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Show THE HERALD'S MORAL PHILOSOPHY. A subscriber of the Salt Lake Herald residing in Park City and Avanting to know Avhat obligations obliga-tions this country owed to Russia as a friendly poAver, wrote for information." The Herald gave the substance of an interview betAA-een Mr.-Barker, an American, and the Czar at St. Petersburg in 1STS. The same appeared more fully in the columns col-umns of this paper early last spring, explaining that the presence of Russian fleets at Xew York and San Francisco Avas all that prcAented Great. Britain and France from aiding the Confederate states and destroying the American union. Desiring Desir-ing to emasculate the merit of this act of the Czar from any virtue it possessed, the Herald quotes the language of the monarch: "All this I did because of love for my own dear Russia, rather than for love of the American republic. re-public. I acted thus bfcause I understood that Kup-sia Kup-sia Avould have a more serious task to perform if the American republic, with advanced industrial development, de-velopment, were broken up and Great Britain should be left in control of most branches of modern industrial in-dustrial development." According to the moral philosophy of the Herald, Her-ald, which is not that of Bishop Whateley (and avc think the editor belongs to the bishop's denomination), denomina-tion), confession of self-interest by one party releases re-leases the other party from the obligation of benefit bene-fit conferred; and this was pointed out to the Park City man. - Which amounts to saying to the neighbor neigh-bor who helped put out the fire in your house that he did it because of fear that his own home avouUI be burned doAvn. Therefore, "the devil thank him." |