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Show Editorials The President Out On The Range THE President in his speeches this week is waimly defending the "Federal Act" and assumes as-sumes that it enables men to obtain credit on good securities, and thinks it saved the country from a mighty panic, when the European Eu-ropean war burst upon the world. He huggs himself for the wisdom of that act, and counts it a mighty factor in the present campaign. But he does not explain why there was such a depression upon the country when that war was sprung. We were threatened by no war; no pestilence was raging; rag-ing; the harvest was a bountiful one. Why should we have been thieatened by a great panic at that time? Was it not because the assaults upon the tariff had closed so many factories, and because be-cause the ships of foreigners for-eigners being interned, there was no way in sight to ship our surplus sur-plus products to a market? mar-ket? And what has he and his party done since then to defend I our skilled laborers against direct competition competi-tion by naked savages, and unpaid serfs, and where is our merchant marine to do our carrying carry-ing trade on the sea, to supply the countries 1 that need our northern food products, and the products of our skilled laborers, and to pay us in the products which they have for sale? The President tells of the superior intelligence intelli-gence of his party, but makes no reference to the promises made by it in 1912. If we remember re-member correctly, we weie to have a great merchant marine that was to run and prosper pros-per without bounties or subsidies, a tariff re- H vision that would not H be a menace to any le- gitimate business, an in- H come tax to reduce the H taxation of the masses, H a general curtailment of H unnecessary public ex- H penitures; cheaper cost H of living for the masses. jH None of us can forget H the rosy picture. H And what has come of H the promises? Thou- H sands of people denied H the chance to work H through the closing of the factories; no mer- H chant marine, not one H ship built through any H legislation that prom- H ised to make the run- H ning of ships possible, H the income tax bringing H in immense revenues, H but every dollar spent H in the current expense H of the party of H economy; surely the President must have H taken aboard a double M cargo of assurance H when he started on this M voyage. M But he grows elo M quent in chanting the j anthems of peace, and M becomes an artist in H picturing the loveliness M of generous negotiations M in settling difficulties. H Has he any patent M on his love of peace? M Would he feed soothing M syrup to a Bengal tiger H if not assured in ad- H vance that the cage H around the tiger was H strong enough to hold H him? M Could Custer have H stopped Sitting Bull by H reading him the Sermon H on the Mount. H Sitting Bull was not jH as much cultivated, but H his heart was as true as are the heaits of the men who are raiding H our Mexican border, H killing the men and H women and running off H their stock. jH Peace is very lovely, H but in dealing with bri- H gands before it can be H secured, the brigands H have to learn that . H order and law are the H first essentials to make H peace secure. H HI The Appeal Of Bernard Shaw WE earnestly hope that Bernard Shaw's appeal for Sir Roger Casement will be heard by the Hfi British government and granted. The circum- Hj stances indicate that the mind of Casement Is not V sound. The science of establishing where the di- H viding line between sanity and insanity is, has not H yet been certainly established; but aside from all H ' that, it is a palpable fact that to give him a term B , of imprisoment or even to fully pardon him, would j have a much better effect than to carry out the B I sentence as it now stands. Suppose our govern- Hj Kient in 18G5 had tried, convicted and executed H the leaders of the Confederate government, what Hj i would have followed? Would the south have ever H ,' forgiven us? Would the north have ever forgiven H,- In the past two years have not enough Irish- H men died on the European battlefields to make a H, sufficient plea for mercy for Casement? And sup- H j pose the British government should make another H call for volunteers in that country, which would H I bring the heartier response, the execution or the H ' pardon of Casement? Hf Suppose another attempt were to be made in H. Ireland to make a diversion in favor of Germany, H which would help it most, the execution or the H pardon of Casement? B Again, Shaw's discussion of what high treason H is has much merit. Suppose instead of Washirig- H j ton capturing Cornwallls, Cornwallis had captured M Washington, tried him for high treason against K his king, convicted and executed him, would that H have made Washington a criminal? He whose V name is still a spell upon mankind! He who is H held the foremost among men by every nation ' that believes in God! M Courts are the right arm of civilization. They m administer the laws that the wisdom of many cen- ' turies have compiled for the maintaining of order B and the establishing of justice. But the judges in w courts are only men. Superior men in most cases, H but only men, and the laws themselves provide Hf for appeals from them. Again courts of justice H. are but finite institutions. They judge from the H acts of men what the men's intentions were and H generally there is a straight path from the act H back to the intention. H But that really is a field which very few judges H: have explored beyond the few pebbles upon the H shore the whole vast ocean rolls beyond. They H are really much like physicians. When two pa- H tients seem to have the same symptoms they give K the same medicine to both, though in one case H the suffering may come from a hidden malady, in H the other from a night of dissipation. H Ireland has been torn by centuries of agitation H and irritation, and though every English battle- H field has been made red by Irish blood, few Eng- H llshmen have had the acumen to ever understand H the Irish character or how to reach Irish hearts. H Again, English courts can only decide cases by H the laws and the facts. H Sir Roger Casement should not have been H tried by the courts, but a commission of states- H men, not bound by the cold laws prescribed by H the books, but by the equities of the centuries as H the facts of the centuries have had their effects H upon a people. Men may say this statement is H but an appeal to a vague impossibility, but in M truth all the history of Ireland and its effect upon M Irishmen are involved in the case and the main M thought should be, how will the thoughts of that M people be affected by the decision? M The case rises above the accused man. The H question should bo what would be best for Ire- H land, for could that be reached it would be best H p too for England and all the world. H 1 New York City Preparedness H A T Sandy Hook some mighty guns have been H I set in place "for the protection of New York H City." And the men behind the guns, firing at a target six miles out at sea are given credit for making six "bull's eyes" out of seven. That is good. It would play smash with a hostile fleet, could the fleet be induced to go out there and take the punishment. With a few more batteries like that placed so as to intercept a hostile force coming com-ing from any direction, the great city ought to bo reasonably safe from attack from without. It is good to have it that way and to have it widely advertised, for the wealth centered in New York would be a mighty temptation if the thought that it would easily be obtained had any substantial backing. But the mighty city is not perfectly defended. It has its slums, where crime and disease fester continually. Two hundred mothers there are mourning the deaths of their helpless babies that have been taken from them in the past forty days by a disease the baffles their medical men; and their staid business men, caught in the present flood of money are turning gamblers and wagering wager-ing on a rise of all kinds of stocks. Assuming that the city is safe against any attacks at-tacks from without, what defenses has the city against it becoming a second Babylon, which flourished flour-ished until finally it became so wicked that heaven heav-en smote it and turned it over as a rookery for bats and owls? Great guns cannot save cities from final destruction. de-struction. The preparedness must come from within. No Republic Wanted MR. WALTER WELLMAN has written a book on what may be when the European war is over. He predicts for Germany a republic and with it a regeneration of all Europe, and we are told the book is most interesting. But Germany does not want a republic. The love the German people give their royalty is most tender and profound, and they will tell you that theirs is the freest and wisest government that any nation has; that the richstag more perfectly rules Germany than parliament rules Great Britain; Brit-ain; that the emperor is really only the executive to carry out the will of the richstag. Further, that their financial system is so framed that the rich and poor, the nobility and peasantry are indissolubly connected in interest; that every great and prosperous enterprise is shared in by the people and every halting industry is taken up and helped out from the royal treasury. treas-ury. The cautious ones under their breath will explain that since Bismarck because of the impression im-pression his imperious soul left upon his country there may have been too dominant a militarism engendered, but the war will cure that. The thought is that the industrial system of their country is so perfect, that no other nation can successfully compete against it, because it is in truth woven into a perfect working machine to the running of which every one from the emperor em-peror to the peasant contributes, and as the happiness hap-piness of a people depend upon their prosperity, all other factors are made subordinate to it. The above in the crude is the German thought and no matter how the war ends the German people will not desire to change their form of government. Infantile Paralysis INFANTILE Paralysis is a disease that scientists scien-tists as yet have not determined the cause of. From experiments they know that it is a germ disease, that it is contagious, and that a person per-son waiting upon a child afflicted with it can carry it in his or her clothing. There may be sporadic cases, but it generally comes in a contagion and follows the line of travel. This brings the conviction that the only partial exemption from it, is isolation. Take the child away from where it can come in contact con-tact with any one who may have the germ in his or her clothing. As yet there has been no case in Utah, but a few cases have occurred in Los Angeles. The struggle now is to find the germ. Extraordh nary exertions are being made in New York to make this discovery. If that discovery is made the next will be to find the specific that will cure tho disease, or make the child immune against any attack of it. At present' the physicians are practically helpless help-less in battling with it. Ten per cent of the children attacked, die and a much larger percentage per-centage of those that recover are crippled, and practically helpless for life. It is a most insidious disease and on. the slightest occasion advances into a contagion as swiftly as the cholera germ. Indeed it is more to be dreaded than was cholera before scientists learned its cause. Dr. Jordan And Mexico DAVID STARR JORDAN is a fine scholar, but i he has not a level head. Instead of reconcil- I ing his ideas to facts, he is prone to twist the I facts to making a justification for his ideas, and R to do this does not hesitate to state grave inaccur- I acies as facts. I For instance, he asserts without qualification that the raid on Columbus was well known two days in advance. Known by whom? And what is his authority for such a statement? Who knew that a raid in which men, women and little chll- 1 dren were to be massacred indiscriminately, 1 American men, women and children by Mexican 1 bandits was to come off? i The statement shows that Dr. Jordan does not hesitate to make any kind of a statement to back one of his rainbow theories. Again he asserts that "Mexico has within herself her-self the power of regeneration." What proof has he of that fact? Through what source is it to come? Continuing he says: "No interference with force of arms will aid her in her difficulty. The real issue is the rising of the Mexican people against privilege and it is to protest privilege that the vultures of our financial world would force intervention inter-vention of war." That merely shows that a restraining order i should be put on Dr. Jordan's mouth and he should be cited to appear before some proper tribunal within ten days to show why the order should not j be made a perpetual injunction. 9 The masses of the people of Mexico have within them no elements of progress. The mal- contents there have kept tho country in the throes of successive revolutions all the time for a hun- J dred years save during the time when the iron hand of Diaz held them down. So far as any human hu-man vision can penetrate the clouds over that land no progress has been made toward peace and order for that land save the exhaustion that has come to the bandits that foment trouble. Just now Carranza has the most followers. The trouble with him first is that he is without any more character than his brother murderers; second, if he were to try to keep his promises to the United States, he would be overthrown by some other bandit; third, he does not intend to i keep any promise any longer than suits his own convenience. He promises now to protect the border. bor-der. That will require a double force of American Amer-ican soldiery there to protect the border against Carranza's prowlers. His last note is but a makeshift make-shift to get American soldiers off the soil of Mex- ! ico. If he succeeds then it will be proclaimed everywhere throughout Mexico that the American army was driven out, and the lives of Americans still in Mexico -will bo in more jeopardy. And those Americans and the Americans this side of the bor are the real concernment of this country. No American wants any war until something ' worse than war is being endured. That is the ' situation now. It Is a shame and disgrace for a nation like ours to advise Americans to get out of a country; it is a shame and disgrace that Americans cannot settle on American soil and be safe against foreign bandits. We have no expectations that the present negotiations ne-gotiations will secure peace. Some new deviltry-will deviltry-will be hatched between now and November. Then we expect to see President Wilson assume the heroic once more and if the election prospects look badly, that he will tell congress how he has tried to avert war, but has found it useless, and call for real war. That North Sea Fight THE report of Admiral Jellico on the North sea great naval battle would seem to indicate that torpedo boats, destroyers, submarines and battleships, battle-ships, with aeroplanes for scouts are what are to be needed in future naval battles. The cruisers ought to be kept out of the range of battleships' Are, for they can no longer stand the impact of (the shots of the modern mighty guns with which nations arm their battleships. The distances that the combatants; kept from each other in the North sea fight would indicate that the heaviest armored ship fights shy of any near engagement. The report of the battle still leaves the landsman confused over many of the facts. The British fleet fought apparently in sections, their weakest ships in the van. I The Germans had the best of the fight until the I British dreadnoughts got in full play and' then the I Germans, under cover of the mist retreated to m their base. The conclusion would seem to be that : a modern sea fight between nations of equal valor and skill depends more upon accidents than sci- 1 entific preparations for results. It is Verdun on a the sea. To one who knows but little the thought m is that the fighting should be in turrets with few ' guns and few men on any one craft; the guns m of the most formidable kind, the speed of the m ships very great, the exposed surface of the ships very small and protected by every possible device. M A great ship with a crew of a thousan'd men I that a torpedo can sink in a minute, seems alto- 9 gether beyond the realm of prudence. 1 Importing Rice a THHIS note comes from the custom houses of A Cuba and our own country: 1 "Siam shipped over 8,000,000 pounds of Siam- ese rice to Cuba during the six months prior to March 31st last. The amount of Siamese rice m- shipped to the United States during the same m period was over 500,000 pounds." 9 That is a reproach to both Cuba and the j United States. ! Both countries have ample lands, perfect cli mate and cheap labor, to raise as good rice as Siam can. They lacked only the push to utilize what they had in their hands. Five hundred thousand pounds is not very much; only two hundred and fifty tons, requiring perhaps 300 or 400 acres of land to raise it on. Either of a hundred farmers in California or Arizona or any of a dozen southern south-ern states could have produced it with a little effort. But maybe the freight is cheaper from Siam to Seattle or to Boston than from the southern south-ern states to the same ports. The Artillery KT APOLEON the Great graduated a lieutenant in the artillery. When called to the siege of Toulon he settled the business with artillery. His belief always was that it should be the right arm of an army. In his day the only explosive was old fashioned black gunpowder. When he assigned the different units of his army to their places in setting them in array on that last day at Waterloo and a battery in taking its position passed close to him; he relaxed for JL . - a moment to say to an aide, "Those are pretty girls," referring to the guns. Now explosives have multiplied and mechanics have nearly reached perfection, and they have demonstrated how clear was the judgment of the wonderful soldier. Cavalry can only do scouting work; the infantry is held back until the great gains have reduced the enemy's defenses and made a wreck for the infantry to finally take and hold the great destroyers of works and men are the great guns. When the British began their last great drive it was wired that their artillery was now equal to the Germans. When the North sea fight came off the destruction was wrought by the great guns and torpedoes, which last are but the latest form in which artillery is presented. In the big battles by sea and land it is the monster mon-ster gun that is depended upon for success. If the shades of Nelson, old Fritz and Napoleon are watching, the latter shade is saying: "I told you the artillery was the real arm." A Second Columbus APTAIN KOENIG is a second Columbus. The study of the first Columbus was how to reach a port in his little ships. That was the study of Captain Koenig. When Columbus returned to Spain, he was received with all the honors that an enthusiastic sovereign and people could bestow. be-stow. Germany should do the same by Captain Koenig and his crew. They have demonstrated that despite warring nations, commerce can carry on its work, its greatest work by linking the business busi-ness of nations together and exchanging their products and their ideas. Still Captain Koenig's feat gives a landsman a creepy feeling. To go to sea in a craft that when a storm is awakened that calls up all the anger of the great deep, or when a hostile ship appears, can settle down into the calm of the lower deep until the danger passes and then rise from the deep and resume its voyage, is a wonder, and when the voyage is lengthened into thousands of miles with storms and enemies everywhere, and finally to bring a rich cargo safe to port, the wonder is increased. Steady nerves are needed for a feat of that kind; steady nerves, patience supreme, courage that never falters and devotion to duty that makes no note of obstacles. And what of the future! Is it to be in the air for passenger pas-senger travel and under the surface of the sea for freight? It all goes back to the unmeasured power of man when inspired to perform some great work and to the promise, that the earth and all that is therein shall be under his dominion, when he shall become great enough to subdue, to mount and ride the mighty forces which God uses when He creates and sets in motion His worlds. "What a piece of work is! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god!" A Sun Engine MR. FRANK SHUMAN is doing some work that should be watched for there is a thought of big possibilities in it. He has invented a machine which generates power from the sun's rays and is using that power to pump water upon the barren lands of Egypt. Think what might come from that! In these intermountain states there are millions of acres of land which, touched by water, at once become exceedingly fertile, and the needed water is but a few feet below the surface. Now see what might be done. A man has a team and wagon and a few dollars in money. In the spring he loads his generator, pump, plow, harrc". F'ovel, hoe, his bed, some food and seed on hi- agon and goes into the desert. He knows the - -,nt spot. When he reaches it, the first thing is to sink his shallow well to water and install his pump and his sun ray engine. Then M he plows and harrows twelve acres of land. He M sows three acres to lucerne, plants four more to M potatoes and early vegetables, and five acres to M celery. By the first of October he contracts to H sell his celery for $800 per acre, ho caches his H potatoes, onions and turnips and comes back to M town with $4,000. M He has plenty of money apparently and talks 'iH of his estate in the country. 'M Moreover he loves to discuss scientific sub- H jects, his hobby being that tho desert has within H itself all the elements to make it a little para- H dise, if man but had the wisdom to utilize them. ,H He attracts the attention of a Scandinavian lady H who has just fired her husband for a duffer, and H smiles upon her. She begins at once to dream jH o"f having a learned husband, who is likewise rich f H and has a country estate. M The result is a most auspicious marriage and a few weeks of unalloyed happiness. Then he H loads his wagon again and goes back to the "es- H tate." The potatoes and rutebagas and onions jH that he cached are in good condition. The lu- cerne makes pasture for his team. Their bed of course is in tho covered wagon, the simple cook- M ing is in the open fireplace of the desert. He plants a second crop, his wife helps. She does not say much,. but keeps thinking. H At last she seems to take a great interest in M the sun engine and wants to know all about It. The husband teaches her, hugging himself that he H has so practical a wife. It goes on until the June H sun just makes the engine and the wife both H crazy. The engine pumps a Niagara of water, the H wife almost explodes with smothered impreca- M tions. Just thea one of the horses died of lucerne M colic, which was their first set-back. Tho next M day the husband came in from his work- to the M wagon for his dinner. Tho wife took a long look M at him and told him he was pale, and taking his H hand and stroking his brow, assured him that he H had a fever, and persuaded him to lie down for a H couple of hours' sleep. When sound asleep the H wife deftly tied his hands and feet, and lashed H one leg to a wagon wheel with his trace chains, H took his money and then went to the sun engine, which was doing great work, and turned the full H power on a reflector which she had fastened H on the wagon. In a few minutes it was H ablaze. She heard a few shrieks then a few M groans from it and then all was still. She waited M until all that was not iron was consumed, then M she mounted the single horse and struck for town. M And still we have not lost faith in the sun H engine. M War Machines H THERE has been completed at the U. S. Arsenal H at Rock Island, 111., and sent to the Mexican H border, a double turreted, armored automobile. H It weighs, fully equipped, 12,000 pounds. It H has four times the power of the ordinary automo- H bile of like dimensions. It can run on any ordi- H nary road that is not too soft to support its H weight; its speed is twenty-five miles per hour; H it is inmune against musket shots, and each H turret has a machine gun that fires several thou- H sands shots per minute. It is believed to be a H most formidable machine. It is said that several H smaller and switfer armored machines with one H turret are being made ready at tho same place H for the same destination. H The machine just sent is armored with plates H of especially toughened steed, on a frame around H the automobile and braced from within at every H available point. Such machines entering a battle H would be like, but vastly more effective, tho H towers that Cyrus the great, drove into the bat- H tie of Thymbria for .his archers to fire from; H that battle fought five and twenty centuries ago, H the first battle discribed in history. H |