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Show An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. T. Goodwin :: EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN V Call a Truce IHPHE dispatches Inform us that it is yet too soon in President Wilson's ostimation to seek to make peace between the warring powers beyond the Atlantic. That may be true, but it is not too soon to try. Brave men by thousands are dying in the trenches and hospitals; thousands and tens of thousands of non-combatants are suffering for food and clothing and hearts by millions are breaking. If the Hague tribunal is a factor in civilization why should it not assert itself now and sternly I call, in the name of civilization, a truce to the causeless murders that are toeing daily commit- t ted in the name of war? "What holy cause is urging this war on? What vital principle is to be settled by it? Take away the lust of conquest, the land lust ' and the hoped for commercial gains and what would be left behind this upheaval? The -people of Europe were friendly with each other five months ago. Had the qeustion of peace or war been submitted to them then the vote would have been one hundred to ten in favor I of peace. Why, then, should the 10 per cent call out the 90 per cent to be sacrificed and the hopes of millions wrecked? What will become of the 10 per cent when the 90 per cent come to themselves and survey the fearful wreck? When two men who have been friends fall out and come to blows friends interpose and stop them. Why should it not be so with nations? . It may bo said there is no power to stop these combatants. There is no physical power, but there is a moral power which none of them can quite ignore; why not exercise that power? The first essay might fail, but why not keep - that tribunal in session and have it renew its demand again and again until it will be heard? II The demand should not be to those who are directing the war alone. It should bo to the people peo-ple to assert themselves and in turn demand 1 peace. , The war is a blot upon civilization. It is as , if the world had been turned back 3,000 years; ' as though no cross had ever been reared on Cal vary; as though no respiration of the perfecting press had ever been heard; as though no school j . t house had ever been built; as though woman was yet a slave; as though the softening in- fluences of civilization had all been lost and the I r x lights of all science save the art of war had been It is said the grass never grew again where I f the hoofbeats of Attila's horse had struck the I earth. There seems to be many Atillas now. M j It is said that Nero fiddled while Rome was burning. Is it not time that the strings of the modern fiddles should be broken? Home Manufacturers "THE men who control much money are afraid to use it, the future is so uncertain. But the men of small capital could organize, cooperative cooper-ative industries and do well. There are many fields open for this. Utah has fine sand and clay and kaolin. It would not require much to establish estab-lish a pottery; the making of the cheaper kinds is simple, and vast amounts of it are used in Utah. When it comes to finer work, then superior super-ior work is required, but that could ibe begun. A few skilled men would have to be imported to perform the mechanical work, but our schools should supply the decorators. There are many young artists here who could embellish the finer work, and who would delight in it and from a small beginning a great industry would grow up. Thousands of years ago the Egyptians made pottery, some of which was fine' and remains tb this day a proof of what man could do when he was in a most primitive state. The fine pottery of Kinsington has been created creat-ed since the first world's fair in 1851. The making of fine glass requires expensive plants, but the cheap window glass, the common bottles for beer and for preserved fruit does not require much of a plant, and those articles are in daily use all over Utah. It it is true that the fibre of flax, the obtaining of which has always been so tedious and expensive, expen-sive, can now easily and swiftly ibe obtained by machinery, then Utah should not more than one more year pay out so much money for sacking. The money now paid out for grain and vegetables and fruit and sugar sacks, foots up a great deal of money in Utah every year. We have all the materials needed to supply a great chemical plant, but the cost of such a plant is beyond a small company. But such a plant would show the marvelous variety of rare minerals which the state contains. Utah ought to make its own glue, paints and varnish. The canneries should have evaporators attached. at-tached. It should import goats and make its own Swiss cheese. A toy factory would be cheap and Utah needs more toys than any other state in the Union, according ac-cording to its inhabitants. The field for small manufactories here is very great, and if this state can over become absolutely abso-lutely self-supporting it will be rich accordingly, for the secret of a state's wealth Is to spend its money at home, where it is turned right back into the channels of business. Then there are some manufactories which are little art schools in themselves. The miracle of fusing a little brain and color into a worthless piece of clay and producing a hundred or a thousand thou-sand dollar vase when performed gives new ideas to all who witness it. Speaking of worthless clay reminds us that we have much clay in Utah that carries 14 per cent aluminum. Could it be cheaply extracted H we might all have houses that in the sunlight H would outshine the new Jerusalem. M The Effects of War on Trade DREMIER Asquith looks for a great rush of H trade when the war closes, then, after four or five years, expects some years of great depres- H sion because of the poverty of the people and H their inability to purchase. If that is true then he must be expecting that H the money and the securities of the world will H all have gravitated to the strong vaults of the H very rich, and that the business of the world will H consist chiefly in collecting from the poor the jH interest on the war debt. H This was what followed in England after Wat- H erloo, and in this country after our great war of H 18G1-G5, but in both countries the depression was H not due to the debt, but to the destruction of half H the money, brought around in both cases by the H insidious legislation of the rich in order to make H the debt perpetual and to keep the poor all the H time paying the interest, H The depression in France after the Franco- H Prussian war was very brief, because the so-called M poor of France went down in their stockings M and under their hearthstones, dug up the money H the government needed and took their pay in M interest-bearing rents, so the taxes they paid all M came back to them with interest added. It seems that Germany is imitating that example, for it has M just raised $1,5000,000,000, not by selling bonds, H but by giving the people notes for the money H they subscribe. The money that wars cost is M not lost, but merely transferred and generally M has been made to serve as an instrument of tor- H ture to the farmer, the small and great manu- M facturer the producer on any line, and used to H swell the fortunes of those who do not toil and HI do not spin aught except webs like spiders and wji with the same intention as the spider to catch H and strangle the prosperity of those whose toil H supports the nations. In that way they have drawn to themselves, H since our war closed, quite as much money in H interest as there is money in the world. It surely H was time for a new currency law of some kind. H Mr. Asquith evidently counts upon Great Brit- H a In doing most of the ocean-carrying trade of the H world after the war. He does not think there H will be much rivalry, except it may be in Amor- H ica. H At .present there are no signs of rivalry on our H part, but he must not be too sanguine. When Bismarck exacted the $1,000,000,000 in- I demnity from France, he declared that he had flushed France as a commercial rival for twenty- m ve years to come, but she rallied in three years B and in ten years was stronger than ever. I And see what Russia has done since her ex- I haustive war with Japan! And see, especially, I what little Japan has done. H This surely is our country's opportunity, if H congress, when it meets, has the inspiration to see what is needed, and the sagacity to set the I machinery in motion to accomplish it. M t( Mexico OUR forces have been called away from Vera r Druz and the only change In Mexico from the B)f situation presented when they were sent there Bf is a change of bandits In control there. M, It may bo said of Mexico as was said of an- K' other tropical region: "Long is the way and dark B) that out of hell leads Up to light." R Mexico achieved independence from Spain B" nearly j jentury ago, but she has not yet achieved Bu freedom l'rom the darkness that fills the hearts B of her own people. They chatter like parrots of B their liberties and do not know that they are still K slaves to Ignorance, to their own dark passions, Bl their unholy desires and to their vitiated ideas of B what constitutes true liberty. The only hope B which the country presents of improvement is B the exhausted which must bo upon it. jBi Noarly all the horses available have been stolen K and worn out, yearly all the available food has B been stolen and consumed, and nearly all the Bj shoes worn out. L The worst of them must begin to covet a long B B How much they have gained through nearly MM' four years of raids and murders, it is difficult for B' an outsider to calculate, except that a good many B murderers or would-bo murderers have been H killed. B But all Americans will hope that nothing that B may bo done there will involve our country fur-V fur-V B There is war enough beyond the sea, and by BJlj what is going on there we can none of us be Bn Bure that civilization is any guarantee against B murder and pillage. B More Ruins to be Explored Et iOL. ROOSEVELT has published his "South K American Wilderness Exploration." We B have not seen the book, out the reviewers praise B it as most valuable and interesting which we B cnn wel believe is true, for on those lines the B colonel is always interesting. B We thought when ho had covered central B Africa and the wildest regions of South America, fl that if he essayed to make another trip, he would B have to climb the Himalayas to find another re- B gion that had not been much explored, but as it B looks now ho may be able to find what he wants B in central Europe. A great many people have de- B scribed that region as it was six months ago, but B it is liable to be an entirely new region a year B hence. The rivers and mountains may maintain B their old places, but everything else is liable to H be changed. Where there were lovely fields there B will be the wrecks of war; the beautiful cities B will be ruins, the works of art and the marvelous H architecture will bo but as the forest when the B frosts denude the trees and drive the song birds B into winter quarters. B The toil of a thousand years lost, the genius B of a thousand years scorched and seared. B The vision of the great Charlemagne of what B Europe was to be is nearly realized. Now pos- B sibly the man of New Zealand is already alive B and waiting for a ship to carry him to where he B can sit on a broken arch of London bridge and B make real Macaulay's vision which his indiges- B tion conjured up. And it is all a monstrous sin B and shame. fl The Monitor Type WHEN our fleet In Hampton Roads had one gallant ship sunk and another burned, and B the destruction of the rest was expected next g day, the first .little monitor came in from the sea H at midnight and next morning went out the little H - David of ships and vanquished the big Goliath, B that had expected an easy day's work in making Kl a finish of the rest of the fleet. Ujf Since then the construction of ships of war has been revolutionized. Ships have attained a size and speed and invulnerability never dreamed of, but now the news comes that after all craft of the -Monitor class have proved most efficient on the battle line. They are hard to hit, when lilt they are not harmed, and draw so little water that the submarines cannot harm them. Then their offensive power is something fearful. They lire not only ordinary guns, but such mortars as aro used in reducing the most formidable fortresses. fort-resses. When the fight was in progress between the fii st little Monitor and the Merrimac the commander com-mander of the latter ship said to a shipmate: "If I was on that craft I could sink this ship in ten minutes." He meant that he would fire a few shots at the waterline of the Merrimac and fill her with water and sink her. lie did not know that the Monitor had a double handicap. First, by a fool order from the navy department, she was forbidden to use more than half a charge of powder; pow-der; and, second, the gear that turned the Monitor's Moni-tor's turret could not be controlled. But the first monitor was a chief cause to pre vent foreign Intervention, and it is good to read now after fifty-two years that her type is about the best ever invented for a fighting craft. English Finances TO help along the demonetization of silver in the United States and Germany, the Indian council in London ordered the closing of the mints in India, to which the people had been wont, in time of stress, to carry their hoarded silver and silver ornaments and have them coined into rupees. ru-pees. A famine followed and hundreds of thousands thou-sands of the people died of starvation 'because they could no longer convert their silver into rupees to buy food. But of late years India has been producing vast amounts of cotton and wheat, which has been sent to England, to pay for which England has been forced to ship back immense sums of gold. For three years past Mr. Moreton Frewen has been pointing out the danger of this and the remedy, but without avail. Now in the London Evening Post he publishes a "I told you so," which we copy as follows: To the Editor of the Evening Post: Sir I have not yet read the article in the Candid Quarterly to which you refer in your editorial edi-torial today, nor is it desirable at the present to do more than ask those who have any evidence of a recent financial conspiracy to make careful notes now, before the ink is dry, pending an official of-ficial inquiry later. There is much that is inexplicable, and I assume as-sume that the chancellor of the exchequer has good reasons for not explaining the series of really appalling experiments to which the country coun-try has been subjected. For the momone it is enough to note that while Germany was straining every nerve to collect a vast gold reserve, we were driving a hundred millions of our gold into the hoards of India by experiments Inaugurated in the India office, and quite unprecedented in economic history, whether in this or any other country. Those who care about such esoteric matters can read the complex details in the evidence evi-dence the writer gave lust a year ago before the royal commission on Indian finance (Vol. 2, p. 30). It is enough to say that had there been a German adviser in our India office he could not have more splendidly assisted both the finance of his fatherland and our debacle here. And what do you make out of the procedure in August? From all ovor our empire vast supplies sup-plies had been purchased by firms In Germany; these firms had in racing parlance just "gone for the gloves." How had they paid for these colossal colos-sal purchases, running into hundreds of millions sterling? By giving bills accepted by German financiers who live in London. One important German house here, it is well known, a house with some three millions of capital, had near thirty millions of these accepted bills. Had the ninety days elapsed, and had all these bills gone to protest, tlien, indeed, had jhaos come again. But the government gave their guarantee, and a little later the general taxpayer is to be saddled with the losses. But is not the frantic gamble of that Gorman firm and others is not over-trading such as this at exactly the moment psychologlque deserving presently of a commission to inquire? If the German Ger-man government had Itself guaranteed these German or ex-German financiers against ultimate loss, then the state of such a bill market as wo y had in early August stands revealed, and, the irony of it, It is the guarantee of our government pledged, when the Bank of England re-discounted this mass of paper, which has Indemnified the German government against the loss! Yours, &c, Nov. 5. Moreton Frewen. The Sugar Beet Miracle THE experts report that the Bugar beet crop in Utah this year is well nigh perfect. That is a reminder that in this great basin there could be water supplied to probably 4,000,000 acres which would produce perfect beets which would supply our country and much beyond our borders, and save to the United States the $80,000,000 annually which is now sent away for sugar. v Ought such an 'industry to bo encouraged? There is another advantage to it. The raising of beets is giving to the land all the time increased fertility, and the grain and vegetable crops would be bigger and finer if one-third of the land could be in cultivation to beets annually. The money that could thus be obtained would amount to more than all the gold and silver mines of the west supply and great divisions of the desert would be changed to places of 'beauty and prosperity. Those Correspondents AT the beginning of the present European wor the number of trained soldiers among the nations na-tions engaged were about as follows: Russia 9,000,000 Germany 4,500,000 Austria 2,000,000 France 2,000,000 Great Britaia . .' 1,000,000 Servia 450,000 Belgium 250,000 A total of 19,200,000 Now if we are to believe the correspondents nearly all of these must have been killed or wounded, many of them must have been killed several times. The war must soon cease because there will be none left to fight except Turkey. The Heroes THE death of Lord Roberts causes more sorrow sor-row in England than has that of any other man since the body of Viscount Admiral Nelson was brought homo wrapped in the glorious flag of Trafalgar. Said one British sailor to another as he looked upon the Nelson shaft and statue on Trafalgar Tra-falgar square: "I wonder if he is in heaven!" , 'Did he want to go there?" asked the other. "Of course he did," was the response. "Then he is there," said the second speaker. "Why do you say that?" asked the first speaker. Said the other: "If he wanted to get in who in the ibloody hell could ever keep, him out?" That was the secret of both. They loved their country and their countrymen. To fight their country's foes was a joy to them whether the path led to victory or down to . death. So again "The bells of old St. Paul are pealing, ' .-Pealing .-Pealing for the mighty dead. ' Those bells that never toll save When a regal soul has fled." And the heroes death is hailed in England as would be the destruction of an army or a fleet. He Loved Peace THE statement of Col. Seely that married men I make better soldiers than single men because they have their dear ones to fight for, is a reminder re-minder of an old story of two soldiers of the Mexican war. They were comrades. They had I fought all through that furious day at Buena I & Vista and when at sunset the enemy retreated, they sank upon the ground and slept until nearly daylight. Awaked at last by the cold, they engaged en-gaged in conversation as to a probable renewal of the fight at daylight. Finally one said to the other: ' Why did you enlist and come to this war?" The other replied: "Why I was a single man, I no one was dependant on me. I have always been fond of excitement; have always wondered how it would feel to be in a battle, so I came. What made you enlist?" The other sententiously replied: "Because I am a married man and love peace." Jfc The World's Money IT IS said that 2,000,000 people in Belgium alone are on the verge of starvation. If they could heve 100 francs each in silver, the future would not look quite so dark to them. But that would require re-quire ?40,000,000. And they are but one contingent contin-gent of the hosts that are in want in western Europe. The cry comes to us for food and for all the money we can spare. It is a touching appeal and will be responded to as becomes our great, generous nation. But all those nations are hoarding their money and the war is raging with unabated fury. What will happen when the day of leckoning comes? I How many of the great banks will resume pay ment? Can London maintain her place as the ' center of the financial world? Because of a con spiracy between some London and New York thieves, helped by some of the great financial officers of -our government, a sneak congress was beguiled irito demonitizing silver. At the time our national and corporation interest-bearing debts amounted to 4,000 millions of dollars. We have been paying the interest on the half of that amount for the benefit of those same thieves. In the meantime our nation has lost quite 2,000 millions of dollars through the depreciation depre-ciation of silver, which has been caused solely by the withdrawal of recognition from it. A hundred hun-dred francs apiece to our people right now would electrify business. By the same act we lost our export trade with half the inhabitants of the earth and at the same time in effect offered them a premium pre-mium of CO per cent on all their products that they could send us. By that act our trade re-cc-ived a blow from which it has never recovered, and our laboring men have already been shut out of many industries, not being able to bear the competition of the hordes of the Orient. Though the gold has been vastly reinforced during the past twenty-five years, there is not nearly enough to go round. Repudiation stares all Europe in the face. Is it not time to undo those shameful wrongs of 1873 and 1893 and restore silver to its rightful place as a true measure of values? Scott Woodward THE death of Scott Woodward is altogether pitiable. pit-iable. He grew up in this city; he won a high place; by nature he was genial and winsome; a loving son and brother. Ho is gone and the mother and sisters are heartbroken; his other relatives and friends think (a of him and the broken hopes that are all cut off and through their tears cannot see why the fates should so mark all our expectations. With deepest sympathy for the afflicted ones their friends look on and pray that the All-Com-passionate One may be their comforter. i I |