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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
Edwin Yates Webb
BY SAVOYARO.

But the political forum would not be
denied, and made a requisition on the
bar for young Webb who was elected
to the state senate in 1900 and soon
thereafter he became one of the con-
spicuous leaders of the Democratic
party of the old north state In 1902
he was nominated for congress by the
Democracy of his district and triumph
antly elected in 1904 and 1906
Young Webb is that admirable COM
bination-a sound mind in sound
body, and when aged in years he will
be able to say with the old servitor in
Shakespeare's most delightful comedy:
For i'm my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebelliOus liquors in my blood. 5"
He is a strictly temperate man in all
particulars, and endowed with an adj
mirable judicial temper He is also a
Christian in walk and in talk.
The other day l was sitting i'm the
little vestibule of the north entrance of
the house of representatives waiting
for my friend Ollie James, to whom ]
had sent my card, when ! saw on the
cushioned seat volume from the con-
gressional library-Dumas' Twenty
Years After" l picked it UP and
glanced over pages, yet familiar after
sorbed in them when a fine looking
chap of Is. with big, shapeiy head.
honest big, wide-open. dark gray eyes.
and handsome, intelligent countenance
came up for the book. / asked him if
he was reading il, and he said yes I
asked If he had read THE Three Mus
keteers," of which II is a continuance,
and he again said yes, and then he ex-
pressed regret that he had first of all
read THE Viscomte de Bragelonne,
that is the conclusion.
| then found he had read Guizot's
history, and was familiar with Dumas
entire series of Valois rOmances, ex-
tending as far back as Isabel of Ba-
varia and coming down to and includ
ing THE Forty-five." He had also
read English history and in its light
he had devoured the Waverley novels.
He was prodigy. | was delighted.
and volunteered some poor hints. What
a pity he is not a Kentucky boy in
stead of an Ohio chap. If he lives this
country will hear from that fellow
either in politics or in letters.
Well, our friend Webb is of the same
kidney in another phase-he is devour-
ing all the books he can lay his hands
on that tell the story of American his
tory and contain the teachings of
American public men. That is the way
to make a statesman. There never
was ready-made statesman unless
the man was a prodigious genius, like
Richelieu, or Cromwell. or Bismarck
and even these were all the better for
the knowledge they had got of books.
If | were to make a crop of United
States senators, ! would take set of
bright young fellows. with strong
minds. patriotic instincts-without any
disgusting ram-catism in the patriot
ism-honest purposes and robust.
healthy and prolific imaginations.
would have them read Plutarch and
Gibdon assuming that they had read
Livy and the Bible in earlier youth.
would then give them Hume and Gui-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
GAMBLING LOSS RECOVERED.

On the advice of his attorneys a Chi
cago grain broker the other day paid
to the officials of a Wisconsin bank
500 in settlement of a suit for $780,
O00 The action was brought to secure
the return of money lost by the cashier
of the bank in grain speculations
through this broker. The cashier, by
the way, is now serving a term in the
penitentiary This is said to be the
first instance on record in which money
illegally paid out by a bank cashier
has been recovered from broker,
The contention of the bank was that
the payments to the broker were made
| by the cashier in drafts on his own
bank, drawn in his official capacity.
The claim was made that it was the
duty of the broker 10 ascertain wheth-
er or not the cashier was authorized TO
make these payments, inasmuch as
they must have been morally certain
than he could afford to lose. 1t is a
disappointment that there is TO be no
court decision on the matter, for it
would have been interesting and might
have esta blished precedent.
The leaning OF the court may be I'M
derstood, though, from the fact that
every plea set up by the bank in the
| preliminary proceedings was sustained
by Judge Lands. and every objection
and demurrer offered by the defendant
was overruled. Had the case gone TO
trial it is reasonably certain that the
verdict would have been in favor of the
plaintiff, at least as far as Judge Lam
| dis could control it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
HELPING THE PAPER TRUST.

To hear Uncle Joe Cannon tell it,
you'd think he was just aching for a
-hance to annihilate the paper trust
de is reported as saying that if the
|attorney general doesn't show what he
proposes to do in the way of prosecut-
ing the paper combination, he, the
speaker. will have congress start a
rigid investigation on its own account.
He adds a postscript, however, which
uncovers the colored gentleman in the
woodpiIe, when he says he doesn't be-
lieve the tariff on paper or wood pulp
has anything to do with the extortions
of the trust.
Maybe so; but If so, why does the
paper trust insist so on the retention
of the duty; and why did the trust get
the ways and means committee TO
boost the duty on paper just before the
announcement was made that the COM
bination had been formed? Why have
Canadian paper mills been able to sell
they had TO stand a duty of Sc a ton
Cor the. privilege of doing business on
this side of the line?
Possibly the trust would be able to
control the market whether there was
tariff or not; such things have been
done in other Industries. But the news
paper publishers of the country ask for
the removal of the duty as matter
of justice, and because the only chance
of competition and fairness lies in
|opening the market 10 the outside man
ufacturers 1t has been shown that the
duty has been OF no advantage 10 the
labor employed by the trust mills. and
that removes the only excuse advanced
for retaining the tariff at all
When the publishers began their aei-
tation for free paper and pulp. the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
GET THE ENcAMPMENT.

At a meeting of local G. A. r. vet
Grams with the board of governors of
the Commercial club and the conven-
ton committee of that organization, it
was decided on Friday TO put forth
every effort to bring the national G. A.
r. encampment of 1909 TO Salt Lake
/ City. The magnitude of the undertake
ing will be readily recognized by every
citizen, and the benefits Salt Lake will
/ derive from it will be proportionately
| great. Salt Lake cannot win this great
honor without united effort on the part
of all its people. Earnest, concerted
work will be necessary.
| That the encampment will be worth
all it costs goes without saying. For
the honor of entertaining the fast
dwindling ranks of the grand army
that preserved the republic the great
est cities i'm the land have contested.
And they have not gone into it through
any hope of financial returns. The vet
Grams of the army of the north are now
we'll into the afternoon of their lives.
Their faces are turned toward the set
ting sun. and the shadows are closing
about them. At each recurring en-
campment the roll call shows that
thousands have answered the final
muster cali and Joined their comrades
in the country where all is peace.
The privilege of entertaining the sur
vivors is well worth contesting for.
There will not be many more grand
encampments. Indeed, if our recolIec-
ton serves us right, the encampment
of 1903 will be the last of a general
character. After that one is over the
permanent headquarters will, be estab-
lished in Washington, and the annual
meetings will be devoted exclusively to
business. The reasons assigned are
that the veterans are fast growing too
feeble TO take part in parades, to at
tend receptions, to withstand the ia
tigue of travel and the hardships of
more or less indifferent hotel accom-
modations.
If Salt Lake wins this encampment
il will, in all probability, enjoy the dis
tinction of entertaining the last gath
ering of such character. And win il
we can, if the proper effort is put
forth. The natural advantages of Salt
Lake City as a convention town, es-
pecially in August during which month
it is proposed to bring the G. A. r.
here, are too numerous for mention
here. Our railroad facilities are SPLEEN
did. From the uttermost parts of the
country veterans can come to Salt
Lake with less discomfort than would
be involved in much shorter trip And
the problem of hotel accommoda tions
has been solved.
There is no question about our abil-
ity to entertain the veterans comforta-
bly,. The only question is as to wheth-
er or not we want the convention so
badly that we will spend enough money
to get il. The Herald does not antici-
pate any difficulty about that part of
the matter. The price is too great for
US to risk its loss by being niggardly
The committee that is to go to the en-
campment at Toledo this year i'm the
interests of Salt Lake City must be
supplied with funds to make such a
showing that Salt Lake cannot possi-
bIy Lose
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ton down, who does not know that
those negro troops shot up Browns
vile. There is not a white man in the
United States. who knows the least Of
the negro character. who does not
know that the negro troops shot up
Brownsville. If the garrison had been
made up of white soldiers. every white
man and woman of the north would
have applauded the executive order
mastering them out of the army II
there had been shown conspiracy 10
shield the culprits. Congress would
not have paid the slightest attention
TO it. Everybody would have said good
radiance.
But the negro is a ward in polltlcs
and made of better than ordinary clay.
Hence, though the testimony as 10 tne
anthony in the bullets would De con-
elusive to hang any white man
charged with murder. Foraker, 10
shield his bloodthirsty lambs. must as
sumo the absurd and the Impossible 10
maintain their innocence.
When will the sham end? plague
on all cant,
raac w }
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
WOMEN WHO BELIEVE IN PERUNA
Honesty Women Are to eli the T.thAbo
The Value Of heaIth
About Pe-ru-na.

Who can set a money value on
health? 1t is absolutely priceless.
No one in good health can fully
appreciate what it means to have
poor health. The days are long and
tedious, The nights horrible and
painful. Nothing goes right. Even
the mind becomes deranged and in
jured by continued poor health.
Once liberated from the thraldom
of sickness words fail to express
the joy and relief.
Peruna has been the means of re.
lieving more women from i'll health
in the United States than, perhaps,
any other medicine.
A multitude of women stand ready
to give testimony in favor of Peruna
whenever occasion offers.
Dyspepsia Entirely Relieved.
Miss Lille G. Martin, Shelbyville,
Tenn, writes: "Every body says
look better than / have for two or
three years, and L sincerely thank
you for your kind advice.
81 believe your treatment has en-
tirely cured me. l can eat anything
] want. believe your remedies will
cure any case of indigestion or dys'
pepsia."
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! 1t cannot be too often repeated, it
| cannot be too wildly impressed on the
! public mind, that experience is as nee
/ essary 10 the wise legislator as prac-
| tice is to the successful lawyer. Even
a great genius like William l.. Yancey
/ or Clement l. Vallandigham would be
capable of infinitely better public ser
vice after long years of training. l
| saw David b. Hill the other day, and
/ my mind reverted TO the single term
/ he was a senator in congress, and
! though he was there but six years, he
| left the senate the match of any MEM
| Der as a debater, as a parliamentarian
and as an accomplished legislator. We
/ can scarcely imagine what place he
! would have attained had he served as
! long as Frye or CullOm. Where could
f. w. Carmack find a peer after as
many years in the senate as Knute
Nelson or George WetmOre? Ben Hill,
Dave Hill and Ed Carmack. for the
length of time they were in the senate
but seventeen years for the three
made greater names for themselves,
their states, and their party. than any
other three men of my time at this
capital, now nearly thirty years.
The Ninth North Carolina district mas
started out right if it will out keep
it up. Its representative is a young
Joseph G. Cannon, and more native
ability than the present-and for aine
years last past-tituIar Leader of the
house" He is q better lawyer :han
either of those veterans, and far bet
ter popular speaker. He is serving his
third term. though but &c years old. He
is a member of the judiciary commit
tee and stands fair in rank of promo
ton. His political destiny, however, is
i'm the keeping of his constituents. This
is the age of demagOgy, and rotation
in office" is the demagogue'S plea. As
well decline to eat bread today be-
cause the bread was very good yester-
day as to put a capable man out of
congress where he has been faithful
and is rapidly progressing
Edwin Yates Webb was born in west
ern North Carolina i'm May, 1872. His
father was a Baptist preacher who had
married thousands of couples and hap
tized thousands of converts. What a
grand old church it is. 1t believes in
heartfelt religion got at the mourner's
bench: it believes in works as the fruit
of faith: il believes in the Independence
of the congregation and the individual
ity of each separate member: ii be-
lieyes i'm personal liberty. In old Ken
lucky. when | was a boy. the Baptist
church was the citadel of the Demo-
cratic party just as the Methodist
church of Ohio was a Republican aid
society.
Young Webb was carefully prepared
for college and was graduated at the
age of q. He early distinguished him.
self as a debater and orator in the col
Iege society, and was the college cham
pion in oratorical contests. He was
graduated from the law school of the
State university in 1894, and admitted
to the bar of the state supreme court
Immediately thereafter. Later he took
a graduate course at the famous
law school of the University of Vir-
ginia.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

President Roosevelt doesn't know
what a dangerous precedent he has es-
tablished in the case of Colonel Stew
art. Perhaps the next president of the
United States will find occasion to send
General Wood, General Funston or one
of the other Roosevelt nets into exile
And if that should happens, Roosevelt
would emit a roar that could be heard
to the uttermost confines of, the nation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

Mrs. Josephine Hoist. 1872 E. First ST.,
Portland. Ore. Vice President North
eTn Star, writes that she was troubled
seriously with catarrh of the throat,
and had neglected it until il had be-
come chronic. Peruna was called to
her attention. She began using il and
was wonderfully helped in two weeks.
and in a little over two months Peru
ma had successfully rid her system Of
all traces of catarrh.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

Speaker Cannon asked the japanese
things two ways at once that have not
happened in one way at all, so that
the whole business will be fresh for
contradiction the next day" About
about Speaker Cannon that ought TO be
contradicted are those that are COM
plimentary
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
GIVING AN ILLUSTRATION.
Chicago TribuneD

AOllCdGO IGlDuNe-l
Voice lover the Observation-Disclosures
am getting up a special article for one of
the illustrated weekly papers on The Val
ne of the Comparatively Cnimportant q"
Please tell me for instance. one of your
methods Of saving your odds and ends Of
time. by which you are enabled to 90
so much work without having 10 hurry
The ProfessOr-Always emitting that
goodbye" when using the telephone.
Hangs IN receiNerl
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Pe-ru.na Tablets.

For two years DIR. Hartman and his
assistants have labored necessarily to
create Peruna i'm tTablet form, and their
strenuous efforts have just been
crowned with success. People who OBJ
iect to liquid medicines can now secure
Peruna tablets. These tablets represent
the medicinal ingredients of Peruna.
and each tablet is equivalent TO one
average dose.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
PlANosl PIANOS! PIANOS!

One Chickering Grand, one-third off
Three Davenport & Treacys, one-haif
regular price.
Four ClarendOns, One-half regular
price.
Our store closed, but all of these
pianos can be bought at your own
price. Cash or time. Must be sold b.
fore May l.
UTAH-IDAH0 MUSIC CO,
Anthony NJ. Nelson. Manager,
1910 South Fifth East.
Independent phone 1864.
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has been used for YEARS by MILLIONS
of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN
WHILE TEETHING. with PERFECT
SUCCESS. II sOOTHEs the CHILD:
PAIN: CfJREg WIND collie, and is the
best remedy for DIARRHoEA Sold BY
Druggists in every part Of the world. Be
sure and ask for MRS. Winslows Sooth-
ing syrup" and take no other kind.
Twenty five cents a bottle. GUARAN-
TEED UNDER THE FOOD AND DRUG
ACT. JUNE 30. 1906. SERIAL NUMBER
l0Ss
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Head and Throat.
Miss Helen Sauerbier, S15 Main ST.
ST Joseph, Mich, writes:
Last winter l caught a sudden cold
which developed into an unpleasant ca
tarrh Of the head and throat, depTiving
me Of my appetite and usual good
spirits
A friend who had been cured by
Peruna advised me to try il and | sent
for a bottle at once. and ! am glad 10
say that i'm three days the phlegm had
lOosened and | felt better, my appetite
returned and within nine days | was in
my usual good health"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
COLBY CONSIDERABLE.

washington Starr
~ sir remarked the self important
statesman, was never approached with a
proposition of graft in my life.
That fact" answered Senator Sorg-
bum may be a recognition Of your hon
esty and then again il may be a reflec-
ton on your influence"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

Returns from the Oregon senatorial
primary indicate that Senator Fulton
has been defeated. There won't be a
great deal grief over that, either in
or out of Oregon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

Those Coffeyville. Kan. bank robbers
are only petty larcenists For all the
trouble they went to they got just
$4,000. At least that's what the bank
officials say at this time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

and the picturesque feature OF it was
the fact that the president had TO de-
pend upon Hobson, a southern Demo-
crat. to do the talking for his ships.
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Caught Cold Easily.

Caught Easily.
Mrs fIenders Mint street nwauke lis.
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The Aldrich bill is dead. Ye that
have tears to shed will reserve them
for. more suspicious occasion.
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In the Eyes of the Wife

Vienna Bakery Bread is always the
best. Ask your grocer.
McCoy's livery, carriages and light
livery. Both phones 81
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

John Quincy Adams and Stephen A.
Douglas were great statesmen of their
respective eras. Oliver P. Morton was
another, and these men appear to have
read little that was not American.
doubt if Joseph G. Cannon ever read
the story of Joseph Andrews as related
by Henry Fielding, or the Sentimental
Journey" as composed by Laurence
Sterne, but if he were as familiar with
all literature as Cabot Lodge or David
Turpin he would be even the better
able to make the budget of a $4,000, 000
900 congress.
l am glad that Ed Webb is reading
American history and furnishing his
library with the best American books.
He captivated congress a year ago
when he delivered that eloquent speech
on the battle of Kings mountain that
served numerous newspaper writer's
theme for editorial. The bill passed
both houses of congress, and the mo-
nument to the heroes of that brilliant
victory is soon to be inaugurated on
that historic field. II was an eloquent
speech and all that could be desired in
the composition. 1t was the flower of
a career that gave promise of the rich
est harvest in the fructification. When
| was boy my old friend and monitor,
David Philpott, used to remind me that
every man was a - fool till he was
40. | think he would say that there is
an exception if he could come down
from heaven and witness Edwin Yates
Webbs career in the American con-
gresS.
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cot. Robertson and Motley and Pres
colt. Then | would set them down TO
Walter Scott and the elder Dumas
Later / would finish them off on the
political writings of Boilingbroke. Tom
Paine Edmund Burke, Thomas Jeffer-
son, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel j.
Tilden and Goodriches British Flo
quence" A man who has mastered
these is tolerably fit for senator; but
there are hundreds of other authors he
ought to know, especially Shakespeare.
Balzac and Victor Hugo. he should
devour a great newspaper every morn
ing. and every evening another.
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The Republican party was born OF
the negro. and when poetic justice gets
a Whack at il the G. o. p. viii die of
the negro For more than two score
years this town, the capital of the re
public. has been the city of refuge of
every vagabond negro in the land, and
the negro race contributes One-third of
the population and nine-tenths of the
police court litigation. There is con-
slant reign of terror in the aristocratic
northwest section due TO highway rob-
berries and brutal assaults of unattend-
ed females on the streets after dark,
perpetrated by ruffian negroes. OF
course such condition is the eatural
sequence of the preachments. of thOS\
statesmen hilanthropists who come
down from New England with revela-
lions for mankind-if l may steal Ed
Carmack's happiest sarcasm.
Mr.. Webb is attempting to abate this
intolerable condition. and TO that end
has introduced a vagrancy law that, If
enacted, will put every worthless hobo
to work on public works, or rid this
town of his presence. OF course, it will
not pass. The G. o. P. will need negro
troops in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, New
York. New Jersey and Delaware next
fall. Pampered in forty years of ward
ship. the negro is become sensitive and
fasfidious. His vote is a luxury-at the
north-and the Republicans, just now,
are not going to ruffle his plumage.
As. for instance, President Roose-
velt's surrender in the Brownsville
case. There is not a negro in the
United State>- from Booker Washing
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WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE.
THE METALS.

Silver, DISC per ounce
Copper (cathodesl. u l1-l6c per mound.