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of Weber county some months since decided this question affirmatively for themselves, and some days ago the Democrats of this city and county effected an organization with similar purpose.

may not tell. We content our with the thought that it is proje remember a new political infant been ushered into this stormy

PRIVATE INFORMATION. PRIVATE DALZELL is determin

panic in the New York market. Wall tact with the people and presum street counts largely upon heavy ex-impressed with a lively sense of ports of products in the near future, people's wants. We are not sure reckoning. that Europe is short of its importance is not underestim breadstuffs and ready to buy cotton in- by the old line politicians and by definitely at present low prices. It is masses who follow them blindly. T At the meeting last night, which a significant fact that the exports in future alone can tell. Whethe was an assemblage of Republicans, April were about double last year's in birth of the People's party yester there was a marked division of sen- value as to cotton, and showed an in- to be regarded as auspicious or t timent. One side urged that the time crease in oil and provisions, but a de-developments of this year or nex had come to organize the Republican crease in cattle and in breadstuffs. party, and the other side-all "Lib- Yet in breadstuffs the decrease was erals"—insisted that such a step would wholly in corn, and the surplus of be very unwise. Both sides were given wheat available for export was, May 1, a full hearing, and the best ability of about 30,000,000 bushels. The specula-changing world. each was exerted in the discussion. tive markets have acted peculiarly durThe result, as announced by the ing the past week; wheat advanced 4 cts chair, was in favor of organiza- per bushel on reports not substantiated tion on national party lines, of injury to the crop in the Northwest, and the abolition of local political or- while corn has declined 3 cents and keep up Ohio's reputation for pro, ganizations. While there was deter- oats 24 cents on moderate sales. Cot-ing second-rate and large-mouthed; mined hostility to this proposition, itton is unchanged, and this is the more ticians whose chief qualificatur is believed that the action of the meet- remarkable because much the largest putting their foot in it. As au of ing will be generally accepted by the crop ever produced is going to market the snub given President Harris Republicans of the Territory, and that more rapidly than ever before at this ex-Governor Foraker, Dalzell pe Democratic and Republican organiza-season. The foreign manufacturers trates this in the New York T tions will supercede the old parties appear to be laying in a large stock, from henceforth. because prices are close to the lowest If this disintegration shall prove gen- known for forty years, while the con eral throughout the Territory, a field is sumption abroad is enormous, and opened ripe for the harvest, which there are some signs that the producinvites the workers, advocates and tion of goods exceeds the demand. orators of both the national parties to In general, industries fairly come in and reap while they may. A active, except where interrupted by process of education in national politics strikes in the building trades. such as the voters of Utah have chandise exports are for the time com- the world knows it. "Blaine can never be President. not heretofore been permitted to par- paratively small, $12,740,000 in two sons like me know it. ticipate in, will be introduced. We weeks from New York, against $15.- him. I could vote look to see the masses of the voters of 639,000 last year, while imports con- Cleveland in 1892. the Territory weigh carefully and in- tirue remarkably large. The business telligently the arguments advanced in failures number, for the United States, support of the doctrines of the respec-212, and for Canada, 25, or a total of tive national parties, and act deliber- 237. For the corresponding week of his army reminiscences, he would ately and independently in forming last year the figures were 212. their political associations.

BUSINESS REVIEW.

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A NEW ONE BORN.

"It really amuses me, as it mus Blaine, to see his name bruited ab the presidency. It is in the nature joke. It is pathetic. All the work known and no one better than that since 1876 he has had no cha

the presidency.

"It was the supreme grief of the Logan's life that he was yoked an destinated for defeat with Blaine in He told me so sadly and felt it ly Mer- Youngstown in 1884.

It will be just as well to keep an eye on that new People's party which closed its first convention May 20th, in Cincinnati and flung its banner boldly to the breeze. Its sessions were tumultuous and, judging from the press reports, characterized more by riotous enthusiasm than sober deliberation. Among so many dissimilar if not discordant organizations, a different result was not to be expected; and it is really remarkable in view of these circumstances that so harmonious a conclusion should have been reached.

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All other issues
PRIVATE DALIN
Caldwell, O., Friday, May 8, 1891
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need to be reminded of an avec. that fits his present case exactly. was told of Private Shaughnessy, followed Scott into Mexico. Just fore ordering the decisive charg one of the hottest and most impera battles of the Mexican war, Ge Scott rode along the lines, looking tently into the features of everj dier. The enemy was already in r tion, valuable moments were slipp away, and still the General withhe the order to move. Finally in 14 anxiety he exclaimed, "Where, where is Private Shaughnessy? Is not

R. G. DUN & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade for the week ending Saturday, May 16, reports that in every respect, the outlook is more favorable, excepting the large exports of gold and the advance in Bank of England rates to 5 per cent, obviously for the purpose of drawing more gold from this country. South American finances are for the moment less disturbing. Panics in the ranks?" Stretch in Portugal and France do not greatly himself up to his full heig affect this country, except as they affect and his throwing the London money market. But German demand for gold has not abated, The significance of the movement is in gutteral lumps, Shaughnes nor English, and shipments this week chiefly that it shows how widely the replied, touching his cap, "Pris Shaughnessy is here, sorr!" " seem likely to be not far from last seeds of dissatisfaction with the pre- that's right," joyfully rejoined week's in amount. The tresury bal- vailing political parties have been commander; "now let the assault ance in gold is materially reduced, and spread and have taken root. It is a gin." yet it is larger than it was in peculiar and a momentous event-this The part of the anecdote wh 1885, when no disturbance followed. commingling of Alliance men, Knights Private Dalzell, is the kernel: should be particularly commende! It is a most favorable symptom that of Labor, financial iconoclasts and in- Private Shaughnessy who tells # the continued exports of gold cause no dustrial reformers-all fresh from con- story.

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THE TERRITORY GROTESQUELY

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case of Salt Lake City, Ogden and many teachers bave long been operatCache and Rich counties in the matter ing in primary and intermediate of representatives, and in Salt Lake schools under authority from the THE law of Congress passed March City in the matter of councilors. Cache Board. Yesterday, in the course of rd, 1891, making appropriatious for and Rich counties elect one councilor, the commencement exercises of the e different departments of the gov- which is all right; but combined they L. D. S. College in this city, formal -nment, contained also a clause im- elect two representatives, which is not action was taken, bestowing on Willard sing upon the Utah Commission the advisable in any case where the one Done of the college faculty the degree aty of re-districting this Territory district could be so easily divided into and title of Bachelor of Didactics nd apportioning the representative two. Ogden City elects one councilor, (D. B.) and appointing him Professor nd council districts upon the basis of but two representatives. Would it not of Language to the schools of the opulation as shown by the late census. have been preferable to the voters and Church. This action had no direct that duty the Utah Commission has more in accord with American meth-connection with the L. D. S. College; Ow acquitted itself, the result being ods if that city had been made into the only reason for the ceremony be-und in another column of this paper. two representative districts, as it could ing performed there The methods and motives of this was that the readily have been, if bisected assembly was for Church school purghly picturesque body have been so either from north to south or equently expounded that it is now from east and the President and other poses to west? In the case members of the General Board of Edueedless to do more than point to any of Salt Lake City the same objec- cation were present. Under special ork it has performed for an instance tion exists and is still more glaring. appointment of the Board, Dr. J. E. the injustice that is none the less Instead of giving one-sixth of Salt Talmage performed the ceremony of prehensible because it is accom- Lake City the privilege of electing its bestowal. ished under the powers and local representative, and two-sixths the thority that are possible with a opportunity to elect their councilor, rained construction of the law. the honorable Commission requires Hence when we say the Utah Com- that the citizens shall elect at large six ission has re-districted the Territory, representatives and three councilors. is unnecessary to say any thing What has become of all the patriotic out the fairness or the deference to ideas of local self-government dropped e people's rights with which it has by President Harrison before and apen done. plauded by the Utah Commission a fortnight ago!

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Nevertheless, a glance at some of the icongruities of the present arrangeent will not be without interest. ake the seventh representative istrict, for instance. It sts of the southwestern incts of Salt Lake county, and he northern precincts of Utah county; ut though it includes Herriman, it ies away from Bingham, only a few miles distant, as though the place was lague-stricken. Only when we come the ninth district do we again get ght of the missing Bingham, and hen it is associated with Tooele and uab counties, though Mona precinct as to be omitted from the latter to let he Salt Lake county stranger in. Poor Mona finally pulls up in he twelfth district, finding it elf in such good company as the outh end of Utah and the north end f Sanpete counties. Then look at the gglery with the council districts. The honorable gentleman who repreents the fifth district in the upper

As to the political significance of the new order, recent changes in this and other counties of the Territory make it impossible to speak with any accuracy. This much is apparent, however, to the most casual observer. If the Commission believe the old political lines between the People's and the "Liberal" parties are still to be drawn as in the past, no reapportionment could have been better calculated to add enormously to the "Liberal" representation. By the new plan the minority would be favored beyond all deserts or just proportion.

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Prof. We heartily congratulate Willard Done on the attainment of such a mark of distinction. He will be remembered as the first to graduate under the new order of requirements. The young gentleman has already achieved a desirable fame for amiability and thoroughness as an instructor, and as an earnest worker in any quarter of the great educational field. by others. Now that the way has been His example should be emulated for higher provided higher attainments, teachers should not rest with credentials of introductory courses, but should pass on in study and investigation to the highest ranks. Soon we hope to have among our people, institutions for the pursuit of all branches of knowledge, so that our youth will merited degrees of distinction. May no longer need to look abroad for their many more press toward the top, and may all the diplomas bestowed in the church educational institutions be as Iwell deserved as has been that now held by Prof. Willard Done.

THE CHURCH SCHOOL DEGREE. Two years ago the General Board of Education of the Church announced A CORRECT VIEW. its courses of required studies for the certificates and diplomas of the Church upon the Republican mass meeting of THE Times, in an editorial treating school organization, the object being to Wednesday, May 20, has the following ensure thorough and systematic pre- paragraphs, which are here re-proparation for the profession of teaching duced for the reason that they present house of the Legislature will be voted as practiced in the schools of the Lat-a truthful view of the matters touched For by the residents of Davis and Mor-ter-day Saints. On graduating in the gan

counties, three

trans Jordan primary or intermediate course, the precincts of Salt Lake county candidate receives a certificate of efwith the meteoric Bingham added, ficiency, but the academic courses lead besides Tooele and Juab coun- to diplomas and degrees. A compecies, with unfortunate Mona tent Board of Examiners, composed of again left out. If there isn't some- the foremost educators in the Church ching of the "shoe-string" arrangement | school service, passes upon the qualifiabout this, where will you go to cations of candidates. Find it?

But perhaps the principal inconsist ency in the arrangement appears in the

We make this mention as this marks the occasion of the first regular graduation in the academic grade, though

upon:

with the statement that the vote of the "But Judge Dickson comes forward members of the Church is controlled by moment should arrive for the consumthe Church, and that when an opportune mation of some sinister design, the Mormon vote would be cast solidly at the dictation of the officers of the Church.

The Times claims that there is no founda

tion or reason for that assertion.

"It has all due respect for the views of point out the difference between the conthose who differ from it, but it would ditions of the past and those that are to

rule in the future. The Church element and the Gentile element have heretofore been arrayed against each other, and the members of the Church have naturally voted together at all times-no living man would have expected them to do differently-but there is nothing what ever in that fact to warrant the assumption that the Church makes slaves of its members. Every statement made by men who ought to know contradicts the assertion; every scrap of evidence sets the seal of error upon it; reason cries out that it is wrong; justice demands that it be not assumed to be correct. Every principle of right rises up to insist that a spirit of fairness shall rule; and gentlemen who desire to be fair cannot refuse to recognize and accept the good faith by which the Mormon people are prompted.

"If there had been any doubt upon this point in the mind of any man, it must have been dissipated by the utterances that fell from the lips of Apostle John Henry Smith at the meeting last night. That address left no ground whatever for the alarmists to occupy. In spiritual matters alone, said Mr. Smith, did the Church aim to control its members. civil affairs each was a free agent. There were no chains upon any member; the Mormon people were not slaves; 'and,' said the speaker, 'I am as free a man as Judge Dickson himself.'

In

Some of them tried to get in a word of
protest edgewise, but they did not make
much headway against the flood of Dr.
Meredith's excited eloquence.

"In his introduction Dr. Meredith said
that the lesson was given to show how
God deals with nations, and was needed
by Sunday school children. The teachers
must not let them get the idea that God
was in the affairs of Israel more than in
those of the United States or Great Britain
or France. The best way to get it out was
to summarize the history of Israel, be-
ginning with the promises in Genesis xv,
and sketching it rapidly to show how
faithful God was and how faithless they
were until they wrought their own de-
struction. Then he asked: 'What were
the prevalent sins to which Amos re-
ferred?"

"Voices 'Dishonesty in business.' Oppressing the poor.' 'Irreligion.' 'Greed for money.

"Dr. Edward Beecher-They didn't love God supremely and didn't love their neighbors as themselves.

"Dr. Meredith-Did they love God at

all?

"Dr. Beecher-I should say not.

"Dr. Meredith-I say not, too. The root of the matter was their greed to be rich, not to hoard, but to get money to feed their vices and support their luxuries. They lived in ivory palaces and luxurious houses, and they swallowed up "The close and respectful attention the poor and showed no mercy. They given to Mr. Smith's speech showed that wanted the holy days cut short so that it sank deep into the minds of all present; they could have more time to make and the Times has no hesitation in assert-money in. No nation could stand that fng that it cleared away doubt from the was so undermined by irreligion and mind of every man who was at all in- honeycombed by immorality. But Israel clined to be just. And that speech, in its seemed as secure then as this country other features, was as magnificent a Re- does now. She had large revenues and publican appeal as any one could wish to was in her second century of prosperity, listen to. It was a trumpet call to the She never saw a third century and God people of this Territory to lift up the only knows whether we shall. God govRepublican banner and rally around it." erns this nation and will wipe us out for our sins as quickly as he did Israel. Teach the children that. They need it. By what nation was Israel destroyed? "Voices-'By Assyria.' 'By Rome.' By themselves.'

CAUSES OF NATIONAL DISSOLUTION.

THE following, from the Brooklyn Eagle, embodies some of the most striking statements and views of existing conditions in this country we have encountered in any journal. The cir cumstances under which the ideas were expressed render them all the more

forcible:

Dr. Meredith-Why didn't you say that first? That's the point of the lesson. No nation was ever destroyed from the

outside.

"A voice-How about Poland?

"Third voice-They do, becaus are a monopoly."

"Fourth voice-Everybody likesti his hand in a monopoly if he (Laughter.)

"Dr. Meredith - Does that ma right?"

"A voice-The standard oil tre been a blessing. It has reduced the of oil and they pay better wagel other people."

"Second voice-Let him start in business and see."

"Third voice-Wages are rising. cost of living is coming down.” "Fourth voice-Where did the live when he saw that?"

"Third voice-In Brooklyn when 1 wages rising."

Dr. Meredith-What's been the of the sugar trust on sugar? It he up the price of sugar 50 per cent, un courts declared it illegal. That's the Let's have an end of the nonsense. plause.)

"A voice-What's the price of g lated sugar today?

"Dr. Meredith-That's becaus courts have knocked the trust out. "A voice-It's been reorganized ini sey.

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"Dr. Meredith-Jersey's a good s for it. We don't want it here. want to denounce my fellow men. lieve that there are just as honest business today as there ever were r will be. I also believe that it is po! to have a trust organized purel duce the cost of production tha be a great blessing, and that we hum eral such. We have ethers that ly selfish and care for nobody bu in the ring. The coal barons gett yearly in elegant offices in New and declare that no more than at quantity of coal shall be prafas. order to protect their profits. S talked about oil. Where did wa come from? God sent it rolling the earth like water, so that when handled it in barrels it would have money in the oil men's pockets if §1* barrels had burned up. When miners are thrown out of work and are raised on the suffering poorcities, when it is shut out of the E=" for the profit of rich men, is it any "Dr. Meredith-Carlyle says that Po-der that the working people say land had become so corrupt and immoral put that coal and oil in the earth. I that she had to be wiped out for the gen-ours as much as it is theirs, and we eral health of Europe. No nation of hon- have it.' est, God-fearing men was ever wiped out. "A voice-How are they going to Spain couldn't crush the Dutch, Austria "There has probably never been an- the Swiss or Turkey the Greeks. Public way. I don't say it is right. But "Dr. Meredith-They'll show other Sunday school lesson in the city luxury and private dishonesty are the it is natural for working people te just like that taught by the Rev. Dr. R. foes to national life. Prosperity is no that thing under the circumstan R. Meredith to his Bible class last night. The lesson was the eighth chapter of sign of permanence. You might multi-that if things don't change they Amos, where the prophet foretold dire wealth all by three and make us weaker ply our area, our population and our punishment of the children of Israel for than we are. Teach the children that so their sins. The peculiarity of Mr. Meredith's treatment lay in the fact that he long as the public service is a subject of paid very little attention to Amos and party spoils our nation is in danger. not much more to the children of Israel, earth than that of New York City, and but, instead, drew a peppery comparison Brooklyn is not so much better that we between the Israelites, rich, dishonest and can laugh at them. We are taxed, taxed, oppressors of the poor, and the United taxed. Yet we can't get decently clean States of today. He told the teachers to point out to their boys and girls that the streets because there is so much thieving. That's the truth. If bribery way of salvation for this country lay make void our laws, is to it public corthrough civil service reform, punish-ruption is to sap our vitality, while ment for not voting and reatheism stalks abroad corrupting the stricted immigration. He denounced hearts of the young, it is God's truth that the sugar trust and the standthis nation can't go on. I didn't choose ard oil trust by name, and when some of this lesson, but it's here to be taught, and the class undertook to defend the standard oil trust (of course every one in the it is one to make good citizens with. The room knew that one of the standard oil ling the poor and Amos gives their millionaires was lying dead in the city) methods. Is their anything in our sysand included the coal barons and other tem that robs the poor in the same way?" stock watering corporations which he did not call by name. These denunciations were vigorously applauded by the people who agreed with them. Those who disagreed with him were too polite to hiss.

Dr. Meredith redoubled his denunciations

There is not a worse government on

rich Israelites at this time were swind

"A voice-The institution of trusts."
"Second voice-Do they?"

"Dr. Meredith-Well, do they? Talk,
all of you. This isn't theology and you
ought not to be afraid.”

on it.

"A voice-Isn't labor more tyr than capital ever was?

"Mr. Meredith-It is learning

fast, but it is learning from capital.

and then pays dividends on $30,00ÜH a corporation waters its stock four":" capital somebody isn't getting his sta "A voice-Has anybody got a fej there who doesn't own stock?

Dr. Meredith-Yes, the laborer You've got to face that. I wasn't talk at random. I know one company

on $3,000,000 of invested capital watered its stock to $30,000,000 and other that has made a capital of S 000,000 out of $15,000,000 of investme A voice-Couldn't a man go int

oil business independently?

Standard oil operations. I don't
Dr. Meredith-No. I don't like
anything that tries to smash down
people. When I see the coal barons i
Iting production my blood boils.
there are rich men who own tenem
that I should like to make them liv
(Applause.) There are several insta
of profit sharing in this country **

lividing among their employes, per-sectional shoals. It was feared that a
not all they could afford to, but conflict between North and South
Isome dividends. That's a sign of
times. That's what we are coming would be precipitated, and that unpar-
We can't go on any other way. There liamentary proceedings would be in-
God in Israel. He cares no more for dulged in ou that issue. Those fears
or man than a rich one; but He cares
good deal more for an honest were not realized. In fact, sectionalism
than for a rogue, and
He did not even lift its hydra head, and
see the honest man protected.
e is increasing here 21⁄2 per cent. this is the most significant feature of
r than our population grows. That's the whole affair. Conjoined with the
boasted power of assimilation. I fact that the platform was unani-
ld like to see a law passed that no
could get in here without a passport mously adopted by over 1100 members,
a special American consul certify- the absence of sectionalism means
that the man was good material for a
class American citizen. Then I something.
It means harm to one of
ld like to see another law that no the old parties.
en could use our courts to collect a
who had failed to vote. Such a law

ld sweep Tammany from the face of earth. These things have got to come they will come. I'm not a pessimist lieve this country is going to be saved, it won't be saved the way it is going

RTH OF THE NEW NATIONAL

PARTY.

HE machinery of a new political ty has been set in motion. The con.

STATUS OF THE UTAH SUGAR
FACTORY.

On May 21st a representative of the NEWS visited the sugar factory, in Utah county, in order that the people of the Territory might be informed, through the columns of this journal, concerning the progress being made in establishing what is destined to be, for many years to come, the chief industry of Utah. For the means of attaining the object in view the news-gleaner is indebted to Mr. C. A. Granger, who, during a temporary absence of Superintendent Thomas R. Cutler, was in full charge of the general business He also assists the of the factory.

manager when the latter is at home.

The platform asserts that the time is ripe for a fusion of the political reform forces in this country, and for the formation of the People's Party of the United States. It endorses the St. Louis platform of 1889, the Ocala, Fla., Mr. Granger is active and energetic one of 1890, and the Omaha one of 1891. and has the advantage of being conThe abolition of National banks is de- versant with all the details connected manded, and as a substitute for their with the manufacture of refined sugar, notes legal tender must be issued in having been employed for some time sufficient volume to transact the busi- by E. H. Dyer and Company in ness of the country. Notes thus issued their factory at Alvarado, California, tion held in Cincinnati a few days must be legal tender in the payment the gentlemen who are erecting the and which claims to have repre- of all debts public and private. These Utah establishment and who have ted the political reform forces of the notes when demanded by the people contracted to run it for one year. ited States, gave birth to this new must be loaned at 2 per cent per annum During last winter Mr Granger was ty. In that gathering were men on the security of nonperishable pro- engaged a good deal of his time in accompanying Supt. Cutler in visits to the settlements, delivering brief and explicit lectures to the farmers in relation to proper methods of raising beets, which is a vital branch of the sugar industry.

resenting various shades of opinion. Donnelly of Minnesota met Sena

Pfeffer of Kansas. Greenback aver and Auarchist Schilling of waukee stood upon a common plat

m.

ducts. In addition to this the free and
unlimited coinage of silver is de-

manded.

Govern.

The

The first impression made upon the visitor as he approaches the factory buildings is one of astonishment, caused by the magnitude of the structures. The attention is then instinctively directed toward the somewhat squatty

stories

Alien proprietorship of land is to be prohibited. Congress is asked to take Illinois was represented by action relating to existing alien owneralbeneck, one of the immortal three he Illinois Legislature who main-ship, and to the control of lands by ned the deadlock for U. S. Senator syndicates and railroads, and to confiscate the land in both cases, except in ing several months. It was he who pt, it is said, when his two col- that of railroads where the land is actually needed. gues voted for Palmer for Senator. is now chairman of the national Equal rights for all, and privileges aspect they present. The latter apcutive committee of the new party. to none are demanded. The abolition pearance is created by the tremendous his speech accepting the place, half of all taxation except what is needed ground proportions compared to the morously, half pathetically, be for honest government is also demand- height. This will be readily imagined 1: "You see before you all that ed, and a just and equitable system of when it is stated that the main buildeft of the celebrated Independent income tax to be adopted. ing is 180 by 80 feet and the annex 184 ty of the Illinois Legislature, so ment ownership of transportation and by 60 feet. All except a part of en called the big three." Further communication facilities' is favored the annex is three in his speech he alluded to the under certain contingencies. at conflict that was close at hand ween capital and labor, saying: ur politicians might as well try to pa cyclone or the movement of the Steps were taken to perfect and set in s as to evade this issue." motion the machinery of a new party Caulbeneck did certainly hold out entitled "The People's Party of the he said according to his pledge, not United States." What this new birth vote for either a Democrat or a will develop into it is not easy to conpublican for United States senator. jecture. It has performed a wonderful The buildings are light-colored t the two others claim that they task already. It swallows the plat-brick, and have exceptionally strong ed for Palmer because they feared forms of Ocala, Omaha and St. Louis, foundations. In fact the whole premulbeneck would vote for a Republi- though these in many particulars are 1. However, the latter takes his as different from each other as any of air in the new party as one with a ord of fidelity to his principles. Though the convention was a cla

election of President, Vice-President
and of United States Senators by direct
vote of the people is demanded.

them is from either the Democrat or Republican platforms of 1888. The new party might as well have absorbed rous one and in many particulars a the platforms of the two old parties, cordant one, yet it steered clear of and thus bid for voters of all shades.

high. There is a small structure on the roof of the main building which somewhat mars the general appearance of the latter. It is to accommodate the vacuum pans, and it was deemed that it would be sheer extravagance to raise the main structure another story for that object alone; hence the roof addition.

ises are as near perfection in the matter of being substantial as they can well be. They are without crack or blemish. The contractor for the mason work is Mr. Elias Morris, Mr. H. H. Evans being foreman on the ground. The latter is one of the most careful

workmen in the Territory.

The in- is American, the latter having been one becomes that it will undoubtedly constructed with a special view to save be a grand and profitable success in manual labor. The Germans do not Utah, and a great material blessing t give as much attention to this point as the people of the Territory. At every do American inventors and machin-step of the investigation doubt disap ists, for the reason that labor is com- pears before the encouraging prob paratively cheap in the former coun- that come into sight. The supers

teriors are heavily timbered, some of the beams being 16 x 16 inches, extending from floor to roof. The carpenter work is done by Taylor, Romney & Armstrong. Mr. Busher, a very capable workman, is their foreman on the grounds.

The company have begun the erection of a boarding house 70 by 40 feet and three stories high, for the accommodation of the workmen.

In a short time the erection of beet sheds, for storage purposes, will be begun. They will be between 400 and 500 feet long. These figures appear somewhat large. It must be remembered, however, that when the factory begins to run it will take 350 tons of beets to keep it going to its full capacity for each round of the machinery of thirty-six hours and it costs as much to operate it fully as below the degree of which it is capable. Again, the company must possess facilities for receiving beets from the farmers at any time the latter may be prepared to deliver them. In relation to the buildings it is proper here to state, with no small degree of satisfaction, that the Messrs. Dyer assert that they are second to those of no other sugar factory in the United States.

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tendent, Bishop Thomas R. Cutler, The land sown in beets is quite ex- enthusiastic on the subject. He h tensive. The acreage put to this im- followed it closely, and has expended portant use by private individuals upon it a great deal of thought A (farmers) is 1800 acres, extending from energy. He works at it as if the te Willard City, Box Elder County, in of the world was hanging on the issue the north, to Leamington, Millard this being one of the characteristics d County, and Gunnison, Sanpete Coun- his nature in relation to any busines ty, in the south. The main bulk of project in which he engages. We feel the land thus utilized, however, lies in sure that the result of the establis Salt Lake and Utah counties. Besides ment of an industry so important a this large extent of ground devoted to the one now treated will be all that beet-raising purposes by private parties, most enthusiastic supporters bar the Sugar Company have 300 acres im-claimed for it. So may it be. mediately north and contiguous to the factory, where the root is growing ROME AND THE SOCIAL PROBLE most promisingly. This makes a total acreage of 2100 acres, on all of which, POPE LEO'S latest encyclical, # with the exception of a few patches, the tracts of which appeared in the dis sugar-producing roots are doing splen- patches today, is one of the most adre didly. The present rains are most op- and carefully guarded utterances thất portune for this department of the in- have emanated from the Vatican in dustry, and will dispense with the first many years. If it leans a little to the application of irrigation. The lowest labor side of the question which calle estimate of the average production of it forth, it also directly condemns sugar beets is fifteen tons to the acre, socialist doctrine of absolute equaly It is impossible at this stage to give a with a possible 25 tons. Basing in material ownership and the sweepdefinite idea of the character of the the calculation on the lower figures, ing away of private property. It is machinery-at least not as the re- the total result would be 31,500 content to point out the relation of sult of personal inspection. It will tons. The capacity of the factory capital to labor and of the state to cause some astonishment, however, is 350 tons of beets every 36 hours, the subjects, without conceding that the when it is stated as a fact that that product of which will be thirty-five proletariat has made no mistakes and which is to be placed in the Utah tons of refined sugar every twenty-four is not incapable of creating greater factory is so extensive that it will re- hours, as the factory will be run day wrongs than it seeks to bave quire one hundred cars to convey it and night until the beet supply is con- redressed. It is made up of muet from Cleveland, Ohio, where it is sumed. The night and day shifts good advice to all classesmanufactured, to the grounds. Twen- will consist of fifty men each. ty-four carloads had arrived just previous to the visit of the representative of the NEWS, and with it came an expert mechanical engineer to erect it. This gentleman was just on the point of having it unloaded, and masons were finishing some of the foundations for it, so it may be taken for granted that the work of placing the machinery in position has already begun.

the governing and the governed, t rich and the poor-and skilfully avoi extreme opinions and violent decision respecting either side in the great socia controversy.

As before stated Messrs. E. H. Dyer & Co. are under contract to complete the entire construction, and to run the factory for one year. Mr. E. F. Dyer was on the ground when the NEWS This attitude is the more notice representative visited the buildings. in view of the fact that such treme"Is there the slightest room for doubt dous efforts have been made by each in relation to the success of the enter-element to win the unequivocal sup prise?" was asked of that gentleman pcrt of the church for its particula "None in the least," was the ready re- views. Bismarck when in power Some time since we published de-sponse. "Give us the beets and we coquetted frequently with the Vatican tails of the Sugar factory es-will produce pure refined sugar and in in the hope of gaining its aid in his tablishred at Lincoln, Nebraska. We the proportions stated." It should also anti-socialistic measures, and on more understand that the building and be said that the result will be in than one occasion succeeded. The capacity of that factory are about every particular the same as refined small but similar to that of the Utah concern. sugar produced from cane, there being party in the German parliament, lesi That of our Territory has, however, a no chemical difference between the two by the remarkable Dr. Windthorst, decided advantage over that of Ne- products. The process of manufacture several times came to the rescue braska, for the reason that while ours will begin in September. "How long of the chancellor when defeat for will require but one hundred men to will it continue?" was asked of Mr. his pet legislation stared him in opreate it, the other will need one hun- Dyer. "It will last just as long as the face. Of course concessions were dred and eighty, being nearly double. there are beets to put through the ma- demanded in return and were granted, The reason for this difference is that chinery," was the reply. notably in the withdrawal of certain the machinery in the Lincoln factory The more one inquires into the sub- anti-Catholic restrictions upon the is of German make, while that being ject of manufacturing refined sugar schools; but there was nevertheless introduced into the Utah establishment from beets the more firmly convinced reason for the opinion that when the

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