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Show T UTAH STATESMAN, AUGUST 17, 1928. Comment Liberty Iltr Utah A Democratic state newspaper, published every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah, devoted to progressive ideas and to promotion of the progress ana prosperity of the state and Part3Endorsed by the State Democratic committee, Salt Lake Utah county committee-Officcommittee, county Room 111 Atlas Block, Salt Lake City. Utah. BERNARD L, FLANAGAN, Editor. C. S. GODDARD, Business Manager. at Balt Entered m htcoitd Clan Maurr, Julv ll. 1IU at thaS. Poalotllca 1171. uuh, und,r tha act of March e ADVERTISING RATES Per Column Inch $1.00 LEGAL NOTICES .... . Notice of Assessment, 5 times Delinquent Notices, per column Inch Probate Notices, 2 times Notice to Creditors, 4 times .,, Summons, 5 times Phone Wasatch 852. Educational 4 4 Contributions -- ........ .$o,0050 3,00 ...................... 4,00 ...... ....... 4 vice. It is one of the cardinal principles upon which this government was established, tl.is one of the cornerstones upon which the Democratic party was founded. Why should the south now attempl to undo what the south led in doing in the beginning of the government? Turning to Governor Smith, the senator referred to his Sponsored by Salt Lake Women's Democratic Qub. Edited by record as chief executive of the state of New York and declared that "during all that time no finger of suspicion MRS. D. M. DRAPER. has ever been pointed toward him; scandalous tongues have mind, his undaunted courage and candor, his grasp of Our Slogan; ."Every Reader a Contributor.' attempted to besmirch his character. Smiths "keen lie questions, he said, "eminently qualify him for the White House. "Why, he asked, "should, a man who is in every way qualified by training and ability and character Old South Stood je denied the presidency of the United States simply because he is a Catholic? Senator Harrison pointed to Catholics prominent in For Tolerance tha concluding article of a series pnparod by Mrs. Following American history Chief Justice Taney, who rendered the Minnie FUbor Cunningham of Texas In anawor to tho question: Dred Scott decision; Chief Justice White, La Fayette, What aro tho fundamental dlfferencaa between the Democratic and Charles Carroll and others, declaring that when Carroll Republican parties and what are their ultimate tendencies? Shows signed his name to the Declaration of Independence "no mm later leeaona will consider political topics of local and national then cried, Hold, you are a Catholic. Interest to tho women of tha state. In the hope that thay may bs usaful "Religious prejudice will poison any heart, the sen- for diacuaslon of groups. N0 woman should cast bar vote without at Religious toleration," soya the and broad nation; tut a general study of polltlca and tha praaant need. ior said. "Let us not forget this is Charleston News and Couriar in aa a composite of men and women of various ideas and difph tha naw south, Si.0? characteristic 0f ferent religions; that the advocacy of any policy that will TORIES PLACE PROPERTY ABOVE ALL. the old south. Thera could be no livide our people and add discord and confusion fs destruc-av- e Tha of a political party like that of a person la baaed on more useful reminder to southerners of the happiness and contentment and peace of the tho put; futurs They need not look far back on tho record made in day by day performanca; on tho today. recall tha tlma when the beat vhole people- We cannot afford to have any part of our thought which has actuated the guiding mlnda and atrong ptruonal-itle- s to elements of the south Indeed repeople lose faith in the high and exalted mission of the of tho party; on tho fundamental principles and party traditions garded religious tolerance as almost church-- We are serving best when we serve to make our which tha rank and file have uaod In a general way as a lamp to a special glory of their section. 12 tha generation after the Revolunation stronger and knit our citizenship closer together. guide their foot through the mass of current political problems; In in tion a typical Virginia or Carolina The south, with the courage of our fathers, must point the short on the Idas or theory of government It sponsors. Just aa difpatrician had been naked wkat marked off hie region distinctly Grand Junction Sentinel. ferent roads lead to different destinations. Just as different choice of from way. New ha would ia a 5.00 pub-nev- er Little Lessons in Democracy - Smith headquarters have been chosen in the Newhouse hotel in Salt Lake City and from now until after November 6 the attention of the eight western states will be centered on Salt Lake City. In fact the entire nation will keep its weather eye on the Mormon capital. Eight states are to be handled under the direction of Fred W- Johnson, president of the Western States Smith for President dub. Mr. Johnson has already begun his organization and within a few days the campaign will be on in full swing. Mr. Johnson will find plenty of willing hands to aid him in his New Yorker has a work for A1 Smith. The wild and wooly west. the of the over influence people strange THE BROWN DERBY. - out-and-o- ut Those Democrats who want to help wind up the political better be at the Newhouse Hotel Wednesday night for the meeting of the Brown Derby club. The clubs purpose is to keep up the social interest in the campaign bus had Justice Women Voters Department a-b- ig THE CAMPAIGN IN THE WEST. INJECTING THE CHURCH INTO STATE MATTERS. ecd and method of cultivation produco different crop results, so docs yuur governmental destination vary with your choice of an Idas or theory of government; so docs an established standard of political conduct influence tha selection of public officials; so does the political system flower according to tho idea In government which la , promoted. If there is any American tradition that is more firmly fixed in the popular mind than another it is that of the complete separation of church and state. Not only Is it a national tradition, it is a concept of the proprieties x VI. ULTIMATETENDENCIES. that is especially held by the Democratic party. The The political aponiora tho' democratic Idea and eo reason for this is that two of the founders of the party must stand or fallparty Itsthatauccesatul by operation when entrusted by the in fought great fight Virginia which divorced church th. voters with tha administration of the affairs of government will and state in that Commonwealth, and thus Jefferson and bo compelled to choose its official from among tho penona who will bring to tho party auccesa and honor meaaurod by the standards of Madison did much to establish the traditionprinciples and the party traditions. It is because of Jeffersons work in the separation of ho fundamental Th aam la true of tho party that aponiora tho Tory the church and state in Virginia that he was so thoroughly Idea In tha government thepolitical difference being that tha amphaala of aucceas on la laid property instead of human liberty. hated by the political preachers of his time. He struck student of government will be alow to doddo that down the privilege of ecclesiastical interference in political any Th eareful which la observed la accidental. Thera are a few result political and governmental matters. This was deeply resented be- - political accidents It la true, but In the main political results era the - flowering of the eyatam. And again and yet again tha "good clllsan has tha whole matter In hie hands when he chooses the system which he entrusts with tha administration of hla government Smith day at one of the resorts- The membership is open to all and the officers are still to be chosen. Let us get busy. JUST ANOTHER LAUGH. H- Arnold Rich, the keynoter at the recent Republican congressional convention, was bom some years too late. artist he would What a have made. What a pity he was never given the opportun-- . jty to see what he could do with three little pellets and a pea. His speech reminded us somewhat of a swimmer in a short tank who is spurting one direction one minute and then before the crowd sees how he does it has successfully executed his about face and is scurrying off in the opposite direction. He spent half his speech upbraiding A1 Smiths stand on the liquor question climaxing it with the statement that he wouldn't be bulldozed by booze- - Then with the gracious flip which his long Republican training has given him he proceeded to tell his listeners that A1 Smith couldn't And most do anything if he did get to the Whitehouse. of the delegates believed both of his statements. A1 4 Journal ...... a.,,................ 4 4 MONEY FOR A CAMPAIGN- - And yet from time to time there has been a disposition on the part of some churchmen to interfere in political and state affairs. This was notably true in the days following the war between the states, when the high functionaries of the Northern Methodist Church plunged headlong into partisan politics as the allies of radicals of the Thad Stevens variety. There was at least one instance in which one of the church conferences seemed in the nature of a supplemental Republican convention. Now, after three generations, four Bishops of the Southern Methodist Church are imitating their Northern brethren of the sixties. Some of the leaders of the Baptist . church in the South appear to be head over heels in politics. If there were such partisan political activity on the part of Catholic Bishops the hue arid cry would be raised against the Catholic church on the ground that it was attempting to inject the church into state affairsW hen the American people decided in favor of the separation of church and state they were not aiming at the Catholic church, for here there had always been a separation. It was certain Protestant churches that insisted on the union of church and state. In Virginia it wag the EpiscoTRE PIOUS PREACHER. palians. In Connecticut it was the church of old Dr. Dwight. The demand for the separation of church and slate was Revereiul-Stratoto out his of is already trying hedge aimed at these denominations. debate witrn Governor Smith. He declares now he will be Once more we are threatened with the injection of not debate will face to but glad to meerthe Governor face church the into state affairs; and he who holds to the him in church or on the Lords day. Wonder why it was American tradition is not concerned with the identity of was the Revemed didn think of all this piety before, for it church responsible. We are interested in the in his church and on the Lords day that he choose to attack the particular not in the sect or creed. Smith. Straton is simply a cheap minister looking for some principle, No members of a church, subscribing to its religious publicity. We wonder how he managed to keep his mouth creed, is to take dictation as to his action in the compelled shut during the Tennesee evolution trial. But having missed of the state from the preacher whose salary he helps that Golden opportunity to break into print he chose to sphere to pay; no real American believing in the separation of attack SmithNow he is in the position of the farmer who was holding church and state will tolerate such dictationfrom a Methodist Bishop the old bull by the tail. He didn't want to hang on but darned or a And it is just as intolerable from as a Catholic. The rebuke to Baptist preacher to knew how he let was going if he go. such as seek to inject the church into affairs of state should come from the members of the congregation offered, be it TWICE AN ASS. Methodist, Baptist or Catholic. Wayne Williams, former attorney general of Colorado, CONSIDER THE UINTAHSsays he will not support Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic nominee for president. That is a serious mistake in judgThere is no finer scenery in the world than that of ment for any Democrat to make, especially a Democrat in the state which has gone down the line for Cleveland, Bryan, the Uintah mountains. In a strip of land thirty miles from Roosevelt and twice for Wilson. Mr- - Williams stated in his north to south and eighty miles from east to west there is bolt that had "Smith announced his stand on prohibition on considerably over a thousand lakes, some of which are not What a visited by half a dozen persons a year. There is a fine January 1 he would never have been nominated. statement for anyone who claims to be intelligent to make! program for the Uintahs being outlined in the minds of Governor Dern exA1 Smith has not changed his mind on the prohibition many of the outdoor lovers of Utah. at the this Uintah basin Industrial pressed alL most Congress last even Not the ever optomistic dry question at week. And last week to a large group of sportsmen from expected Smith to be hypocritical. Apparently Wayne the state, clustered around the campfire in the high Uintahs liams judges everybody by himself in times like these. discussed the same thing from a slightly different angle. SENATOR HARRISON URGES TOLERANCE. One of the greatest assets whch any state can possess is its tourist trade. The tourists bring in much and take Pat Harrison of Mississippi, one of the greatest of south- away little. A farm loses something when a crop is taken ern United States senators and renowned from the Atlantic from it but a mountain loses nothing when a tourist looks to the Pacific, made a speech last week at the county fair in at il and admires it. And Uintah has much which can be pronib iladelphia. Miss., that has attracted wide attention and admiredtion nil bear repetition because of its strong plea for the obscr-keA Uintah mountain committee is needed to look over inthe coming campaign, the field carefully and then draw up a program which can pran.f religious tolerance be set aside for a wilderness for all time. Horse trails unkept proof religious tolerance in the coming campaign. pia?ormho'outern states where there has been more of or less should be cleared out in places and in others should be only d in equii'eligious prejudice in political affairs ever since the the blazed trail of the backwoodsman who carries his pack and invention. Of all sections, he said, the south yy on his back. In parts of it there should be telephone facreed-ria should be free from cilities and in others there should be no means of comxnn into senatts historic background and others tes. Moreover he charged "those, who today munication other than by the sweat of the brow and the party because its nominee for president stride of the leg. A kind providence has saved one fine area for man to Fordney tariff, ic, with advancing a new policy in our scheme "f ")orhent and with discrediting and challenging the develop along a definite plan- Most other scenic areas of Knator Pit?tnd wisdom of early southern leaders, the country have simply grown up to their present status make severs talt fa the early period of our country's history," and the growth to a greater extent has been misdirected hfaddrtrrra Twith religious bickering rampant in every Let us get busy and make Uintah Mountains into the of thhen in certain places people of this and that re- playground which it should be. Let us open part of the in tho were being persecuted and intolerant laws were beauties to those who can only afford to run up for a week ssed. it was southern statesmen who read the end, and who. therefore must have good roads. Let us whole people and pointed the way for a set aside a place and forever bar development and noft hhpoie.U at ' 0 give those who wanl to spend. a period in the virgin wilderness a chance. Canada happier dayiinid, ouat Minis led the way. and today in our federal con- - The Uintahs are a wonderful .:jMt ion, range of mountains and Utah britn(1 in the constitution of every state, religion people should see that they are put to the most beneficial s aomatimra Mow in from government participation and public - - n - - - - pt b-r- ta WOMEN hTgERMANY. According to Dr. Edwin E. Bloason there were In Germany at the last census. 2,210,000 more females than melee. This condition is interesting, for German women may vote, and if they desired could out vote tho men. CORRECT. If all th voters this year wera aa decent didates for president future of America. TOE WIFE LOTTERY. Mrs. G. G. Goodwin, past president of tho Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, says that a man's chances of gotilng an ideal wife, a homemaker, are three out of ten. Th other seven are liUely to ho Jan hahlea, naggers or drudges. The future looked rather black until wa read further. Mrs. Goodwin bellevoa that most women would turn out to be good homemakers If they were supplied with the "makings.' That la good tense. Tha man who expecta hia wife to make a modern home with nineteenth century Implements Is headed for tha domealla rocks- If she Is determined ah- - will quarrel about Inconveniences. If she la nieek and she will wear herself out In needless toll. well-built Our Industrial renius has given us kitchens, good Plumhlng and countless labor saving devices for the home. Th drudre Is out of date. The man who wine In th wife lottciv sees to It that hla home keeps step with th Industrial parade. Collier. , - d WOMEN CAN DECIDE ISSUE. If women realised tha strength of their united vote, they could elect the president of the United States. Mias Emily R. Kneuhuhl. executive Moratory of the National Federation of Business and Frofoa-aton- al Women's clubs, asserted at tha twenty-sixt- h annual convention of the American Institute of Banking. Miss Kneuhuhl declared thii women are tha most Important factor In community affair today and that the modern woman, because of her freedom of thought and action, must hear- - a larger share of responsibility than devolves upon any other feminine group at thla time. Women should cultivate a broa d tolerance and seasoned judgment among their chief asieta and should wield their political power wisely, ah aaid. "A minority Intelligently organised la th most powerful factor In the pulltlcal life of th nation today." eh continued- - "Voters are still almost evenly divided between the major parties It Ie th minority vote which determines th election. Women can declda tha Issue thla yr." , I - ROCKVILLE CENTRE la accepting the prohibition party's nomination for tha prssldency, William F. Varney, accused th Republican administration of wilfully betraying tha eighteenth amendment. .He did not challenge the sincerity of the Democrate party as a whole, saying thla waa Impossible because It was not in control of the government, but he said ha could ss nothing In tha record of Its standard bearer, Governor Alfred E. Smith, to Justify a belief that hla election would result In Improved enforcement of prohibition. Asserting that even without real enforcement tha prohibition law had proved a blessing, he called for "square deal for the enactment England, have a"that greater blessings and proslepltad in part that th Yankees wars narrow and intolarant on mat- perity may be the reters of faith. Tha section where sult. The candidate, epcaklng in the Thomas Jefferson asked that the school auditorium hard liy authorship of the Virginia statuta high for religious freedom by one of the hla Insurance office, charged-t- h' three claims to Immortality placed liquor traffic with having f falUa on hla tomb; where the chapel or to show "real sportsmanship. in Charles Carroll'a refusing to bow to th will of the Manor looked across Doughoregan tha south to majority aa expressed In the eightha chapel of St. Roche, where th teenth amendment. best Louisianians were laid: tho "W therefore, after eight years" section which gave th country two he said, "are still called to battle y Catholie chief Justices, Taney ana this of tha human raca White; which found in a Jew, Ju- which still projects lta allmy trail, dah P. Benjamin, tha moat brilliant socially, financially and politically, member of the confederate cabinet into every walk of Ilf. Ihe beat thought of that section "It la true that during the first i.Iwaya emphasised tolerance or two years after the eighteenth faith. amendment became effective it wee Southerners today can find noth- largely respeetd by th liquor trafing in more direct antipathy with fic respected, not enforced beI ha outcroppings of either sectar- cause at the first th rank and file ian Intolerance or sectarian political of tha weta believed that Uncle Interference than tha traditions dat- Sam meant business. ing from Jefferson. Mason and But, unfortunately, before th Rutledge, and carefully preserved second year of prohibition had to Civil war daya- - No man was ended the wets discovered tnat kept from office because of hl Uncle Sam as represented by the church. Maryland from Charles Harding administration at WashCarroll's day was seldom without ington did not Intend to enturc Catholics In high station. North th prohibition law and hence they Carolina, filled with diesenteru from became emboldened . . . .until today colonial times, chose a Catholic, th bootleg liquor buelnee has Thomas Caaion, as ona o9 Its chief enormous proportion! and early Jurists, and placed others lu la being carried on both In utter important offices- In Charleston defiance of the law, and, what la the Catholic element, aa In New more alarming with the Orleans, was always prominent; and tible connivance of the contempgovernwhen Bouth Carolina was rescued ment." from tha carpetbaggers under tha said that Varney the Republican leadership of Wade Hampton, on out to onforco the of hs associates on the state ticket, party startedamendment "by apGan'E. W. Molae, waa a Jew anu eighteenth an a tha ona of the first men sent to Con- pointing head of tho enforcement departgress wee tha Catholic M. P. O'Con- ment, an act he saw aa being "on norThe south was by no means a with appointing ono of th par tolerant In all other respects. it criminals of tho city as showed no tolerance for the discus- leading sion of slavery, suppressing such of the head of tho police department. 'Then. he continued, "the Its own hooka aa Helpers "Impendwhole enforcement down ing Crisis' with Iron hand. It wss down tha lint waa army, all d socially often tolerant and ex wets with bartender. , Some 111 educated elements and 'boose holsters' eeuld show religious bigotry In oven were who not 'ex'. These rum plsnty. But lta best elements; its pirates aboard and In control of ruling strata, mad the tolerance the prohibition ship have all but of rallgloue opinion and th defiance of religious interference a cuttled It 'The fact la that tha last too philosophy and a boast. In part this religions breadth was administrations havo not enforced a colonial Inheritance from th best tho eighteenth amendment, they English opinion; In part It waa an have betrayed it.... It Is a fundaEpiscopalian tradition; In part it mental principle of law that ona belonged to tha social creed In re- Intends tha natural conaequnccs of gions where, aa In Maryland and hla acts. Ie It unfair, then, to Louisiana, accidents of settlement chargo that It was tha deliberate had placed Catholics among tha Intent of th administration In bebest families- - Rut Its special dis- traying prohibition, instead of It. to rreato a public optinction Is that it rested In the main upon a rationalised and arguments-tir- s inion hoatllo to prohibition? Th candidate listed as some of basis. It was th result of the careful thinking of th great Rev- the results of the alleged betrayal increased contempt for lews in olutionary liberals, Madison, Samuel Johnston and their general, widespread disrespect for associates. It represented a princi- prohibition on the part of th genple which enlisted them intensely. eral public, and a change in uie In th North Carolina constitution- attitude of the press, which he al convention of I77( th demand said for the most part was friendof a minister for religious tests ly originally, but a large and pow'blew up a flame that nearly erful part of which he believes now wrecked the building. Jefferson s to be hostile to prohibition. and Madison's fight for tha statuta "Do not overlook the fact." he of rsllgloua freedom went on year continued, "that the hostitl attiafter year till after a decade of tude toward prohibition of to large struggle it waa won. The stately a rart of our young people of tolanguage of thla statute. Imitated la not dua primarily to a lack later by other aouthern and south- day to th eft education In western states which looked up to fect of alcoholics,regard but ie due diJefferson's doctrines, can hardly ba rectly to the discrediting of proquoted too often- hibition by Its base betrayal at Well aware that the opinions and bellefe of men depend not on their Washington. own free will, but follow involun- try whatever, nor shall be enforced, tarily the evidence proposed to restrained, molested or burthened their minds; that Almighty God in his body or goods, or shall hath created the mind free, and suffer on account of hla remanifested Hla supreme will that ligious opinions or beliefs; but free It shall remain, by making It that all men shall be free to proreof altogether Insusceptible fess and arguments to mainstraint; that all attempts to influ- tain their byopinions in msttsra of ence It by temporal punlshmenta ur end that th same shall In burthens or civil Incapacitations religion, no wise or affect tend only to beget habits of hypo- their civildiminish, enlarge capacities. crisy and meanness; . . . that the o One hundred and forty-twyears opinions of men are not the object after thla went on tha Virginia of civil government nor under lie statute hooka the South, ae well as . . . that It Is time the North, sees men affirm In efJurisdiction; enough for the rightful purpose of fect that religious opinions shall civil government for It officers to "diminish civil It sees Interfere when principles break out special groups capacities. usa to attempting Into overt acts against peace and religious opinions and prejudices to good order; and finally that tmth enlarg their own rlvll capacities' la great and will iirevstl If left to to make them factors In thslr rallh erne If. errors to be gloue roles. In government. Against ceasing dangerous when It la permitted these efforts no more powerful freely to contradict them; Wo the force could bo Invoked than the General Assembly of Virginia do ghosts of Jefferson. Madison and enact that no man shall lie the other r re store of the great libto frequent or support any eral tradition of the past. In the religious worship, place or minis- - South. New York World. self-evide- nt arch-enem- ad - honey-combe- caate-rldde- n. Jtl-fersn- n, oth-wi- ioiu-polle- d HERE IS MY SUBSCRIPTION THE UTAH STATESMAN 111 ATLAS BLOCK, Salt Lake City, Utah. Inclosed find check for which please send me The Utah Statesman for months. years SUBSCRIPTION PRICES $1 Year; 50c 6 months. - a lira keeping a as tha two canshould have little need to fear for tho Neither tolerance nor intolerance la indigenous to any section. Either ie a habit of mind rather than a matter of geography. Charlton, a county In Georgia, haa chosen as tax collector a can dld.te who Is a woman, a KomanCatholic and a "Tankee.'' all threa Yet she led tha uppoeed to ho insuperable handicaps to election. ticket and defeated a man who was a native of tho county. Tho people named her because eh seemed th best qualilfod of the rontendera This le tho fundamental that In tha and defeats Intolerance, both in public and prlvtt affaire. Col Here. com-adopti- ser-ju- v. TOLERENCeIn GEORGIA. - Pnit - Because of recent expoiuree of Illegal campaign expenditures. It asema to bo proper for tho voter to feign abhorrencee at tha mara announcement that a campaign will coat money. This Is an extrema In tha other direction. How may a candidate properly give tha people a chance to know him. If ho does not spend money for traveling, for radios, for newspaper advertising? Ha must pay for headquarter., fur telephones, stenographers, printing and postage. He must hire secretaries and rent auditoriums. A campaign should bo handled In a builneea-Uk- s way. But thera ara many deplorabla practices. Paying for canvassore la ona of these. It la an Jnefficlantand method of reach-ta- g th electorate. In every emallpolitlcal unit, er In every block there should bo somo ono who la glad to make personal contact with every voter, and to furnish such Information aa Is dt.lred at headquarters. Ha may do this in a much more affective way than can s disinterested, paid canvasser, and hla information la apt to bo more reliable. Then, too, anyone who haa tha ability to make a speech In behalf of a candidate should ba willing to do ao without pay. No person should be paid for delivering voters, nor should a newspaper receive anything except that regular advertising. It coats money to run a campaign, and thera la no wrong In spending in moderation, so long as thera la not tha slightest suspicion of bribery or undue Influence. Enforcement Crew Honey combed With he Maintains. 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