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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25
THE CURRENCY PROBLEM.

Next to taxation, the currency Is the
most intricate economic problem with
which civilized governments have to
deal. II Is idle, In the present state
of public education TO expect the
people to solve the problems present
ed by plans to improve the national
currency. Only n small minority
among public men profess knowledge
of this subject. A long continued
study of political economy finance
and banking usually precedes utter
ances on this topic among thoughtful
men. We have been surprised to note
how numerous have been the opinions
on the financial measures recently in
troduced in Congress
The San Francisco Chronicle Is
however probably near to the exact
truth In saying that our present ma
tional currency was not the result OF
an effort to reform our currency al
though 1t did that. 1t was created TO
| make q market for United States bonds
| when 1t was essential to the national
| life that the bonds should be SOLD
1t was therefore justifable at the time
| Now we do not need to sell bonds ana
| we do need an elastic currency, whicn
can never be got out of bond-seoured
currency stu. great vested inter-
ests have been created in that artihcial
value impaired to United States ponds
| by reason of their use as security tor
! currency which cannot be ignored
| Probably all that should be done now
is to refuse to make any new issues
of United states bonds available Tor
that purpose and provide for cur
rency additional to the present based
on a rational law. which in the course
of years will become the sole currency.
on this view, which we share, 1t is
probably just as well that the Aldrich
bill was not permitted to compllcate
matters still further by imparting ar
tlfcial values to other classes of bonds,
The currency problem Is one tina.
the people cannot settle. Expert COM
missions IN which the people have con-
fdence will need TO be resorted to,
and the sooner the better.
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Gathered On The Battlefield Of Thought

lawns and gardens as well as IN the
construction of picturesque buildings
Thus great Impetus has been given 10
the profession or science or landscape
gardening, which has become quite as
important IN its way us the work ot the
architect, the latter frequently under
taking the entire enterprise, from the
building of the house to laying out OF
grounds This, in turn, has given
opportunity for the manufacturers OF
many things designed TO be useful and
ornamental, and In all sections OF the
country enterprises or ms characler
have been established. The business
includes the manufacture OF columns,
urns. benches. fountains. and NUMBER
less objects employed as decorative
features of the lawn, garden, pergoie
or terrace. In this field, as In the
construction OF buildings. the tendency
is toward substantial and durable work
and genuine artistic merit, and In rec
ognition of it's admirable qualities IN
this respect concrete Is rapidly sup
planting all other materials, even terra
Gotta and marble, that have been used
in the arts for centuries but never
seemed destined to be supplnnted by
the more plastic medium.-C Age
The Yellows one of the severest
Appealing to and kecnest indict-
The Passions. ments OF yellow Jour
nalism ever written
has lately appeared from the pen
of Prof. W. |. Thomas, of the Uni
versity OF Chicago. His fundamental
objection to yellow journalism Is based
on it's appeal TO what he calls the
hate attitude" in men, This atti-
tude exists in all of us. 1t dates back
to the days when human beings spent
most of their time killing animals or
fighting with their fellow creatures. 1t
partakes of tho nature OF impulse or
arrctite and is almost as blindly Gle
mental as hunger itself. During
centuries of civilization this hate in
stinct has been modified and controll-
ed. hut under the surface II slumbcrs
vet. A murder trial, q prize fight. 81
slauderous bit of gossip. an exciting
game have still the power to call
1t into play, In the light of these
facts saws Professor Thomas, II be-
comes plain that the yellow journal
owes its existence to The persistence
in men OF Il primitive feeling of cs-
sentially anti-social character, and to
| the fact that = revival OF this feeling
| brings sense OF pleasure.-Current
| Literature (ApriD.
| Preparation Are the great majority
| To Receive of men and women
| The Children ready for their children
| when these comes to
| them? Would you commit TO the care
| of the average parents an important
| enterprise in which you were especially
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interested. and to which they b,a
en- no more study than they has
parenthooo, secure that RIGHT fe1i,,p
and good will would insure an u,,I,,''ib
happy result? In spite of the nm, -
Observation-Disclosures with which thn W.
sponsibility is usually assumed az,
not an easy thing to be Il pnrcpt y
fill this profession into which mon ar5
women rush without q titho of ~.
thought ana preparation they ,ro,,is
bestow upon n calling of infinitely lcs'
Importance. To take charge OF hi
bodily welfare Of n little child is 81
such triiling mater that needless HI
with no knowledge Of life forces A.
hygiene, of dictetics on OF ordinary San.
itation should assume II as lichuv m.
she would the care of new DOH Mo-
perilous even than this are the issneg
involved in the drill of child i'm hall
its of obedience by "A woman without
self discipline, In self control bV a Az,
man who does not know herself Ia
knowledge by ono who Is herself n,
infant in her perception of all Tin,
underlies life and death. mortality ;u,i
Immortality ,--Christino Terhune Uee.
rick In the May Woman's Home Com.
panion.
Mr.. Carnegie There is Andrew Chr.
Knows He Is negie. He has courage.
Not Popular. No one could confer his
name SO freely on III,
world without a large equipment az
courage. But. although as well known
as Lydia Iinkham, Andrew IS not as
popular. He wonders at the fact
though It dismays him not. IN the face
of gibes and insults he continues 10
decorate his enormous benefaction.
with his splendid name. His fathom.
less emporium of philanthropy con-
tinues to pour cut its contents Of A.
braliee, hospitals, and schools, all dis
tinctly marked. Andrew wonders be-
cause in the popular demonstration
for him the cheers ara interspersej
with cat-calls and brickbats. He has
read classical history (Bohn) and
knows that Aristides was run out OF
town because people wero tired Of
hearing him called "the just" But Il
Aristides had gone around calling him
the Just" would the Anthenians have
banished him? Indeed they wouldn't
They would have held him down on the
ground and pumped the hemlock dis.
tillery into him. "It pays to advertise
Is a motto which. as an unsetish friend
of literature, / would like to see i'm.
printed on the brain OF every man. BG'
the motto is incomplete. 1t should be-
at paws to advertise something YOU
have TO sell" 1t doesn't pay to adj
vertise what you give away. Their
is too much fun in giving. Human ma
ture won't permit it to be twice en-
joyed.-"The Interpreter" In the MAY
American Magazine.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

For the people of this city to vote
for an issue Of $1,000 900 worth of bonds
FOR improvements" on the information
vouchsavcd them as 10 the condition
of the city finances, would be to take
a leap In the dark
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

doctrine. too. hut they did to the ex-
tent that they agreed that force should
not be used until arbitration had
failed And that means a great adj
vance. There VIII be no lmbroglic on
account of our Monroe doctrine. There
is one reason less FOR the maintain
ance by this country OF a gigantic
navy
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

"Cultivate common sense; II is
good asset" says a contemporary Get
a cultivator. Old Con, and start right
In to increase your assets. You have
a virgin field.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

Though he married her for money, the
death of the Due de Chaunes will
cause the sympathy OF the whole coun-
try go out to the Duchess de Chaulnes,
the daughter OF Mr.. Theodore Shonts'
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

II the United states buys armor
plates for It's battleships cheaper than
any other country buys. why can
not the United states build It's battle
ships cheaper than any other country
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25
old Habits.

Have you some short-cake"
I'VE have. and each piece contains
six gorgcrous unhyaled berries. SIX 30
count them--siN.'
MY man. you We're not always Il
Wailer?'
mo, sir, / used 90 be press agent roe
circus. 49, Kansas city journal
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JUST FOR FUN.


Pie.
"Why do they refer TO government
office as pie?'
Because" answered Senator Sor-
ghum MS something that nearly
everybody likes himself, although he
thinks It's bad for nearly everybody
else Washington star
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

1t il said that DR.. Koch frowned
heavily upon New York's skyscrapers
as he neared the city, How did he
reach a point high enough to frown
down upon them?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

The Panama canal commission ex-
poets soon to open an ice cream fac
tory. Life and labor on the isthmns
will soon be a continuous picnic.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

The New York market is glutted with
Strawberries. And now it may be e&-
pected that the Gothamites will make
gluttons of themselves.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

All roads led to Rome because they
were good roads. Make good roads in
Utah and they will all lead to salt
Lake.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

RcGd--l understand that new auto
mobile of yours goes like the wind
Greene-ThAt's right. Nobody 'Als
tell Just when the wind Is going 10
start or when It Is going 10 stop
Ynnkers statsslQaa
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

The House committee is considering
the I.illoy, and doubtless viii ma
that Solomon in all his glory was not
arraNed like him.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

Inst like the candidate in Plckwick.
Prince Helie de Sagan kissed all the
children.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

There is boy in Texas who says
that he mad rather NOV the front lawn
than 60 fishing. Let no such boy DC
trusted.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

Ii is well to praise the man who does
things provided that the things ne aces
are the right kind.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

Senator Gore says that he regards
the steel trust as the tapeworm OF
the treasury" A steel-tapeworm, OF
course
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

In the California coast towns the
battleship fleet finds that time is Meet
ing as never before.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

Diamond cuts diamond but the dia-
mond trust does not cut prices.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

1t takes a strong. loud voice to talk
through a Merry Widow hat.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

When Greeks meet Albanians then
comes the tug of war,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

Rear Admiral Evans takes mud baths
but he never throws mud.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-17
BANKING REFORMS

A MONG the important results of the
IA Bankers convention was the
"A adoption of the following pro-
visions for recommendation to the state
banking commission:
"F'irst-The governor shall appoint a
state bank comptroller to serve during
good behavior He must have had at
least five years experience previous to
the time of appointment. The state
bank comptroller shall appoint all bank
examiners not to exceed two to each
100 banks or fraction thereof. His sal
airy shall be $10,vYv a year and he shall
have full powers for the necessary sue
cessful administration of his office.
"Second--Loans by bank to all Off
GERS and employees of that bank shall
be absolutely prohibited"
Both resolutions have to do with the
restriction or government of the bank
ing business, and their adoption will
increase confidence in banking methods.
The efforts of bankers to meet public
sentiment with regard to the conduct
of their highly responsible business are
gratifying. 1t is eminently right and
proper that banking reforms should
be originated by the bankers them
selves.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-17
NATIONAL POLITICS

INVITE very little friction and hardly
w a squeak the Taft machine is
carrying out program prepared
long ago, End the people of the United
States are once more demonstrating
their singular aptitude for following
prescribed or suggested course of con-
duct. On February is of this year
Briga6ier General Clarence Edwards,
chief of the insular bureau at WASH
ington, said Secretary Taft would be
nominated at the Republican conven-
ton in June He added that there was
such thoroughly amicable under
standing, ''in spite of the vice presi-
Dental fight that he could announce
confidently Taft was to get 521 votes on
the first ballot. Statistics show Taft
will enter the convention with 407
instructed delegates. No doubt the
others will be picked up by the usual
little arrangements, dickers and pat
ronage deals which characterize the
great quadrennial Republican national
political mart, and General Edwards
prophecy will be fulfilled. With the
nomination assured, Secretary Taft has
plenty Of time in which to arrange his
campaign plans. and to think out, for
the questions which will be asked con-
corning vital social problems, better
answer than God knows" The next
government must go into office prepared
to tide the nation over a crisis which
I, Co
Republican rule the educational level Of
the country has sunk beneath its nor
NAL, and millions of citizens will reach
manhood with only limited knowledge
Of Americanism, with belief that the
country is merely an "industrialism,"
and with a further belief, which will be
encouraged by many agitators and even
a few college professors, that they have
been defrauded of some of the rights
guaranteed to them by the Declaration
of the United States. Many of these
young men, many of the two million
children who according to the latest
available reliable statistics are at work
while still only of school age, will be
susceptible to radical oratory, will
refuse to unite themselves with the old
parties and will seek an advanced party.
Hearst's advisers were shrewd enough
to see this, hence the formation of a
spurious political organization called
the Independence league, which plagi-
arizes some of the principles which will
be adopted later on by an advanced
party, but in reality deceives no.
body. 1t is rst-marked-yellow all
overland even if it make a noise it will
be all sound and fury, signifying moth
ing. The Democratic party, by declar-
ing and reaffirming the first principles
of Americanism, and pledging itself to
put them into effect, has not only an
unequaled opportunity, speaking merely
politically, but it is in the position of
savior of the situation, speaking patri-
otically. If the country would enjoy
prosperity and peace, the party of
conservative reform and of the first
principles of Americanism must be re-
turned to power.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-17
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
DEMOCRATIC NAVY

n FFICERS like Admiral Thomas,
who has virtually ended his active
~ naval career, have had an ex-
perience in the American naval service
which is both unparalleled and odd
These "old timers" who saw active SER
vice during the war of the rebellion,
have lived throughout the decay and
the revival of the navy. They were
with 1t when 1t was one of the most
formidable fighting forces of the world,
when indeed Ericsson, with his Monitor
model, had made it invincible and
given it the mastery of all the seas.
They remained with it when its star
waned and its fortunes were low, when
it seemed impossible to excite either
governmental or popular enthusiasm or
interest in the naval branch of the
the navy when 1t was q stock jest in
the comic papers, and he remembers
the excitement caused by Secretary
Whitney's proposal that the Demo-
cratic administration should signalize
itself by restoring the American navy.
President Cleveland and the cabinet
favored the idea, with few exceptions
the people approved with marked en-
thusiasm, and the Whitney naval pro-
gram was adopted and begun. Pres
tige was added to the Democratic re-
vival of the navy by the publication of
an elaborate expert opinion on the sub
ject in all its aspects, Capt Mahan's
work on Sea Power" in which he
demonstrated convincingly that if the
United States would maintain an hon
ored position among the nations Column
bias flag must be respected on the high
seas. To the national Democracy Ad-
miral Thomas and the other brilliant
and great naval commanders of these
days owe the opportunity for the
careers and achievements which have
made them famous
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-17
SECRETARY WILSON

JAMES WILSON, the farmers states
man, is about to resign from the
~ post of secretary of agriculture.
This sturdy land o. Burns man, one of
the few foreign born citizens who in
the history of the United States have
been invited to hold seats in the cabi-
net, has served eleven years continu-
ously, and is the only member of a
cabinet who has served through four
administrations. Mr.. Wilson is a de-
scendant of many generations of Scot
fish farmers The lore of the most
ancient and honorable of all the occu-
pations was born in him. He worked
quietly, steadily and efficiently. He Is
not a believer in flourishes of trumpets,
and as he was not eligible for the presi-
dency the thought of using his office
in order to further ambition was never
even possible. Clifford Pinchot, United
States forester, will succeed him. Mr..
Pinchot is more of a specialist than Mr..
Wilson, but at critical time in the
arboricultural history of the United
States, when it is recognized by think
ing and understanding people that the
future existence of the nation to a great
extent depends on the conservation and
economical use of the resources which
remain after a half century Of riotous,
spendthrift waste, it is obvious that a
specialist in forestry should have the
power and influence which a cabinet
position commands. Mr.. Pinchot is the
man for the needs of the hour; but 1t
must not be forgotten that Mr. Will
sons work for the United States has
been of incalculable and inestimable
benefit. In some respects 1t is unfor-
tunate, and in others fortunate, for
him that the most important cabinet
officer In The United States should not
have had as much publicity as some
others of less Importance. 1t is often
said that the secretary Of state is the
premier of the United States, but hard
common sense suggests that the real
premier of the greatest agricultural
country In the world, the biggest farm
the world has ever known, is the secre-
tary Of agriculture.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-17
FRIEND OF CHICKENS RAISES
AN OBJECTION TO CATS

LOS ANGELES, May 16-[Editor
Herald: Allow me to suggest for the
benefit of the people raising cats to
destroy mice but destroying neighbors'
chicks instead that this mouse catching
can be done very cheaply and much
more to the point by setting gee
whiz" mouse trap once a week, as 1t
will catch more mice than cat that
prowls around at night. OF course cats
don't howl at any time and cats are
always so we'll fed that they never visit
neighbors and snoop into things. They
who so much adore cats can easily af-
ford to pay the tax, as cats are good
friers when young, good fricassed when
old and fat. OF course they lay eggs
every day when eggs are go cents per
dozen. 1t would be cruel to pen up the
cat but not the chickens.
OF course, during this Republican
prosperity we can afford to buy
chickens and eggs at protective tariff
and trust protected prices, that are
exacted from us because the trust and
tariffs high insuraes at all times the
highest wages, full dinner pail and a
steady job, enabling us to raise cats In
our own back yards instead of chickens.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-17
OF WORLD wilde INTEREST
ASEATTCS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
BY FREDERIC J. HAskIN

repented OF its bargain. Although far
more out of sympathy with British
Columbia than Washington las with
the Pacific coast in It's trouble, the
Canadian government realized that
there were dangers ahead of the new
immigration. Yet 1t dared not say any
thing. Then the British Columbia
legislature passed an exclusion act of
its own. which was vetoed by the OF
tawa authorities. Shortly after came
the outbreak caused by the tangible
danger of being swamped by an allen
race.
Tho outbreak at Vancouver first
started against the Hindus. They are
not alien in nationality, for they are
the kings own subjects. But they are
alien In ways and manners, hopes and
aspirations To the native Canadicn
they are not one whit better than the
coolies of Japan and China. They are
described as the COOLIES of Calcutta
They are the lowest class of Hindus
and friction results wherever they come
in contact with the Canadians.
When the outbreak was over, al
though the Hindus and the Chinese
suffered as much as the Japanese, 1t
was to the japanese government that
regrets were sent, and not much ado
was made over the misfortunes that
had befailen the Chinese and Hindus.
The negotiations that ended recently
have been received with joy by the
natives of British Columbia. But 1t Is
realized that except for the Vancouver
riots such happy solution could not
have been brought about. The Jap
anese government criticised the Wash
ington authorities for not holding the
western anti-Asiatic feeling in check.
but when the Canadian authorities de-
clared that they could not be respon-
sible for future outbreaks unless inn
migration was checked, no word OF
criticism was to be heard.
The people of British Columbia are
without exception glad that there was
similar trouble with the United states.
IThey declare that II 1t had not been
for the opposition Japan experienced
on the Pacific coast of the United
States II is doubtful II they could have
been brought to submit to virtual ex-
clusion. And they say that the best
guarantee that Canada has that Japan
will live up to the agreement is that
she has made the same promises to
the United States.