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H 6 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1912. j Issued evcr7 morntns by Bait Lake Trlhuno Puh'lshtnc Comidti TERMS OF S.UBSCKIPTION: Dally anil Sunday, one month I. OH Dally MM Sundny. three months... 3.00 Dally and Sunday, ono year 12.00 Sunday Tribune, ono year 2.00 Sunday Tribune, six months 1.00 Scmt-Wcckly Tribune, nne year.... 1.50 The Tribune In on sale In every Im portant city ol tlit United State. Headers of the paper may ascertain the name of the local ajrent In any city by telephoning this office. S. C Ecclrwlth. Special Acent. Sol Eastern .Advertising Apent. Eastern of fice, Tribune, nulldlnir. New Tork; West ern office. Tribune 'Bulldlne. Chicago. Business communication." should ho ad dressed: "The Tribune, Salt 'Lako City, Utah." Matters for publication to "Editor Th Tr'hnn 3nU T.nk City. tTtah." Telephone Exchange 264. ' Wtn you fall to set your Tribune, telophonn the city circulation department and a copy -will be sent you by special Tirnnsrer. Entered at the Postofflce- at Salt I.ak City as second-clas matter. Tuesday, November 19, 1912. IMaj'or Gaynor bas forbidden church euchre parties, That is, lie euchres them. Col. .Roosevelt has given Socialism h( biggost boost it ever had in this country. When n rann comes into a fortune of a. hundred million dollars on Fridny, as Vincent Astor did, how can ho consider Friday an, unlucky day? j A St. Louis professor says that, peo ple can keep their servants by teaching them thcosoph'. May be; but who would want to keep them at that price? Turkey's downfall was swift and sure as the downings of turkey will be on the last Thursday of November in the various households of the United States. President Taft proposes to organ ize a leaguo of Eepubljcans. inside of the party proper, to defend tho Consti tution. It would be a good movement, and President Taft rs .iust the man to head that league. Hj "Republicans are now benevolently solicitous to save the Democrats from making mistakes," remarks the .Demo eratic Philadelphia Record. But wo J far that the JRopublicaus will have no hotter success at this than thoy had in the election. President TafL is planning to enter tain President-elect and Mrs. Wilson before leaving the White House. It is a graceful courtesy, which elevates Hj Mr. Taft higher than cvor in the csti mation of the American- public, which Jcj es a good loser. Hj 7- seems as though tho more crime is exposed, tho more remains to be ox posed. The developments in tho new system of postal frauds involving a million dollars testify at once, to the credulity of tho people and tho knowl edgo of that credulity by the swindlers, llof-ton Globo: "Washington reports tliat the average 'farm prices' for corn, Hi wheat, barley, flaxseed, potatoes, col- ton, aud hay were lower on Isovcmbcr Hj 1 than the' have been for five years. Howoer, tho prices will be found to Hj hac recovered by the time the prod- nets reach tho consumers." Hj "Lot us hopo, now that women havo the ballot, that sledding for cheap skate politicians will become rougher," hays tho Portland Orcgouian, But I tab's experience docs not justify that hope; for a. scurvier lot of cheap .skato politicians than the Federal bunch that hat, so long dominated this State never throttled principle or scut tied a parly era ft. Hj Now that the Servians have cap- lured Monastir and tho Bulgarians have been repulsed at Tcbatalja the Scrviau army can go to tho help of the Bulgarians. J3ul what a tremendous j victory tho capture of .Monaslir is, w.th its garriou of fifty thousand Turks! "With a defending force like Hl that, no wonder the stronghold resisted fl ho long. Friends of former Governor Adams, of Colorado, aro working to have him j mado Secretary of tho Interior in lrc?i dent Wilson's Cabinet. It would bo a 1 Mrsl-class appointmcul; for Mr. Adams ha; a profound knowledgo of the condi nous of Ibis western country and the j laws bearing upon them that few men possess, aud that it seems Kastcru men i'au !iccr acquire. HH Tt is to be hoped that there is a n intake in the report that the .Balkan 111 all!cs aro not 10 cutc Constantinople, being held therefrom by "advice" from Russia. Such advice is a veto l that cannot well bo disregarded; but it 1.1 8 ;i fchamc to call oil' tho gallant Ughlcrs who have richly earned this HI rt:lt satisfaction. The appropriate ng 's that the allies should dictate terms of pe;icc in Coii.stantinople. H ' It seems as though to make bets on tho rewIt of a trial ought to be peril H I ously close to contempt of court. H j Yet the gamblers -or shall we say i speculators? aro makinc two to ono H bets that the gunmen in the Rosenthal H assa.ssinaUou will ljc convicted. That H , may note quite a?, ofTensive as though tlioy should bet two to one that these gunmen would bo acquitted; but where's the difference in principle? SMITH IS TOO MODEST. President Joseph F. Smith is cntiroly too modest. Ho oindcrcstimatcs his in fluence. Jn his Boise interview pub-( lished yesterday, ho denies that he had anything to do with Utah's going Re publican, or with Governor Ilawlcy's defeat; in Tdaho, And he inaUcs the samo old futile contradiction, asserting the same old deceitful and inischiovous sophistries, But the fact remains that President Smith, in the exorciBO of hi a "rights as a citizen," did that which no other citizen of Utah or Idaho has a right to do; he- insortcd an urticle in a strictly ecclesiastical publication set ting forth his views as a. Republican, endorsing President Taft and his ad ministration, and expressing a decided preference for tho Republican ticket. And when wo recall his emphatic claim in his noted Provo address of the right to rule his people temporally as well as spiritually, his true meaning and intent in that editorial is not subject to doubt It may 'bo said that the Dosorcr News made au editorial explanation of the matter, which intimated that the people were still free to exercise their own judgment, nothwithstandiug what the' read in the Improvement Era. But it will be remembered that the Era article was ,ipned by the President of the Mormon church, and that the pub lication which carried it to the Latter-day Saints in all the world, was official, strictly sectarian, and is ec clesiastically recommended as '"'breath ing the spirit of the gospol of Jesus Christ on every page;" two of .which pages were occupied by tho signed art icle endorsing the Republican National administration and commeudiug Presi dent Taft for re-election. Bctweou tnia signed article in the Era and the unsigned explanation in the News, the brethren and sisters knew which to follow; thev knew whioh was meant for the world and which for the elect: and. the politicians kuew which to circulate in all Mormon strongholds as the vote- in -Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming conclusively demon strates, Jt is said'thnt; hundreds of cop ies of the Era were worn out during the campaign just ended, by zealous gum shoors, anxious to do the will of those over them by explainiujr thatthis edi torial was God 's political oracle from constituted authority. There is every reasou to believe the Era article was written and published at the requeat. of Apostle Smoot, whose ! false political prophecies will continue to embarrass the church. The editorial in the Era was undoubtedly written and printed for the express purpose of influencing the recent election, It was 110 idle production, of a thought less man tr3'ing to fill space at the call of an impatient printer. It was a political document, designed for po litical effect, prepared (by clever poli ticians, re-road and revised, by the First Presidency, and published for no other purpose than to causo Mormon readers to vote the Republican ticket. Any denial of those facts is essentially insincero, and any disclaimer of re sponsibility for their natural effect is absurdly ovor-modest. As ono citizen of Utah recently re marked, -with the Improvement JUra in the Stato and the votintr machines in the city, any party ought to win, and any set of candidates ought to secure election, regardless of campaign issues, purty organization, canvass fig ures, or anything else. And the ouly way to remove auch suspicions is to givo- the people the right to mark and deposit their own ballots aud to givo them a chance to vote without ec clcsiastical counsel or interference. HOW DIRECT TRADE WORKS. The Tribune bus frequently referred to the fact that tho combinations of wholesale aud retail dcadcrs have more lo do with the increased cost of livin" than tho tariff or the cost of manufac ture. Indeed, the cost of manufacture is steadily decrcaain, aud if customers could buy direct from tho manufac turers they would save half the prkc. This is illusiraled by the way in which tho United Slates eliminates the mid dleman in the purchase of its supplies. For instance, the United Stales is able to buy clothing for its soldiers at prices that arc not only impossible to tho retail buyer, but that aro absolute ly amazing, TJc new olive drab woolen uniform costs the soldier but .$7.iU complcto, being t.5T for tho coat and $2.83 for the trousers. The eoldicr in service buys his gloves for J37 cents and his linen collars for -1 cents;- cotlou stockings cost him 8 cents a pair, heavy woolen stockings 2-1 cents, and ligbt woolen 13 cents, lie buys heavy woolen mitts for ."-0 ceuls aud his overalls cost him 57 cents. His dress trousers, made of the finest 22.ouncc kcrsoy, cost him $o,03, aud his dress coat, of the same material. .o.37. He pays 52 ceuts for a chambray shirt, $2.G0 for the olive drab llauuol shirt and only .'51 cents Tot tho muslin abirt. His olive drab over coat, made of excellent material, costs him but $I2.:;S. These priees arc but from one-third to oiic-hulf of what the retail prices ould be to the ordinary cus-toiucr buying rrom the usual sources of supply. The reason why these things cost thq soldiers so little is that the United States buys direct from the lowest bidder among manufacturers, and he lets the tailoring also to the lowest bidder.-. The goods aro sold to the men for 'the. actual cost of produc tion, plus light sloragc'charges. Of course, neither the manufacturer nor the tailor loses any money in the transaction. They both, in fact, make wages and profit. And the difference betweeu these prices aud what the ordinary buvor has to pay for the like quality of goods represents tho profits of the uiiddlomon and retailer and the expenses of both for help, tailoring, freight, rent, and other business costs. Tt is evident that any communitj- of eizo enough to match the liko require mcnts as thoso of the United States, could combine and get as favorable prices for the clothing it needs at? the Unitod States cots for the needed sup plies for it soldiers. A PROGRAMME FOR CHINA. The statesmen of China appear to bo working out in a more or loss defi nite and harmonious manner, a pro gramme for putting into, effect repub lican institutions in that country. "Wliou the republican leaders of south ern China visited Pokinir, there was a goucral expectation that these lead ers would lose their heads on getting to the national capital; but the chief representatives of southern sentiment, Dr. Sun Yat-scu, Huang Using, Chen Chi-mci, persisted in their determina tion to visit the northern capital. Their friends bade them farewell as men goiug to t.hoir deaths. It was well known that there- were those in Peking who thought these men ought to be killed; but Yuan Shi-kai thought dif-' fercntly, and Yuan is the master. Sun Yat-scu convinced Yuan that he wan not a candidate for president, ud would support him; and ho convinced him, further that his fellow delegates and the whole south of China would be loyal to Y-uan 's government. The result of this mcetiug, it is roported. was the accomplishment of wonders for harmony between the north and tho south. As a result of that visit, there has been published in the name of Presi dent Yuau Shi-kai. with the approval of Sun Yut'-sen, and his fellow dele gates, a programme containing eight propositions for official procedure. These propositions are ns follow?: 1. That tho country shall b unified 2. That the distinction between right p.nd wrong shall be accentuated for tho betterment of the morals of the people. That the country shall be equipped with adequate armaments and that naval nnd military experts shall bo traincu for this purpose. i. That tiie principle of the open door shall be followed, and that foreign capi tal shall be Imported, wherewith lo con struct railways, to open mines and to estublish steol works for the improvement of the conditions of life among the people 5. That agriculture, forestry, industry and copynerce shall be encouraged so that tho general productive powers of the na tion may be fostered. 6. That the principle of centralization shall bo applied to military, diplomatic and financial affalra, to the judiciary and to the organs of communication, but that all other matters, In pursuance of the doc trine of decentralization, shall be left to the local governments after due consid eration of the circumstances of each province. 7. That the finances of the country shall be adjusted S. That order shall be maintained by means of a compromise between the var ious political parties.. These propositions, although framed in the most general terms, are held in China to go directly to the needs of tho country and it' is said thatjprobubly they will be the rallying point upon which all factions' can meet". The revolu tion is a thing accomplished ; the country is ordained to be a republic; but mil lions of Chinamen do not know any thing about it yet, b' reason of the lack of communication and the remote ncEs of some of the provinces. Prob ably not half of the people of China either know or care anything about the movement and the change that has been made. lu the meantime, tho new govern ment is sadly in need of money) The proposition for th loan of .$300,000,000 under tho patronage of tho Six Pow ers, fell through. Then, Wendell Jack sou negotiated a loan in London for China of 450,000,000, through C. Birch, Crisp & Co., who offered to loan tho moucy without restriction as to how it should be spent. That was the critical point, and that; was what made the Chinese govcrument reject the proposal of the Six Powers; 'since those powers wished to oversee I he ex penditure of the money and to prevent all C'biucso grafting. Tho next step was to discredit the ?50,000,000 negotiated by Mr. Jackson and to revive tho rumor that China would have to come lo the terms of the Six Powers. This Mr. Jackson ni di;, uautly fights. The Tiritish govern ment undertook to htop thc negotia tions by the Jackson syndicate, and laid before Mr. Crisp of the lending firm that. China ought not lo borrow money outside of the Six-Power com bination, at least until she had provided for tho repayment of thc advances 'al ready mado by those powers. To Mr. Crisp it wna also explained that as a matter of principle the powers would never support a loan which wna con cluded without satisfactory security aud control of its expenditure. To this Mr. Crisp replied in effect that it was noiio of tho business of the uow ors what he did, and ho would do as ho liked; and then ho offered thc loan for public subscription. Thc British government then warned the Chinese govcrument that if it accepted the loan "his Majesty's Government would be- obliged to take thc most serious view of such proceedings." In spite of this a part of tho loan was actually floated and was accepted by China; but tho Yuan government pres ently began to sec that, it- might be making a false atop, and so it has turned to the Six Powers again for relief and asks their support. ' That support, of eour&o, is lo too had only by "iviug wav to their terms; and those tonus are more likely to be made se verer than easier. The great control liuj; fact ia that China needH money, nnd needs a lot of it. By agrccinjr to thc terms of thc Six Powers it can get plenty; fby undertaking to get- loans aside from these powers, it can got spiall sums from time to time, but un der precarious conditions, and the lend ers arc likely to repont. Thc Chi nesc government Jooka upon the inter fcrcncc o tho powers in the matter Some sales are planned for and some result from un- I g looked-for conditions often bringing the snappiest bargains, as in I ffa fm this instance. This sale is to serve the double purpose of reducing a jL too. large stock in carpets and rugs and of making a clean sweep of jflj all draperies and curtains preparatory to making our estimates for j spring purchases. j; Y Entire Stock of New Carpets Included in the Sale ?( Y Wiltom, Awninstprs, Velvets, Tapestry 'Lace-Curtains Half Price ' E m .o-Av f 6f-Vi t " ,iio " One, Ttoo and Tkrec-Pair Lots lUJ 2.2o Wiltons for .-fcJ.CO 1.6o civets for $1..10 i'i Y IwWf!.:::::: S J&V::::'::: M It does not matter-to you if there are but one ;i" lfih iSS Si!' ibro LAID Al&rtsSSoBD ' price! to Pir of a kind it that is nil you need-ami yet. j , W Finest -Domestic Rugs 1-3 Less Ttmtty -aVe you 8everal miars " eaeh pail' j I " Finest grades of domestic rugs made. A ; ffljfi stock carefully selected from the best mills in the ccmu- Lace CurtaiT2S Neat" Half PfCe ! 1 Y LT Wili0 VcJvote insters and Tapes- Qur entire stock of Nottingham, Cluny, l tnSx tries. Every one a- recent, purchase and all new pat- -r, , T , -r, - . t, . r,i. "'1Ji'. ryLllv TO terns. I.looni-size rugs. Bnissds. Irish Point, Renaissance. Scrims and Morqms- Value $75.00, for $55.0(1 'Value $40.00, for $81.50 Cl eS , j , .. Value $05.00, for -19.50 V:ilue $35.00, for 22.50 $1.00 values for (ia $-1.00 value for ' $2.50 tfYt Value $50.00, for :58.5ll Value $27.50. for ....... 10.50 1.35 values for 75 5.50 values for 3.15 V fifiljA Value $15.00. for iKi.OU Vnluo $22.50. for 15.00 1.65 values for 1.00 7.50 values for 1.75 Hi luJJJ , Value $20.00. for 13.50 3.00 values for 1.00 15.00 values for S.50 S : ' ". .- 17.50 values for 9.75' ; gjL CretOlltieS Half Price ylUOnc.lwo andThrec-Pah Lots of Lace Curtains Ila'f Pri- c. rAjO A larirc slock of all Uie choicest patterns. I . ; )f " n7, j 1 Portieres lnb utlftOlnCS ., . ,r . $5.00 values for $3.00 , ' . ,, ... 4i ,- , r ,., - I. apeStneS, O.OO values for .. -1.50 JnJJJ; All tins years patterns. .kc grndc for lie. 1 ' 7.50 values for 5.00 r i - r n c 7- Damasks and n.so values for ooo i ? Colonial Drapery ben ms Lxctusive Designs 25.00 values for 15.00 1 fft 75c uradea for ."..50c HOe Krndos for '.... 7c VcloU-VS '1- values for . ' 12.50 . , jyjfj) 50c snides for 35c J5e grades for 0e J -'-on values tor lu.00 fQ 1 ip fj kh iQt of the expenditure of thc loan made, as a virtual surrender of financial free dom. And so it is; hut ihoso who need to borrow often have' to accept hard tonus; and it looks as I hough China in her great need, will be subject to the usual rule for tho borrower, who not only has to pay, but has lo agree besides to thc louder 's conditions and terms. OPPOSE AJVIEPvICAN GOODS. An interesting report is made by Consul General Frank "D. Hill on Amer ican trade in his district, comprising J.rankfort-ou-thc-!Main, and embracing a population of about half a million. It appears that American competition is arousing a . good deal of opposition among tho Germans in that regiou. this opposition being manifested in advertis ing depreciation of American r goods, and a call uj)Oii Gerjnans lo support home industries. This opposition is chiefly manifested in tho. trade, in son' iug nine hi ncs, maehino- tools,' type writers, nnd cash registers. The Ger man tradesmen themselves aro active ly engaged in this opposition to Ameri can imports, setting forth their pleas through articles in trade papers, and newspapers, in -lectures and pamphlets, and by way of personal persuasion. A leading importer of American machine tools snys that this systematic cam paign is- moat obnoxious, and is re sponsible in part for thc fact that we are not getting our share of the grow ing demand for machine tools. A pamphlet is quoted which makes a strong: attack upon the American sew ing machines, cauli registers, and type writer. Those handling these Amcr ican goods arc accused in this pamphlet of having resorted to repre hensible and in sonic cases even il legal practices in order to dominato the German market. An explicit at tack was mado upon American sewing machines by the union of German sew ing machine manufacturers ami thc union of German dealers in sewing ma chines. l.!ut this opposition to these Ameri can manufactures is not universal. Gcr man business circles nre divided on thc desirability of opposition lo American manufactures. A series of articles priutcd in a Frankfort monthly publica tion for business men, discusses the charges made against American meth ods by the. opposition pamphlet re ferred to, and points out that Amer ican firms owe. their success in Ger many "to their admirable organization and to thc fact that they specialize, whereas German firms generally turn out a considerable variety of ma chines.'' The article further states that the appeal addressed lo German people against American sewing ma chines "is a confession of tho inability of Gorman manufacturers to compete with thc American manufacturers." Further, the writer of that series of articles points out that tho United States is one of Germany's best mar kets t for manufactured "goods, "that cortain Gornran industries arc depend ent upon American trade for their exist ence, aud that any attempt to boy roll American products must create op position to German exports to the United States Consul General Hill points out that it 111 11 t be understood that the iaui- paign ia not carried on against all American products, although American products only are attacked in this way; but American shoos find- an oxcollent market in his consular district, and have apparently no difiiculties of I hat sort of opposition to contend with, and so with a uumbor of manufactures, lo say nothing of our -raw materials, where, of course, competition is either nonexistent or with foreign couutrica. .Mr. Hill adds that "it cannot bo said, either, that tho German people are projudiccd against American goods in general or the four classes of articles mentioned in particular." On tho con trary, widespread popularity of Ameri can products seems to bo largely re sponsible for tho ' campaign which is being carried on by more or Ick direct ly interested concerns against them. All of; which is, on tho whole, en couraging, as it demonstrates the su periority of American methods of manufacture and of doiug business. It is natural that German manufacturers with whom the' American products come into competition, should endeavor to mako as much difficulty for thc American products as possible, because these products, being superior and more desirable, are naturally preferred by the German buy or, aud thc German manufacturer finds himself curtailed by just that much in his market. Tt is good to sco that with man impartial and better educated Germans there is a friendly spirit, and that they rocog nizc the fact that trade- with America must be mutual in order to amount to ' iniu-li. These better informed Germans ;pi" i'"call point out that if they do j not, buy from America, they nrojjj not to bo able lo sell to America; so the campaign, so far as thial ticular class of goods in that local concorned, dwindles down to a tra position l)3- jealous rivals, and thi American manufacturers and Amflj agcutr. appear to bo fully able to: aud in this efTorl to meet that bc opposition, they are supported b; tL better opinion of broad-mindedj Jfe mans themselves. r Medicinal opium (nol sinjM opium) has gone up materially itta since tbo opening of the BalkanaJ as thc bulk of this sort of n',u,"jn from Smyrna and Beirut. Atar OjQlP is another raro commodity been considerably increased n!'!. it comes mostly from Bulgana thc Bulgarians' aro too busy " bother with making it. fflE Thc now $10,000 bill is said ll work of art. It ought to be ill Price . 1