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Show An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. T. Goodwin :: - EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN , The German Note THE note of Germany in reply to President Wilson's note, is unworthy a great nation like Germany. It reads like that which an angry man would pen, when conscious of having perpetrated a great wrong, and, while anxious to avoid trouble because of that wrong, is still so angry that he is determined not to pen anything which will comfort com-fort another man whom the writer of the note . hates. The reigning houses of Germany and Great . Britain are closely allied by marriage; the rivalry ri-valry between the two countries in trade, and In s sea prestige has been increasing steadily for i many years; the hate existing between the na- tions has been steadily increasing ever since the 1 kaiser, at a critical time in the Boer war sent I that dispatch to old man Kruger. Moreover, tho kaiser believes he, as the oldest son of the oldest child of Queen Victoria is in truth the rightful j heir to the British crown. At the thought of this i pretention every Englishman, the world around, :' wants to fight. We believe the kaiser and the German peo- I pie would be glad to make peace with Russia and France today, but it is a hate unto death of England, Eng-land, and England returns the animosity in full volume. , Hence, when the American claim was made for indemnity for wrongs committed and for a pledge that the law of nations, governing procedures pro-cedures at sea, should be obeyed, the first thought in every German mind was that the note in its full scope was a demand which to comply with would be really an apology for sinking an English Eng-lish ship, which Germany would sooner have an army slain than grant. I To read her note between the lines, she -Virtually says: "The only thing we can do is to temporize and to meet your note with a skulking evasion and still we want no trouble with you, only do not compell us to do anything which, indirectly, indi-rectly, would force us to admit that anything wo could do would be unjust to Great .Britain." Had the Lusitania been a French ship the an-swer an-swer of Germany would have been in an altogether different tone. But, after all, the German note is unworthy of a great nation in dealing with another an-other great nation, on the soil of which twenty per cent of the people are natives, or tho direct descendants of natives of the land, the government govern-ment of which sends the note from, and between vhich two nations there has never been the slightest friction until now. Moreover, it is a case where neither pride of power nor hate of any other power can long interfere in-terfere with the demands of simple justice, for, fortunately, the appeal is made by a country that loves peace so much that it would make any reu- i sonable sacrifice to secure it, but which would not quail were all tho world arrayed in arms against it. When The Armies Will Fail NAPOLEON the great managed to go stalking through Europe, overturning thrones, smashing smash-ing dynasties and changing boundary lines, for twenty years, because he possessed military genius ge-nius superior to any of his foes; because he robbed the countries he swept over, and because he was in truth "a scourge of God," and was needed to smash the half slavery that the few had imposed upon the many, until the bulk of the people were little better than serfs. At last his ambition prompted the Russian invasion and when the Russians burned their capital over his head; his usual judgment forsook him, and he attempted to return, in the face of " a Russian winter to France. Then his invincible army went down under the assaults of the snow and "the wheeling squadrons squad-rons of the icy winds" and his power was broken. In the meantime, too, Lord Nelson had blockaded every port through which France had heretofore received food and other supplies. At last his fate was sealed. The battles that followed, including Waterloo, were mere incidents to hasten the end. It is clear now that when the present Avar was sprung upon Europe it was the intention of the German staff to imitate Napoleon's method, to live upon the countries that dared to offer war to Germany. It was a plan that would have carried except for the course of Belgium. The resistance resist-ance made there enabled France to get her fighting fight-ing arm to the front. The war has now lasted ten months and all that Germany has been able to do has been to keep her own territory intact. None of her enemies have been able to prey upon Germany, but on the other hand Germany has not been able to live ipon any country of all her enemies, en-emies, and today her boundaries are as effectually effectu-ally blockaded as were French ports by Nelson. It looks as though the war would never bo ended by fighting armies and ships, but by famine fam-ine and pestilence. A Sinister Outlook IT is expected that with the close of the present pres-ent war in Europe, there will come a great number of immigrants to this country, and in the eastern cities plans are even now being incubated to direct the host away from the cities to the country. There is not much in that. The immigrants immi-grants from northern Europe will naturally drift inland, those from southern Europe will cling to tho cities, but the thought of thousands and hundreds hun-dreds of thousands coming is a disturbing one. Th.e tendency will be to reduce the rates of wages both of skilled and unskilled laborers, and there will be Inevitable clashings with the laaor unions. Then with many factories closed, and no sufficient suf-ficient outlet for surplus products, how can work at any wages be found for the hungry host? The day of real trial for our institutions will then be upon the land and the prospect is filled with premonitions of coming trouble. That South American Trade H COME interested people met in New York City H last week and discussed plans for a larger M trade with South America, and finally decided M that about all that could be done was to send M agents there with samples and to solicit orders. H All that will count for but a little. The Atchi- H son & Santa Fe railroad started out with an idea H that it would push its tracks west a little way H from the Missouri river and see if, after a few H years the men lured that way by the railroad ' H would not settle up the country enough to begin H paying the road a little revenue. That worked H so well that the company never stopped building H until its western terminus was on the shore of H the Pacific. And the road is evidently receiving H some revenue and its best revenue s from the H desert region which was a horror to many very H learned eastern statesmen up to the time the H Union Pacific and the old Central Pacific roads H united and made clear the fact that the desert H was but a mask beneath which there was more of H interest in it to a railroad company and vastly H more interest in it to the nation, than as though H it were all agricultural land as rich as the Mis- H sissippi valley. H South America will be of great commercial in- H terest to the merchants and nlanufacturers of H the United States just so soon as they go to H work in an intelligent way to obtain it, and not a H day sooner. But they will have to go to work as H did the A., T. & S. F. road to obtain it. It will M require a big investment first and then the pati- H ence to wait for dividends. H Our government lias refused for fifty years to H take any sensible steps to help secure that trade H for American citizens. It has seen England pros- H pering greatly from that trade for three score H years; it has seen Germany made rich from that H trade in the past thirty years, but has refused to H even investigate the reasons why foreigners havo H succeeded, and utterly refused to take any sensi- 1 ble steps to divide that trade with them. Ifl The first essential is to have depots in the H main cities along the coast; then ships to touch H at those ports at stated but regular intervals; M then men in charge of the depots who understand BB the languages spoken and the .methods that pre- H vail in those countries, then to know what, and in H what forms goods are needed there and what the H people havo to pay with when they make pur- M chases. H To accomplish all this there must be capital H enough to build the ships, to establish the stores H and in addition to carry on the business until the H returns begin to come in. H For instance, suppose a shipload of agricul- H tural implements, household furniture, flour and H salt meats is wanted in a coffee district outside 1M of Rio. But the people hav not the money to H buy what they need though .ney have plenty of coffee fl It is a clear case that if the goods are sent, B with the freight added, they can be unloaded, provided the merchant will take coffee instead of M coin for them. If he takes the coffee he pays the M wholesale price in tho United States, less the freight from Rio tc New York. Then the coffee H H on, arrival must bo sold beforo the goods sent to H Rio months beforo are paid for. If the goods are H sent to Para, rubber' will have to bo taken in ex- H change;' rubber or cocoa, or Brazilian woods or H augur, or something else that is needed in the H United States. H In that way a tremendous trade can be built H up and in that way only. In the meantime the H agents down there will learn where a bridge or H road is needed, when great tracts of land can be H bought and settled; md that kept up for ten H years would mako room for thousands of men and H begin' to make Nortli America institutions and H ways dominate that continent. And there is no H other way to do it. H H Colonel Roosevelt TUB New York Times has a full page article on the present political position of Colonel H Roosevelt. It is from the pen of Charles Willis H Tliompson, but it reads as though it might have H been dictated to a stenographer by the colonel H himself. The burden of it is that the colonel is H not a candidate and is not taking any active H part in the reunion of political parties, that H while he is anxious for a coalition of forces op- Hj posed to Democracy, he is handicapped by the H cumulative effect of animosities raised by his H own political course; then a discussion of the at- H titude of the Progressives in the west, many or H whom will vote for Wilson if the Republicans offer H no concessions to them. HI It is a most adroit paper, but read between H the lines, it says plainly enough: M "You see how it is! I raised hades, split the 1 party to which I owed so much, to minister to 1 my own overweaning vanity and ambition. It was m so sweet to me to be president; to hold the first H place, to be called 'Mr. President'; to have the Hj honors and emoluments; to be every day and M every night in the limelight, the very 'it' of the M republic, that I was willing to break my solemn M word, break friendship with my best friend, break 1 the unwritten law of the country; create antag- H onisms among political friends that are as bitter H as death, and all this at the risk of seeing HI elected president a man whose principles I de- testqd, and to place in power a party that has HI wrecked the business of the country whenever H it has been given the opportunity." I failed in H everything I tried ,and how to get back now into Hj the limelight and how at the same time to recover M the confidence which the Republican party for- M merly gave me, is what worries me. It has wor- H ried me ever since election day, 1912, when I first fl fully realized my own political and moral perfidy. H It haunted my sleep in the swamps and jungles H of South America; it made me welcome the suit H brought by Barnes, for that gave mo another M chance to pose as the only real custodian of civic M righteousness. I am in a deuce of a fix. I will H try a pose as one who has taken a back seat, H as one who would do anything to oust the Demo- H cratic party from power, but having committed po- H litical hari kari I am practically dead, but I will H Inject into my funeral notice a warning that if H the old-line Republican leaders do not accept all H my vagaries, it will result in Mr. Wilson's re- B election. That may cause the people to turn to H mo again as the only man who can save them. Oh, if they only would!" H That is how this paper reads to those who are HI familiar with Colonel Roosevelt's career. H There is a way, through which he could im- Hj mensely servo his country, if ho would, but, con- H sidcring his own desires and his selfishness, it is H too much to expect of him. It would be for him H to put out another statement over his own signa- H ture, to the effect that he made an egregious mis- H take when, following his own ambition, ho set the H machinery in motion which divided the Ropubli- H can party in 1912, that now he would, so far as H possible, undo that wrong; that he is not, and under no possible circumstances will ho bo a candidate can-didate for the' presidency in 1916, but that ho wants to see the Republican party reunited, call upon Republicans and Progressives to come together, to-gether, unite and present an undivided front to the Democracy next year. That is the only way in which he can serve his country now. Should Be Horsewhipped IT is a shame for a great newspaper, in a time of excitement, to send out such a dispatch as was attributed to the New York Herald on Saturday Sat-urday night last, that our government feared in the eevnt of a war with Germany, that country would attack New York City, and hence had given instructions to sink any German ship that might attempt to leave that harbor, without so much as first hailing her. Indeed we doubt about the Herald giving out such rubbish and suspect it was the work of an unscrupulous press agent, who would, if he could, minister to the present excitement and bring on a war. To show the utter viciousness of the dispatch it is only necessary to remember two or three things. The first is that the sinking of ships to block a channel is obsolete; second, the German navy all its reliable fighting ships is now blockaded bloc-kaded at Kiel by the British navy; third, that the batteries around New York could sink any navy that might come within fifteen miles of the city; fourth, that our own navy could destroy any hostilo fleet that could be sent to attack our east coast, and fifth, that no war with Germany is at all probable unless the rulers of that country have gone utterly daft. She certainly has enougn to do at home just now. The man that formulated that dispatch and sent it to the press of this country, should be more than reprimanded or sent to jail, he should be horsewhipped. Nothing but physical pain can cure a miscreant of that kind. Have Done With It UR University wrangle, it seems, will not down. Nothing more appears to be necessary neces-sary except for some taxpayer to bring an injunction in-junction suit to enjoin the state treasurer from paying the state's appropriation for the support of the school. If the University is to bo run as a rlose corporation cor-poration for the benefit of only certain classes of the people, then the corporation should pay tho expenses of their own business. When the great body of a faculty of a state school resign, and the great body of the students declare by solemn resolution that they will no longer attend the school which has been made untenable for the best members of the former faculty, and only snubs are offered in return, it is a plain case that the school has ceased to be a state Institution and should not expect further state aid. "Big Sim" JB. SIMPSON (Big Sim) who died on Wednes- day last was in some respects a most remarkable remark-able man. His physical courage was of that kind which never quailed no matter in what form danger came. Then as a sleuth ho was equal to an Indian. Give him tho trail of a felon he would follow it with the accuracy of a bloodhound and tho pitiless persistence of Fate itself. Then he had that rare faculty of being able, in a sudden and portentious emergency, to do the only right thing and never make a mistake. He was for many years the sheriff of White Pine county, Nevada, and his duties in that office led to many exciting events and strange episodes. He know that all tho criminals in his jurisdiction jurisdic-tion knew that the only way that he could bo baffled baf-fled was to kill him, hence his life was in perpetual perpet-ual danger, but it made no difference w'th him. Ilia theory was that he would not be called until his time came, hence to dodge what was not inevitable in-evitable was foolish, to try to dodge the inevitable was impossible. So he walked calmly his round, accepting what came. He was given a warrant, some years ago, to arrest some supposed horse thieves. Ho took their trail and he know by the fc marks left by tho hoof-beats of their horses that they were traveling rapidly until they reached a certain point where tho same marks showed they had slowed down. Ho followed on and arrested ar-rested them near Fillmore, in this state. He took them back and when they were arraigned for trial, their lawyer protested that they were not legally before the court as the officer who haa arrested them had no jurisdiction where ho made tho arrest. The presiding judge called up the sheriff and questioned him. His reply was that he was no civil engineer, that ho .was given a warrant and ordered to bring the prisoners in, that he had fol- lowed orders as the prisoners were there to show. The trial proceeded, tho prisoners were convicted ' and sentenced to the Nevada penitentiary. When l Sim received tho order to conduct them to Car- J son, he inquired if the penitentiary was in Ne- I vada, remarking that he did not want any more I questions of jurisdiction raised on account of his official acts. It was at the state line that tho thieves slowed down believing that on this side they would be safe. He made a stake in tho Ely mines and 'removed 're-moved to this city some eight or ten years ago. For the past few months it has been clear that - the inevitable was drawing near, but to all questions ques-tions regarding his health he replie'd that he was "first class." In his homo he was most indulgent to wife and children and their sorrow now is most distressing. The sympathies of all go out to them. Poor Sim, God rest his soul. Copper HPIIE Chile Copper company of New York re- ceived a dispatch from its superintendent at Antofogata, Chile, that the works were started May 15th. A note is added which reads as fol- ' lows: "The Chile Copper company is claimed to have the largest copper deposits in the world, with tho exception of the Utah Copper company. It is expected that production will eventually be worked up to 2,000,000,000 pounds a year." That means 100,000 tons of pure copper, which is some copper if ever realized. Then Mr. A. W. McCune says his company's mine in Peru is tho biggest copper mine in tho world. The question arises, what of copper when all these mines shall get to producing and when wars stop and no more copper is needed for military mili-tary purposes? However, copper owners need not get discouraged discour-aged just yet. The wars have not stopped; thgMf mines are not all producing and then the great working force of earth and heaven, electricity, is insatiable in its demand for copper. No other metal is liable to displace copper for electrical purposes. No one who has good paying copper shares , need get panicy and sell out, at least not at present, pres-ent, while copper is held at 19 cents. Not a Bad Idea T'HERE may be a little something in tho tolo- graph rumor that tho president has determined to call tho bandits in Mexico to time and if necessary nec-essary to intervene to establish order down there.ak. Tho people, helped by the newspapers, are beginning be-ginning to consider possible candidates for tho presidency next year, and tho piesident may desire de-sire to direct attention to himself and away j from tho effects of some of the legislation which ho has bulldozed through congress. A row with Tcxlco would still bo a popular card, and a switt campaign there and a sharp und decisive settlement would surely insure him a renomination. Indirectly it may bo that ia the card which ho has been keeping up his sleeve for a long time to play when the big stake is of-4 of-4 fered. Such an intervention would not be bad for the United States. The response to the call for volunteers, when war was declared upon Spain in 1898, was something some-thing so magnificent that the whole world was impressed by it. The tramp of the legions from every state, all verging toward one point, all under one ilag, all intent upon one purpose, was enough to quicken the heart-beats of men all around this old world. It would be all the more impressive now. Forty-eight Forty-eight states, covering an area almost as great as all Europe, sending each its quota of fighting men, f representing but the first contingent of one hundred hun-dred millions of people, all united would give u ! all men an instant vision of what our great re public means in this modern world's affairs. It would not be a bad idea to issue the call. In the first' place it would bo an act of long-delayed long-delayed justice, and it would be the beginning or the needed training of an army which may be needed in a larger field. Moreover, it would insure in-sure Mr. Wilson's renomination. The Water Supply DESPITE the unprecedented rains of the past month the cry is again raised that there is bound to be an early shortage of water in this city this year. And it is sounded this time by experts who can correctly estimate how long it will require to exhaust the visible supply. That all hurts this city. ' Should it be necessary to stop watering the lawns and sprinkling the streets a month earlier than usual this year it would reduce the value of all the property except ex-cept in the business center about 50 per cent. This prompts us to repeat what we have often said before. That is that a fair trial of the source I . of supply above Liberty park should be made The city two years ago made a measurement from the choked wells there and declared that the amount was too small to be worth trying to save it. If the commission will consult Frank Hines, who sank the wells there, he will show them one well which struck at a certain depth a river of water which he piped through and sunk deeper. It would not cost very much to sink a small well beside that one to the depth where he says ho struck the rushing water before. Should it be done then at trifling expense the water could be turned into the present pipes and supply with it one-third of the city including the big machine shops about the railroad depots. It is true that there is a deep fissure which perpetually runs full of water. It is true that in the very dry season Jordan river opposite the city carries a volume of water twice as great as it does four miles higher up. Where does it get its reinforcement except from the Emigration canyon fissure? And what makes the "springs" above Liberty park except that which comes up through the shivered wall of the fissure that runs under the city and holds the waters that the great range to the east constantly pours into it? This was the opinion of Professor Clayton, Clarence King, Professor Gilbert and the learned geologists from the east and Europe that visited this city two years ago. Is it not worth while to try to tap this supply? sup-ply? A shortage of water is the very biggest black I eye that can be given a city. An abundance of water is a perpetual mighty asset. This city generally has a shortage in the sum mer, always in the winter. Tills experiment could bo tried in thirtydays and would cost but a few dollars. Why not try it? |