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ir: B - . . . . . . . . . I, , TRUTH Vj Issued Weekly by i Truth Publishing Company, s 32 Eagle Block, f Salt Lake City, Utah. 1 Nellie B. Hughes, Manager. Entered June 19, 1903, at Salt Lake 1 City, Utah, as second-class matter, M- ander Act of Congress of Mar. 3, 1879 ' Terms of Subscription: Hi Postmasters sending subscriptions K to TRUTH may retain 25 per cent of Hi subscription price as commission. K If the paper is not desired beyond H the date subscribed for, the publica- B tion should be notified by letter two H weeks or more before term expires. H Discontinuances. M Remember that the publisher must ( be notified by letter when a subscriber H' wishes his paper stopped; nil arrears H must be paid in full. H Requests of subscribers to have H their paper mailed to a new address, M to secure attention, must mention for- H mer as well as present address. H Address all communications to H TRUTH PUBLISHING COMPANY fl Salt Lake City, Utah. H CANDIDATES FOR JUDGES. H It is not the present purpose of this H paper to labor for or aginst the nom- H ination of any person for any politi- H cal position in Utah; but it is not out H of place to make casual mention of H those who expect to be candidates H before the conventions those who H arc "out for it," as the saying is. H The people at large have an interest H in what the delegates do before they H do it, and it is a newspaper's prov- H incc to aid them as far as it can and H keep within the limits of fairness and M impartiality. H The noar approach of the Rcpubli- H can judicial convention opens the H season early. The names, or some H of them, that will come before it have been already mentioned in M these columns, but this is a case in M which frequency will not hurt. It is H well understood that the present dis- M trict judges arc all up for rcnomina- M tion, but there arc a few on the out- M side who will scarcely give assent M to such a programme; among these is M Attorney General Brcedcn, who has M made an excellent record in his pres- M cnl position and is well entitled to M promotion, if promotion it can be called. Judge Whitakcr and H. A. Smith also have a following worth H while, and as time advances there fl may be others. fl Judge Armstrong is the youngest M among the incumbents. He has H made a good magistrate, his rulings M being fair and able and he is tlior- M oughly non-part:san on the bench, M as a judge ought to be. He has crc- H atcd some opposition, but this was M more through misunderstanding him M than anything else, and he will un- H doubtedly go into the convention H with a strong pull. M The Democrats are so far silent. H When they break ground we will H take pleasure in giving them a good- fl naturqd "send-off." 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. o 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. o 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. -o 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 o 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.