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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-09
MADE CANNON SHOW DOWN.

Under the aggressive leadership Of
John Sharp Williams. the minority in
congress has made the Republicans
show their hands and accept RESPONSE
bility for open hostility TO the presi-
dents recommendations. as we'll as
their unwillingness TO pass any of the
important legislation pending except,
possibly, the employers liability bill
The finishing touch to the situation
came on Tuesday, when Mr. Williams
Unanswered Speaker Cannon into a
position where he had to define his at
titude on the child labor bill for the
District of Columbia, which had been
recommended in a special message by
the president. Cannon didn't want to
vote on the bill, and he didn't propose
to have the Republicans vote. so he
ruled the bill out when it came up as
amendment to the appropriation bill
for the district. and killed it with the
declaration that it was not germane.
1t will be remembered that Senator
Beverage, the exponent of all that is
ty, tried to convince the senate that
the products of child labor should be
excluded from interstate transporta-
ton II took him some hours and con-
siderable oratorical effort to expound
his theories, only to be demolished by
the opinion of better authorities that
his measure was unconstitutional. The
president has been so active in the
campaign against child labor that he
urged congress to pass a special law.
a model of it's kind. for the District of
Columbia, and it is this measure the
speaker laid away to rest so promptly
and unfeelingly. Apparently the one
sure way of having a bill assassinated
by Mr.. Cannon is for the president to
espouse the cause of the bill.
No session of congress in recent
years has had more important matters
before it, and none has had more
the passage of what he regarded as
imperatively necessary laws. Not one
of his recommendations has been en-
acted into law, and none will be except
such as are compelled by the pressure
of public opinion. The wishes of the
labor bodies of the country have been
ignored where they have not been de-
rided, the currency question which was
aU-important bids fair to be passed
over entirely, the tariff question has
been lodged. the request of the news
paper publishers for the removal of
the tariff on print paper and wood
pulp has been defeated by the speaker
and his committee on rules. The whole
record of the session is negative, OBJ
structive. reactionary; and on that
record Speaker Cannon expects to get
the nomination for president, while his
party expects TO carry the national
election on it.
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TUESDAYS ELECTIONS.

In so far as any deductions can be
drawn from the municipal and general
elections in the middle west on Tues
day, the result shows considerable
Democratic gains in important centers.
Actually, however, the issues were so
complicated by the anti-saloon move
ment in most cities and by the public
utilities issue in Milwaukee that any
accurate conclusion affecting the pres
idential vote is impossible
The most significant result was the
progress of the anti-saIoon movement
III Illinois. where twenty-five counties
went dry and about 1900 saloons will
be put out of business. A majority Of
the larger Illinois towns voted for sa-
looms, but number of important COM
munities like Rockford decided to aboI-
ish the saloon, and the rural districts
were largely against the saloons. The
significance of the result lies in the
fact that Illinois is one of the strong
holds. not only of the liquor interests,
but of very powerful sentiment
against sumptuary legislation of any
kind. This is explained by the fact
that the population includes a very
large number of Germans and Scandi-
navians. people who have been accus-
toned to drinking as a matter of habit
just as they eat who regard interior
ence with personal habits of this kind
as a vicious interference with their
liberty. and who are quite as strong in
their convictions on the subject as are
the temperance crusaders and the anti
saloon leagues.
In the Illinois campaign, as every
where else where the saloon question
is raised. the fight ragged around the
political power of the liquor interests
and the abuse of license privileges by
the dives" protected by politics
There, as elsewhere, the bitterest an
tagOnism could have been avoided if
the supporters of the liquor interests
had been wise enough TO have COM
PEELED observance of the law by all sa-
looms and TO have eliminated the
vicious, depraved saloonkeepers who
furnish all the strongest arguments
against the business as a whole.
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SAVAGES ARE LEARNING.
New York SUM-


A letter from Iquitos, at the head
OF navigation on the Amazon, says that
the rubber traders nave oyerdone the
business of bartering the flimsiest
kind of gewgaws for good hard rubber
collected by the Indians. Fortunes had
been made in the business, but the ma
tives have cut their eyeteeth. They
have found at last that many of the
trade goods they accepted are almost
vaiueless and that the commodity they
exchanged for baubles is highly priced
by many nations.
An amusing illustration of the will
ingness of rubber buyers TO impose
upon the ignorance or superstition of
native collectors is told by members
of the Inflated expedition to the ANA
zon to- build the railroad around the
Madeira falls
Years ago a young fellow from In
diana. known to newspaper readers as
the boy naturalist of the Amazon,
earned good living by wandering
over parts of the Amazon basin and
collecting orchids for the conservato-
ries of wealthy men, He was later en-
pioyed by the Madeira River Railroad
company on account of his familiarity
with the Indian languages.
When the enterprise failed he said
he would go further up the river TO
trade for rubber and the company
told him to take whatever he pleased
from its stock of gimcracks to assist
him in his commercial project. To
eVerybOdy's surprise he added to his
peddler's pack all the playing cards
with which the party expected to kill
time on their way home. When asked
how he intended to use them, he re-
piled:
Why, l expect to make money out
of them. The people on the rivers Will
think the face cards represent saints
and will swap no end of rubber for
them"
Many tusk of ivory was cheerfully
handed over to the white men by the
kongo natives twenty years ago for a
poor jackknife or a few yards of cot
ton cloth. Some Of the traders de-
tended themselves on the ground that
a Jackknife was worth more 10 the ma
tVes than score of ivory tusks
Today the KOngO natives are fami-
liar with the white mans cutlery and
1t is not easy to fool them as to the
value of ivory. So the palmiest days of
that trade are at an end.
1t is the old story The poor IN
dams of this country were swindIed
right and left when Europe first began
to buy tseir furs and skins. 1t was a
poor uadlng company that could not
make 100 per cent on its capital by a
single voyage.
Missionary reports were filled with
stories of the cheap and worthless
things. the spoiled food and poisonous
brandy which the traders gave in ex-
change for good HEAVIER and mink
skins
They are killing the Indians we are
trying TO save. wrote one despairine
missionary. 1t seems as though we
can accomplish nothing and might as
we'll abandon our missions to the white
thieves and brandy traders'
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Total Copies of The Herald
Printed in March, 1908.
THEATRES TODAY.

Salt Lake-Matinee and night, Dream
City"
Orpheum-Matine and night. vaude-
vile.
Csrand-"A Child of the Regiment"
Lyric-"rhe jolly Musketeers."
WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE
Fair and Warmer.
THE METALS.
Silver, 545sc per ounce.
No change in copper and lead quota
lions.
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-
Welfare
Here is a word that means
something now that it never
meant before. 1t describes a
department in business whose
value is not reckoned in Arabic
numerals. The Welfare De
partments of big corporations
attempt to make life Pleasanter
for the employees in ways
which are not nominated in
the bond. Sometimes these
experiments succeed; some
times they are CHASTITY failures,
disgusting the men and sour
ing the employer. 1t all
depends.
In this weeks issue of THE
SATURDAY EVENING POST
James II. Collins tells on 5Vhat
it depends. The article is
called Right and Wrong in
Welfare Work"
In the same issue of THE
POSTread CHOW They Make
Ends Meet in New York"
by Will Payne, and an article
by Arthur Train, "Con Men
Abroad" in which he recounts
the interesting experience of
an American who was too
strong to work, amid the I'M
sympathy of the Old World.
This weeks POST is now
on sale
At the News-stands, cents.
$50 the year by mail.
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WEATHER FOR SALT LAKE
THE ETAIS.
1THE CALL OF THE WILD"

There is a certain amount of humor
i'm the call of the SmOot Republican
state committee for the convention to
choose delegates 70 the Chicago con-
VentiOn. The call bars from partici-
patton every man who does not agree
10 support the Republican tickets from
the top down to dOg-catcher. state,
county and judicial The memory OF
man in Utah instantly reverts to the
time when this same bunch of federal
office-holders bolted a Republican can
didate for mayor and contributed
much aid and comfort to the Demo-
cratic candidate.
For further particulars apply TO
Frank Knox ct alS If the call for
convention whose sole duty is to
choose delegates TO Chicago can go
into specifications of this sort, it can
just as well demand that all partici-
pants shall wear Spry whiskers or
Booth foretops or Callister smiles. Or,
If they really wish to narrow things
down so there can be no possible OppO-
sition to the federal pie-cutters. the
call might be amended further to in
clude none but pronounced supporters
OF Taft That would simplify things
greatly and show that the off1ce-hold-
ers are observing the spirit as well as
the letter of Roosevelt's oft-repeated
civil service orders.
X X
In this connection The Herald OBJ
serves with pain that some of the in
surgents asked the state committee 10
do something to the official ''organ" of
the party for saying unkind things
about S. H. Love, George Lawrence
and other Republicans who have
lodged the Smoot lasso. Bless their
innocent hearts. one would think they
didn't know the real purpose of an
organ" which is TO do what it is told
to do to opponents of its supporters,
and to do a-plenty.
An "organ" isn't intended to be i'm
partial or print the news as ii really
happens; its purpose is TO play the
tune set for it and follow the score to
the last bar without deviation. "Or-
EdnS represent Il particular WING OF
a particular faction of one party If
Mr.. Love and Mr.. Lawrence and 9TH
ers of their ilk want to be in favor
with their party organ" they have a
very simple program before them. All
they have to do is 10 make their peace
with the organ grinders. fall into step
with the procession, take their medi-
cine cheerfully and pretend they like
il. OF course they would have to aban-
don any hope of political advancement
unless the bunch was willing to let
them have a crumb from the table now
ana then. but they don't stand much
show anyway. SO it's about the same
thing. II ought to have dawned on
them by this time that the Republican
party of Utah is a close corporation.
and that if they ever had any stock i'm
it they have been frozen out by the
controlling interest. Some day it will
go into the hands of a receiver for re-
organization. but just now Love and
Lawrence and Benner " Smith and
the others of independent tendencies
have no more show i'm it than a Zulu
would have in Westminster
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-09
KING FREDERICK AND SENTRY
Gondon Tribune)

(LOndOn IrlDuHe.D
Frederick the Great of Prussia often
told laughable story of an experience
of his own. During one of his cam
paigns in Silesia he made 1T his habit
to stroll through his camp in disguise
at night to come in touch with his SOL
diers One night he was stopped by a
sentry, but giving the proper password.
was permitted to proceed. Instead of
doing so, however, ne endeavored to
tempt the sentry into accepting a
cigar. saying that smoke would
solace his long watch.
1T is against the rules" said the
soldier.
But you have my permission" said
the king.
Your permission. Who are you?"
Il am the king"
THE king be hanged"' said the in
corrupible sentry. what would my
captain say?"
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

6025-Samuel f. Hill, Salt Lake.
Anna Beaverton. Raymond.
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CRITICAL NOM EMIT.
(Chicaqo News.)

(ChicagO NeWs.G
Pearl-Yes. Reggy proposed over the
telephone the other night and | was wor-
ried to death
Ruby-Worried over his audacity in pro-
posing?
Pearl-No, worried for fear some one
would cut us off before l could say
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-09

A Chicago alderman frankly declares
he would steal the city hall if given the
opportunity. There's nothing like be-
ing honest with your constituents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-09

Emperor William has suggested that
he would be glad TO have his salary
as king of Prussia increased. He has
right 10 strike for higher wages if
he wants 10.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-09

Frank Gotch of Iowa cannot really
the world until after he has won a fall
or two from the doughty athlete in the
White House.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-09

Yes. the Johnson sentiment is very
strong but somehow or other, the con-
ventions continue instructing their
delegates for Bryan. There isn't very
much left but the shouting.
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The special auditors left the city its
half of the joint building, which is
some comfort.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-30
new TRUSTEES FOR LIBRARY
Mayor Maloney Will Name Three al
Meeting Of Council Tonight,
]. J. STEWART IS REAPPoNTED
T.. Fl. Merriam and Charles Mcdonald
Are to he the Two New Members
-TruHtees Meet July 13
TO R~eorgnnise.

Tie terms OF DR.. J. II. Cleaver, W. s.
Baird and J.sJ. Stewart as trustees of the
Free Public Library OF Council Bluffs will
terminate on July T. The appointment OF
the Public Library trustees is one Of the
prerogatives Of the mayor and It is under
stood that Mayor Maloney has decided upon
che three men he will name. j. j.
Stewart will be reappointed, while f. H..
Merriam and Charles W, Mcdonald VIII be
the other two appointees.
The board Of trustees Of the Free Public
Library is composed Of nine members, the
other six being DR.. r. w. Dean, Victor
f. Bender, John NJ, Calvin, NJ. F.. Rohrer,
II. W. Binder and G.. r. Tyler. Mr.. Calvin
Is president OF the board and Mr.. Bender
IS secretary.
Mayor Maloney is expected to make the
announcement Of the appointments at the
meeting Of the city council tonight, but the
new members will not take their seats
until the annual meeting Of the Board Of
Trustees, which will be held Monday, July
Il. At this meeting the board will reor-
Eanize by electing a president and secre-
tary. The librarian and assistant Librarians
and custodian OF the. library buildin- are
elected by the board at this meeting. The
new president will name the standing com
mittees for the year.
Members OF the Board Of Trustees of the
Free Public Library are appointed for a
term OF six years. The office is purely an
honorary one, there being no remuneration
attached to It.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-30
COMMENT ON LONDON MEETING
Vatican Organ Discusses Pam
Anglican Meeting Recently
Held.

ROME, June 29,-The Osservatore Ro-
mano. the organ of the Vatican, in an edi-
torial concerning the recent Pananglican
congress in London. says:
Religion without a legitimate hierarchy,
although calling itself Christian, is a re-
ligion only for this world, as the questions
discussed by the ~Panaglican congress show.
Throughout the centuries all religions which
have arisen without the seal of the real
divine personality were similar to that ais
cussed at the ~Pananglican congress. All of
them aimed at securing the largest amount
of joy in this life without caring for the
other world"
At the end OF a long attack. the Os-
servatore Romano says that Catholic Rome
tomorrow will celebrate with veneration
the anniversary of the death of st. Peter,
at his tomb in a church which is a miracle
of art, and that this generation will an
swer better than anything else the superla-
tive poverty of the Pananglicap congress
From the attitude of the Osserratore Ro-
mano, it is supposed that Pope Piu will
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-30
RAILROADS ARE DOING WELL
Interstate Commissioners Lane Com
ments on Prevailing Com
ditiona.

WASHINGTON. June 2e.-"Returns from
the railroads generally show that those
roads not dependent on coal, steel and lum-
Der industries have been doing very well
recently" said Commissioner Lane of the
Interstate Commerce commission, today.
of course they have not done so well as
last year. Generally they have tried not to
make any reduction in wages or In rates
of freight affecting the next three menths,
which is an indication that they believe
that business will keep up.
There are some curious things about
prevailing conditions continued Mr.. Lane.
For instance the Lehigh valley the other
day gave us a report on net earnings for
the first five months of the present calen-
der year. together with similar reports
covering the preceding five years and the
showing this year was larger than any
other during the period indicated. With the
opening of the steel mills at Pittsburg
and of the car shops there will be more
men employed and there will be a larger
demand for material and labor than
has prevailed TOR SOME time. The
pinionuof railEosd. nD1en4 is that we have
lssed through the worst of the railroad
~ficulties and from no% on we will gradu-
~ recover from the effects of the panic.
he prospect for large crops in the west
extremely good. Railroad men do not eX-
Let normal conditions. to be recovered
,uddenly, but look for steady improvement.
"a my opinion this Improvement will be
much more rapid than some of the lugub. +
)us prophets have been telling us, because
fundamentally there is nothing in the
tinted States to create or continue 4 panic.
The railroads must spend money in
maintaining the roadbed and equipment OF
| hair 1frnag in arl.Y. ., ,aa tla lam NJ
of because they are most seri.
ously embarrassed when they are not able
to handle business Offered them, and there
is no doubt that there is an abundance Of
money in the United States which car
Re secured for legitimate railroad use
This was shown by the floating Of tht
Pennsylvania bond issue.
I'm this connection | think people ought
to understand that the Interstate Commerct
commission has been of valuable service
to the railroads during the past si>
months, because it has prevented a rat.
war between the roads and has maintained
rates. l predict that the roads themse. We.
will come to bless the railway rate Law
by means of which the roads have beer
able to protect themselves at a time wher
their nerves were wobbly. If we had s2
or seven years ago such a financial dis
turbance as took place last October thu
railroads upon finding that their earnings
were falling off would have gone into tn,
business of rate cutting and possibly
large number of receiverships would hav,
resulted. The railway rate act is ADMITTED
by candid railroad men themselves t.
have been Of inestimable value. The en-
foroement of the law against rebating ant
our tenacious purpose to stop discrimina
lions has held them up to a conformity t
the law that is without precedent"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-30
deal with the recent congress held in Lon.
don in his forthcoming encyclical.
FILIPIN0S TOURING RUSSIA
Compare American Rule I'm Philip.
pines to Treatment mt Poland
and Finland.

ST. PETERSBURG. June 2s.-Manuel
Quezol, the Filipino assemblyman, his
secretary, Mr., Rogers, and Mr.. Kalaw,
editor of the Manila Renacinimento, have
finished their study of the Duma and have
left here for Berlin and Paris. They will
also visit Switzerland and Egypt before
returning home.
The Filipinos attracted much attention in
the Duma. They met a humber of the
leaders of that body. Their trip was under
taken at the initiative Of the War depart
merit at Washington, with the object OF
broadening the outlook of Filipino leaders.
Senior Quezon was greatly impressed by his
observations of the Russian policy toward
Poland and Finland, the severity of the
police regime and the results OF the policy
of the first and second Dumas. He spoke
Of the advantages of the American attitude
toward the Philippine islands and of the
necessity of the Philippines going slowly In
the development of legislative autonomy.
He sympathized with the position of the
Philippine assembly for an independence,
but he feared this resolution would have
an unfavorable effect on American opinion.