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H THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER IS, 1912. 1
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Monday, November 18, 1912.
The Sultan hears "the din of rc-oundin-
arms,'' and it is lo be hoped
H that he may ho frightened out of Eu-
Hl rope by (hat same din.
Jack ,'Iohneon. pugilist, is said io I'cur
; term in tho .penitentiary forcontrib
uting In the white ylavo traffic. It is a,
fear tliaf. ought surely to be realized. j
New York's second .$50,000,000 rc-'
cenll.y voted for good roads ought to
fiuish paviy'r most of the State's high-1
Hj ways. Ami it i a pood investment, en
dorscd by tho people.
1 Portlaud, is scoins, is being fainted
with I ho vices of a tainted barbarism,
pins ot an effete and corrupt racial dc
pravity. 13ul vigorous cleansing pro
cesses arc being applied.
Kl The Ogdcu Standard, thinks that The
Tribune "is flippant,'1 and that the
Boston Globe has a mora brilliant thiuk-
Bj or on its stall "than is known to reside
HU in Salt Lake." Hum! Couldn't iu-
Hj dude Ogdcu also, eh?
I Tho Comptroller of tho Currency re
ports that savings bank deposits in this
country havo increased 2'i072'M,92-t'-in
the last year. Tho total number of de
positors now excels 10,000,000 nnd the
average deposit is $'14-1.72.
Twenty-six States havo barred the
common drinking cup from railway
trains. And the 'agitation for'this. haa'
demonstrated that the. railroads'arc not
obliged to .furnish drinking water free
BMW for passengers. So the honors arc easy.
H Cleveland Plain Dealer: "The So-
cialist administration of Scliuoclady has
Kj by no means been a failure. Tho "Mayor
HG was jailed in a neighboring town and
HB made such a fius about the condition
of the calaboose that a new one has
HD been ordered."
The schedules of tho fast trains be
iwcen New York and Chicago have been
lengthened by two hours (from eighteen
hours to twent3r hours.) for tho wintor
because of tho danger to the track by
tho eold-wcalhcr frosts. Tt is a reason
able and humane proposition to thus di
ininifh risk of accidents.
( ostly janitor work, that, where' a
janitor bums $1100 in bills that tho
B owner, an Ogdcu man, dcosited iu a
waste-paper basket as less likely lo be
B found there than if anywhere else, by a
Bj burglar. Tho decision to placo thus the
currency might suggest tho compara.
tie rarity of the janitor or the lnirglar
in his attentions at that place.
IN'ow York Tribune: "Turkish de
votees of tho doctrine of kismet prob
ably recall for their discouragement the
prophecyv of centuries past that Con
stantinople will bo taken from Islam
and rostorcd to the Greeks under a
prince and princess named respectively
onstantinc and .Sophia; and they ob
.servo that those arc the names of the
present Crown Prince and Princess of
fhe licHencs."
"Renovated "Republicanism: tvhal
shall it be?" asks the Cincinnati Trib
une. "Why, it "will bo the party fo.r the
protection of American laibor bv means
of protective tariffs. And probably
tho people of this country ean't ic
fooled moro than four years at a time
ou this question, but will be not only
ready but anxious lo trade most any
thing to got the protection which is
right and just. Those who think that
protection is dead havo badly s mis
reckoned and must think again.
The Boston Globe argues (and the
Ogdcu Standard quotes approvingly,)
fl that because Col, Roosevelt got more
otcs than President Taft did in cur
tain of the btalos whose delegates were
.outfitted in the Is'ationul Jlcpubllcau
1 ronvention, and their delegations given
to Taft, therefore Jioocvelt was cheat
cd out of tho Jiopublican nomination.
A eopluBtical fallacy; for it would prove
that any candidate ubo carries a. State,
H ought to hao the vole of that State,
H whether the delcgntion was for him or
not. As applied lo a State, for instance, 1
H it would prove that Governor Spry
ought to have had tho delegations from
H all tho count'.c which he carried at the
H election, and that ho was cheated in the
'Onvcntton iu not receiving tho vole?
H of the dclegntfH from thop countic-.
Such argnineutp as that won 't bear examination.
THINGS ABE MOVING.
Things ai'c moving1 foV "the advantage
of'Snlt Lake City and this regiou, sure
enough. Tho great deal embracing the
Bamberger line from here to Ogdcu and
the interurban lines to connect there
with, ia practically complete, and Ir.
Simon Bamberger will bo tho .head of
the combination. 2s"o better solecUon
could bo made, for no one knows quite
so well ns he the ins and outs of our in
terurban transportation busin&b, lie
has been in at the beginning of this
work, has stuck lo it with a tenacity,
an euorgy and an intelligence that, have
wrought wonders in developing that
busiuess. Originally beginuiug his road
as a coal road to Tim to Coalville, the
construction has taken quite, a. .different
form from that first contemplated, but
always ou practical lines and always
successful. The Tribune wishes most
heartily to congratulate -Mr. Bamberger
and lo convey lo him such words of ap
preciation as arc lit for a due recogni
tion of hjs praiseworthy labors. ;
But that is only one of the matters
in hand. ' Tho Dcutciv & Itio Grande,
announces a plan to eloctsify its whole
system, which will make it the first
road ihrough the Bocky "Mountains to
bo operated by electricity. The numer
ous' streams which it runs along beside,
tho great fall, that most of thoso streams
have, and tho abundant water they
cany, will render the proposition alto
gether "feasible. Vice-President Drown
of that road announces the intention to'
electrify the system and says-that the
first steps will bo' taken at once. This,
iu connection with the double-tracking'
of tho rosid and the reduction of. the
grado at Soldier Summit, -means a vat
expenditure by that grc.'t railway sys
tem in Utah, to Hie advantage of all of
its; patrons and ultimately also to the
great prestige nnd advnntago of the
road itself.
Then (hero is the announcement by
M. Newman Erb that he intends to
liuil a way to extend the .Modal road
from Steamboat Springs, its present ter
minus from Denver, onward to Salt
Lako City. H has always been tho in
tention of the projectors' of this road
to connect Ueuver and Salt Laki City
by) tho shortest line. When completed
this road will save much distance and
shorten the time between these two cap
itals. "Mr. Erb, iu a special dispatch
lo Tho Tribuuo yesterday morning,
stated that already the company has
a forco at work this side of Steamboat
Springs, and will push tho construction
work as swiftly as possible. The big
obstacle on this line is the projected
tunnel through tho Continental Divide.
A proposition was submitted to the peo
ple of Colorado to aulhorizo the issuu
of State bond's for the completion of
this tunnel, the railroads using the tun
nel taking care of tho interest and pay
.iug the bonds at maturity, but the pco
plo refused their assont to tlio "proposi
tion. Nevertheless, Mr. Erb states that
means will bo found to put Ibis tunnel
thr.ough. In the -meantime, by moans
of shorter tunnels and sheds, tho Con
tinental Divide will bo surmounted by
mcans of switchbacks. Thcso aro al
ready, constructed, but they will need to
bo strengthened and improved for tho
through line. But, as II r. Erb suys, iu
time a moans of tunneling the divide
will undoubtedly be found.
Tho Oregon Short. Line plans a. road
to Wells, Novada, from Twin. Falls,
Idaho, which will traverse a rich coun
try and allow of tho opening and devel
opment of agricultural and mineral
properties that will afford the road am
ple traffic, and will offer the south cen
tral and. southwestern parts of Novada
a shorter lino of travel to San Francis
.co and Los Angeles.
And then there is the automobile
trail, which Mr. We&lgard, pathfinder
for tho American Automobilo Associa
tion, has been hero to arraugo for. The
trail is practically agreed upon between
Denver and this cil', and Mr. Wostgard
has gone on towards the coast', slating
that be will recommend tho direct trail
west from this city. Wo have suirtrcsl-
cd hitherto that to jhis be added a
northern brauch of tho trail, running
Ihrough Ogdcu. thence lo Pocalcllo and
west down tho Snake Biver valley,
thenco across Eastern Oregon and
through to Portland, thence to Seattle.
Tho two lines would make a harmoni
ous and varied line of highway that
would delight all automobilo tourists.
They could go by ono road and return
by the other, or one or tho other would
be preferred at dill'crcut seasons. The
connection between Portlaud and San
Francisco would bo easily made, and
that would give a complotc lino from
S'eaftlo to San Francisco, ndced, thcro
ought to bo from this city westward
three automobilo trails. The third
should go on the old southern ovorlaud
road down through Pioche. lliko, Las
Vogas, tho Vanderbilt district, and San
Bernardino to Lob Angeles. This would
givo such variety to tho automobile
touring routes iu this woslern country
as in itself would be a splendid invita
tion to tourists to come this wav.
Thou, thcro is tho groat building rec
ord of tho yoar, including tho prelimi
nary work on tho State Capitol, the east
bench high school, the administration
building of the Utah University, thq
Walker skyscraper, and a goodly num
ber of other business structures, includ
ing the remodeling, just beginning, of
the old Welle, i-'urgo & Co. bank build
ing for tho proposod new Fannors" and
Stockgrowers' bank a big array of
construction which is a yonr's splendid
record.
Taking it all togothor, -these enter
prises aro certainly 'exalting Salt Lakq
City ou the map as ono of tho groat
commercial and transportation ceutors
of tho United States. This naturo ovi
deutly designed it to be, for there is nn
plant for a great citv east of us short
of Dctacr, Ihrrt is no plao west of. n
short of the coast; thcro is no placo
.norih-.of us. and there ia no place south
of u. within tho boundaries of the
United State?. For all this region, Salt
Lake City is the central metropolis, tho
leading commercial entrepot, the bcs'l
point available for population.' finance,
business', and a commodious, desirable
place of meeting to confer upon all en
terprises whatever that relate to tho
welfare of the vast region coutcring
here.
THE PERKY APPOINTMENT. '
The appointment of .ludgo Perky, by
Governor Hawley, to be U. S. Seuator
from "Idaho to succeed tlio late Senator
lluyburn. is tho climax of shifting ru
mors and variable purposes. Govornor
Hawley at first intended to appoint
some gentleman from northern Idaho,
Judge Woods perhaps, a former Salt
Laker, who would have been an excel
lent elioicc. Then there was strong pres
sure brought to bear for the appoint
ment of former Sonulor Dubois, which
would have been the ideal appointment,
.Siuoo ihctime for which the Governor
can appoint is very short and it is de
sirable that :l man who is familiar with
senatorial ways, ucqquninted with Sen
ators, and well informed as to senator
ial' rules and procedure, should be
named; for he. could undoubted-b' havo
done moro for tho Stato.than any new
man could do. We think it was. a.
great mistake on I lie part of Governor
ITawIcy not lo appoint Senator, Dubois
for those reasons, and besides, Senator
Dubois stands high in Democratic coun
sels and his words have weight among
thoso occupying tho loftiest positions.
No new man could, in the short, time
that he is likely to servo by guberna
torial appointment, obtain for the-State
one-tenth of the prestige and ad van In go
that Senalor Dubois could have con
ferred upon it from the first day of his
arrival as- its Senator in' Washington.
Then there was tho-schomo for Gov
ornor Hawley to get the S'cnalovship for
himself, by resigning tho Governorship
to let Lieutenanl-Covornor Swcctzer
succeed to that oflico and then appoint
Hawley to fill this Senatorial vacancy.!
But this wag a sort of shady political
transaction which Governor riawlc3r got
ashamed of. Besides, it ofl'ercd a rare
opportunity for the application of tho
old adage, "There's many a slip
' 'twi.xt the cup and tlio lip," especially
since Swcelzcr is a Bepublieau uud
JI.TwIeyi Democrat. So Governor Haw
ley took the safe party course, and
didn't resign, but made tho appoint
niont, naming .ludgo Perky.
Judge Porky is a man well known iu
Tdaho, is a man of force, of ability, and
of wide attainments. He will doubtless
do as 'well as any hew' inan coiild do,"
but he will be very seriously handi
capped in hi.s short service (which is
not likely lo last more than six weeks
or so) in the Senate. No new man can
go to tho Senate and attract any par
ticular attention in that short lime. A
veteran, as Dubois, would go thcro with
a veteran's standing; but Governor
Hawley has, by appointing .liidgi
Perky, deprived the State of the advan
tage which it could have had iu tho ap
pointment of a former Senator instead
of a beginner. As a beginner, howovcr,
wo do not know of any ono who is like
ly to impress himsolf moro forcefully
and helpfully upon the Senate than
Judge Perky, though ho has defects of
temper and stronuosity that will fit ill
with Senatorial ways.
SHERMAN, INDIANS' FRIEND.
The lato James Schoolcraft Sherman,
Vice President of the United States,
was named, so far as tho "School
craft" is concerned, from a great In
dian explorer and author. Schoolcraft's
works upon the Indians of the North
west are the standard works that we
have. Not only is there nothing so
good as his writings about the ludiaus,
there is nothing at all to comparo with
thoin.
True to the significance of his name,
therefore, the late James Schoolcraft
Sherman always showed a very keen in
terest in tho Indians, and did much to
help them. His heart was with them,
and his labors were constant ia their
behalf. This is made very clear by a
letter from President Charles F. Me
serve, of Shaw University, Baleigh,
North Carolina, who watched with keen
sympathy Mr. Sherman's good work io
behalf of the Indians. Mr, Meaervc
has been superintendent of the Haskell
Institute,, i he U.S. Indian industrial
training school at Lawrence, Kansas.
From his knowledge of Mr. Sherman's
work, he writes to the Springfield Bo
publican a letter, of which the follow
inir is a part:
L am pained to learn of tho death of my
friend. Vice President Sherman. Mr.
yherniun v.na a Christian statesman with
a vision and a constructive mind. Me
was Tor a long thno chairman of thd
House Commltlue on Indian .Affairs, nnd
It was while he was serving Iu that of
ficial capacity that I fir.st camo to know
him. He had a wido knowledge of the
Indian situation and officially and per
sonally favored tho most progressive
policies. She rman Institute on laypolla
avenue. Riverside, Cai.. is an enduring
memorial to his devotion to the education
of Indian youlh. He- has for many years
Identified himsolf with the Mohonk In
dian conference, and since hu had been
Vice rrcsldiit of the United States ho
had. not felt It beneath his- dignity to pre
oldo over the deliberations of the confer
ence. When tho story of the education
and civilization of tho Indians is written
the name of James Schoolcraft Sherman
will h honorably associated with J I envy
L. Dawes, S. C. Armstrong, R. II. Pratt,
Albert K. Smiley and Thomas J Morgan.
OCTOBER FIRE LOSSES.
The firo losses in October just
past in the United States and
Canada amounted to .$18,051, R50. This
comparatively small fire loss for that
month brings the total fire loss of
the ten months of the present year to
tho smallest aggregate of recent years.
The total loss of the present year so
far is $191,1SJ,(00. For the same ten
months of last year the fire losses
were S192,93.",S00: for the hhuio ten
months in J910 th'y amounted to
$19(i,o35.G0H.
During tho month of October there
were 215 liros which caused a prop
erly daniago iu each case of $10,000
or over. There were eighteen tiros
where the losses amounted to 100,000
to $200,000 and teu where tho losses
were .200,000 or over. The hcaviost
losses were $1,000,000 by the burning
of the arsenal at Honieia, California,
$1, 000,000 in the burning of the
wharves and railrond propcrt- in Phil
ndelphin, and $o00,000 in the burning
of steamers and oil works at Hayunue,
New Jersey.
The curious thing about, these fire
losses is their uniformity, Tho total
losses in 1910 in this country and
Canada were $234,470,000: in 1911
thoy were 23'l,n37,2fj0. The indica.
tious aro that the figures of the pres
ent, year will not vary from these more
than a very few thousand dollars.
A EIG SOUTHERN VOTE.
It appears from the election returns
that the vote in the Southern Slates
this year was immensely heavier than
ever before; and that iu tho North the
vote in the aggregate is loss than that
cast in the Presidential election four
years ago. Mississippi, for instance, re
ports 100,000 majority for Wilson,
which means, probably, about tho total
Vole of the Stale. But four years ago
the Slate cast all told' less than 67,000
votes. Other Southern States are re
ported as gaining in something like" the
same decree.
It is. probable that-tho excellent busi
ness conditions' of the country have
something to do with this, because in j
many of the Southern Slates the voter,
must show thaVhc has paid his poll tax
iu order to vole: and this year, by rea
son of tho common "prosperity, doubt
less, many arc ablo to pay their poll
tax who in Limes past have not been
able to do it; this applying to the white
vote; for tho negro voto is .of- course
suppressed as usual.
There is no reason in view why there
should havo been auy specially largo
vote polled in any of the Southern
Slates tho present year: fpr thcro was
no doubt whatever of tho carrying of
nil of those States by Governor Wil
son; and there was no ad.vantago in
giving him a larger vote than was
given to Bryan four years ago. And
! yet that larger voto was giveu. probably
explainable on tho grounds slated.
THE ROOSEVELT GOVERNORS.
It will be remembered that last
February seven governors protested to
Colonel Roosevelt that their States
were clamoring to get him in tho field
as a candidate for President. Thc
protested that "after a careful inves
tigation of the facts." they found that
a large 'majority of tho Kepublican
voters of the country favorod Roose
velt's nomination, "and a large ma
'jority of' tho people" " favored ' bis
olection as the next President of tho
United States.'
'JMic seven Governors who signed this
pathetic appeal to the Colonel to "shy
his castor into the Ting" were "Walter
R. Stubbs of Kansas, Chaso S. Osborn
of Michigan, Herbert S. Hndlev of Mis-
soTj, Chester H. Eldredgc of Tsc
braska'K'obert; P. Bass of New" Hamp
shire, William 13. Glasscock of West
Virgiuia, and Josoph M. Carey of! .'Wyo
ming. ,But it is a snro case that "somebody
blundered." Six of those seven States
absolutely failed to respond to tho
opinion of their Governors- that the
people wero hankering to elect Roose
velt President of tho United States.
Not only was there no "'large major
ity" in his favor in the Country at
large, or even in their own States, the
majority was decidedly the other way,
except in the ono Stato of Michigan,
aud in that Stato tho Govornor him.
self deserted Roosevelt when the cam
paign opened.
The case is an illustrativo one, in
which it is clear that enthusiastic
prejudico took tho placo of reason in
the minds of these Governors, Six of
them wero reversed by tho popular vote,
and the one who was not reversed, do- !
sorted tho Roosevelt cause himself. It
might; not bo expected that thcso Gov
ernors would have had any particular
information about tho desires of tho
country at large, but su-rely t'hoj ought
to havo known somcthiur about pub
lic opinion iu their own States. Tn
this thoy utterly failed, and are got
ting tho just castigation of tho pre
sumptuous ono who protends to know
tilings that are not so.
VTLSON AS A JOKER.
; U nppcars that President-olcct Wil
son is something of a joker in his cam
paign speeches. Tho New York Eveu
ing Post reported during the cam
paign this story of Mr. Wilson's meth
od of capturing an audience. It will
be enjoyed by the general public as
an aftcr-clcctiou story full- as much
an 'it; was dnjoyed by the audience lo
which he delivered tho humorous skit.
"Tell the story about the key. Gover
nor." said Tumulty ono night, when Wil
son was standing in front of the cone
Hpondentir lent at Sea Girt exchanging
an aricedole,
"Tho Governor was ma kirn? a spuceh
one night." explained Tumulty, "and this
story took "em just right. They went up
in tho ah- over It."
"Why, we had been discussing the high
cost of living problem," said Wlhion,
"and I luul remarked what wc needed to
do was to find the solution. Then thie
story popped into my head, and I couldn't
resist telling It:
"It was one of thoso hypothetical ques
tions which the Knglish weeklies arc so
fond of printing, with the query, 'What
would you do undor tho same ciiouth
Etnnccs?' Tho hypothesis was Ihla: A
young- man has como to call on a yivung
woman, and they aro sitting somewhat
.stiffly in the parlor, waiting for the
mother to come down and net as chap
eron, as is customary in English homes.
While thoy arc waiting, the young wom
an's noso began to bleed, and tho young
man. who remembered having heard that
a piece of cold metal applied to tho back
tr the neck will stop tho trouble-, looks
around tho room for' a pleco of cold
metal.
"I-Io sees tho key in the door, and in
his embarrassment ho locks the door in
gelling tho key out. Mo applies the key
to tho young woman's neck, but just at
that moment the mother comes down,
and, finding tlio door locked, demands
entrance. In his excitement the young
man drops tho key dovrn tho young wom
an's back. Tho question then was: 'What
would you do If you were tlio young
manV and I told tho audience that I
thought the answer certainly was: Got
tho key at any cost."
. SMART SHOP
Come to fhe Salfa
MONDAY! I
The Greatest Coal and Suit Sl
I Ever Placed Before the Pubit
I ' At All Prices- ' 1 1
We have never made such a SACRIFI
I as this SALE, but are obliged to recti
1 our LARGE STOCK, and will shj
R EVERYTHING on the Floor marlj
1 in PLAIN FIGURES. "
I See Windows for Wonderful Vali
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