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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23
AGAINST CONCEALED WEAPONS.

A committee of the Chicago city coun-
ell is considering three measures that
strike at the pernicious concealed dead
" weapon. One of the ordinances re-
ouires the city custodian, at least twice
a wear. to dump all the weapons col
Iected bv the police in the course of
their duties into Lake Michigan, at
least FIVE miles from shore. The sec
opd ordinance requires dealers in
weapons to pay licenses of s50,.a year
each. Also purchasers and owners OF
weapons. must secure a license to buy
or own them. This license does not per-
nit the person to whom it is issued to
carry the weapon purchased.
In applying for the license, the ap-
plicant must give his name. residence
age the nature of his business, the pur-
nose for which the weapon is intended
if purchased or borrowed. the date and
the firm or person from whom pur-
chased or borrowed, and an agreement
not 70 loan same. The third ordinance
forbids all individuals except sheriffs'
nolicemen. .constables and coroners to
carry a concealed weapon. 1t is diff
fcult 10 understand why coroners are
exemnted. but that is of little fmpor-
lance.
The ordinances bar as weapons pis-
tolls. bowie knives. metal knuckles, re-
volvers. dirks. derringers- and slung-
shots. 1t is believed. and with some
reason. that the enactment of these or
dinances will have the effect of de-
creasing crime in Chicago. The expe-
rience of the police there. as in other
cities. has been that the concealed wea-
pom is responsible for the greater
part of the crimes of violence. The
committee has agreed to report the
measures favorably. and their passage
is regarded as reasonably certain.
The most valuable feature of the pro-
posed laws is that they will make it
very hard for persons OF bad character
to secure weapons. Minus his deadly
revolver. the average thug is compare
POooNCItOii
the weapon that gives him courage to
go out for the purpose of committing
robbery. and. if need be. murder. De-
prive him of the weapon. and you prac-
tically drive him out of criminal life.
During the course of year, the police
of Chicago gather hundreds of deadly
weapons. The names of the persons
from whom they are taken should be
placed upon the black list, and copies
of the list furnished to the weapon IL
esnse clerks and to every dealer in
weapons. with strict injunctions to is
sue no licenses or sell any weapons to
those individuals.
In view of the difficulty Salt Lake has
experienced in the matter of convict
ing and Furnishing persons found with
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thing-and it's best to have "a reputa-
ton for earnestness and application.
And yet-evarlasting solemnity is al
most as bad as continual hilarity.
man may be forever glum and
amoIant to something-but he won't
amount to as much as he might.
He comes too close TO being in the
same class with machinery-it's not
wholesome for any man 10 be in that
class.
And now little summing up-read
closely.
Don't think that when you pass the
average in Observation-Disclosures your
work-you are benefiting some one else
exclusively.
For you're not-you're benefiting
yourself smOst. Time will prove il.
If you're doing the best you know; If
your best is better than same one else
at the same pay-be glad of IT,.
If you can get up in the morning
rested and refreshed. and go to work
with a clear mind and singing heart
be glad of it,
II you have gotten the knack Of put
ting yourself in your work, so that
whatever you do is an expression of you
at your NOTES.-The glad OF it.
For thus you prove that you like 10
work-that you feel the joy of working
and there are good things in the flu
ture for you.
\ Copyright 1905 by Harman Stewart.
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ing work never made anybody feel
good.
And if. in Sinking or soldering ore
feels that he's getting square-pity his
hardness of soul and dimness of Wis
ionl
There's only one man in the world
everybody else is pigmy.
He's the chap who does because he
wants TO; who~-realizes that his fu-
ture depends on him; who knows that
he's going 10 be exactly what he de-
serves TO be.
He understands that to get good pay
he must give good work: he would feel
that he was stealing if he rendered less
than the best that was in him.
You never hear him talk of hardheart-
edness on the part of anybody; he new
er complains of bad treatment; he never
has a grievance of any kind.
He feels the JOY of working-and
shows it in all that he does.
It's in the straightforwardness of his
glance. the set of his shoulders and the
swing of his gait as he goes to and
from office or shop.
work.
He's the man with ambition; the mar
who gets there
Luck is an absent quantity as be-
tween man and man. 1t can have nc
part in the deciding for or against al
Individual
Merit weighs heaviest on sthe scales
that every worker stands on.
You've heard of men measuring up
Did you ever hear of measuring
DOWN."
A great many men do measure dowr
they shrink and shrivel in value,
while a few of their fellows are grow
ing bigger by energetic, thoughtful
work, and constantly increasing in
value.
Every man who measures up at al
knows the Joy of working.
1t is tangible joy-and II brings
definite results
1t is not a temporary joy-has no con-
neetion with the kind of joy that is
bought by the mug or glass.
The kind you buy is a positive pre-
ventive of the other kind.
Anyway. hilarity isn't often genuine
joy, even when it's the hilarity thai
doesn't come by the mug or glass.
JOY is deep-down in the heart-ano
it usually has quiet forms of express
sion.
Not that a hearty laugh isn't a good
thing, for it is-better than medicine
sometimes.
But there can be too much of a good
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Cannon had he succeeded John A. Lo-
gan or John NJ. Palmer in the senate.
The house of representatives. a stormy
body, where politics is something like
a football match, is the place for
James assn is for Cannon. for GrOsve~
nor. for Champ Clark. if you please.
Those old fathers of ours intended 70
give the house the relative Importance
under the constitution of the United
States that the commons has under the
British constitution: but the thing did
not work, and while il is considered a
misfortune to be transferred from the
commons to the peers in England, with
US il is regarded as a promotion to be
sent from the house to the senate.
1t did Joe Blackburn positive harm
to go to the senate, though with Beck
it was different, as il was different
with Carmack, AMI will be different
with John Sharp Williams. But Ollie
James place is the house Of repre-
sentatives. He is born parliament
tartan, and experience will make of
him an accomplished and able legisla-
tor. In a rough and tumble colloquy
he is already very dangerous antag-
onist, employing the tactics that made
him so formidable an advocate at the
bar and pursuing the methods that
made him so powerful on the stump.
James is the most trusted adviser, as
he is the most enthusiastic follower, of
William j. Bryan in all Kentucky. If
Bryan should be elected president this
year James will be the happiest man
on the continent. He religiously be-
lieves that Bryan's speech at Chicago
was in all and every respect the great
est Grafton that ever fell from the lips
of mortal man, AID he it was who
grabbed the banner Of the Kentucky
delegation and made a, progress round
the hall that did much to keep alive
the enthusiasm until the nomination
was made. He is now a stronger adj
vocate of Bryan's nomination than ever
before, and when Bryan shall have been
defeated next November, as he is GER
tain to be, he will not be half as mis-
cradle as Ollie will be-
Mr.. Bryan has a wonderful hold on
his party, and if he was gifted with the
wisdom of a Jefferson or a Tilden ne
would be very great man indeed; but
he is brilliant without sagacity, elo-
quent without logic. On the stump he
would dwarf Ollie James: in the trial
of cause at common law before a
learned and impartial judge and an in
teiligent and unbiased jury, Ollie would
make a monkey of him. There is Moth
ing SOllu III Bryan utteranceS. he al
lures, but never convinces.
Ollie James is, perhaps, the most
popular man personally in congress
His associates of both parties know
that all the money in the treasury
could not buy him to cast a corrupt
vote, and that sort of character gives
man a place of immense vantage in
that council. He is good-natured and
kind-hearted, a great big boy at heart.
disingenuous and confiding, and yet
with big brain that can think.
His place is the house of representa-
tives. He ought to remain in that body
the rest of his natural life. He will
some day be speaker, and the congress
of which he shall be speaker. if ever,
will have true man for it's head
Copyright, 1908, by z. w. Newman
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23
The Joy Of Working

Here's to the man-whoever he is
who says, 4 like to work
And here's to him again-and again
if he proves it by the way he works
whoever he isl said From rail
road president to water boy on a con-
struction gang: from head of a bust
ness to the lowest in ranks; whether he
soils his hands or doesn't. Just so he
likes to work
Why doesn't everybody like to work ?
Somebody viii answer that by saying
and he'll be somebody far down in the
ranke, and sure to stay there
wouldn't have to work if there was a
square deal" - H
Who do you want to change places
with?
Listen, young man-its safe to say
you're a young man: Considering the
fact that you're far down in the ranks,
and sure to stay there Cfor you wouldn [
talk like that if you expected to go
higher)-what and where would you be
if you didn't have to work?
It's more than likely-but let's drop
that. The idle without ideals-and no.
body with ideals is ever idle-don't fur
nish food for elevating thought.
IT like to work say it over to your
self a few times.
How do you feel now?
A little taller, don't you? And big
ger around the chest. And your blood
runs faster? And you're glad? You
don't know just why, but you're glad?
1 know-because you're growing into
that perfect stature" that an old book
tells about.
This isn't cant-nor sanctimony. 1
hate both.
You can have your own ideas on the
general order of things. but you've got
TO agree with me-if you think i'm a
straight line-on this: Mans mission is
to work, and the better he works the
nearer he fulfills his mission
How can he work well if he doesn't
like to work-if he finds no joy i'm work
ing?
Say: The happiest Saturday after
moons of my boyhOod were those that
followed mornings in which l did every
one of the little jobs my father told me
to do-and did every one well.
Playing hockey isn't real fun: shirk
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cosI OF STOCK GAMBLING.

Assemblyman Wagner has introduced
in the New York state legislature q
bill having FOR it's object the proven
ton Of gambling on margins in Wal
street. The measure makes it punish
able offense to sell stocks short or Il
buy them on margins. 1t is understood
that Wagner's fellow assemblymen look
with much favor upon his BILL The
chances for it's passage are regarded as
favorable. though some strong oppose
ton from the wall street interests is
regarded as inevitable.
In support of his bill, Mr.. Wagner
submits a schedule showing the cost Of
gambling in Wall street He shows
that hundreds of cells in the New York
prisons haves been filed by men who
had the Wall street temptation not ex-
isted, might today be living clean
lives and enjoying the respect Of Their
associates. He shows. too. that hum
dreds Of men have gone to dishonored
graves, killed by worry over their own
nisdeeds or more directly by one of the
various methods employed by suicides
for shutting off the mortal coil
The cost in dollars is less important,
but it is interesting. During the last
twenty-five years, according to the
Wagner figures, the vast sum of more
than a billion of dollars has been stolen
by trusted employees and squandered in
Wall street. The itemized statement
shows thefts ranging in amount from
$4,000 to $4,OOO,OOO. The names include
those of one-time prominent bank
presidents, cashiers. tellers, trusted
bookkeepers, brokers. clerks in brok-
ers' offices. administrators and trustees
of estates and. indeed, men in every po-
sition in which access TO large sums OF
money was possible.
The annual total jumped from $4,000,
600 in 1884 to SAL, $4,000 in 1907. The
wear 1908 has started off as though II
would set the high mark of last year
far TO the rear. And in these figures no
account is taken of the millions lost by
those who had the money to lose. There
is no wav by which the total can be
checked accurately. The figures set
down are cases in which prosecutions
resulted. How many cases were COM
promised. how many hushed up, now
many private fortunes were swept
away. nobody can say with certainty
But any man who reads can gather
the conclusion that here is a great evii
that should be eradicated. 1t should not
be regarded as any more respectable TO
gamble in margins on Wall street tnan
to gamble at roulette wheel or faro
layout OF the two evils. in fact the
unadorned, unvarnished gambling
house is preferable if for no other rea-
son than that thea men who frequent
such places rarely have as easy access
to large amounts of money as the men
who gamble in Wall street. And the
play in the plain gambling house Is
much less in volume as a consequence.
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DEFENDING THE NAVY.

The report of Admiral Converse on
the fighting ships of the navy is I'M
doubleday the best defense of that arm
of the national defense that has yet
been put forward. Admiral Converse
frankly admits that the ships contain
some defects, but he contends that as a
whole the fleet is not inferior to the
fleets of other nations. On the con-
trary, he is of the opinion that. ship
for ship, gun for gun. and man for man,
IL is better than any of the others.
Without mentioning names. the admi-
raj takes. up the criticisms offered by
Mr.. Reuterdahl and others. He shows
that some Of them are unjust and that
efforts are being made to remedy con-
ditions that are obviously bad. Among
the latter are devices to prevent the
bareback" danger and the ignition of
powder grains in turrets. Ships of the
Indiana and Kearsarge classes are ac-
knowledged to be too low forward for
efficient service in heavy sea. but this
defect does not apply to the other ves-
sells.
There have been many criticisms of
Mr.. Reuterdahl for his article in Nc
Clure's on THE Needs of Our Navy"
Some writer's have even gone so far
as to deBounee him as a traitor to his
country, because he exposed weak spots
in the country's defense. But in our
opinion Mr.. ReuterdahI performed a
public service of exceptional value.
There were no war clouds in sight when
his article was written. The time was
one of profound peace. And that was
the time to call attention to the weak
nesses. If any existed, in our fighting
forces.
The article has already had good
effect. 1t has stirred up a vast deal of
interest in the navy. an interest that
has been helped considerably by the
voyage of the big fleet from Atlantic to
Pacific waters. The result of the inter
est and the attendant discussion of the
navy's needs cannot fail to have a BEN
eficisI effect. The fighting ships will
be strengthened where they most need
strengthening. they will be put in such
shape that they can give the best pos
sible account of themselves when the
need arises.
We are told that the irst-class bat
tleship of ten years ago is an obsolete
fighting machine today. The Herald
sincerely hopes that the magnificent fleet
under command of Admiral Evans, now
steaming UP the South American coast
toward Magdalena bay, will be utterly
and entirely obsolete before the need
for its services in war arises. More,
we hope that many fleets will be built
and become obsolete in their turn be-
fore this nation becomes involved in a
war
At the same time. though, 1t is well
to, be prepared; it is well to have our
lighting machines brought up to the lat
est minute. No nation should be per-
miued to stay ahead Of us, for pre-
paredness for war is the best possible
guarantee of peace.
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has also grown in mental stature and
in the affections of the people until ne
is today much the most imposing figure
in his own party, the most influential
private citizen in america. And that
ceded in advance and welcomed as a
harbinger of victory.
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concealed weapons in their possession,
the attention OF the city council is re-
spectfuIly directed to the Chicago ordi-
nances. They seem to point the way
out Of our dilemma. Just now it is as
safe for a man to carry a pistol in Salt
Lake. as far as punishment at the
hands of the law is concerned, as it is
to carry a toothpick.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23

The present governor of Kentucky is
a Republican, chosen by $4,000 major
ity, due to the impression made on the
minds of some $4,000 Kentucky Demo
Gratis that there was a machine al
Frankfort that was governing thesstate
as though it was a satrapy. Conven-
tons convened to ratify the will of the
machine Primary elections were held
to fetch in majorities for nominees al
ready chosen. Frank Hatton said Ken
lucky would go Republican when hell
went Methodist. Kentucky has gone
Republican, all right.
There are two men who can save
Kentucky to the Democracy and keep
her in line. One is Ollie James of the
First district, and the other is Ben
johnson of the Fourth district. Neither
of them has ever been mixed up in the
quarrels and faction hates of the past
dozen years. Neither is in any sense a
boss,
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Still. the lottery swindler who has
been sentenced in Germany to prison
for terms aggregating 1,461 years, need
not despair. Under. our system of good
time allowance he can cut that SEN
tence down to only about 97S years.
And think of the fun he'll have when
he comes out looking over the changes
that have taken place since he went in.
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1t develops that the Illinois endorse
ment Of "Uncle Joe" Cannon is intend
ed for ornament, not for use. The real
sentiment in Illinois is reported as be-
ing all for Taft But nobody seriously
expects Uncle Joe" to figure as a real
candidate before the Chicago conven-
ton
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The Nebraska State Journal declares
that if George Washington were on
earth ne would be for Taft. 1t is barely
possible that there may be as many as
two opinions on that point, and one may
be regarded as just as reliable as the
other
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London proposes to have tram cars
for the use of women only during GER
tain of the rush hours. Fine, but how
the women who are hanging to straps
will glare at those who are seated.
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or course. Chicago had to hog the
biggest blizzard of the season. Every
thing is biggest in Chicago. And we
presume some thousands of men will
be kept on the big towns payroll for
the next three or four years cleaning
away the snow from the latest storm.
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If he lives, James will likely hold a
seat in congress as long as Joseph G..
Cannon, and it is a good bet that he
will some day be speaker. Repeated
attempts have been made to induce
him to seek the Office of governor, and
had ne been the nominee last year the
majority-10,000 more than 1900
would have been on the Democratic
side of the account. 1t is likely. too.
that James will some day be senator
If he wants 1t. But that would be a
mistake, just as it might, and probably
would, have been fatal to joseph G..
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We are authorized TO deny the re-
port that Senator Smoot has selected
Colonel Matthew Daugherty as one Of
the delegates at large from Utah to the
Chicago convention.
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First thing that weather man of ours
knows, somebody will be starting a
popular subscription to buy him a
handsome medal.
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President Roosevelt is quoted as say
ing that he will not accept New York
senatorship at the close of his term.
He wants to take a rest. Well, the
country is willing to grant him as long
a vacation as he may desire, and then
a few years longer.
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1t viii, of course. be great surprise
to Senator smoot to learn that there
are few Republicans in Utah that do
not like him.
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Just as a precautionary mea sure,
you might hide the family Ratchet to-
day II you i.ave any trees you prize.
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Copyright, 1905 by f. W. Newman