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Show j. An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of T. L. Holman :: EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN I1 A The Inaugural GOVERNOR BAMBERGER'S inaugural was fine . in both substance and form. I It was, too, a clear business statement of the state's business. Its recommendations for a most strict econ-' econ-' omy were excellent, though when we call to mind the Democratic national platform of 1912 and see the result and remember how long the Democracy of Utah have been out in the cold we are filled in ' advance with sympathy for the governor because t of the wrestle he will have to hold the hungry il wolves of his party down to economic rations dur- r. ing his term. In theory the Democratic party is always a stickler for economy, but when it comes ' to spending the public funds, that is different. , Then the needs of the state become paramount for then the state means the Democratic party ' i and the needs of the party must be met, no matter at what sacrifice. Even the governor must have noticed the im mense revulsion of the people of Utah against the staid methods of the Republican party and the desirefor a new dispensation. And he cannot have failed to notico the increased generosity of the real power in Utah in advancing the price to bo paid the farmers for sugar beets. It shows a generosity which could not have been anticipated antici-pated and was not understood until a dispatch informed us that "for revenue only" the tariff on sugar was to be increased. When the Legislature meets there will be a new crop of statesmen to deal with and it will be there that our sympathy for the governor will be at its height. Alexander Hamilton NEXT Thursday will be the one hundred and and sixty-third anniversary of the birth of Alexander Hamilton. When the young nation started on its career it was given to Hamilton to organize for it a financial system. It had no i money; no credit; it was overwhelmed with debt; its apparent resources were unavailable for use; to prepare for it a financial standing seems like the attempt of a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps. But Hamilton founded a system which was so perfect that its details are still the rule in the treasury department. When Jefferson became be-came president, he said to his secretary of the treasury, Albert Gallatin, "Take all the help you need and all the time you want, to correct the mistakes and wipe out the frauds of. Hamilton." Jefferson hated Hamilton because he was a dead square man and splendid soldier and hated anything any-thing like pretense or demagoguery. Gallatin went to work and spent a month in investigating Hamilton's work. Then he went to the president and said: "Mr. President, Hamilton Hamil-ton made no mistakes, committed no frauds, his system of finance is the most wonderful ever devised." de-vised." Could he be back in the flesh, in all his old vigor, how he would exult were he given again charge of the financial affairs of the nation, with a treasury bursting with money, with a nation of-one of-one hundred millions of people, and rich beyond estimation. He was a wonder among men. Born on foreign for-eign soil; leaving school a mere boy to arouse a not over impulsive people to take up. arms; the foremost orator, save Patrick Henry in the nation; na-tion; the nearest military adviser of Washington; the clearest brained man in the constitutional convention; a marvelous lawyer his mind seemed seem-ed to be a perfect cube. And he died at forty-seven forty-seven at the hands of a practiced duelist, who, .after firing the fatal shot, slunk away to Washington Wash-ington where President Jefferson gave him a state dinner. Next to Washington, the reverence of the American people for the men of '7G should go out to Alexander Hamilton. The Legislature WE are told that certain Democratic legislators-elect are worrying over the possible work before them. They should not. They should study the needs of the state which are few and put themselves on guard against the grafters that will make appeals to them from every direction. The one thing they should most dread is the number of embryo statesmen in their own midst who will want to make names for themselves. In recent yeats nearly all members from the outside out-side has tried to curry favor at home by proposing propos-ing some new graft on Salt Lake City and county. Doubtless this will be tried again this year though the figures show what proportion of all the taxes are paid by this city and county. In the past the last days of the session of the legislature have been periods of apprehension and fear on the part of taxpayers. It cannot be much worse this year. The Saint Day Of The Democracy NEXT Monday will be the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, and January 8th is always the most welcome day for the Democracy to celebrate. During the balance of the year they are the disciples of Jefferson, but It was Jackson who gave them the shibboleth of "To the victor belongs the spoils!" and after a Democratic victory vic-tory that shibboleth comes and lingers on their lips like the aroma of old wine and in their souls like the strophies of some ancient grand anthem. Hence they celebrate. And we do not blame them, for Jackson was a much manlier man than Jefferson, Jeffer-son, a much truer man, and then after a victory, why should they not celebrate? That their victories vic-tories do not come very often should give their rejoicing all the more zest when they have one. Generally before election they are confident up to election night and then deploring the perversity pervers-ity of the people, they go into retirement for another an-other term of years. This last year the unexpected unex-pected happened; they had a rousing victory, and now on Monday next they will celebrate and pre dict for themselves a long lease of power, claim- I ing that the people aro at last educated up to the H point of understanding that the Democracy is it. H And wo outsiders will rejoice with them, keeping H in mind that a merciful Providence while some- II times a little slow, sees to it that tho ravens aro H finally fed. The Allies' Note I ANALYZED closely, the note of the Allies in jfl reply to an invitation to meet and consider I possible peac-1 is is not a great state paper. I Stripped o rbiage it simply says: "Ger- I many was so r. sed in inaugurating the present I war that we will never consider the possibilities I of making peace until Germany is destroyed, no I matter how many men are killed, how many II women and children are starved, how many III hearts are broken, how overwhelming may bo the II bankruptcy of the nations engaged." hi That sort of talk is neither wise, brave nor l manly. Rather it has a purely commercial look H and read between tho lines it can be easily con- H strued to mean a determination to punish Ger- III many and Austria until they will cease to be fac- I tors in the world's trade for many years, if not II for all time to come. And it reveals a premedl- I tated cruelty to the innocent people of their our I countries, greater thar they charge Germany with I planning at the beginning of the war. They do I it, too, after two and a half years in which it II has been demonstrated that the world has lost I its power to settle differences and has wrought I more devastation than can be outgrown in sixty I years to come. I It is a notice that Great Britain, Russia and I Japan intend to rule the commercial world and I to destroy every power that threatens to be their I rivals. It is, moreover, an indirect notice to all II the outside world to accept that determination II if they would have peace. II In our estimation there is no more Christian II spirit manifested in it than they charge that Ger- II many and Austria lacked when they inaugurated ,11 the war. 11 il For The World's Permanent Peace I HTHE response of the Allies to the proposition 11 - for a conference to see if a peace cannot be .M agreed upon is not encouraging. It evinces a I bitterness and a hate only equaled by the ferocity jl which has marked the whole course of the war ffl since Beligum was invaded. But that does not fhm change tho fact that the people of the small jM states of Europe occupied by the armies are uM dying by thousands of, hunger and exposure; that pjM soldiers are dying by tens of thousands in tho W fields and that all the nations Involved are swiftly tM nearing bankruptcy and generations of poverty l to come, nations aro like men. Whon in a paca- fism of anger they are in a measure bereft of f the power of cool reasoning. The Allies are much A in the mood that the men of the North would' ' i have been, after Gettysburg was fought, Vlcks- j ij burg taken and Grant with Meade were on. the tj final march to environ Richmond, and Shermai I was drawing his lines around Atlanta, had the I heads of the confederacy requested England to um, auuM . .- join, mi yii fmjmatmmammmaipfxxiixsmi-imry''" n Pi" EfTgg3BBMBBiWB H propose to the United States Government a con- m vention to see if terms of peace with the United H States could not he agreed upon. H ' But the response of the Allies should not dls- H courage! President Wilson. Assuming for the H sake of argument that all the charges against H Germany and Austria are true, they do not con- Hi stitute a reason for starving innocent women H( and children by thousands, for killing soldiers by IHt tens of thousands, if any reasonable terms of peace can be reached and agreed upon. . It seems plainer and plainer that a conference confer-ence of the neutral nations should be called, to Hi see if such rules cannot be formulated that when H1 adopted and accepted as part of an international H, code, there could be rules laid down which all H thev belligerents might accept. H. In a crude form something like the following: H' Article 1. The Hague tribunal shall bo the H parliament of all nations to be in perpetual ses-H ses-H H Article 2. It shall have a special committee H on arbitration composed of seventeen members. H Article 3. When two nations have irresistible H differences they shall not go to war, but must H submit their respective claims to this committee H for hearing, which committee shall then sit as H a court to hear evidence and arguments. H Article 4. The decision of this court shall be H submitted to the whole tribunal and its decision H must govern. H Article 5. There shall be no offensive and Hj. defensive action between individual nations, but H all nations must be in alliance to make perpetual fl the peace of the world. W Article G. If any nation decides to go to war 1 without the consent of the tribunal, such nation H shall be declared an outlaw and shall be pursued W by all nations with war, boycott and astracism. w Article 7. The armies of all nations shall be , reduced to .. per cent of the population of each K nation. Hr Article 8. The warships of the world's navies f shall be regulated in numbers and tonnage in the ' same proportion for each nation as controls its B standing army. M Article 9. Neither Article 7 or 8 shall be M construed to put any limitations on any nation m giving Its youths military training, to make ef- m fective national policies. f. Something like the above, universally accept- HL ed, would enable great nations to reduce their H expenses by millions and tens of millions an- j nually and enable them to begin their trade ex- M pansion, and would cure the perpetual anxiety of weak nations. M It would open the Dardanelles to Russian H ships, make unnecessary the fortifying of the H Panama canal zone, turn at once millions of men H now supported in standing armies into wealth H ' producers, reduce the expenses of the world H,, by uncounted millions in short be to the world Hi a transformation and give to Christianity more H(' than has been conceded to it in all the two H thousand years since the cross began to illumi- H nate the earth and soften and exalt the hearts H of men. H A Dismal Picture H f UR friend, Jerold Letcher, has become the H - feature in the office of secretary of state. HI His picture as published in the Herald-Repuo- H! lican would never be recognized by his oldest Hr friends in Missouri, but the friends here who H know him best will construe it to mean that he was under a pressure when he sat for It, but that H jp from its frame work the real Letcher could be H I built up around it. The announcement that he H will be the real thing in the office of the secretary H1 Li of state will be a guarantee that the office will H bo run on the dead square and with an ability thai; will never grow lax nor fail to meet every W$ " requirement. But that it was a vagrant kodak is manifest and for the credit of his new office the picture should be supplemented by one that his own wife would know. War's New Requirements THOSE who read Sir Douglas Haig's report of the Somme battle, which was cabled a week ago, must have noticed especially what ho said of the air craft in his army and how his troops had learned to stand off the liquid fire and poisonous gas of the enemy. The air craft had watched everything and sent signals of what was needed and the danger points in the enemies' lines. He' said: "Great fertility of invention has been shown and great credit is due to the special per-sonel per-sonel employed for the rapid success with which their arms have been developed and perfected and for the devotion to duty displayed in difficult and dangerous service. The army owes thanks to the chemists, physiologists and physicists of the highest rank who devoted their energies to enable en-able us to surpass the enemy in the use of. means of warfare which took the civilized world by surprise. Our own experience of the numerous numer-ous experiments and trials necessary before gas and flame could be used, of the great preparations which had to be made for their manufacture and of the special training required for the persons employed, show that the employment of such methods by the Germans was not the result of desperate decision but had been prepared deliberately. delib-erately. Since we 4iave been compelled in self-defense to use similar methods, it is satisfactory to be able to record on the evidence of prisoners, documents docu-ments captured and our own observations that the enemy has suffered heavy casualties from our gas attacks, while the means of protection adopted adopt-ed by us proved thoroughly effective." Some months ago, when from Washington there were daily shrieks over the necessity of a better preparedness, we pointed out that the American people never lacked a swift response when soldiers were needed, but asked what the army department was doing to have the means at hand to provide soldiers effectively for actual war. Our thought was that had the same zeal been manifested that is being manifested in European Eu-ropean armies, when Villa made his raid upon Columbus, our aeroplanes would have been sleuths on his track the next morning and ho never would have escaped. Our belief is that military training should be a part of the curriculum of all our higher public schools, high schools and universities, that the people generally might become familiar with the simpler duties fo the soldier, and that enough officers might be on hand, in the event of a sudden sud-den war, to train the armies that might be needed, but that in Washington and in the regular reg-ular army, there should be a constant effort to perfect soldiers in all modern devices and to try to invent new devices for making armies more destructive. For this special premiums should be paid, which would make every chemist and every inventor alert to earn the reward. If wars can only be stopped by such devices for destroying destroy-ing human life as human nature cannot stand before, then rewards for the invention of such devices should bo offered. War is no longer confined to the earth and the ocean; the air and the deep sea are now included, in-cluded, and the only safety for nations is to bo prepared in every way and in every place, for what may come. The most alert soldier and the most alert trained sailor in the nation should be at the head of the army and navy departments, depart-ments, especially of our government. The New Year IT was a white New Year's day as well as Christmas, and the now year is filled with promises of good for Utah; mines, fields, ranges, orchards are all in evidence for profits to owners; own-ers; the demand for workers is insured, with fair rewards offered, cooks and housewives are drawing more reward than were given learned professors a few years ago, and what is true of Utah is true in every state. Why should not the American people be exultant In the beginning of this new year? According to an act of the English Eng-lish parliament the world was created 4004 years before the coming of the Messiah. That would make this present New Year the 5,921st since the beginning and this last one is more filled with promise than any preceding one. And this is a reminder to letter writers to be sure to .date their missives 1917. For Cheaper Food THE rural banks, we are told, " are for the benefit of the farmers. Why not expand that idea in Utah for the benefit of those who are not farmers but would like to be? A very large area of the farming lands of Utah under cultivation have been diverted to the raising of sugar beets. This is one cause of the greatly increased cost of farm food products. But there is plenty of land left, which, with facilities for irrigation added, would be available for increasing in-creasing the food supply; there are, despite the scarcity of labor, plenty of men to bo found who ' would be glad to do farm work. Why can not some of these now barren lands be brought under cultivation and thus reduce the cost of the simpler sim-pler farm foods? Why cannot the state intervene in behalf of all classes of people, by becoming a farmer itself? The penitentiary is filled with lusty scoundrels who might be made farmers. Why should they not earn their board by producing more food, or by making the reservoirs and ditches necessary to bring now arid lands under cultivation? Why not have a state farm which would not only be self-supporting, but which would add to Utah a food supply which would reduce the cost of food? Cannot our new governor and the incoming Legislature work this problem to a solution and start a state farm? The general government would help in carrying water to such a tract. Why not make a move for cheaper food? THHE inauguration ceremonies were simple, im- pressive and beautiful. But Governor and Mrs. Spry should have walked in front of Governor-elect Bamberger and Mrs. Bamberger up the steps, for Governor Spry was still governor. , Coming out of the capltol the order should have been reversed. The outgoing president rides on the right of the incoming president to the capitol, on the left upon returning. TT would have been an innovation, but it would have been beautiful, could Governor Bamberger, after he took the solemn oath of office, have stretched forth his hands and repeated the magnificent mag-nificent prayer that Solomon offered at the dedication dedi-cation of the Great Temple. But then, maybe, our governor cannot repeat that prayer. TT is queer that Ex-Governor Hunt of Arizona should want to advertise himself as a churl to all the world on going out of office. His procedure pro-cedure ought to make every member of his own party resolve that never again should he bo put in a position where ho could disgrace himself and his party. TVTHEN Ex-Governor Spry thinks it all over he should be content and he might hum to himself him-self the words of the old king: "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himsolf as he that putteth it off." |