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Show yti Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. T. Goodwin :: EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN & ' "Teddy" Speech MR. TAFT could accept the president's lnvita- tion to attend the opening of the canal with easy grace. When called upon he could explain that when president he helped along the building, and looked forward to the opening of the canal with the triumphal thought in his mind that it would not only be the greatest of achievements, but whereas all the great works of antiquity were but to serve the selfish ambition of men, this work I was to stand a monument to industry and prog ress, to draw commerce into new channels and insure a closer walk among men. With his practice prac-tice and experience, "Billy" ought to be able to make a good talk. But with "Teddy" it would be different. His best speech upon receiving the invitation will be, or has been, in private and as imperfectly transmitted trans-mitted by our private wire, it reads something like this:" "Well look at the gall of him! The accident that I caused to happen going down to boss the ceremonies of the opening of my canal and asking ask-ing me to go along and be but a snare drum to accompany his bugle." "Then if he has any spare time, to entertain those off-colored Colombian thieves and saying In effect to them, 'We knew that Theodore stole your canal site, but we are willing to pay you $25,000,000 rather than that you should hold a grudge against us for his act' "He is not content to enjoy the honors and emoluments that I gave him, but he wants to steal all the honors of my canal and to pay those Greasers $25,000,000 because I would not permit j: the would-be robbers to play me for a sucker! "And he asks me to go along and help celebrate my own funeral! r "I wonder if he was preparing the speech i frjj which he has already to make, up in New Jersey, when I was sweating my head off, tearing my i throat and reputation to pieces trying to elect him! He be bio wed! f "All he has done of moment about the canal Is to levy tolls on American coast ships that want t to pass through it! He will talk about the ex tension of American commerce over the world's oceans, when in truth he knows no more about the principles underlying foreign commerce, or Its significance to our nation than did the Chim-panze Chim-panze that I shot in mid-Africa because he showed his teeth and grinned and tried to look like me! t "Of course Bill Taft will go. He always did r$'i like to play second fiddle in the world's great ' ' orchestra. Besides he will have a free vide and iall expenses paid, and when they serve him soup down on the isthmus made out of the big lizzards there, he will declare that he never tasted finer chicken. "I won't go, or if I do I will charter a ship and charge the expense to the national Democratic committee, on account of my due for damning myself, to elect for them a president when thes were starving and out in the cold." San Francisco's Great Day SAN FRANSISCO enjoyed the opening of her great exposition. She always did like to be dramatic. This time she has a right to rejoice. She has worked hard and made a splendid triumph. It was indeed very grand, God's great working work-ing agent was employed to make k bublime. The finger tip of the president in Washington was picked up by this agent and In an Instant caused San Francisco to be ablaze with lights and the big guns out on Fort Point to roar out to the great western ocean that a new girdle had been put round about the earth in less than forty minutes. min-utes. The scene on earth was most dramatic, we wonder if the shades of 'Franklin and of Morse were watching from above. If they were one can imagine the one saying: "This 'beats your kite, does it not Ben?" and the other replying: "It beats your first message from Baltimore to Washington announcing that a presidential pres-idential candidate had been nominated." It was not only great in itself, but it carried on inspiration and a solace to men; an inspiration to aspire higher and higher, a solace in the thought it taught that the deeper science is explored ex-plored the nearer to angels men become, and more is revealed of" the majesty and mercy of God. A Little History NOT only the government but the people of the United States must keep their heads level in these days, when the war is sore in Europe, and the later arrivals in the United States and their immediate descendents, carried away by their sympathies for this or that country in Europe are apt to misjudge the situation and what should be the duty of this country in this foreign war. They all recall what their former respective countries have done for us and are not careful enough in giving their opinions of what our country coun-try should do now. Such people forget that the first instinct of nations, as well as individuals, is the instinct of self-preservation, and that when the war is over all the belligerents in Europe will need our country's coun-try's friendship more than they ever did before. We are under obligations to them all; all of them owe us something. To begin with our country was originally mostly settled by immigrants from Great Britain. They stamped upon this land the English language lang-uage and all that is best in English law and literature lit-erature and the reverence for law and the love of home which are among the strongest attributes of Englishmen. By these both the Puritans in the north and the Cavaliers in the south, though widely different differ-ent other respects, were united. But the ideas that prevailed of the duties of ' H colonies toward their foreign sovereign, were H much the same that Spain clung to up to the I very hour when it bceame necessary to break her H hold upon all her Island colonies, because of the H cruelties that she permitted her agents to perpe- H trate, until eternal justice demanded their sur- H cease. H So England heaped oppressions upon her ' H American colonies, and despite the warnings of H Barke and Fox and Chatham, persisted until the H revolt came and the seven years' war. Her attl- H tude was that of anger and contempt. She hired H mercenaries to come and fight her battles, on the H frontier she engaged savages to ravage the set- H tlements. H When the frail entrenchments were thrown up H on Breed's (Bunker) Hill, which might have ' easily been made untenable by a warship in the -H harbor without loss, Lord Howe, under Sir Henry H Clinton then in command in Boston, In contempt H of the foe, formed his army in s"lld column and H ordered them to drive the rag-muffins out, which H cost him the lives of 1,500 soldiers and some of H his most valued officers. H That war won for this country independence, H but it also taught England a lesson on the treat- H ment of colonies which has enabled her to retain H her hold on Canada, Australia, India and South H Africa and which makes her supreme in Egypt il now. H In those years France was our friend. H Lafayette and others come and joined our army; H France " nt the fleet and loaned the money which H finally closed the war in triumph for us. That, H surely, we never can cease to be grateful for, H even If behind the French government's acts 'H there was as much hate of England as love for H the colonies. h ''1 At that time there was no United Germany, Prussia was the ruling kingdom and Frederick H the Great was at the zenith of his great fame. H When the great war of the revolution came H and an army was summoned, the volunteers had H no more idea of the need of having an army dis- jH ciplined than the average congressman now has. H They were udy to fight, certainly, but their idea of liberty was that their officers were not better H than themselves and had no Inherent right to H command them. Hence the army that gathered H under Washington were little better than a mob, H and never accepted the truth, th" to become ef- H fectivo, armies must accept the rules of a perfect j imperialism and submit to orders. pH In half despair Washington sent to the great H Frederick for help. A few days after the message S was received Baron Steuben, one of the king's H favorite officers, resigned from the Prussian army JJ and with a letter from his king sailed for Ameirca and reported on his arrival to Washington. ,H Steuben began at once to put the continental , B army in army form. By his skill, his firmness jH and high character he was able to make the H ragged army understand what was needed. In l brief time it understood what was needed to IH make it really effective and from that moment HI there began to bo rifts of sunlight through the HB pall that had so long shadowed the land. Hj So much for early history. There was not Hj much change in national thought .'ntil after tho H war of -1812. Napoleon had sold Louisiana to tho H United States for a pittance but ho did it because H ho could not hold it against Great Britain and H his comfort was that on that soil a power would H expand that would finally rival Great Britain in H every way. H By the way it was a German, Albert Gallatin, H who was Jefferson's closest adviser then and as H secretary of the treasury helped so much to con- H tinue Hamilton's work and get tho finances of H tho nation in order. H In tho meantimo a large immigration poured H in from Engalnd and Scotland and more espe- H cially Ireland and every Irishman was at heart H an American when he embarked for this country. H After the Napoleon wars ceased, the Germans H began to come in greater and greater numbers H until at last they exceeded all others. H In tho Mexican war the Irish and Germans, H under our flag were especially conspicuous. H Then came our great war of tho rebellion and H when the life of the nation was hanging in the H balance, the lust for conquest seized upon Napol- H con III and the commercialism of Great Britain H as manifested through her ruling classes and H great manufacturers, had full sway. H Beth countries with unseemly hasto acknowl- H edged tho confederacy as a belligerent power; H the attitude of both governments was rude bord- M ering on insult, England built privateers, armed m and manned them and supplied them to southern H naval officers to prey upon the commerce of tho H United States; she had just adopted tho Ameri- M can invention of the compound marine engine, m her merchants built scores of fast ships to run be- M tween the Bermudas and our southern ports, 1 shipping from England cargoes for them to the H Bermudas, and never ceased until our minister m to Great Britain, Charles Francis Adams, in- H formed Lord John Russell, that if a certain ship H then Hearing completion was permitted to sail, H it would be held as an act of war by our coun- Hj try. In the meantime most English statesmen H including Mr. Gladstone, had declared in favor B of intervention for the South, so had many of H her clergymen; our minister, Mr. Adams, was H treated wth a rudeness bordering on insult, and H Henry Ward Beecher, assaying to lecture in Eng- H land was assailed by hooting and cat-calls for H, half an hour until by the sheer force of his in- H tellect and magnetism bullied the crowd into si- H lence and then charmed them into wild cheering H by his eloquence. H But when Lord John Russell and Lord Palm- H erston decided to quit, two things had happened. H Ericsson had built the Monitor which in Hampton M Roads served notice on both Great Britain and H France that their navies would be but paper ships M in tho event of a war. That was one thing. The HI other was that when Napoleon III invited Russia H to join with France and Great Britain in inter- Hl vention in favor of the confederacy, Russia's Hj'- premier, Gortchakof, replied in a short and sharp V note declining and adding that if such interven- HL tion was attempted, Russia would construe it as H; an act of war. HT Then as soon as word could be sent to the Hf admirals of tho Russian navy in the Atlantic and H Pacific, her Atlantic fleet swung into New York H harbor, her Pacific fleet into San Francisco har- Kv bor and remained there many weeks until all HI danger of intervention had passed. It was un- Hf derstood then and has never been authoritatively denied that both admirals had instructions to re- H port to our government for duty. After tho war HI closed Secretary Seward began negotiations for Hf the purchase of Alaska. It was not considered of very much value and when tho deal was closed the people of this country who did not know any better referred to it as "Seward's folly." They havo changed their minds since and so perhaps has Russia. There were two singular features about that sale. Ono was that Russia sold for whore did she over before sell a great tract of land? The other was the price paid $7,240,000. If wo believe what was often stated at tho time, that tho $7,000,000 was to reimburse Russia for what she had done for us and that tho $240,000 was to pay her for what she had spent for coal in serving us, neither proposition seems out of reason. But really the service she performed for us could never bo paid for in money and our gratitude grati-tude to her should be an annuity drawing interest forever. But while what the aristocracy, the manufacturers, manufac-turers, the great merchants and ship companies of Great Britain did in that war to destroy our shipping which was of greater tonnage than that of Great Britain when the war began, and what they did to rend our country itself into fragments, frag-ments, will always be remembered, wo should not forget that England's great queen, her prince consort, a few of her statesmen and the poor employees who by tens of thousands were made to suffer semi-starvation because of the war; were truo from first to last in their determination that there must bo no clash with our country, no perpetuation per-petuation of slavery through their country's help. But it was with bad grace that the others relinquished their plan. Napoleon III did not daro intervene alone, but he sent an army to back tho Austrian prince who dreamed of being sovereign of Mexico, and when the Kearsargo ran the Alabama to bay, and her commander, at last forced to fight, went out from Cherburg harbor to engage the Union ship, all the shore around Cher- uui, tvua imcu uy tuuuouiiuo eu&cr iu dcu lug English-built ship, armed with English guns and manned by volunteers from the Britain naval reserve, re-serve, sink the Kearsarge, and when the result was not quite as expected, an English yacht was at hand to rescue the American commander of tho British-built ship and carry him away to England, In our war with Spain, all the sympathies of France and Germany were with Spain, and their newspapers pictured with glee how Cervera's fleet would sweep the paper warships of the United States from the sea. But then Great Britain was our friend and the service rendered Admiral Dewey in Manila bay perhaps saved our country from a war with Germany. At that time a distinguished dis-tinguished German in this country made a remark re-mark which was most significant. When asked why Germany was so urgent In building a great navy, he replied: "One of these days she will come over and poke a large hole in your Monroe doctrine." The foregoing only shows that nations are governed at least all but our own by their own interests, and that friendship is easily thrust aside, when an emergency comes. It is clear, too, why we cannot afford to take sides in the present pres-ent European conflict. In our great war cur foremost commander in the North was of Scotch-Irish descent, the second sec-ond was a Puritan descent; the foremost of the Southern side came down from the Cavaliers; while in Sheridan on the North and Cleburne at the 'South there was not a drop of blood in either one that was not Irish. Then there were Sigel and Shurtz and Osterhaus and scores more of officers and regiments, divisions and corps of unmixed un-mixed German soldiers. The names on tho rolls of all those armies show the distinct nationalities, but if in one way they were "distinct as waves they were united as the sea." Around every bulletin board we see this divergence di-vergence of nationalities but all united as to our country. When the war In Europe closes then, if not before, our test will come. Were Germany to conquer with her armies and save her fleet, she would be hard to get along with. Were the Allies to win, we would have much cause to be apprehensive, for Japan would be saucy, aggressive and treacherous, backed as she would be by Great Britain and Russia. If there is any lesson In it all to our country it is to bo prepared pre-pared while waiting for what it is to be. A Lamb in Wolfs Clothing IN the Utah Survey, Mr. James H. Woolfe dis- cussed prohibition. Some of his reasoning deserves de-serves a moment's notice. For inetance, here is a sentence: "Going from South Temple to Fourth South street, along Main street, in Salt Lake City, & one passes numerous saloons. Their very being attracts and suggests." So does every beautiful and beautifully frocked woman, but that hardly justifies a law compelling compell-ing every woman to dress in unseemly garments and veil her face. We make that simile merely to show that certain cer-tain inherent instincts are awakened to life through our senses. Some are holy, some are unholy, according not to tho outward showing, but to the brain and heart behind the eyes that see and the ears that hear. But Mr. Woolfe's treatment of the property rights of those who are engaged in the liquor traffic is what we desire especially to noto. Ho says, "time and time and time again the courts have held prohibition to be constitutional." That is true as an abstract proposition, but no court has ever ruled that to confiscate a man's property was either constitutional or good morals. Further-h-e declares that the "police power" of society can do what it pleases. Yes, but under such terms as are just. Further he declares "that for many years" the liquor traffic has not been encouragedt but endured, en-dured, more or less an outlaw business which society has tried to regulate. The Utah practice is to try to regulate almost everything. To keep the streets clean is one. Some of us remember when a distinguished physician phy-sician testified here, in opposition to street cleaning, clean-ing, that "dirt is healthy." One large branch of society here fought vaccination vac-cination against small pox for years. Merchants who deal in fulminating powder are compelled to keep their stock outside the city limits. We have heard of people who were shocked because young ladies did not put pantallettes on the legs of their pianos when young men called upon themthe naked legs being so suggestive. sug-gestive. . It is not true that the liquor business has been under ban for years in Utah. For many years it had the full endorsement of the people and the dominant church. The agitation began when outsiders engaged in the business, and that agitation was not duo to any moral sentiment, but for the purpose of raising revenue from it. So legitimate was it always held that men who never touch liquor were encouraged to build houses to rent to men engaged in it. Mr. Woolfe thinks abolition of the traffic is merely a stiffening of the moral backbone of society. N, When a thief takes tho property of a man it is not called the stiffening of the thief's moral backbone, but just stealing. Mr. Woolfe says: "Those who -hold that tb slaveholders should have been compensated foi 1 (heir slaves may consistently hold that the liquor Interest should bo paid." When England freed her slaves she compen-' compen-' Eated their owners, So would the United States, I had not the slave owners appealed to the sword and began a war to perpetuate slavery, In which i 300,000 of the bravest and best of the land died. Should a saloon keeper set his place on fire ho could hardly expect compensation for his loss. But Mr. Woolfo finally concludes that "It Is only fair in abolishing the manufacture and traffic traf-fic in liquor to give the owners of property and ;n the industry suficient time to put their house I in order." That we look upon as a poultice which Mr. Woolfe has prepared for his own conscience. What does it mean? In effect he says: "Wo damn your business, wo convert it into a crime. We warn everybody that the stuff you deal in is contraband, and in a few months we will punish anyone who dares to use it. Now set vour house in order!" Does that in the least mitigate the steal? Mrs. McClelland Dead MRS. GEORGE B. McCLELLAND died at Nice two weeks ago. After the marriage of her daughter to a French nobleman in 1893 Mrs. McClelland spent much of her time abroad. She was a very splendid wife, mother and woman, worthy to be a great soMier's wife. She was too a soldier's daughter, her father being Major General Randolph Barnes Marcy, who served with distinction in the Mexican and Civil wars and performed other important government duties. While her son Ex-Mayor MeClelland and daughter needed her, Mrs. McClelland devoted her life to them. She presided over the McClelland home in Orange, New Jersey, and when he was governor of that state, and her exceptionable tact it was said was of great assistance to her husband. hus-band. They were a most devoted pair and were thoroughbreds on both sides. Speaking of General Marcy, he was a fine soldier sol-dier and had, moreover, a very great sense of numor. He was filling some official position in the war department when Jefferson Davis, as secretary secre-tary of war, sent circulars to all army posts, explaining ex-plaining that some changes in the army uniforms were contemplated and asking suggestions from officers. At the time Lieut. Derby our John Phoenix of the west coast was in command at San Diego, California, he was a marvelous draughtsman, and as all know was always overflowing with humor, fie received one of the circulars, read it, then sat down and wrote in most respectful form to I the war secretary. He explained that one of the chiefest causes "" of soldiers breaking down physically was carrying carry-ing burdens on their shoulders, guns,' knapsacks, etc., and suggested that this be changed by shifting shift-ing the burden to the seat of their trousers to bo suspended there on a hook through the trousers horizontally, explaining that this would relieve the burden from the shoulders. This he supplemented by making pictures of soldiers so equipped; soldiers on the march; soldiers sol-diers making an assault and soldiers retreating, their accoutrements, by half turning being a great protection in the latter deplorable event. The papers pa-pers were forwarded to the secretary of war. One morning Marcy strolled into the office of 3(the secretary and found him in a towering pas- ' sion, declaring that he would have the scoundrel court martialed. Marcy asked what was up, whereupon Davis flung him Derby's letter, saying shortly "read that!" Marcy began to read, then to laugh, ther to roar and as soon as he could speak said: L "Jeff, quit that. Promote that cuss in San Diego! Make no fuss over this or we shall be the laughing stock of the nation within two weeks." The court martial was never ordered. How To Treat A Certain Case THE fashion seems to be increasing with a cor-tain cor-tain class of human brutes to kill women who refuse to marry them and then to kill themselves. them-selves. It is generally the rule to say that such men are temporarily insane and to give them funerals to which the morbid flock and send flowers. Our belief is that such a course is a decided mistake, that the body of such a creature should be secretly buried at night and those who do the work be sworn never to reveal the place for there is a vast amount of method in that order or madness. mad-ness. If the history of a murderer of that kind is run down, it will be found that all his life he had been supremely selfish, impatient of- any restraint, re-straint, undisciplined, naturally envious and jealous jeal-ous and at the same time insufferably vain. When such a creature is attracted toward a woman, ho never thinks of her happiness o.r what is due her: rather he pursues only his own sordid and selflsh desires, and when baffled he is at first filled with self pity and this is followed by his vanity and self esteem prompting him to make a dramatic display. If such an one knew in advance that if he did what he was meditating to do he would go to an unknown and unmarked grave followed only by the contempt of all who heard his name, in nine cases out of ten he would not be crazy enough to carry out his purpose. Things Inherent THE advocates of cumpulsory prohibition never consider one phase of the question. The ruling races of the earth, the men who carry on great industrial works; inaugurate great enterprises; handle the world's compelling forces, tame hourses, build and navigate great ships and fight the world's battles, are all drinking races. They will bear the regulation of the sale of liquors, for they recognize the necessity of it, but when forbidden the use of it, they are in rebellion re-bellion at once. Could a law be passed and enforced en-forced forbidding marriage, it would not make all men priests or all women nuns. Wrongs Must Be Settled WHEN twenty years ago, a stolid president, inspired by the specious arguments of a few perverted scholars, who had been hired by the New York gold combine to belie the inviolable laws of political economy, bulldozed an ignorant and misguided congress into practically destroying destroy-ing half the money of the earth; the great bulk of the farmers and tradesmen of the United States exulted over tho sinister achievement. But within a single year they saw their farms and all they raised upon them, their stores, their goods all forms of property that they possessed, save gold and interest bearing obligations payable pay-able in gold, fall fifty per cent in value. It made bankrupt thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of them. The country became be-came so poor that even the Mexicans gave us their pity. A good many members of the Utah legislature are trying, in a limited way, to repeat that achievement by adopting a plan to increase the taxation on the mines of this state, which are already al-ready paying more than their fair quota of taxation. taxa-tion. If they can succeed and pass the measure they seek to pass, tho rebound will be upon themselves, them-selves, for like causes produce like results and when wrongs are perpetrated they becomo inter- est-bearing debts that have to bo settled in full; H both principal and interest. f H The Farmer H THE spring is coming apace. If a day is espe- 1 H daily bright and warm, a chill comeB with H tho evening enough to arrest and check a too rapid , H growth of vegetation until the danger of frost H has in a measure passed. In the meantime H enough moisture is falling and being absorbed to H have tho ground thoroughly saturated by tho H time the planting should begin. The signs are H all favorable. The farmers should be selecting H their seed; deciding where on their farms the H different varieties would best grow and be all H ready at the right time. If they arc a trifle super- H stitious they will plant their vegetables in the H dark of the moon, the grain in the light, their H grain on their heaviest soils, their alfalfa on H gravelly soil where tho roots can go down to H water, and to cheer them keep in mind that tho H perfect cultivation of the soil, the planting of H crops where they will thrive best; the crossing H of stock in a way to compass the best results; H tho use of water when needed and to know when i H enough has been used; tho grafting of fruit trees H to make the worthless ones valuable altogether H make a science as beautiful as was over studied. H Moreover, when rightfully understood, the prac- , H tice is the most delightful employment that man can engage in. The Infinite knew this; that was H why he gave for the home of tho man that had H been fashioned in His own image, not a machine H shop, not a store, not a lodging house, but a ! k garden where the flowers bloomed and ''o birds j H sang all the day long. 11 A Mormon Battalion Monument M A MEMORIAL committee of the Daughters of M the Mormon Battalion May Belle Thur- H man Davis, May Jones Clawson, Kathleen Fer- H guson Burton, Hatty Jones Pickett, Laura Coon " Cutler and Isabel Karren Thurman has pre- H seated a petition to the legislature asking an H appropriation for a monument in honor of the H Mormon Battalion, and that a site for the monu- H ment be set aside on the capitol grounds. H The petition, which recounts the enlistment, H the march, the services and sacrifices of the Bat- H talion, is both touching and illuminating, and H makes clear what always heretofore has been 'H obscure. H We think the prayer of the committee should H be granted. 0 H |