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Show 1 Republicans! Organize For Victory 1 WE took occasion last week to point out the necessity of properly financing the Republican party's organization in the state and fj we gently chided those who relied on conversation and convention speeches to win for them positions of control in the organization. We 'a Attempted to describe their engaging conversational abilities when J the organization offered anything of which they might partake and 4 their careful, not to say grim, silence when there was need of con- T tributions to pay the way of organization. We even had the hardihood I to suggest that organization might be better off without such men ! and that more consideration should be shown for the thoughtful and , generous men who were willing to provide the means for effective - campaigns. We trust that we performed our duty with due tact and 1 in a convincing fashion. w But assuming that adequate finances will be available, it is essen- II tial to pass from the question of money to the question of organization tf Itself. In the realm of organization there armen of attractive conversational con-versational ability who show a certain lack bf those indispensable i qualities which stamp the successful organizers If they could talk , their way to victory there would be no' need for worry, the party J would never be defeated. But unfortunately organization means something more than talk. It means work; hard work. It means Jl executive ability, loyalty, enthusiasm. II Therefore it behooves the Republicans to set their house in order II and prepare for the next campaign. The cobwebs must be swept away. l The machinery must be cleaned and oiled and the mechanics and engi- neers must get together and work hard to accomplish the tasks set I before them. 1 We have pointed out the peril of faction, but we believe it is only A necessary to indicate the danger to destroy it. We are confident that A Republican loyalty is of such fine mettle that it will permit no spirit j of faction to operate against the best interests of the party. 1 We are confident that there will be harmony in the party when the days of battle approach, but there should be harmony now, and not j only harmony but such an enthusiastic getting-together as will make 1 for preparedness from now until election day. i How best to attain an efficient organization is a problem that can J be solved as all other complex problems are solved by devoted 1 thought and unremitting endeavor. Naturally the most important j task before the party at this time is the selection of a new state chair- J man to succeed W. D. Candland, who has tendered his resignation, 1 y t SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 26, 1919. ' I Hl Unless a fitting choice is nfadc to carry on the admirable work of Mr. H Candland the organization will be 'fatally handicapped at the very be- H ginning. Therefore the party leaders must be careful to make no Bj mistake ih their first move toward perfecting the state organization. H But organization need not necessarily wait on the state commit- B tec's selection of a chairman. Preliminary work can be done at once. B It should be the goal of the state chairman to so systematize the work B that the secretary shall be able at any time to reach promptly the sec- B retary of the smallest village organization. And he must be able to B! reach him, not through roundabout channels, but directly. Bj Delegates should not engage in deals to put favorites into re- B sponsible positions. They should shun favoritism if they would ac- Bj complish the final object of organization the winning of elections. B They should see to it, therefore, that men who have the mental calibre B to handle big business propositions arc given the executive positions, B for, after all is said and done, a campaign is a business proposition. B It was the organization behind the army that made victory in France fl certain and that organization was a business proposition. , H i p p H j SHADES OF W. JENNINGS BRYAN! B X7 desire to express our keenest sympathy for lifelong Demo- B VV crats who are being "propagandized" out of their ancient, B basic principles. It is sad to see them succumbing to the autocratic B ambitions of the man who wanted the world made safe for democracy. B It is a distressful thought that perhaps he did not so much care to B make the world safe for democracy as to make his own country safe B for the Democratic party with T. Woodrow Wilson at its head. BA A lifelong Missouri Democrat, than whom, to employ the words B of one of our current humorists, there is none "than whomer," has B made the marvelous and exhilarating discovery that even Republicans B are demanding a third term for Wilson. A perigrinaceous correspond- Bl ent reached up and dragged this Democrat down out of his cloudland Bp' of dreams and asked him how Wilson was regarded thereabouts. And B this is what the mild madman replied : Bj "You can rest assured of one thing and that is that not only the B Democrats of southeast Missouri, but more, than 50 per cent of the ' B Republicans stand right square behind the president and are clamoring flj every day for him to run for a third term." B The correspondent says that as an afterthought this "particular B county chairman" for it was none other than such added : "But, as a B lifelong Democrat, I do not think this is best." B To think that zealots who once knelt at the resounding shrine of B William Jennings Bryan and wore out their knees on his rough plat- B forms should now be demanding a third term for anybody ! Bryan Avas B the fiery evangelist of the single term, for that was all he wanted, and B his followers agreed that anyone who disagreed with him was a lost B soul trying to drag the country down to lowest possible pits of per- B dition. B This "particular county chairman" has fallen so low in the direc- B tion of those pits, after posing on the purified and rarified heights of Bi Bryanism fpr many years, that it occurs to him only as an "after- J thought" that he ought to be against not a second term but a third B term. So debased and brutalized by his mad plunge from the aetherial B peaks of idealism has he become that a second term does not even titil- B late the outer epidermis of his conscience, which is agitated only by the thought of a third term and then so gqntly that he hardly heeds M the disturbance. So lost to all sense of upright Bryanism is he in his m days of Wilsonianism that he even tries to inculpate innocent Mis- B souri Republicans, who do not know what horrible charge he is bring- B ing against them in his confabs with a vagrant journalist. B What a wonderful propaganda is this that can make one-termer "' Democrats turn right around and demand three terms for their rev- H crcd leader and chronic candidate ! HJ T r r r B WELL DESERVED HONOR. Hi irpHOSE who have watched the progress of Wilson McCarty with X admiration are delighted at his elevation to a judgeship and predict pre-dict for him a most successful career. He rose rapidly in the legal pro- fession and made himself a salient figure by his brilliant handling of the duties of district attorney. He takes tf the bench, therefore, not merely acquaintanceship with the law, but a wide and varied experi- ence as prosecutor. He is fully equipped for his work as judge and 4j the district may well congratulate itself upon his selection. Born in American Fork thirty-five years ago, he was educated in v the district schools of Salt Lake City until his father moved to Canada, where he spent his early life in riding wild horses and engaged generally gen-erally in the ranching business. Later, he returned to Salt Lake City to attend the L. D. S. university and was graduated therefrom. He v? then attended the Osgoode Hall Law School at Toronto, Canada, for i two years. From there, he went to the Columbia University Law V School in New York City and received the degree of L. L. B. in the . f spring of 1913. WV Returning to Utah he engaged immediately in the practice of law. ' I For two years he was assistant county attorney and took an active ac-tive part in suppressing vice, waging a vigorous war against the Bingr, ham vice district. yi In 1916, he was unanimously nominated for the office of district attorney by the Democratic party and was elected to the office of dis-, trict attorney of the Third judicial district. Some of the most famousj cases that he has successfully prosecuted were : State vs. Howard De Weese, the Willard case, McNair murder case, the Mike Morris murder mur-der case and the Kiamel Zeker murder case. . j Last fall he had complete charge of the grand jury investigations of the Merchants bank and is now actively engaged in prosecuting the indictments found as a result of the investigation. I Governor Bamberger recently appointed him district judge of the Third judicial district to fill the vacancy created by the bill passed by the last legisla providing for an additional judge in this district. If the prosecution of the defendants indicted by the grand jury which investigated the Merchants bank is completed by May 12, he will at that time take his oath of office as judge. i j HAS GERMANY WON? ' i HAS Germany won? It must be stated at the outset that this question is unanswerable because we cannot tell what the world of tomorrow will be. Nevertheless the question is worth considering. The French fear that Germany has won. Dissatisfied with the safeguards and guarantees of the League of Nations, the French are demanding a league within a league, an alliance for war within the alliance for peace. They look forward with much doubt and trepidation trepida-tion despite the allied military victory in the field. They demand that their allies form a new alliance to protect France against any future invasion by Germany. They put forward the demand because they believe that some day not many years hence the Teutonic hordes will cross the border again in a plunge for Paris. Nor arc their fears unfounded un-founded if the present status of Europe can be considered as an indication indi-cation of the future. There are three classes of peoples who will be dissatisfied with ' the peace treaty : The war-time enemies of the allies. fq, Those who did not get what they sought from the peace con-11 ferencc. The Bolsheviki. Whether there is a formal alliance between the dissatisfied elements ele-ments or not there will be a unity of sentiment and interest binding them together against the League of Nations. If we consider each of the dissatisfied elements in turn we may catch at least a glimpse of what the future will hold in store for Europe. Let us assume that the Germans are rendered as nearly powerless power-less as possible. With their navy gone and their army reduced to a mere police force their p&tentiality for war will have been paralyzed' for a few years. Their only hope of aggression against France and the league will lie in their recuperative power and the acquisition of allies. In one respect Germany will have an increasing superiority over France in population. Wtace suicide or whatever the cause may be , " that' has kept reproduction almost stationary in France when all the ' other peoples, of Europe have been multiplying rapidly has made it necessary for France to have allies. And in proportion to population vi France suffered most among the belligerents from war causalties. $? Unless the peace conference achieves a success which is not cx- ; . ected at this time several members of the entente combination will 'be dissatisfied and, therefore, in a mood for revenge when the opportunity oppor-tunity presents itself. Whether Italy or Jugo-Slavia has its way with the peace confer-i' confer-i' ence there will be millions of people sentenced, as it were, to a fixed y state of animosity against the league. If Italy obtains all it wants on the Adratic's east coast Jugo-Slavia, which includes Serbia, will cher- ( ish hatred against the Italians and the league. If Jugo-Slavia wins 'J1 the Italians will hate the Jugo-Slavs and be ready at some favorable " time to join in a combination against the league. V We have frequently pointed out the weakness of the wall which the allies have erected between Germany and Russia. It is unlikely tnat the wall can be much strengthened by the awards of the peace treaty. If Poland is denied Danzig and the road thereto the Poles will feel that they have no particular reason to be grateful. In fact, they will believe that they have been deserted by their allies, for without Danzig the new Poland cannot wax powerful enough to protect pro-tect itself against the Bolsheviki on one side and the Germans on the other. Moreover, both Poland and Rumania are being saturated with Bolshevism and when full saturation occurs the protective dike in eastern Europe will collapse. How, we well may ask, can the allies prevent the catastrophe? The third menace is Bolshevism. The allies do not know what to do with it. They have decided not to wage war in Russia on a grand scale. They are only half decided to continue giving aid to those outlying districts which keep up the fight against the Bolsheviki. Led by President Wilson, there is a certain clique in the league that wishes to effect a compromise and, perhaps, concede recognition to the government of Trotzky and Lenine. Having failed to bring about a conference on Prince's island between be-tween the Bolsheviki and his representatives George D. Herron and William Allen White the president selected two American newspaperman news-paperman both radicals to visit Russia and report on conditions. We are informed that they gave the Bolsheviki a "rather clean bill of health." Our accredited ambassador, who is the constitutional official to give us the information which the president sought to gain through his personal envoys, declared before the senate committee that "if this Bolsheviki government remains in control of Russia peace in Europe is, in my opinion, impossible." 1 . Of recent years Lincoln Stephens has been noted for his activities , on behalf of the Los Angeles dynamiters. He made a speech at San ' Diego last year denouncing our government as rotten and extolling the governments of Russia and Mexico as superior to it. W. C. Bullitt, a Philadelphia journalist, was given a place in the I state department in 1918. He is said to be an avowed admirer of Lenine and proclaims him as one of the few really great leaders of history. ijj If President Wilson. did not expect a "rather clean bill of health" what did he expect from these radical friends of Lenine, Trotzky and Bolshevism? "And does the "rather clean bill of health" indicate an intention in-tention to recognize the Bolshevik-government? This speculation may appear to be a digression from the subject, but we indulge in it to show that there is a certain feeling of hopelessness hopeless-ness among the allied leaders in dealing with Bolshevik peril. There is a weak, despairing sentiment to recognize its rule and wash the entente hands of blame. But that would only incense our friends 'in Russia and Siberia. I Thus we have Germany so situated-that she can make an alliance kvitli the Bolsheviki at any time and can arrange understandings with the discontented members or ex-members of the entente. If Italy is placated Jugo-Slavia -may not be disposed a few years "' 'hence to deny Germany a way to Constantinople but even if Jugo- ;Slavia remains a stone wall in the Teutonic patii there is the road to $sia by way of Russia with only Poland in between. In this incomplete statement of the European situation we have tried to suggest the dangers and pitfalls that will remain after the M Paris conference has done its best to lay the foundations of permanent jH peace. The suggestions are not offered in a spirit of confirmed pes- M simism, but for the sole purpose of illumination. The American people M are anxious to know what kind of a league they are asked to join and ! what may be the consequences if they do join. H A FEEBLE DEFENDER. LOGIC "pure and undefilcd" is often necessary in argument, but H not often exciting. Most apologists for the Democratic admin- H istration find it more thrilling to shun logic and rely on the emotional H appeal. H Arthur Train, late major U. S. A., now a member of the New York H bar, has undertaken to defend the court-martial system which has H been the target for severe, even bitter criticism. In a recent number H of Collier's he strives, among other things, to dispose of Senator H Chamberlain's charge that "the records of the court-martial in this jH war show that we have no military law or system of administering H military justice which is worthy of the name of law or justice." H Major Train should have kept in mind that Senator Chamberlain H was directing his criticism against what he deemed to be a defective H system incapable of according justice, but the administration apologist H assumes that the senator's chief complaint is against the severity of H the sentences. H When the senator referred to a case in which a soldier had been H sentenced to ten years for "sleeping on post" and to another case in H which a soldier had been sentenced to twenty-five years for being H "absent without leave," he was trying to show that a court-martial H system which made such' sentences possible was far from flawless. ' Major Train thinks it a sufficient answer to say that the sentences were reviewed and reduced and that the two men had "actually been M restored to duty one week before the senator made his speech." H If our memory serves us the sentences had been criticised before '1 the senator made his speech and, if it be true that the sentences were reduced by force of public opinion, that does not speak well for the M perfection of the system. M But a clearer case of illogical reasoning is presented in the follow- M ing paragraph of Major Train's article : 'M "Moreover, the sketchy way in which the cases complained of are H generally stated creates an utterly false impression. One of the fa- M vorites which have gone the rounds of the press is the famous 'potato- M peeling case' of which it is alleged 'a soldier got twenty-five years for M refusing to peel potatoes.' The facts are that this soldier was a M 'conscientious objector' who had from the outset of his obstructive M career refused to do anything whatever. He had been given his choice M to do practically any noncombatant work he wanted, but had declined. M At last, as a final concession to humanity, he was asked if he would M object to helping peel the potatoes in the kitchen. He did object. It M was the last straw, and he was court-martialed as he deserved. Even M then the judgment was set aside for a legal error in the admission of M evidence. He is out now, or shortly will be, walking around with an H honorable discharge, entitled to full pay and a $60 bonus! Severity? H Brutality? Candy and cigars ! H Is it not in fact quite possible that we have erfed too much upon H the side of leniency throughout?" H Will anyone who has even a nodding acquaintance with the canons H of logic say that the apologist has met the senator's charge? Has he H not rather proved the charge by demonstrating that the conscientious H objector escaped due punishment? H A system wh'ich, in the first place, imposes a sentence too severe and, finally, rewards the accused with an honorable discharge and a jH bonus of $60 a month is not worth the ecstatic eulogy Major -Train ' $fl accords it. On the contrary it oscillates the scales of justice in an H appalling manner. H But, says the major, "It is ridiculous to criticise any system of ad- ministering justice because of the inequality of sentences, or of the in- 1 dividual antics of judges, etc." Perhaps it is not so ridiculous as the Iti defender of the system imagines. To the average observer it will H seem perfectly reasonable to denounce a system which grants a judge 'H HI such discretion that he cm sentence a prisoner to twenty-five years HI for insubordination and another judge or reviewing officer the right H to take such action as will restore the guilty man to an honorable H position, and entitle him to full pay and a bonus of $60 a month. H The public will suspect cither that the system is what Senator H Chamberlain describes it to be or that Major Train is" not much .of a H : success as a defender of the system. j HI VOTE FOR THE BONDS. Hg HpODAY, Saturday, April 26, the taxpayers of Salt Lake have a duty HI X to perform and this is a reminder that they should not neglect -it. H They should go to the polls and vote for the $2,100,000 bond issue HI which is to build a new West Side High school and provide other im- Iprovements. The West Side should have had a new high school long ago. Just as the district was about to realize its hopes the unsettled days of the great war with their call for unusual duties and Sacrifices supervened and prevented the authorities from constructing the school. H The crowded conditions at the West Side school have long dis- H tressed teachers and pupils. Today proper housing is imperative. H There can be no more delay. H All registered voters who are taxpayers on either real estate or H personal property are entitled to a vote. Hi, sK H sH H H CALLING TEUTON DONS TO REPENTANCE. H H UNLESS Germany's educators formally confess their own and their nation's sins and do deeds meet for repentance the scholars of the H entente W9rld will not admit them to fellowship. H This is a perfectly normal attitude on the part of those who have H suffered from Teutonic aggression, but in some respects it is not Hi without its humor. H Apparently Nicholas Murray Butler, speaking, like President Hi Wilson, on behalf of humanity and the good angels, banishes the Ger- H man professors from the intellectual league of nations. German pro- H fessors who do not kneel before the educational entente and contritely H ask forgiveness for "thirty-one" count 'em "thirty-one kinds of H crime," must remain ostracised from the good-will and charity of H Saxon and Latin illuminati. H The doctor's maledictions are well-phrased and impressive and H one cannot but sympathize with him in his horror of the deeds and in H his demand for repentance. H "We have not forgotten," he writes, "the amazing prostitution of H scholarship and science to national lust marked by the formal appeal Hi to the civilized world made by the German professors in September, Hi 1914. That appeal was an unmixed mass of untruths; and the stain Hj which it placed on the intellectual and moral integrity of German H scholars and men of science will forever remain one of the most de- H plorable and discouraging events of the war which German militarism H and Prussian autocracy forced upon the peaceful and liberty-loving H nations of the world." H ! That is a ringing "Get-thou-behind-me-Satan" prayer of the puri- H fied. We approve of its general tenor; in fact, v approved of its Hj sentiments before Germany started out on its career of thirty-one I kinds of criminality. But neither Nicholas Murray Butler nor the great American universities disapproved of Germanism in American education prior to 1914. Those very doctrines of pagan morality which led to the "thirty-one" crimes now so appalling to Doctor , Butler were preached not only by the kaiser's exchange professors but Hj by scores of American professors throughout the length and breadth Hji of our land. German educators were esteemed above all others in Hf the world. Their false doctrines were permitted to percolate through HI jtll graaes of our own educational system. Nor can it be said that the P poison did no harm. Our opinion is that it had already contaminated I business, politics and religion with its selfish outlook upon life. When the European war broke out and when we went to war we discovered Mn much pro-Germanism among our intellectuals from dons to bishops. H We seem to remember that Doctor Butler was an exchange pro- H ' fessor in Germany, but we do not cite it as a fact because our memory may be seriously at fault. We recall, however, that Doctor-Butler delivered a series of lectures in Gerrnany boiit ten years ago. These lectures are extremely interesting in the retrospect because they contained con-tained a warning quite unintended to the German people. The 'doctor 'doc-tor pointed out to the Germans that despite the popular impression -to the contrary Americans were the most idealistic people in all thA, world. How true that is the Germans now realize to the full, for it was American idealism, as opposed to German materialism, that won the war. German professors are a bad lot, no doubt. They sold their souls to a false-herated despotism for a mess of pottage. But American educators who knelt at the Teutonic shrine and worshipped the idols of Odin and Thor could well afford to assume an attitude of repentance repent-ance along with their aforetime revered brethren of Berlin, Leipsig, Heidelberg and Jena. FIRST LEAGUE A FAILURE. s- WHAT can the League of Nations do that has net already been by the associated powers ? In effect there has been a League of Nations in operation for months. The "Big Four" at Paris have formed the executive council and have been supported by the biggest army and the greatest navy in history. This league has more guns and shells, more of all kinds of military weapons and equipment than was possessed by any combination combina-tion of powers since men divided themselves into nations. If this was not a league to enforce peace what was it? The spectacle of Europe still torn by war, of nations toppling and falling into the burning abysses of anarchy, of nation against nation and of peoples within nations fighting for mastery, is not a happy augury of what a league to enforce peace may accomplish. But it appears that despite the failure of the first league we are about to form another league to preserve peace, and it does not appear ap-pear that the new league will start with any better prospect of success than did the original league, the league whose council is now in session at Paris. , "Time is the Soviet's and Russia's best ally," says M. Tchitcherin. A little work and some food, however, would help while away the time. (- Barnes will handle the wheat crop. Barns have always handled wheat crops. j C !): !JC Killing Armenians seems to be the national game in Egypt as well as in Turkey. There was one t thrill for the small boy missing in that aerial circus. He could not crawl in under the tent. 1 l T l The German workmen propose to strike till the last armed foe expires. |
