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Show IT ' An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. T. Goodwin :: EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN This Fearful War HTO THE emperors, kings and lesser princes and lords of Europe and Great Britain these should be anxious days, not only In trying to fore-cast fore-cast the end of the war, but as to what may happen hap-pen them. The war between France and Germany cost Napoleon III his crown. From being sovereign sover-eign of a great and gallant nation he, in a brief one hundred days became first a prisoner and then a fugitive. Then his countrymen determined that never again would they be subject to a single man's call to war; never again would they subordinate subor-dinate their sovereignty and their right to rule themselves. What will happen when the dead of the present pres-ent war shall be counted, the drain of their manhood man-hood considered, the awful material losses computed? com-puted? Every day the thrones in those lands are more and more endangered, for every day the thought ia more and more crystalizing that the war was unnecessary; that there was no difficulty that it might not have been settled without making Europe one great Golgotha. One thing we are sure will follow. Nations will no longer trust to peace agreements or the plighted faith of each other. The' thought will dominate that only laws backed by sufficient pen- T( alties will meet future demands. Alliances between nations will be forbidden. A code will be prepared placing a limitation upon ambitions of rulers and all other nations will be bound to interpose in case there is an attempted violation, while all nations will educate their people as they please, there will be a mighty reduction of fleets and armies. And each nation will not only be obliged to deal justly with neighboring neigh-boring nations, but with their own people and with every race that may seek shelter under its flag. I' There will be no more wars of conquest; no more wars where the acquisition of territory will be the real object. There will be perfect religious liberty guaranteed, guaran-teed, but there will be no interference with the state on the part of any creed. I The people will in truth make the laws, but i the combined nations will be a check on any single ' nation that fails in its duties or seeks advantages I unjust to other states. i Some people fear that because this war civill- zation is going into eclipse. It will not. It may go down close to the valley of the shadow of g, death, but it will arise with new glories and vastly ' increased power. We cannot see why this war was permitted, but when enough blood and tears shall have been shed, men will discern the design behind it all and the purpose that was fulfilled. I' As To Contraband Goods THE declaration of foreign powers now engaged in war that copper is a contraband of .var and should not be carried between neutral countries, seems to us altogether untenable. As well call flour and bacon contraband. Most modern nations na-tions use a good deal of copper, but all nations use flour and bacon. Most copper is used in the industries of peace and we can see no reason why a cargo of copper shipped from an American port to say Spain or Norway, should be held as contraband contra-band by Great Britain or France. The danger that it will be sent from its port of destination to some country with which France and England may be at war, should be no concernment of ours. But there Is another principle involved. Why should American ships, under the American flag, be restricted in their legitimate work? Is there a purpose behind all not to permit the United States to become a formidable competitor in ocean trade when this war is over? That has been the purpose of all those powers for forty years past, and they have been backed by a great political politi-cal party and a powerful subsidized press in our country, much to our nation's loss and shame. Are those same influences still at work? It looks that way surely. The war has been raging furiously for a hundred days, the opportunity it offers our country to restore its shipping has been most apparent all the time, but is there one more hammer ringing in any American ship yard, ono more miner because of it at work in any coal or iron mine; has one more furnace been blown in to make steel? Has one new American flag appeared on the seas? For The President To Think Over IN CONSIDERING the election returns we hope that President Wilson will linger a moment over the fact that possibly the wound he gave to American coast shipping may have been a factor. He appealed to his obedient congress to lay tolls upon American coast shipping as due to the honor of our country. His real reason, the one he gave to the reporters, was that if the coast shipping was made exempt, insomuch as they received thereby the amount was indirect subsidy, which is repugnant to American Democratic statesmanship. Now, the average American intellect may be dull, but it could never figure out what especial interest any foreign power had in the regulation of American commerce between American ports In connection with an American canal in the profit or loss of that canal. Further, as to the indirect subsidy, most Americans Amer-icans know that the right of American ships to the commerce between American ports, the exclusive ex-clusive right was guaranteed them something like a century ago, and it is due to that right that we have any merchant marine at all. Hence they will not believe that our government gov-ernment deliberately aimed a blow at that trace through a solemn treaty with an outside power. Again, they are not too dull to see that if the president's reasoning, about their receiving an indirect in-direct subsidy holds good, the next step will natur ally be to demand the repeal of the ancient law which gives to our shipB exclusively the ocean H trade between American ports, for Is not keeping H away competing Bhips in that trade as much an indirect subsidy as it is to pass them through the H canal free? H Most Americans are anxious to at least keep H what shipping we now possess. H The Needed Thing H " Ult war and navy secretaries are preparing to H -s ask for larger appropriations to make more H effective both branches of the service. Congress H should respond generously, for the war in Europe H cannot last long and more than one power will H emerge from It in an aggressive mood and dis- H posed to be dictatorial. H Several small foreign states believe that be- H cause of our unpreparedness, the United States B could easily bo invaded and her coasts placed un- H der tribute. Why not stop all that foolishness? H Why not decree that all young men physically H able shall spend at least ono year of their educa- H tion in military camps? If congress would pass H a law giving to any state which will pass such a H law the officers to train the students and pay half H the expense, every state would respond, and were H the experiment tried for two years the country M would not do without those schools, and the world M outside would understand at a glance what would M come were our country to be attacked. M Even without any war being anticipated, It m would be the best possible feature of the educa- H tlon of American young men. A young man who H was a marvel of scholarship in Yale, committed M suicide in Chicago last week because he could got M nothing to do. H He lacked initiative and ' trusted to what he M had gotten out of books. One year In a military M camp would have given him the needed assurance, B it would havo driven away any false pride that M ho may havo possessed and substituted the honest M pride of manhood, which would have found him a M place to work. Let us begin to bo self-protecting. M The Notices Being Served On Us H EUROPE is supplying the United States with M grave lessons every day, or perhaps we should M say is serving notices upon the United States B every day. The first Is to so change things as l to bo able to put forth in the most effective way m our strength, if called upon. Another Is to bo P able to supply ourselves with everything needed H in case a supreme test Bhould bo put upon us. M This means first the training of the people In H the elementary lessons of war. Not to build up a Ht vast standing army to grow into the curse of H militarism, but to devote a year of the education H of youth to learning the use of weapons, to ob- B tain glimpses of what when perfected makes an H army; to a knowledge of camp life and Its essen- H tials to equip the young for service in peace and H in war. If In manufactures a study of what we buy large- Hi ly of and whether such things cannot be created S at home. Our country is almost as large as Eu- IH rope and with Canada added vastly larger, and H JJ HI- surely on all that territory everything should be Hui ' produced that Europe can produce. Hjif There shou d be a new resolve, both on the Br1 a part of Canada and our country, to never to per- Hft I mlt unfriendly relations to grow up between us. Hi I The government should expend all needed sums 1: to improve and invent more effective guns and ex- m' plosives. Sennacherib's host went to sleep at H night and never awoke. How to repeat that on an R' opposing army will be the final war invention. Hf Then the final question in war as it is the all- m, absorbing one of peace is money. At present the i business of our country rests on the invested H' i pyramid of gold. The gold is but a pin-point com- K ; pared with the mighty volume of business which B i it is expected to support. We have all seen that B pyramid topple and fall repeatedly when a little H extra burden is placed upon it. Men have resorted B . to bonds, to treasury notes, to bank notes, to B clearing-house certificates to tide affairs over, but s these are but substitutes; the final settlements B have to be in a metal that is supposed to be a per- B' i feet measure of values. Bj 1, Now there are but two metals known to man B f.i that possess the perfect natural elements for this B year. They aro gold and silver. Each possesses B i the same elements except that the one is greater B in density than the other. Long ago thoy were B set aside for this specific purpose, and their rela- B, tivo' values were estimated on their original cost K per ounce. B The experience of many centuries demonstrates' demonstrat-es' '' cd that the cupidity of man was not able to ob-B ob-B tain enough of both to serve the world's needs of B money. B This was before steam and electricity multi- B plied ten-fold the work of civilization. What then B must be the situation now? B I Is it not true that the country has never re- B covered from the blow that the demonetization of B silver dealt it? We are not engaged in war, not B threatened by any war, but is it not true that B there is a business depression from sea to sea? B Can men at any fair rates borrow money to B carry on legitimate enterprises? Is not the rea- Bv son for this the want of real money? Has it not H 0 been that way in greater or less degree ever since B 1893, except in the three years when a starving HL -world unloaded upon us more than $2,000,000,000 Hi '- in gold for bread? Aro not our exchanges with B South America perpetually confused and are they B not well nigh impossible with the Orient? B' Is it not because of this that our export trade Br with half the people of the earth Is killed? And B- does not the same law in effect offer a premium B of GO per cent to the hordes of Asia to send us B their products in direct competition with our fli laboring men? K fJi Suppose congress were to give silver full rec- Bf I ognition as primary money at ?1 per ounce, is Hjjt: tliere tlle slightest doubt about its being hold at r that figure all around this old world as fast as B; - the news of our legislation could bo carried? And H does any one doubt that the immediate result H! ' would electrify business from 'Maine to California Ei-r. at once? Hi' ( Uncle Joe's Mistake H' T JNCLE JOE CANNON has been re-elected to ! congress and is going back amid the congratulation con-gratulation of friends. Still we believe that before be-fore three months ho will realize that ho made a mistake in again being a candidate. When an old stage horse turned out in a pasture by the roadside, every time the stage passes he rushes up to the fence and whinnies and believes he is just as young as he ever was. But the splint on the near foreleg or the spavin on the off hind leg gives him away. When his friends feed him meal or midlings in his cut food he wonders where the old-time oats are and does not realize that'coul he get them he could not chew them, And his eyes are so dim that he cannot see that when old friends look at him, it is not admiration, but pity in their eyes. And men and horses are not so very different. Uncle Joe knows down deep that it will be impossible for him to improve on what ho did long years ago in congress, but he fools himself into a belief that he can fool those around him and make as good a showing as of o'd. This will hold him up for a little while and then lie will realize the world is passing him by and then he "will wish he was back in the old Illinois home. It need astonish no one to read some morning in the next six months that Uncle Joe confesses to being tired and has resigned. re-signed. A Stricken Princess TO PRINCESS BEATRICE of England especial sympathy is due. In her early youth she wa betrothed to the son of Napoleon III and Eugenie of France. He was a winsome boy and held himself him-self as the rightful heir to the throne of France to be Napoleon IV. The young pair were enchanted en-chanted with each other, and all who saw them declared that it was clearly a love-match. But before marrying an English princess the young prince desired to prove his worthiness, so joined an English regiment and went to South Africa to fight the Zulus, who were then at war with Great Britain. Arriving there in his zeal the prince, with a small command, advanced beyond the main line, was ambuscaded and killed. The grief of the princess was pitiable to see. She robed herself In deepest mourning and for years shunned all society. But she finally emerged and consented to become the wife of the Prince of Teck. A son was born to them, who had just reached the age of twenty-one when the present war broke upon Europe. He was among the first to go to the front and in the first battle was killed.' The poor mother, now fifty-three years ot age, must in her new bereavement be thinking how empty are earthly titles, and how impotent they are to bring solace to a breaking heart; how all the promises that made her youthful life an enchanted en-chanted one have been blasted by fate until now she sits in her desolation like Rachael, weeping for those who are not the glitter of royalty a horror to her and the thought ever present that: "The boast of heraldy, the pomp of power, And all that beauty all that wealth e'er gave Await alike the inevitable hour." Men think no more of her as princess; but as a helpless mother who is comfortless; her former hopes but accentuating her sorrow. And alas, how many more like her all over Europe who are but living protests against the wickedness of the war that is making all Europe but one great house of mourning. Humors Of The Late Campaign nrflN days before election Secretary Bryan went to Iowa and in a public speech openly denounced de-nounced Senator Cummins and besought the voters vot-ers of Iowa to see to it that he should be retired re-tired on election day. But that stubborn race reelected re-elected him with a largely increased majority. It looks as thought the laugh was on Mr. Bryan. Before Mr. Wilson's election he declared the belief to Colonel Harvey, editor of the North American Review that the colonel's support was hurting his chances for election. At this the colonel was angry and became a thorn in the right side of iMr. Wilson, and Marse Henry Wat-terson Wat-terson of the Courier-Journal, with the chivalry for which ho is famous, took up his frit d Harvey's Har-vey's grievance and became a thorn in his, Wilson's, Wil-son's, left side. But three or four weeks ago a treaty of reconciliation was signed between the president and the two doughty colonels; the treaty was ratified In grape-juice and both colonels went home fully enlisted to do battle, through their stenographers, for the president and his principles. prin-ciples. Since election we have heard of no congratulatory congratula-tory dispatches between the three and the possibility possi-bility is that the president Is now wondering if he did not move for a reconciliation about five weeks too soon. We can imagine the chagrin of Colonel $ Harvey. Anybody can imagine Colonel Watter-son Watter-son looking up from a perusal of the election returns re-turns and exclaiming: "It must hav been that d d grape-juice." A Threatened Meat Famine ADDED to the insatiable demand for meat from abroad the foot and mouth disease is descl-mating descl-mating the herds of cattle in several states. The prospect Indicates that meat will soon be beyond the purses of ordinary people. Utah farmers should note this and so far as they can provide against it. Tliere is a great deal of coarse food wasted on the farms, food that U through cooking or silos could be made -welcome to live stock, and could carry cattle through nicely up to six weeks prior to slaughtering them. All heifer calves should be saved, fewer mustangs mus-tangs and more cattle should be raised, better care should be taken of range cattle to keep them growing Utah should prepare to feed at least its own people. Beet Seed TTAVE our beet raisers ever thought how they are going to get the beet seed for next year's planting? In Germany the greatest care has been exercised for many years in selecting and pre-paring pre-paring beet seed, and we understand that our beet-growers beet-growers have heretofore depended on German seed. If this is true, would it not be wise for them to -at once select home seed so in case the war shall not be settled by spring they will not be wholly bereft? Would it not be a good idea to this year begin be-gin to secure their industry from danger or from dependence on any foreign country for an essential essen-tial to their crop? It cannot be very difficult to save and preserve pre-serve beet seed. A little care and a little patient pa-tient work are all that are required. A Righteous Peace COLONEL ROOSEVELT recently wrote for the - New York Times a paper entitled "The Peace of Righteousness." We think we are entlt'.ed to localize that heading head-ing and to say a vast majority of the people of the United States feel a righteous peace over what came to Colonel Roosevelt on election day. He played a great bluff in 1912 and the people peo-ple called him. Pie tried it again this year and the people i have called him hard. In the silent language of the ballot they havo bidden him rest his sensitive throat. We hope that the Democracy paid him well in 1912 and havo added enough this year to enable him to rest his throat for many years to come, and if they have, the people have a right to exult over the righteousness of the peace that has come to them on his account. Practical Work HTHE McKinley tariff laid a heavy duty on tin plate. It caused a great howl; it was one of the chief causes of Mr. Cleveland's second election. (Two years later the tariff, under a Democratic 'i congress, was reduced to a minimum. But the tariff had given the needed stimulant to cause great tin-plate plants to be established in this country. 'Many improvements over foreign methods meth-ods had been introduced and the works had be- come self-supporting and thus $18,000,000 which before hnd been sent abroad annually for tin plate was saved and paid to American artisans. Up to date the saving has amounted to ?400,-000,000. ?400,-000,000. The vast prosperity that has come to Germany v. during the past forty years has been the applica tion of mechanics and chemistry in the preparation prepara-tion in her manufacturies of relatively small and simple commodities for foreign markets. Now the war has given us for the present the same help that the McKinley tariff gave to the manufacture of tin p'ate in the United States. We have many chemists, many mechanics. Is not this the time for our manufacturers to stir themselves and try to establish plants that will be self-supporting by the time the older nations can settle their differences differ-ences and resume in its fulness their old trade? For instance, to find what Brazil and Argentine want and produce the things in proper forms and colors for those markets? It would give to our own men and women more practical educations and steady employment, it would save to us tens i of millions of dollars, both at home and abroad, and make ours a vastly stronger working force in the world. The Pending Sea Fight IT is 32G years since Phillip of Spain in alliance with France, having fitted out the great Armada, Ar-mada, sent it to capture England. England's little lit-tle fleet met the great menace in the Straits of Dover, sunk many of its ships and scattered the rest. One hundred and nine years ago, the sweetest sweet-est dream of Napoleon was to invade England and to dictate to her the terms on which she might exist. But Nelson found the fleet which was to be his chief instrument and destroyed it himself dying at the close of the day, the roar of his victorious guns being his last lullaby. I The ships of Howard and Drake were little things even as were the guns they carried. The ships of Nelson were larger, so were his guns, but they would be but toys in a modern battle. But they were sufficient for the time. Now sails have been discarded, the "wooden walls" have changed to steel; the guns are multiplied in numbers and caliber, the explosives are instru- I ments of destruction never dreamed of even in Nelson's day, and these are supplemented by airships air-ships and submarines, all loaded with death and once more the world's attention is centered on those Straits of Dover and the battle that is imminent there. Everything is changed except the British sailor. He Is the same and the world is holding its breath at what is to be when the gathered utmost power of modern invention and discipline meet there. Civilization has more than once depended on battles at sea for its advancement. advance-ment. It was so at Salamis, it was so at Actium, it was so when the Great Armada was dispersed; it was so at Lepanto; it was so at Trafalgar. Is the pending battle to take its place with 3 those cited above? The hearts of the human race throb faster in contemplation of it. The Twilight Sleep DR. WM. H. W. KNIPE, adjunct professor at the New York post-graduate medical school, says "the twilight sleep" has come to stay. He has just returned from Freiburg where he made a thorough study of the now treatment and says "it is bound to become the method of the future if carried out strictly according to the Freiburg teaching and in hospitals." He thinks hospitals -Wj' are the only places where the attachments are such that the method can be exactly pursupd. He went to IFreiburg a skeptic, but was converted by what he saw there. The "twilight sleep" is surely a boon of mercy to motherhood and the prayers of the wcrld are that it may prove a triumphant succesB, r2 , |