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TRUTH K Issued Weekly by Truth Publishing Company, W' 32 Eagle LSlock; B' Salt I.nkc City, Utah. BV ' John W, Hughes, Editor and Mangr. BH Entered June 19, 1903, ill Salt Lac BBB. City, Utah, as second-class matter, BBY under Act of Congress of Mar. 3, 1879 flj Terms of Subscription: BBj Postmasters sending subscriptions BB to TRUTH may retain 25 per cent of BBJ subscription price as commission. If the paper is not desired beyond BBl the date subscribed for, the publica- tion should be notified by letter two BBl weeks or more before term expires. BBl Discontinuances. Remember that the publisher must BBl 'J he notified by letter when a subscriber . BBl 1 wishes his paper stopped; all arrears I must be paid in full. Requests of- subscribers to have their paper mailed to a new address, B to secure attention, must mention for- BBl mer as well as present address. Address all communications to TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY H Salt Lake City, Utah. BH If there is one thing more certain H than another, it is that the" Salt Lake BH Tribune " is a private publication BH without party or character. BH o HB The ground is well taken in the M allegation that the Tribune, Telegram BH and Herald arc woven with the same HB warp and woof. Some day, and at BH some time, these alleged journals ot BH public opinion may be clothed in sack HB cloth and ashes. Just now all they Hi have to cover their nakedness is a lit- HJ tie cheesecloth and everyone can sec Hi through that. HI o HJ Senator Tillman had a large audi- encc at the Salt Lake theatre Sunday evening when h: lectured on the race fl problem, that is, the problem of the fl Negro in the United States, what is HB to be done with him and what is his BH destiny. Mr. Tillman is an cntcrtain- BB ing talker, which was shown by the fl fact that from a little before nine HJ o'clock until nearly midnight he held HH his audience, without any symptoms flfl of weariness on cither his side or the flfl side of the audience and from the HH beginning to the end his telling points HJ brought out applause, laughter and HH deep feeling. fl W'c think, however, he went on a HH wrong assumption. He built up a HH man of straw at the very beginning, Hh and then proceeded to knock him HJ down. His straw man was that the HJ people of the northern states regard HJ the Negro as the equal of the white HH t race. They don't do anything of the B I kind. No more do they regard the Hi I Latin as the equal of the Angio ma j Saxon. HJ I It is true, however, that the people I I of the north arc not fully alive to the M f gravity of the race question, that is the Negro question. Fortunately the HJ Negro is not numerous enough in the H , north to bring the question before M them as an issue. It is otherwise in J the southern states. There, it is a B very serious problem, but Mr. Till- H man offered no practical solution ot l',L the problem. Nobody, so far, has, been able to do so. Mr. Tillman's plan is disfranchisement of the Negro, but that is only a makeshift. The Ne gro by the constitution has equal political rights with the whites, but in the south it is only a fiction and should not be anything else, should not even be that, but nevertheless it is a condition, a stem reality. This condition is the result of mistakes, or worse. The first was worse. It was a gross sin. It consisted in bringing the Negroes here at all. They were brought against their will, brought by the worst kind of brute force accomp anied by the grossest cruelties imag inable. Although it is true northern men and Englishmen were to a large extent the instruments in capturing and stealing the Negroes in Africa and bringing them to this country as slaves, they were brought in response to a commercial demand from the Southern States. The the people of the south bought the captives and paid for them, made chattels of them treated them as beasts of burthen; treated them little better than they did their dogs and their pigs and their mules, and not as well as they treat ed their horses. Savages to begin with, used like beasts for a long scries of years what wonder that the vast majority of the Negroes of the south ' arc little above the beasts today. That was the sin of it. Now for the mistake. After the Civil war or " the war between the states," as Senator Till man prefers to call it, the general government made the mistake of con ferring on the freed slaves those people whose ancestors were brought here savages, they and their progeny treat ed as brute beasts; bought and sold as chattels for generations were given equal standing in the eye of the law with the race of men which for thousands of years had been slowly but surely rising in the scale of creat ed things. That was a grave mis take, but under all the trying and terrible circumstances then existing, it was a mistake which any intelli gences below that of divinity itself might well be excused for making. The people of the south were chief ly responsible for bringing the Ne gro here, altogether responsible for the condition of ignorance and beast iality in which they kept him. They have got the Negro. He is their bete noir; they arc paying the penalty for the sins of their fathers and they will have to work out their own Salvation; but how, is the problem which is yet unsolved. There are 10,000,000 Negroes in the United States. They are increasing more rapidly in proportion to their .num bers than the whites. They are not like the Indians, fast becoming ex tinct. They arc here not only to stay but to increase. They can't be merged with the whites, that is an impossibility in the next thousand years. They can't in the ordinary way of evolution be brought to a plain of enlightenment equal to that which the whites have attained for many generations. In their slow and gradual advancement they will be a constant source of trouble and an noyance amounting to even a menace as their numbers increase. As to what the solution of this difficulty, the result of crimes and mistakes of the past, is, Senator Tillman appears not to be any better able to deter mine than anybody else. His invective directed against the Negro, calling him the tail end of creation, the first cousin of a baboon and so forth is mere clap trap. Ac cording to the highest scientific au thority Senator Tillman's remote an cestors were monkeys and there isn't much difference between a monkey and a baboon. From Senator '1 ill man's point of view the "nigger" question is a serious one and there is no doubt that it is, especially in the south. It can't, however, be settled in the way that Mr. Tillman sug gested, by the whites turning out en masse and slaughtering the blacks. The day and generation for that kind of thing has passed, at least in this part of the world. Mr. Tillman, doubtless, is honest in his convictions. He is fearless but there are many things in heaven and earth arc not dreamed of in his philosophy, and among those things is the solution of the Negro race question. o TICKETS TREATED AS A COM MODITY. A recent press dispatch says that a new principle probably will find ac ceptance in the newer philosophy of state and interstate commerce the sale of passenger transportation ex actly like potatoes arc sold, as a com modity, conveying absolute title trans ferable of the option of the buyer. It is rapidly becoming the common belief in Washington among govern ment officials who have to do with these matters that the plan in vogue on the New York Central lines must be universally adopted by all rail ' roads. This plan is. One may go to any New York Cen tral ticket office and buy a mileage book at 2 cents fiat a mile. A 500 milc book costs $10; a 1,000-milc book $20. This book may be used by a man and his wife, the conductor "pulling" for instance 200 mile cou pons for the journey of the man and wife to Albany, 100 miles from New York City. This rule applies to every station on the entire system. Furth ermore, the buyer may take with him anyone he pleases to take, whether or not a member of his family. For in stance, if he sees a friend on the train, he may instruct the conductor to pull twice . mileage for the distance the two arc going from the same book. Or he may take thus as many per sons as the mileage of the book will carry. Again, if he be temporarily in the state or on the Central's lines, and when ready to leave that region he has an unused part of one of these books he may dispose of it to any one else without violating the rules of the company. There are no re strictions as to who shall use it. On New York Central branch lines the passenger rate is 2V& to 3 cents a mile, if ordinary tickets be bought, but these 2-ccnt-a-milc books are a good on any part of the system. This v rule is on the theory that the pur chase of passenger transportation is not merely a personal contract limit ed to being carried out only as to the original buyer, but that rather it is the purchase of a commodity much as the purchase of a sack of potatoes, with the feature of a contract to give safe carriage to the holder of a tick et. The "commodity is to be con sumed in quantity nd manner to suit the wish of the original buyer. State Journal. " 1 u - AN OFFER OF ONE-CENT POST AGE. A sharp and positive challenge to the drift of sentiment toward govern ment ownership arrested the atten tion of the country some weeks ago, A fifty-million dollar corporation, re presented by a Chicago publisher and ? capitalist, proposed to take over the operation of the national post-office, and to guarantee under heavy bonds to cut the rate of postage in half Directly considered, this is simply .1 great business proposition; reversed, it is a definite charge that we arc now paying double what we should for our postal service, because of the in efficiency of government operation. The promoters of the proposed pri vate enterprise said to be highly successful and practical men, espec ially in the field of transportation, believe that their plan, if it could be given a trial, would be surely profit able for two reasons: first, because the lower rate on, both first and second-class mail matter would greatly stimulate postal business; and second, because of the saving which could be made out of vast wastes now going on in the Post-Office Department. The first of these theories is merely, a good business conjecture based on previous government experience; it is interesting, but not of immediate consequence to the American public; but the second deserves early atten tion. . fj!( The Post-Office Department, for the last fiscal year, was operated at a nominal loss of ten million dollars. Really, viewed from the standpoint of a private enterprise, the deficit was much greater, for the costly govern ment buildings occupied by city post offices arc not cln gcd to this de partment, but to the department ot the Treasury. Yet, according to its own system of accounting, the Post Officc Department has not b'cen self supporting in any year since 1883. Last year its annual gross receipts ") were $168,000,000, while its expenses were $178,000,000. A little more than one 'quarter of this great total of expenditure, or