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Show mkWmR Thinking Paperjhr Thinking People ' il , NEW YEAR'S DAY. By C. C. Goodwin. NEW YEAR'S is the day when, at the signal station of the centuries, cen-turies, a punctuation point is made. It originated when the ancients an-cients saw that while, with the coming of the autumn, the sun seemed wandering farther and farther away, the clouds grew lower and the ,, cold increased, there came a time when the sun stopped and begun to ' return, bringing with it the promise of spring with its blooms and its songs of birds. We buspect that it was from that phenomenon that the men of the early world took up the idea that there was a beneficient, ruling power that not only held the Universe in order, and directed the motion mo-tion of planets and suns, but also held the destinies of nations in its grasp and shed its mercies upon men. So the day was singled out as a day of thankfulness and of re-joicing re-joicing for the blessings promised the blessings of another spring and of another harvest; a day upon which men might renew their hopes, and, if they believed in the gods, be thankful. So at length the seasons were divided, and because of the hopes that centered around this day, it was hailed as the day on which the threatened danger of death through starvation and cold was turned aside and another sum- mer was promised. It has lost none of its significence with its repetition. All the lights which science has been able to shed but intensified the first truth as it dawned upon barbaric man and he saw the right, that it was a day of promise and of hope, for the sun god was returning and the winter was beginning its retreat. I It is a good day. As merchants take account of their stock and f figure their profits and losses for the previous year, it is good for all I men to take account of themselves, to review their failures and their triumphs during the preceding year, and plan for the year before them, for the allotted span of man's life is but seventy years ; as he grows old -the anniversaries come swifter and swifter, and what man has to do, he must accomplish quickly. The past year has been a wonderful one in our country. It has been filled with blessings, and the prestige of our flag has been steadily stead-ily advanced, until all other powers 'begin to look dwarfed by comparison. com-parison. There is more respect and love for us abroad, there is a better, feeling between the different sections at home ; the school house, the mingling of men more and more and the general pros-I pros-I perity are drawing Americans nearer and nearer together. While other lands are cramped, and torn with envy and jealousy and the fear " that comes of envy and jealousy, there is no land for Americans to be jealous of, or envious of or to awaken a fear in American hearts. Free institutions never had such a vindication as our country pre-t pre-t sents today, but that very fact imposes peculiar obligations on every ' American citizen, because our government but symbolizes the char-1 char-1 acter of our people, and when our people fail in their duty, the government govern-ment will begin to deteriorate. As the ballot is our only peaceable weapon of defense, the ballot must be kept pure. If there are wrongs against the nation, or against the inherent and inalienable rights of men in any state, the people in that state are under obligations to every other state tcJ adjust those wrongs. New Year's day is as though the long roll of the states was sounded and every one called 1 to report the stock on hand, and the prospects for the ensuing year. I On such a call, could Utah stand up and answer: "All is well?" If not, then it is the individual duty of every citizen to use all his H influence, to make any needed sacrifice to right what may be wrong. ,H It is but a few years ago that the folding doors of the union swung H back to admit our state, and the whole union welcomed it as a new H born child is welcomed in a loving home. Is the child still welcomed H as the roll of the great family of states is called. fl If it is not, then the fault must be here, and it is the duty of fl every citizen of the state to insist upon the removal of anything that H is sinister and unworthy our great nation. H The men of Utah are greatly blessed ; they can see, that the bless- , H ings have come because, under our form of government, men may do H any legitimate thing without question, which is a perpetual incentive ' .JH to effort, and toward such a land and such a government, the utmost fl of love and gratitude and patriotism should be given by all her AH children. H H H "tH HEARST SHOULD BE EXPATRIATED. fl FROM time to time during the war, and often the past few months, H during the senate investigation, it has been shown repeatedly ,H that William Randolph Hearst was so close to those at the head of . jfl the German propaganda in the United States, that whether or not he jH received money from them, his sympathies were with them, and M many of his star writers were well rewarded for the despicable part M they played, though each was, careful to tell the senate investigating "H committee, so well enlightened by Chief Bielaski of the Bureau of In- H vestigation, that their employer, Hearst, did not know that they were M being paid by German agents. H Early in the game, a discredited renegade named Archibald, who H posed as a war correspondent during the Japanese-Russian war, was H smoked out, and following the expose of his part in the German prop- M aganda, one after another of those who have disgraced their profes- H sion, from Brisbane down have been put in their proper light by the H Senate committee investigating the national beer business and Ger- M man propaganda, and the secret campaign carried on in this country H by the Huns. H And through it all the slimy trail of Mr. Hearst is plainly dis- fl cernible. Possibly it cannot be proven, but it is absurd to think that V Hearst did not know of the money being paid out, if he did not actually ifl receive his bit, and it would be an excellent thing if the other states ' in the union would follow the Nevada lead, and prohibit the sale of H a Hearst paper wjthin its boundries. H He has persistently played the German game from the beginmng, H and while some have sought to excuse him on the grounds of his H hatred for England, they have made a very poor case, and he stands (I revealed in his true light, unworthy of the respect of any American. . Suppose he was not in love with England. There are plenty of V people in the United States and elsewhere who are not, but it did not . I deter them from being on the side of the right when it came to make M a decision. And in that connection, it is to the lasting shame of jl the Irish people at home, not those in America, that less than four Jjfl per cent of the men who should have gone to the front from Ireland H were in the armies battling the Hun. ffl But that is diverting. This man Hearst, ina position to have IjH been a great power for good to the honor of his country and himself, M chose to side with his country's enemies, and his countrymen should fl make him a man without a country, M 1 SALT-LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 28, 1918. JH Mum- rtrifttoj it it ! , . H |
