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I, , TRUTH
Vj Issued Weekly by
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1 Nellie B. Hughes, Manager.
Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake
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THE WOMEN'S REPUBLICAN
CLUB.
The Women's Republican club is
doing good work, as it has ever done,
and it is not only becoming but has
become an indispensable adjunct to
the organization in chief. The sug
gestions made at the recent meeting
were timely and proper, and carried
out can but result in great good to
the people individually and collect
ively, for it should be known where
it is not that this is exactly for what
the Republican party was organized, is
carried on, and has been given such
grea. and repeated grants of power
in the affairs of the land. The work
and influence of the women will be
needed in the campaign now at our
doors, and that these will be had in
full measure need not be said.
This is remindful that women arc
not only permitted but expected and
made welcome at the Lincoln' day
gatherings of the party.
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THAT EXPENSIVE CANAL.
Everybody in this country who ex
pects to live long enough to sec it
completed is interested in the Pana
ma canal. We now have it, on the
authority of Collier's Weekly, that
Colonel Gocthals is breaking gently
to the American people hc news that
the Panama canal will not be as
cheap as they thought it would be.
His present estimate of the cost of
the Canal is $250,000,000, in addition
to the $50,000,000 paid to the French
Canal Company and the Republic ot
Panama. The original estimate by
the Board of Consulting Engineers,
on the basis of which Congress au
thorized the work, was $139,705,200,
not counting the cost of sanitation,
water-works, sewers, and paving for
Panama and Colon, the re-equipment
of the Panama Railroad, or the ex
penses of the Zone Government.
The appropriations have already
amounted to nearly eighty million
dollars; there will be a deficit of
about eleven millions in the current
fiscal year, and the Commission lias
asked for over thirty-three millions
more for the fiscal year 1909. Thai
brings the expenditures up to about
a hundred and twenty-four million
dollars, or eight-ninths of the total
original estimate, by June 30, iyo-j,
with the hardest part of the work
still ahead.
On this showing the American peo
ple may consider thcnisclvcs lucky if
they get off with the $250,000,000 at
which Colonel Gocthals sets his pres
ent limit. The disquieting thing is
that there is no certainty that this
estimate will be any more f:nal than
its predecessors. There is no as
surance that the present plans will
be followed to the end. The change
by which the Pacific locks arc to be
shifted inland from La Boca to Mira
flores is expected to save money,
but the most changes work the other
way. The increase in the width of
he locks from a hundred to a hur
dred and ten feet, now adopted, will
involve an additional expense of
$5,000,000, and if many more such
improvements arc adopted it may be
found the most economical plan will
be to dispense with the locks alto
gether and cut the canal down to
sea-level at the start. Indeed, even
the present estimate of Colonel
Gocthals for the cost of completing
the lock canal is higher than the es
timate submitted to Congress for a
sca-lcvcl canal at the time when the
lock project was adopted. The
Board of Consulting Engineers
thought that the sea-level cUt could
be made for $247,021,000, although it
figured that it would take twenty
years to do the work. Secretary
Taft informed the Senate Committee
on Intcr-occanic Canals on January
16, that the canal ought to be fin
ished on the present plans by July,
1914. The Culcbra cut could be put
through in three years if the dirt
continued to fly as it is flying now,
but it had been decided to hold back
that work until Mie completion of the
Gatun dam and loqks.
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REPUBLICAN TARIFF RE
FORMERS. Politics is some mixed in the time
honored state of Massachusetts. It
used to be, and for all practical pur
poses is yet a Republican strong
hold; last November it gave Gov.
Guild .1 majority of 100,000 over H.
M. Whitney; yet those who think
this is a protection victory are reck
oning without their host, as is re
membered by those who remember
the former's speech before the Na
tional Association of Boot and Shoe
Manufacturers on January 14. It is
shown that like almost everybody
else in Massachusetts, the Governor
wanted free hides, but unlike a good
many others he announced that he
was willing to surrender a corre
sponding amount of duty on the
manufactured goods. ' Professing
himself still, a protectionist, he in
sisted that the time had come "when
illogical and needless duties should
cease to hamper our industries and
our people." Governor Guild though
the taxes on wool unnecessarily high,
and believed that the present speci
fic duties should be changed to ad
valorem rates. He could see "ab
solutely no justification for the re
tention of a duty on coal." He sug
gested maximum and minimum sched
ule's to promote reciprocity. He
asked why there should be a duty on
beef, when there was five hundred
million pounds of exports and no im
ports. He found a similar situation
in the matter of rails and other items
of the steel schedule. "Finally," he
insisted, "the needs of the people de
mand a halt in the destruc ion of our
forests. It is illogical that the State
should be called upon to maintain
a State Forestry Department when
the United States, with its duty on
wood pulp, 'offers a .bounty daily for .
the destruction of the trees."
With a Republican Governor of a
Republican State taking such a posi
tion, says Collier's, it is rather ludi- .
crous to reflect that his Democratic k
opponent in the late campaign tried
to rally tariff reform sentiment
against him by the thrilling war cry
of a cautious reduction in duties in
the course of twenty years.
o
The Ogdcn Examiner heads a local
item, "A Newspaper Man in Town."
He is surely needed there.
o
The February Juvenile Instructor -
is at hand, as neat as a pin and as V,
well filled with readable and instruc
tive contents as any publication of
its class in the country. It is well
worth the price, which is only $1 a
year.
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It is sincerely hoped, if not pray
ed for that Senator Sutherland's bill
establishing an assay office in this
city may become low without un
necessary delay. The senator is do
ing good work and plenty of it these
days, and is making a record that
will count.
o
Battling Nelson didn't make much
of a showing against Boer Unholz at
Los Angeles Tuesday evening, the
latter apparently having somewhat
the better of the argument. "Bat"
has lots of friends here, and they
would be glad to have him remember
that his forte is not in limited en
gagements, also that the pitcher that
goes to the well too often gets broken.
o
The editor of Truth is and always
was particular in the matter of giv
ing credit for any matter taken from
the columns of other papers; and
when anything else occurs the fault
invariably lies elsewhere. A long
and good item last week, headed
"Sanpete is looming," was from the
Mt. Pleasant Pyramid, but it didn't
appear that way, and there were one
or two other departures. We never
know these things till everybody
else knows them, 1
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The politicians around town are'
engaging in a good deal of Bryan
talk of late. The continued strenu
osity of the money situation is un
doubtedly water on the Nebraskan's
wheel, and the longer the strain con
tinues the nearer it pulls him to the
goal. If it should so turn out that
the people turned to him in their
desperation, it would be remindful
of the lines
There was a man in ir town
And he was wondcrous wise.
He jumped into a bramble bush
And put out both his eyes.
And' when he found I113 eyes were out,
All smarting with the pain,
He jumped into another bush
To put them in 'again.
