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' 6 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY MORNING-, SEPTEMBER 14, 1910 - 1
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i Wednesday, September 14, 1910.
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Ij ' .Remember tho "Maine!
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1 . Looker, what Hc'a Trent an' done!
j Now watch the Mormon hierarchs sud
i dculy turn Democratic,
j 1 No. dear; Ihcv arc not all bunglors
j who live in bungalows
! j The early candidate may cateli the
j early worm; but not always can ho hold
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There have been wilder thou "his than
n that (ho Itcpubliean party would "conio
a cropper." '
;t Now it is up to the regulars to plead,
' Hko other fools, that they didn't know
their Cannon -was loaded.
IJ Even a cat may look at a king; but
i .iusfc now, lho.olonc wijl find out, the
( ' Nation is not in a purring mood.
I . In determining, to try Mr. David Ec
clcs OTi lumber fraud charges, the Gov
I , crnment evidently thinks that there is
f good timber in David.
y' Halloy's comet and Theodore "Rooso
t) velt paid us a flyiug visit iu 1910. Kal
' . ley's comet won't return for seventy
years; but Roosevelt .
' Approached concerning tho Demo
cratic victory in Maine, Apostle-Senator
Smoot; could flippantly remark,
""What the hell do T care?"
II, ' "Tho really up-to-date fool rocks the
, airship," remarks tlic Pittsburg Ga
ll - gcttc-Timea. "W61I, the distinction rests
I between him and tho one who stones
I , the aviator.
Another thing about our bogus proph
! , ots is that while they tell the sweet old
i'I! ladies to stop drinking tea, they say
nothing at all to their immoral new
" polygamists.
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j? , Estrada appcals'to Undo Sam to help
L him form a sound and orderly govem
i 1 mcnl. There's one tiling about it: ho
f has applied at the righl place, for your
' Uncle Samuel is an expert.
'I There is ono thing about it, aud that
1 j'" is lliat if the Republican party has here
in ; toforo been determined not to listen to
; good advice, it will now begin to sit up
) and take some notice.
. wo are told that the doctors of Salt
y )JL Lako countv arc to resume their month
; ly meetin"s. They're pretty good fol
Iowa, but will they kindly refrain from
p iuventing nny otlicr new discasc7
fj:j A pretty miss at Lrigham City was
111 j given a "shower" by her friends iu
honor of her approaching marriage; but
lb let us hope that tho "shower" was not
the forerunner of matrimonial storms,
jj "While A Certain Distinguished Hough
l;V Jlidcr is stopping long enough to do
Vh some thinking, it is not to ho supposed
liti that a prominent nmgazino'is going to
jr give Him more than a penny for His
pvj; thoughts.
I'M If, as tho bogus prophet asserts, an
apostate from the Mormon church must
nj have committed some sin in order to be
jpi conic disaffoctud. what docs he think
jt' of those who have apostatized from
fj: other churches to follow him?
HttlF William Jjoyd; GC, living near Tialti-
H''il more, rushed off to get married with a
Hj'-!' gunner's license in his possession, in-
H tcafl of having the proper document.
HU -nd so many times, too, that giddy
j "leaded young imps have beon warned to
!$ io careful!
H"j;,
p; Out in the country places the church
whianorors are spreading tho report
that Americans are disagreeing among
themselves. In doing so, though, tho
whisperers nre only showing the pcoplo
that tjicre is no such bossism in the
American party as provunls froo
speech; but if! they imagino that; the
party will not present a united front
on election day, they will thereafter
have opportunity to make anothor
guess.
THE MAINE UPHEAVAL.
Tho capture of Jlaine by tho Demo
crats indicates thnt thoso who expect
ed a Democratic landslide this yoar
were not. mistaken. Tho capture of
Maine by the Democratic party is a
great achievement. When in 1SS0
Maine gave but 1-1,000 Ecpublieanfna
jority at the September election, the
Republican campaign, was supposed to
be hopeless. Much grenter figures
than that were expected from Maine,
and Grant ami Conkling weru called
upon to save I he day and to open the
campaign in Ohio, which they did in
niaslerl- slyle, rolling back the clouds
of defeat and pulling the party on the
highway to victory.
But now. with an adverse plurality
of over S000, with a loss of two out
of the four Representatives iu Con
gress and with apparently a loss of
the legislature, insuring the election
of a Democrat to succeed Seuatov Kale,
Maine as usual foreshadows the general
result, and it is abuiidnully evident that
the outlook for Republican success
this year in other Stales is exceedingly
dark. Tho Democrats apparently are
on tho crest of a victorious wave, nnd
will swoep tho country, electing the
majority of Congress without any help
from the insurgent or progressive wing
of the Republican party. But then, in
Utah, we don't care for a littlo" thing
hko this. As Smoot said when the
proposition of a Democratic victory
this year was put up to him, "Whnt
the hell do T care?" And there you
arc. The big Republican boss of Utah
docs not care nu3"lhing about it; ho
would as lief the country would go
Democratic as not. He has announced
through his underling, Sutherland, that
mi-it; is nu j nam nuiic.y ur pi ugcssi u-
ness in Utnh, that the old church
clutch still holds, and that the Utah
vote will 'be delivered by the church
bosses as usual this year.
Undoubtedly, local issues had their
effect in the Maine election. At the
samo time, there is no doubt that in
Maine, as in other States, the great
issue, the turning point of the election,
hangs on the shameful betrayal of tho
people's interests in the passage of the
bunko tariff bill which puts the com
bines, trusts, aud monopolies in control
of all the markois of the country, nnd
puts the people at their scrvieo and
command.
During the pendency of this tariff
revision iu Congress last year, there
were repeated warnings from all over
tho country that tho pcoplo expected
the Tiopublican pledges to be kopt in
good faith in the revision downward
of tho tariff. Tho insolent aud falso
reply that no plcdgo of tariff revision
downward had been made, seemed to
givo tho political bosses enthroned in
Washington a great deal of comfort.
They refused to listen to the muttcrings
of discontent among the people. They
refused to consider that there could bo
bucIi, a thing as resentment at their be
trayal of the public interests. Their
repudiation of tho Ecpublican pledge
of rovision downward as interpreted
by President Taft in hjs campaign
speeches two years ago was defiant. As
they were there in an impregnable ma
jority in Congress, they seemed to think
that there was no way to reach them,
that they must always be in the same
majority and in the samo arrogant
position to dofy tho popular demand
and to disrogard the'plain will of the
people and tho pledges of their own
party. The elections this year afford tho
first opportunity tho people have had
to get at thoso contemptible, knavish
bosses, and they nro getting at them in
great style. This turn-over in Maine is
in effect a political revolution. Jt
would not surprise us in the least to
sec Massachusetts elect a Democratic
Governor this year, and wo consider
that Connecticut is sure to do thai. Ohio
is alrcildy lost to the Republicans, so
far as all expert estimates can make
it, and the House of Representatives is
fast lining up tho same wa
The Maine election gives a loss of a
Senator to the Republicans and a gain
of a Senator to tho Democrats. The
loss of Ohio, which wo consider sure,
will show a like change in that Stnto.
Tho result is already determined; all
that remains is to score the voto.
Republican success looks hopeless in
New York, with the prospective loss of
anothor Senator by the Republicans
from thnt State.
It is no pleasure to The Tribune to
thus forecast disaster to the Republi
can party, for the writer has been a Re
publican from his youth up, his first
vote having been caul; for Lincoln, and
uniformly for Republicans and Republi
can principles to this dny. But when
Republican bosses defy the will of their
own party, take into their treacherous
hands the task of wrecking the party,
and dofv f.lio narfcv nritininlpc fl-o,i if !
timo to call a halt, and if that halt
cannot be enforced in any other way
than by tho defeat of tho Republican
party then that defeat is not only sure,
but must bo welcomed by all patriotic
minds, as u right and much-needed dis
cipline. ;
Drivers of vehicles who fail to ob
serve the new traffic regulations arc
obliged to pay .fines for their neglect;
but what a bulging treasury tho city
would have if tho fine system wore ap
plied to tho chumps who refuse to walk
to the right!
"Whilo the Mormon hierarchs nro
spending oodles of money on South
American expeditions in a fruitless ef
fort to provo the truth of the Book of
Mormon, it is noticed that thoy studi
ously avoid consultation of tho Codex
Troano at tho University of Berlin.
SMOOT'S "ADAPTATIONS."
Thcro does not appear to bo any
thing in the least original in that
"Exchange Value of Farm Products"
Bpecch which Aposllo Smoot mado in
tho Senate and which tho American
Protective Tariff League is circulating
as a campaign document.
Tho underlying principle of it is tho
same as that relied upon iu tho argu
ment for free trade. That is, it makes
no particular difference what tho nom
inal wage or pay may bo as long as
that pay or wage will buy the necessi
ties of life, perhaps to as full an extent
or even more in free trade Eng
land, where wages arc low, as in pro
tective America, where wages are
high. Jt is what one can buy with his
wages that counts, not merely the fig
ure expressing them.
It is in carrying out his argumont,
however, where Smoot gives himself
away tho most completely. Ho falls
back upon tho method in details relied
upon by the silver advocates for the
figures, statistics, and comparisons by
moans of which they undertook to cs-
measure of values. Thus, he shows
that ten bushels of corn, measured by
tho wholesale prices of a number of sta
ple articles, puts the farmer far more
to the good how than in 1S9I5. The
articles he compares with are coffee,
molasses, rice, salt, sugar, tea, carpets,
cotton flannel, gingham, sheetings,
shoes, suitings, coal, petroleum, barbed
wire, nails, brick, cement, lime, white
oak. shingles, and spruce. It will be
observed that this is a carefully se
lected list of articles which avoided
many of the necessities of life. It says
nothing about flour, about moats, about
vegetables, about house rears, aud in
dry goods it makes n few special se
lections that other selections in tho
same classification might utterly over
throw. However, that is not what we
wish to get at now, but to show the
method employed. The samo compari
son as made for ten bushels of corn
is made for ten bushels of wheat, a
bale of cotton, twenty bushels of oats,
twenty bushels of rye, twenty bushels
of barley, ono ton of hay, one hundred
pounds of hops, twenty bushols of pota
toes, ten bushels of flax seed, a choico
to extra steer, a three-hundrcd-pound
hog, twenty pouuds of butter, and
thirty dozen eggs. Wc may remark
in passing that the consumer who has
to buy this thirty dozen of eggs,
twonty pounds of butler, this three-hundred-pound
hog, this choico to extra
steer, etc., will not be especially im
pressed with the showing that it costs
him two or thrco times as much to buy
any one of tho things enumerated as
it did in 1S9G; so that Smoot Js speech
is a boomerang. For, while it shows
that tho farmer gels so much more now
than iu 1S9G for theso things, it must
necessarily show also that the one who
buys tho eggs or meat or potatoes, etc.,
must necessarily pay just as much more
for. them n.q t.lin f:irmpp rm'mvpq Ar
a campaign document, thereforo, this
speech of Smoot's Js valuable only in
fanning communities. As a plea to
manufacturing communities where the
laborers have to buy these things from
the farmers and must pay now two or
three times as much for them as thoy
did fourteon years ago, the speech can
hardly be a success. Tho incroascs in
wages form no such ratio now as com
pared with 1S0(5 as tho prices of farm
products do. Tho latter are shown to
be two, three aud four limes as much
as then, whereas the wages have in
creased, when they have increased at
all, at a snail's paco by comparison.
When we add to this tho fact that tho
underlying principle of the speech is
the free trado basis, it can at onco be
seen that this Smoot speech, whilo use
ful in a demagogic and dishonest way
in farming communities, must he kept
strictly away from the reading of thoso
who cam their money by daily wages
or weekly or monthly salaries. As to
this latter class, the showing js an ab
solutely disastrous ono for the aim of
tho Smoot "argument."
But this only by tho way. What wo
began to demonstrate was that in mak
ing this spcoch the method employed
by Apostle Smoot is precisely tho same
as that adopted by the silver advocates
of fourteon years ago and afterward.
Tt was first presented in its fullness
by Sonator Jones, of Nevada, in his
great silver speech in tho Senate in
187(3, The method was to show that
comparing ono article with another, tho
fluctuations in prices followed more
closely tho fluctuations of silver than
they did thoso of gold, tho doduetion
being that silver was a more stablo
measure of value than gold. And now
wo have that samo detail of compari
son prices roived by Smoot in tho
servico of his lame and halting argu
mont showing that comparing ono
article with anothor the farmer is far
better off now than he was fourteon
years ago, that tho nrticlos he pro
duces will buy more of what other
pcoplo produce than they would then.
But as stated above, this showing is
disastrous to tho industrial workers of
this country, as it shows that the ne
cessities of lifo which they must buy
nre raised in prico to their disadvan
tage just sb much as they are raised
in price to the advantage of the
farmer. j
Inasimicl. as tho protection argument
is more forcible when applied to per
sons engrtged in the manufacturing in
dustries of this ' country, precisely
whore this speech will bo tho most
disadvantage us; and since the under
lying babis of it is tho free trado
principle, it i really a marvel to seo
tho American Protective Tnrifi.' Leagui
tak-j u.- this speech and oircuhre it as
a campaign document. When it is ap
parent, further, that the method of
nrgiimont employed is precisely the
samo as that originated by the silyor
men and used by them for so many
years in tho advocacy of silvor as tho
true mcasuro of values, tho wondor re
doubles that this American Protective
Tariff League, a goldilo as well as pro
tective propaganda, should uso this
spooch which is in fact calculated to
undermino the wholo protcctivo tariff
idea, and to revive and enforco tho
plea mado on behalf of silver, as a pro
tective tariff argumont, whoso appoal
ought to be to the individual workers,
but which in fact shows them to be
robbed by thu farmers. Tho only way
to account for it is that tho Republi
can loaders this year nppear to have
gone crazy, and to bo casting about
for anything that will havo even tho
outside appearance of helpfulness. But
even hero tho Smoot plea fails, be
cause tho most superficial examination
of it ought to show any one of a dis
creet mind that it is fallacious through
out for every purpose represented by
tho American Protcctivo Tnriff League,
and disastrous to that leaguo's propa
ganda among manufacturers' em
ployees, to whom tho League's appeal
must bo primarily made. For, if tho
manufacturing workers don't believe iu
a protective tariff, and voto for it,
then protection is dead.
THEY FEAR A GRAND JURY.
Our southern Utah contemporary, tho
Richfield Reaper, has .been much discon
tented by our presentation of tho graft
records of tho Slato Land Board. Tt
intimates the belief that these records
are garbled. Well, that is precisely
what we have been endeavoring to
show. Of course wo think they arc
garbled. Tho chief difference, howovex,
between us and the Richfield paper is
that that paper seems to think that wo
did tho garbling. That, of courso.'is a
silly bit. of nonsense. Whatever gar
bling has been done has been done of
ficially, and right thcro in tho office of
the Land Board. Wc ha'A taken the
matter precisely as it appears thoro,
and have faithfully given it to thd pub
lic. The Reaper infers from our course in
tbisjnatfor that we arc endeavoring to
forcb tho calling of a grand jury. It
is quite true that wo would bo glad to
see a grand jury called and empaneled
hero to inquire into various matters.
Wc had not thought of that, however,
in this connection. Now that tho Reaper
has mentioned it, howover, wo think
that a grand jury would find a fruitful
fiold in which to work in taking notico
of tho records and doings of tho Slate
Land Board. Tho Reaper scorns to con
sider that the calling ox a grand jury
would bo an extremely deplorable thing.
J.t evidently imagines that mcmbors of
the Land Board and many others of its
friends and of the ring officials in Utah
would sutler if such a .body wcro im
paneled. Wc are inclined to agree with
the Reaper on this point. -In fact, it
might almost bo called an evident truth.
There is not tho loast doubt but that a
grnud jury would find ample work for
a long session here in investigating tho
doings of the political ring and the tools
of that ring that arc in official posi
tions hfrr
But why should the Reaper be so ex
tremely fearful in behalf of its friends,
of the calling of tho grand jury ? Why
should it consider that The Tribune
would get special advantago from tho
work of a grand jury?
Evidently the editor of the Reaper
has "ivcu away his inner thought in
this. It is clear that he believes Tho
Tribune's statements to be true, and
that ho considers tho showing made
against the Land Board to bo such as
would inevitably call for indictment by
a grand jury of a portion or all of tho
Land Board; also, probably, othor of
ficials, Slate aud county, put in powor
and usod corruptly by the bosses of
the church Republican partv of this
State. Jf the . Reaper editor did not
so think, whv should ho bo so desperate
ly afraid of a grand jurv7 Why should
ho conclude, as ho evidently docs, that
the calling of a grand jury and tho
work of that grand jury would bo so
much to the advantage of Tho Tribune
and to tho disadvantage of the church
Republican partv and its ofnV.i.ilH7
Tho Avail set up by the Reaper on
this point "is a dead give-away. Its
editor shows that ho is convinced that
a grand jury, if called, would indict
afflictivcly along tho lino of official
dom hero, and rip off the cover from a
vast amount of evil doing. That has
been our idea all along, although, asj
said before, wc have not considered. that
phase of it in connection with the
Land Board as our Richfield contempo
rary evidently has dono. But sinco it
has dono so, wo do not mind confessing
that wo arc much obliged to it not only
for the agonizing fear it expresses that
a grand jury would expose tho corrupt
doings of the Utah political bosses, but
for tho showing that tho shadow of a
grand jury is the frightful nightmare
of the church politicians all over tho
Stale. For that reason, as well us be
cause wc aro convinced that there is
a great work for a grand jury here to
do, The Tribune reaffirms its decided
opinion that a grand jury should be
called, and urges the calliug of it at the
earliest possiblo date.
A DISAPPOINTED HOPE.
When Apostle D. O. McKay was in
ducted iuto the quorum of the twclvo,
the younger and more progressive ele-
mout of the Mormon church had hoped
that in him would bo found a proponent i
iu high place of their more modern
thought. But it appears that the tak
ing of tho "second endowment" neces
sary to holding an apostleship dethrones
the' reason of the best of them.
In spoaking of church schools, at tho
Raymond (Canada) stako conference
last month, Mr. McKay attempted to
describe the superior facilities offered
by those institutions, to onablc students
thorcin to more readily grasp all truth.
"For instance," ho said, "in taking
up a lesson in science tho instructor
will explain the bearing it has on tho
great truths revealed to tho prophet
Joseph Smith, long before modern sci
entists found them out."
That is a very modest sample, how
ever, of tho impudent assumption of tho
higher of the high priesthood of Mor
mondom. Thcro is not a modern in
vention that thoy do not claim to bo
tho outgrowth of "great truths re
vealed to tho prophet Joseph Smith."
Any great discover in scienco they
trace directly to tho founder of Mor
monism. Improved mathematics aro
only the result of study with tho Smith
"revolutions" as a basis for that stmly.
There is no thing on earth that thoy
do not lay claim to.
The wonder is that tho United Statos
Govornmont, or any other nation on
earth, will dare to issuo patents and
copyrights upon all thoso inventions to
any Jjut tho "prophet, seer, and rove
lator, and trusteo-in-trust" of the Mor
mon church. If tho latter had his
greedy way, they wouldn't cither.
HIS HYPOCRITIOAL BIGOTRY.
"Tho child that is born to lack of
opportunities is not condemned after
death," said .losoph F. Smith to tho
New York World.
And that is to laugh a bit. Because
if tho littlo chap is of tho Mormon
church, but not of the Joseph F. Smith
tribo, ho has no chance on earth and
Joseph F.'b inability is all that pre
vciUh him from being crowded out of
tho preferred places in heaven. This
situation brings to mind tho fact that
our bogus prophet has a son who was
no more than a purvoyor of butter and
cheeso to tho poople who patronized
Z. C. M. I.; but becauso of the accident
which elevated his equally incompe
tent father to tho Mormon throne, lly
rum M. became a princeling. Of course,
it would have been rather raw had the
earthly king of the Jdngdom of God ele
vated his junior namesake at the same
time, so ho waited a bit until the sur
prise in the first instanco had worn off.
Then Joseph F., Jr., received his parch
ment as a minor potentato in tho
church. Not even the impudent Joseph
F. clnimed in cither instanco that these
preferments wcro shown on account of
suporior ability. Had ho dono so, the
Mormon people, who know of so many
who are so much more competent and
so much moro deserving, would havo
laughed him to scorn. It was only on
account of the fact that they were
Smiths and of his particular brand of
Smiths, at that.
Tt is a fortuuato thing for Mormon
childron that thoy aro not to bo shown
the back door of heaven unless they re
ccivo the approbation of Joseph F.
Smith. He gives them no opportunit3'
on earth so long as tho Smiths the
particular brand of Smiths last and
there is enough of them to go round
tho good jobs. Besides, wo do not
know of oven any devout Mormon who
would desiro to hold his place in the
heavenly realm at the expense of hunt
ing all over hades to get tho bogus
prophet's permission.
DEBASING CHANGE OF FRONT.
Inquiry has been made of Tho Trib
une as to whether or not the Republican
part3, iu its National platforms, has
ever made declaration against polyg
amy; and if so, in what j'cars. As
briefly as possible tho planks referred
to arc given in the following:
Election of 1S5C, John C. "Fremont,
nominee: .Resolved. Thai the Conslltu
tion confers upon Congress sovereign
power over tho Territories of the United
States for their government, and thai
In tho exercise of this power 11 Is botli
tho rljrht and the duty of Congress to
prohibit in the Territories those twin
relics of barbarism, polygamy, and slav
ery. Election of 1S7C, Ruthcrfonl n. Hayes,
nominee: The Constitution confers upon
Congress sovereign power over the Ter
ritories of the United Stales for their
government, and in the exercise of this
power il Is the right and duty of Con
gress to prohibit and extirpate in the
Territories. Hint relic of barbarism, po
lygamy; and wc demand such legisla
tion as shall accuro this end and the
supremacy of American Institutions in
all the Territories.
Election of 18SI, James G. Blaine
nominee: Resolved. That it Is the dutv
of Congress to cnael such laws as shall
promptly and effectually suppress tho
system of polygamy within our Terri
tories, and divorce I lie political from the
ecclesiastical power of tho so-called Mor
mon church; and that (ho laws as en
acted should be rigidly enforced bv the
civil authorities, if possible, and by the
military, If nocd be.
Election of 1SSS. Benjamin Harrison,
nominee: The political power of the
Mormon church In the Territories as ex
ercised in the past is a menaco to free
institutions, a danger ijo longer to be
suffered. Therefore wo plcdgo tho Re
publican party to appropriate legislation
asserting tho sovereignly of the Nation
in all Torritorles where the samo Is
miestloncd, and In furtherance of that
end to placo upon the statute-books IcgiG
latlon slrlngent enough to divorce the
political from tho ecclesiastical power
and thus stamp out the attendant wick
edness of polygamy.
It will bo noted in the latter part of
the platform resolution of 188S. it was
recognized that polygamy was altogeth
er dependent upon the political power
exercised by the Mormon church. That
was truo up to tho year 1S00; but tho
situation has been reversed, for if now
tho domination of the polygamous
chicfg wcro withdrawn from the politi
cal forces of tho church, these would
ceaso to bo a menace on account of
their solidarity. After tho election of
1888 came the manifesto of 1890, when
tho Nation accepted in good faith tho
promises of the Mormon leaders that
polygamy and political- domination by
them should cease. That faith has been
most shamefully broken the word of
honor of a Mormon polygamous chief
priest has 'been found to bo worth no
more than the breath required to utter
it. And tho Republican party lias "also
departod from tho faith, truckling to
and abasing it-self in front of tho polyg
amous hierarchy for votes.
. But the point to bo considered is that
tho things complained of nnd resolved
against in tho older Republican plat
forms havo been increased and nre ag
gravated, until by this timo the. evils
nro Haunted in our faces with tho grin
ning vindictiveness of anarchy rampant.
It is high time that the Nation a wak
ened in a new and final determination
to smash tho criminals und their crimes
onco and forever 1
I TODAY IN HISTORY
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1010.
Birthday of John Barneveld.
Soldier bv occasion and lawyer by pro
fession, John or Barneveld was ono or
tho most famous or the Dutchmen who
took their valorous stand against Philip
II. or Spain. Ho was born at Amcrsfprt,
in the provinco of Utrecht, or a long lines
of noble ancestors, on September M, V;'U.
and nt 22 began tho practice of the law
in Tho Hnguc, where he soon obtained
notico through his abilities and his sym
pathetic nttttudo with thoso who were
hostile to Spain.
13nrnevoid served oh a volunteer at tho
alcges of Haarlem and Leydon, and at
28 was married. A year later he was
appointed to tho post or counselor ana
chief pensionary or legal aaviscr or the
council at Kotterdum.
"When he was :i5 yeara old ho was
chosen head of nn embassy to Queen
Elizabeth of England. The Prince of
Orange, the sagacious and resolute leader
or the Dutch, had been assassinated, and
the Spaniards had been generally suc
cessful under the Prince or Parma. Iho
cause of tho Dutch seemed hopeless, and
It was then that Barneveld was sent to
Englund to offer to Elizabeth the sover
eignty of the United Provinces.
Elizabeth would not accept thlb
sovereignty, but she agreed to send over
to the patriots substantial evidenco
against the Spaniards. Under tho com
mand cf her favorite, the Earl of Leices
ter, sho did send an expedition. The
Dutch conferred supremo and absolute
authority on Leicester, whilo Barneveld
was rulscd to the high office of advocate
general or Holland and West Fries-
land.
Leicester proved to bo arrogant and
incompctont, and Barneveld was the man
to whom the Dutch looiceci forward to
curb the Englishman's power. Thus, It
happened that he had tho states appoint
Maurice, the young son of the murdered
Prince of Orange, stadtholdor and cap
lain general, and in doing this ho helped
to place In tho highest position tho man
who was afterward to destroy him.
It was the prudence and energy of
Barneveld that broughL order and pros
perity to the states, and though ho at
tempted to resign when his work or re
habilitation had been well started, tho
states would not accept his resignation.
He wna sent on several embassies to
foreign powers, and his journeys always
bore good fruit.
The step that aroused against him the
undying hate of Prince Maurice, whom
years before lie had elevated to supreme
power, was his negotiations for a truce
with tho Spaniards. Maurice wanted the
war to go on, because his own position
was moro powerful during hostilities, but
Barneveld managed to accuro a twclvo
years' truce, after obtaining a recogni
tion of the provinces. Suspicions of Bar
ncvcld's honesty were artfully circulated,
and tho great patriot stifle red in popular
esteem.
The conflict between Maurlco and Bar
nceld went on, Maurice aiming at the
sovereign' power and Barnovcld resolutely
maintaining the freedom of tho republic.
Religious differences also existed, Maur
ice attempting to have Calvinism adopt
ed as the state religion, and Bacneveld
opposing the purpose.
Finally Barneveld was arrested by or
der of the prince, in Septemher, 1G18,
and after a mock trial, was exocuted at
Tho Hague on May 13. 1619. His sons
four years lator attempted to avenge hl3
death, but ono was beheaded and the
other escaped to Spain.
On September 14, Salem. Mass., was
founded in 1G2S; the Society of the War
of 1812 was organized In ISM: Americans
under Scott entered the city of Mexico
In IS 17; the peace of Adrianoplo was
declared in 1S29: the battle of South
Mountain, Md., was fought in 1SG2; and
tho Alabama claims was settled in 1S72,
Today is Iho birthday of Robert Ttalkes,
founder of the Sunday school (17:15); Wil
liam Bradford, attorney general under
Washington (17i"5); Alexander von Hum
boldt, celebrated traveler and natural
philosopher (17G9); Hamlin Garland, au
thor (1S(!0); and Charles Dana Gibson,
artist (1SG7). It is the date of the death
of St. Chrysostom, renowned preacher
and writer (107); Charles Rollln, his
torian (1711); Louis Joseph de Montcalm.
French commander (L75!)); Aaron Burr
(1G3G); .lames PenlrnnT5
can novelist (I8r.l1 Tc CoopJ
Wellington (18S2)' .nSl
death of President "lCK.i,h9 l
N. Y., In laoi. aaKitB
Safo MwiiclnofoTr
Foley's Ifoney ana T
and effective mcdicino for H;
it does not contain op2
drugs. Get only tbeP,
Honey and Tar i tho g?
Schramm-Johnson DruK3,
LOCAL HlSTOli
I WHAT HAPll
1S50 An ordlnnnoj "7
Perpetual E.nigratiir
was passed by tho 5 i
or the state of TwecnKU
1857-Delegale John M '
cd from Salt Lake ciiv
ton, D. C, In for?
Stewart Van Wet
eph A. Kclting wln?dwi
Mormons, sailed 1 5
Lralla, bound for
1800-Capt. Brlgham'H Y-n '
10lniTmsranta arrived In c"?5"1'
187G John D. Leo wm 8a 'l4
trial In Beaver, B,1" K
participation In the ir
dows massacre. on ih,
convicted of murfi J
1S7S Tho Bteamshlp '
from Liverpool with 6 W1
charge of Henry V L-foj
company arrived nt Vr abU
tcmber 25. and lt ku2?
October 3. Salt
1SSG In the third dlRtrl.f . 5
Fclstead or tho Z
City, who had pHaS4-
chargo or polygamv i m
habitation. wr X?0"d
Zane to three yen
imprisonment and Hon nl
to the pcnltontlSrV! b&?
was 72 years old.
188 1 In tho third fllatriet J
Lako City, John S.L60'
flOO and George ItarmnJi
lawful cohabitation bo?h
to oboy the law hi tha ,h R
lSSS-Harvey H. ciuff wai
10 'to Lho penitentiary
1890-Jamcs Leatham wa J
from the penitentiary
1S02 In the second dlstnVt
Beaver, Charles Wag'
Golding were fined G ceni
Tudgp Thomas J. Anffi
1S9"r" ,PoI,u,Mst stato conve
held In Salt Lake CltyTjR
district court. Og.len.ft
pbray wns sentenced to tt
imprisonment, and MIra
pbray to one month's, both
tcry. J4J '
1S0G iilcanor Snow, wlfo t'
Box blder county, Idaho
I89S-Tho state Demoenffi
hold In Salt Lake City
Brlgham H P.oborta for cftS
,nnnRoert x' BasII 'or supra
1900 Democratic county S
names part of l ticket I
accopt two places on Demvj
Islatlvc ticket: ;
1001 Utah mourns President &
death. Elks carnival postw
1902 Miles Romncy shot Harr8
' saloon.
3903 International 3rothorhood
trical Workers in comW
City schools opon with sreit
ancc. Shameful condition! I
cemetory exposed by coundl
gating committee.
1901 Hold-up makes murderoai
near Bingham. Man with it
traffic on street car
190.r Runaway train on tho Eb
in Bingham canyon ciuh
wreck. Six persons badly i
190G Action brought against P
Smith regarding birth of lul
birth.
1907 Tho Utah Independent Ii
company is reorganized C
Rogers kills Lewis Jonti tt
Both were colored.
1908 Harrlmnn lines select situ
plovers' club buildings.
OlBrierv Company. I
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in shoe fitting. H
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are obtaining a dollar's worth for every dollar H
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INVITA TION I
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in tho new section opposite the Postofficc, the Felt BuilB
The Large White Sidewalk Clock which is always
