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Show UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. FRANK J. CANNON. EDITOR. NATIONAL toESUNY OR NATIONAL SELF CONTROL From the complexities and luxuries surrounding1 our national life, is it possible for us by any method of retracing, to take ourselves back to the simpler systems which prevailed All minor when the republic was young? questions are merged in this great one. Must this nation go on, impelled by an uncontrollable spirit of ambition; to pile combination upon combination; to make of government a machine directed by the autocratic will of a few, who utilize all the mass as a merely insenate fly wheel to give momentum; with all trade and industry operated by a few master minds; our military and our naval ambitions so prodigious as that we must circle the globe with evidences of our power? This is the chasm into which other republics have been plunged and in which they have been forever lost. Must this be our fate? And is there no possible escape ? The advocates of the present system of enlargement and grand achievment have all the alluring argument on their side. There is something so splendidly enticing in the thought of national magnificence, as that the majority of men find it extremely difiicult to study beneath the surface as to the methods by which such glory is achieved, or to project their minds into the future to contemplate the possible culmination. Are we but the sport of destiny, and must we rise by swift ascent to that point of superlative splendor from which a fall is inevitable? Or arc we, as a nation of people, the masters of our own fate; empowered by the providence, who gave to us reason and patriotism, to define our ' own boundaries of operation, to restrain our. own impulses for dangerous grandeur, and to keep alert and to obey that inward monitor which whispers ever that the mission of a democracy is to maintain the rule of the mass by the voluntary union 'of the thought and purpose of a majority of the individuals who compose the mass. If Jefferson, in delivering immorta sentiments to the world also delivered immortal truths, the lapse of time, the increase of wealth,' the growth of ambition, cannot have changed these sentiments into falsities. If the glory of a republic, if the assurance of its perpetuity, if the righteousness of its demand upon the All Wise for His. protecting care, are founded in the equal right of individuals; we stand every hour in peril. Have we not, in a little more than one hundred years reached a point where we look upon this doctrine of equal rights as a dream? Have we not in our brief space of life been raised, as no other nation was ever built in a thousand years, to a stature of such towering magnificence as that the structure is threatened by its own hastily gathered and immature bulk? Is it not a fact that our edifice by its magnitude creates awe and by its dazzling beauty awakens admiration; while many look merely at the glowing superstructure aud refuse to watch the found- GUESS HOW OLD. that they may determine, each for himself, whether we are not departing from our. old ideals ? Jt is true that we have a magnificence ' of fabric of which the fathers did not dream. We have a luxury which their minds could not comprehend. We have a place in the world which even their most ambitious thought could not fiy. But are we not paying a price too high ? Is not the old sturdiness of individuality disentegrating ? Are we not exchanging simple patriotism for courtly pomp ? Do we not betray the equal rights of our people at home in order to make conquest and extension of .power abroad ? Will the republic live as the abode of justice and equal rights for all men, if we shall yield to the ambitions which have led monarchies and republics alike up the dazzling heights to that point frm which there is no further movement except downfall? Is our future as a nation . to be determined by mere destiny ? or is it ,to be determined by our ? These are questions which should appeal to us as citizens in behalf of the country which was founded in faith, preserved by patriotism and should be held as a heritage. self-contr- ol A TENDER SON. Hart's a Chanet to Figuro on Robort and Riehard. The Tilda' Ann Inquiry hat a routed the algebraic public and here It another. the latest English puzzle, (or their delectation: 0 As We Said Robert to Richard: If ever come To the age you are now, brother X mine, , Our ages united, will mount to a turn Of years making ninety and nine." Bald Richard: Thats certain, and if It be fair" For us to look forward so far, I then thall be double the age that you were When I wat the age that you are." fl TJhiougphifc Only one correct answer has been received to the puzzle of the ages of Robert and Richard. It la as follows: Robert, at the time of the Inquiry, la 36 yeara of age and Richard la 45. When Robert shall have reached the age of 45, nine yean will have elapsed and Richard will be 54. The sum of these two agea la 99. HIGH-CLAS- Burt'a Means EVERYTHING CHEAPER i Our Toy Department contains a few odds and ends that can be purchased at your own price. Ogden Furniture and Carpet company. heavy sales and delighted patrons. fection prompted his proposal of marriage; and on her part there can be no suspicion that anything but charity, if not love, prompted her ready acceptance. At this particular point in the story the alert sons and daughters of Mr. Larned should appear on the scene and interpose their objections to his childish action. But what do we behold ! His eldest son, William A. Larned, noted the world over as a tennis player, appears at the church with his father and stands as best man at the chancel rail, giving away his parent of tender heart, if not tender years, to the buxom bride. Now, there is an example for good sojas. When a man falls into his second childhood, and beinga widower wants a wife and mu$e, let the son encourage the old man's fany, stand as assistant in his courtship and pronounce the words "God bless you, my. parents ! upon their heads after the ceremony! is performed. r . disbelieve in the warfare between Japan and Russia. It may come any hour but it is extremely unlikely to occur. Russians not ready and Japan is in a state of still greatGreat Britain, upon er unpreparedness. which country Japan must rely, will not encourage the contest; and Germany, with which Russia has probably formed a secret alliance, does not care to have the rupture take place at the present time. The changes are that the war prophets will be doing business for many moons to come without any of their prediction. immediate full-filme- nt 1 ; VARIETY-BETT- AND QUALITY ER LOWER PRICES THAN ELSEWHERE. J. P. QUINN Admission, 10c. S.J. Burt Reserved, 10c. PRIZES To Be Oiven New Years Eve, cember 31st, during 9:30 p. m. formance at Bros, j De- per- Lyceum Family Theatre One Set Decorated "Haviland China" Dinner Set; by managers. One Ton Coal; Robt. & Lewis Coal Company. One Lady or Gents Silk Umbrella; Fred M. Nye. Our One hundred pounds Crescent Flour; Peery Bros. One Picture, framed; Chas. J. Rosa Each admission 10c. ticket entitles holder to a chance on above prises. Now on exhibition In Richardson it Grant's window. i Annual ! i WHAT YOU WANT, IT IS HERE IN GREAT a - This paper continues to ' stories of an NO MATTER OPERATIC COMEDY ARTI3T8 BARITONE MOVING PICTURES af- great lowering of prices on the highest grade merchandise to suit the closest bargainers In every department the great reductions are telling a pleasing story of A New Years Week. that anything but genuine . THIS UNLOADING SALE A' touching instance of filial regard is re- LYCEUM THEATER ported from New Jersey. William Z. Lamed, president of a national bank at Summit in that state, a long time widower and aged eighty HOOP JUGGLER years, became enraptured of a coy young KALACRATU8 maiden, Edna Rose Wiley, and she was TENNESEN & ROBINSON SWISS BELL RINGERS equally attracted by him. On his part there ROBISH A CHILDRES8 is no suspicion ! I Before making a purchase shrewd, careful buyers compare the quality, style and price of the article. The result is quality wins, and the throngs find their way to OGDEN'S EXCLUS SIVE Dry Goods Store , ation. Republic or democracy is not merely a name; it is a condition. Historv0 shows that republics may depart from their genius of being and become tyrannies even more cruel and complete than monarchies. What of the generation since our Civil war? Have we been holding fast to the simple ideals of the republic clinging to and breathing its spirit in all our affairs? Or have we been moving toward monarchical methods while still glorying in our mere nameof democracy? No man who will sit down in a serious solitude of his individual citizenship can doubt that we have departed as far from the example and the precept of the fathers as the limitations of time and space will permit. It is easier to act with the mass than to reflect with ones own thoughts. It is far easier to glorify our modern progress, to become a participant if pos- 30, 1903. DECEMBER DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, DIGNANS DANCING ACADEMY. Clearance ADMISSION - - - . 25 CT8. MATINEE NEXT 8ATURDAY FROM 4 TO 6 OCLOCK Sale is on.. Cleaning Up Sale In recent years Ogden has developed into musical center; and promises to be the occasion of one of her many triumphs. A concert will be given in the tabernacle for the benefit of the musical fund of the public schools and some of the greatest musicians in the western country will appear. The management of the concert proposes, to give to the public of Ogden a treat; patronage is not asked on any ground of charity, although the object is a worthy one. The reader has but to scan the names of the artists who will take part, in order to be assured that the evening will be one of splendor. a to-nig- ht T - The; independent iron and steel ind ustries are quick to follow a bad principle. " More hours and less pay," is the motto. How is sible in its worldly advantages evfn though that for a Republican campaign cry ! we meet destruction thereby, than to ponder f in severe calmness upon the principles of The Desert News of last evening hap a of our the national life and laws which justice special dispatch from Washington announcing arc being violated by our present tendencies. that the revelations made by Perry S. Heath, Give but a wrong trend to a republic and it concerning the dying desires of President will grow more swiftly to evil than will a McKinley, have created renewed talk of a pos monarchy. History shows no more insensate sihle change in the Republican program. ' It tyrannies than those which have been created aypears that there was some utilitarianism as in the name of a democracy. well as sentiment in retaining Mr. Heath as Is it not time for the people to review the secretary of the national committee. He has progress of the last generation, and of the administered the hardest jar that the Roosemost recent ten years in particular, in order velt boom has experienced. 20 off on qll Fancy Lamps 20 on Cut Glass 20 . ' PER CENT OFF. Chafing Dishes, 5 oclock Teas and Fancy Silverware. 20 .ar The most luxurious Massage la made possible by Culleys Cold Cream PER CENT OFF on Cut Glass 20 . 20 - PER CENT OFF on Jardineres. ? . PER CENT OFF , The Culley Drug. Co. 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