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Show STATE JOURNAL, DAILY UTAH OGDEN, UTAH. frank j. cannon, editor. BRYAN DENIES THAT HE IS A In the last issue of the Commoner, William J. Bryan, replying: to the charge that he is a dictator, says : had declared himself in favor of abandoning: the Kansas City platform,? would they have accused him of dictating: Not at all! He would have been praised by the gold organs, and they would have abused any one who dissented from him. Dictating, it would seem, is defined not as an offering of suggestions, but as an offering of suggestions objectionable to the men and the newspapers to whose opposition the party owes its recent defeats. The fact that Mr. Bryan has twice been the candidate of his party would, according to their logic, compel him to keep silent, while the fact that Mr. Cleveland has twice thrown his influence to the Republicans gives him the right to speak. Bryan also resents the charge that he still regards silver as the paramount issue. Not since 18, he says, has he preached the doctrine of silver as paramount, and he protests against what he declares to be the continual hounding and misrepresentation of his political enemies. In an interview at Atlanta, Ga., last Thursday, Bryan said concerning the article of Grover Cleveland in the Saturday Evening Post FEBRUARY DHM 2: JAPS AND RUSSIANS AS FIGHTERS, UTAH STATE JOURNAL If Mr. Bryan TUESDAY, Alluding to the talk that is going the rounds of the press concerning the probable outcome of the fighting between the Japs and the Russians, the Nevada State Journal says that some of the comments which seem to emanate from intelligent quarters are too absurd for serious comment. One American officer in Washington is quoted at length, and in the interview he is made to say that one Jap is equal to two Russians in actual fighting. It is difficult to see upon what basis any well informed man can express such opinion. It is extremely doubtful if there is such a difference in the fighting qualities of the men of any two countries which make any claims to warlike prowess. The Russian armies in Europe have been pitted against the best soldiers of that continent and no such disproportion in fighting qualities has ever been shown or claimed. Russia has lost many battles during the last century through bad generalship, but it is doubtful if she has ever lost one as a result of the inferiority of her soldiers. In truth the stubborn courage of the Russian soldier has been almost universally conceded. odds of two to one and on , equal terms as to If the Japs can give whip the Russians position, generalship, etc., then it is morall certain that the Japanese army is the best in the world. This has never been proved, and there is nothing in the appearance or actions of the individual Jap to justify such a belief. The simple truth is that the Japanese army has never been tested against any first-clafighting force of equal numbers. Nor has anything yet taken place in this war to indicate the marked superiority, or any .superiority on the part of the little brown men. No actual test of relative fighting qualities has yet been made. Throwing topedoes into Russian ships may indicate that the Muscovite commander had been caught nappiug, but it does not prove that the Jap is a better fighter : I will give him credit for what he is trydo when he shows some symptom of to ing Democracy that is deeper than the sounding platitudes with which he regales the public when the campaign is afar off. I will admit that he is one of the 'rank,' but I will deny that he is one of. the '.file. I think the prospects of the Democratic party are bright, but I prefer not to discuss the individual candidates. I think the Democratic nominee should be as far from. the example of Cleveland as we can find. Roosevelt, I think, will get the Republican nomination. Will vou support Cleveland if he is nom' ' inated ? "lam not going to assume or imagine any such impossibility, said Bryan. " As to platforms, he added, we ought to reaffirm the Kansas City platform and make such additions to it as may be necessary in the same spirit. ss THROWING ROME REPUBLICAN. Horatiua Flaccun, the gifted poet Q. and all around good fellow, came In yesterday from hls Sabine farm, paid hia subscription and left ye editor a fine Hubbardino squash. Mr. Flaccun, known to all his friends as Hod, has just completed a beautiful pastoral poem, entitled "A Pigsty Fantasy, which we take pleasure In printing: The solemn hush of evening thrills my FROM THE GRAND Thursday, soul Beyond the utmost limits of control. I see the Infinite, I see the maze Of Immortality, and then my gase Is centered on the pigsty, and I hear The soulful squeals of them that lurk within Melodious squeals, that bring to me UNDER world. Such packing cf humanity as this at least illustrates the fact that when every acre of tillable land is stimulated to its highest productivity it will give sustenance to several times the number of persons who are now supplied with food from an acre of land in most countries. The Javanese are still able to raise all their raw food and to export the products of their plantations and forests to the amount of millions of dollars a year. But they are already talking about a time to come when they will no longer be able to produce on their island all the food they require. The newspaper military experts have nearly all succeeded in figuring out to their satisfaction that Japan has Russia whipped to a finish. The czar, however, with extraordinary perversity, does not seem to show the least inclination toward throwing up the . sponge. Captain Bownson, fighters than their adversaries. mains to be proved. That re- 1 A new edition of Henry Domorest Lloyds " Newest England, by which is meant New Zealand, shows that country has made of late years further advances along the line of state ownership and control of various utilities which had been followed up to the time when the book first appeared. The people of New Zealand own the railroads and operate them at very low charges for freight and passenger service. Children are carried free to and from school. A- fruit grower may ship a box of fruit weighing fifty-si- x pounds a long distance for the low. cost of 12 cents. No discrimination is allowed between the large and the small shipper. The rate is the same, for instance, on a single bag of wool as on 1,000 bags. napolis naval academy, stated to the house committee that the United States will have naval officers enough in 1907 to man all naval vessels. There will be an increase in the classes graduating each year from the academy. 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Tuesday, Feb. 23 Flinch us HOUSE HALL DIGNANS Flinch In the struggle now going, on the empire of the czar seems to be almost without a friend among the civilized nations. This not because of any dislike for the individual Russian, but it results from the unsatiable territory extending policy of that country. It is felt that the triumph of Russia will make her the great dominant power in China, which may be to the disadvantage of all other civilized states. England, moreover, has special reasons of her own for looking with an unfriendly eye upon Russias attempted expansion in Asia. The sympathies of nearly the whole civilized world are unquestionably with Japan because she is virtually fighting for her life, and by checking the power of Russia the interests of nearly all the rest of the world will be subserved. But this has nothing to do with the relative fighting qualities of the Japs and the Russians. The fact that the Japs are believed to be in the right does not make them any better OPERA JOEL CLARK, Manager. than the Russian. the cheer Some English authority is reported as ex- I feel when Nero plays his violin! pressing the belief that the Japs will be com- Lives there a pig so dead he cannot squeal? pletely victorious by July. So they may, but I 4 not think so, and I often feel to has belief. a such developed nothing justify That were we pigs, and were the crlt It took Great Britain, France, Sardinia and ters men Turkey combined about two years to bring We would be happier, better, nobler then! Russia to terms, and she is much stronger OVERCROWDED JAVA . now than she was then. Of course the Japs The Dutch and the leading natives in Java may win a series of unparalleled victories are of the opinion that the population is in- and conquer a peace quickly. That is' possible, but it is not within the limits of reasoncreasing too rapidly for the good of the island, able probability, as military operations usualsays the New York Sun. The census, taken Russia is a great power and has vast every five years,' has long shown an increase ly go. of over 2,000,000 for each census period , and resources. In this conflict her pride is thor the rate of growth has constantly ac- oughly aroused and she would make almost celerated. The increase of population from any sacrifice rather than submit to defeat at the census of 18()5 to that of 1900 was over the hands of what she regards as an inferior 3,000,000. Java is only a little larger than New York state, and the central regions are too moun-taniofor a very dense population. The fact that the last census showed a total population of 28,745,698 indicates a frightful congestion of humanity over all the coastal and interior plains and valleys. The density of population is 568 persons for every square mile of surface, which is greater than in any province of China, excepting in Shantung. If France had the same density of population its inhabitants would number 120,000,000 ; the United States, at the same rate, would have 1,683,-000,00- 0 inhabitants, which is about 100,000,-00- 0 more than the estimated population of the DIRT ON HIS BACK. Eugene Holbrook, Mgr. (Wholesale) OGDEN. IW |