The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-09-12

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about nations as lightly as a spiders web: and +bo
there will be revolutionsl Not sympathy and =,
ternity and justice, but Terror in which m r,..
will dare to lift up his voice. The rule of the man
will be about as merciful as a calculating macb;r
and as moral as a lawn mower. What Socialism,
means really no one seems to know or care. It viii
mean the most insuferable oppression that ovo,
weighed upon mankind. "-Extracts from Letter,
of Lafcadio Hearn from Japan 1994-1904.
1t is very likely that not enough votes will 10
changed by the campaign of the next two month.
to change the result in a single county in the No.
ton And yet we mnst have lot of patience With
the fellows who want the 0fisH#-
The report from Cls7elartl's tEree-cent ffare -,-
roads for July shows net profit About time +o
go after two-cent fare now
The country is stumped sometimes by otbe,
things than condi3ates and boosters. And the worst
part of it is that the people have to stand for it.
--O-~
The demand for publicity seems to come from
the candidates who have suddenly realized that
the other fellow was getting the best of it.
Pennsylvania pure food law has been declared
contrary to the provisions of the constitution So
the provisions in Pennsylvania may continue to 90
against the human constitution.
The successful candidate is the one who recog.
nizes the fact that he can't please everybody, bu.
at the same time can convey the impression that
everybody pleases him.
Confidence being completely restored, the way Of
the campaign fund collectors becomes thorny
path indeed.
Sometimes epigrams lack only the essential Of
truth to make them interesting.
| 1t would be interesting to take the measure of
happiness of the two men-one who works and
saves until he accumulates 81 900 home and the
one who never works to get his $500 automobile
A newspaper item says there are 10000 people
in Paris living by dishonest means. This is terrible
And it is likely, too, that the prominent citizens
have not been counted.
Ponderous takers sometimes don't make any bet
ter officers than they do candidates. And some
times they do.
But you can put that half-price straw hat away
until next summer if September is too cold for it
The theatrical trust is going to be busted again
by the reformers. Hope the prices won't go any
higher as a result.
This is the season for the plain and uncultured
people to be elevated by contact with the statesmen
who need votes.
Canned speeches may be intended to preserve the
people from the speIbinder, but they can't jar
him loose.
And as the ice bill grows less the light man
and the coal man in for their dizzy.
"a good year for scratchers, a mighty lean year
for bosses" is the conclusion of the New York Sun
in summing up the political situation. Which IS
encouraging for those of us who have been scratch
ing pretty industriousy for the bosses the past few
years.
Soon the festive hot tamale will replace the ice
cream soda at the drug store fountains.
-s-O-~-
There hasn't been nearly as many automobile
accidents in Salt Lake and vicinity as the quality
of the weather justifes.
Some statistics on the number of arrests on Sun
day for drunkenness since the lid went down would
be interesting as showing the demoraEzing lnHu-
ences of keeping open house on Sunday.
The notification committees of the half dozen
political parties might save themselves a lot Oh
trouble if they would adopt the plan of sending
their respective candidates souvenir post card.
Self-made men are numerous, and some of them
are proud of the job they did, but the dressmaker