Judge — November 30, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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POLYGAMY IN POLITICS. OvR ESTEEMED contemporary, the Idaho Scimitar, congratulates its readers on the victory of the “ American ” party at the recent elections in Salt Lake City, and at the same time finds some very vigorous things to say about the Mormon church. It would appear, according to very many reports which have reached the east, that both the Democratic and the Republican parties nominated church candidates to office. The Mormon hierarchy was thus in position to reap the fruits of victory in the event of either party’s success. This sounds very much like a polygamous rela- tionship! JUDGE does not underestimate the importance of party regularity in national affairs. Party government has proved to be the wieldiest way of handling our vast republican machinery. But a church which turns itself into a political machine is foreign to American ideals, and Utai has cause to rejoice over the fusion of good Americans in the chief city of the state, regardless of their loyal party affiliations. Doubtless many adherents of the Mormon church make as good individual citizens and neighbors as one would ask. It is none the less a national menace that the religious body to which they belong should attempt to retain political control over certain territory. In the greater part of the country, where political health prevails, a man does not feel bound to vote under the Eagle because he is a Catholic or a Methodist, or under the star because he is a Seventh-day Baptist or a member of the ‘ Holy-Ghost-and-Us"’ Society. And it is hard to realize that such political independence is not universal in our land. When we hear that a great majority of the Salt Lake citizens are forgetting for a time that they are individually Democrats or Republicans, and remembering only that they are Americans, we think of it only as a prompt achievement of the inevitable. (ROYAL) FLUSH TIMES, ‘OCH DER KAISER! There is a man with a mind as active as that belonging to our own distinguished President. It is unfortunate that after the Emperor's demise—and long may he wave!—his mental equip- ment cannot be bound in royal-purple vellum and preserved as an encyclo- peedia, At present writing William is visiting his royal English relative, and the fact that the opening days of his sojourn are spent in consultation with an eminent throat-specialist augurs well for future public enlighten- ment on every important topic, from navigation to religion. In point of general information, this particular king makes every other face-card look like a two-spot. But England certainly knows how to play the game well. She now holds three kings and three queens, which is something more than a full house. And Goodness knows what she may have up her sleeve! The combination is one that can certainly control the peace of Europe, for three of a kind beat two pair, and there are not four kings left in the whole pack who could be gotten together in one company. THEY have just been having an election on the planet Mercury. Recent observations of the planet at its moment of transit across the sun’s disc report a surrounding ring of what is probably hot air, of no great depth. The latter fact indicates that this was an off-year with the Mercurians. eee T IS an ill wind, etc. Our present financial straits are causing throngs of the more ignorant immigrants to return to Europe, where they will disseminate the news among their fellows. that gold pieces are not to be picked up in our streets, but rather lemons. eee 'HE Duchess of Marlborough visited Ellis Island the other day and ate pie. This is certainly equivalent to a full new set of citizenship papers. DIGGING UP THINGS. LEARNING is not easily acquired, and it is an axiom that anyone who wishes to secure it must get out and dig for it. Certain learned doc tors, by name Grenfell and Hunt, have taken this literally and have been digging up forgotten lore amid the buried civilization of northern Africa. Among their finds is reported a hitherto unknown ode written in Greek and devoted to the lauding of the simple life, and decrying the pursuit of wealth and the possession of power. Apparently none of this old world’s troubles are new troubles, but come upon it like recurrent and chronic fits of rheumatism. We understand that another ancient remnant of papyrus, dated somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 B. C., contains the foliowing fragment of decipherable inscription : ROR ReEWHLQURR LN BEX SS This is of great interest to antiquarians who have claimed that neither human records nor the memory of man can carry back to the beginning of this thing. Yes, indeed; it is plain that ancient Egypt had her troubles, too. SPEAKING of Emperor William, it seems that he has conferred the crown order of the third class on Captain Polack for steering a North German Lloyd line steamer to Bremen without her rudder. It is evident that Captain Polack is a good steersman and an efficient officer, but was he decorated because he wanted to get home, or because he lost his rudder, or because he trifled with the safety of his passengers by refusing assist- ance? None of these things seems to afford a suitable excuse for unusual distinction. If the doughty mariner’s capability was the cause, we respect- fully inquire whether there isn’t at least a second-class decoration coming to the man who exhibited his skill at the game of Diabolo on the after-deck of a North River ferry-boat. Certainly he endangered no lives but his own. MONEY is at least better in stocks than in stockings. comicbooks.com