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Show I An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. T. Goodwin :: EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN Is There A Hell? A BOOK with the above title has been is3ued j in New York which contains the opinions of sixteen of the "makers of religious thought" L on the question of man's hereafter. j. They all support the doctrine of the soul's immortality, and while ignoring the old-fashioned material hell, insist that the souls of the good will fare much better in the hereafter than the """ souls of the bad. The men subscribing to this are all eminent clergymen. There is nothing more strange about a future life for men than is the present life. Called , from nothing; appearing here more helpless and dependent than any other creature; still in from v twenty to sixty yearB ringing the world with his 1 words or deeds and then growing still and turn- ing back to dust; men contemplating this, and re- t membering the affections formed in that brief time; the 'tearing of heart strings at the separation, separa-tion, revolt against the thought that this is all. They look at the stars in their processions and realize that only an infinite wisdom could . have framed their order and their spelndor. They note the seasons in their rounds and ' mark that after the exhaustion of producing the harvest, the sun wanders further and further away and the tired earth grows wan and cold and wrapping the winding-sheet of the snow around I t it sinks into a sleep that looks like that phe- , nomenon which we call death. But when the sleep is over the sun returns; the winter's shroud I f melts away; even under the snow flowers are f found; then comes the soft air; the buds appear; i the trees put on anew their robes; the birds re- 1 turn and rebuild their houses; the spring ad vances into the summer and that is followed by I f another harvest. Is man lost in this eternal progression? j That ho should be would be a violation of & every lesson that is taught by the operations of nature. But the bread we eat is made from grain that at first was but wild grass that made pasture for s animals. It had to be cultivated to give it value. By his discipline Luther Burbank has con- ) i j, verted what was but a repellant plant into an ' j article of food more wonderful than was ever ' i seen before. He has pruned and engrafted fruit Hi trees until he has doubled both the quantity and M quality of their fruit. In the same way he has converted a worthless weed into a glorious flower. 1 Q But he has been able to do this by finding an original element in the fruit or flower that had been dormant from the first. We talk of ( j good and bad men. By that we mean only that , the germ of good is more developed in the ono than in the other. Many good men produce only jrf , , half the good that they should. They are waiting only that the original element of good within them may be more fully awakened. Many bad men are waiting merely for the magic touch that will cause them to shed their thorns and bring forth their fruit. With many this will not by done in this life, but all the lessons that we gather make the foundation for the hope of a higher life. And it seems to un that we have no authority for saying that in that higher life the degrees of happiness will be measured by our lives here. Rather it seems more reasonable to say that in the ceaseless upward up-ward procession a certain station will have to be reached before men on earth or souls beyond will finally receive the light to understand that real happiness comes only through love and justice jus-tice and devotion to duty. A Public Enemy IN 1910 Col. -Roosevelt leturned from his trip to Africa. The glamor of his journey the attention at-tention paid him in Germany and England and other countries of the old world, had so swoolen his cranium that he doubtless believed that he was the very greatest of all the great men known in history. The ovation which was given him in New York City on his arrival was the finishing stroke. He believed that he was not only the greatest, but the best loved of men. Politics in New York were in a normal condition. condi-tion. The old parties were arranging to have their conventions and it was expected n all sides, among Democrats as well as Republicans, that there would bo a Republican victory. But the Colonel could not keep out of the campaign. He suddenly appeared on the stage and explained that the pressure upon him by those who wanted a pure government was so great that he but followed follow-ed an imperative duty in mixing in. There was a pressure sure enough, but it was not from without with-out but from within his own anatomy. He entered the Republican convention and at once took charge. He turned down the candidate for governor gov-ernor whom the convention and the Republicans generally wanted and had a candidate of his own selection named, with the result that his candidate candi-date was repudiated by the people at the polls and the Democratic candidate was triumphantly elected. The defeat was so humiliating that the Colonel was for a good while silenced. "When he appeared next it was as a progressive on a plat form which was a hotch-potch of principles which every crank in politics had suggested; with the money of Mr. Perkins and the help of Democratic Democra-tic votes at the primaries he secured a big delegation dele-gation to go to Chicago and yell for him. There he Insisted that delegates, against whom con-tests con-tests had been filed, should not vote until the contests were settled, then had contests enough filled to shut out so many regular delegates that his delegates would be in the majority and because be-cause the trick failed, he got himself nominated nomi-nated In a special convention and went into the compaign with the natural result that the Democratic Demo-cratic candidate was elected. Ho has started in to repeat this year his 1910 ! performance. jH We hope that Mr. Barnes will press his libel suit and will engage counsel that cannot be bull- ) dozed, but who will bring out all the facts. If J he does, he will come so near proving that what Colonel Roosevelt did in 1912, was so tranparent M that the natural reference is irresistible that it was under a contract with the Democratic lead- M ers, and that tho "lease and bond," to use a M measure phrase to work the Republican party to a finish, still continues. It is a pity that Wttn. M". M Stewart cannot bo called back to prosecute that case. It Is necessary that the showing bo made to make clear to the country tho real character and design of the doughty Colonel, what he real- M ly is and what he aims to do, if he can fool tho M people a little longer. Tho dispatches indlcato M that he proposes to put up a big fight on Barnes. H We hope that he will. A man should not go H into court seeking redress unless he has clean H hands, but neither should another man rest his H innocence on the bad character of the man as- H sailing him. Roosevelt used his great office when -, president, to stamp Into the ground tho charac- ter's of some men the latchets of whose shoes he H V7as not worthy to unloose, and has kept that trail tH of his warm ever since he left the office. iH We hope for him, now that he is assailed in H return a full and fair hearing, but no bulldozing M must be allowed and no screening behind a once jH high reputation to evade facts. H The Status Of Panama I H "W7E knew from memory that there was no M binding allegiance on the part of Panama M to the Colombian confederation, but could not H prove it, so stopped insisting upon it. But in H the New York Times is the full history from the M pen of Wilfred Schoff, the secretary of the Phil- adelphia Commercial Museum. The substance of it all is, that the Federation of tho United States M of Colombia was formed December J 7th, 1819, and the Constitution was promulgated July 12th, H The state of Panama was then a province of old Spain, but the next year, 1821, flho revolted and without help became an independent state H and so remained until she joined the confederacy, H but reserving her sovereignty. In 1830 Panama gave the confederation notice that unless Bollver H ceased his assumption of autocratic power, she H would assume her sovereignty, and this was only H settled by Bollver's resignation as president. In H 1841, after five years of war, Panama gained H her independence from Colombia. A year later, HH under the promise that she should have a consti. B tution recognizing her sovereignty, she rejoined H the confederacy. H In 1855, Panama was recognized as an inde- H pendent sovereign state. In 1860 Panama and H several other states drew away from the con- H federacy and the then government of the con- H federacy recognized their right to do so. H In September, 1861, a now agreement of fed- H eratlon, signed by the president of the state of H Panama and the commissioner plenipotentiary of H H the United States of New Granada, contained H the following specific reservations: H Article 1. The sovereign state o' Panama H shall be incorporated into the new national en- H tity which is called the United States of New H Granada, and shall continue in consequence to H form one of the federal sovereign states which H. compose that association with the spe- RJ ciflc reservations and conditions expressed in the M following article. H Article 2. the said state to be here- H'' by incorporated with the United States above H mentioned, but this state, in exercise of its sov- Ht ereignty, reserves to itself the right to refuse t its approval to the said new pact, and to the H constitution which may be drawn up, whenever W in is judgment, it may violate tho autonomy of H the state. B! And this agreement was ratified by the legis- Bj lative assembly of Panama October 15, 18C1, with B the following stipulation: B Tho president of the state is hereby author- B izod, in order to reconstitute the republic, to in- B. , corporate the said state herein, always provided B that it shall be accorded tho same concessions B i as set forth in the agreement of September G H B The right of nullification and secession rec- B ognlzed in the constitutional amendment of 1855, B tho constitution of 1858, and the agreement of B 3861 were never relinquished by the citizens of B Panama, and tho terms of this agreement of B 1SG1 were included in the Colombian Constitution H' of 18G3. But notwithstanding this fact, a new B constitution promulgated in 1885, by executive H' decree, and in violation of the procedure of H amendment defined in previous constitutions, H f purported to terminate those rights and to re- Hh duco the Isthmus of Panama to the status of a Hy crown colony without representation in tho na- Hi iomil congress; and it was held in involuntary H h subjection by overpowering garrisons of the na- m tional army stationed in the Isthmian cities by H order of the executive at Bogota. Hj The act of secession adopted by the citizens H of Panama in popular assembly November 3, H 1903, was, therefore, a reassertlon of legal rights H' maintained since the independence of Panama fl was achieved by its citizens in 1821, and in the Hi meantime on numerous occasions asserted by H'! Panama, acknowledged by the Colombian govern HJ ment and never relinquished by the citizens of Hl Panama. 1 In the light of that history, it is difficult to Hl 1 see on what ground Colombia is now seeking Hi damages for the loss of something she never H , owned. Moreover, when Panama was in part a V j member of the confederation she never received M.; ono benefit from the central government, but was H steadily robbed by it. It is time that the baffled H I robbers should be finally dismissed. B( Pioneer Day H it VYB hear the tread of Pioneers, Hi Of nations yet to be. Hti The first low wash of "waves H Where soon shall roll a human sea." H. We wonder if any of the tired men who came Hj down Emigration canyon on that day sixty-seven Hf years ago thought to repeat those words. And if Hij tboy did, we wonder if the vision of what was to HBL be in this valley in three score jears and seven Dp flashed before their minds eyes. Probably not, Hjl for some of the changes that have since been D wrought have been modern inventions, that no Ht ono had ever dreamed of then. IPB Since then has been a transformation. But Hi when they reached the valley they knelt upon BHL the desert ground and held a praise, service. That BHn praise service has since taken material, form. It H is seen in the foliage and flowers; it is heard in I1' B tho soft breeze that comes in from the lake and down from the heights. Thoso pioneers havo nearly all gone, but their work has materialized in fruits and flowers and the stately structures in the city are monuments to what they did. Pioneer day must always be a sacred day in Utah. It marked an epoch. It began In the desert; des-ert; it materialized in fruits and flowers and the change has been a transformation for all, savo the solemn mountains, tho sunbeams and the lonely lake that rolls in the distance. As Generous As Great ""OLUMBUS discovered America and it was a -' new great light uplifted to give mankind a new signal station of hope. All the old world was stirred as never before, and Ignorance and 'Superstition cowered in their lairs, afraid of what was to be under that light. New lands to settle, new mines to reinforce the wasted supply of the world's money, new great fields for commerce a new land whero men fettered by poverty and paralyzed by despair des-pair might lift their heads, resume their original orig-inal stature and find comfort and self-respect. From the mountain heights of D.arlen, Balboa looked off where the great western ocean rolled and tho blue waves seemed beckoning for tho commerce which was to be. Now the great republic has bent down and hewed a path for the great ships to pass through and find new tracks for the argosies of commerce across that sea that in Balboa's time was shadowed shad-owed by no sails and undisturbed, bv tho heavy respirations of laboring engines. In fifteen days more the procession of ships will begin through that mighty work which connects con-nects the eastern with the western ocean. The world stands awed before the marvelouo achievement of constructing that canal. But our country does not stop at that. Jn substance it says to the outside world: "we have the great artificial strait sufficiently near completion to receive your ships, and to make the burden as light as possible upon you; while we have not the Intellectual grasp needed, to comprehend what a great foreign commerce is, we havo determined to charge the same tolls on the few coasting vessels of our country that desire to pasB the canal, that we charge yours, for when we do a thing, wo do it gallantly and d n the expense." Jealousy THE main fact developed by the sensational trial in Paris is that an Insanely jealous man or woman should never be permitted to marry. An unhappy home is certain to follow and not infrequently the wreck of it. Indeed, we read of tragedies in every daily paper, the cause of which was due solely to the utter selfishness out of which jealousy springs. Of course, it cannot can-not be guarded against. It is an attribute that comes up from the lower animals, it ds indeed, the stronger proof yet supplied of the truth of the Darwinian theory. It is not yet bred out of the hearts of men and women and is the cause of more sorrow than any other attribute of poor human nature. That European War Cloud H"1 HE Teutonic races have for centuries been the great wedge extending from tho Baltic and North seas through Europe to the Adriatic and keeping back the Tarter and the Slav races from sweeping over western Europe. The Germans Ger-mans of. Austria have absorbed and amalgamated with the Hungarians and have long cast covetous eyes upon the Balkan states. Austria picked up two or three of these .states when Russia was in distress after her war with Japan and it seems HjHnHnHHHHHHHHMBJHBII that since Turkey has lost her possessions in Europe, save a narrow strip along tho Hellespont, Helles-pont, the land lust of Austria has increased. The truth is she wants more sea room on the south and east. But if she persists she 'will be playing a desperate game because Bince the days of Peter the Great, Russia has wanted an un- hampeerd path for her ships from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and all southern Russia is in full sympathy with the Balkan states Slavs. Austria is in danger, too, from another direction. direc-tion. Suppose she is supported by tho armies and fleets of the Kaiser and a settlement is then made, what then? Especially if in the meantime the aged Austrian emperor should pass away! We have no doubt but that the Kaiser has long entertained a hope of being the head of all the Teutons of Europe. For several years he has been steadily encroaching upon the Netherlands by so preparing his military stations in the north that he could in a week hurl an irresistible force on the realm of Queen Wilhelmina. But Qfr this is a desperate move for him to go to the support sup-port of Austria, for he must know that It will set Russia on fire and awaken an enthusiasm in France to assail him. And Great Britain will sell munitions of war to all parties with the most perfect impartiality. The curtain raiser is being played by Austria Aus-tria and Servia; we still believe that the knowledge knowl-edge of the horrors that would follow will keep the great tragedy from being called. But by the present outlook is it not clear that the Hague tribunal was organized a century too soon? A Difference IN certain hotels in Germany the guests upon being shown to their appartments find on their dressing table an engraved card bearing a facsimile fac-simile of the autographs of host and hostess earnestly ear-nestly beseeching "our welcome guests under no circumstances to distribute gratuities to our ser- i vants either during your visit or on your depar- ture." I That is a reminder tnat a few years ago a I gentleman and his wife went abroad and reaching reach-ing Ireland engaged a touring car for a few days. They stopped at a town one night and a jolly Irish girl showed them to their apartments. On the wall was a notice saying "Guests will please not fee the waiters!" The girl saw the gentleman look at the card, whereupon she made a deep courtesy and said: i "Niver mind that, yees are not guests, but mlm- I bers of the family." Mrs. George A. Black WTRS. GEORGE A. BLACK came to this city IVl in the glory of her youth and when hope and happiness attended her steps by day and filled her dreams with peace at night. For more i than forty years her presence was a familiar one on these streets. When she came the city was but a little village and was provincial In a thousand thou-sand ways. Slowly the changes come and their accumulation has made a transformation here. But the only change to Mrs. Black was the mellowing one that comes when radiant youth yields serenly to advancing yeavs. But the attributes at-tributes that drew sincere friendship and love to her the years could not change. She was the same always and to every good cause she was a support, to the afflicted her presence was a benediction. bene-diction. , A month ago she was seized with an alarming illness, but when the first crisis was passed she rallied so finely that it was believed she would soon be herself again. But it was not to be. Death had set his "pale flag" above her pillow and his messenger could not be turned aside. The deep sympathies of the city go out in full measure to her husband. She who walked by his side for more than two score years is gone and he is totally bereft. May the All Compassionate Com-passionate be his comforter. Not Worth The Powder Y7 E no' k or any sreat war over Servia. VV At least if a war comes, Servia will be merely the excuse for it. Europe has long had a bilious fever and the nations there still adhere ad-here to the old Alleopathic practice of four score years ago, their chief remedy is to bleed the patient pa-tient that seems to be sickest. As to this particular case, we think Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary has the best of the quarrel. None of the other powers named, neither Russia nor Germany, Ger-many, nor France, nor Great Britain, has any legitimate claim. Servia is a little country of less than 20,000 square miles, a little bigger than Box Elder county in Utah. At $100 per acre she would not bring as much as the cost of mobilizing ono army corps. She has about the same number of people as Chicago, and most of them are half-barbarous half-barbarous and shamefully poor peasants. If Europe enters upon a great war with Servia as the excuse, it will be merely an excuse. |