The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-07-23
BRIEF TELEGRAMS

Dublin.-JohA Redmond. T. p
O'Connor and Joseph Deviin are mab
ing preparations for their American
trip. While the date of their depart,
ure has not been definitely announced
they probably will sail late in August
and will remain in the United States
several weeks They are in constan:
communication with the leaders of
| Irish thought in the United States,
| and in their itinerary will be guided
largely by the wishes of their Ameri-
| can friends
Mr.. Redmond is watching closely
| the developments of the conference
which is seeking to find some way out
| of the British constitutional muddle.
He is not hopeful, but if the British
leaders should reach an agreement
which is not inimical to home rule he
will support it. If any attempt is
made, however, to sidetrack home
rule, there will be trouble. Mr.. Red
mond does not, like some parliament
tarians, seize upon any excuse to get
upon his feet, but rarely rises unless
he has something to say. And he says
1t with sledge-hammer emphasis and
diction that invariably attracts all the
shirkers back to the green benches"
London.-'Pleae have mercy on me
and withdraw my offer to buy dead
flies and blue bottles" writes Aid
Mattison of Middlesboro to a local
newspaper. Four days ago Mr. Mat
tlson, aware of the baleful influences
of house flies and blue bottles on the |
public health, proposed, through the |
sanitary department to pay a half
penny for every fifty flies and a penny
for every twelve blue bottles deliv-
or min 4n
ton office. His offer stirred the wags
in Middlesboro. One wrote to Mr..
Mattison: "Will you quote me a price
on grand daddy long-legs? 1 can de-
liver choice lot"
Another wrote: What is your quo
tation today on gnats and feas?"
This was the funny side of Mr. Mat
tison's adventure into practical philan-
thropy, but it also had its serious side
for him
Flies and blue cottles arrived at the
corporation office by the thousands
The corporation office reeked with the
odor OF the disease breeders. Chill .
1ren besieged filth heaps looking for !
MES, and their mothers are after Mr.. :
Mattlson's scalp. Hence the alder =
mans frantic cry through the news
papers to call off the hunt. He is out :
f15 (s75) in cash.
uon mind that" he writes
but L have 100000 dead flies on INV e
lands and have lost my reputation. a
wanted to promote the public health c
'ut I'm afraid I'm going to give every r
10Y In town some infectious disease" v
Sydney.-The progressive land tax. c
which Is the most Immediately impor- c
ant item of the labor program, was Fl
learly defined last year in the biII Fl
ihfch Mr.. Fishers government laid on a
he table of the house before IT was fl
xpelled from Office. The tax is To he
eVied on the reasonable market value W
the land, assuming that the actual cl
improvements thereon had not been in
lade. This sounds highly theoret- b,
al. but the New South Wales land d,
TX has been levied in that fashion for OF
lany years, and recent resumptions ia
low that owners did not suffer bv if ei
ne tendency has always been to un- p
ervalue. Absentees Gncluding extra 10
ustrallan companies and conpanies
which more than two-fifths of the
lares are held by absentees) pay, on ce
le whole value; others on the value tn