age or disability
does not render him incompetent to
perform the duties of the position ap-
piled for, and when any such ex-soldier
Tor sailor shall apply for appointment
to any such position, place or employ
ment, the officer, board, or person whose
duty it is or may be to appoint a per-
son to fill such place shall, if he be
man of good reputation and can per
form the duties of the position applied
for by him, appoint said ex-soldier or
sailor to such position, place or en-
ployment.
Sec. 2. That all acts and parts Of
acts in conflict with this act be, and the
same are, hereby repealed.
Sec. g. This act shall take effect and
be in force on and after its publication
in the official State paper.
Published and became a law Feb.
10, 1907"
This looks comprehensive and salts
factory. The next question, and one Of
the highest importance. is as to how it
will be executed. II will be observed
that the law contains no penalty, but
Commander Coney says:
ANY State officer or any board COM
posed of State officers, County or city
officers, or any board who have been
appointed and have charge of the penal
and charitable institutions of the State,
who shall willfully disobey or neglect
to obey the provisions OF this act, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and subject to Impeachment as pro-
vided by Law, and prosecuted as other
cases of misdemeanOr; and in either of
said cases. upon, conviction, shall be
adjudged to have forfeited his or her
Office. .rs
I'm making any reduction Of force in
any of the departments, cities. or
towns of this State, the officers of such
department. city. .or town shall retain
those persons who may be equally quail
flied who have been honorably dis
charged from the military or naval SER
vice OF the United States. and the wild
ows and orphans of deceased soldiers
and sailors.
ANY person knowingly and willfully
violating the provisions of this act shall
be deemed guilty OF a misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction, fined not less than
IS nor more than $25 for each offense."
The National tribune., 1907-04-04

The Italians in New York are eaten
ing on very promptly. They kh"" "ho
is boss in that city, and generally wore
shamrocks on last St Patricks Day.