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Show THE CITIZEN 8 agreement there is an ocean of OBSERVATION PLANE I iimmmiHiHiiMiiiinwHmHiiumilwmilllHlHMlHWIIHIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIff imiuiwiiiuiniHUinuiiiiiniiutiHHiiUHnmiiiiiJiinitiiiiiiiHiMiiiiiirtiiniinniitiiii massacres at home and the wars abroad. The new cannot possibly be the new as a child trying to encompass new as a child trying to encompass the moon in its puny grip. Even they, inured to tyranny, realize that they are victims of a new tyranny, but they hope that the way leads to liberty and the brotherhood of man. And if anarchy be despotism, what remains but democracy? Soon, all over the world, only democracy will be left, democracy with its republican institutions. In some places we shall see representative government such as we have here, and in other places attempts to approximate sheer democracy. What the world is really striving Men are seeking for is better ways to help one another, and while they are seeking they quarrel and kill. In Russia the Leninites to death shoot by the score lest they overturn the revolution which, up to date, has accomplished nothing for the happiness of the people. But the people believe in Bolshevist promises and think that they will be redeemed in gold. It reminds one of the treasure hunters who fight over a claim that may pan out nothing. Like gray wolves or wild hounds men are snarling over the bones of World Making Democracy Safe for Itself IT7 HEN men smile and agree1 some one has said, Progress weeps. If it be wisdom, power and glory to disagree we may be sure that in our day Progress is not weeping. Progress ought not to weep if men agree on what is right, and yet Prog-res- s is usually weeping because great masses of men agree on what is wrong and. try to establish their lives thereon. There is no reason to be gloomy over the disagreements that are agitating the world, for somehow mankind has always been able to learn something from his blunders and to prepare for the future. We may smile at the attempt of tories in England to restore a sentiment for moribund royalty by opening parliament with forms of ancient heraldry. Hardly had the pompous parade ended and the king solemnly orated in somnolent platitudes, than the labor party kicked over the regal chariot of state and proclaimed the triumph of the democracy. Monarchy is dead in Europe and not all the kings horses and all the kings men can restore it to its old position of power. On the bones of counter-revolutionis- monarchy Democracy and Anarchy, the new champions who would possess the earth, are struggling. In Europe the struggle continues , with bloodshed; in this country the' forms of law and order are preserved.; We might well despair of the outcome if we did not know something of history. God reigns and civilization still lives. It will continue to live when the kings long have been in their graves and curious men study musty books with puzzled brows trying to understand what these queer beings were that men called mon-arch- theory. But in the end they will come upon a better system of The greatest system of the world has yet produced is the capitalistic trust. It has taught men more of efficiency and achievement than any other form of industrial cooperation that ever existed. Nevertheless, it is hated and despised because of its defects. not A capitalist becomes over-ricbecause he is greedier than his employes, but because of a system which has defects. The radicals would take possession of the system in the name of nationalization , declaring themselves able to remove the defects, but the chief defect of any system is human nature. The capitalistic system, were it not for human nature the same in the employe as in the employer might be perfected swiftly and wealth distributed more justly. But the despoilers and destroyers are out to wreck everything and then try to build on chaos. It is like trying seriously to build a castle In the air. But amid all the discord and dis i man desire sweeping us on to If God is back of the world we shall come out all right. If there .be no God, as the radicals tell us, there is no guarantee that mankind will not go backward into chaos. If you are a skeptic today you can not be an optimist Only the eye of faith can see a I s rene future for the human race. For a few thousand years men have been progressing and they have accomplished marvels, but that which they have, done is but a pledge of what they will do. 3 3 h, And yet today a new despotism has succeeded the old, for anarchy is the most grinding of despotisms. We . ' The Guardian Fire Insurance Company . of Utah Stays In Utah The Agency ing eyes to see what will happen to the human race in a dozen years, forgetting that before the divine purpose is achieved men will be making progress for perhaps a dozen thousand or even a dozen million years. Company Manager! 334 South Main Street SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH iBiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiinsMiMsiisiniisniHiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiniiii "It Un OM CIukdnir" " Banking Perfection Under 0. I. Infection" D Service is Our Highest Aim Utah State National Bank REPATRIATION. , FM ham lot round And marched right down again. Prussias quondam Kaiser Bill More than over bofore, sueeessful business requires Banking Servieo of tho broad, permanent oharaoter we givoe Saws trees with might and main And when' hes sawed then down he quickly Saws them up again. E. P. B., in New York Evening Post. EXTREMES. - The Protoplasm made reply As he winked his embryonic eye: . Well, when I look at you, old man, Im rather sorry I began! Malcolm La Prade, in tfew York Post. i5 g 5 The pessimist will say that mans progress is no compensation for those who agonized in the ages long gone by. The optimist will still think that life is not so bad while he has health and hope and his sunny disposition, and his hope will bid him smile with joy at the thought that his children will live in a better world and their children in a still better one. He will not weep over spilt milk, but will look into the future far as human eye can see and catch a fleeting but roseate vision of the day when mankind shall have learned how to live. Said the scientist to the Protoplasm: Twixt you and me is a mighty chasm, We represent extremes, my friend You the beginning, I the end. g 4 We look forward with pained, strain- Now, s K I se- In the days of old, the King of France With twice ten thousand men. Marched up the hill and then turned Every Dollar Paid For Insurance in 5 on s. have but to sit, as it were, in the galleries and observe the tragedy of Rus-ci- a to witness the brutal dominance of the new despotism. Most of the millions struggling and sweating to build up a new order yearn for light and liberty. They remember with horror the old years under the czars the famines, the pitiless fetters of poverty enslaving body and mind, the knout of the masters, the ts pmwiiiuimHiMiniHMiiiiiwmininmininiininitoiHJii hu- . |