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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
CLEAR CASE OF OPPRESSION.

Mr.. Albert Shaw ranks very high as
a Jealous guarder of the destinies of the
race. No man has said more words in
protection of the people than has Al
bert. He is especially strong in de-
nunciation of laws Of congress aimed at
poor people by President Taft and
other designers of trouble. And in no
other one thing has Albert found more
to complain of than in the new law tax
ing corporations.
Here is an extract from his most re-
cent outpouring:
Every business, bakery, grocery store,
or village draying concern, incorporated
or working as a joint stock company, is
subject to the tax, provided only its net
profits exceed 5000 in a year.
That is a pretty tough proposition.
And while the big freighting companies
of New York and Philadelphia might
be willing to Cypress the people, i'm
agine the righteous wrath of the viii
lage draymen Of Charlottesville and
Barraboo.
Every incorporated drayman whose
total annual profits exceed five thou
and dollars would have to confess his
WiCkedness to the federal authorities.
He would have to admit the heinous sin
Of taking in more than five thousand
from New Year of last year to New
Year of this. And out of it he would
have to give two per cent to the fed
eral treasury. to be distributed to the
ninety millions Of Columbias children.
We can in fancy see a delegation of
dollar village draymen
going up to Washington to protest.
And they might be Joined by village
bakers who would thank their stars if
they could see five thousand dollars in
year-profit and loss put together.
Albert will take care Of every village
draying concern and every village
baker whose net income-after paying
expenses-amounts to five thousand
dollars and over.
The rest will be able to take care Of
themselves.
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man. And the children on the street,
when asked, sang: THE Star-Spangled
Banner"
1t is a good thing to see the mer-
chants of the two nations at table tc-
gether; to know that the interests Of
business are for peace. From child
hood our people have been taught that
commercialism is a terrible ogre, de-
voted to nothing so much as the de-
struction of everything desirable in the
life Of citizens. Maybe commercialism
is like a good many other strangers
not so bad as it has been reputed.
We have been told that war is made
by the business interests. Even if that
were true, shall not the business III
terests have credit for the blessings of
peace when they make for peace? And
it is very certain that the business in
terests of the two nations give the one
strongest assurance against military
conflict between the United States and
Japan.
Nothing is so destructive as war.
And good rules of business never are
served by the destruction Of property.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
VANDALISM CANNOT WIN.

If reports are true, a good many jobs
of plumbing have recently been rem
dered hopeless because of vandalism.
Some one has taken out lead pipe, de-
stroyed fixtures and connections, and
demolished the tools and materials of
wOTkmen.
There is a strike Of plumbers; but
we do not believe that those men who
formerly held positions have periIled
their cause and stained their good
names by these acts of vandalism. It
is quite too wicked a thing easily to
believe.
No trade contention can be won
against the sentiment of the public.
And the public sentiment is fixed in
condemnation of the destruction of
property. No pretense Of business, no
claim of right can be listened to by the
man whose faucets have been wrenched
loose, or whose neighbours drains have
been choked up.
The plumbers were getting five and
a half dollars a day. and struck for
six. They may be worth six-or more.
But they never can convince the pub
lie of it by cutting lead pipes.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
WHAT THEY KNOW ABOUT
POKER.

1t is only when a man is confused
about the details that he appeals to
the newspapers for information. 1t is
only after he has acquainted himself
with the general rules, and has prac-
ticed the generally accepted method,
that he encounters a new and unex-
pected phase. So that when a New
York man appeals to the Sun for advice
as to a point in the practical applica-
ton of draw poker, it viii be understood
instantly that he has exhausted the
general and common fund of infOrma-
recent issue of that excellent paper we
find some man soberly putting up this
point for decision:
A opens a jackpot with a pair of jacks,
and , stays with a fOUr-flush. A draws
three cards and 3 draws one, and neither
helps. It Is BIS first bet, and he bets the
limit. A calls him, and B contends that
he cannot lOse-Or that A cannot take his
mOney-because he OBJ did not have open
ers. Can he lose?
All gentlemen west of the Jersey
line will sit more comfortably when
they know that the Sun replied:
B can lose anything and everything he
puts uD If he cannot beat the man who
calls him. AS jacks are legitimate open
ers. and they certainly beat a fOur-flush.
The first sensation was one Of fear
that something new and terrible had
been injected into the laws controlling
the game That tremor passes with
the clear and conclusive statement Of
the sun.
But back of it is the disquieting con-
viction that the man who wrote the
letter asked something which his as
sociates could not answer. In other
words, the general voice of New York
was at least divided on the subject
Evidently a considerable portion of
that community held to the opinion
that a man caught blufing didn't have
to lose the pot.
We have noted with regret, on sew
eraI occasions, that the civilization of
the far east is deteriorating. Nothing
in current reading has so strengthened
the sad conclusion. A place where any
portion of the people play that kind of
poker becomes a menace to the peace
and a muddling of the traditions of a
great and glorious republic.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
NEW TREATY OF PEACE WITH
JAPAN.

There are some twenty prominent
japanese business men of the bigger
grade in America. getting acquainted
with our people, and giving our people
an opportunity TO get better acquainted
with them. In Seattle the other night
they attended a banquet given by mer-
chants, bankers and manufacturers of
the northwest, and in the course Of his
address one Of the latter said the men
at table had made a new treaty Of
peace between Japan and the United
States. And that, under the terms of
the new treaty, each had agreed to
buy goods of the other, and pay for
them.
That Is a whole lot better than to
talk about fighting Japan. It is much
better for both countries than for either
Of them to canvass the chances of war
OF course the talk was in a facetious
strain. and yet it went to the cors Of
things
Not long ago some one in Japan
asked Marquis Ito If there were such
a thing as a general japanese senti-
ment in favor OF war against the
United States GO ask the children
on the street." replied the wise old
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
AT A REASONABLE PRICE.

One of the interesting details Of en-
campment week was the purchase by
many eastern visitors of clothing and
dry goods in Salt Lake. r Herald
Republican made mentio .. o., fact,
and a number Of correspondent ex-
press doubt Of it's accuracy.
Most Salt Lake people get an east
ern paper now and then. Let them
take one from Chicago or New York
or any other big city Let them go
through the advertisements in those
papers, and then like advertisements
in the Herald-Republican today. It
will be found that clothing and shoes
and many lines of dry goods, and num-
berless other articles are quoted quite
as cheap here as they are in the big
cities of the east.
Take those eastern advertisements,
and go down Main street, or Second
South, or any other street in which
there are clothing stores. You have
a pretty good idea what the eastern
merchant is Offering. You viii find
that the local dealer is rendering a
bargain quite as good.
The truth is, in most lines, living is
Just as cheap here as IN any city in
the United States. And wages-even
salaries-are higher. Tell that TO your
friends when you write back home
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
DIRECTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE.

One of the healthiest Of recent de-
cisiOns is that just handed down by the
New York court of appeals holding
that the directors Of the Trust Com
pany of the Republic are responsible
for the failure of that company. and
the impoverishment of its patrons.
The decision is especially gratifying
in the light of the last report Of the
comptroller Of the currency, to the ef-
feet that not twenty-five per cent Of
the bank directors of the country know
anything at all Of the value Of the
securities on which the funds Of their
banks are loaned.
Down in little Indiana city Of two
thousand people two brother, bankers.
have just been indicted for misappli-
cation of the funds Of their bank. They
had a capital of twenty-five thousand,
and deposits Of nearly a quarter of a
million. And there wasn't enough cash
left in the bank to pay the gas bill
when they were caught.
All the directors were good men.
-hACn u AOALeSly anu OF fortune. but
they rarely attended a directors meet
ing, and never investigated the truth
of the reports of the brothers-presi-
dent and cashier Of the institution.
And what is true in that instance,
has been true IN ninety-nine out Of a
hundred Of other bank failures. The
men who are responsible do not know
what is being done with their money,
and with the money Of their neighbors.
And the effect is ruin.
Among the thirteen directors Of the
failed Trust Company Of the Republic
are men like Hamilton Fish, and those
with whom he has been for years as
ISOLATED. And whether big OF little, the
only way for them to learn the lesson
is to read it in just such papers as
this decision Of the New York court
of appeals. They must make good the
money loss, and then they must stand
trial for their fragrant evasion of the
law.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
THE INVASION Of ST. GEORGE.

We rather look for st. George to be
captured by an invading army from all
Utah this week The commercial clubs
of the state have very generally ac-
cepted the Dixie invitation, and viii
send delegates TO eat the Dixie fruit,
drink the Dixie wine, and enjoy the
Dixie hospitality.
And while we have a great deal Of
faith I'm the quality Of the men down
there in the valley OF the Virgin river,
we believe they will have their hands
full They win give good account Of
themselves, of course. But expectation
has been raised rather high. And if
they come through with flying colors
they viii deserve not only approval
but a railroad.
For, down beyond that line of hills
that form the western barrier for the
Escalante desert are many and rich
possibilities. That whole region, in
GLIDING Washington and Kane coun-
ties, has marvels Of resource and mira
Giles of beauty. The government has
just made a park Of a region so filled
with natural wonders that nothing in
the Yosemite or the Yellowstone can
at all compare with it. Harry Culmer
and a few others know the Organ Rock.
and the Smithsonian Cliffs. D. z. Wool
ley and Samuel Judd know that al
mouds and raisins and figs and cotton
can be raised prohtably in the vail
Ieys. and that there is water enough
10 irrigate all their lands. and produce
crops of amazing abundance.
But the railroad is the only means
of waking that country to its posi-
billties. Of giving those people the re-
ward for which they have long been
striving. This visit of All Utah should
be the beginning Of a movement which
will sure the construction Of a line from
Marysvale to Modena, by way Of Pan
guitch and Kanab and St George.
And when that is done, not only All
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05

seize the heroine by the wrist and fling
the lady from him with a curse on his
lips.
Don't preach. The public can secure
free seats in a church.
Don't forget the audience has mag
inatiOn.
Don't forget the public reads news
papers and has real human intelligence.
Don't use sOliloquies. Monologues
are for vaudeville and minstrel shows.
Don't put too much in your play
Don't have one scene on an island,
another at Herald Square and a third
in Chicago.
Don't begin the first act IN a cheer
less garnet in the winter of 1856 and
then jump to the summer Of 1909. Those
forty-three years contain enough ma
terial for a thousand good plays.
Make the action of your play take
place all in one day if possible.
Don't think all managers are YAM
pires. Brains are a common article. "A
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
TWENTY-FOUR DON'TS
Henry W. Savage's Reply to Would
Be Playwright Whose Manu-
SCRIPT Was Rejected.

Now that Henry w. Savage is home
again, his mail is overlooking with
manuscripts from people who believe
they have Just the thing" for him.
The fact that he discovered George AIDE,
Frank Pixley, Gustave Luders, Alfred
G. RObyn, Edith Ellis, author Of MARY
James Pa; Henry Blossom and 9TH
ers has made him favored target. But
a man with ten new productions IN his
hands has no time to read plays when
only one out Of 500 is worth while.
However, he answers all letters with
religious sincerity. Recently he took
time to reply at some length to q man
who complained of having his third
manuscript turned down. The rejected
piece was entitled THE Jolly Snug
glers''-a near paraphrase Of THE Pr
rates Of Penzance." To the disap-
pointed author Mr.. Savage sent the fol-
lowing "donts," which might be digest
ed with profit by ali wOuld-be play
wrights:
Don't write about smugglers, pirates
or bandits.
Write a clean love story-the kind
that, when you were a boy. made you
curl up in a corner and continue read
ing while the folks went to dinner.
Write something new, even if you
never saw II On Tue sll&G BClDLts II
might go.
Don't select as a subject any current
news topic.
Don't attempt to write about any
thing with which. you are not familiar.
Make your characters natural, To
be so, they must do only what men and
women do in real life, and not what the
story books say they do.
Make your characters speak good
English.
Don't use stilted words.
Don't say, L have found the papers
with the old mans will secreted,' etc.
Don't give the villain whiskers nor
make the hero clean shaven. Try it the
other way for a change.
Don't make your hero black sheep
returning from Goldfeld with the
wealth Of a Havemeyer; make him q
smart chap disinherited for marrying a
chorus girl.
Don't make the injured husband
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
WHERE -FOUR WINDS MEET.

From homes beyond the farthest space
The winds come to their trysting place
Swiftly from North, East, South and
West,
Assembled on some lonely crest,
Or gathered where the murmuring
Have summoned them by secret signs,
They tell of journeys over seas
And whisper Of earths mysteries.
They know why strong sap-currents
Through Northern trees in earliest
And ny boid flowers put bravely forth
In snowy woodlands Of the North.
Such things he learns whose guided
May find the place where four winds
meet.
It is not true the winds are foes,
Though some bring buds and some
bring SHOWS
For they divide the eaTth's estate
As friendly kings might arbitrate,
And each is sovereign any hour
The friendly land is in its power.
They find delight in bold surprise
And would defeat mans prophecies.
Ships put not forth, seeds are not
sOwn
Until the favOring gales have blown;
The destinies of nations wait
The winds that ruin or create
These secret things he learns whose
rect
May find the place where four winds
meet
Through summer woods at nights high
tide
A lonely wind will sometimes ride
So quickly gone. SO vague a thing
Ears hardly catch its whispering.
And no one knows from what far home
This vagrant messenger may roam,
Nor any more might seek to gain
It's purpose from a weather vanei
But swift that breath of air will-gO
Where only silent trees bend 10y
A stir Of leaves, sudden hush
A thrill runs through the underbrush.
Then, he who runs with winged feet,
May find the place where four winds
meet.
Now, I have sped IN many a race
To find this secret meeting place;
North, East, South, West have / been
led,
Sometime in hope but oft In dread
Fearing to pause and scOrning rest,
Pursuing ceaselessly the quest,
For, whether on the land it be,
Or in some meadow of the sea
I find at last the tryst, 10 there
The tyrant rulers of the air
Shall yield to ma each plot and plan
By which they rule the world and
man
Thenceforth may walk with careless
feet,
Indifferent where the four winds meet
Meredith Nicholson.
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cARELEssNEss IN THE KITCHEN.

Every one has read the distressing
story Of the man and the woman who
were killed a week ago by eating
dumplings into which arsenic had been
mixed in the mistaken belief that it
was baking powder. AND we venture
to say that few housewives failed 10
send a disturbed thought to the kitchen
Of their own homes.
Nothing is more common in the usual
course of homework than the retaining
there of bottles and tins long after the
label disappears. The person in charge
of the pantry knows. But no one else
in the world does know, what is in the
unlabeHed bottle. What is in the un-
communicative can.
Octave Thanet had a character in one
Of her southern stories, a good old
negro nanny" who always drank the
remnant in bottles left standing about
the house or barn. She did it on the
principle that the stuff had at some
time cost money, and economy de-
manded that money be not wasted. So
she never threw it away. Often and
often she took into her well-defended
stomach material which would have
killed man or beast not so constituted.
But it never hurt the frugal old lady.
And you will please observe It never
hurt any one else after she drank it,
From that time on, the unlabelled bot
tie never had any dangers for any one.
Such a means of providing against
accident is beyond the ability of people
outside Miss Thanet's novels. But
there is another very simple plan that
could be adopted. The bottle could be
emptied, and then carefully and effec-
tually broken. The tin can with some
thing in It that may be poison and may
be baking powder can be laid gently
but firmly in the stove or the furnace,
and burned.
That killing of the man and the
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
DIR. COOK IN DEMAND.

One theatrical manager has cabled a
mighty offer to Dr. Frederick Cook,
who is said to have discovered the
North Pole. The man will be in very
great demand.
He is said to look forward to the
joys and luxuries of civilization. He
has been for years beyond the region
Of comfort. Naturally, he viii find
keen delight in customary living. It
must be a most fTightful thing to live
in the utter silence of those forbidden
ATTITUDES. The cold is enOugh-the
constantly searching cold of the per-
petual winter. It must drain the ply
steal resources of a man bred to the
temperate zone. 1t must so wear on
his bodily powers as to affect his men
tai poise.
There is a problem in hunger. No
such food as he has known can be car
ried with him. He must build the fires
of his blood with edibles unspeakabIy
repulsive to the finer sense of an
American.
His companiOnships must be hope
less. Their influence will of necessity
relax the manhood Of the gentler born.
But, most oppressive of all. is the
constant, the intrusive, the limitless
silence Of the UnbOunded icefields. And
what is left Of a mans mind after
hunger and cold and low companion
ship have done their work for months
and years, might well give way in the
unutterabIe stiffness Of the pole,
The wonder will not be that DR.. Cook
has found the pole-sO much as that
having found it, he should retain the
man-noMer to ratnrn.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
MAYOR ROSE TUESDAY NIGHT.

It viii probably be admitted that the
world has not yet entirely settled the
problem of intoxicating liquor. No one
will have the hardihood TO contend that
any plan yet reduced to experiment
has entirely stripped the business of all
ITS evils. Most people Will cOncede that
It is of very general and very great in
terest. So much of happiness and Of
misery hangs upon the proper solution
of the problem that prudent people can
not hastily or thoughtlessly decide upon
any plan. It deserves their most calm
consideration, and their most sensible
action.
Anger viii not help. Intolerance will
lead to no substantial conclusion. If
ever in all the world there has been a
problem demanding wisdom and
strength. the drink evil provides that
problem.
Mayor David Rose, who will speak at
the Salt Lake theatre Tuesday even
ing, is one of the men of ability who
have dared to face the matter fairly,
and risk reprlsal by advancing doc
trines which he believes experience has
approved. He comes with the back
ing Of a good life, a clean record. an
earned reputation for probity and sense
As clearly as any other man he viii be
conceded to be guided by regard for his
fellow men in arriving at his decisions,
and advancing his ARGUMENTS
It will be well for all people to take
advantage Of the opportunity to hear
him.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-05
THE LAND OF GOLD.

1t was a wise man who said THE
land Of gold lies about your own door. 4"
The Herald Republican has no desire
to deprecate the offerings of the state
Of Idaho, or any other state-far or
near. But to those gentlemen who are
constantly looking north and talking of
the maTvels of Snake river, OF Twin
Falls or Nampa, or the rest of them,
we want to say; You are overlooking
chances entirely as good-and a whole
lot nearer home.
There is not a state in the Union.
if there be a region in the world, which
presents better possibilities to the ear
nest and enterprising citizen. than does
Utah. And the men who have made
an intelligent and manly effort to win
here provide the best possible proof of
the truth of this statement.
Does any man need convincing of
the excellence Of Utah's fruit? If there
is a place on earth where better peaches
grow than are found on the Green river
and the Grand river it is on the plains
about Brigham City. If there be a
place where better Strawberries grow
than they get in Davis county, it is
Utah county. If there be better melons
than those of Weber, they are found in
Cache. The only way to beat the prod
ucts of Utah is to take other Utah
products.
And it Is so with the grain, and the
root crops, and the hay. More and
more it is getting to be so with the
live stock.
No man can go into another state
and get riches without working for
them. And by that simple and honor
able plan he can get them here in Utah.
If these Utah boys who have gone
to Idaho would have taken their rail-
road fare and added it to the money
value Of their effort, they could do bet
ter by far in the state that gave them
birth than in any other under the sun.
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dozen people may have thought your
thought before you thought it,
Don't expect a manager to produce
your play this season. The Merry
Widow was in my Office nearly eight
cen months.
Don't submit your first manuscript
until you have written d second one.
Then so back and rewrite the first
Before submitting a manuscript, 60
out behind the barn and read it aloud:
then ask yourself If you would pay 81
for a seat in the first row TO see it
acted"
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THE Neutrality-suspicious. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SUNDAY SEPT s. 1909

woman a week ago was the more to be
regretted because it was so utterly IN
necessary. Let there be no more
chances in any woman's kitchen.