Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-04-16 | Page 10 | Rev. Goshen and Utah

'ipEV. GOSHEN AND UTAH. , Perhaps the roost eloquent of Utah 'ministers is Rev. Elmer I. Goshen, the pasioi ui uie nrm v ougrf gauouai Church in Salt Lnke, but he is beginning begin-ning to narrow his horizon and look nly in one direction lie is playing ,loo much on one string. Recently at a luncheon at one of the Clubs In Salt Lake. Rev. Goshen com -plained that America is suffering of a disease brought on by cowardice and ,Jiypocr1sy and then getling specific,1' hc said: 'We had a legislature on the hill . $ere in Utah that could not pass the 'Civil government examination and the members of that body passed laws that have made us the laughing stock ! -of the country " Whatever criticism may be directed ' uui i - . 1 1 i i s uiiuit'.v still i-ijipis yith equal force to air legislatures in the United States. The comment goes lo the point of picking flaws in rep Cesentatlve government, which stands tor the voice of the people . Claiming that our laws have retarded retard-ed our growth. Rev. Goshen said j ''We should have a million people Ifcere in Utah We haven't a vast popu Nation because we have done all we Can to discourage decent law abiding people from coming here to live. We i4ave the resources and the climate Ind we have but to right conditions ' and the people will como here to build up a great state " Utah has had as great progress in Jjhe pa6t ten years as in any ten years 'ajf Its history, notwithstanding the drawbacks ot the world war and the Reaction -which has afflicted the entire I What Ulah needs industrially more Whan anything else is a return of pros- Jjierity to the farm anil I he mine, and Jtvhen that occurs, (his state will go forward, with or without legislation. There Is nothiDg wrong with Utah tRev Goshen. Koiget your grouch, and her that brilliant mind and that natur telly fine soul. wnii iis deep Impulses )tor good, operate to Bweeten the Urea of all of us, and then we shall be ahappior. more congenial and better prepared to receive and turn the bless pngs of nature in useful and uplifting I Epurposes.