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Show A NEEDED REBUKE. It is probably just as well that Mr. E. T. Mattox addressed the Rotary club in criticism of the west in its relation to the war. Had this former Salt Laker, now of New York City, the most provincial sector of the United States, restrained his surcharged spirit, our .lames W. Collins, crusader and defender defen-der of the faith, would not have had the opportunity of setting Mr. Mattox and the east right. That Mr. Collins succeeded in chastening the spirit of the visitor and constraining him to apologize, is of no particular importance, impor-tance, but it is quite important that the truth be brought home to the unenlightened un-enlightened east that Salt Lake and Utah have done their duty in every war work from volunteering in the days before conscription to subscribing for Liberty bonds and contributing to the Red Cross. We remember distinctly that Oregon and Utah were leaders in volunteering when New York lagged a year ago and we recall that in spite of the plain figures New York continued to deplore a western apathy that did not exist. We had supposed that the leadership which the western states assumed and have kept in all war matters had finally impressed itself so deeply upon the callous cal-lous consciousness of the east that criticism' had been abandoned long ago. But the east continues ,to send to us lachrymose messengers who weep over us and bid us come to repentance. It was not out of place for Mr. Collins Col-lins to dwell upon the fact that the patriotic pa-triotic east is getting big returns, whereas most of the money contributed in Utah leaves the state and does not bring us any compensation except in the joy of sacrifice for a great cause. |