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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
BUSINESS AND TRADE.

Tho business features OF this region
are largely confined just now TO the re-
sorts. TO amusements, and to the foster
ing of entertainments of various xmas
The week has been distinguished by al
number of these, of which American
Day at Lagoon on Thursday last was
a fine example. The general business
of the city shows a gratifying advance
in the increase Of 1916 per cent IN the
bank clearances as compared with the
corresponding week last year Mer-
chants report satisfactory business IN
various lines. Discount sales have been
taken advantage Of, and the merchants
arc preparing for buying to satisfy
their fall trade, which is looked for
ward to with bright anticipations.
In realty the most important deal OF
the week was the forming Of the NJ. IL
Walker Realty Company, with capi
talization of a million dollars, TO take
over the property at the northeast cor
ner of Main and Second South streets,
and erect a ten to fourteen-story mod
ern skyscraper thereon. The corner
front is S41b feet on Main street and
1861 feet on Second South. Walker
Brothers bank will occupy the corner
on the ground floor, The realty market
in general has gone through some i'm
provements, with increased inquiry and
| activities on property on the benches,
The building operations are on con-
siderable scale all the time, and the sea-
son will certainly show good results in
this line
Crop reports throughout the State
continue good, save only as to alfalfa,
which is troubled with the weevil. The
season will be an excellent one agri'
culturally in this State.
The purchasing agents, storekeepers
and engineers of the Hartman railway
system held a series of meetings here
and transacted much business during
The week.
The big suit of the coal companies
against the railroads 10 establish conf
mercial transportation rates from Utah
coal mines to Idaho Nevada, and other
commonwealth, is concluded, with g
good showing made.
The Bingham and Garfield line is vel
along, and its completion is announced
this week
The extension of the Thirteenth East
street car line to the new high schoo
site is to begin this week.
a new trolley line is planned from
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
sMooT ON CONSERVATION.

We arc assured at last on behalf of
Apostle-Senator Smoot that he Is not
in favor OF the Roosevelt policies of
conservation. This is doubtless an
evolution on his part similar TO the
evolution that has gone forward in his
inner consciousness as to the deslra-
bility of revising the tariff law
remodeling schedule x, on wool Smoot
has been an outspoken, blatant con"
servationist right along. At the con.
vention of Western Governors in this
city last year Smoot gave the lie
specifically to Governor Brady, and
more Indirectly to other attendants at
that convention who were striving for
Western rights and against the narrow,
restricted conservation policies repre-
sented by the Roosevelt -Pinchot fad.
At that time Smoot was a rabid con,
servationist, without qualification or
limitation. He went "the whole hog, -
and would hear of nothing but that
Pinchot should be supported right up
10 bue Hduulc, WllHouI question VI
qualification.
Now, however, we are assured that,
although Smoot ''has been in full ac-
cord with the policy of Presidents
Taft and Roosevelt on the question of
conservation, yet "he has always
felt that the West had legitimate
complaint. - He is now represented as
saying that "the East has always had
all to gain and nothing to lose by the
conservation policy, as its land is oc-
cupied, while the West, with boundless
room and need for settlers, has been
constantly opposed to any radical
policy which withdrew public land from
entry, and made it impossible to buiId
homes there for homeseekers. The
Tribune, IN the language form which
Smoot best understands, feels to con.
graduate him upon his change of
view on this question, and cannot but
think that his close reading of The
Tribune has shaken him out Of the
Pinchot rut, and enlarged his view
so that he now understands as he did
not before, that the West has superior
rights in this matter of conservation,
and should not be dictated to by the
East on that question,
The opposition Of the West to the
Roosevelt-Pinchot conservation policies
took the Impractical form at the Gov
ernors' convention of demanding that
The public lands be turned over to the
States. This, as The Tribune r,ninted
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ciple. If the Louisiana sugar planters
are not willing to do this, then the le'
gitimate situation is that they must
bear the consequences of their own di-
vided allegiance. They can hardly eS-
pect that the Senators from the North,
who have no particular interest IN
Louisiana, will protect the Louisiana
planters against the tendencies and de-
terminations of their own party and
their own Congressman. AS long as
those planters remain Democrats they
should take the consequences of their
Democracy
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both his legs. So colored man VINO
meets the conditions of the ordinance
gets the sole license.
THE AGREEMENT RATIFIED.

The Canadian reciprocity agreement
passed the Senate Yesterday according
to schedule The vote IN favor was
fifty.three, the vote against was
twenty-seven. If one more vote III IA
vor had been cast. the vote would nave
been exactly two thirds, which is the
vote necessary to ratify q treaty. II
it could be possible that the Supreme
Court on a contest which might arise,
would declare that this agreement is IN
fact treaty, and required two-thlrds
of the Senate to ratify, this shortage OF
one vote would be unfortunate.
However, President Taft is one OF
the first lawyers Of the country him
self, and he doubtless understands the
legal status of this agreement fully as
well as any judge can do. And re-
lying upon his legal judgment, which
also is concurred in by most of the law
yers in Congress, doubtless the vote
will be held to be sufficient. The
agreement being in the form OF a BILL
originated in the House, where 1t
passed April 21st. by vote of 2o7 to
eighty-nine, and the enactment is the
Joint work OF both houses Of Congress.
Under the rules the bill will not be
enrolled and signed for presentation
to the President before next Wednes-
day. as the House will not be in session
until that date. The enrolled bills
must be signed in open session by the
Speaker Of the House and the President
of the Senate And so. for the final
act in making this agreement law,
the country will have to wait until
Wednesday next.
The bill embodying the agreement
having been passed the controversy is
now over so far as that is concerned,
And now the Senate will vote on vari-
ous other propositions, principally ad-
vcrsely. and by the middle Of next
month, if not before, the extra session
will have adjourned.
The country is TO be congratulated
upon the passage of this bill, although
Smoot was against it., and this, of course,
carried the vote of both of the Utah
Senators. Smoot voted actually against
it, Sutherland was paired against 1T.
And SO in this matter Utah, along
with Wyoming, seeks the tail end of
the procession by reason OF the reac-
tionary character of the Apostle which
we have TO represent us in the upper
branch Of Congress.
The Republican vote was more nearly
balanced upon this measure than has
been supposed. Twenty -four Repub-
licans voted against the bill, and TWEEN,
ty-one in favor of it. Three Democrats
voted against, and tbirty-two in ia
vor.
So that in the Senate, as in the
House, the strength of the support OF
the President came from the Demo
cratic side.
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NOT FOR SIN.

Whenever there is a great calamity,
there is never wanting some narrow
minded bigot to allege that the reason
for the calamity is that somebody or
some community had been guilty of
gross sin. Such persons have never
caught up with the modern truth that
natural causes bring on these phenom'
ena, without the least regard to tho
moral welfare or conditions Of the
people who suffer.
The most recent instance that has oc-
Cured in this line is the case of the
Rev. l., Bird of the Oscoda M. E.
church in Michigan. Oscoda was de-
stroyed at the same time that Au
Sable was destroyed in the forest fires.
Rev. L. Bird declares that it was the
curse of God which destroyed his home
town. He goes on to say that he had
warned the people repeatedly to aban'
don their sins and they would not, and
then, becoming exasperated at their
obduraey, he made specific prophecy
from his pulpit that retribution was at
hand; and he now points to the full
filment of that prophecy in the destruc-
tion of the towns by the forest fires.
But the Detroit Free Press points out
that carelessness. waste, and indiffer-
ence brought on the inevitable. 1t
says that the people of that region are
largely blameworthy themselves for
1 H. bnt At
Fires had been burning three weeks in
plain view Of the cities, but no one
seemed to pay any attention to them,
or TO listen TO any warning of danger
Undoubtedly the true explanation is
given by Eugene E. Thompson, fire
chief of Oscoda. who says that though
on Sunday squad Of men fought the
fire and got it under control, on Mon,
! day they paid no attention to it, and
on Tuesday the high wind famed it
until it was ready for its work of de,
struction.
Those who tried to warn the people
against the danger say that the fire
might have been prevented by a man
plough and team OF horses drawing
! few burrows in the way of the ad
vancing flame. The peril from the
fires was augmented by the fact that
the people in the lumber region paid
no attention to clearing up the limb:
after the trees were cut down. The
whole surface of the ground was GOV.
cred with brush piles that were dry
and that would burn like tinder A
railroad spark would inevitably Sc,
them afire, and even "A moderate vino
would fan the fire into fierce con
suming flame. The various forest
rangers, in place of being helped in
their work. were derided for theil
anxiety, and were assured that there
was no danger.
In view Of these facts, il is who'll,
aside from the question to speak of tn
destruction from the forest fires be
ing visitation for sin: for it mus
be conceded that the fires were simply
the inevitable results of prevaiJin,
conditions. When the cleaning up o
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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING, JULY % 1911

out at the time, is absolutely out OF
the question. The National Govern
ment must administer the National 40
main as long as there is any National
domain to administer. II is Impossible
that the public domain should be
transferred TO the States. But 1T Is
not impossible TO grant to citizens of
the United States the Same rights on
the public domain that is left that
they have had through immemorlal
usage on the public domain OF the
United States from tho first settlement
Of the country this side OF the
Allegheny mountains. The land has al
ways been open and free to the pioneer,
the settler, and the homeseeker. 1t
should remain so now. There has never
been any question heretofore but that
the pioneer settler has the right to
enter upon the public domain, make his
home and utilize individually and by
communities the natural facilities and
resources at hand. There has never
been any question but that pioneer
community might utilize the water
power for the establishment of saw
mills, grist mills, and other power pur'
poses There has never been any ques-
tion but that they could open coal mines
and use the timber necessary to make
their homes and reclaim the wilderness
to civilization. There has never been
the faintest opposition on the part OF
the Government OF Of public officials to
settlers doing all these things and
utilizing the public domain and it's ap-
purtenances to the best advantage
of the new community; all this IN
the past. But in recent years there has
sprung up fad that where settlers gd
upon the public domain, open coa
mines, develop and use water power
cut the timber that they need, and in
fact do as settlers have always done
in the new regions of the United States
that these new settlers in our time are
robbing the public, and must be driver
off the public domain and restrained
from despoiling the public property
1t is all at once held that the public
have superior rights to the rights OF
any individual, and that where indi
viduals profit at the public expense
that this is public robbery,
This new view utterly loses sight OF
the fact that the public gets no ad
vantage from lands, water powers, OF
mines held in their unused and unde
veloped state. 1T is only by the de
velopment Of the natural resources OF
the country that the public derives any
advantage, or can reap any profit, The
public gets its advantage through pri
vate enterprise, and through tho re
claiming of the wilds to civilized use
That is the only possible way in which
the public can get any benefit from
the public domain, and to deny thai
private use in the making of new
homes and the opening up of new re
gions to culture and civilization is
in fact, TO arrest development where j
is, and to deny the present generation
Of American citizens the rights ant
privileges assured to them under tn,
laws, and by immemorial tradition anc
practical application.
We are Glad to have been the apenc'
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
SUGAR PLANTERS DILEMMA.

The sugar planters of Louisiana have
had a delegation before the House Iu
vestigating Committee, protesting
against a reduction in the sugar tariff
The President of the Louisiana Plant
ers Association, in his testimony, gave
it as his opinion that reduction of
the sugar tariff would ruin the Louis
lana sugar industry, He predicts a
crop Of one million tons of sugar year
in Louisiana and Texas within a few
years, but if the sugar tariff be cut
in half, the sugar industry of Louisiana
would be annihilated, and the prosper.
ity of more than two million people
would be seriously affected. In the same
direction of pessimistic opinion, for
mer State Chemist of Louisiana testi-
fed that that State had ten million
acres of land that could be made sugar.
bearing land if capital could be found
to enter the State, but capital will not
undertake to venture for fear that the
tariff on sugar may be disturbed.
But who is it that is threatening to
disturb the tariff on sugar2 Clearly.
the Democratic politicians and the
Democratic members Of Congress. But
the Louisiana planters seem able TO con.
troll the votes of the Senators of Louis,
lana, and the same and other interests
control the votes of Senators of Texas
for protection at critical points when
ever the tariff question is up for con.
sideration. The Senators, however,
from both States are Democratic. The
Democratic. party is the party that
threatens the sugar duty, but the inter.
ests involved are desparately opposed
to any reduction in that duty, WHY.
then. should the politicians. the Sena-
tors, and the Representatives from
Louisiana and Texas be Democrats
Why not come out for the party of pro
lection If they are protectionists7
But they are protectionists, as is seen
by the keen rally which they make
whenever the sugar duty is threatened.
Their only consistent course, therefore
Is to quit the Democratic party. which
is the anti-protectiou party. and ioir
the Republican party, which is the
! party that holds by the protective prin
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through which Apostle'Senator o"'oo'
has been converted away from ms "n'
tenabIe and fad bound position In sup
port Of the Roosevelt ana f'hcho'
servation policies. We trust tna' -, a
diligent reading of The Tribune VIII
advance him also along other line'' uh'
til he gets to be something more
than a mere echo. of Eastern opinion
a mere servile and unquest'onlng ioi-
lower beyond all precedent among
Senators, of the Aldrich ideas on the
tariff, and the Pinchot ideas ON con
seryation.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

The church organ last night SIRE
futed' the verdict of the coroner g
jury on the case of 10y, the Chinnman
who was shot by detective while try
ing to escape. The organ says that it
hopes the affair will be taken up for
legal investigation, as much as TO
intimate that the coroner s inquest was
not legal. But no matter what sort of
an investigation might be had, the
church organ would be discontented with
j, unless II blamed the police, and it
would gladly take MP another "refu-
trtion.r
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

1t is claimed for Paris physician
that he has detected the influence Of
vegetable foods on the character, the
brains. and the senses. He starts of by
SAYING that the potato develops even
ness Of temper and calmness of
thought; which will do for his system.
For the race whose chief subsistence is
the potato is noted for qualities quite
the reverse, quickness OF temper and
impulsiveness Of thought.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

The forecast Of the probable accept
auee of the silver dinner service for the
battIeship Utah is probably correct.
There does not seem any good and SUI"
ficient reason for rejecting it, and Utah
people arc not fighting against the ac.
ccptance of the service.
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timber refuse is made compulsory, and
when the people wake up to the dan
ger of leaving inflammabIe brush piles
promiscuously about, especially In
large quantities, then there VIII De
some hope of avcrtlng such calamitles.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

1t is announced as record-breaking
fact that a recent electrocution IN New
York brought death in one minute. But
unless the first instant of shock
brings unconsciousness, a minute may
be horror of long-drawn-out agony.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

i, is evidently important, on reading
the news from Mexico, to know its
source, whether Maderist or In opposi.
ton But it is impossible to have the
brand displayed; so the best thing TO
do is to read it all and believe as little
of il as possible
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

OF the long-windcd. fruitless, droning
speeches in the Senate, that are both
malignant and uugovernablc, Senator
Lodge recently said that they make
the Senate the laughing stock Of all
legislative bodies. They do worse than
that; they display the barrenuess of
mind and Of results that is fast max
ing the Senate the contempt of the peo-
pie of the United States.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

The Government employee who stole
nuts from the squirrels on the capitol
grounds is living disproof of the
theory that thievery ism t catching. He
can easily plead that lie sees everybody
STEALING
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

Nat Goodwin doesn I seem TO be
very sure whether the young man
claiming TO be his son is so or not,
though decided on the point that he
isn't his son by his first wife. It's
pathetic case.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

There's more than one way 10 get
at the condition Of a monopoly with
out precisely declaring IT, Thus. the
city of Bonham, Texas, has recently
passed an ordinance providing that a
man in order to get license to sell
peanuts on the streets must have lost
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

jack Johnson is matched to fight an
Englishman. described as "Bom mbardicr
Wells" before London sporting club,
in September. Jack is to get $4,000.
win OF lose. Thus the evil pugilistic
game, ou,lawed in America is revived
in the home of its modern origin.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

Alfred Austin, poet by laureate If In
no other way. has put the story OF his
life into two volumes. But, thank good
ness, there is no need to import them
into this country.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

Rural delivery and the parcels post
naturally belong together, and the only
way TO make the rural delivery even a
tolerable paying success is TO ndd the
narcels post delivery to IL.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

Mrs. Hartman, in showing that she
has been asked for $ll0,000,000 III char
IT. during the year, demonstrates that
charity soliciting is fully as Unsuitable
as greed, and maybe closely related TO
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

The New York stock market is about
as numb as a foot that s "asleep.' But
it should either wake up or release It's
claim 10 being the financial 'fhuh'' of
the United States.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23

Champ Clark says there is no room
in this country for a pessimist. But 1T
must be confessed that his Jokes are
discouroging.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
Caldwell to Nampa in Idaho Ny.
complete a triangular road eos'
these cities and Boise.

Among the mining disolo,.
the past week, the principal o,s
the final closing of the deal u.
mining properties by which The v.
Utah company secured the Co.
the Ohio Kentucky and thu ~
dated Phoebe properties, and :,
proved condition in the yar;o..
Of Park City,
Tho DAILY West company ,s,.
quarterly report on July 2oth l. j
after payment of dividend M 81
company earned in excess Of ssAo1|
dividend requirements. Tho ~.
is doing some very telling wo,s
the 1900 to the 2l00 levels ana !,
tonnage is being added "a ~
greater rate than the presen, {
ton.
A discovery of new ore !, s.,
DAILY property during the veal /
especial moment, driving sbs !,
from below 80 cents d share 3,
in the sales column. There is Z
soon to be brought about bstv.,.
DAILY and Ontario companies ~,
should give rise to one mora
proposition for that district
The stock markets both 49,
west have been quiet, The nss,|
erning the action of stocks an N.
Lake Exchange has been very Il,
but almost uniformly favorabls
is not the season for much sns.,x
activity, but there has been 4 :
erable demand for local issuea q
eral days past.
Eastern stock markets have bs.
and unlnteresting, the crop nav,
ing practically the only suh;,:
discussion now that the probahS
of Congress, and the date of sd|
ment, arc better understood, m
per situation is being cleared vs'
and more, and the best authoritis
that the copper stocks should
prominently in the bull campaiSs
that rather hazy termination Of 4.
conditions is reached. s.
The commercial agencies repoh,
quiet, but conditions esscntiaIIv
Throughout the country. Better q
and rains throughout the c,os'
helped out the corn and cotton
pective progress in iron and stsdI
well for the future. Mill opo,
are broadening. and evidence
creasing demand is furnished h
placing Of orders for one hundrsf
sand tons of steel products tol.
shipments with Il western copcs,,
| The improved crop prospects d,
ditional brightness to the mtlui
the present trade is conservaiivt
demand uncertain,
Retail trade throughout the !,
has been largely confined to ID
sales.
A squirt in wool is reported in D
with the mills taking consideat4
Sales Of secured Oregon and d
Montana are reported, as well q
Of the new clip on the basis Of d
Better crop reports weakenh
wheat market. and the advanced
are receded from, Wall street
some activity, led by the Union
Indications are, however, that
merely temporary movement, 4
street has shown astonishing Ssl
and lethargy.
With the excellent crop irdiil
however, and the essential sound
industry and trade, the probabiE1
good year OF prosperity is ths
manifest with every report. j