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Show I I . An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of T. L. Holman :: EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN L ( Admiral Dewey THERE was nothing finer at Salamls; noth-, noth-, - ing at Actlum; nothing at Lepanto; nothing 1 L when Nelson iblasted the night in the estuary , of the Nile, than -was the driving of the little ' fleet into the inner harbor of Manila Bay and the "breaking of the arm of Spain in the east in I the next morning's battle. There, in an hour, an unknown sailor wrote his name 'among the immortals; there, the no- tice was flashed to the world that the United r States was a world-power, and as sucii must hereafter be reckoned. I Throughout tiie centuries war nas been f changing its implements. At first native sav- I- , ages had fought with clubs; then men clothed i ," themselves in armor and jfofught with swords ' and spears; then fulminating powder awakened V1 its roar in battle; the armor fell from men and ' , valor brought new skill to its defense. Then the . armor was put on ships; then, too came the i planting of mines in the paths of ships and the t torpedo to defend ships and ports. And the walls of oak behind which men had defended themselves changed co walls of steel; the guns increased in efficiency; wars took on new terrors. ter-rors. Christianity instead of doing away with wars gave the increased knowledge to men to increase war's destructivenessj and force upon men the thought that the only way to do away with wars was to make them so terrible that poor human nature could not stand against their horrors. For her immeasurable cruelties, the United States had declared war upon Spain. In the far Pacific Spain had an island empire from which 5 It would be easy to send out commerce destroy ers. In the Pacific the United States had a squad- ron of little ships under command of a man whose name as a sailor was not familiar to his own countrymen still he had a record. As a l'eutenant he had commanded one of the immortal im-mortal Farragut's ships in the Mississippi, when t In the Civil war the task was given to Farra-gut to storm the forts at the mouth of the Mississippi and, in connection with the army, capture New f Orleans. This lieutenant had watched Farragut; had caught from him his methods and caught, moreover, more-over, the inspiration which the great commodore shed to all ' around him. The ship of the lieutenant lieu-tenant grounded, but he fought her until it caught fire, from the fire of the forts and ibecame a total wreck. To him was given the task of making safe the commerce of the United States In the Pacific. He sailed at once for the Philippines, sailed into the entrance of Manila harbor in the night and when a mine exploded in front of his ship, he thought of what Farragut had said at the entrance ent-rance of the inner Mobile Bay a"nd repeated the great admiral's words; "D n the torpedoes!" and held on his way. Then came the battle, the destruction of the Spanish fleet, the capture of the forts and a few weeks later the capture of the city. Since then, his name linked with those of Farragut and all the world's immortal sailors, ho has been working for his country) at his desk. Now, on the eve of four score years of age, he has been called and the millions of his countrymen coun-trymen stand at salute hefore his grave and offer their: All Hails, and farewells. They call his name" and the feeling in their hearts is well expressed ex-pressed in trie old words: "Oh, thou great soul in dim Valhalla's hall. Say cans't thou see us, cans't thou hear us call; Know'st thou how much we love thee and repeat For thee the prayers to marshall spirits sweet?" May the high soul find his old commander and comrades and may everlasting peace be his. "Buffalo Bill" WILLIAM CODY was the most picturesque of all the modern trail-blazers and scouts. He was handsome, ibrave, dashing, a wonderful rider and shot, and within his limitations he was the highest type of his class. He had the same order of mind as General Custer, the same as had Murat, Napoleon's most picturesque marshal. With yellow trousers, blue coat, a plumed hat and his breast covered with decorations, he would have ridden Into battle as exultlngly as ever did the wild Frenchman. The disposition to be the center of attraction attrac-tion was inborn in him. He was not educated to play a high role, but he made the very best of what he had and filled a most useful placo in his sphere, just when the horse was passing and steam and electricity were picking up the heavier work of men. He may be looked upon as perhaps the last of his kind, at least until In the mutations of nations the -United States gains another frontier. We are glad that he was able to play his role to the end. He lived to see the 'buffalo pass, the horse passing, the frontier melt away until the sports and dangers of his youth became spectacular spectacu-lar to a younger generation by producing for It a realization of the long ago. The locomotive first disturbed his empire; then the electricity which cowed the savages by striking at them in their secret fastness; then civilization destroyed the buffalo, but Cody had the genius to make an imitation of what was a fascinating attraction for modern men and women. Col. Cody has earned his reward, and the rest that has come to him. Prohibition PROHIBITION with the lid down and riveted is the program and doubtless will go through, but none of us should take up the idea that it will result in making all the youth of Utah great men. Turkey has been a prohibition country H since the time of Mohammed, but the Turks have H ceased to be a great people. Neither have they H established that prohibition insures long life. H And as we look the world over we ilnd that the H nations -who use intoxicating drinks are the ones H who rule the world. The men who hold ships H up in storms and battle, and who storm "the H Imminent deadly breach" on land, are prone to H drink when they feel like it. M And some of them, who ordinarily never use H it, mutiny when they are told they Bhall not do H a thing which they believe they have a perfect H right to do, and resort to meaner devices to carry out their desires than they ever did before. This has caused the nations who have had H the most experience to decide that the evils of H drinking can be best met by regulating the traffic H by wise laws. Prohibition in Utah, will, if effec- H tlve, have many good effects, but those who are H engineering the business should not take up the H Idea that they are specially called agents of sal- H vatlon, and that hence other people have no rights which they are not bound to respect. H The law can be made Just as binding without H Including features which will make people of H ordinary intelligence take the idea that It is a H virtue to defy it. H The Trail Blazers H TVHEN at Col. Cody's funeral, one speaker H YV usea the old expresson, "'He blazed the H trail' in the West," the term was literally true. H He came in regular succession in the line of those wonderful men who, in the settlement of M the wilderness three thousand miles in width M between the world's two great oceans, were M conspicuous path-finders. M If some artist, sometime, picks up and car- M ries out the idea of making a continuous pic- M ture of that settlement, a few of those avant M couriers, of whom Col. Cody was one of the last, H will be the most brilliant details of the wonder- M ful panorama. M Among the first known of these was George M Washington. On a survey he penetrated as far M west as where Pittsburg now is, and with a M soldier's instinct saw and noted the strategic M importance of the place. We know this from M the history which tells how he volunteered, or M was appointed, to lead Braddock's army to that H important point. M But it is possible that the colonial authorities H were inspired to suggest to Washington to make H his survey by the report of that other path- H finder and trail-blazer, Daniel Boone, made after H he had penetrated the wilderness as far west H as "the dark and bloody ground," of what is H now Kentucky. H Lewis and Clark were next conspicuous, H though thoy were not native wanderlust ex- H plorers. They were sent on a definite journey H of exploration. As much interest attaches to the il trek into Texas by old Sam Houston as clusters H around any other of those wanderers. Indeed, H there has always been and will always he a long- jjH ing to know if there was not behind his going H II 'fjj west a heart-wound which ho was too proud or M too consldorate of another to over refer to. m ' Then Davy Crockett took and held the stage R j v for many years as the path-finder to whom most ; consideration was due, and who was always sur- m rounded by a frontier, radiant halo He wasvsuc- M ceeded by "Kit Carson;" and then there came m Brldger and all the others, H But It Is a pity that it Is not definitely known B who Invented the original trail-blazer's fort. It M may have been Cody; certainly Cody had one M and used it with terrible effect upon hostile sav- M ages. Tho idea was to build the frontier house Hj near a small hill; then to tunnel from tho base- m ment of the house under tho hill; then make an H upralso to tho surface; then make a chamber at M thos top, set timbers to leave openings about M fifteen inches high and exposed all around, and M then support the surface of the earth. m Cody had this arrangement. He saw a band m of about a dozen savages skulking near his m house one morning. Ho loaded two or three H magazine rifles, and taking some extra amuni- H tion, retired to his perch. After investigating K at a distance, tho savages finally made a run M for the house. Reaching It, they evidently con- 1 eluded that no one was at home and talcing fire H from tho fireplace began firing the house from M the outside. One mounted tho low roof and be- H gan his work there. Then Cody opened flro M upon them and killed all but one before they Hj could escape. H When, after the Civil War, General Sheridan m went on his famous winter Indian raid, ne saw M one of these frontier home forts and "was great- M ly impressed by it, declaring it the best plan M of a fort ho had ever seen. When the Franco- B Prussian war was sprung, Sheridan went to Eu- K rope to watch the progress of the war as the M guest of tho Crown Prince of Prussia. It does M not require much imagination to believe that H ho explained this plan of defense to the Crown H Prince and the elder Von Moltke, and that from H the Idea the modern trench flght'ng took form. H An American built the first submarine; an H American trail-blazer first introduced trench H fighting to the world; an American agricultural H implement maker invented the tractor which the B British converted into an ironclad and called a M "tank;" an American invented the double-com- m pound Snarine engine which his own country H rejected, but which -when accepted by Great H Britain revolutionized the carrying trade of the H ocean; an American invented the aeroplane, and H thus have Americans been tho indirect cause H of filling (the earth, the air and the deep sea H with the mightiest instruments of destruction. H Military Training WHEN tho news of the battle of New Orleans reached Franco, Napoleon sent an expert H to examine and report -what kind of guns the H, Americans used in the battle. He reported back H that they were simply the old long-barreled rifles. "Ah," said Napoleon, "it was the men behind H the guns." H Admiral Dewey wanted a West Point educa- H tion. There was no vacancy at the military I academy, so he elected to 'become an accom- I plished sailor. He went under Farragut almost If as soon as ho was out of school, and had a won- Ej derful post graduate course under that master. I Then for thirty-four years he followed, by sea I and land, tho routine of his duties until the op- portunity came, and then in a short hour he won I immortality. L These two incidents ought to supply good ar-I ar-I 'guments to show that the strength of a nation I Is its people, and hence that all its people I should be trained to bo capable defenders, I The preliminary training should be in tho I public schools; then a more perfect training j , should be in tho high schools and universities. I Thiough that the needed training would be obtained; ob-tained; through that tho natural soldiers would bo discovered; the needed men found to train a vast army if the call came for such an army. Thus would tho whole nation in a few years have the necessary preliminary training for any emergency, emer-gency, The knowledge of this world make the strongest foreign powers hesitate before engaging engag-ing in war with tho United States. It Is difficult to understand why any one should object to the education of a boy in the preliminary duties of a soldier. We suspect it is the same objection that causes a mother to neglect neg-lect to teach her daughter cooking and house-keep'ng; house-keep'ng; tho reasoning being that she is always going to be a lady and such training is unnecessary, unneces-sary, and besides it is liable to coarsen her hands. Tho result, not 'infrequently, is that the girl is liable to be taken advantage of by Ignorant and malicious servants all her life, and her want of knowledge of a few needed things cause her constant heartaches. No one ever regretted having learned one useful use-ful accomplishment. O. A. Palmer OA. PALMER, who died a week ago, was a gifted engineer, a most genial man, a splendid neighbor, and in every way an honored citizen. He was a factor of great importance, especially in the mining industry of the west, for forty years. The whole mining area of these western states was mapped on his brain; indeed ho was a significant factor in the history of western mining from the Comstock to Colorado, from Mexico to British Columbia. His greatest individual work was tho handling hand-ling of the water in the Ontario in the days when it threatened to stop mining in the Park. He was a great American, jealous of his country's coun-try's blessings and most impatient witli anything any-thing that trenched upon its sovereign authority. He -devoted his life to the developing of this great mining west, and to the development of the transportation facilities necessary to Its existence. ex-istence. Ho has fully earned the rest that has come to him. The Philippines And Duty THERE are people, we may call them superstitious supersti-tious and sentimental, who believe that a higher than mortal power directs the destinies of nations, and interpret, when a page of history Is forged out, why that stage was set and why the culminating acts were called to make the history. Such people read the history of what was done in Manila bay, and what was a little later accomplished off Santiago, as but the Infinite answer an-swer to the prayers of millions of oppressed people peo-ple that for years had vexed the ears of the Infinite; In-finite; and noting the victorious won, almost without loss on the part of the United States, as carrying with them an obligation on the part of our people to accept the trust those victories had placed upon us, to place those islands on a basis such that tho darkened and distressed people Inhabiting In-habiting them might grow up into the light of liberty and civilization. Our country did its duty toward Cuba and that story makes, altogether, one of tho illuminated illumi-nated pages of history. Our country's work in the Philippines to date has been equally brilliant. We wonder if the politicians pol-iticians who have been trying so hard to have our country shirk its trust in those islands, as they 'look on while the ashes of the great admiral are being laid to rest close by those of Porter and Sheridan and the other heroe3 in Arlington, will not be reminded that nothing ever comes to either men or nations by neglecting a manifest duty. Admiral Dewey won a mighty prestige for the great republic in the Philippines. He lifted up tho standard of the republic close bosido the long-darkened shores of Asia. What American would remove that standard until the oppressed people there are finally freed? The Democracy And The Tariff IN anticipation of a mighty deficit at the end of tho fiscal year, tho Democrats in congress are contemplating such an advance in the tariff "for revenue only" tnat it threatens to exceed tho tariff existing when they went into power with a pledge to restore "industrial freedom" to the country. In framing their tariff, the Republicans had a purpose to so protect the industries of the country coun-try that all her great work could bo kept going and tho millions of employees have steady work and fair wages. But the Democracy is intent only, on protecting itself. When the public crib and the pork barrel were opened to the party, they had a seventeen year old hunger upon them, and tho corn in tho crib and tho pork in the barrel looked so palatable that they could not resist their raid upon them. Now as the provender In crib and the barrel runs low and they have another an-other four year's run upon them, why should they not desire to have them replenished? This Is the more especially the case since the people have endorsed all their former efforts to prey upon the public funds. The pledges of economy in their last two national na-tional platforms do not count. It long ago became be-came clear that those pledges were intended ' merely to round out and make beautiful the phraseology of the full instruments, and were no more to be counted than was the orchestra that enlivened tho sessions of the conventions. Four years of peace; the last two of unparalleled unpar-alleled prosperity, and still the treasury robbed and a deficit in sight. What will come with really real-ly hard times and the stagnation that will follow when the great war hushes its guns? Those Poor English Provincials LOYD GEORGE, tho British premier, wants to buy out all the liquor interests in the United Kingdom and place the sale of all liquors under government control. This measure would have been carried through parliament last year except for the great expense that It would have Incurred, just when the exactions of the war were draining every resource of the kingdom. The idea it seems to convey is that the sale of liquor hurts only when it is abused, and the other that a citizen may not be deprived of his property except through due process of law. What a poor, stupid, provincial people those English are. In this country toe are troubled by none of those old-fashioned ideas. All that is really required is to pay some churchman to draft a bill to tell people what they shall eat and not drink, and if any taxpayer has invested his money in something which this solon does not like, why confiscate it and d n the expense ex-pense when the morals of a community are to be repaired. A Hard Winter IT is said that prior to 1837 there were thousands thou-sands of buffalo in this basin between the Sierra Nevadas and the Rockies, but in the win- i ter they were all killed. Is this year to be a repetition of that? Let us see. A Democratic administration in full swing; zero weather; an east wind; a coal shortage; eggs GO cents a dozen, and prohibition in full blast surely 1837 could not have had much advantage over the I present winter. |