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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
PEARY AND PROMOTION.

1t is hardly likely the nation will
agree with those congressman who can
see no reason TO honor Commander
Peary-or Engineer Peary, as the navy
department insists he shall be called,
We believe the people will be willing to
cOncede he Is entitled to no rank higher
than that of engineer, and we incline
to the opinion that, after all is said and
done, engineer sounds just as good as
commodore, or even admiral.
Peary reached the North Pole. He
didn't bring away any slaves, or gold
or precious stones, nor add anything
now considered valuable to the domain
of the United States. But he did the
phere has been trying to do for a hun
dred years. He won the goal for which
many men of many nations have been
striving.
And he did it in the name of his
country.
The people don't care particularly
what rank Congress gives him. except
as Peary himself would prize it. Bue
the people from Arisnook to San
Diego, from Key West to Puget Sound"
are of opinion that the position that
he did nothing valuable or worthy of
recognition, is wrong.
And they will expect to see him ade-
quately rewarded.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
HELP IN HURRICANE VALLEY.

All the story of Hurricane valley has
never yet been written. II is one Of
the things that may never be entirely
known.
But here is a fragment Of that record:
The people down in section of Wash
ington county have for years and years
been putting in their spare time and
their spare money-and never very
much of either-for the building OF a
canal to carry water to Hurricane valley.
They had the land there in the valley,
and knew it was good. But it needed
water, and there was none near. It
had to be brought many miles of most
difficult building. And these people
were poor.
Finally, they came to the place where
they could go no farther. All the work
of years was like to be lost; and all
their dreams Of prosperity in the beau
tful valley were to be shattered, be-
cause they could not raise the money
to complete that irrigation ditch. And
there the Mormon church authorities
came 10 ttelE rescue. Inc amount OF
money was by no means large-as such
matters are measured nowadays. But
it meant tremendous things for the peo-
pie who had hoped for homes in Hurri-
cane valley,
They completed the ditch with the
money advanced by the church, and
now they are located there in one of
the very choicest spots in all the world
That is no exaggeration. Men of sane
sense who have viewed the little val
ley find it delightful paradise.
The work of many years is perfected.
They have plenty of water. They have
their land, and know it is good. icy
are prosperous, and happy-and a good
deal thankful.
1t is a pretty good story. and deserves
a compIeter telling. For there are other
valleys in these mountains that can
be turned from uselessness into Edens
by d similar manhood, and a similar
spirit of helpfulness.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15

fort of New England and New York and
the rest Of them to legislate for the
west.
For one thing, every foot of public
land in these states should belong to
the states themselves. 1t should not
longer remain the property Of the gen.
eral government. The day when the
government at Washington could best
administer the trust has passed. The
extensive areas have been acquired by
one kind and another of private owner
ship. What is left is made difficult OF
profitable development by the very fact
Of national proprietorship. Settlers are
less able to get homes on the public
domain than they would be if the
states owned the land. AS they should.
The only way to convince the east of
the business of that view is for these
far western governors to get together;
to organize an association which will
stand solidIy together in demanding
their rights.
When that is done, the people Of the
whole United States will be better off,
and the land in the mountains will be-
come homes for actual settlers in five
years time. Under present arrange
ment, the vacant spaces will remain
vacant till the crack of doom.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
DIR. COOK, THE FUGITIVE.

The question presented TO DIR. Fred
erick Cook, explorer, every morning
must be: Did it pay?
He fooled the whole world. He de-
clared he had reached the north pole,
and men accepted his statement in good
faith-believing him, pending the pro-
duction of his proofs, which they as
sumed of course he would be able to
bring.
These things move formally and de-
Hberately; and DR.. Cook had two
months of time after his return to civili-
cation before the day of establishing his
claims could come. In those sixty days
he made a great deal of money in lee
harvested the dollars the interested
world was glad to give him. 1t was
conceded that reaching the north pole
was a tremendous event; and that the
man who first did it was worth see
ing and hearing.
But when the date of proving came,
DR.. Cook had taken his money and dis
appeared. Evidently, he never had
reached the pole. Evidently he had
lied, and had secured d great deal of
money on false pretenses.
Now he has been hiding on the face
of the earth, a fugitive from every man
alive who has so much accomplishment
as is expressed in the ability to read
plain print. All the race now knows
DR.. Cook for a fraud, for a liar for a
dishonest man.
1t is uncertain how much money he
received. But if it could sink the big
gest ship afloat, it wouldn't be enough
to compensate any man for what DR..
Cook has lost
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
LOOK OUT FOR THE RATS.

That complaint Of the prevalence of
rats in Salt Lake is d thing to be con-
sidered. The people cannot afford to
ignore it. If rats are here of the size
and number reported to The Herald
Republican, then it will be very bad
business for the city to disregard the
danger.
For there is danger in it, You know
of the devastation carried by rats from
infected to healthful districts in San
Francisco. Rats with bodies ten inches
long were not developed here. They
have Travelled, Rats in the reported
numbers may be accounted for in two
or three years, for the varmints are
prolific breeders.
But in size and numbers they are a
menace, and the city will do wisely to
take account of them. tt may require
united action, and there is no Pied
Piper here to entice them away. Heroic
and very thorough measures may have
to be adopted. But it must never be
said that rats captured the mountain
country from their breeding grounds in
Salt Lake City.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
JOHN RIeELoW's "RETRosPEc-
TIONS,"

Salt Lakes public library has been
enriched in the past week by the ad-
ditiOn of the three-volume edition of
John Bigelow's "Retrospections." And
no good American citizen but he will
be better for the reading of all of them.
MIR. Bigelow was born in York state
in eighteen-seventeen, and received the
best possible education of his time. He
has been in journalistic and magazine
work for great many years, and has
written unanimously. But in all his
work there is nothing so vital to the
student of American history as these
new books In them ne tells of life as
he saw it. And he was close enough 10
see a great deal. Scarcely a big event
of statecraft, or of commerce, or of
personal action but he had some init
mate view of it, and can speak with that
authority which intimacy imparts.
One might think that in a work so
plainly devoted to his own recoIections
he might have crammed the pages with
the capital l. But he does not There
is less of the first person singular in
these volumes than in many of his
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
BUSINESS AND FARMLAND.

Business men do not expect the fairy
tales 10 come true. They expect con-
flict and difficulty. They are prepared
for trials, for veXatiOns and surprises.
And they are certain of winning in
the end. Clarence Mackay isn't look
ing for ideal things. He knows they
don't come. Business looks good to
him. Here is his view of the present
situation:
If we are all going to wait until
capital ceases to be timid and labor de-
mands less, instead of more, and
statesmen stop seeking popularity, we
might as well shut up shop and go
home. The only attack we have now
is an attack of bugabOOs. The courts
have not been suddenly deprived of
knowledge of law, nor the administra-
ton of patriotism, nor Congress of rep
resentative ability, nor the American
people of common stnse.
Business doesn't wait for the reign
of absolute rest. That region where
falls not hail nor rain, nor any snow,
nor ever wind blows Ioudly''-does not
come within the anticipation of the
business man.
The late Mr.. Hartman made his
greatest progresses in what other men
called hard times. He may have been
an extreme expression of the business
man, but to the extent that they sue
coed they follow his rules. He ventured.
He helped-and greatly-to set idle
wheels going again. And when they
ran smoothly they coined countless dol
lars for him.
Mr.. Mackay finds business good be-
cause he is good; and since there are
thousands of other business men of like
fashion-some bigger, many smaller in
accomplishment-the business of the
nation goes forward handsomely.
But prosperity doesn't come without
effort. Men bring it. His father made
a fortune by working and daring. That
is what must be done by every man
who expects results.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15

We collected So, 200 from a mining man
in settlement Of everything we had or
could find against him. He had made
stake. Henry Ripe, the tentmaker. sad
been telling US for years that he had lots
of claims to turn in and that he was go
ing to get round to it pretty soon. This
mining man owed him S4O0. We did not
know it; Mr.. Ripe had not recorded the
claim. The mining man got broke; Henry
Ripe died; the widow brought it to US
for collection. We will collect it when
the mining man makes another stake. No
matter who owes you, nor how many
claims you have it will pay you to have
them recorded here. Red Streaks of Hon
esty Exist in Everybody We collect
money for all clients who record their
claims with US. Now is the time. We
just ordered 100000 more record cards for
new claims.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15

GOVERNORS GET TOGETHER.

1t will not be easy for the people of
the far west TO impress a right view
of western matters upon the conscious
ness of the east. The way would be
easier if the governors of the far west
country would get together, and make
common cause of their common claims
That east which would not listen to
one legislature, or one governor, would
have to listen to half a dozen speak
ing unitedly through their solid asso-
citation.
1t is not at all surprising that the
east has wrong impression of the far
west. They know nothing about it.
Maybe if the west tried to legislate for
New England and New York, some
eomicaI plumbers would result. Some
comical blunders-and others that are
not at all comical-are made in the eff
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
BRING THEM WITH "WHlTE
COAL"

The city owns the water that comes
down from Big Cottonwood in the con-
duit. and six hundred horsepower could
be developed by the flood that tumbles
joyfuHy but idly into Parley's canyon
reservoir.
Six hundred horsepower would go a
long way TO supply factories with
power.
There is more than a barren equity in
the rights of the old Public Service
company up there i'm Little Cottonwood.
The French people and the Swiss are
paying a good deal OF attention to the
business OF getting electric energy out
of their streams. They have applied a
new name 10 their hydro-electricity.
They call it white coal" The name
has been borrowed for use in this
country.
There is a force that is going all the
tme-day and night Six hundred
horsepower. constantly applied would
drive a pretty big factory. It would
drive d great number of factories of
the size that we are like to get in Salt
Lake. There is power enough there at
the mouth of the Big Cottonwood con-
duit to light the city of Salt Lake-or
very nearly. And the city authorities
are now considering the plan of erect
ing a plant and providing for municipal
lighting.
But is it possible TO encourage fac
tories to locate here with the induce
ment of free power from that abundant
and permanent source?
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
The Spinner.

The spinner twisted her slender thread
As she sat, and spun.
1.-The earth and the heavens are mine -
she said,
'And the moon and sun.
Into my web the sunlight goes,
And the breath of May,
And the crimson life of the new-bloWn
rose
That was born today"
The spinner sang in the hush Of noon,
And her song was low;
"Ah, morning, you pass away too soon,
You are swift to go.
Ny heart O'erflOws like a trimming cup
With its hopes and fears.
Love, come and drink the sweetness up
Ere it turn to tears
The spinner looked at the falling sun.
us it time to rest?
Ny hands are weary, my work is done,
! have wrought my best,
l have spun and woven with patient eyes
And with fingers fleet.
Lo! where the toll of a lifetime lies
In a winding sheetp'
Mary Ainge de We're.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
REASON WARRANTS 1T.

There is a very general recognition of
the fact that Utah's tax system is bad.
There is a very general belief that a
better system can be devised.
If Governor Spry should appoint
tax commission, directing it to draft
a bill for a better system, we are sure
the people of Utah, in their legisla-
ture. would indorse his action. And
there is reason TO believe that the legis-
lature would enact the bill into law.
From the least considered officer to
the final custodian of the cash, our
method is wrong 1t is costly, unfail,
expensive, and 1t fails to insure a good
result. When the assessor finishes his
rounds he tells the state it has less
property than can be found by any one
of half a dozen associations. Sheepmen
know there are more sheep than the
assessor finds. Cattlemen know there
ale more cattle. Farmers know there
is more value in the land. Bankers
know there is more money and mora
securities. Nobody is fooled. Every,
body knows.
They don't find all the property, ana
they undervalue what they do find. II
any man would follow the assessor
around, and buy at the valuation stated
to him-sworn to in his books-that
man would make a mint of money.
out of this pretense, this purpOsed in
accuracy, grows carelessness. The
system is destructive of calculable re
suits. AS the standards of assessment
have vanished, every man is a guide
unto himself And as the obligation
of public duty is erased in the general
custom, the influence of big owners is
more and more effective 1t is not
that the valuations now are low and in
accurate and insufficient. Presently it
will become the fashiOn-as it logically
must-not to return any valuables
at all.
This system is not reasonable. Our
people are like others. They can be
depended on to do the better way. They
viii back the Governor in finding ex-
actly what is the value of the property
IN Utah-all of it. They will back him
in providing payment for a commission
that shall revise the revenue laws Of
the state; simplify them; require an
exact statement of the absolute market
value of the thing taxed.
Then, we believe, the people of Utah
viii enact into law the bill that COM
mission provides-if it be along these
reasonable and sensible lines.
One effect of it would be that the
total taxables of the state would run
TO about six hundred million dollars.
The tax rate would come down TO a
reasonable figure. Every property in
the state, of whatever nature, would
pay its just ana proper share in carry
ing the burdens of the state. No man
would be the worse, even TO the extent
of a penny. And every citizen of Utah
would be richer, and prouder, and more
entitled to claim that respect which is
accorded him who makes reason and
right the basis of his action.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
RECORD II


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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15

OUR DRUG STORE is AT
112-11i SOUTH MAIN ST.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15

earlier works. Not that his personality
or his actual participation would have
rendered it less valuable; but that one
of a republic, and of the men who made
it, than might have been expected.
Any private library will be enriched
by the addition of the "RetrOspections''
of John Bigelow.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15

Secretary knOX's suggestion for q con-
ference on the opium traffic of the
far east. And there are so many things
to look after in this country that maybe
it will be just as well to let the opium
trade take care Of itself for a century
or two.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15
A Touchinu Verse.

At first she touches up her hair
To see if it's in place,
And then with manner debonair
She touches up her face.
A touch TO curls behind her ear,
A touch 10 silken collar,
And then she's off to hubby dear
To touch him for a dollar.
Chicago News
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-15

People who didn't believe the bureau
his success in prophesying a blizzard.
And some time, maybe, he will try his
talents on fair weather.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-11-10

have ever been trained to goodness,
intelligence and usefulness and a fine
tradition of charity and public serv-
ice.
Gifted with a quick and practical
mind, a capacity for hard work, and
that rarest Of all attributes, common
sense. she has persistently made the
most Of herself and her opportunities.
She can hold her own in French, Ger
man and Italian; she used to be a
keen musician, and she Is still an e
pert needlewoman; before travelling
with her husband to any new part of
the empire she would diligently read
up all that was to be known about 1t,
But the dominating interest of her
life outside her home has been philan-
,thropy. Even now, says McClure's
Magazine, when she is the mother Of
six healthy, happy, frank-looking chill
dren-ive boys and one girl-who are
the delight of the London crowds, she
remains unwearied in her works Of
charity and full Of practically and the
sympathy that is born of knowledge
in choosing the movement of her
benef1ciaries, usually children, she
means to assist, and in seeing that
they are assisted In the most effec-
tive way. She has the administrative
and all the other aptitudes that go to
make a sensible mother and a most
competent mistress of a household.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-11-10
AN INTOLERABLE ITCHING

Gust about two years ago, some
form of humor appeared ON my scalp.
The beginning was a slight itching but
it grew steadily worse until, when l
combed my hair, the scalp became
raw and the ends of the comb-teeth
would be wet with blood. Most of the
time there was an intolerable itching,
in a painful, burning way, very much
as a bad, raw burn, if deep, will itch
and smart when first beginning to
heal. Combing my hair was positive
torture. My hair was long and tan
gled terribly because of the blood and
scabs. This continued growing worse
and over half my hair fell out. was
in despair, really afraid of becoming
totally bald.
Sometimes the pain was SO great
that, when partially awake, l would
scratch the worst places so that my
finger-tips would be bloody. l could
not sleep we'll and, after being asleep
a short time, that awful singing pain
would commence and then l would
wake up nearly wild with the torture.
A neighbor said 1t must be salt rheum.
Having used Cuticura Soap merely as
a toilet soap before, I now decided to
order a set Of the Cuticura Remedies
-Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills.
l used them according to directions
for perhaps six weeks, then left off,
as the disease seemed to be eradi-
Gated, but toward spring, eighteen
months ago, there was a slight re-
turn of the scalp humor. | cont
menced the Cuticura treatment at
once, SO had very little trouble. On
my scalp l used about one half a cake
of Cuticura Soap and half a box of
Cuticura Ointment in all. The first
time l took six or seven bottles of Gu
ticura Pills and the last time three
bo~ttles4-neither an expensive or te-
dious treatment. Since then l have
had no scalp trouble Of any kind.
Standing up, with my hair unbound, 1t
comes to my knees and had it not been
for Cuticura | should doubtless be
wholly bald.
This Is a voluntary, unsolicited tes-
timonial and I take pleasure in writing
1t, hoping my experience may help
someone else. Miss Lillian Brown,
R. F. D. ], Liberty, Me-, Oct. 20, 1909"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-11-10
A Complaint.


We're for women first, last and all
the time. We like her beautiful or
plain, clever or just ordinary; witty
or not; shapely or pudgy, but con-
found 1t, we do wish that each and ev-
cry one of them would get over the
notion that a mar has no right to
turn the pages of a newspaper just
because he's wedged against her in
a street car. We've been frozen by a
look, stabbed by a sheer and wounded
to the quick by a sigh just because
we've tried to read the story contin-
ued on page seven, column five, and
the thing that hurts the most is that
we still think that we had a perfect
right to do so.-Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-11-10
TRIBUTE TO JUDGE ANDERSON.
Roosevelts outburst Condemned by,
Those Who Know the Indiana
Jurist.

Some people were surprised and
shocked at Mr.. Roosevelt's outburstI
against Judge A. H. Anderson, and. in,
deed, 1t is shocking. But there is
nothing surprising about 1t. It hurts
only because 1t is directed against a,
man whom we all know and honor.
But Judge Anderson stands no higher
tnan other men and women whom Mr..
Roosevelt has traduced. Long ago he
denounced Mr.. Whitney Of Boston az
a mar, and many OF those who are now,
stirred to anger meekly accepted the.
Characterization. Mr.. Roosevelt at
tackled Doctor Long in the same brutal.
FASHION, but again the people were
silent, and even approving. Senator
T1llman who, whatever his faults may
be, Is a truthful man, was abused by
Mr.. Roosevelt. So We might go
through the list. But we will only
add the name of a highly respected
and truthful lady, Mrs. Bellamy Stor-
er, who also was denounced by Theo-
dore Roosevelt. These people we did
not know, and so we were not out
ragged at the Rooseveltian assault on
them. But we do know Judge Ander-
son, know him as an honest and high
minded gentleman and a Just and ub-
right Judge. In other words, the thing
is brought directly home to us. We
ought now to be able to see that the
reputation of other people is as dear
to them and their friends and neigh
bors as Is Judge Anderson's reputa-
ton to him and to us. The assault
on Judge Anderson was quite in keep
ing with the record and career of the
man who made it. He has been doing
just that sort of thing for years. He
has denounced other judges, notably
Judge Humphreys. Only the other
day he spoke of certain Justices of the
Supreme court of the United States
as "fossilized." What, therefore, he
said about Judge Anderson is about
what we might have expected. IT. is
not at all necessary to defend the
Judge In this community or state. But
1t is necessary to expose and con-
denim utterly the theory that judges
are bound to rule as presidents think
they ought to rule.-Indianapolis
News.