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Show An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of T. L. Holman :: I, EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN : 1 The Life That, Lasts J YE nope that all the boys and young men I " of Utah read the account of Admiral Dew-( Dew-( ey's funeral, and took In the other story of what led up to his final triumph. He was born close to where the battle of Bennington was fought, and the record of the "Green 'Mountain Boys" '' . was the page of history that most interested his childhood and youth; and when manhood was i near he determined that he would fit himself ' to best serve his native land. The army school was closed against him, hut , the navy school was not, and he entered that in- ' stitution. Hardly had he left it when he was given a fiery baptism, and then by sea and land he waited and served for a quarter of a century, until his opportunity came and the dream of his childhood was realized, and his government created a new title to honor him. On Saturday last, the final honors paid his memory were the highest that could be bestowed. I His ashes were laid (beside those of other heroes who, like him, had in youth determined to serve their country Sampson, Schley, Cogh-' Cogh-' Ian, Lamberton, and in memory the others are fresh Clark, Cook, Evans, Drayton, Graven, Stevens, Alden, Mllligan, Calkins, Gridley, Dyer, Wildes, and the others, and iback of them Far-ragut, Far-ragut, Perry, Porter, Hill, Lawrence, even to the first one who set the pace of American sea-fighting, Paul Jones. And we hope that Utah parents, in contemplating contem-plating it all, will determine that to give their I children an even chance to bring out all their ! faculties, they should have every opportunity . possible to exhibit their ability, their manliness, I their devotion to duty and to their country. ' This journey between the cradle and the grave is so brief that the best anyone can do is to make the most possible of every day in his few working days. , Not As In 1861 JUDGE BUFFINGTON of the peace league, at a dinner last week, read a purported letter from President Lincoln to our minister to England during our civil war, which said: "If the British Brit-ish government in any way approaches you, directly di-rectly or indirectly, with propositions which assume as-sume or contemplate an appeal to the President on the subject of our internal affairs, whether it seem to imply a purpose to dictate or mediate or advise, or even to solicit or persuade, you will answer that you are forbidden to debate, to hear or in any way receive, entertain or transmit, trans-mit, any communication of the kind." The above has no application to the present situation. The ruling powers of Great rlMn and France wanted the Confederacy to -. The government of the United States was fights ., not for a mere victory, not to improve trade rela tions, not for territorial advantages, not for power 'but for life itself. The ruling powers of Great Britain and France wanted our Government Govern-ment crippled to the point of impotency, and the great republic destroyed as a united great Tival nation. They almost precipitated a war with our country, early in the struggle, in the direct di-rect Interest of the Confederacy, and indirectly to help their trade. Indeed, it was onlv the British queen, John Bright, Richard Cobden, the poor of Lancashire, and the presence of the little Monitor in Hampton Hamp-ton Roads and her fight with the 'Merrimac, that prevented that interference. Then, too, her merchants mer-chants built, armed and fitted out the Alabama, and high officials of the British government helped her enlist a crew and sent her away to prey upon our commerce. Naturally, !Mr. Lincoln believed thst If the agents of such a power were to come with peace proposals of any kind it would 'be a case of "Greeks bearing, gifts," a something not to be discussed or considered. But even then, had the governments of Great Britain, and France called a convention, and had that convention with emphasis declared what should he, and eventually must foe, international law -governing the appeal to arms of any nation or segment of a nation such action would have given the Confederacy a graceful way out, and there would have been no more fighting after the fall of Vicksburg and the result at Gettysburg. Our country has ibeen honestly neutral during dur-ing the present war. All our people want it stopped; and to say that a great convention of the earnest men of the neutral nations, emphasizing empha-sizing the rules that should govern belligerents in war, and pointing out the rules to govern nations na-tions alike in war and peace, would have no effect ef-fect in Europe is certainly a mistake. Our's Being A Peculiar People OUR friends in the majority In the legislature often protest, when offering reasons for their eccentricities, that they must carry out the pledges of their platform; which is a valid excuse ex-cuse for any foolishness or deviltry or inconsistency. inconsist-ency. But some go further and claim that the will of the people as expressed at the polls must be respected. This sounds good, and "will do for consumption consump-tion outside the state, 'but it should not be worked work-ed too strong or too often, because there is not one in the bunch who does not know that the will of the people at the polls was limited to the single desire to validate the bargain of the Sugar Trust with the steering committee of the Democratic party. To advertise that face very much outside the state may not be necessary, but here at home we ought to be, fair with ourselves, our-selves, for it should Ibe a great saving of money to political parties in Utah in the future, to say nothing of the expense and anxiety of mind to candidates. Tn this same connection, vre notice that a prominent journal is mildly expostulating against caucus rule in the legislature. That journal should bear in mind that the creator is always expect ed to be greater than the created, and in Utah H that truth is never lost sight of. H Furthermore, wo notice that he who was Mr. H Stephen Richards is now "Apostle Richards." We jH are rejoicing at this. It shows that there are ,'H 'great powers in the world who, when they fall H to meet even implied promises in one direction, 'H make good in another. It was the intention of tH the Sugar Trust to give to Apostle Richards the -'H nomination that Governor Bamberger received, .H but the Republican convention so over-worked ,H instructions that it was deemed necessary to re- jH pair the damages in the Democratic convention. H Wle in Utah are a peculiar people. H He Knew M THE gentleman who wants the making of H vinegar out of the grapes that -grow in H Dixie inhibited in the prohibition law, because H at one stage of the manufacture of the vinegar H the fluid takes on fighting qualities, was right from his standpoint. He may have been a com- tH pounder of vinegar at one time in Dixie, and H may have found out from actual experience the H deadly coil that lies concealed in Dixie wine. 'H Alcohol in many forms is fairly reasonable H in its effects, but that kind that insiduously H steals Into Dixie grapes is something to he H watched. It stays with the vinegar manufacturer H who gives it a chance for three days, and not H Infrequently compels the wife of the manufac- H turer to resort to a club to drive It out of her loving husband's system. H t There is a legend which is still fresh that on H one occasion Brigham, the Prophet, entertained H at dinner some distinguished eastern guests; H that when seated for the dinner, and after grace H had been 3aid, the Prophet In his hearty, hos- H pltable way, said: "My friends, our religion H here in Utah forbids our drinking any intoxlcat- M ing liquors, but I am glad that I can offer you ' H some of our pure Dixie wine, made from our H home-raised grapes." H Thereupon the guests partook of the wine H generously. At first they gave it much praise; H then one by one they ibecamo incoherent; then M one by one they disappeared, and the final result H was that they paid three days' hotel bills and M were thankful to finally get out alive . M The President And A Peace League H n HE thought behind the President's peace H proposal has been in millions of human M minds during all the recent centuries. The H world at peace, no fear of war, nations and peo- H pies drawing nearer and nearer together and M "learning war no more;" that is a dream that H has been taking more and more definite form H ever since the influence of the life and death of I H the Messiah began to move upon the civilized H world. M But there have been too many obstacles in H the way to enable this thought to have any po- tential force. There has been too much land- lust on the part of kings and ruling nations; too . H much of the world has remained in barbarism; too much of the military strength of nations has ' just been forced to exert its strength to police ffl H their own peoples. Just now, at least, the three H greatest powers engaged In the European war, H ,in addition to the lago and hate engendered by H. ,tho conflict, are intent upon fighting until they H can secure extended land, areas and widely ox- H tended trade advantages. H The fact that this must all ibo apparent to H President Wilson is so patent that it is hard to H keep back the thought that he did not expect H his proposition to 1)0 anywhere seriously consld- H cred, and that the springing of it in his own dra-H dra-H matlc way was merely intended to make a flam- H ing chapter in his own history. This thought H receives emphasis when we remember more H than one of his former displays. H Foiv a man to look out of his chamber win- H dow and call to half a dozen lighting men in the H street to stop lighting and talk over the terms H on which they will bo -willing to shake hands H would not be liable to stop the fight, would H haidly receive a favorable response. Indeed it fl would bo apt to still further enrage them and, H in addition, make them all want to shy a few H rocks at the would-be peacemaker's widow. m We think it would have been better to have H called upon the neutral nations to send dele- M gates to Washington to consider some proposed Hj ' changes in international law, and to have read M the address to them; and then to have com- Hj mended them to consider the propriety of re- M writing the laws that govern nations, to formu- M late a new international code that all the na- H tions might eventually acept. H But that is but our opinion, given with the M few lights before us, and wo would not seek to M impeach any other pei son's opinions. H The hopeful feature is that out of the agita- H tion awakened, in connection with the steadily H increasing attritions of the war, a real confer- H ence will come. H "" When that time comes our hope is that our H own authorities will bo on hand, not in the least H to dictate, but to render any help desired of H H A peace league, to be of any effect, must H have the full consent of all the great nations, in H or'Jer that effective means may be available to H punish any nation that breaks its covenants with H the league. H Tills will come to the nations at war, only H when they are convinced that their ' present jB methods aro all in vain. ' Ocean Commerce ijfl TIIE report comes that ten British merchant H ships have been sunk off the coast of South H America by a German submarine. H When President Wilson and the Democratic j congress lead that, what a satisfaction it must ' have been for them to reflect that had it been '! our country at war no hostile sea assassin could M have found ten American ships in those waters H to sink. H All the same, it was a jeminder that despite H the exhaustive war Great Britain is maintaining B her ocean commeice and will bo ready, when 1 the war closes, to resume her old-time trade H prestige on the soa to the remotest ports. HL' And our country, after two and a half years H of war that has well nigh paralysed ocean trade save where England, in the face of mighty difficulties, dif-ficulties, has kept it up has not been able to !v comprehend the situation, and has utterly failed to provide any enlightened self defense for our oceangoing trade. This, too, notwithstanding the fact that we have more to send abroad and more to purchase from abroad than any other country on earth. And the party in power, having been endorsed by a majority of the people, have apparently de- i cided to sil down and hug themselves and not If 1 try to do anything more; not ..o much as to try I I'ji, to prepare to meet the situation that will present pre-sent itself at the close of the war. Still it was thirty years of foreign trade through which Germany emerged from poverty with money enough to confidently enter into a war with combined Europe for the mastery of the world's trade. It was for this that she struck the first 'blow; to destroy that dream is what makes Great Britain and Russia continue the war, for their hope is to recoup their losses by that same trade. Meanwhile we watch and wait, and look on without a thought that it Is in that direction ' that the profit is to come. Neither Side Satisfied "THE order of Locomotive Engineers held up the President and government flf the United States last summer, and won. Tho President disgraced his office, permitted tho prestige, dignity, dig-nity, and power of the government to be humili- ated beyond expression, and placed himself in an attitude to justify people in saying that he was cowed and intimidated by a faction of a labor union. But both made a success;1 tho labor representatives rep-resentatives got away with their bluff, and the President got away with tho election. But neither seems to ibo happy. The President Presi-dent desires additional legislation for railroad labor la-bor government; and now the chief of the railroad rail-road unions comes forward and says that the Adamson law is not needed, and that the chief railroad officials and tho railroad workers can best settle their differences among themselves. He and his associates doubtless foar a law that will compel them to settle their differences fey arbitration, and which will forbid a strike while tho arbitration is in progress. It is clear that they do not want their last summer's work too closely considered; it is quite clear that the President would Ibe glad to have the country forget1 some of his methods to gain the votes he needed last September Altogether, it was one of the most disgraceful chapters in American history, and we do not wonder won-der that both sides to tho disgraceful compact desire to have it forgotten. Wanted, A Daniel "v LD King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and - the astrologers and soothsayers were called in, but they could not help things for old Neb had forgotten what his dream was. Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchad-nezzar was badly demoralized because, as he reasoned, it was the business of the wise men to know what his dream was, though he, personally, personal-ly, had forgotten it. What was the use of keeping keep-ing those so called experts if they could not help him out when he was in a tight place? But at last some one recalled that among the captives that had been brought out of Palestine Pal-estine there was one whom his people called Daniel, who was canny in explaining "ways that were dark and tricks that were vain." So Daniel Dan-iel was sent for and he proved to be a real mind-reader, mind-reader, and he quickly made it clear to Nebuchadnezzar Nebu-chadnezzar that he had not been living an altogether alto-gether praiseworthy life; that some things were not quite up to the required moral standard, and that he was about to be turned out to graze for a period of necessary dieting. Now, since early in November, we in Utah have had hard weather and ever since, the astrologers as-trologers and soothsayers have been making predictions pre-dictions which have failed to materialize; until the people have lost faith, and they want a Daniel called in not to send them out to graze-but graze-but to tell them whether there will ever be any more grass to graze on. When Seed Time Comes GOVERNOR BAMBERGER takes a most hopeful hope-ful view of the present situation in Utah. That is good. We suspect that more people are prosperous pros-perous here now than ever before. It seems to us that the greatest physical need of Utah just now is to get more land under cultivation. So great is the increasing planting of beets that new lands ate needed for other crops. Are there no more lands that can be put under water for spring planting? This should be investigated, and the cost of bringing water on those lands, and tho time re- 1 quired to do it, estimated. In Colorado, tho I other day, a small cargo of potatoes was sent away, and armed guards had to be sent along to "protect" the potatoes. Utah certainly ought to be able to avoid such desperate methods. How far the state should go in providing against a future scarcity of common com-mon vegetables, we are not prepared to advise, except to insist that such scarcity should be prevented. pre-vented. For a common vegetable to take on the prerequisites prere-quisites of a precious metal in a state where there are millions of acres of unoccupied land, capable of producing the vegetable almost without with-out limtiations, would surely be an impeachment of tho intelligence of tho people; and to find where those lands can be utilized, and to see that they are prepared, planted, and roads made to them, ought to be somebn 's duty. This present winter outht to bo a liberal education edu-cation for people who are seeking ways to adjust means to ends. |