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Show An Independent Paper Published Under :: tfie Management of J. T. Goodwin :: EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN $' I1 I I The Buncombe Has Failed THE Demo-Progressive contingents in this re- gion have, during the campaign, played a dou ble role. One has been abuse o Senator Smoot, I the other laudation of President "Wilson and his I marvelous display of statemanship since he be came president. I But the campaign, brief as it has been, has been too long for them. The people took the j Missourian's position and said: "Show me!" The i more the friends of the president have tried to analyze his words and deeds, the more difficult have they found the task. When they speak of his tariff reform, some one asks, what man or industry in Utah has been helped by it? They want to change the subject. ! When they say he has kept the party's con- r vention pledge to revise the tariff, some one asks ' if annihilation is the same as revision. When emphasis is laid on the fact tl at he has f . avoided war, some good citizen who was run out J of Chihuahua, his house burned, his crops tram pled into the ground and his flocks and herds con-i con-i flscated, rises up and asks if American citizen ship is something of no concernment 'to the presl- Iuent, the subject is turned again. Again, when the blessings -which the present administration has showered upon the country are mentioned collectively, and some one asks for a bill of particulars to be filed explaining: How many destitute men have been em- I ployed? How much cheaper is food and clothing? I What new luxuries has the laboring man ' i found in his dinner pail? S What new enterprises have been inaugurated? i In what way have taxes been reduced? I Has interest been reduced? ' Is it easier to borrow money? i Where have 'the markets heen widened? I j. Has the industrial freedom so much harped i 'x upon given the poor any new freedom except the j' freedom to starve? , Then they want to turn the subject again, f Then as to Senator Smoot: Where has he , failed in any thing concerning the best interests of Utah or the country? Has any citizen of Utah asked him for any official help iu any reasonable thing that he has i not responded cordially and effectively? j v Has he not been at all times in his high office II true to his party and his country and to all the le-', le-', gitimate interests of Utah? Are not the cries against him merely the wall fy of the outs who want to get in? In what has he failed in duty or in tireless faithfulness to the trust which his office lays upon him? ' r I t We think the vote on Tuesday will demon strate that the people know who are their real JU , ... , .. . --iiiimiIiiiT.iii friends, what their own interests demand and that what they want is simply a square deal. The Kind They Are CERTAIN labor leaders have called upon union laborers to vote against Senator Smoot. We have a strong suspicion that if a photograph could be taken and published of thi i.ands of the men that circulated that boycott they would not show any of the marks which distinguish the hands of real laboring men. Nothing gnarled nor calloused cal-loused about those hands; not the "horny hands of the sons of toil;" no symptom of the horn about them except when they elevate cornucopias of 'beer to the only hard-worked organ of their system the mouth. We suspect, too, that the bread that these "lahor" leaders has eaten during the past few years has not been earned by them, but by their dupes. Labor unions gravely injure themselves and their cause when they elect blatherskites as their representatives.. In this case the men who signed the boycott never wrote It. The proof of this would be easy. Call them up and ask them to name the different counts behind their boycott ' and they could not name one in three of them. Whether the charges are true or false not one fn the bunch can explain. For a consideration they signed a document which had been prepared by some scrub too meanly partisan to care whether he was writing the truth or not. And what for? To give an endorsement to an administration and party that has in effect officially of-ficially declared that if the laboring men of the United States cannot successfully compete with the pauper hosts of Europe, the hordes of the Orient and the breech-clouted half-barbarians of Africa and the islands of the sea they had better starve. The decent men in the labor unions can see by the above, and it is the exact truth, how they can be led to inflict unmeasured shame and hardships hard-ships on their own children by blindly following unscrupulous and viciously ignorant leaders. Think of It! SOME two score years ago Senator George F. Hoar said: "I have seen the glories of art and architecture, of river and mountain. I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau and the moon rise over Mount Blanc. But the fairest vision on which these eyes ever rested was the flag of my country in a foreign port. Beautiful as a flower to those who love it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate, it is the symbol of .the power and the glory and the honor of fifty millions of Americans." The fifty millions of Americans have doubled, the majesty and glory of the flag have vastly increased, in-creased, but, save on an occasional warship, it is no longer seen in foreign ports. The commerce of the republlo has doubled since those words were spoken by the senator, but we still employ foreign express wagons to deliver our goods and bring us what we need. Our domin- H ion as a nation stops on the sea shore. After a mighty war has been for two months paralyzing the great commercial nations of the earth, and a great opportunity has been opened to us to restore our merchant marine in more than H its former splendor to the world's oceans, and J when the need of shipping to move our products jH was never before so apparent and urgent, our president and the majority in both houses of con- gress have looked on helplessly, refusing every H means that has made other nations commercially H great; Impotent to propose or do anything to meet M the situation. H Congress has adjourned, and the people of M Utah are asked to go to the polls next Tuesday and give the present administration a vote of con- fldence and a letter of credit to go on and keep smashing one industry after another and refus- M ing to the commerce of the country all means to expand to meet the urgent needs of a great na- tion. B Fifty-three years ago certain misguided men inaugurated a rebellion against this Union. M They drew to them the men of certain states, M framed a government and adopted a constitu- M tion. H When the new government was organized, the H man who had been made vice president of it, in his inaugural address declared 'the cornerstone of M the new government was "human slavery;" that M is, that the new government was to be supported H by unpaid labor. The constitution was framed M on that basis. H Well, since 'March 4th, 1913, that constitution M has in effect been resurrected from its dishonored M grave, fumigated, sterilized and regalvanized, and H put in force in our republic; its chief feature be- HJ ing its disdain of honest labor and the. taking from Kg ii all protection, both on land and on the sea. M And the voters of Utah are vehemently called M upon to go to the polls next Tuesday and give to M this administration a vote of confidence. Can any M one doubt what the response will be? . M To Help Them Out H THE Democrats in Utah have been making lots M of noise during the past week. They, too have M indulged in a good deal of levity. For Instance, M they have been telling the laboring men and M women how much their party has done for them, M which would be a side splitting joke were it not H so serious. M They have depicted the brilliancy of the pres- ent president, but have not pointed out just where Mj the application comes in. 'But their speeches have Ifi generally been too long. It requires a terse and H pithy speech to enable the average Democratic H orator to hold a crowd. There is a chance for H more of those orations prior to election day, and fl In the goodness of our heart we will prepare a H speech and tender it gratis to them. Something I like this: "Fellow 'Democrats: I feel it to be a great ' honor to have the pleasure of addressing so In- M telligent an audience as this. 1 It is o ' Inspiration to me to talk to men and H -M--SKVv xH B women who shqw by thoir faces that they have B been close students of the history of the great B party to which they belong and are ready to rost B their faith implioity on its sacred principles as B laid down by Jefferson, as emphasized by Jack- g son, as illuminated by Wilson., (Applause.) Rj i "Fellow Democrats, after a long period out in B the cold, with grass powerful short, the right B linally triumphed through the treachery of Theo- B dore Roosevelt and on the fourth of March of B last year our great party assumed control of na- B tional affairs, B "It is a pleasure to review what our great B president has done, and what our obedient con- B gress has ratified. Especially for Utah. B "About his first act was to aim a body-blow B at our great and growing sugar industry. Was it B not time? Have not our sugar barons joined the B great trust and wealthy now are growing more B wealthy? H "The fact that the industry was giving a great H many thousand farmers a profitable market, and B that the industry promised to change the face H of this interior desert, and save to our country H tens of millions of dollars now being sent away, H will not, I am sure, count with you for real prin- H ciples are external. (Applause.) H "But there is another phase to this question. H The workers in the West India islands live most- H ly on yams and hoecake and watermelons, and H work for twenty-five cents a day. But the owners H of the land that they till are all gamblers, and H when they need money will sell the sugar made Bj by those naked wretches cheaper than the sugar H farmers of Utah can raise beets for the home fac- H H "I leave it to you if it is not better to send H away the money to buy sugar of those gamblers H than to pay our farmers the exorbitant prices H they demand for beets? H "It was the same way with the wool industry. H ."Why, think of it! Some of our wool men H were making so much money that they were ac- H tually moving into town that they might give jB their children better school facilities. The idea of H a wool man's children needing any education. H "Again, what protection had been given our H mines was taken away. I leave it to you if a H mine cannot stand upon its merits in competition H with the world, is it not better to abandon it? H "Again, our great president drove through a H currency law which takes some of the money Hj collected from the people and sends it out to dif- H ferent states to relieve any stringency which the H bankers may make in the money market. Under H that benign law you can now go to any national H bank, and if your financial standing is good and M if you can get a solid endorser, as a special favor M to you, you can borrow for a brief period $15 on lB a $20-gold piece. (Applause.) H "Do you not recognize the benevolence of that H legislation? H "Again, with much impressment the Democrat. H ic convention of 1912 inserted a clause in their H platform that American coast shipping should H pass through the Panama canal free of tolls. Keep H in mind that your money helped build that H canal. H "But the news was wired east last spring that H Colonel Jackling was building a most expensive H yacht. When the news reached Washington our HB great resident said to himself: 'That looks to H me like a monopoly,' and straightway sent a mes- H sage to congress to repeal the law which permit- S ted coast shipping to pass the canal free, that our Hj honor as a nation depended upon it, and it was Kl done of course. Ktf "Again, our great president promised to re- H store our merchant marine, with all its former Hj prestige arid that without bounties or subsidies. H He has not -quite worked out the problem, but I Bj am confident that he soon will. And all this and H more, has been accomplished in nineteen months u J ' .' paMnrtj iMiriiTii nnrrii irrrir pr t irrrr i m i m 11 'i "Fellow Democrats, I will not detain you longer, long-er, for I .see in your intelligent, upturned faces that you are impatient for Tuesday to come that you may, by your ballots, give hearty approval to all that our groat president and congress have done, and all that they In future may be pleased to do to magnify our party and-give glory to our country. Good night!" It is whispered that the Democracy is to flood the country, today or tomorrow morning, with circulars, certifying that the Democracy are the only good that all outside is but a whited sepulchre sepul-chre full of all uncleanliness. The people should brace up and try to stand it. The old story goes that after their nine days' fall out of Paradise, the devils came to on the burning lake, called a convention and passed a series of resolutions, the chiefest being that it was "better to reign In hell than serve In heaven." They have been passing resolutions ever since. Must Be Absolute Neutrality IN some quarters President Wilson is receiving much praise for early declaring that the United States would be strictly neutral as between the nations at war across the Atlantic. This is all right, but what less could he have done? Had he taken the position that Lord Palm-erston Palm-erston or Russell or Mr. Gladstone and others took when our Civil war v as on, there would have been another Civil war here at home within a month. They took the position that the Confederate states were already an independent nation. They scoffed at President Lincoln, they encouraged or winked at the work of their rich manufacturers manufactur-ers in building, arming and supplying crews to ships they sent out to prey upon our commerce; they slighted and almost openly insulted our minister, Mr. Adams, they tried to hoot and laugh down Henry Ward Beecher when he essayed to speak for our country, until he mastered the mob before him by sheer intellect, unfaltering courage and the charm of an eloquence which was a revelation to them. And they never ceased their efforts until three things happened. One was when the little Monitor demonstrated that henceforth unarmored ships were no longer of any avail in sea fights; the second was the reply of Gotschakoff to Napoleon III that Russia would not only refuse to interpose inter-pose in behalf of the Confederacy, but would hold it an act of war for any other power to do so. The third was the calling or our minister upon Earl Russell after his protests had long gone unnoticed and informing him that if a certain ship then nearing completion was permitted per-mitted to go to sea to repeat the performance of the Alabama, it would mean war. Our people are made up of foreigners and the sons of foreigners, a cosmopolitan people separate sep-arate as waves but united as the ocean. Were our country to be assailed, the descend-ents descend-ents of the different races would vie with each other to give the country an unassailable defense. de-fense. But had our chief officers of government, in the present war done what the chief officers of Great Britain did when our Civil war was sprung upon us, before now we should have had a war right at home. Any one who has, during the past two months, listened before a bulletin board and watched the crowd, has seen, over and over, the different races present ready to mobilize mobil-ize for a fight. We spoke, above, of those who were the chief officers of the British government in 18G1-G2', and most of the aristocracy, the clergy and the rich merchants and- manufacturers of England. But we do not forget "that England's splendid queen could never bo influenced to lend her approval to help the slave power, neither could John Bright, the great commoner, nor Richard Cobden nor the poor of Lancashire on whom fell the loss of all their wages because there was no cotton for them to spin. But the situation is altogether different in our country. Our people can be relied upon to make the best defensive fight in the world, or "' when in the right to make the best offensive war I that can be put up, Init they would never brook I our interference in a war between European nations na-tions which involved no principle on our part; hence, knowing this, it was but natural for the president to insist upon neutrality on the part of our country and people, at the same time tendering tend-ering the good offices of our country to try to help negotiate a peace. (Those "labor" leaders, who after mature consideration con-sideration decided to join the Progresso-Demo-cratic organization in Utah this year, must have t been influenced by the increased facilities which 'J the Democratic party has opened for them to obtain ob-tain work, for the cheaper food and clothing which was promised, for the edict which in substance sub-stance the Democratic president and congress put out through legislation and which in effect says if a working man in Utah cannot compete successfully against a breech-clouted serf in Cuba, he ought to starve. Artillery in War T N the military school from which Napoleon grad- uated, artillery was his specialty. That leaning clung to him through life. While but a youth in the service he was sent to Toulon to assist in the siege of that town. An old officer was in command. com-mand. Napoleon looke.l over the situation, then went to the senior officer and begged permission to xearrange the siege guns, explaining that his desire was to gain a swifter success. Permission was given him to go ahead and the reduction of the place was almost immediate.. When Paris was in the grasp of a fierce and furious mob, he was sent there to try to restore order. Almost without noise the artillery was put in place in a single night. A writer who was in the city describing de-scribing it said: "All night through I heard a rumble as of heavily laden wagons rolling over the pavements, and several times I saw a single officer riding through "the streets. Next morning when the populace began to make their usual demonstration, dem-onstration, suddenly from the end of the main ' street a fierce cannonade began, the street was swept with shot and people were falling everywhere. every-where. "The crowd rushed for another street, but there a similar reception was waiting for them. It was the same whichever way they turned. Within an hour all was quiet and I saw that same officer whom I had noticed the previous night riding slowly toward the directory. He was a small man, sat his horse badly, and I afterward learned i that he was an artillery officer, that he had come lrom the army of the south and that his name was Bonaparte." How his stormy soul would have rejoiced , could he have seen the perfected artillery of today: to-day: the breech-loaders, the automatic and rapid-fire rapid-fire and machine guns all the devilish inventions for destroying life. He would have said: "I have been waiting for these. Now I will plant the lilies of Franco on every rampart of the earth." War is about to kill itself by its devices for destroying de-stroying life. Experience long ago established that it is hard work to elect a candidate solely on the supposed short-comings of his opponent. We have seen no explanation of why Mr. Moyle should be elected senator beyond the fact of his be ig an honest man. It is not too late. Lot us hear what special aptitudo he has ever displayed which carries with it an assurance that he could serve Utah In the United States senate with signal ability, far-sightedness, sagacity or any of the other qualifications which attract attention and give influence to a senator? An Impotent Criticism THE silliest feature of the campaign is the attempt to smirch Senator Smoot by misstating mis-stating his record on the Mexican Incident which followed the sending of a great fleet of warships , to Vera Cruz. After evading a hundred causes that justified interference and war; the president, because of the petty act .of a petty ruffian, ordered the fleet to Vera Cruz to obtain satisfaction from a master ruffian who was safe in the Mexican capital two hundred miles away. How he expected to obtain redress except through a war, no mortal could see. Then he sent a message to congress asking Its T endorsement for what he had a perfect right to do. A fool resolution to that effect was rushed through the house. When it reached the senate, Senator Lodge introduced a substitute granting all that the president demanded and adding what was necessary to carry through the program which the president had seemed to be determined upon. This was ably supported by the foremost members mem-bers of the senate including such men as Root of New York and Galllnger of New Hampshire. This Senator Smoot supported and voted for. It was voted down and the impotent house resolution passed, which left the president in a hole, for presidents do not declare war, that is the province of congress. The resolution put the president in a condition where he had no authority to act. Pie was saved by the proposition of the ministers min-isters of Brazil, Argentine and Chile tendering their services to bring about a settlement. But the condition in Mexico today is about as dotfbtful as it was a year ago, and the chances are much more than even that our country will yet have to Interpose to assure peace and safety to Americans and citizens of other countries in Mexico and what property they may still have. And It would not be a very serious work, not half so serious as has been the drifting policy of the past year which has cost vast sums, many American lives and has left both American citizenship citi-zenship and the American flag without prestige or respect in that country. Last summer when the president and his congress con-gress were smashing the chief industries of Utah, Mr. Moyle made a speech or gave out an interview, inter-view, we have forgotten which, the burden of which was that he was sorry for what the president presi-dent and congress were doing, but he, nevertheless, neverthe-less, endorsed everything they did or might do. If it were possible for Mr. Moyle to be elected on Tuesday, would it not be a generous thing for him to do, considering the hard times, to write jftft the vice-president, to mark him as paired with any senator who opposed anything his party might desire to do. That would save the government his milage and his law practice would not be interferred with. Justice McCarty A legal and judicial mind is not always found in the same person. Many advocates can bring everything on one side of a case to bear, but who given both sides and called upon to establish justice between , them, would fumble. ' Real advocates are plenty, rea judges are few. Judge McCarty has held his place on the supreme su-preme bench of Utah because the people long ago recognized in him a judge who was oblivious to all interests behind the cases brought before him for adjudication and was intent only on reaching the right under the law. It is for this that he has held his place, the people know by instinct his stainless Integrity and his incorruptibility they know that' his mind cannot be cajoled or baffled or led away, or jostled in his pursuit of the right and hence have given him once more tho nomination and will see on Tuesday that his election will be assured. as-sured. Would the Union soldiers in u.e great war have fought as valiantly had they known that in about fifty years the Confederate constitution would be resurrected and adopted as the organic law of our land, tho very palladium of our liberties? lib-erties? And When the old time Confederate soldiers see what Is going on, do they not probably say: "What fools we were, there are so many more ways to lick Yanks than by fighting them." The Army Mule THE army mule is still in full evidence in thl-3 country. He has been partially thrust aside in Europe, but the reason is because of the perfect roads maintained on the other side. Sixteen types of motor cars have been tried down on the Texas border, but none has proved satisfactory. The mule is still the reliance, though his voice is not sweet and there is no compressed air invention to break the force of the lecoil of his heels in action. Steam traction, electric elec-tric and gasoline motors are trying to injure his ancient reputation, but he philosophically holds his way, chants his ancient anthem, performs regular work and does it all the more cheerfully because he knows that he is indispensable. He was the pioneer that led the long way to the western ocean; then turned back to fill In what had been left unfinished and has been a blessing to the land in peace and in war from the beginning. We have not noticed that any Democratic orator or-ator in Utah has expatiated largely upon the "Industrial "In-dustrial Freedom" that has electrified Utah during dur-ing the past three months, or how much cheaper are food and clothing, or how increased are the means to purchase food and clothing. Somo things are too serious for laughter too deep for tears. If those who have been close to Villa continue to reveal what he really is, the president will soon have to conclude that he was not quite enlightened enlight-ened as to Mexican character when he picked out Huerta as the worst one in infamy. Secretary Bryan is out on the stump. It probably prob-ably does not pay him as well as his Chautauqua lectures, but it relieves his mouth which must be something. |