Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-15
From The battle-ground Of Thought.

IOIn n uS 3
uoucsty or our country just now IL ,
Dlshonesty passing through n period |
In Offices. OF great financial str1n-
gency The securities rep
resenting It's properties are seiiing u.
Drices that range from 30 to 80 per
cent lower than were obtained lot
them one year ago. The money peeded
to keen business going Is harder 10
get today than was any sum, however
great for the extension ana deVelop-
mont OF DusinesB one year ago. ana tne
questions. What is the natter How
has this come about7 Who is RESPONSE
ble? arc on everybodys tongue. Inc
answers that are 80 generously pro
vided seem 10 me very vice OF the
mark Usually they involve grave re-
Elections upon corporate mahaBeineii..
and usually they come from eiaAs OF
people who arc particularly glib with
their tongue or ready with their pen
and who seem to have no other quail
ncation for throwing light upon SO
grave q problem. III am 10 Judge py
what my eyes have seen. II ID the I'M
assailnhie truth that almost any one
Of the man who stand at the head or
o,,r great business institutions is Tar
more competent to run the government
and would run it more economically.
more wisely, and moro honestly than
nny OF those who are In the business OF
running governments. For the purpose
OF this comparison incompetency and
dishonesty need not be separated. Put-
ting them together II is my deliberate
estimate that. judged BY the highest
standards prevailing IN the best con-
Quoted corporations, there - less than
10 per cent of both among men In the
management of corporations generaiiy
and at least 30 per cent of both among
m a. = ps11 a s.
innate upon my experiences as a pup
lie ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS w Sells. presi-
dent OF the American Association OF
Public Accountants.
How the Panic "Yes. sir, befure
VIII Afect tn winters over
NfiIlionaires expict TO see our
frinds TIL plutnS-
Gratis in very bad way Tn saint
Vincent de Paul Socity will sind rip
risintatives to visit tn homes on tn
Lake Shore Dhrive an investigate
their condition an recite tn number,
Nv childher liyin' In thin, IL amy. TIL
ligislachure will appint commission
that will report nve or SIX years
hence: u. d. R.-Sixty-five years iv
age; married; large family also mar
ried: capable hard worlSin' millyoneire;
has had on'y half time ut his thrade
| since last year; a very sad case. X. Y.
years old. Has completely lost control
| lv both Nv his railroads. Family Obliged
| to 20 to Monty Carlo FIR tn winter.
| Very courageous in tn face " adver-
| sity. Says ivry man shud do his part
| in this moment iv naytjonal disaster
| an eight autymobills is enough durin'
| peeryod Nv rethrenchmint. House i'll
| shocking condition. Elicthric ilivator
| broken. Ball room not busted. Cham
| payne corked. This Is a very worthy
| case. Advise tn state threasury TO
| advance him twinty millyon dollars "a
| measure Nv tlmpry relief. Mr..
Dooley in The American Magazine.
| American Girl The American girl
| An Enigma won't marry unless
| But Charming. she feels like it"
| She has refused
| young men of title and fortune over
| whom English matrons have been
| hopefully hutkering for years. She
| has accepted goOdfor- nothings, West
| tern observation-disclosures very accent make
| the same English matrons shudder.
| She is an enigma, the American girl;
| a sphinx and hence her fascination.
You can't fancy what a relief 1t is.
| one OF the young English noblemen
| said to me, ito be with the American
| girl and TO know that she has not set
| her cap" Granted! The breezy west
| ern amazon has at least charm of the
| unexpected. Yet 1t remains no less
| true that the Englishman of family
| above all. the Englishmen with IT,
| tle-eXercises over her an irresistible
+, power. AS illustration of this we re-
! member but short time ago-in coro-
| nation year-an advertisement which
| appeared in the London papers: "A
| title and place at the coronation
! ceremonies offered to an American wo-
/ man who viii assume Indebtedness
| of Irish marquis" Perhaps In this
| jubiles year the demands were es-
| pecially pressing for this sort of mar
| riage However, a certain Wellesley
college graduate answered the adver-
| tisement, paid the outstanding debts
for the Marquis of D., which were
| heavy, married the peer, aged so, and
In serenity to remain happy noble
woman."-Mrs. John Van Worst in
Ainslee's.
! The Saloon, The American saloon Is
Its Power a relic OF frontier days
| And Effects. an institution the like OF
which exists In no other
country on the earth. Why does 1t ex-
list? To furnish at retail commodity
dangerous at best; to extend, and to
keep on extending, the sales OF brew
ers and dlstillers. 1t prospers best
when II can make two drunkards grow
where but one grew before. How has
Ii protected itself in this policy? BY
gathering together all that is venal in
politics. by acting as connecting link
in our singular American alliance be-