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QOODWIN'S WEEKLY. 3 ' I
THB MINING CONGRESS.
Notwithstanding the excitements of the present
wtek, Utah must not forget the Mining Congress
to be held in a few days at Butte, Mont. Those
congresses have been of vast good to the country,
and especially to the West.
Agriculture leads all other industries in our
country, and this is right for two reasons. The
to things that men wear out their lives to se
em e aie board and clothes. The first is supplied
by the farmer. In a good many ways he also sup
plies the latter. Then there is no other place half
bo good on which to bring up children as a farm.
Loe of home in the city is not like love of home
on a farm, and it is that love expanded which
makes patriotism.
But next to farming, the great industry of our
country is mining.
Again, the effect of mining, especially precious
metal mining, makes up the vitalizing element in
business, and civilization advances or recedes as
I the product of the world's precious metal mines
is increased or diminished.
The United States was a fourth class nation,
as the world rates nations, until the golden stream
commenced flowing in 1849. Its steadily increas
ing volume ever since from the Great West has
advanced the nation in fifty years to a place of
such splendor and power as was never reached
beiore by any nation since the beginning of his
tory. Of course, there were many other treinen
ous factors, but the vitalizing element, the lubri
cating fluid that kept the boxes cool on all the
wheels of progress, has been the money taken
from the hills and deserts of the Golden West.
Hence, this great industry should be of much
concernment to the whole country, but in the
States where mining is the paramount industry,
mining congresses should be eagerly attended and
1 delegates should be chosen from the most capable
1 citizens of each State. These delegates should be
able to explain every advance made in their re
spective States, then when opinions are exchanged
the industry itself should be strengthened by tne
added knowledge.
then it is good for residents of many States to
often meet together. It is a refining process, it
quickens the minds of the delegates, it broadens
their natures, it adds to their respect for their
countrymen, it warms and enlarges their patriot
ism. B Butte is a great place for a convention to meet
in. Hospitality runs wild up there. The pace set
B is a fast one so fast that only men of iron consti
B tutions should be sent as delegates, for ordinary
B mortals cannot stand the wear and tear of three
B dajs of Butte's courtesies. When the men of Butte
B become hosts to entertain a company in earnest,
B it means a weakening of all but the very strongest
B constitutions among their guests.
B We hope the visiting Elks have had a good
B time, that they will hold their visit here in pleas-
B ant remembrance. If they enjoyed their visit as
B much as the people have enjoyed their coming,
B the m ill always have a warm place in their hearts
B for Salt Lake.
B THE POOR STREET CAR SERVICE.
B The street car company has a monopoly of the
B earning of passengers in Salt Lake City. Its
B frainhise cost it nothing, but when such a fran-
B chif' is given there is an implied contract on the
B company's part to return for it good service. The
B Presr-nt service is manifestly poor in several par-
B ticulars. It lacks both in executive ability and is
B deplorably short in equipment. Finding fault is
Bj nt pleasant to any one but a common scold, but
Bj hon st criticism Is justifiable. For instance, when
B the m-eat circus was here a few days since there
B weir probably 12,000 people in attendance. When
Bj the were turned out, near midnight, after walk-
B lng two blocks to the car tracks, they found four
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or five cars, with a natural capacity for perhaps
thirty people each, with a packing and hanglng
on capacity of perhaps sixty-five people each,
waiting for them. After waiting twenty-five min
utes, as many more cars arrived, and that was the
service provided for the thousands. Like experi
ences have been the rule during the past week.
Anyone trying to ride anywhere near meal time or
about the time that entertainments, day or night,
were on, has been jammed, squeeed, trodden on
and tortured, until he could extricate himself and,
as a matter of comfort, get off and walk.
We do not forget that there has been a great
influx of visitors, but then it was known that the
crowd would be here; it is known that large
crowds come here every few days.
The serice has been unworthy of a company
that claims a property value for its franchises and
stock of $3,000,000. Then it has lost hundreds of
dollars every day during the week because of not
being able to perform effective service.
But it may be asked. "What would you do to
help such conditions?"
The answer is: Many things: but only two or
three need noting now: Double tracks should be
laid so that a continuous stream of cars could run
by the depots, and these tracks should extend for
half a mile either way that connections could be
made with the east and west tracks of the city. Then
there should be a hundred extra cars supplied for
trailers to meet a crowd; these would not be expen
sive changes for a great corporation. Then, when a
crowd is coming, arrangements should be made to
meet it; when an entertainment at which thou
sands of people are in attendance is on, the com
pany should have cars ready to accommodate the
people when the entertainment is over. Again,
when it is known that on every street between 7
and 8 p. m. there will be thousands of people rush
ing to attend a show, the cars should be on hand
to meet the rush. The cars during the past two
weeks have missed carrying fifty thousand people
that would have been glad to ride. That means
$25U0 that has been lost, or the interest on half a
million dollars. Moreover, more than 50,000 other
people have been jammed, crowded, jostled, mad
dened until they have jeopardized their immortal
souls in damning the company. That kind of work
ought to bo stopped.
It is said that Ireland was the native country
of the elk. People will never doubt that fact who
saw Dan Loftus, sashed and plumed, and carrying
his grand marshal baton.
THE CORONATION.
So Edward VII. has been successfully crowned.
Mother Shipton was mistaken. Her intentions
were good, but she could not anticipate how anti
septics were going to help modern surgery.
Crowned amid such a blaze of gems as the
modern world never saw before; crowned in the
old sacred abbey, while the ringing bells, the
blare of trumpets, the chanting of men singers and
women singers to organ accompaniment, drowned
the whispers among the illustrious sleepers in
that old mausoleum.
But those sleepers were, after all, the most im
pressive feature the Kings and Queens, the war
riors, the statesmen, the law-makers that founded
and built up Great Britain's power and splendor,
the poets that set her glories to the music of
words the deathless ones of a thousand years.
Edward VII. seems rather small by comparison
with some of those sleepers, but in their life no
woman sleeper there was sweeter than is Alexan
dra, the present Queen. It is a good place for a
coronation, for no spot could be a more forcible
leminder of two essential things, one the brief
span of the longest life, the other that under the
attrition of years, in a little while the memories
of the dead are only cherished by the record that
their lives left upon the world. So far Edward
VII. has not much impressed men. If his pur- ; ijH
poses are high and his dream is to leave his coun- '' ' !j
try greater than when he became King, he has 'H
not much time in which to work. j , M
If the sleepers there were whispering on coro- ., 'H
nation day, that was what they were discussing. j i j-H
The accident of birth establishes often who shall , $ M
be crowned King, but the honors that last come & ( tJ
from the heavt and mind, and Edward VII. has ' H
not much time in which to establish that any ex- " H
alted memories are to be his due. . , H
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"In the strenuous days of the past, in the fierce H
contention that was here waged by opposing sys- , jH
terns, much was said of them that was harsh and IH
bitter, much of which was unjust." O. W. Powers. i M
Help me, Cassius, or I sink. Julius Caesar. J fl
NOT TO BE. Y
Major Scheibert of the Prussian army was an H
unofficial attache to General Robert E. Lee and ' ' H
saw, personally, the campaigns of 1862-3 in Vir- ' J ',H
ginia and Pennsylvania. In his recollections he H
records a conversation with Jefferson Davis, in " I ' H
which the President of the Confederacy declared J4f jH
that if Napoleon the Third would break the block- f t ,'fl
ade the South would give him a free hand in UJIM
Mexico and provide troops for the conquest. f B
The stars were not shining auspiciously on o, .fl
either Louis Napoleon or Jefferson Davis in those ' jfl
days. Had Louis Napoleon broken the blockade, ' H
he would have been licked, and the South would , , ' I jl
never had had soldiers to help on his conquest. k ,jjH
The Fates were directing events in those days; the j ' H
purpose was to have human slavery done away fa V';fl
with in this country, and it was not to be inter- i ! H
fered with. j'l iH
'ihe will of Louis Napoleon was good enough, H
but that was a stubborn Queen across the channel V,C ifl
who said "No!" and that settled it. But wo may fni'-wfl
speculate on what would have followed could the H f M
dreams of both Napoleon and Davis have been L H
realized. Could the Confederacy have gained its V H
independence and could Mexico have been taken t J ,- jS
by conquest by the French and Austrians; it ! jV'-fl
ould not have been long before there would have i ; fl
been a clash between those two powers. It was i t, fl
the dieam of Davis to build up a great slave em- S if i H
pire and he would have needed Mexico and Cen- ''if" H
tral America in his business. Had 'his soldiers H
conquered that country, it would not have been for ij'!' H
France, but for the Confederacy. $ fH
Then the Monroe Doctrine would have been l!B
invoked, and the great North power of this conti- fA 'jfl
nent would have insisted that no foreign sceptre y'l'lfM
could be permitted to wave in Mexico, and there li'if ijH
would have been long years of war. ft 1 i'iB
But that was not the plan. The purpose was to jh 4 jB
do away with slavery and to exact from the people I . H
North and South the penalty due because of iH
slavery. i'f ijjjl
It was a fearful assessment that should em- Irwl
phasize the solemn fact that Justice must be done if lHI
lor every wrong; that if it Ib postponed then i" ffM
on final settlement full interest will be exacted ' if jH
with the principal. f jB
We still have the race problem in the South; y 1H
we have the age of gold upon us, with its exac- lii1 'JH
tions, and still the rule holds good that every I J'twH
wrong must be righted, and if delayed then full i '' H
interest must be added to the sinister principal. jjL H
Mr. Goddard is a big man, but he never felt ll'ill
that his clothes were all too small until last Mon- feH
day night in the Tabernacle. H ifB
It must have been the restraining order of flfll
Judge Morse that turned aside the threatened HlHI
rain while the Elks were celebrating. HlHI
Salt Lake under the electric display was like 1 JjH
the New Jerusalem "There was no night there." 1 fH
