Show Editorials by the People THE HE EVENING G TELEGRAM Invites Its readers to write letters about bout current cur cur- rent events for tor publication In tn lolls t-ils column T There ere Is z no rio better way ay tot for the ex of ot public opinion Write on or one slue sloe of at the paper ant and sign your harne birne name and anC Iv your our address If It you OU do not wish your name Iamo published It will not in print Letters criticising religious beliefs or airing personal Jr grudges will iiI be rejected If It you OU wish with manuscript returned ed send tie lIel addressed envelope September S. S Editor The Thc Tele wh the thc Wilson Here lere arc eight reasons why Democratic tic administration should be he friendly toward Germany German If it it cannot neutral 1 Because e Germany 1 is 18 the underdog under dog In the war and till this country has hast hasI t I Iwo's prided Itself In being on the side of the one opposed b by greater and In inthis tilts tills case ClUte Inferior numbers Because England has always gone gono us 8 fat fat- as she aha d dared In picking on this country and only now nw in her tier extremities hoes docs she profess hypocritical diplomatic I C. C B Because Paris Is IE the o cr n I the most vile Immoral practices founded found found- ed 1 b by DOt end brought down dOt by her from Sodom and Gomorrah and at t the tho present pres pres- ent time timo In the this underworld Ll of every ery n na nation nathon na- na lion tion the word French Is 18 synonymous with all that Is vilest in morals and the cr very antipathy of or standards standards stand stand- ards ds In Hi this country t 1 Because Japan has shown by her cowardice In striking defenseless Germany Ocr Ger many what we ma may expect from time the pacan paran pa- pa ran Jams in A similar or n near ar situa tion thon 5 5 3 Boca e In the tIc German race Im II fa represented rep rep- resented all II Ii that hut I I. I H fur for progress ant and de development de- de d which Is la the peer of or all ll nations Uns In 90 91 per cent of or all of scientific lIeI ad- and progressive endeavor or 6 6 Because gf pf t the tIme vast arm army of or Ocr Ocr- mn mi American man l-Amerl l n voters voter In 1 COUII country who ho Art re Demo Democrats almost to a man excepting who arc Socialist and who ho have IHn proved pro their loa loyalty I 1 and citizenship citi citi- I and who w represent the highest t type of ot American 7 Because D the lII allied d powers urn orn false falso- Iv h accusing ln Germany of or nr first t violating Belgian neutrality wh whereas It la h not denied donled b by the French that one ono week Weel before be he lore fore the tho war began Ul French experts were t t o giving the Belgian instructions A as aa to how ho b heat best lIt to 10 defend the tho fort rort and certainly con constituted the first vIa vIa- 10 ton on of Belgian neutrality V t. t Because for the p Pit past II at t fort forty years reals has han h had peace In Europe while e. e ee every e 1 other Urge largo power all over o tho ho world ha has had hd Its ito war It r a and wJ on two occasions oc oc- oc Germany has Intervened ened as nil peacemaker peacemaker peace peace- maker In stopping poI Bible ware arG In Kurop Kur- Kur op ore ope and yet ot t the It unfair critic claim Germany Ger Ger- many ml wanted the war var a I because e It had prepared for fOl It I Signed LOUIS LOUTS G G. JENS JENKS i American r ol Ninth Avenue S Sail lt Lake CIt City I P. P 8 S As As I write the time above o tho ho newspapers newspapers news news- papers report that th the G Germans Bra arc Rt at atthe t the sates ate of or Patio Paths probably bl Intended tor to r real read M gates gals at s of or hell May Ja God will it that the Germans be u used an all Instrument ment to raze rl this thia city to the level 1 orthe of or the time earth aa aR was as Sodom and Gomorrah In ol olden en Salt gait CIl City Sept Sent 7 7 I Pu tU Editor 1 I save have been following th tho I 1 workings of Senator Sutherland for tor a few cars car It looks to me inc that he seems to he be a senator at his post in Washing Washing- ton toe but when he la Is In Utah he is a Reed nce 1 Smoot 1 politician I deal desire lre re to call the he peoples people's attention to 11 the the- tact fact act there Is Ie no more zealous worker In behalf of an any person than Senator Sutherland II IH Is and hiss lias been for Reed Heed It It seems seema somewhat strange that he ho would work worl M 10 persistently for or a mans man's nomination as he docs does for Reed Smoot in Utah and when he is It in the senate show b by his vote ote that h he does docs not consider him right In many great questions that have o come up before that honorable body to decide Some of ot these I will mention The impeachment case of or Lorimer of or Illinois the income lax tax the resolution upholding upholding up up- up- up holding and sustaining President Wilsons Wilson's declaration pertaining to the protection of or the flag nn in Mexico tho the election of or United States senators enato b by J popular vote It looks to me mo an and tho time congressional records bear mo mc out In my conclusions I that the tIme senator Is much nuch more I lar tar In what he docs does especially all e when It Is to be made a n than he Is of ot I what he says when Interviewed and find in political sp speeches There in Is on more question I want ant to put to th the senator Is 13 It not a hard thing to make oneself belle believe that he ho can hold water on both boh shoulders shoulders' I 1 wish to notify tin tho people on OIL another matter along the same caine line It Is la found in the Sunday Tribune of Sept 6 1914 pare page 28 S uh under tinder th the lie heading of Smoots Smoot Bunch Hinck Pick Legislative Ticket Tick Tick- et There la Is one man I l. l C C. Barker cr of Farmers Farmer's Ward ard amon among thu th many who has lias been mentioned for po possible sible nominees nomi ne flees nees s for tor legislature that docs does not propose proPose pro pro- pose t they ehl shall hall II co carry Tr their hl high h hand any longer as far tar as he 18 Is concerned In lit conversation with him hum on September 6 ho lie authorized d ma nio to have have- published his absolute denial of oC RE with them and tho the person or oi part party who had Jid tim tho gall to put his name there was a 1 de deceiver ile- ile cel r. r a and ami nil ho wished t tire time public to un un- such V. V P. P CRAM 1500 South West Temple Editor The Time Telegram The Tho writer has spent pent his vacations in Salt Lake OiL City for a number of or cal years which almost entitles entities him to citizenship and nd tho ho right to tl make HU suggestions During the lIme past pant t fe few tew days I have ha no no- no several oral very narrow narron escapes from Injury or op 1 0 worse woree rl C on account of ot autos driven very near to street cars carH when j aa- aa angers were setting S ofT off or on M My home city Minneapolis with more than three c times limes jour our population and arid with 1 tit na narrower streets ha has haJ only few accidents ac ac- accidents ac- ac aa 38 an ordinance prohibits prohibIt autos motorcycle or other conveyance conveyances s from approaching within ten len r feet ct or of a street streetcar streetcar car about to stop atop Mart or while receIving or cJ discharging r.-ing r. I 8 II scra Another cr ordinance prohibits children I under 10 y years ars of ot age ae from selling papers or merchandise on streets or walks all These ordinances If adopted by your city would doubtless be the tho means of or saving many maIn lives and limbs Why h not Safety first OBSERVER Editor The Tel Te Telegram gram In Jn m my travels around this country I t have experienced man many things calculated to open ones one's ce eyes to tho the criminal practices practices tices Ices an and wretched condition of or social standards tha that t exist throughout the tho countr country I have ha marveled at tho the Indifference of at tho people at various places to many vile lIe practices that could be bo remedied If IC once protested against But at no rio place have ha I found a J. J lack Jack of or one great mt law of ot nature so 80 evident e as hero here in this city In this I mean tho the lack of oC respect for that sex to which our mothers belon belonged ed and served so o nobl nobly Certainly there are man many gentlemen Inthis In Inthis inthis this city who have deplored these things but wh why some move Is never mado made to tos s sek k a remedy makes one ono wonder vonder wh wIry why Now you ou may start a lad lady from tho the po and let her walk up the wept went side of or Main street to the temple then back down the other side aide and she will hear bear no less than a dozen vile lIe words unfit for a mans man's cars mud much less the pure ure Innocent ones of oC our mothers wives or 81 sisters Suppose a person of or that character should use such language 6 to your our sister and you ou heard him Those sisters are arc certainly hearing h Just st such euch things dally daily Now Nov wh why do thc they Hero litre Is the an all au- You Tou men who oppose this do not Mt take a R. mans man's stand to put down such conditions con con- It seems vile utterances are not riot confIned confine confined con con- fined fine alone to the tho common class of or men but 1 have heard heart them used just as often orton or more often t h by y the well ml middle aged aged le-aged man who appears appear to bo be a until he opens his lila mouth and punctuates each sentence with words un un- un printable Let me mc show how you one result of or this tills free freo use usa of or profane language Several Sc times recently I have l chanced to pass young girls gills not 11 0 16 6 with the tho sweet sweet- ost of ot Innocent faces find and no doubt the time theof of ot a loving ln mother and heard thorn thom I use USo words that would have o broken that mothers mother's heart I h have hC C visited the various arlous resorts and nd heard boys bors curse curso freely In midst of or young joung girls and those tho not even on protest pro test not because they were vero not shocked but because thc they recognized the custom custon in Ino o vogue ue on tho the streets of ot this hi city and ila aw w the useless ness of or complaint I saw an au officer arrest a man for drunk drunk- ounces the thia man Inan became enraged an and used tho the vilest lIest language o 1 known to man mall ladles adl s were wert present but the 1 oC made little effort to eto stop slop 1 him until h he lie began to light fight then for hI hla hll own safety ho lie clubbed 1 him Another thing liming note noto the tho reverence rover rever re I once ence and respect accorded by 00 hO hOer per er r cent of or tho tIme mont mon an n 8 tho they a attempt to hoard board H it car Just Juet t count tho Iho men who rush In for rot the seats eats the weaker weak wk er or woman AM as Mho sho Is pushed J aside Halde that tIm tho man lna may not have havo to I have havo seen men of or all ages a knock kimock I la he- he dies off orr their feet In n such lIch ru rushes hc and amI th time the poor floor 01 old 1 haired gray mother Is 18 not ep spa spared l red rd Who pushed that lad lady Into liUo the lake on Sunday night Was It other wom women n No Xo it was your Our heroic l' l solf ll men nicil who were i surely rC responsible for rOl om that accident W. W y M. M r WEBB |