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Show H i4n Independent Paper Published Under B :: tfie Management of J. T. Goodwin :: Bj EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN HH God and The Nations Bj HP HE president has called upon all the people Hi of the "United States to meet tomorrow and B with humble hearts to beseech the All-Compas- 1 sionate to stretch out His omnipotent hand and HI stay the work of destruction now going on in Hf Europe. 1 This is well, because there is no other way that man has any communication with God, save JE through prayer. IB When we look above us and see the blazing H sun by day, or the soft white lights of planets B and satellites, or the glow of the infinitely far H off fixed stars by night; or when we look around B. us and watch the processions of the seasons, the B phenomenon of how the springs in the hills are H fed, or the advance and the retreat of the tides H . in the seas and reflect that all this is held in H place without confusion or jar as the ages ebb H and flow, then we know there" must be a great H ; First Cause. Then looking in upon ourselves B and noting what atoms we are in the limitless Hj universe, it would seem like presumption for us H to dare to present our petitions to Him who H holds all this universe in the hollow of His Iflj hand, except we remember that "our spirit in B thy spirit shines, as shine the sunbeams in H a drop of dew." H And yet we sometimes doubt about God im- H mediately answering prayers. H In an English illustrated paper is the picture H of a baby boy just old enough to lisp a few H words, and the account says he is constantly K calling "daddy come, daddy come." That father H three weeks ago was killed by a shell as he was H standing no the bridge of his ship directing the H maneuvers of a battleship in action. No doubt H there are thousands, ten and hundreds of thou- H sands such babies in England, in Scotland, in H Ireland, in Belgium, in beautiful Prance in home- H loving Germany, in Austria-Hungary, and by the H 9 Dneiper and the Con, calling "daddy come, daddy B come!" calling, though the fathers are fighting H on the battle line or sleeping their last sleep in Hj the bloody trenches. H One would think the Good God would hear and H answer such prayers sooner than any others. Jfl There are others: mothers, wives, daughters, H sisters, sweethearts by millions daily and hourly H calling to a merciful God that the bitter tide of H war may swifty pass. H Surely one would think that such appeals B would move Omnipotence to pity. H A fearful civil war swept our land for four H years. It made every house a house of mourn- gB ' ing. Prayers for mercy went up by millions daily IH beseeching the great God to stop the carnage H and the tears. B At last the war exhausted itself and grew H still, but the wrecks that it left along its sinis- H ter trail were heart-breaking. BD.ir lii-iraiiii,, ,,1,1,1 iiimmiMMiMw But when the tears were partially dried and the heavy mists rose and floated away and people peo-ple could see clearly, they were forced to acknowledge ac-knowledge that behind all there was a Divine plan. A great wrong had been permitted to take root and grow in strength in our soil that both the north and the south were responsible for. It had to be up-rooted and for that tremendous work, the north and the south alike had to pay. And because of the mighty sacrifice, the sun shone fairer in the heavens, on the earth was a new quarantee of liberty, of happiness and peace to mankind. We know not what the iDivine plan behind this fearful destruction in Europe may be, but we may be sure that it will be made clear after a while. The tornado is sent to clear a noxious atmosphere. A like fierce remedy is prescribed when the hearts of nations become so sordid and selfish and cruel that God in heaven becomes weary over the spectacle. pk What The Election This Year Means SERIOUSLY speaking, a most important election elec-tion will be held in Utah in another month. The people are called upon to give a full expression expres-sion of their ideas, whether the policies of the Democratic party as expressed through their congress con-gress and president in Washington, shall or shall not receive a vote of confidence. We are told how brilliant and learned, sagacious, honest and patriotic President Wilson has proven himself to be. We have had a good many brilliant and patriotic pa-triotic presidents; we believe that with one exception ex-ception they have all been honest, but presidents are after all, human beings; the exalting of a particular one to the high office has, up to date in more than half the cases been the result of an accident or a combination of accidents and in most cases it it not the man that is at issue, but rather the national principles that he stands for, the policies that he will pursue. The present president and present majority in congress were elected on a promise that while they would, if given power, revise the tariff, but would not cripple or hamper any legitimate industry. Driven on by their president, congress never rested until it so completely destroyed the tariff, that the chief adviser of the president in congress con-gress declared that "no such industrial freedom had been given us since the passage of the Walker tariff" some four score years ago. Now the Walker tariff just about made bankrupt the republic. While the debate on the sugar schedule was going on in the present congress and a representative repre-sentative from Mississippi pointed out that it would kill the sugar interest in Mississippi and Louisiana, Mr. Underwood declared that he expected ex-pected it would. And what was the object of this legislation? That unrefined sugajr from Cuba might be obtained by American refineries cheaper. The great sugar refineries have seemed to be a pet concernment to the Democratic party ever since the passage of the Wdlson tariff, bill H through the house twenty years ago. H And who are the beneficiaries of this legisla- H tion except the refiner? No one in America, while the effect of the bill is to kill an Indus- ; fl try in the south which has given many thousands H of Americans a livelihood and to transfer a great il many millions of dollars which they formerly H received to the pockets of men who employ H naked wretches to raise their sugar at wages ' H which will not feed an American. We refer above only to cane sugar. Wo all H know that the success of beet sugar making, and the great industry that it was beginning to M bo was due entirely to the tariff. That is with- out the tariff it never would have been created. H Thettruth is the free trade sentiment In the M UnitedStates grew, out of the monopoly, which M after Whitney's Invention of the cotton gin, of cotton raising by unpaid labor. All the. great southerners, Washington, Jefferson, Madison and M the others favored a protective tariff. M With the extensive raising of cotton, there H came a belief that cotton was king and with it M likewise came a contempt for honest labor on the M part of the cotton lords, and a determination on H their part to purchase what they wanted in the H cheapest market, without regard fo the effect M on the republic, its welfare or progress. Mr. Wilson and the Democratic leaders in con- M gress inherited those views and they can no M more grow out of them than they could have es- M cuped limping, had they been born with onn leg fl shorter than the other. From the same source M came the determination not to extend any help to the merchant marine of the United States, though the ships had to run, if at all, in direct M competition with the heavily subsidized ships of M foreigners. M Our first line of trans-atlantic steamers, in M construction, beauty and speed, was superior to M the only other line running the Cunarders. M Just when the British government materially . H increased the subsidy to the Cunard line, led by H Jefferson Davis, a Democratic administration, H shut off the small subsidy the Collins line had H been receiving and it was forced to the wall. This same spirit makes the present adminis- H tration helpless to move in the present emer- H gency when ships are so much needed; in the H present marvelous opportunity to restore our flag H to the sea. H Now if Utah were to elect Democratic con- H gressmen this year, or a legislature which in turn ' H would ratifiy the election of the peoples choice H for United States senator, it would be an en H dorsement of all that has been done and left H undone by the present 'Democratic administration. H It looks to us th w to suppose such a thing H possible, is to discount in advance the Bense of H justice and intelligence of the voters of this H state. ' H Our Opportunity THE old world is shaking under a war the H most gigantic of all the ages. The men en- ' H gaged, the instruments of destruction employed 3 1 1 Hk aro beyond estimation; the pomp and magnlfl- Wmm conco of it all can no more be pictured than can KE, the horror and the sorrow of it. Even though a BBS great ocean rolls between our country and B,m those countries, the infinite sorrow of it all stuns Bftf our countrymen, and, so to speak, confuses even Blni the business of our people. fKJ Yet this should bo a time when every energy El should be aroused. Great factories should be in wi course of erection, every ship yard should be IK ringing with hammers; the reduction works MB where steel is being manufactured should be clouds by day and pillars of fire by night to turn Hi out the material to bo needed in the mighty in- H dustrial advance that should bo ours as a na- H tion. The technical schools, the textile schools and schools of design should be crowded with H students, that the factories to bo may not halt B ' through need of science to carry them on; the H I land owners who desire to sell lands should be H t ' putting them in form to accommodate the host H that is to come and who will want little plats of ' soil to make homes on. I Men should be sent away at once to foreign states to investigate the character of the goods and wares they want and in what forms to prepare pre-pare them. We have a population of, in round numbers, 100,000,000 people. Wo have quite 20,000,000 of workers We have quite 10,000,000, who need work and are anxious to engage in it. All they need is a place to work in. Have not our government and our leading men genius gen-ius enough to provide a way? Could that be done our great republic would make a display that in magnificence and power would put to H shame the work going on across the sea. There H is more rhythm in a working loom than in mar- Hf tial music leading men to death; the boom of Hfl blasts fired in a deep mine is far more useful, if 1 not so impressive as the roar of artillery in its Hjt work of murder; the songs of children in free Hf schools and happy homes are far better than the H j moans of strong men dying in field and hos- W The greatest inspiration should come fiom H i the government itself. It should call upon the HL ' people to arise and grasp the marvelous oppor- H tunity which has been opened to us, and coupled B with the call should be a promise to remove every B possible obstruction from the path of the people B and to help them in every possible way in their Bj upward, onward march to a peaceable conquest B of trade, to a larger market for their products. Bi i At the same time our defenses should be look- B, j ed to. The side that wins across the sea will be Hfl liable to be arrogant and aggressive. The best Hi defense of a country is its people. Every youth H in school over 10 years of age should have some Hi months of military training. H Premiums should be offered for improved H weapons and more deadly explosives. Some bat- H tie ships should be built annually. Premiums H should be offered for more effective air ships, H and sub-marine boats. The safety of a nation H ' lies in its always being prepared for war. !Five months ago a profound peace had wrapped Europe around. Look at the situation there now! It is proper to evade war in every honorable way, but it is folly not to be prepared for it. One month of war costs more than ten years of preparation, and to be prepared is but taking tak-ing out a nation's accident insurance policy. H H we are great enough as a people and gov- H ernment to accept what is presented to us now, BHL in ten years the greatest of nations will be but R second class compared with ours. Bi No Battle Genius Yet SO far the fighting in Europe save in com- paratively 'small numbers on the skirmish BH lines, has been carried on by exact rules, and Bfl! n the movements of the armies have been almost as automatic as that of set machinery. Each side has struggled to secure the best positions and after that has been only the matter of endurance and the handling of the engines of destruction that each have brought to bear against the other. The armies have been like quartz mills in motion mo-tion a steady pounding by day and night only they have been fed on heroes and the results aro blood and tears and broken hearts. But if there is any battle genius, he has not yet appeared above the canopy of battle. And we doubt whether there will be any. Napoleon, unperturbed, could look over a doubtful field when upon it a battle was raging and through the chaos and the clouds discern where the star of victory was shining and with a sure instinct put the forces in motion to carry the lilies of France to where they would be lighted by that star. (But where a battle line is one hundiod miles long, where Is the genius who can compass the full situation and then frame the combinations needed to make success certain? Napoleon could reason from cause to effect and with almost supernatural sagacity decide upon the point at which the enemy intended to meet and fuse his assembled forces, and then call his armies from the north and south and west of France to meet at the same point in advance ad-vance and be ready to take the offensive. Ho did this at Austerlitz, and broke the arms of the three powers opposed to htm. Von Moltke did something like the same thing when he invaded France in 1870, but while he had reduced the science of war to almost an exact ex-act equasion, he, nevertheless, was a machine fighter. His thought was to try no experiments, but to fight by exact rules and to always be in a condition to crush a foe. But never before the present war in modern times have armies when fighting been too great to preclude their being seen by the commandors But now those commanders are forced to judge what is probably going on where the armies are struggling fifty miles away, through such news as the field telegraph and the aeroplane can bring them. Where is the commander who by these can judge on what part of the line he can strike an effective blow? We believe Napoleon could have done it; the great Julius did something like it when he set the battle of Pharsalia in array. It is that kind of instinct which sets the fixed rules all aside and exactly estimates the limitations of human nature to meet the astounding and the unexpected, unex-pected, and knowing the country in the rear of the enemy, know what it would mean to crush the enemy's center or either wing; or to do something at a distance in the rear of the enemy en-emy which will compel his retirement or surrender. sur-render. That kind of a geniuB has not yet appeared, but the whole world is looking for him. Will he be French or German or Russian or British? One whose presence will be as was that of Hercules, whose coming was a signal of victory. The Hopeful Partisan THERE is nothing like having a cheerful, hopeful hope-ful disposition. It not only is a vast comfort com-fort to the possessor, but like the sunshine it permeates and warms the hearts of others. Our friend, the Hon Samuel Thurman, is one of these. For him the sky never lowers, the meloncholy days never dawn. Just now the brilliant prospects of the ancient Democrat!' party in Utah are a delight. He sees the word Victory spelled out in luminous golden letters on the Democratic standard and contemplates the carebi as president of the present chief magistrate magis-trate of the nation as did the people, under the shadow of Sinai, the golden calf which thoy had contributed their jewelry to create. True the shuddering mountain above them was not reassuring; reas-suring; there were fierce, flashings and o'jninous thunders, but they discarded all evil foreb'odlngs and were sure that they were right. They had long clamored for a material god, something that they could see and feel and at last, out of the melting pot, it had come. So our friend Thurman is brushing up his early mathematics to be able to quickly count the increased majorities which the president's party is to receive all over the union and the astounding majority which his party is to receive re-ceive in Utah next month. True he does not explain whether it is to come from the sheep men, the sugar producers, the miners or any other class in particular; neither do the present results of the president's Mexican policy in Mexico supply an assurance that hereafter American citizenship will be sincerely sin-cerely respected in that country or American l life and property will be safe under those soft southern skies He may think, but does not mention men-tion the fact that while, through the dictum of our president, American coast shipping must pay the regular tolls if they pass through the Panama Pan-ama canal, he is so manipulating the question of an American merchant marine, that the burden bur-den of the tolls does not threaten to be excessive, for as the legend has come down to us: "There is no house tax where there is no house; There is no grave tax where there is no grave Nought goes for nothing." What appeal can be made to induce Republl- . can voters to vote a Democratic ticket, it is hard to conceive. Certainly the people of Utah do not want Democrats to handle their local affairs and Democratic senators and representatives have no work in Washington save as faithful clerks to ratify the president's will. If elected they might just as well remain at home and draw their salaries and send the" president pres-ident their proxies. r A Marvelous Midwife THERE was a man in this country who, four years ago, was covered with honors. He was hailed as a hero because on a prancing steed he had followed a regiment of colored soldiers . up the gentle slope of San Juan hill and claimed ' that after reaching the crest he had shot a fleeing flee-ing Spanish soldier in the back. He had been seven years president of the United States. In that high office he had manifested some peculiar eccentricities, such as breaking his word sometimes some-times and then to extricate himself from the difficulties that he had ensnared himself in, took the shortcut by denouncing as liars all men and women alike, who dared to criticise him. When his second term was finished he arranged for Qr the United States to pay his expenses for a trip K to Africa. There in the jungles he bagged much big game for he is a good shot and loves to kill. On his return, especial honors were extended to him in Europe and a great ovation was given him when he reached the pier in New York The malaria of Africa, the honors extended him in Europe and Great (Britain and the welcome given him on his arrival, all went to his head and his was the most pronounced case of "swelled head" on record. New York politics at the time was normal, and all the indications pointed to a Republican victory. But the hero of San Juan hill and slayer of pythons and horned -rhinoceroses could not keep out. He suddenly assumed as-sumed a new role, that of a leformer, entered and disrupted and demoralized thd convention and took from the party that had so much honored him its hope of success in the empire state. The I -i. result stunned even him and we heard nothing from him for three months. Then came , 1912. In its earlier years the Democracy passed through its periods of confinement with little pain and its succeqding children were all lusty and strong ' and inherited all the vices of their parentage. !$ But since 1860 its labor pains have been ac- cute and long continued and the offspring have generally been still born. In 1912 it decided that it would discard doctors doc-tors and trust to a competent midwife. It was then that the hero of San Juan hill was thought of and engaged. It was a happy thought. The new midwife was engaged and proved a wonder. Resorting to the "twilight sleep" program, not only was the anguish the faintness and the fear forgotten but a lusty and pugnacious child was born. But the prolific mother needs again the services serv-ices of this famous midwife and with a faithful-" faithful-" j ness which is wonderful, though afflicted with a bad throat but with no qualms of conscience we behold this heroic midwife again on hand and doing everything possible to allay the nervousness nervous-ness and the bearing down pains of the expectant mother. When the full history of all this shall be fully written it will excite exceeding wonder and interest, inter-est, and by and by when a depraved world rears a monument to Judas Iscariot this history will . be the choicest price of literature that will be sealed up in the cornerstone of the monument. Bishop Spalding STRONG physically, pure by instinct, intellectually intellect-ually brilliant, devoted to the work of the Master, unawed by wealth, warm in his sympathies sym-pathies he strove to make the world happier by reducing the burden of Its sorrows. If he had any foibles they were of the brain not the heart. Impatient of wrongs he would cure them by statutes and he never could realize that whatever the masses of men were entitled to should be measured by the amount of honest effort put forth to obtain a reward. i Hence sometimes he became, unconsciously, the champion of men who down deep, are impatient that they cannot eat bread that they never earned, never tried to earn. We say this above his grave as we said it when in the full vigor of a marvelous mental and physical manhood he was going about doing good. The purity of his motives no one ever doubted; the example of his life was always high and true, his devotion to duty was something some-thing beautiful to see. He was growing intellectually every day; his character was steadily expanding; he was every day better and better understanding the characters charac-ters of men. His death is a great shock and sorrow and ' loss to this region. " Men felt instinctively, that as yet he had not put forth the best that was in him because as yet he had not quite broken through some early environments. He would have been a Gautier or St. Bernard eight hundred years ago, he might have been a Luther three hundred years ago, for his high thoughts were always backed by ample if unpretentious un-pretentious courage. " Our belief is that his chiefest personal regret was that he could not be doing more for the cause in which his life was enlisted and such" a nature always grows until the utmost that is & within his soul and heart is brought out. The manner of his death was most shocking but from the horror one sad comfort comes; it must have been practically painless and then he was absolutely prepared. If in the beyond he is called upon to show his hands they will be as white as the light of a fixed star, without one stain. "Very sorrowfully his friends here gave him up, with added sorrow he was received and given sepulchre in, 'Denver. May his relatives be comforted hi , their affliction af-fliction by tho knowledge that for such as ho no reproach can follow to disturb his final sleep, The.Automobile and The Public rT HE automobile has come to stay and to iriv crease. Whenever an accident happens with one of them there is a cry that there must bo new restrictions. There should be some reasonable reason-able ones. The speed limit should be rigorously enforced; perhaps a license would help but wo have all seen enough in the past few months to show that no precaution ordered by law is enough. A few weeks ago a young lady in broad day light was knocked down by an automobile in an up-town street because just before reaching her the chauffeur gave the wheel of his machine to one who knew nothing about running it and it zigzaged until it struck the dodging woman. What good does a license do when given to a hoodlum who wants to take his girl joy-riding? What the laws should be we do not pretend to say, because we are convinced that many that are proposed would be entirely ineffective. But in this connection it is clear that pedestrians pedes-trians should be most careful. No person in the night should attempt to cross one of our broad streets diagonally. We think the doing of that cost Bishop Spalding Spald-ing his Iife. Careful "chauffeurs Blow up as they near a corner unless everything is in plain Bight. Again small children should not be permitted to play in the streets, for seeing an auto coming they are just as apt to jump in front as away from it. A careful young man ran his auto upon a group of children, stopped and waited until the road was clear when just as he started a child broke from her companions and dashed directly in front of the machine and was killed. Since the auto came the old saying a little changed has added force: "Eternal vigilence is the price of life." It is clear now that the little lady who had the deplorable accident a week ago Friday night ought not to have gone alone in the powerful machine, but she thought that she could run down the straight street and call for her friends as she had before and had no idea that she would be troubled in managing the car if danger appeared. Surely all humane people will sympathize sym-pathize with her and her family in their suffering. |