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Vol XII. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 25,1908 No. 25 K
I A Little Chapter on Loyalty.
We are awfully glad that the boys ,of, the
I High School are going to see the fleet. Glad on
every account. Admiral Evans was named a
I cadet from this Territory, and then the boys of
Utah need lessons In loyalty more than those of
M any other State. In a current magazine there Is
an article on the theme that two sovereigns can-
not exist in one realm. Thl&Vsame thought is
II given in Henry IV, when Harry Monmouth tells
M Hotspur: "Two stars keep not their motion in
M one sphere."
B All the trouble that there is in Utah, all there
' over has been, has been due to the fact that there
' is a government here which is determined not
to submit to the government of the United
B States. There" have been endless prevarications;
B there have been false charges of persecution;
B there have been anathemas against malicious
B people vho would persecute a non-resisting peo
jB pie for their religion's sake. Those charges
jB have had their Influence here and abroad, but
lH here has never been the slightest truth in them;
ifl never the slightest honesty In them. They have
lH been deceptions from the beginning, because all
H that has been demanded from the power that
H claims to be sovereign here is that it shall come
H under the laws which every good citizen of the
B United States obeys as a matter of course.
H Hence we are exceedingly glad to see""the
H boyfs zn- They will see the sovereignty of the
B United States as represented on the sea, pano-
H plied with all its power and splendor, ajid on
H their plastic hearts an impression will be made
H of the majesty and the glory and the beneficence
of that government above them which offers
H every opportunity to Its children, and which
B holds Its sovereign power always in readiness to
H defend their rights, to protect them, and to keep
H them the freest people on all this earth.
H The election Is coming on. We shall see this
H power professing its loyalty and its devotion to
H the country. We shall see Jack Mormons loud in
H their praise of the loyalty which exists here, and
H we and they will know all the time that it is only
through the hope of getting a little help from
H this despotism which rules here that makes them
H cringe to it and utter praises in its behalf, which
H they know are not true. But these boys that are
H going to seo the fleet are going to see more than
H tho fleet. They are going to see the west coast
H manifest its loyalty to the flag of the navy and
H the army as tho instruments through which the
H government in time of stross works out Its de-
crees and holds Its place In the forGfront of the
H nations.
B The old world nations have been growing for
H a thousand years. They have beat down one
H barbarism after another. They have wrested
H from the tyranny of priests and kings one right
H after another. In, tho last fifty years they have
H learned to talk about tho rights of the people.
H They are growing toward liberty, but our nation
H came to the world as Minerva came frpm the
brain of Jove, fully equipped, and In a trifle over
H a century it has wrought more than any nation
M in the old world wrought in a thousand years,
H simply because it opened this continent to tho
B endeavor of the individual luan. They said to
JH him, Here are all of these opportunities open to
Lyou; here is every honor open to your children
ft they liave tihe bralnsand the strength and tho
tenacity to go in d win. And the boys will get
the reflection of fi.t work of a hundred years
that will be reflected in the great fleet and its
sullen guns, in the great city that out of wreck
and dfSJjt in two years haa almost restored it
self; in the enthusiasm of the thousands that
will congregate to do honor to the flag; and they
will neyer be again quite such boys as they were
When they went awtiy. Their visions will be
broadened, their hearts will be expanded, and
to them will come full realization of what it is to
be a full American citizen and to hold an even
place with all the other boys of all this great
Republic.
How to Get More Money.
In the current Munsey is an article on the
theme that there is not money enough in the
world. We believe more men realize that now
than ever did before. The events of last Octobr
and" the wreck succeeding made clear tho fact
that one of two things must happen either the
money of the world must be increased, or the
speculations of moneyed men must be reduced,
and our belief is that in ten thousand yes, in
ten million minds the thought has come that,
after all, it was a mistake to demonetize silver.
Look the world over. In the United States there
are perhaps a few millions of men who believe
that there is no real money except gold. It is
the same way in Europe, and yet they all have
had an object lesson to show them that of all
the cowardly agencies which men employ, gold
is tho most cowardly. Glance over the map of
the world and we see Japan, China, India, all of
Central Asia, all Southern Europe, all Spanish
America, which includes quite three-fourths of
the people of the world, who cannot do business
on the metal which the "civilized nations" of the
earth have declared to be the only standard. The
Japanese, the Chinese, the Spanish American,
the hordes of Central Asia, cannot measure their
daily transactions in gold; but the Imbecility of
demonetizing silver is made clear in the fact that
because of Its demonetization, tho nations who
would like to use gold as their only standard are
forced to send it away to nations who do not care
for it, whereas had they lot silver alone, silver
would have done the work In all the nations wo
have mentioned above, and tho deposits of gold
would have been undisturbed in the vaults of all
these lands, which for courtesy we call civilized.
The truth of the wrong we saw committed when
silver was demonetized has been amply demon
strated. It has been shown in the stress of the
nation, and In our judgment only a false pride
keeps those people from admitting the mistake
and going about to rectify it. And a potltion Is
slumbering in the pigeonhole of some committee
In Congress asking that Congress shall move in
the matter and that the president shall set the
machinery in motion to have another commission
appointed to see if the nations at large cannot
agree upon remonetlzlng silver. . Our Senators
are not doing their duty, in that they do not call
up that petition and insist upon a vote. They
might bo voted down, but when that vote went
out to the country the people would be asking why
it was voted down, and that would provide for
its reintroduction in the next Congref imj that
should be kept in mind and brought on very
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appropriate occasion, until finally justice shall Wi3
be done, and as the money was reduced one-half II 1
in 1878, so it should be doubled in 1909. Had fl I
Senator Walcott been left alone in 1897 he would am
have had silver remonetlzed. He was beaten by 1
the cowardly treachery of our then Secretary of jm
the Treasury but that did not alter the justice of $i
what he was. peeking to accomplish, and the agl- B
tatlon of the question will never close until that M
wrong of 1878 shall have been undone. mt
What of Foreign Ambassadors? n
A hundred Eastern papers are still discussing iS
the question of how our representatives in for- S
elgn courts should be treated. Very many pa- w
pers resent the Imputed words of the German
emperor, that the gentleman appointed to fill the
role of ambassador to his court has not the neces- !
sary fortune to keep up the position that the ftS
United States should maintain there. The kaiser fm
may or may not have said anything of the kind, 4ff
but if he did, were not the words true?
And is it not all mostly buncombe for people
on this side to keep saying that what we need 9
abroad is the kind of man who by his character B
alone can command respect? R
A great corporation pays a superintendent 9
$50,000 or $75,000 per antrum for his services and jB
thinks it economy. Is not tho laborer worthy of ff
his hire? George Bancroft once represented the Wfc
United States at Berlin. He had brains and $S
acquirements sufficient to draw to him the very
foremost of Gorman scholars. He did not need jj
money to gain his way there, but on what grounds W
"can the United States excuse itself for retaining jgi
tho services of such a man on the pay of an ordi-
nary clerk? $1
The business of an ambassador is to give his '
country the utmost service in his power. To do sH
that he must roach the foremost men of the ll
country to which he is assigned. Cannot the ji
United States do as well by such a man as a
steel or coal oil or railroad corporation would? $1
It is true enough that we do not want a for- rajf
oign minister to make a vulgar display of $m
wealth, though that has Its direct influence and J8
carries many a favor with it. Jm
But nations are estimated by tho showing L
they make. This being true, our country should iff
have homes of its own in all the great foreign $
capitals for its ministers. And much thought Ik
should be expended on those houses. They
ought to be so largo and so finished and equipped ,f
that they would bo distinct features in the cap- tim
itals whore they are situated. Then the salary ..
should bo one worthy of the highest intellect aud ',
tho most exalted character, and then no one "
should over be appointed and confirmed unless he
had heen proven to possess the needed qualiflca- i
tlcns. When a mere rich man is given such 'a $
place, the United States is humiliated; the coun- $J
try to which he is assigned is insulted. It is as f
though we said to that foreign country: "We fl
send Jones to you as ambassador. He Is a little "wk
short on intellect, but he is long on cash, and he jm
can feed you and get you drunk six nights in the j
week." m
Charles Francis Adams was our minister to ;W
England during the great war. He had all the
