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yRUTH i I
A VALENTINE.
I will send my love a velcntinc,
Some roses and cape jasmine
To let her know she has a lover,
g And I will send a four leaved clover.
Eras my messenger shall be,
I'm sure he will not trifle inc.
We have been staunch friends in the
fast,
The little rogue can travel fast.
I hope her answer will be yes,
And that she will her love confess
By wearing one sweet little flower,
Then we will plan the day and hour.
DOLORES WATTS.
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FROM REV. F. S. SPALDING.
Salt Lake City, Utah,
February 3, 1908.
To the Editor of Truth:
When I called upon you some
days ago, I told you I ould not avail
myself of your kind permission to
print an explanation of the state
ments of Mr. V. S. Pcct in your is
Isue of January 11, but would en
deavor to sec Mr. Pcct personally.
However so many persons have ask
ed me about the statements, that I
beg you, if not too late, to print the
following:
Mr. Pcct's words arc these, "Bish
op Spalding advertised to the-world-to
injure Utah," "Utah is as hard
a field as China and just as truly a
foreign mission." He is mistaken as
to the words I have used and as to
the intention with which I have re
peatedly used words, which I
have come to him in the distorted
form above printed. My object in
going east was to raise money to
carry on the work of the Episcopal
church in Utah. This was not with
the object of injuring this State, but
of helping it. New settlers will not
be deterred from coming to Utah by
the knowledge that there are Episco
pal churches and institutions in her
principal towns. St. Mark.s Hos
pital and Rowland hall founded and
supported largely by the Episcopal
church speak for themselves as use
ful institutions in the commonwealth.
1 ju We could spend more money than
is given us and to persuade our east
ern' boards and societies to increase
their gifts, I have repeatedly urged
that local support in Utah towns is
not to be expected for a long time.
The Mormon people have their own
meeting houses and they pay so gen
erously to support thdir religion,
that they cannot aid the Episcopal
church even should they desire to do
so. It is therefore necessary for the
Boards of Missions of the various
churches, who send their ministers
to Utah, to understand that they
must put them on the financial foot
ing of the missionaries in foreign
lands. I feel confident that my
words were not misunderstood by
many of my hearers, for I took good
1 care in all my addresses to express
) my total disagreement with any bit
ter and harsh criticisms of my fellow-citizens,
the members of the
church of the Latter Day Saints.
Miss Napper's many friends among
the Mormon people will not need to
have her defended, and she is glad
to know that her informant gave her
a wrong impression as to the teach
ing in other Sunday schools, though
it may not be amiss to point out that
good logic requires Mr. Pcct to in
quire vhcthcr possible exceptions to
enlightened teaching elsewhere meets
with as prompt investigation as the
unfortunate cases he refers to meet
with at the hands of the authorities
in the Episcopal church.
Since the Episcopal church has
during its past history in Utah, fol
lowed a course of charity to all and
malice towards none, I submit that it
is but fair, when apparent exceptions
to that rule arise, to give us the
benefit of the doubt, for it is certain
ly not the intention of any of the
workers of the Episcopal church to
depart from the example of Bishop
" Tuttlc and Bishop Leonard.
Yours respectfully,
F. S. SPALDING.
UP TO UNCLE JOE.
To save the Appalachian Mountain
Range for public uses to prevent its
forests from being destroyed by pri
vate haste for gold no more un
doubted duty lies before our Con
gress at the present moment. Yet
what of the Hon. Joseph Cannon?
Where can he usually be found when
money is at stake? Is he seen, with
determined mien, his back against
the wall, oblivious of the moment
and of self, battling for his country's
future? Not Joe. No better friend
to vested snaps was ever known than
he. Kindly take a moment, reader
dear, to compare the Committee on
Agriculture of the Fifty-ninth Con
gress with that of the Sixtieth. It
is now rumored dimly that two mem
bers of the last year's Committee
who are missing were dropped by
Mr. Cannon because of their friend
liness to the bill; and our knowledge
of the Speaker makes us fear these
rumors may be well founded. We
refer to Davis of Minnesota, and La
fean of Pennsylvania. Mr. Cannon,
is this true? New members are Cole
of Ohio, Pollard of Nebraska, Gil
hams of Indiana, McLaughlin of
Michigan, Hawlcy of Oregon, Cook
of Colorado, and Weeks of Massa
chusetts, Republicans; and Beall of
Texas, Rucker of Missouri, Stanley
of Kentucky, and Heflin of Alabama.
Democrats; and we have reason to
fear that an undoubted majority of
these gentlemen oppose the bill. The
whole committe, as now composed,
is estimated to show 10 to 8 against
the bill. This is the work of Uucle
Joe, and if the bill is finally defeated
the everlasting disgrace therefor
should be centered sharply upon the
Speaker of the House.
"NOT-YET-BUT-SOON."
"Known conditions indicate tint
this proposition will pay dividend
of one hundred per cent per annum."
This is one sentence from fervid let
ters, just now being received by all
whose names arc on the "sucket
list," which solicit the purchase, at
fifty cents each, of shares in the
Nome Gold Dredging and Powci
Company. Other phrases, designated
to tempt the credulous, arc "thor
oughly eliminate of risk," "one of the
most profitable enterprise's known
to mankind," "sufficient to pay an
average of one hundred per cent an
nually for over forty-four years to
every stockholder." Among the of
ficers and directors of this marvelous
company we note one who is thus
described: "Hon. William J. Stone,
Jefferson City, Missouri. United
States Senator from Missouri, and
former Governor of that State."
Should not our people cither pay
this Senator a salary sufficient to
relieve him from the embarrassing
necessity o!f selling cheap jrlining
.stocks to suckers, or else send a sub
stitute to Washington and regretful
ly leave him free to give of his high
ly valuable time to defending hi
family against the wolf?
THE NEW GOSPEL.
Police headquarters of he cities
arc being thronged each morning
with first offenders men and women
whose crime it is to be hungry.
Slums of the foreign born arc wit
nessing silent and ungrouped pro
cessions of the unemployed. Fac
tory towns arc full of idleness and
noise, and the villages of the "most
prosperous country in the world"
arc facing a fag-end of winter that
is heavy with trouble. Let the in
corrigible melody that lies hidden in
the heart of all creation1 make itself
heard above the clash and dreary
pipings of the surface world. Some
how we must wed the melody to the
pain. And some day the heart of
man will sing back a better response
to the music that is fillinc the unner
air. Yesterday and today, and on
till reality ceases, the spaces are cla
morous with song. Although we arc
little, and lonely and human, can w;
not even now teach our tired feet
iO keep step in the cntcrnal rhythm?
And all of us who can, let us help
such men as need. At this time we
.should give redoubled aid to those
who arc working to the solutoin.
Wc can remember, for example, Jane
Addams and Halstead Street; Woods
of Boston, in his city wilderness;
Edward T. Devine of New York,
and Maude Miner, spending all night
and every night in sa from the
street girls who are new to the city.
These are the times to be sorry and
then to be useful. "What," the young
man or woman used to ask "what
can I do to be saved?" And a fam
our preacher tells us that now the
question' lafcked him has changed and
ecry day is: "What can I do to H
held?"
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THE NEW HAVEN OCTOPUS. H
In the New England railway situa- H
tiou there are some simple aspects. H
However Mr. Mcllcn may have ad- H
mittcd or Iconccalcd his ambition, H
his actions make his intentions frank. H
He will control absolutely, and has M
already gone far toward controling, M
every steam railroad and every trol- H
ley and every coastwise steamship in H
New England. Every time the New M
Englaudcr travels a mile, every time H
he ships ten pounds of freight, lie H
will negotiate wi'h this Mr. Mcllcn's M
agents and pay into Mr. Mcllcn's M
treasury the charge that Mr. Mcllcn M
finds necessary to pay interest on U
the water in his securities. Whcth- M
cr this carries monoply beyond even M
the. point of greatest efficiency, whe- U
thcr New England would not be bet- M
tcr off with a system of independent fl
trolley trunk lines like those in the M
Middle West, running sleeping cars M
to New York in competition with M
Mr. Mcllcn's road these and many M
others arc questions to be decided, M
not by Mr. Mcllcn, nor yet by the M
wealthy owners of Boston and Maine M
stock with whom the advantage of M
exchanging their seven per cent stock M
for Mr. Mcllcn's eight per cent, share M
for share, might conceivably out- M
weigh motives of public welfare. Nor M
arc these matters to be decided by M
the owners of moribund little trol- M
leys who arc glad to let Mr. Mcllcn's H
rich New Haven road give solidity M
to their water and create a charge
upon which New England travelers H
and manufacturers for generations M
will pay interest. These arc matters H
to he dcciJcd by the will and ballots H
of the people of New England. H
H
BARTER. I
The principal objection among po H
liticians to Governor Hughes causes H
partly amusement and in part a sort H
of sadness or astonishment. A' pro- H
mincnt political figure observed re- H
ccntly: "I have worked hard for H
Hughes from the beginning, but I H
am through with him. I find I stand H
no better with hint than if I had H
worked against him." Another Re- H
publican leader came back from Al- H
bany, saying he had asked for the H
barest possible concession anything H
that would amount to recognition f H
the organization and the Governor H
had replied that he would not turn H
over his hand to become President. H
These politicians genuinely believe H
that such a demeanor, such refusal H
to give and take, betokens selfncss,
illibcrality, meanness, egotism, vie-
iousness, brutality, perfidy, un-Amer- H
icanism, and sin. Their viewof pub- H
lie life ani its obligations is so in- H
grained it in our generation it will
hardly disappear. I
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