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Show Welcome THE lawyers and judges who are arriving in Salt Lake for the convention nex week are very welcome. They are to be congratulated too, that Judge Taft is coming to meet for at least a brief visit with them, for there is no better-trained better-trained legal mind than Judge Taft's. He is, moreover, one of the most genial and companionable of men. Had he been as aggressive aggres-sive when president as President Wilson is, things might be different now and very much improved. im-proved. All these eminent gentlemen are most welcome, wel-come, whether they can agree upon a uniformity in state laws or not, we trust they will when they go away, hold a uniform belief that Salt Lake City is a good place to come to. THE commander of the Russian "far-flung battle bat-tle line" in Manchuria, in the Japanese-Russian war, begged his government not to treat for peace, declaring that the Japanese had exhausted their strength and that in the next battle he would turn the tide of war, but the treaty was made. That it was Russia has always held as a re- proach, and she evidently does not propose to repeat the mistake in this war. Her armies may bo hurled back but it will not quicken by a ihrob her slow beating pulse. ITALY is sending six hundred and fifty thousand trained men to the front; it is said that no one but the war authorities knows how many hundreds of thousands of men Great Britain has r.ent 'nto France; France is putting up her full strength; every military station in Germany and Austria has been converted intt a camp of Instruction. In-struction. A great many thousands of brave men are yet to be killed or maimed before there will be any effective peace talk. |