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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14
MAIN STREET LIGHTING.

It seems 10 us n plain case that there
should be uniform and good system
of lighting Main street from the Brig
| ham Goung statue to Fourth South
street This also was the consensus of
/ opinion at the meeting of the Parks
and Public Improvement Committee
and those in attendance upon It's meet"
! ing mt the Commercial club Yesterday.
/ II is, in fact, the only consistent opin-
ION to arrive at, for by system of GO
as.you please, every property owner
putting in what he pleases and seeking
revenue from the investment, the street
would present a system of irregularity
as grotesquc as 1t would be incouvenl-
ent It is all very well TO say that
property owner should have what he
wants and is willing to pay for. but
such a notion cannot be defended in
a public improvement like this, OF, in
general, in any extensive public I'M
provement. 1t is necessary 10 have uni
formity as rule. and like methods,
as to paving, sidewalks, and the like;
and when it is proposed TO use the
Lighting poles for electric trolley pow
er, then it is absolutely essential that
regularity and practical utility shall
prevail
The Council on Monday night voted
TO allow the u. C. NJ. |. to put in
lights and poles on a plan Of its own
This plan is not available for
street railway use: so there would have
TO be double set of poles, if the coun-
ell adheres 10 its consent for the Il.
c. NJ |. to put in n system of its own.
But if that concern is TO be accorded
this privilege, others along the street
must also have the like grant; and the
street will have double set of poles
where one set would suffice
City Engineer Kelsey has worked out
a plan which would be at once slightly,
effective, and available for all purposes.
Why not adopt 1t, and put in the poles
according to his plan7 1t is approved
by the engineer of the street car sys-
tenn as well adapted to the use Of his
company. while the H. c. NJ. /. system
is not. Why not, then, adopt the Kel-
scy plan? 1t has been shown in The
public prints, and il would make OF
Main beautiful street. The only OBJ
lection we have heard 10 il is that
It's installation may involve delay. This
can be done away with by proper
energy and determination to get on
with 1t; and that should be the watch
word from now onward, as to this splcn-
did and much-needed public utility and
adornment
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14
SUTHERLAND GETS COARSE.

Senator George Sutherland is adding
coarseness TO his other charac-
teristics, He demonstrated this at
the banquet which the Cover
nor of this State rendered to the
Legislature and the Governor g friends,
last Tuesday night. Sutherland seems TO
be so devoted to his file leader, Apos-
tic Smoot, that he must initiate the
apostle S rudeness of language on occa-
sions Of this character. Not only are
his expressions lacking in refinement
not to say decency-but his argument is
a gross deviation from truth and logic,
If the remarks of George Sutherland,
as made, were to be applied justly,
they were a most direct reference to
the Mormon church and the newspaper
representative Of the church.
Senator Sutherland said there were
some people in Salt Lake who did not
want peace-who preferred strife, who
would be out of Job if all were peace
and harmony in this community.
George Sutherland would be good
witness-if he had not become spoiled
for the truth--of the fact that the Nor
mon church leaders do not want quie,
tude in their relations with the world.
They prefer strife; they would be out
of job if their people were on terms
of peace and harmony with mankind
Sutherland knows that this is at the
bottom of the great question in Utah
And knowing that-more than any 9th
er people In the world-the bogus
prophets represent the idea of strife
among mankind for their own aggran.
dizement, George Sutherland earns their
approval for himself by attempting to
charge upon others the offense which
he knows the bogus prophets commit
against the public peace, And his Ian
guagc is degeneratlng into quality
like unto his character
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14
THE BIRDSALL CASE.

1t takes the copperhead nerve Of the
Smootitc organ To defend the infamy
perpetrated by Mormon priests in the
case of the unfortunate Cora BirdsalI
Even the chief church organ, Of which
the copperhcad is the echo. avoids the
question-not daring to argue it in its
details and TO attempt defense before
It's own people.
The Smootitc organ must earn its sub
sidy; and to that end it is willing TO
antagonize the deliberate Judgment Of
the Supreme Court OF this State-whose
opinion will stand imperishable in the
annals of our Jurisprudence, as a re-
5ukc to the tyranny and the cruelty Of
that church inquisition which forced
Cora Birtsall to sign away her property
on pain of eternal oamnation
II the Smoot organ can find any com.
fort for itself in earning its compensa.
tion by apologizing for and defending
such an inhumanity as the act of the
priests in terrorizing the demcnted Cora
Birdsall, it is welcome to its gleanines.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14
FOE THE TRANSFERS.

The raise of twenty-five cents ton
to the consumers of coal is not for the
benefit either of the railroads or the
dealers. 1t goes entirely to the team.
sters.
There is plenty Of coal, but the deal
ers are far behind in their deliveries
some Of them days, some of them
weeks. They can't get teamstors to
haul the coal, and TO in
duco delivery they have to pay
more than the fifty cents per ton that
they have been pay ing. SO they agree
to pay the tcamstrct seventy five cents
a ton to make the coal deliveries and
catch up on them, since there Is no lack
OF coal, In the me antime, the dealers
assure us. any one can get coal for
S4.f3 ton at the yards, as heretofore,
1t Is fortunate that this raise comes
at the end of the winter rather than a.
the beginning; fortunate for the public
we mean, many persons being hard
put to 1t to pay for their coal at the
old prices, But the minimum of COM
plant viii bo INDUCED in when it is
fuliy understood that the twenty. FIVE
cents goes wholly TO the teamsters.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

of Congressman to $500. which is no
more than is paid TO thousands of
managers Of departments in great cor
poratlons, is TO offer n little better in
duccment to little better grade of men.
II we Had better paid Congressman and
fewer of them the Nation would get
better results; and an attendant step
toward the reduction of the number of
Congressman is raise in the pay for
Congressman.
These two items of activity on the
part of Congress were worth serious
consideration and generous commcnda,
lion
One other, which the Press docs not
include in its list, is worthy of place
in the public consideration: The pas
sage Of bank bill for the Philippines
indicates disposition too long deferred
to deal seriously and intelligently with
our island possessions. Whether we
are to set the Philippines free or are
10 retain them as colonies to grow into
freedom under the flag, it is absolutely
essential that Congress shall deal with
the question Of internal affairs for the
islands with rcsolute intelligence and
patriotism. To merely postpone, by ar
bitrary disinclination of Congress TO
deal with any measures of relief for the
Philippines, and because of a fear of
disturbing vast interests at home, is a
crime for which posterity will hold the
statesmen of today to a strict bistori-
cal responsibility. The example of this
Congress will doubtless he followed and
improved upon.
Recurring to the satire of the Press,
oHe may say that it appeals to the cas-
ual Judgment of mon and it is perhaps
the wittiest and most epigrammatic
comment which has been produced by
the newspapers upon any Congress with
In recent years. But it is scarcely fair
to themselves for the people of this Ma
tion to dismiss Congress with such
an obituary.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14
Smoot triumphant

BY vote of 42 to 2S, the United
States Senate has rejected the resolu-
ton TO nnscat Reed Smoot> the Mormon
Senator.
This result has been foresecn for
many months past. When the element
of political cxpcdicncy' made itself
plainly felt in the Smoot case last fall,
1t was toregone conclusion that the
crusade of the women and the viii of
the majority of tn, committee would
he defeated by the enforcement Of the
two thirds rule
Not since American women began TO
be factor in pubic affairs. has any
woman S campaign been so vigorously
and picturesqucly conducted as this.
State after State was fired with enthu
siasm, and the women. like gallant
veterans, threw their piciets and their
advance guards oven into tho heart of
Mormondom itself-into it's very cita-
del 1t was a campaign OF earnest
work, brilliant speeches and lofty senti-
ment. Not the least remarkable feature
Of 1T was the great petition of a million
American women tr the Senate. pray
ing for the exclusion of the Mormon
member on what the women believed
to be sound, logical and Just grounds,
They had implicit confidence in the Wis
dom and patriotism of the Senate, and
believed chat the plea Of the mothers
and daughters Of the nation would not
pass unheeded.
Well-they have been disappointed.
They misjudged the Senate. They cred.
tied il with ideal qualities. and they
possibly overratcd the weight of the
moral argument in politics. But the
practical lessons learned in the cam
paign arc valuable ones, and should
NOT be forgotten.
We sympathize with the women who
fought in this battle. The moral vic
tory is unquestionabIy theirs, though
the seat remains with Smoot-Chris-
tian Herald, New York.
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by coming to Utah and supplying the
mines here with wanted help.
THE VICTORY WILL, COME.

The Christian Herald, in an article
reprinted in another column this morn
ing, has stated significant truth in it's
comment upon the Senate s decision in
the Smoot case,
Truly the moral victory is still with
the women Of the country; and the
Christian Herald could have conscien-
tiously added that the political and ma
terial triumph will eventually crown
their splendid efforts. Not Mt all daunt-
ed under temporary repulse, the good
women of the United States arc gath
ering for the fray in greater force than
ever. They realize that the decision of
the Senate has not changed one truth
for which they contended. 1t has not
erased the blackcst of black testimony
ever given to mankind by a professed
representative of Almighty God. Not
IN the least has the instant outcome in
the Smoot case altered the bogus proph-
Us confession Of his crimes; not in the
least has it lessened the blasphemy un.
der which the poor are robbed 10 ag-
grandize the rich; not in the least has
it detracted from Reed Smoot' s CO.
partnership i'll the offenses Of the
church, or from his responsibility for
the official teaching Of polygamy and
the command for its practice, under
pain of eternal danination. The Nor.
mon church continues TO claim the di-
vine right to rule in all the affairs of
mon; its teaching continues that the
Government of this Republic is an
and will be overthrowu. Not
one significant fact of the controversy
has been ohliterated by the procured
decision Of the Senate
The women Of the country know this,
and they will continue TO fight until
the hypocrites shall be brought to
book
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14
A WITTY EPITAPH.

The New York Press is Republican
is fearless as Spokesman for marty
and people, and yet seems to be witty
to the point of cruelty, if not unduly
posslmistic. 1t says:
AS nearly as we can judge by the va
rlouS accounts the most important acts
Oh the last session OF the Fifty-nInth
Congress were ''' VI
., To break the record for the size of
the Congressional Directory. Va
To raise salaries.
10 Jolly Speaker Cannon.
ooda sEe Brlck house Grosvenor a 500 =
oCp p public building for an Ohio town
| Which is not on the map and siiynr
dinner set of 800 pieces. = S'''e'
10 appropriate nearly $1,000. ooO. 900
The Press may have succeeded in
grouping IN luXtaposition and brevitv
the striking characteristics or activi-
ties of the Congress Just brought TO its
lamented end but there are otbor
things, to omit which is to leave tbe
American people with n false idea Of
the utility OF the great law.makipp
podyi and even the things which arc
mentioned, when properly understood
may have been less ridiculous com.
] >
10 appropriate nearly one billion dol.
lars lntelligently and Justly, TO cover
the needs OF the mightiest Nation Of the
earth, is task of no small proportions
That the country had the money. looms
as the largest fact Of governmental fin.
ance possible IN all this world. No otbcr
country can appropriate such sums biep-
hially, because no other country has the
money to appropriate, Naturally in =
transaction so vast and with apDronr;a
tlons so mutiform, some cxtravapancas
may nave been committed and somo
lhJustlces OF omission may have oc.
Cured; but in the main. the couutrv ;s
satisfied. A Congress which fairl,, and
fully considers its appropriation bills.
as did the one which has lust expired
performs task most cxactjng upou tbe
whole body, and particularly upon tbo
committees of Senate and House onJ
the Speaker
In raising the salaries of mcmbera
to decent living wage, This Conoroos
mas performed service worth the
grateful remembrance of the people Of
this country We sneer much ar ,ho
mediocrity of Congress. True, the pcr.
sonneI OF the House NAV not be com.
pllmentary to a Nation possessing such
vast ability, The reasons are manifold
We have no training school for states.
manshIp, except through the Lepisla-
lures and the Lower House; and tho
oircct compensation attendant upon ser.
wee practically bars the higher grade
OF mcn-unlcss they be possessed of in.
dependent wealth. To raise the salary
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14
Where The Tribune Is On Sale.

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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

When the clock stops today. each
legislator is entitled to assume that his
was face so fair that even Time
would pause TO view the beauty that
was imprinted there
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Statistics show that its costs bil.
lion dollars annually TO deal with the
CRIME OF the country--so Congress can
not boast of being the only billion-doI-
lar affair in the world.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

II Galveston knew how much trouble
she was creating for the Utah Legis-
lators, probably that town would con
siderately get off the map.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Having particular affection for
onlt Lake and the county attorney,
PaTont is under great obligation TO
the municipal court for having extend
cd his stay here.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Urging single board for both insti
tutions OF learning, proponents will
confer n favor by stating whether or
not IT is TO be paddle shaped.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

AS, compromise with the city en-
gineer, the Deseret News might offer to
llIuminc upper Main street with the
light Of revelation.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Believing in Joseph f, ii is not sur
prIsing that the other conspirators
should accept the word of another con.
fidence man
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

II That new big pump had only ar.
rived IN time there can be no doubt
that the county attorney could have
found use for 1t in the Sheets trial
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

OF course if Parent turns "con -
triek while be Is here this time, the
tonspirators viii blame George Sheets,
wen though Parent is the present
partncr of another official
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Thoroughly believing in the principle
o. sealing for eternity, the Smiths and
me smlthcreens arc attempting to APP
Iiy their belief to their ecclesiastical
Jobs.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Prophetic Importation of off colors
in humanity-editoria and confidence
has become favorite hlerarchical
nnsfimn
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Mr.. Fish having became n director
for another railroad, 1T would seem that
Mr.. Hartman has not yet got all the
roads he wants.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Never having himself dealt in that
commodity, Abe Ruef is willing to
swear that there is no justice IN this
country.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

p That old complaint having been dis
missed, and best knowing his own acts
while in Europe, Apostle Grant need
now only fear cxtradition.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Salt Lake will today receive from the
board of public works an award of one
million dollars in the municipal beauty
contest
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

1t may be that District Attorney
Jerome VIII prove that he has an in
ming of his won
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Those Industrial Workers of tbc
world who have nothing else to do
could prove their decent citizenship
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Speaker Joseph Just smiled when be
discovered that Critchlow S temper was
also carmine.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Refusing to resign, Chief Sheets is
considered by Mr. Hanson to be very
stubborn individual
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

1t seems that Mr. Lawson is cop
per Smith
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-14

Business communications should be ad-
dressed. ''The Tribune. Salt Lake CITY.
Utah.
Matters for publication, to Editor Tho
Tribune, Salt Lake City Utah"
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Important Decision.

In the circuit court at Morgan
town a few days ago, q decision
was rendered by Judge Mason
which will be of interest to clubs
and other organizations which have
been accustomed to supplying their
members with intoxicants or other
supplies. The defendant in this
case was the Morgsntown lodge Of
Elks, which has maintained a buffet
at which beer was furnished to it's
members, tickets being issued for
uniform price of fifty csnts, good
for twelve glasses of beer. The plea
was made that no profit was receiv-
ed at this price, and that the beer
was purchased by the lodge or Its
representative merely for accommo
dalton of is members, and that
their action was consequently not a
violation of the law.
The judge, however, could not
see 1t in that light, and in imposing
fine of fifty dollars, stated that
while the violation in question was
probably unintentional, it was new
ertheless a violation, and that the
fact that no profit had been made
had no bearing upon the question of
the legality CT the act complained
of.
Judge Mason has established a
precedent, which, should it be fol-
lowed by other courts in the state,
will put an effectual stop to the
practice in question, unless some
plan other than that now in vogue
should be devised for the evasion of
the law.
Aside from the moral aspects of
the case it would scarcely seem to
be just to compel men regularly en-
gagged in the liquor business to pay
heavy license fees and submit to the
restrictions LAID down by the law,
while others are permitted under
the gulse of clubs to dispense bever-
ages of this nature, without license
and without restriction. True, this
particular phase OF the situation was
not present in the Morgantown
case, but there are numerous other
communities throughout the state
where it does exist, and 1t Is in
these towns that the result OF Judge
Mason's ruling will be watched with
interest.-Charleston Mail.
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The Presidents Address.

President Roosevelt in an address de-
livered at Provincetown, Mass, Aug.
10Th, praised the Puritans to whom a
monument was dedicated, which was
the occasion for his address.
He declared that their spirit of regu.
lation of Government, and the righting
of wrongs by justice and equity, was a
spirit which should be and is worthy Of
emulation in the twentieth century.
Since the creation Of the Constitution,
he said, business development has made
new agencies, to deal with them, and
properly control them necessary.
The growth of central government.
and the extension Of Federal power is
necessitated because of the latitude of
business corporations, and their deal.
ings in interstate commerce.
Need of criminal conviction and the
imprisonment of trust heads guilty Of
violation is urged.
Owing to the inability of the states
to deal with monster combines, because
Of the interstate commerce provisions,
the President SECS the need of national
Incorporation law.
He pleads for the proper middle posi-
ton between individualism and social
ism.
Crude and vindictive legislation
should not be the part Of our govern
ment and the millennium will never be
approached except by the spirit which
metes generous but not sentimental
justice to each man on his merits as q
man.
Supplementary to his speech the
President hurled defiance at Wall
street, accusing the manipulators of the
market of creating conditions bordering
on chaos. in order to discreoit his ad-
ministration and he declared that dur.
ing the eighteen months that remain he
will not waver in his trust fighting
policy.
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lT is dollars to doughnuts that
Senator SCOTS recent jaunt through
the southern portion of the State
has opened even his eyes, enthusiasts
tic boomer of the State as he always
is. Republican policies, both State
aud National, with which Senator
Scott has been so closely identified
In recent years have certainly agreed
with this portion of the State
Huntington Herald.