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Show I 1 1' r THB LBSS0N 0F TR0AS- H U i ; In the New York Observer is a most Interest- H I ' ! " f ing account of a visit, by Rev. Charles A. G. B 'I '- f Dwight, to the ruined city of Alexandria Troas, H Hj 'X' that city that was founded by the great son of H j ?T Philip of Macedon; that city under Mount Ida H; J ,'J. on the shore of the Egean and which was the spot H. v . on which Paul preached and saw the Macedonian i h vision. The accounts says the ruins cover many B II '& ! f square miles of columns, capitols, pillars, ruins I HI 1 '' f temples amphitheaters, acqueducts," mouldy rel- H If I .' l' icS f a 8plenlor that lon& aS Passed away. There I Hi MR ' iS a fascInatInS interest in the story, but while H m n reads' the bought comes instinctively, "Why H fi 'j Is Troas a ruin? It was a very splendid city some H Ij ,$j sixty generations ago; it was a center of com merce: all tho ships of the then known world touched there; it was filled with cunning workmen; work-men; it was close to where it may be said history wrote its first illuminated pages; it was where Constantine determined first to build an eastern capitol. Why should it fade away, its great structures struc-tures becomo tenantless, its walls finally fall into ruins? Why did Troas perish? Why are the shores of that Old World where the cradle of civilization civ-ilization was first rocked covered with such ruins? There is no reason except that from the first the methods of Asia have been brutal; man's inherent rights have never been recognized the ruins show but the decay which follows centuries of oppression. oppres-sion. There were victorious chiefs and Kings: they preyed upon outside nations, at home they degraded men and debased women, until the men ceased to be a bulwark to the state; the women became careless who were their masters. The lesson les-son it all teaches is that every wrong worked upon the humble and the poor is taken down and when the account becomes great enough it is balanced and the nation pays the debt. Think of the debt paid between 1861 and 1865 for the wrongs of slavery, paid in blood and treasure until the Nation Na-tion was well nigh bankrupt, until every house was in mourning. This is a golden age. Millionaires Million-aires are plenty, but there is just as great a ratio of poor men as there ever was and these poor we are not careful enough of. We are not seeing to it that the heartaches of women are soothed, that the children are educated and trained to some useful use-ful career in life; we forget every day that our -Nation has no safeguard save in tho true heart-edness heart-edness of our citizens and that true heartedness is withered by the breath of injustice and oppression. oppres-sion. In Utah we have an Asiat' system, founded on the double theory that women are dependent upon men and that of the men the great mass may never hope to be anything except inferiors. The Old World tried that experiment many I times. Wherever they tried the monuments ol I their failures are manifest enough in ruined cit- I ies and degraded peoples. Utah is not peopled I by a stronger race than either of those who fought I before Troy, or the men that the founder of Traos led to the conquest of the world. Nothing survives that is not right; the abrasion of the centuries is sufficient to grind to dust every wrong; only that survives which is fit to survive and if Americans would not have their rise and fall recorded in mouldering cities, they must sec that justice is executed impartially, that the humblest hum-blest citizen be given all his rights and that among these are a right to be educated and given a fair chance to work out an independence for himself and his children. |