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Show I: An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. T. Goodwin :: j EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN The University Students WHILE those in control of our supposedly highest educational institution are carrying on an unseemly quarrel, the students should not lose their heads. They should keep In mind that the men whom the world is mostly looking for are the men who can do things. The world's competition is very sharp, but It cannot interfere with a man who is equipped to grasp and control some great and useful thing. There is lots to do at home, while to the south of us lies a continent where some millions or people peo-ple are waiting for directing hands to make their work more intelligent and profitable. And they are ready to pay generously for these directing hands. The man who can analyze soils and tell what they can best produce and point out how the cultivation should be carried on, need never bo out of a lucrative job. The man who can build bridges, and lay out and construct con-struct roads is always wanted. The man who can increase the products of the soil and enrich the soil at the same time is wanted. The man who trains himself to imitate Luther Lu-ther Burbank, is always wanted. The accomplished chemist is the most useful of men. When this old world was started for its long voyage, nothing was forgotten. Everything that man through the unrolling years would require re-quire was thought of and provided, but not always al-ways in the form that the ordinary man would understand. The proper form was left for man j to produce. raj. The cotton seed was a nuisance until one ' man thought it might be made useful and began Mt his experiments. Now it pays the cost of raising S and harvesting the crop and supplies a welcome 9 food. H Through unnumbered ages the lightning and H the thunder were looked upon as instruments of I God's wrath and symbols of .His power. In our m day those terrible lightnings have .been caught, bridled and tamed and now perform the most important im-portant of men's work. They were waiting all the time to serve him, only his dull eyes could not see the blessings they held in their invincible arms. I The secrets of the elements that surround us are not half discovered as yet. Let the professors profes-sors wrangle, and split hairs, let them stand ! up and in elegant, diction discuss the difference between tweedle dee and tweedle dum, but keep Iin mind that a life work is before you and that it is your duty to so prepare yourselves that in some useful sphere you will be needed, and fit yourself for that sphere as well as you can. Keep in mind, too, that you will be honored according ac-cording to your ability to do or teach some useful 4 fc thing better than anyone else can. You owe all this to yourselves first, and Becond to those whoso lives are and will be a part of yours. The selfishness that strains to excel in any useful walk is a holy one. Cultivate it! Senator Aldrich SENATOR ALDRIOH, who died a week ago, was not a real statesman, but, ho was a most shrewd financier, an acute business mart and the-less the-less worker. Ho believed implicitly In the power of money and the perfect efficiency of Interest. He "was not a great financier in the sense that the late J. P. Morgan was. He was too cautious. He could do the utmost possible to be done with the means- in hand, but he would never have taken a halfwrecked concern, put it on its feet with his own or his depositors' money, and played to make outsiders not only to pay him, back, but to pay him as much more and still leave him in control. He was a scientific financier, tout was not a financial genius In the Rothschild-Morgan sense. The difference we mean to convey is the ditference between a man who would go broke in a retail store but would make a great success in a wholesale establishment, and the man who Would fail in a wholesale house, because he would lose track of the essential details and fail in his estimate of possibilities, while in a retail concern he would make a great success, because not one detail would be lost. Such a mind as his In the army would have made him a perfect brigadier general where he would have ibeen able to see the whole field and execute orders, but he never could have estimated conditions beyond his sight, and would have failed as a commander-in-chiof. He spent years in trying to devise a perfect currency plan for the United States and at least partially failed because he never could divest himself him-self of tihe Idea that the first thing to be considered con-sidered "was not the people who earn the money, but the gentlemen who behind the glided doors of the counting rooms, manipulate 'the money. This same order of mind neutralized his bent efforts to devise a fair tariff measure. He was not satisfied with providing for the difference between the cost of labor and material mate-rial between our own and foreign countries, but, consciously or unconsciously, he held In thought tho cost of the factories and the possibility that next year or the year after hostile legislation might make the beautiful machinery worthless and so Increased the figures to provide to make the manufacturers safe. Of course, he endorsed all the manipulation that led up to the demonetization of silver, because -that was for the immediate, temporary advantage of the interest gatherers; he never could grasp the higher principle at stake and the ultimate results re-sults of the sinister legislation. Still at heart he was an honest man; he never "intentionally did a wrong act; his patriotism was as broad as his native land and he was one of tho most incessant workers who ever gave up tho years of his njanhood to tho service of his coun- Personally he was a most courteous and love- Hfl able man and ho will be greatly mourned in his own state. H Labor Union Tyrannies "THESE are days when tho individual members H A of some so-called labor unions should be do- M ing some thinking for themselves, or their unions H will sooner or later come to grief. H In England, while the very life of the empire is hanging in tho balance, some of the unions have sought to enforce their rules about hours M and wages upon'firms engaged In manufacturing fl army supplies and munitions of war. H Lord Kitchener had to Interpose and tell some walking delegates that if their unions did not re- H scind some orders they had put out, within a few H hours, the chiefs would be stood up against a M wall at sunrise next morning and shot full of jH holes. Certain unions in Oregon are trying to jH defeat a ibond issue of several hundred thousand dollars intended for road building, because tho !H authorities will not agree in advance, to pay the H laborers that will be required on the roads $3 per H day for an eight hour day. H This, too, when the purpose is to give idle H men who are now living on charity a chance to H In this city, wo know of some men, who hav- ing saved a little money, opened a restaurant to H make larger salaries by working day and night. iH They declined to submit to the rules the union elH iaid down for their government, explaining that Q under such restiictions they could not keep going. ffl In front of the place thiee sturdy loafers stood Ul all winter, Intending by their presence to give all U passers by notice that the restaurant was not a H union restaurant. i These watchers generally wore gloves. When 1 they did not their hands made clear that they H had forgotten when they ever, themselves, had done an honest day's work. RH That sort of a performance is a defiance of KH every principle of our free institutions and If Jfl tho peace officers and courts would do their duty f)H such men would be working more than eight jfl hours per day on the roads and for less than 3, 9 It was decreed long ago that man should earn 111 his bread by the sweat of his face, and that de- IV creo cannot be changed. RH Our country is different from other countries HI because under its laws all men are supposed to II bo protected in any legitimate thing they please SI to do. II The idea that something can be got for notli- II ing and that through aibitraiy rules Issued by an HI irresponsible organization, those who have saved Hi a little shall be compelled to divide with drones, VI will have to be given up. HI Equatorial Brazil II OL. ROOSEVELT'S description of his explora- II tions is interesting in many ways, and still 1JI it leaves an uncomfortable feeling in tho mind L-l (or heart) of tlK ider. i I NHHMaaHMaaMeHMHaaaMMj 1 lie made the journey down "The River of H Doubt" until he cleared away the doubt, but still H leaves the impression that the journey was so H filled -with uncertainties and dangers, that it Hj should not have been made at least not with the Hj means and force he had at his command. H It is clear, too, that had the journey lusted H twenty days longer the chances would have been H twenty to one that the whole party would have m perished. H It was a journey from the capital of Paraguay H north, through the swamps, out and around the H cataracts of a furious river to communication H with the rubber hunters who had explored the H country from the Amazon up the Maderia and H Topajos rivers to the south. H The colonel thinks much of the region he H passed through will be splendid for settlement H after a while, but admits that he was obliged to H wear guantlets and a helmet while he tried to H write, to escape from the flees, bees, wasps, ants H and mosquitoes that swarmed around and upon H him. Think of ants that travel in flocks and H that will eat through leather boots in a night H But his descriptions of birds, flowers, dawns H and sunsets are beautiful. H Ho tells of one tribe of people where men B and women never wear any clothing except for Hj ornament, and then to their own discomfort, and H of one dance that the tribe gave in his honor, H whero neither men nor women were embarrassed H in their movements by a single stitch of cloth- H ing. The description gives one an idea that the H need of settling that region is not urgent. H Brazil is pushing railroads inland; Argentine H is driving roads up to the very borders of Bolivia; H when Colombia gets over her present pout over H the wrongs which she has never received, from H the XJnited States, some company will try to build H a railroad from the Atrata, which is navigable for H deep ships 1G0 miles above the Gulf of Darien, H to Bogota, the capital of Columbia. If the work H is itoo difficult down to and up from the Cauca H valley, the road will be driven through "Venezuela H to Bogota. From there along the base of the H Andes to a connection with the Argentine and H southern Brazilian reads, will be only t matter H of time. The lure will be the mines of eastern H Bolivia. Then the region that Colonel Roosevelt H traversed can be explored iby short trips from H either the east or west, and that will be soon H enough. H By that time, too, we suspect the aeroplane H will bo a factor in exploration. In the last days H of the colonel's journey ho must have wished H many times for an aeroplane or Zeppelin. H Brazil has an area equal to Europe or the H United States; -millions of homes will be created Bj there after a while. The change that will come H in tho next century will 'transform it; there is H plenty of work on the edges, so to speak, foj H all that please to go there, but equatorial Brazil wM can afford to wait for the present, until the dp- Bfl proaches are made more solid and comfortable, H until tropical diseases are better understood and H more thoroughly mastered; until a generation or Hj two of the barbarians living there shall have H passed on and the. little red schoolhouse shall have H hud a little longer reign. H Looks Like "Mene Tekel" 1 A GOOD niany peoplo, some of whom are called Hi experts, insist that the war in Europe is H ? about over. M Wo should be glad to think so, but unless H there is an undercurrent of complaint among B the people that we know nothing of, we cannot H accept tho reason, put out, for expecting a peace H for a long time to come. jH There is no such exhaustion of men and re- H soi'fo1 there, as there was in the southern states H of country after Gettysburg, in the East and Vlcksburg in the old West, gave the Confederacy certain notice that its cause was lost. But the war lasted within three months of two years after those two crushing blows. But tho war's events are so shapening things tliat it begins to be clear that the chance that was given tho United States to re-establish its old maratimo superiority on the sea, has about been thrown away. At present British ships British and Norwegian are doing the work; if the Allies win they will continue -to do the work; and, with the close of the war, Germany will resume the methods through which, In thirty years she created her great oversea trade and through it accumulated such a volume of wealth as made her well nigh supreme on the continent. Our Pacific Mail Steamship Company which has been famous since her first three little steamers the California, Oregon and Panama (begun their voyages in 1849, ceased paying dividends divi-dends years ago and give notice now that they will tie up all their ships and go out of business at the beginning of next month. There will be another presidential election next year, and if the handling of the ocean trade of our country by the party in power, when freely explained does not give that party another long term of retirement, there is nothing in the signs. When Belshazzar and his lords and ladies were feasting and exultant, the hand-writing upon the wall paralyzed them. There are other hands and other walls, but the writing will be the same. But speaking of American ships we are Indebted In-debted to a friend for a pamphlet which tells of the "ships and shipping of old New York." On the green cover a full rigged clipper ship done in gold is displayed. All her canvas out, main sails, sky sails, royals, top sails the whoje great spread, careening under the pressure of a gale off the quarter, riding the sea "like a thing of life." There are pictures of the old day clippers and stories of their exploits, the likenesses of the stalwart men who built and sailed them a most stately company a pamphlet filled with interest. But it stops short with the coming of our Civil war. Our merchant ships passed from the sea then and have never been restored a shame to congress, an immeasurable loss in money and prestige to our country. To Reinforce the Water Supply GEOLOGISTS agree that a great dike extends from a point, near the base of the Wasatch range in Davis county, southeasterly to the Cotton Cot-ton woods; that it holds back from discharging into this valley the deep waters held in the great range. Or in two places has it been shattered enough to permit the waters to hepe through one at the Beck's Hot Springs, one above and south of Liberty park. At least one eminent geologist gives it as h's belief that, judging by the fold f the mountains, the volume of water thus held back is much greater in the west slope of the range than in the east slope, which now finds egress through the Ontario tunnel. For the past two years the average flow from 'the Ontario tunnel has been from 18 to 21 second feet per second. Now this city expends a good deal of money annually to increase its water supply and it is accepted as a fact that a much larger permanent supply of water must be obtain, ed before all apprehensions of a possible scarcity will be removed. There are many mines and prospects at the head of the Cottonwoods. Mining has halted there for a long time, principally, we believe, bB- cause so much water is encountered in sinking, that it is too expensive for any but strong companies com-panies to successfully combat it. It has been told us that a project is now on foot to combine and drive a long tunnel from low down on tho mountain to drain those districts even as the Ontario itunnel is draining the mines of tho Park. If this is true, then it seems to us that the city government of this city should at once become be-come interested. If this tunnel is run, this city will want the water. If by a great flow of water from it a j valuable water power should be created, the city will want it, because the smoke nuisance of the city will not be much abated until the people can obtain eleotricity at a price that will make is possible for them to warm and light their houses and cook, their food by electricity. In such a situation why would 'it not be good business for the city commision and the mine managers to get together and see If an agreement agree-ment can not be made through which the city, lti consideration of obtaining title to the water when obtained, would advance a part of the cost of running run-ning the tunnel? A steady flow of 20 second-feet per second would be a mighty reinforcement to the water supply of this city. A shorter tunnel, miles this side of the Cotton-woods Cotton-woods might encounter an equal supply of water, but that would be more or less a gamble, while the presence of the water underground in a vast volume is already perfectly established In tho Cottonwoods. Then, with the tunnel run, the water secured, would not be all the advantage obtained. Some hundreds, possibly some thousands of miners would bo" at work there and the trade they would cieate would all gravitate to this city. We commend tho above to the consideration of the Salt Lake Commission. The People Will Make the Standing lVR. Secretary Bryan upbraids Admiral Peary 1V1 for asserting that the United States must go on and absorb this continent or degenerate into such insignificance as will cause it to cease to boi a concernment to the rest of the world. Both gentlemen seem to assume wrong Ideas and neither to reach the right conclusion. Of course expansion of territory has generally been reached by conquest the crushing of tho weak , by the strong. It certainly is time for that to cease. 1 at there is a way for nations to ex- ; pand ogltimately. The first duty of a great na- tlon is to be just to itself and its own people, This involves not only good will, but the power to enforce justice among its own people and toward outside nations. When tho United States declared war upon Spain to secure justice for 'the people or Cuba, i it was a holy war, and both the angels of Justice ' and Mercy smiled approval though the latter smiled through her tears. And when tho United States, her work of redemption completed, lowered lower-ed her morp tVian royal standard, turned the government gov-ernment of the fair island back to her own people and sailed away, both heaven and earth rejoiced over the unparalleled spectacle so high and deep was it beyond anything any king or court had ever dreamed of. But still legitimate expansion of territory is not impossible. If there ever comes a time when our governments, national, state and city can all be honestly conducted and the people can become so enlightened that great blessings will necessarily follow, neighboring states, looking look-ing on, will after a while petition to be incorporated incor-porated with our government and share tho blessings. In that way it is not Impossible that in the coming century we may incorporate i I the continent into our own sovereignty and that our descendants may bo able to say: Thebes marched her thousands, Through her hundred gates, Wo march our millions, Through our hundred states. But that is not necessary to greatness. It will depend upon our people whether they shall - or shall not take the foremost place in the world's estimation. If they become the foremo3t of men and women; if the world is compelled to I believe that we are governed by absolute justice, f never abusing our power, but never permitting an Injustice to be perpetrated against us; if II v crime is properly punished and education is directed along enlightened and exalted lines; .'f the people are properly taught to both restrain . and defend themselves and their country; there will be no deterioration rather a steady advance until a point will be reached to which no nation ever, attained before and our flag will become a symbol of peace and illimitable power. W. H. Bancroft WITH very great sorrow the news of the death of W. H. Bancroft will be received by all the people of this great west. He came here with the littlp Rio Grande Western, as superintendent and master builder more than thirty years ago. He grew steadily in promotion and in the confidence and estimation estima-tion of men until he become the man that the late E. H. Harriman leaned implicitly upon and he held his place until three years over the age limitation. His integrity and masterful administrative admin-istrative ability coupled with his unswerving faithfulness faith-fulness to every trust laid upon him, and backed by a character which exalted him among his fellows, fel-lows, made advancement with accompanying honors come as a matter of course to him. He1 made liis home in this city long ago; no place east or west was ever half so dear to him as this city and here he lived and died, in life bearing the love of all who knew him, in death causing the whole people to stand uncovered, in sorrowful salute before his bier. After being absent through the greater part of the winter, he returned here a few days ago expressing ex-pressing great joy at being onec more home, and began at once to take .on flesh and strength. He was in precarious health even before the 1 death of his wife two years ago. Since then his friends have sorrowfully noted that he was drooping., droop-ing., the old cheer had gone out of his face, the old elasticity from his movements, but they hid from themselves the realization of the truth that his course was nearly run. His death is a fearful blow to his children, but they have the comfort to know that he was spared until his great life work was fully completed, com-pleted, and that as long as consciousness was spared him, he had only tender words and a great love for them and that ho goes to his last rest, after his magnificent life work with not one reproach following him and if all the loving, All Hails and Farewells that follow him, could be turned to flowers to make a pillow for his weary head, it would be as soft as down. His Sullen Retreat RETREATING Winter continues, from time to time, to send back notices to advancing Spring not to hurry too fast; that he still has much frost in cold storage in his vaults on the crest of the Wasatch range, that there is still held in leash on the heights much snow that is struggling to come down; that as yet some of his icy winds have not set their sails to follow him, and that if there is too much haste the buds will bo in danger, the buds and the early blooms and vegetables. 1 That while ho admits that he i; retreating, he is not out of ammunition and that his rear guard is made up of fighters which can still turn and strike some withering blows; that his retreats are "all the same mit Segils." Japan's Intentions HPHE Japanese are as subtile as was that crafty serpent that made so much trouble in the Adam family some years ago. K. K. Kawakami sends a long communication to the New Yoik Times, explaining Japan's position and her intentions inten-tions toward China, the substance of which is that because the United States opened closed Japan to the world, Japan was forced to learn westein methods, and this makes an increased area necessary nec-essary for her to carry on her part of the world's work; that the United States should be estopped from protesting considering California land laws, which he holds are a violation of the treaty between be-tween the United States and Japan. He inserts that "Japan must have a place in the sun," and that as the western nations will make no place for her, she is forced to seek the new area in China, but does not intend to reduce in the least the sovereignty of that power. He explains that now having taken Kian-Chan from Germany, to restore that province to China, would simply result re-sult in the retaking it by some European power later. He insists that Japan is fulfilling all her obligations in Manchuria and is making it much more valuable to China than it formerly was, and is, moreover, preventing its absorption by Russia. Again he explains how much better it will be for China when her latent great resources shall have been developed by Japan. From all of which we infer that the army which Japan has been waiting to have grow up, since the war with Russia is about ready to take the field, and she is correspondingly asserting assert-ing herself. There were many reasons why Japan had to be opened. It was not safe for merchant ships to sail by her coasts and if a ship in distress entered en-tered one of her ports, it meant confiscation. Japan took Manchuria and Corea in the Russo-Japanese Russo-Japanese war and agreed to get out as soon as affairs were settled. They never have been, never will, unless some great future war, makes Japan's longer stay impossible. This writer complains of the California land laws. They are an absolute necessity for without with-out them the Japs would absorb the state, even as the sparrows have about driven the song bird's out of Salt Lake City, while it would be impossible for Americans to get lands in Japan or to make a living from them, could they obtain them. If this letter means anything, it means in plain English: "We intend to take all China's valuable val-uable resources, and all her trade. After that is secured we will not care how many foreign ships enter Chinese ports. They will have to sail away without cargoes. We want our place in the sun no matter at what angle it may shine. And what are you going to do about it?" The war in Europe is not the world's last great war. Utah Celery THE farmers and gardeners of this valley should double their celery acreage this year. There is a great rush to the California expositions now, but it will be much greater after the eastern crops are gathered and when the first notices of coming winter are sounded on the eastern air, and to those comers Utah celery will be a revelation. There will bo a generous market for all that can be raised, and it will not only bo profitable, but will bo a marvelous adver- H tisement for the state. M Each little farm Bhould devote one acre this year to celery. H |