Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-22

From The Battle
Awful "Give me drink! will
Price OF give You my hard earnings
A Drink. for 1t. Give me u drink!
will pay for it. l Will
give you more than that. I married d
Wife; i took her from her girlhood's
home, and promised to love her and
cherish her. and protect her. All!
An! And have driven her out to
work for me. and / have stolen her
wages, and I have brought them to
YOU. Give me a drink and I will give
you them. More yet. have snatched
the bit of bread from the white lips
of my famlshed child. will give you
that II You will give me drink. More
yet. 1iwlll give-I will give you my
hopes of heaven-body and soul. I
Will barter jewels worth all the king
doms OF the enrth-for what will n man
give in exchange for his SCULPTOR a
dram. Give 1t me!"--John B. Cough,
quoted In Liahona, Oct. H.
Politics A study OF the walls and
In oldcn bill boards that took the
Times. place of newspapers in
Pompeli, over eighteen
hundred years ago, shows that not only
was the ward politics Of the city as
tonishlngly like that of modern cleo
lions with ward meetings. primaries,
and appeals for candidates but that the
Pompeiians We're actually In tho midst
of q hot political campaign when in
A. D. % the city was destroyed by the
fnf
"whooped 1t UP" for their candidates In
the true modern style. Thus the Late
Topers, n club which had it's headquar-
tiers opposite the Forum announced Its
preferences on a bill board as follows:
The Late Topers beg their friends to
vote for Marcus Lavinus Vatia for
Aedile.' Vatia, who was a favorite in
sporting circles, evidently had some
money to spend in the legitimate ex-
penses of his campaign, for all his no-i
tees and announcements are we'll got
up. His rival. Popidius. either did not
look after his campaign, or else had no
money to employ n competent bill-post-
or, for his notices are misspelled, and in
all respects inferior to Vatia's. There
was tavern In the first ward
where q primary was probably held. AT
any rate, q large crowd had assembled,
and the landlord very obligingly pro-.
vided seats. For this he was rewarded
by nm inscription on the wall. The mo-.
tice. freely translated. reads: 20 land
lord, you did well to get us those
chairs!" Unluckily, investigators have
been unable to find any record OF how
this election turned out. Probably tho
frightful, Esd and Gath of August came
before electionsyday rrived,-Harper's
Weekly.Srb- II. u,
Making Both New Mexico and Ari-
Consti- iona are working on their
tItIOns. new constitutions. In one
Democrats control; in the
other Republicans. 1t Is the territories
first step in accepting tho fcongression-
III offer Of statehood. Upon the nature
OF tho work now in process of accom-
plishment much In tho future life of
these new states may depend. The
Oklahoma constitution has been held
UP to general criticism and some rldi-
cule because Its trainers attempted to
cover too much ground. They treat
ed many subjects that ordinarily are
left for legislative action. The Okla
homa constitution has probably re-
ceived more condemnation than it de-
served. But 1t may at least be used
to point q warming. President Taft
recommended to the people OF the terri
tories that they limit their constitu-
tons to u treatment of fundamental
principles. Col. Roosevelt added the
suggestion that they be made easily
nmendable. Only the finished products
will show how these rcconlr,enda-
lions have been observed. 1t will be
long before the constitution of other
new states is written. Only one other
territory Is left That is Hawaii and
a notable change In popular feeling
would be necessary before that could
be admitted to the union on an equality
with n nf1,or OF fou ~.
done In Arizona and New Mexico is
interesting, therefore, as the last of Its
kind for many years at least-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer
Z Recent The collapse OF the Portu-
Crisis In guese monarchy last week
[ Portugal. occasloned small surprise
Il to those who had followed
political affairs in that tiny Kingdom.
The throne went down under the dead
weight OF corruption and extravaganza.
which had alienated all elements, SO
that King Manuel reigned unfriended
and unsupported. and the Republicans
ihad the choosing OF their own time and
opportunity Reports say they had
Squared" the British government-tlie
task that must have been the most In
Sportant, for reasons that will be given:
the overthrow of. tho Crown had been
anticipated for several weeks, and Brit
.ish war ships were In waiting at Gil
sbraltar to hurry to Lisbon for the pro-
lection OF English citizens. However.
the conduct OF tho populace appears
ito have been exemplary. When n
throne falls, nowadays, 1t has generally
reached so hopeless IL position that 1t IS
not worth saving. Just as the deca-
dent Obrenovitch dynasty was swept
into history by the murder Of King
Alexander, inhertor Of his fathers nc-
formulated SINS, so the House of Bra
lganza, shaken to Its foundations byStlie
5follics OF King Carlos, could endure only
two years under Manuel. When The
--LATEST monarch in Europe and the
( Crown Prince met their fate by the bull
lets Of assassins In Llsbon,s streets
two years ago, It was prophesied that
Manuel's reign would be OF the bricfest,
Perhaps IL he had possessed the force
to oyerthrow tho corrupt elements that
surrounded him and to curb the extra
Syasances OF the court, he might have
propped up his throne. But he fol-
lowed the practices OF his father. sunan-s
{dered the seanty resources OF Portugal,
and displayed neither init lntiye nor,
courag &c. Z He 4 Is reputed to have spent
an enormous sum uI,on g Pa lsiaii
dancer for " hom he reseryedTa suite Of