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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-10-21
RESOLUTION.

Proposing an Amendment to Sec
ton g Article XI of the Con-
stitution Relating to Counties,
Cities and Towns, for the Pur-
pose Of Prescribing Manner of
Creating New Counties and
Changing Boundaries.
Be it Resolved and Enacted by
the Legislature of the State of
Utah:
Section l. The following
proposition to amend the Consti-
tuition of the State of Utah is
hereby submitted to the qualified
electors of the State for their APP
proval or disapproval, namely
That Section 3, of Article ri of
the Constitution of the State
of Utah be, and the same
is hereby amended to read
as follows:
"Section 3. The Legislature
shall have power to enact laws
creating new counties out Of ter
ritory taken from one or more
of the existing counties of this
State, and defining the duties and
obligations of any such new coun-
ty, as between itself and any
county from which territory is
taken in its creation. Also to
enact laws changing the boundar-
les of any county.
Section 2. The Secretary of
State is hereby ordered to cause
this proposition to be published
in at least one newspaper in ev-
cry county of the State where a
newspaper is published, for two
months Immediately preceding
the next general election.
Section 3. This proposition
shall be submitted to the electors
of this State at the next general
election for their approval, or
disapproval: All official ballots
used at such election shall have
printed or written thereon the
words: "For the amendment of
Section 3, Article XI of the Con-
stitution," and Against the
Amendment of Section 3, Article
NJ of the Constitution" together
with such other title designating
such amendment as may be pro-
vided by law, Said ballots shall
be received, and said votes shall
be taken, counted, canvassed and
returns thereof be made in the
same manner and in all respects
as is provided by law in the case
of the election Of State officers.
Section 4. This amendment, il
adopted at said election, shall
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-10-21

Be it Resolved and Enacted by
the Legislature of the State of
Utah, Two-Thirds of the Mem.
bers Thereof Concurring
Therein:
Section l. That the following
proposition to amend the Consti.
tuition of the State of Utah is
hereby submitted to the qualified
electors of the State for their ap-
proval or disapproval, namely:
That Section 4, Article 13 of
the Constitution of Utah be, and
the same is hereby amended to
read as follows:
Section 4. All mines and min
ing claims, both placer and rock
in place, containing or bearing
Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Coal
or other Valuable mineral depos-
its, after purchase thereof from
the United States, shall be taxed
at the price paid the United
States therefor, unless the sur
face ground, or some part there
of, of such mine or claim, is used
for other than mining purposes,
and has a separate and independ-
ent value for such other purpos-
es; in which case said surface
ground, or any part thereof, so
used for other than mining pur-
poses, shall be taxed at its value
for such other purposes as
provided by law: and all
the machinery used in mining,
and all property and surface i'm
provements upon or appurtenant
to mines and mining claims,
which have value separate ana
independent Of all such mines or
mining claims, and the net annual
proceeds of all mines and mining
claims, shall be taxed by the
State Board Of Equalization.
Section 2. The Secretary of
State is hereby ordered to give
this proposition to be published
in at least one newspaper in ev-
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RESOLUTION

Proposing an Amendment to
Section 8, Article XII, Of the
Constitution Relating to
Counties, Cities and Towns.
For the Purpose Of Prescrib-
ing Manner Of Creating
New Counties And Chang.
ing Boundaries.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-10-21
A RESOLUTION

Proposing an Amendment to Sec
ton Z of Article XIII of the
Constitution of the State of
Utah, Relating to the Rate of
Taxation.
Be it Resolved and Enacted by
the Legislature Of the State of
Utah:
Section l. That it is proposed
to amend Section Z Of Article
XIII Of the Constitution of the
State Of Utah so that the same
will read as follows:
7. The rate of State taxtion
on property for State purpos-
es shall never exceed eight mills
on each dollar Of valuation; four
and one half mills on each dollar
of valuation for general state
purposes; three mills on each
dollar Of valuation for district
school purposes; one half mill on
each dollar of valuation for high
school purposes; and whenever
the taxable property within the
State shall amount to Four Hun
dred Million Dollars, the rate
shall never thereafter exceed five
mills on each dollar of valuation;
unless proposition to increase
such rate, specifying the rate pro-
posed and the time during which
the same shall be levied, be first
submitted to vote Of such quail
fled electors as shall have paid a
property tax assessed to them
within the State in the year next
preceding such election and the
majority of those voting thereon
shall vote in favor thereof in such
manner as may be provided by
law.
Section 2. The Secretary of
State is directed to submit this
proposed amendment to the cleo
tors Of the State at the next gen
raj election, in the manner pro-
vided by law.
Section 3. If adopted by the
electors Of the State, this amend
ment shall take effect January
1st, 1909.
STATE OF UTAH..
Office of the Secretary )ss.
of State. }
I, CHARLES S. TINGEY, Sc
cretary of State of the State
of Utah, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a full, true
and correct copy of a Resolution
proposing an Amendment to Sec
ton of Article XIII of the Con-
stitution of the State of Utah,
relating to the rate of taxation,
passed at the seventh regular SEES
sion of the Legislature of this
State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, 4
l have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Great Seal of the
State of Utah, at Salt Lake City,
this 24th day of August, 1908.
(SEAL) c. S. TINGEY,
Secretary of State.
-
1t soothes, refreshes, strength
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-10-21

It's like summer breeze
cools, refreshes and builds up
your wasting energies. Hollis
ter's Rocky Mountain Tea is the
most effective summer tonic. 80
cents, Tea or Tablets. Ritter Bros.
Drug Co.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-10-21

1t soothes, refreshes, strength
ems and purifes the stomach, bow
els and kidneys, A tonic that pre-
vents summer troubles. Such is
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
30 cents, Tea q, Tablets. Ritter
Bros. Drug Co
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-10-21

All Japanse Silk Shirt Waists at One-fiaIf off
One Lot Ladies' Skirts at One-Haf Price
One Lot Ladies' Suits at Five Dollars
One Lot Children's White Aprons One-fialf off
New Line Quilts and Blankets at 10 per cent off
Big Line of Cushion Tops, at 25c. soc. and 75c.
Ladies' bingham and White Aprons 10 per cent dis.
All Hosiery at Ten per cent Discount
White Metal Tea and Tablespoons I5c. per set
All Ghildrens Coats at IS per cent discount
All Dress Goods at fifteen per cent discount
All Table Linens at IS per cent discount
All AlIover Lace Wastings IS per cent discount
Bargains in Towels and Ribbons
Twelve and I-2 and IS Cent Outings at cents
Ladies' Flannel Underskirts at 20 per cent dis.
Wool Toques Fifteen Per Discount
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-10-21

l have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Great Seal of the
State of Utah, at Salt Lake City,
this 24th day of August, 1908.
(SEAL) c. S. TINGEY,
Secretary of State.
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susgested Rules for Olympic Games,

To THE EDITOR OF THR SUN-Sir. To
avoid In the future the possibility Of pro-
tests in Olympic games the rules under which
they are conducted should be revised so as
to be clear. explicit and final In every respect.
As a form for such revision / submit a few
specimen rules:
1. DRAWING FOR HEATS: In all events wherein
two or more nationallues are represented no draw
shall stand whereby an unequal Humber Of COM
petitors from any nation shall be drawn.
Exception: When Americans compete with Eng
lishmen the latter shall arrange the drawing for
heats 20 as 70 include the three best Americans
In one heat. and the three best Englishmen In three
different heats. II this exception does not result
In placing three Englishmen and one or no Amert-
can In the nnai q sunncient number OF Americans
shall be disqualified to produce such result.
2. PoLx VAULT. A competitor may prepare .
hole or cup to receive the point of his pole, and at
his request the soil opposite the takeoi must DO
loosened.
Exception; When an American completes with
an Englishman said American shall be required to
place the point Of his pole on the surface Of a door
knob, and the soil opposite the takeon shall be
cemented and strewn with broken glass.
s, BROAD JUMP. The soil must be loosened at
such distance from the takcon rs a competitor may
designate.
Ereephon: When an American completes with
an Englishman the soil shall be hardened and the
American shall be required TO land on his head.
1 TUG OF WAR No competitor shall wear pre-.
pared boots or shoes, or boots or shoes with pro.
jecting nails, points, tips, springs or hollows Of any
kind.
Exception: English teams when competing with
Americans may wear heavy spiked shoes with
1ointed steel heels. II the spikes or joints fail TO
hold we'll In the earth said earth may be larded with
Americans.
NEW YonK. July Is. FAIR PLAY.
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Arrests in Railway Accidents.

Immediately after the accident to the
White Mountain Express at Greenwich
IN Thursday morning the motorman and
conductor Of the train were placed under
arrest at the instance of the Connecticut
authorities. Such is the statement in
all the accounts OF the disaster. They
appear to have been Intercepted by the
local prosecuting attorney and were sub
sequently released from custody.
What these men had done to warrant
or any one in putting the criminal
law In motion against them we are wholly
at a loss to discover in any Of the cir
oumstances of the accident. II any
casualty occur on a train of cars or a
single a the motto Of the police and
tho practice Of the public prosecutor
seems to be: Arrest the conductor and
the engineer Tor the motorman, as the
case may be). Where the disaster hap
pens to be a collision the very character
Of the occurrence may in itself suffice to
indicate negligence in the management
OF the train and hence justify the arrest
OF those whose carelessness thus appears
to have caused the accident. In very
many cases, however, the.persons oper-
atng the train are arrested notwith-
standing the utter absence OF any facts
tending to- charge, them with. criminal
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'sShined.",

10 TEN EpiToh OF Ahh SoH.o,D Apfopos vi
we Wora snhea, .ne oseIs et me shouiu DC
hunK sna quar'erea +" y9af h-.noasn. purIss
.sS,n.da to,r.sr,w ..nd .ror.h a. y. onrsd.rsd
The mast ten,, and nast ~participIe OF the yerb -shine-
ia oonsideysd nv the Century Dlctionary An .obso-
lete or vulgar" The proper form In then illustrated
In . quotation from Purchas, page 90 Of his "Pfl-
| erimsge-: After which long night, the Sumo Of
Righteousness shone unto the Syrtans.- Whether
! Purchas forgot himself on page 80 and remembered
himself later on, the Century Dictionary does not
give as the reason for the change In this quota
tion: The walls of red marble shined like ire. inter
laid with gold. resembling lightning" This Is from
page E7. II the price paid for o "Pflgrimage" Is
any InaeA o i y value FuIcnas . lar itom opso-
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negligence, or indeed negligence Of any
character; and such arrests are simply
inexcusable and outrageous.
In the Greenwich disaster to the White
| Mountain Express il there was a single
circumstance suggestive Of careless or
improper conduct on the part Of the
trainmen who were arrested 1t escaped
the observation OF all the numerous re-
porters who f1ocked to the scene and at
n set about sending q true and faith
full account Of the accident to their news-
papers. They assert that the. train had
been thrown of the track by the spread
ing Of the rails on a steel bridge near the
station in Greenwich; and according to
some witnesses ar examination Of the
line at this point showed that the ties
there were too weak. The defective
condition Of the roadbed in this respect,
II 1t existed, was In nc wise chargeable
to the motorman or conductor. Indeed
1t is impossible to conceive Of ny rational
theory on which they could be deemed
legally or morally responsible therefor;
yet they were arrested as offenders
against the criminal law, and this appar-
emily almost as a matter Of counsel
This sort Of thing Is too common and
is all wrong.
II anybody was to be arrested on a
mere presumption Of guilt in this case 1t
ought rather to have been some official
of the railroad company charged with
the duty Of general superintendent over
this part Of the line. There would be
SOM sense in the suggestion that care
lessness on his part might well be in
ferred from the condition OF the track
at the point Of disaster. Indeed upon
the facts thus far disclosed 1t would have
been quite as just and proper to arrest
the directors themselves upon a charge
Of criminal negligence as it was to arrest
the conductor and the motorman Of the
White Mountain Express.
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for instance, JOHN TYLER, who had
professed to be a Wing, was put
on the Wing ticket with the hope that
Virginia might thus be carried. -Four
years later GEORGE M. DALLAS was NOM
mated for Vice. President in order that the
Democrats might have O better prospect
Of carrying protectionist Pennsylvania.
In l84s the nomination OF WILLARD
FILLMORE was made with a view Of
improving ZACHARY TAYLoR's chance Of
carrying New York. Analogous motives
prompted the selection for the Vice
Presidency Of W. r. KING, j. C. BRECK-
RNRIDGE. HANNIBAL HAMLIN, ANDREW
JOHNSON, SCHUYLER CoLFAx, HENRY
WILSON, CHESTER A. ARTHUR and ADLAI
K. STEVENSON. Not one ofthesemen, with
the exception Of DALLAS, had any influ-
enc at the White House during their
respective tenures OF the Vice-Presi-
dency. The same thing is true Of THOMAS
A. HENDRICKS, although in 1885, when he
became Vice-President, he was q far
mor distinguished statesman than was
MIR. CLEVELAND.
A decided change took place when
WILLIAM MCKINLEY Became President
on March 4, 1897. For the first time
since 1887 a ce-President was admitted
informally to the councils Of the Chief
Magistrate. There is no doubt that up
to the time Of his premature death the
opinions Of GARRET A. HOBART had more
weight with his official chief than had
any Of the members Of the iatter's Cab
met, with the possible exception Of the
Secretary OF State, JOHN HAY. II Mr..
HOBART had lived he would assuredly
have been renominated for the Vice
Presidency in 1900 and would himself
have become Chief Magistrate in 1901.
Whether Mr.. ROOSEVELT possessed any
influence at the White House during the
very short period In which he remained
Vice-President Is. to say the least, very
doubtful.
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Mr.. Bryan in the "Birslow Papers"

To THE EDITOR OF THR SuN-Str: In James
Russell Lowcll's second series of his famous "Bire.
low Papers" we md some lines which we can apply
amusinsiy TO the new attempt to elect Mr.. Bryan
to the Presidency.
Although I am quoting the lines from memory
I believe ! can give them correctly:
Some candidates 10 dead and gone.
And some has been defeated. e
Which mounts to pooty much the same,
For ns been proved repeated
A batch Of bread that amt riE once
Amt eoin' 70 riL sgin.
And It's but labor throwed away
To put the eruptions In.
II Amt disgrsceful bein' beat
When q hull nation docs II,
But chance Is like an omberl-
1t don't take twioe to lose II.
NEW YORK, July II. WEST END.
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Who VIII Give the Central Park q New
Lease Of Life?

1<cdSO VI AxllC(
The Central Park, the pride Of New
York and the. envy Of the world, was
built up on soil originally poor and now
impoverished beyond belief. Experts
say that 1t contains about % per cent. OF
sand and gravel, substances affording
practically no plant food whatever.
There has never been a chance to make
proper provision for the improvement
Of the land. 1t Is necessary to keep the
Park in good order, hence natural fer
tilizers have little opportunity to work.
There has been some attempt at resoil-
ing, but the experiment has been SUBJ
stantially a failure, the earth available
being little better than that which needs
to be replaced.
Crudely stated, u Central Park Is in
danger Of resolving itself into an unami-
able sand heap unless some such plan Of
resoiling is adopted as was used in plant
ing Mrs. SAaE's rhododendrons.
The city is in NJ position at present to
give the Park Commissioner the money
needed. 1t is doubtful anyway il he
could get an appropriation until public
opinion had become thoroughly awake
to the danger Of the situation.
What private citizen. proud OF New
York's chiefest beauty, will erect to him
self a monument Of topsoil more lasting
than brass by providing or helping to
provide four hundred thousand cubic
yards Of earth of the required richness
with which to cover 20, ESQ, 900 square feet
Of park surface six inches deep?
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The ShaNans.

In this city some OF our prudes, pro-
| fessional and Of the police, dashed them
selves into a virtuous fury when that
innocent old fairy spectacle Mrs. War
ren's Profession" was produced. The
same thing happened when RICHARD
STRAUSS HSalome' was sung. Yet after
the wave Of righteous indignation had
subsidized and the Shaw play been seen a
second time, many asked: Wherefore?
| And on the repetition Of 4Salome" by Mr..
HAMMERsTEIN's company people will
eIclaim: Wherefore? We never took
SHAW for a ~realist, az much as he has
proclaimed himself as one who gets
down to the very marrowbone Of human
ity. He Is an idealist Of a newer kind,
that's all. And when THE SUN called
his plays Apsychical farces' we were told
by outraged Shavians that we missed
the q~uintessence of a man who admitted
that he was better than SHAKESPEARE.
We are perfectly willing to withdraw the
"psychioal' II it is still offensive. Oh,
sham and supersham!
1t Is not with the SHAW OF to-day we
are concerned-he doubtless looks back
upon -Mrs. Warren as a mere exercise
In metaphysical diabolo-but with the
reception of Mrs. Warren's Profession"
In Russia. At the imperial theatre last
December the piece had q SUCCESS OF
curiosity. In the audience of the first
night sat young women with their par
ents. They were mildly interested, and
among other criticisms that Of MILIU-
KLov is the most interesting. He called
Mr.. SHAW the typical middle class Eng
lishman, said he satirized the faults and
follies Of the class, but that he himself
belonged to the class he satirized and
shared its limitations. BERNARD middle
classl BERNARD limited! We shudder
ut the Russian critics temerity. 'The
play, I" he says, sis a typical middle class
English play, and it suffers from the
faults inherent to this class of English
work: false sentiment and melodrama.r
We quote verbatim from the English
translation in the New Quarterly.
Sentiment and melodrama? Surely
there must be some mistake. Yet there
were some who called the play epoch
making" After that, our a~scription
Of farce" is sheer praise, for Of all alb
horrent things in SHAw's eyes sentiment
Ia the most abhorred. Not a word, either,
as to his Irish origin. Well, he has so
long played the role Of incense swinger
to the Notwithstanding them by his
witty abuse-that the worst has hap
pened that can happen to ar Irishman
he ia taken for an Englishman. The
truth Is that the clever connection Of
IBsEN, NIErzscHE and w. 8. GILBERT
has little attraction for Continental low
ers Of the drama. Paris gave SHAW up
as a mystifcation, Germany realizes his
borrowed profundities, and for Russia it
is a case of carrying Goals to Newcastle.
His work is pronounced STACEY and
artificial His one attraction, his keen
Gallo
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Who has not read with q ohuckls Of in
credulity the following legend in one OF
THACKRRAY's papers:
We have al heard the story Of the gentleman
Of the last century who, when . crowd Of young
bucks and bloods In the Crushroom OF the Opera
were laughing and elbow1ng an old lady there
an old lady. lonely, ugly and unprecedented
up to her respectfully and offered her his arm.
took her down to his own carriage. which was In
waiting. and walked home himself In the rain-and
twenty years afterward had ten thousand q year
left him by this very old lady as a reward for that
one act Of politeness." .
1t seems like a copybook preoept ex-
banded into a story. but truth matches it in
the good fortune Of a working woman OF
Plymouth, Mass, who. according to . de-
spatch from that old Puritan town, has re-
ceived q gift Of s. 900 from a grateful New
York lady for an act Of humanity. the prefer
Of a cup Of coffee and tender ministrations
whom the stranger was i'll and helpless, dur
ing the stop OF o train at the local railway
station two years age.
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SHAW Is like q wasp, ell sting and wing.
But there are Shavians. They abound
in America. They write books about
the glib BERNARp-who Is now the self
constituted keeper of the conscience Of
British newspaper readers. What said
the poet regarding SHAW and shavians
long before they were born:
" Big neas have little neas upon their backs TO bite
EN-.
Little neas have lesser feas, and 40 ad tnfniuF."
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The Depleter Of the Treasury,

To THR EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: II has
been announced that President Roosevelt
favors aerial fleets for coast defence pur-
Cannot the Most Exalted" find some other
vent for his superabundant patriotism thar
an assault on the depleted Treasury?
With the announced deficit staring US in
the face. think Of the Chief Executive Of the
country recommending the construction Of
aerial fleets"
Why can he not devote his attention to
guarding the Treasury rather than making
inroads upon 1t? Is he on record In q single
instance as recommending measures to all
up the Treasury rather than to empty ~
NEW YORK. July 10. Z. I, W.
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ExPERTs IN SOCIAEISM.
Mr. Rooseveit's Views Defended ss Against
Rese Pastor Stokes.

TO TEE EDITOR OF THE sUN-ssir. I have read
In THE SUN Mrs. Stokes's criticism OF President
Roosevelt's recent remarks about eocishsm. i
have myself sometimes doubted assumptions OF the
President to universal knowledge. but an not
convinced by Mrs. Stokes's letter.
Mrs. Stokes, In common with other Socialists.
assumes that the producer Is allowed but Q small
share OF the product Of his toll and that the bal
ance is untustly appropriated by the capitalist.
II this were true II would be q Just cause Of COM
plant. A superficial view in some instances
would give color TO the claim, but when u 10 con-
sldered that the vast majority Of ell the people
contribute directly or Indirectly to production, and
the annual surplus. after supporting the people. 10
comparatively small and would give each individ-
ual only q small additional allowance. 1t becomes
clear that the wrongs seen by the Socialist are
largely imaginary.
Assuming the annual surplus to be $1,000, 100000
in property, which is sufficiently larte, and that
the population will number 85.OoO,0 900, II the surplus
were equally divided among all the people each
would receive something over SIS. which clearly
shows the fallacy OF the Socialist claim of wrongful
appropriation of the products Of labor by the
capitalists. CouNrRrMAN.
ONEIDA, N, Y. July 1T.