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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
COMMON SENSE LAW.

After all the discussion and bum
combe about government regulation of
railroads the federal courts have been
called in and the first judge to be heard
holds that the Missouri state law fix
ing cents as a standard passenger
rate per mile is subject to common
sense test as TO its reasona bleness.
Affirming the power of the United
States courts to pass upon the state
law. the judge ruled that the sole uues-
ton of fact to be decided was whether
the 2-cent rate is reasonable. whether
ii is conf1scatOry or not: and that this
might be decided in a practical way
he held that it should be tried in opera
ton for three months and the results
used as basis of future judicial
opinion.
Judge McPhersOn's procedure is so
rational as to be almost astounding.
after the cock-sure pronunciamentos
OF the rate-fixers from the president
down who have assumed that ANYBODY
could tell off-hand what rate rail-
lpo1u oNSHt ~ CHal &C. anu what would
be legal. Scarcely a crossroads poll
tician has been heard for the past year
who was not ready to prove by his own
figures that cents per mile was annie
compensation for passenger traffic. no
matter what the cost of the railroad
or the expense of operations or the
possible revenue from given mileage.
Apparently the federal courts ruling
marks the beginning of an era of SEN
sible consideration in which facts and
not prejudice will have play. and in
which the rights OF the transportation
companies as we'll as the rights of the
people will be weighed in the balance
of justice. Following the refusal of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
MAKING THE CHILDREN PAY.

If any evidence had been wanting as
to the fate of the Juvenile court move
ment in Utah, it would have been fur
nished by some of the appointments as
truant officers of men utterly unfit to
hold any office, much less to discharge
duties requiring high order of I'M
selfish devotion to the welfare of the
children affected by the law.
A notable case in point is the selec-
ton of one man on Tuesday who has
been a hanger-on looking for easy po-
litical jobs, a man whose last thought
is humanitarian and his first thought
utterly selfish; one who knows moth
ing of sacrifice or helpfulness or dis
interestedness: who would not advise
or guide an erring boys footsteps if
he could. and who would be incom-
petent to guide if he would.
Why was this man appointed?
oh, because the state administration
and its commission owed the man job
and thought the Juvenile court work
about the simplest job it could use for
the payment of political debts. The
question of competency or character
could not have been considered or else
the man would not have been appoint
ed.
Under the most admirable law that
could be devised, a law that was ap-
proved by experts the country over.
the governor OF Utah has managed
within three months TO disorganize the
whole administration OF the court, de-
feat the purpose of its founders and
discredit it as an institution. What
should have been a life-saving station
for youthful lives drifting on the rocks
of sin and folly for lack of guidance.
is now refuge for political beach
combers, a snare for the children. a
common criminal court administered
with less than the poor discretion
usually attaching to criminal courts of
minor jurisdiction. What had proved
TO be one of the great means of pre-
venting crime and saving the youth
from criminal lives has reverted to an
agency for the sustenance of broken
down incompetents attached to the DO
litical fortune of the state administra-
ton.
As it now stands. the Juvenile court
is clearing house where the children
of the community are sacrificed 10 pay
the political debts of the ruling poll
ticians of the state.
And frightful price they are pay
ing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

the Wisconsin railroad commission to
Governor Hughes veto of 2-cent bill
this decision gives promise of a sta
bility for railroad investments such as
seemed impossible when the president
and his followers in congress was at
the height of their hostile campaign
against everything that savored of
railroad ownership.
1t is notable. too, that the decision
follows the presidents indianapolis
speech in which he retraced his steps
far enough to declare that the great
transportation corporations were not
over-capitalized and were entitled to
fair play except in the case of such
corporations as had been clearly GRIM
inal In their conduct.
Possibly the conservative reaction of
which RoOsevelt's speech is the key
note had no relation to the approach
ing campaign for the presidency, but it
is altogether probable that the presi-
dent had weather eye out for the
coming political struggle when he at
tuned his voice so gently in Indianap-
oils and held out a whole bunch of
olive branches to the railroad powers
he had opposed so bitterly in the win
ter
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

stayed, not carin' much whether ] win
or not, bein' as the heart was all out o.
me.
My next card was nine an his was
another eight. givin him the bet with a
pair of Fights in sight. an more'n likely
eight or a nine buried Either way he
had me beat an If he RELY had either
one on EN-, o. course he knOwed he had
me beat Anyway he pushed in his stack
AIS I had to look for was king or a
elght, with poor show o gittin the
eight, but l stayed, KNOWN it was poor
play. but bein' reckless. Well he caught
a ace an l got the case eight. but q
course We was all in. so il was a show
down, an my straight beat his three
Fights.
IT felt sorry FIR Bucko Mclaughlin that
night when he went out lookin' whittier n
he did afore. an I never herd nothin o.
him I'm that time TO this. but there was
another man felt sorry for. too. an that
was Dan Shine realiZin' that l was Ut
agin the double cross.
Sandy got his rake off o. course an
when we settled 1 SAYS to him, "Twon'
bring you no luck, Sandy but he on y
laughed.
IT'S them young fools, he says, that
makes the business pay.
But all the same, nobody ever seen
Sandy again after he left his place to go
home that night. What became of him
Well. there amt no tellin'. You know
what Chicago is.
An for me. l amt never had no luck
since that night. I lost Bucko McLaugh-
Inns money an four thousand more in
side of a week playin' bank
Then ! went up to Prairie du Chen to
set in at poker game t looked good I'm
distance. an got shot the second day
We both went to hospital but tOther man
got out first, an 1 was trailin' him when
broke this wrist in a railroad smashup.
Now i can't play nor shoot for a month
to come, an the Lord knows what's
next"
The two friends left Dan Shine in New
Orleans some DAYS later. but neither OF
them ever saw him again. The only news
they had of him was in a newspaper para
graph, which said he was in hospital, sur
fering from blood poisoning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
HOW 1T HAPPENED.
OHardeman Free Press ,

The way it all happened was this: We
had been down to Memphis two or three
days seeing. If we couldn't git a lob as
landscape gardener on the new park
commission, and We was suffering from
that tired. seal-brOwn feeling, when we
saw place open that invited us to rest
They were holding prayer meeting there
and we sunk into a pew and was soon
fast asleep. Now when we sleep we are
informed that we snOre. and the family
says our snOre sounds like a freight train
caught in wreck and whistling for help.
We suppose we must have stirred I'D the
preacher. fer ne hOllered out Order. or
der back there. This walked us IN and
taking up the dream where we had left
off we said. II told you ! would take
some whisky with fizz water on the side -
That's what broke up the prayer meet
ing. and made il necessary to explain the
situation to George O'Haver. The bows
at the station house say we behaved very
we'll except when we thought we was
the Sultan of Zulu and then We was in
clined to kick the palings offn our CELL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
The HAGUE CONFERENCE.

The Hague conference has assembled
for its second session, and the eyes of
the world are upon The Netherlands
are so commendable that they are en-
titled to the interest, if not to the en-
dorsement, of all the nations of the
earth. The theory of the conference is
that war is an unnecessary barbaritv.
that enlightened nations need not re-
sort TO ii under any reasonably con-
ceivable circumstances, and that in
ternational disputes of every character.
except those involving the honor of one
of the nations involved. should be set
tied by arbitration.
Some advocates of world peace are
in favor of settling questions of honor
by arbitration. They say that to ex-
cept such questions from arbitration is
10 thrown down the bars and MAKE ar
bitration impossible. National honor is
such an elusive, intangible thing. One
nation might consider its honor i'm
peached by the lynching of one of it's
citizens by foreign country 1t might
declare its honor attacked because of
the accidental wounding of a citizen by
a foreign soldier at target practice.
These are extreme cases, but war has
resulted from smaller offenses.
Practically every right thinking Cit
izen hopes that war will become i'm
possible. The Hague confer ence is the
most important organization that is
now seeking light on the question. 1t
will be in session several weeks, listen
ing to the statements of representa-
tives of the various world powers. 10
seph H. Choate, former ambassador 10
England, heads the American delega-
ton. With him are General Horace
Porter, former ambassador to France.
Judge U. NJ. Rose of Arkansas; Will
liam I. Buchanan, former minister TO
Argentine and to Panama; Brigadier
General George B. Davis, L. S. A:
Charles S. Sperry, president of the
naval war college. It is a g ,Ta deIcsa
ton.
b The Hague is rated as one of the fin
est cities in all Europe. It is the can
ital Of South Holland, the seat of the
Dutch parliament, of the court, the
government and the foreign ministers
1t has magnificent public buildings
and number of splendid parks. About
a century ago Amsterdam supplanted
The Hague as the de jure capital of
The Netherlands, but The Hague is the
de facto capital. and will always be So
regarded. The Dutch government is
entertaining the delegates in handsome
style. as is fitting when the nature of
their mission is understood.
Russia proposed the first conference
looking toward world peace and sug-
gested The Hague as the place in
which to hold it. This, the second con-
ference, was also suggested BY Russia
The first conference wis held in 1899
and lasted from May is to July 81. The
American delegation, appointed by
President Mckinley, was composed of
Andrew D. White, then ambassador to
Germany; Seth Low, president of CO.
lumbia university; Stanford Newell
minister at The Hague: Captain A.
fred T. Mahon of the United States
navy; Captain William Crozier of the
army, and Frederick w. Hollis II aor as
secretary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
IN THE SPRING OF as.

washington Herald)
you mebbe think this spring is bad.
You oughter been alive
To see the weather that we had
The spring of -.
The snow wuz banked in early May
Above our kitchen door
We had blizzard every day
Fer seven weeks or more
Talk about snOwi
&c, &c, &c.
An when at last the snow wuz gone,
1t started in to rain.
The skies would open up at dawn
And never close again.
A Teller had to learn TO swim
An navigate an dive.
Or 1t was stay at home fer him
The spring of 45
Talk about rain.
&c, &c, &c.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

According TO former Mayor James d.
Phelan. San Francisco will be free from
graft for at least ten years. However.
We wouldn't advise the people of that
much-troubled city to quit watching
for single minute.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
Company For PouItnev
Washington Post

Inc editor of d New York paper de-
clares that Colon and Panama are fulI of
saloons and disreputable resorts Poultney
BigelOw may as well move over and make
room for one more in his row.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

A Connecticut judge has decided that
hereafter he will send automobile
scorchers to jail instead Of merely fin-
ing them. 1t is almost possible to sus-
pect that he really wants to stop the
scorching habit.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
CLEVER PARAGRAPHS.
The Enthusiasm Was Too strenuou,
philadelphia Pressl

chairman Taggart Of the Democratic
national committee will not want to omen
ms mouth again for a long while. The
last time he did that the response was a
shower of bricks from enthusiastic mem
bers of the party -
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
John D. Can Prove an Abb,
Newark Starr

Hear that a miliOnaires hair stood on
end when he heard of BOecks plot to seize
the Chinese throne. Then it wasn't John
D., for he hasn't one
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
ADJUSTMENTS TODAY.

Salt Lake-Ethel Barrymore in Captain
links"
Orpheum-''The Henrietta"
Grand-'In the Shadow of the Gal
lows"
Lyric-VaudeVille
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

The Milwaukee Sentinel wants to
know whether Dr.Long or Mr.. Hartman
is the more undesirable citizen. We
don't see how anybody could hesitate
over that point. DR.. Long never con-
tributed largely to a Republican cam
paign fund.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

Mayor Schmitz has declared that he
will never play in, an orchestra again.
He must think his penitentiary SEN
tence is going to be an unusually heavy
one
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

Inc young woman who recently mar
ried the brother of Charles NJ. Schwab
says she prefers poverty to the possess
sion of s2,OOO,OOO. Charles NJ. would
doubtless consider himself very poor.
indeed, if he had only $4,000. 900.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
New Form of srainstorm.
kansas City Journal)

NINoII'eI5 NINJ JUUIudL1
i am sick man. says Abe Ruef A
short time ago Ruef said he was guilty
but innocent Perhaps he is sick but well.
Later on he may be free but imprisoned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

Why. yes, dear reader. occasionally a
never been in the chorus, but not often.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
Fair.
THE METALS.

Silver. 92sc per ounce.
Copper (CaSting), 2212c per pound.
Copper (cathOdes). 2224c per pound.
Lead. 1896 per 100 pounds
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20
TWICE-T0L0 TALES.
(san Francisco Argonaut.)

A young bridegroom, after the wedding
was all over and the brides old father
had gone off to the club, began to search
anXiOusly among the wedding gifts.
What are you looking for. dear?' said
the bride. THAT $500 check of your
fathers" he said anxiously Il don't see
1t anywhere" Poor papa is so absent
minded" said the bride. He lit his cigar
with il"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

Fishing stories are always in order A
man who was enjoying great sport with
the finny tribe at Rush Lake Mimi, went
to the telegraph office and wired his wife
as follows: I've got one; weighs seven
pounds and il is a beauty In reply came
the following signed by his wife: so have
1; weighs ten pounds; he isn't a beauty;
looks like yOu.''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

Some years ago there was a political
campaign in Illinois in which certain
candidate was so certain of his election
as sherlIt that he actually arranged for
the distribution of the subordinate offices
that were TO come under him Some one
was telling Uncle joe Cannon of this
The grim old veteran of many a poIiticai
battle smiled and observed: Il trust that
our friends case will not be like that of
man l knew in Indiana This fellow
went on a hunting trip. accompanied bv
MS faithful retriever. Things went on
timely up TO a certain point: then the ex-
peGltlon suddenly ended in disaster. The
dog undertook to jump over a deem veil
in two jumps
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

Senator Thomas J. Allison member of
the Missouri legislature. is an acknOwl-
edged wag in that more or less dignified
body. He was approached the other day
by an enthusiastic motOrist. who asked
if he was not in favor of some legislation
for the benefit of those who own autOmO-
biles. Il am, replied the senator. Il
am in favor of a bill placing the owners
of automobiles under the protection of the
state game laws and providing that il
shall be unlawful during certain months
of the year for farmers to shoot chauf-
feurs and occupants of automobiles
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-20

Charles H. HOyt once visited a small
town in Pennsylvania where there is a
hotel they say George Washington the
father of his country, used to stop at
when he passed through. One of the com
pdny was given the Washington room
and Hoyt received a poor room on the ton
floor, the proprietor not knowing who he
was When he came downstairs later the
gentleman who had the good room said
Mr. Hoyt, they have given me the room
that they used to give George Washing
ton when he came here" well" said
Hoyt. the one they have given me must
be the one they gave Benedict Arnold
when he came
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-15
THE PEOPLE
MUST PAY
The Standard Oil Company's Big
Fine Says William D. Hay
Wood-Reasons.

"The worlkingmen of the country
will pay the $4,000, 600 fine i'm
posed upon the oil trust, if it is
paid. That is not the way to stop
the evil practice of the money mad
corporations"
In these words William ID. Iay.
wood, secretary treasurer of the
Western Federation of Miners, dis.
cuSScd the sentence of the Standard
Oil Company.
''The only way the middle and
laboring class can get justice and
force the greedy trusts to be fair"
he continued, sis to have laws
enacted which will put the officials
i'll Jail for such offenses as that of
which the Standard Oil Company
has Just been found guilty They
would not like to pay the penalties
behind the bars. That would cure
them.
1.-The Standard can appeal and
appeal, using every tcchnicality of
the laws to kill time, and in the
end probably get the decision and
sentence set aside. The poor man
has not money enough to dilly dial
Iy like that when he is fined for
such a small ofiense as being intox-
icated. But the big trust can kill
It's competitors and keep in the
courts until its crime is forgotten.
Until these laws are so fixed
that Jail sentences are absolutely
certain for officials who break the
laws, the evil practice of crushing
competition and robbing the people
will continue. The oil trust will
make the streams of presperatiou
ON the brow of labor run deeper
and wider to pay the big fine if it
does not finally defeat the ends of
juStice'
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-08-15
A Communication.
Editor Labor Argus;

Edltor Labor Argus:
Dear Sir-The imported street
car strike breakers are evidently
''scorcherS' and are using our
race course'-Biglcy Avenue
for speeding, regardless of life
or property, rs the following facts
Will prove: About eleven O'Clock
yesterday morning while Charley
lngle who drives a team of ponies
for Ernest Myers, our emtcrpriSinr
meat dealer, was delivering meat
on Bigley Avenue there were two
cars coming down Biglcy Avenue
at Il rate beyond the speed limit,
result of inexperienced EMPLOYERS
horses struck and dragged about
forty feet, harness torn, wagon
wrecked, young man thrown from
wagon and might have been scri
ously injured but fortunately es-
capped with Il few bruises. As to
the horses they are injured to such
an extent that one or both will
probably be shot. l could not say
whether he was an old emDloycc
or not, heard his name was Bostic.
but whether he is either a new or
old employee the fact remains the
company are responsible for the
accident which might have been
worse
Now, Mr.. Editor, | am a union
man and am in favor of strike only
as Il last resort, but / firmly be
heve the strikers are right in this
trouble as one case of an employee
was brought particularly to nv
notice, about one year ago. 4
young man with wife and child.
who rented from me and worked
for the kanawha Valley Traction
Company as conductor. worked
two weeks "learning the Streets
for nothing, then was put on as
'extra' at the munificient sum of
ID or 16 cents an hour. and work
ed on average of 4 hours Il day for
twenty-four dayS,-puZzle how can
man exist in Charleston for that
money? 1t is unnecessary to state
that the young man quit the job b(D
and went back to the farm. If the
Traction Co. would pay their en-
ployees living wages they would
hoI nave TO employ 'spotteIS' or
or detectives-so called" to report
their men, as circumstances makes
the thief. In conclusion will state
that | sincerely hope sympathizcrS,
who are as Il rule not connected
with any labor organization will
do the community, strikers and all
more good by refraining to destroy
property and keep their mouth
shut and tend to their own bust
ness.
Public sympathy wins a strike.
the street car boys have a better
cab service than the cars are giving.
Than king you for space, l am
SYMPATHIZER.