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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
ONLY WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED

The brutality of police officers, as re-
ported by reputable citizens, is equalled
only by the indifference of the chief to
the moral corruption that is flooding the
streets. But what is to be expected?
II government can rise no higher than
It's source. the level is determined be-
forehand.
The present administration is not the
creation of American men and women
determined to give to a city an hon.
est, capable. and In every way worthy
government. 1t is the result of a plot
conceived by men animated by the low
est of passions. and carried out by
means of deception. hypocricy and
falsehood. Gamblers. saloon keepers,
natics combined. And thus q controll-
ing force was organized. and one result
Is corrupt POLICE service. There are
many good men on the police force.
men OF excellent character, but we
understand they are not free to do their
duty
While the dlsreputable organ is howl
ing Itself hoarsc on 'polygamy' some
men in the service OF the dominant
party arc giving brutal exhibitions in
public. and others. as we are told, are
dickering with street walkers for a por-
ton of their sin-stafned earnings. II
the organ. by It's anti-"Mormon"
howls. hopes TO draw attention from
the awful conditions that prevail un-
der such rule, and. no doubt.
with its full sanction. It IS mistaken.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

DIR. Harvey w. Wylic declares that
the Constitution of the United States
is unsuIted TO the needs of the present
generation. The defect" he points out
is that provision OF the Constitution re-
lating TO Interstate commerce and
which compcls the federal government
packing industry to articles intended
for Interstate commerce. In other
words. the famous chief of the poison
squad wants absolute power to dictate
what the people shall eat, when they
shall eat and how they shall eat 1t,
What great men the country Is brood
Ing when the Constitution is too small
for them TO operate under.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
J them to lower scales of employment

them TO lower scales OF employment.
He said:
What is the effect of the liquor traf-
fic on the standard of living of the
people? Is there any influence gone out
from the saloon that has helped TO
make men and women better? The
labor movement Is essentially n moral
| movement. 1t stands for equal OPP
| portunity for men and women. though
II believes that 1t should be made more
easily possible for women to become
home-makers- Who could deny that
the liquor traffic was driving women TO
work in factories. in workshops, and at
| washtubs, who ought not to be there?
| The trade-union movement was OPP
posed to child labor, yet who would
deny that the liquor traffic was driving
into industrial life boys and girls who
should be In the school or on the play
ground? The liquor traffic tended to
decrease wages, never to increase them.
The use of alcohol made workmen less
sidlful, and drove men to lower scales
of employment and reward. Every
cent spent in the liquor business was
wasted, bringing no social benefit or
moral uplift.''
Another speaker who proclaimed war
upon the saloon was Thomas L. Lewis.
president OF the United Mine Workers.
He said that there Is a clause in the
constitution OF the organization, for
bidding any member to sell intoxicants,
even at picnic. He added that he
did not regard the saloon as neces-
sary evil, and closed as follows;
because the liquor traffic tends to
cnslave the people, to make them salts
fled with improper conditions. and
keep them ignorant. the leaders of the
tradc-union movement are called on
to fight the saloon
Friends of good government. of the
publication of public morals. and the
bettcrmcnt of the conditions of labor
ers, will hail these official declarations
or war, by prominent labor leaders.
upon the liquor traffic, with joy and
If this policy is carried
out, labor will rise to Importance and |
power, never before attained. 1t will |
add tremendous moral force to phys |
cal power. The words quoted should |
be carefully considered
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

L suggested to General Butler that
1t might be a good plan TO appoint
this man to some subordinate place In
the custom house and told all about
him
Send him to me tomorrow eve
ming, at 10 o'clock, said the general.
The result of that meeting was
that the man In question became a
custom house employe. He was a
faithful servant, did good work. but
he had one failing. He would oc-
casional1y drink more than was good
for him-but always after office
hours.
"One evening he was sitting in the
lobby of the St Charles hotel, con-
slderably the worse for his jolliHca-
ton, and when he was in that condi-
ton, he was likely to say imprudent
things After a while General Butler
came into the hotel and my friend,
spying him, said in a stage whisper
to someone nearby.
Look; there goes old Cockeye"
General Butler turned. having
caught the epithet. He fixed that
pentrating but oblique eye of his with
recognized him. Then, without a word.
he walked on
MY friend was made sober in an in
slant by that look. Almost distracted
by the thought that he was doomed to
lose his custom house position he
came to my room at midnight, woke
me up, told me what he had said and
asked what he should do. My answer
was that the only thing he could do
was to call upon General Butler in
the morning and apologize for his con-
duct
''The next morning my friend went
to General Buffers headquarters and
waited his turn; a long line of callers
were ahead of him. At last, trembling
and not knowing what to say. he
stood before the General. old Cockeye
fixed that penetrating but oblique eye
upon him so flercely that he expected
any moment to hear that ho was under
arrest and would be shot at sundown.
For what seemed an age the general
glared at the poor man. Then he
spoke.
"'Mr. So-and-So, he said. L
would give ten thousand dollars if
could get as drunk as you were last
night. and be as sober as you are this
morning. Get back to your work. Good
morning."
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
LABOR AND THE SALOON.

War upon the saloon has been de-
clared by labor. This was evident in
the uttcrances of prominent labor lead
ers at the convention of the American
Federation OF Labor recently held at
Toronto. Canada. At that meeting
Samuel Gompers declared that "the
time has come when the saloon and the
labor movement must be divorced"
John Mitchell ex-prcsident of the
United Mine Workers. said;
Poverty has driven many strong
man to drink, and drink has driven
many a strong man to poverty. I am
not at all impressed with the arFu-
ment that IL you close down the liquor
traffic you bring about a calamity
Rather the contrary. There is a re-
adjustment OF society. Nothing has
done more TO bring misery upon inno-
cent women and children than the
money spent in drink. No man has
III he has first provided for his family
earn enough to give his family all the
comforts they deserve"
Mr.. John Il. Lennon. treasurer of the
Federation. declared that there IS no
redeeming feature in the saloon" He
discussed It's relation to wages and the
standard of living, and maintained that
the saloon had decreased wages, rem
dered workmon less skillful. and driven
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
A TIMELY SUGGESTION

In the Delineator for January appears
a fervent plea to newspapers for the
segregation OF criminal news" from
the rest Of the contents of the paper.
MIS- Sarah S. Platt Decker. former
president Of the Federation of Womens'
clubs, Is the author OF the article. Size
says that If scandals. horrors. and in
decent happenings must be published
for commercial reasons. the publishers
might segregate them. Every i'm
portant daily" she says. "has now y
separate page for Its business readers
Stocks. bonds, business quotations. etc.
are never found among local hapnen-
ings. educational news or foreign dis
patches. These divisions OF the daily
paper are familiar and satisfactory. Is
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
MEMORIAL SERVICES.

For years it mas been the custom In
fhe wards throughout the Stakes OF
Zion to commemorate the birthday OF
the Prophet Joseph. by special services,
on the Sunday nearest the date OF that
anniversary. In accordance with TINS
practice We suggest that Sunday. Dec.
&c, this year. be devoted to the memory
of the great Prophet of this dispensa-
ton. and that appropriate services be
held In the Sunday schools. ward houses
and other places where the religious
services of the Church arc held. on
that day.
JOSEPH f. SMITH,
JOHN r. WINDERs.
ANTHON II. .LUND.
First Presidency
~uIt Lake City, Dec. II. 1909
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

One of the most talented of the
group of poets and writers of fiction
who. in the early ffties. earned their
living In the New York Custom house,
was Theodore X. Thorpe. He had as
associates there Richard Grant White
Richard III. Stoddard. Parke Goodwin.
Fitzhugh Ludlow, and. a little earlier.
Fitzgreene Halleck. who composed in his
custom house days the poem by which
he is best known, Marco Bozarris. "
The literary mon OF that day were OF
the opinion that Thorpe would be as
surely remembered by future genera
. tions as any member of tho literary
group of the New York custom house.
But they were mistaken
Mr.. Thorpe was an old man when 1
SAW him-rather tall, gray-haired and,
as I now recollect him. with a small
mustache. He was not the typical
poet in appearance. and was, in fact,
quite as much of a humorist In his
private life as a dreamer, He was very
fond of telling anecdotally some of his
early experiences as an editor. and
especially of has association with Cen
eral Benjamin +. Butler. Many were
the stories that he told me of that
picturesque figure but none threw such
an interesting light on Butler as did
the story of the manner In which he
treated a man who had practically in
suited him.
After General Butler had captured
New Orleans. said Mr.. Thorpe, land
established military government
there, he, of course, took charge of the
custom house. He knew that I had
been editor at one time of the New
Orleans Bee. and so was familiar with
the city. He also knew that [ had
been an employe of the custom
house In New York City and had
some knowledge of the work of the
surveyors department He therefore
asked me to accept appointment as
surveyor of the New Orleans custom
house. and, to tell the truth now, l was
very glad of it, for at that time / was
not financially very prosperous.
II had known of a citizen of New
Orleans. a man of about my own age.
who had been a Union man at a time
when 1t was almost dangerous TO ex-
press Union sentiments. He was a man
of courage. and he stuck to his convic-
tions. But the war. and his Union pro-
civities, had cost him all he possessed,
and he was having hard work to make
a bare living.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
PERJURY A COMMON CRIME.
Philadelphia Record

Even a casual observer cannot have
failed to notice that there Is much
false evidence given in our courts, The
fact is thrust upon ones attention
Not only in sensational murder trials.
but in almost every civil proceeding or
Guasi-judicial investigation which is
of sufficient general interest to gain
publicity. tho reported testimony is
always contradictory. and nearly all
ways to such a degree as to be ut
terly irreconcilable. There seems to
be little or no regard for the sanctity
of an oath; aud yet with this multi
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
IN THE COAL PIT SEVENTY YEARS
London Times.

Joseph Walton of Darklands, Swad-
lincote. Burton. who has just retired to
spend the evening Of life in a house
next to that in which he was born, has
achieved the remarkable record of
working full time In coal pit when
close on 80 years of age. He has
worked as a miner for about seventy
years. He remembers the time when
Golfers worked twelve hours a day for
half crown, and he was one of the
first to Join the Miners association.
Walton was one of family of seven
teen, and has two octogenarian broth
ers living.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
DEsERET EVENING NEWS TUESDAY DECEMBER

land. 1t simply means that the coal
barons are preparing the people for an
other raise In the price of fuel II It
is made the people Will have to stand
IT and should not complain for high
prices mean not plnchlng to get along
but prosperity.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

exchange children. BY next spring
they hopc to have IN operation a
scheme by which the offspring OF Ger
man socialists win be given In tempo
rary exchange for the children of for
eign socialists. By this means it is
hoped TO efface national prc1udices.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

So Mr.. Barlow says the reports OF
citizens concerning the brutality to
which prisoners have been subjected is
another attempt TO assassinate his
character. Why should those SitIzons
have any desire to assassinate his char
acterf II they had they would have
gone to his own organ with their COM
plants. for everyone knows that char
acter assassination is the main business
OF that paper.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
JUST FOR FUN
The Best Laid Plans. Etc,

'Maud's father objected to the man
she wanted to marry. and she object
ed to the man he wanted her TO marry,
but finally they agreed on Il tiird
party"
And so she's going to marry the
compromise"
mo the man objects. Boston Tran
script.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Having confirmed Judge Horace
Lurton as the successor to the late
Justice Peckham on the supreme bench
of the United States. the Senate must
have concluded that notwithstanding
his age he is not too old to learn.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

The latest proposition In regard to
the Nicaraguan situation is that the
United States singly or Jointly with
Mexico extend a protectorate over
Nicaragua 1t shouldn't be done
Usually a protectorate is nothing but
a Shining process preliminary TO
swallowing the country over which It
is extended.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

plicIty OF instances OF reckless or
wicked swearing one rarely hears a
word OF reproof from the bench. and,
to fudge from the number OF prosecu-
tions. perjury would seem to be the
rarest OF crimes.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Captain Richmond P. Hobson. re-
preventative from Alabama, has given
warning of the nations unpreparcd-
Mess for war. Let the gentleman from
Here We Rest" give the country a
rest.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

The defendant in notorious divorce
case now on trial In New York says
that she was restrained OF her liberty.
Her testimony shows that she was not
restrained OF her tongue.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
Genealogical.

she-How far can your ancestry be
traced?
He-Well. when my grandfather ie-
signed his position as cashier Of a
county bank they traced him rs far as
China, but he got away.-Pittsburg OBJ
server.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

I as peaceful as she can make them. Her
testamentary provisions are for her
own people. They viii not forget her.
She Is, in sense. the type of race
that is passing away faster than the
North American Indians
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Dispatches from Bluefields say that
Ielaya's resignation is the veriest pre-
tense. To prove that it is not pre-
tense. let the Nicaragunn ex-presIdent
go to Africa
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
Like the Bee.

BIobbs-Why do you liken HarduDpe
to the busy bee? He's not particularly
Industrious. Is he2
Slobbs-Oh. no; 1t Isn't that; but
nearly every one he touches gets stung.
--PhIladelphia Record.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

TEX Richards says that Governor
Spry will be behind him in the Jerries-
johnson fight, Undoubtedly, but In a
way entirely different from what he
anticipates.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

The pot still boils in Nicaragua and
probably will for long time, for even
when there is seeming peace in that
unhappy land the fires of revolution are
never put out but only banked.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

The taking of testimony in the
Brownsville case has begun again. For
being loDg-drawn out this case bids
fair to rival that of Poor Peter PEBBLES
against Plainstanes.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

II too much to ask that the great jour
nails help US, who are otherwise help
less, by also establishing what may
be called the Crime Department oil
Criminal Happenings?' We implore
that all unpleasant records be gathered
upon a detached sheet. so that every
mother may be able to see to 1t that
the latest murder trial reports and like
filth shall be merrily burning in the
CRATE before the children come 10
breakfast We can not do this un-
aided"
We are pleased that the lady has
called attention to this. 1t would not
be entirely impractlcable. perhaps, to
confine all the ncws OF the charac. er
mentioned to lose sheet. but 1t would
be still better TO make 1t n practice not
to publish anything but what can be
read in family circle.
There Is no doubt that newspaper
reading has an influence for good OF
for evil. upon the readers. An oak
land dispatch OF Dec. 10 told the fol-
lowing awful story:
After reading the accounts OF two
murders and suicides In tho morning
papers, Daniel b. Croft shot his wife
here today and then turned the pistol
on himself with fatal results. While
he was reading the paper Croft had &c
marked to his sistcr-in-law:
What IL / should do the same
thing?'"
There can be no doubt that the i'm
preston made upon the weak brain Of
this man. by the reading of the morn
Ing papers was such as TO prompt him
to an enactment of the horrible drama
exercises an extraordinary influence up
on the human mind. What we hear
and see makes an impression. for good
or for evil
The Oakland story is but another
Illustration of the necessity of being
careful as to the choice of newspapers
introduced into the family.
The Catholic Advance tells the story
OF a man who, after reading in New
York paper, an account of a suicide,
In which was depicted with due atten-
ton to detail. how 1t was done. and how
1t could be. and what kind of pistol was
used. and where it was bought. and
how the trigger was pulled, and the
blood flowed. and the dogs gathered
and shifted, and how the patrol wagon
came. etc. etc, got into the notion
TO do likewise. And so he went TO the
park and fired his pistol into his head.
but he was. only stunned. When ar
rested he acknowledged he got the no.
tion to shoot himself into hell by read
ing the paper which the Advance calls
A vacuum cleaner and gathcrer of
backyard off-fall."
1t is hign time for a reform move
ment. with the object in view of mini
MIXING tho evils OF journalism that
disseminates news" in such a man.
ner as to encourage crime
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

According to special correspondence
TO the New York World. Socialists at
LeiPsic. Germany. have hit upon a
novel plan for the promotion of the
brotherhood OF man, They propose to
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
Rightly Named.

An old farmer, on finding his pigs
had eaten most of his cabbages, cast
dsgusted look at the pen. and said.
"Well. tho good Lord named hogs
right, for hogs is hogs."-The House
keeper.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

General Estrada wants Uncle Sam
to recognize him. Uncle Sam says
"Howdye" to almost everybody. but he
has formal introductions TO few.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY

By j e. Edwards-

This daily incden
in Who'll
enwho
from
port3nt tho Human
T
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

It's the shortest day in the year, but
it takes long purse to meet Its de-
mands.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Tribune denials are not worth a
great deal more than protestations of
innocence heard in criminal courts.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

The kind of fiattery people like best
is to have their own estimate of them
selves told to them in the language Of
another.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Save your pennies and in time you
may have moro than are legal tender
for one debt.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
unfortunate.

"Yes, Mr.. Miggs, I've been collecting
stamps since | was u girl"
my word, Your collection ought to
be valuable. ."-Tatlcr.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Zelaya may cry Peace, peace," but
Estrada says there is no peace.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Caesar crossed the Rubicon and
Colonel Roosevelt has crossed Victoria
Nyanza.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

The result of the sugar fraud cases
trial seemingly established the theory
that informing Is the best policy.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

With most folks culture is a thing
talked about but not seen,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

The long. low cry. There Is a coal
famine threatened" is heard In the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Knowledge is power. So is trust,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

These days every home is shlp-shop-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

The cold spell is bent if not broken.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21

Fine feathers make big bills.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1909-01-28
Salary Of Judges Raised.

Washington. Jan. pa debate on
the propriety OF increasing salaries
OF federal oircutt and district judges
consumed nearly the entire time OF
the senate yesterday, with the reeult
that the compensation OF the twenty.
nine circuit judges was increased
from $1,000 to $4,000. and that OF
eighty-four district Judges from $4,000
to 5000.
Senator Borah. who had offered
amendments reducing the increases
OF salary recommended by the COM
mittee on appropriations. declared
that the action Of the senate in In.
oreaeing the ~sslary of the president
to 100000. was in violation of the
spirit OF the constitution, and would
never have been taken before er dur
ing the recent political campaign.