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Show 4n Independent Paper Published Under :: tfie Management of J. T. Goodwin :: EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN ' ' ' Keep The Real Issues In Mind THE election is growing very near, and every day and night between now and election day, the Republicans of Utah should keep in mind, that no matter what they hear from the rostrums, or read in the newspapers, the real issue this year is "shall the Democratic president and congress be given a vote of confidence for what they have done since the 4th of March, 1913, and given a letter of credit to go on in their work?" All outside of that practically, is bun- i combe. For Utah to go Democratic would mean an endorsement of tariff assassination, an en- t dorsement of the charging of tolls to American coast shipping if they seek to pass through the Panama canal; an affirmation that Utah has no interest in seeing the American merchant marine restored to its old place on the sea; that it believes be-lieves itis right to place American working men on a par with the naked workers of Cuba, and the pauper hosts of China and the payment of $300,000,000 in gold annually to foreign ship owners, own-ers, which is as much lost to this country as though it was Bunk in the sea. I It means, too, that if Americans are insulted, robbed and killed in foreign countries there is no disposition in this country to redress their wrongs or prevent future repetition of the same outrages. Stripped of all disguises, the issues are very plain and simple and to doubt the result would seem to us like doubting the sense of justice in the hearts of the men and women of Utah. The Benevolent Currency Law WE notice that a few of our local Democratic-Progressive Democratic-Progressive orators occasionally refer to the new currency law, as one of the blessings whlh have been vouched to the suffering people of this country. They are careful in the handling of .r the question, oven as is the man who sits down knowing that in his coat-tall pocket he is carrying home some fresh eggs. We notice also that in pursuance of that law Secretary McAdoo last week sent to Tennessee something like $1,500,000. We wonder if any poor man in Tennessee can borrow money on less security this week than was demanded last week? When President Jackson Jack-son bulldozed the repeal of the old national central cen-tral bank charter, the surplus funds were sent to different states. Wo wonder how many of them ever returned the money. If the agent of a trust company should use y the money of the company for benevolent purposes, pur-poses, he would lose his place and possibly go to jail. Is it any different when the money is raised by the taxing of the whole people? Was this de-E de-E vice wanted to reconcile the bankers to the now I law? " Who Knows? SPEAKING of the danger of an invasion of England, Eng-land, a canny Scott said, in substance, yesterday: yester-day: "It is not impossible." There are times when It requires something like the shock of a great war to cause a nation to do away with a greatwrong. The law of entail has driven from Great Britain thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of her sons who should be there, the defenders of the kingdom. My father's estate went, of course, to the eldest son. The result is, one brother is in Canada, one in India. My sister, who is the wife of another second sec-ond son, is in Australia, and T am here. The aristocracy ha ruled Great Britain for. a hundred years; yes, ever since the feudal government govern-ment was merged into the present government; and they have always owned the lands and have assessed the people, who have worked the lands, to the limit- iThe higher class has grown very rich through foreign trade, and when it became possible to deliver the product of the cheap lands of the United States and Canada at Liverpool cheaper than the tenant farmers of England could produce pro-duce it, the government refused to interpose any protection, lest it might cost their factory operatives opera-tives a little more to live, which would make it necessary to raise the wages of those operatives, and thus interfere with trade. This pursued year after year, has broken the hearts of her yeomanry, and now when danger comes her sons at home cannot become good soldiers under less than six months' training, and her other sons who would be a living wall between the mother country and her foes are scattered all around the world. The aristocracy will put up a good fight; they have never failed in a crisis. All through childhood they have been looking upon the pictures of their ancestors and reading on what fields or ships they served valiently their county; they cannot go out from those ancestral homes and fail either in valor or in honor. The trouble is there are not enough of them for the present call. iMay be the present war will shock England into correcting some immemorial wrongs." "In Time of Peace, Prepare For War" ANOTPIER report from high military authority comes that our country is absolutely unprepared un-prepared for anything like a great war. If the report is true, and it doubtless is, then there has been criminal neglect on the part of the general and state governments. The war in Europe has already given us many useful object lessons and is adding to them daily. The first one made clear how easy it is, in a time of profound pro-found peace for a nation to be plunged into a devastating war. The second one was that a month of real war costs more than years of careful care-ful preparation. The third was that with all foreign countries, pledges of peace, or covenants entered into to secure . peace, count 'for nothing when a time comes that an advantage is believed to be possible pos-sible by breaking them. Whichever side wins in the present war will be arrogant and domineering for a long time to H come, and the lesBon is an old one that the most H certain way to avoid war is to bo ready for it at H all times. ,H The United States does not need nor want H a large standing army as is the custom across H the sea, but certainly our nation should be as H well policed as our cities are. Then the youth of H the land should be trained in the elimentary school of war. One year of their schooling, say H between eighteen and nineteen, should be in a H military camp with military teachers. It would be good for them physically and mentally, it would improve their bearing and manners; it would prepare them for military duty should they ever be called upon to go to the defense of their M country. From them the appointees to West Point and Annapolis should be selected on merit. The expense of that year's training should be M borne half by the state, half by the general gov- M eminent. H This would put off wars. It would, in case of M war, save the wholesale slaughter of men which always comes when a war is sprung upon us through the Ignorance of the men and incompet- M ency of officers who have had no experience in H preparing camps or the proper disposition of M men in front of an enemy. M This plan, or a better one, carried out for ten M years would not cost as much as one month of M war. The difference would be at the end of ten M years there would be 5,000,000 of men with the jH preliminary training of soldiers. With that force M and with the government keeping up with fighting H ships, the strongest combination of powers would M think twice before kindling any war with the H great republic. Added to this special premiums should be offered for improvements in both guns M and explosives, because when it comes "War is H Hell." B Mr. Bryan's Fetich W BEHIND the president and congress Secretary Bryan steadily urged the slashing of the tariff. These are his views as published in his Commoner: Every industry in this country which cannot stand alone must, of necessity, be a burden upon the industries that can stand alone, and this is not only an injustice to those industries upon which the load is placed, but an actual subtraction subtrac-tion from the value of the total product. To illustrate: il-lustrate: If there are ten enterprises in a community, com-munity, each one self supporting, the total value of the community's product will be the sum of the products of the ten factories, and the total j profit will be the sum of the profit of the ten. If, however, only nine of the industries are self ' supporting and the tenth can live only by en- forced contributions from the other nine, the ' total profit of the community is the profit of the , nine less the contribution made to the tenth. The above is an abstract truth; in logic and in the experience of our county It is altogether untrue. un-true. In effect Mr. Bryan says It would be better to let the employees of the deficit enterprise, each j one of whom represents five people, go out and starve or add to the competition of other laborers. In effect ho says it would be better i permit the raw material used by the one con . that does i 1 m , ' not pay, perish for want of uso. In effect he says B It would bo better to send abroad and purchase K such material as the unsuccessful factory produc- H i G8, than to nurse a lame enterprise in our midst, Vj ,i even though the interest on the money sent H '' abroad amounts to more than is needed to carry m on the lame enterprise. H This too in the face of the fact that the es- fi-, tablishing of enterprises which could not pay H! ; expenses at first, has reduced the cost of a thou- B sand necessary articles 50 per cent under the B j prices charged by foreigners, and in the past fifty K, years has transformed our republic. ; 'Finally no nation is prepared to meet the re- i quirements of peace and war unless she is able K to produce every needed thing within herself. H j Mr. Bryan has never seen his theory tried in li any new country like our own, or Canada, or Aus- 1 stralia or either of a dozen other countries that w it has not resulted in the bankruptcy of the peo- H pie and government. But it does not matter. B; Idols are never discarded until they are broken. H "Industrial Freedom" THERE was a certain prosperous village, we will aay in Arkansas. It was beautifully sit- H uated on a little river that came out of some 1 springs in the foothills of the Oark range and Hi flowed down to the White river. The village had KJ' sprung up on a corner of a big cotton plantation, HH and contained a country store which sold every- 1 thing from a yard of calico up to an anvil; a H furniture store, a grocery store, three blacksmith j shops, three carpenters, a music teacher, a shoe- H maker shop all the needed paraphernalia of a M small town. A jolly people lived there; every m house was a little temple of hospitality; the young B people engaged in all manner of innocent sports; H the elder ones looked on approvingly and all were M prosperous. H At last a trunk-line railway company pushed m a branch road in from a city forty miles away. M There was great rejoicing on the day of its com- H pletion, for tliink of it, they could go in an hour H to town, which before had been a long day's ride. IH And the fare was only a dollar. M But after a short time a change was noted. H No one could explain what caused it, but it came H to the village as mildew falls upon a plant. It H came dust at the height of cotton picking land HH when the teamsters went to the planter to con- Hfl tract to haul the cotton to town, they were In- H formed that they would have to do it for Jialf M the usual price, or he would have to give it to H the railway company. This killed the teaming m and in turn forced (half the blacksmiths to find 1 work elsewhere, soon the trade of the stores H began to fair off. m If a person wanted ten dollars worth of goods, H he could buy the goods in the city for six dol- H lars, it cost only $2.00 to go and come, he could H huve the goods sent down for1 75 cents and thus KSl save $1.25 and have the fun of going to town. Hn In a little while more the young men and B girls began to dress better, so not to look so H countryfled when they went to the city and then H goods were so cheap in town. The furniture man H began to lose trade, his material was so old-fash- B loned and then he charged such outrageous H prices. H The second year the cotton king reduced wages H 50 per cent, on the statement that the city was Wm filled with idle men who would be glad to work Ifl at the wages he offered. All his needed supplies 9 he bought in the city, explaining that he saved B eight per cent on their former cost. He made so Kj much money that in three years he removed to H New Orleans, leaving the plantation in the care H of an overseer. H Attendance at church on Sundays began to fall M off. The young men got in the habit of taking IH their best girls to the city on Sunday morning, H attending a movie, getting dinner and returning- I , . in the afternoon. You see, it only cost $5.G0 per couple. The practice of the old village doctor fell to nothing. The more popular city doctors prescribed pre-scribed by telephone. When anything serious came upon the ladles they felt it necessary to go to a city hospital. Not a few of the villagers had appendicitis. The village lawyer ran for the legislature, there he made a business partnership and never returned. Everybody began to wonder why money was so scarce and complained of hard times. When the owner of the plantation ceased buying home supplies, the truck gardeners had to give up their business; one after another of the stores failed. Even the brewery was forced to shut down, the people had become too poor to buy beer. There had been an exodus from the place for two or three years and finally all that were left were a few old indigent colored people, who eeked ,put a miserable existence by the little work they could get in cotton-picking time, raising melons, hunting "possum" and keeping a few pigs and chickens. Only one of these could read. One day he got hold of a newspaper which contained the gifted Mr. Underwood's masterly eulogy on "Industrial Freedom," in which he explained that the present president and congress had given the people the right to buy what they needed in the cheapest markets, something they had not enjoyed before since that distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania had given them the Walker "tariff," three score and more years ago. This the colored man who could read, ad to his fellows. When he had finished the group were silent until an aged colored citizen asked: "Did the gemmen mention whar we uns can get the money needed for ter buy in der cheap market?" Then there was a still longer silence, which was finally broken by a cry of fire, and, looking up, they saw the big house of the planter in full blaze. A delegation of the I. W. W.'s had come by and fired the planter's house, barns, gin-house every combustible thing about the place. Later a fow" of them were arrested and when arraigned they plead that their act was necessary to insure perfect "Industrial Freedom" in this republic. Indispensible 'HARRA: "Was I at the battle of the Nile? Did yees niver rade how at about nine o'clock in the avening there was a lull in the fight, when Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson came upon the quarter-deck and called out, 'Is Dinnis 0'iHarra aboard?' How thin I riz up and tippin' my cap to the admiral answered: 'Aye, aye, sir,' and how thin the admiral, with a confident smile, shouted: 'Let the battle go on!' Was I there do you ask?" History repeats itself, only the Progressive-Democrats Progressive-Democrats are asking: "Is Daniel Harrington aboard?" And the battle goes on. Our Progressives HTHE Progressive wing of the Democracy seems to be more active in Utah than the old mossy backed Democracy itself. They must have read of the incident that took place one sabbath day when old Father Taylor was preaching to the sailors in Boston. He was explaining that "works" and "faith" must go hand in hand in a christian life, and Illustrated his meaning in this way: "If you have only faith you are in a boat with only one oar and the boat simply turns in a circle and makes no headway. head-way. It is the same with good works, only your boat turns in a circle the other way and you make no progress." An old tar in the audience audi-ence had grown very restless and suddenly springing up he shouted: "You blankety blankety i old land lubber, can't you scull?" I Our progressive friends are evidently imitaU j ing their great leader in the east who long ago - learned how to "scull." He ran his boat with i great success two years ago. He lured enough Republicans aboard to elect a Democratic presl- j.j dent and congress. He was sculling with the " "works" oar then, this year he is trying the "faith" oar and evidently believes that if he can raise enough hades, the people will turn to him two years hence for the sake of peace. Two years ago he had only abuse for Republicans, Re-publicans, to draw enough away to elect a Democrat. Dem-ocrat. This year he is abusing Democrats, know- . ing they will not scratch a ticket, but hopes by his abuse of them he can catch enough more Republican suckers to keep congress filled with Democrats. He earns his salary. The Expected Sea Fight , rTt HE Germans are pressing down the west coast V of France. It looks as though the purpose is, as soon as the army can be withdrawn that is now confronting the Russians in western Prussia, Prus-sia, to make a double attack at some point on the coast of England. Then will come the long expected sea fight for England's only safety rests in her fleet. Except for the submarines the issue would not be doubtful. How well England is provided pro-vided with those little monsters, no one on this side of the Atlantic knows, but it is known that Germany has a big fleet of them. The probable result makes one shudder even in contemplation of it. Then in addition it is known that Germany has a large fleet of air ships. If the battle is ever joined it will be on and under and above the sea. Germany will fight to take from Great Britain her ancient prestige on the ocean, the British fleet will fight to save England from invasion and it on her part will be pretty nearly a fight for life. The battle will probably be within one hundred miles of London and Nelson's exclamation, exclama-tion, 'Victory or Westminster Abbey" will be the slogan. And all this is after the cross has been standing stand-ing on calvary nineteen hundred years and every one of the nations engaged has for a thousand years been singing Christmas carols and calling upon the Prince of Peace for His Kingdom to come. Utah Apples APPLE day was great in Salt Lake. Some of the fruit shown was of a kind to make men exclaim: "if when the world was young such apples as these grew in the garden, then our great, great grandmother was justified in advising the only man in the world to try them." Some of the presentations were marvelous. Think of a dozen perfectly developed Baldwins on a twig only a foot long! That twig had held and nursed them amid all , w the winds of the summer, and the twig was not more than half an inch through. No fairer apples ever gladdened the eyes of men than grow in Utah, but we do not believe they make as delicious cider as some eastern apples ap-ples do. On voicing that belief the information was given that the people of Utah do not know how to make genuine cider. That may be true but there are spots in the eastern states where no special science is required re-quired to make elder and many a staid and respectable re-spectable citizen can still call up a vision of a bare-footed boy with no clothing but a small shirt and overalls, bending over a cider barrel with J one end of a straw inserted in the barrel and the other in his mouth, and had (Raphael caught and transfixed the expression on the boy's face, his next painting of an angel would have been an improvement over all his formej work. To Lessen Wars 0L ROOSEVELT is publishing a series of -' articles for the New York Times on themes that are just now attracting the attention of all classes of people. He treats as puerile and mischievous the bunch of arbitration treaties re '' cently entered into between our government and v several other governments, because events are proving that such treaties count for nothing when it seems to be for the best interests of any power to break them. For instance Russia was the power that called for the first and second peace conferences and all the powers had guaranteed the neutrality of Belgium. In his latest paper ho suggests but does not discuss the possibility of making such adjustments as may lessen if not prevent future wars. One sentence from this last paper reads as follows: It now remains to consider whether there is not and I believe there is some method which will bring nearer the day when international war &'1 of the kind hitherto waged and now waging be tween nations shall be relegated to that past which contains the kind of private war that was habitually waged between individuals up to the end of the Middle Ages. By degrees the work of a national police has been substituted for the ercise of the right of private war. iSor analogous international police force must be .. . ated if war between nations is to be minimized as war between individuals has been minimized. iSix months ago the thought was that such a result might be reached by an international agreement, agree-ment, backed by the authority to enforce it, forbidding for-bidding any offensive or defensive alliances between be-tween nations and compelling the adjustment of differences between nations by arbitration. But the events of the past two months have demonstrated demon-strated that such an adjustment would be futile, for we have seen one power go to war with the certainty that it would go to conquer the three strongest powers of Europe and the only fighting power of Asia to win. Some stronger guara'ntee must be made. Next to the ambition t . of kings and the land-lust which seems to possess all nations except ours, the most vital question that interests strong nations is the question of trade. If there could be a clause which would bind the nations not to buy from or sell to any power which, rejecting arbitration, went to war, that would make the best prepared nation hesitate before precipitating a war. The certainty that even if it won on the battle field, it would for a term of years, be unable to either buy or sell would surely be calculated to make the most arrogant nation hesitate. Behind the present war the advantage to trade is the thing which more than any other is the impelling cause. But in closing Col. Roosevelt is right in concluding con-cluding that it is the duty of nations to adopt the best remedy to Insure peace by always being prepared for war. i ' Consistency .4 N the Oregonian's "Half a Century Ago" col- A umn, is an item which says: "Private telegrams dated October 11, quotes gold at 202 to 208 and legal tender at 52 to 52." Those legal tenders were bought converted into interest bearing bonds, a little later all the country's indebtedness was made payable in species. spe-cies. When that was made all secure then some New York thieves, backed by some London thieves raised a cry that there was too much silver sil-ver that it must be demonetized or the country would go to a silver basis and nine years after when gold stood at 202 congress was fooled into converting half the honest money in the world into wjY a mere commodity. This made all government indebtedness payable in gold. At the time the interest-bearing indebtedness amounted to $2,200,-000,000. $2,200,-000,000. The people have paid that amount in interest in-terest and half the principal. The other half they are still paying interest on though in interest they have paid twice over the principal to date. By the same legislation it killed the export trade of the United States to half the peoples of the earth, and by the same legislation, in effect, offered a bounty of 60 per cent to the hordes of Asia to send us their wares. , And still it is easy to engage learned financiers those whose business is to collect interest to explain that our currency system is the very finest fin-est in the world. And 93,000,000 out of the 95,-000,000 95,-000,000 of our population pay the taxes, to keep the machinery of the government running and to pay the interest on the bonds which the favored few hold. And still the holdup who goes out with a mask and gun to prey upon the night prowler is looked upon as a public enemy whom to run down and kill is a worthy act. Consistency lost her jewelry in the United States congress in 1873 and has never recovered it since. |