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1 VOL. XXI. Eleventh Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 16, 1912 5 Cents the Copy No. 31
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, EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
WITH this Issue of The Weekly,
Mr. Burl Armstrong relin
quishes his duties as editor and
will hecome business manager of the
paper. Mr. Leltoy Armstrong assumes
the editorial direction of The Weekly
with next week's Issue. The passing
of the buck from son to father Is a
reversal of the traditional order, but
It will mean an instant widening of
the sphere of Influence and activity
of The Weekly, to the vast Improve
ment of the literary tone of this jour
nal, and perforce, to the very great
delight of thousands of readers.
It was tho original intention of Mr.
LeRoy Armstrong in the purchase of
The Weekly to give his time to tho
building of a smart, high-olass jour
m nal, while at the same time directing
4 the energy of the publication toward
the upbuilding of tho state and its
I varied interests. Tho management of
Tho Weekly lakes a keen pride In the
announcement that Mr. Armstrong Is
to assume tho editorial post and those
who know of his literary worth wilt
join us In the confident hope that his
ambition will not bo over-long of fulfillment.
THE NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY.
SPOKESMEN for tho Progressive
party declare their organization
has come to stay; that they will
hold meetings presently at which
stops looking to a permanent organi
zation will be taken. And they even
pause a moment to heave a brick or
two at what Is left of the Republican
party.
In that latter exercise wo believe
they make a mistake. It Is none the
less an error because of tho state
j ments occasionally made by Republl-
i cans to tho effect that the Progres
sives are rebels, and must bo treatea
as such. That spirit of hostility may
j reasonably bo expected from gentle-
j mon who have so recently arisen from
f tho dust still bearing the impress ot
I
the election steam roller which is
the severest steam roller that ever
rolled.
There are going to bo two political
parties in this country. They aro go
ing ito contend for the mastery of this
Republic. There is no more room for
three parties, even distantly approach
ing ability to control, than there is
room for tho second young man In
a porch swing glorified by the pres
ence of a girl. The Democratic party
Is In the saddle, and is going to stay
there for four years. It depends on
'bbe Democrats themselves If they stay
there twenty years.
They certainly will be assisted by
the bickerings between the Progres
sive and the Republican parties.
Most of the Progressive party is
made up of men and women who
formerly were Republicans. The spirit
of the Progressive p'arty is just the
spirit which attracted the men who
formed the Republican party. In
June of the present year, they were
all In one party. And they didn't
split so much on measures as on men.
They can play the part of doddering
idiots, and fight each other. But if
they want to benefit themselves not
to speak of tho .possible benefit to the
nation they will get together, drop
their mutual recriminations, and solid
ify Into an organization that shall ev
press the principles worthy to live In
both of their platforms, and go for
ward more capable and more deserv
ing to win.
The name is something, of course.
But It Isn't an essential. A rose by
any other name would smell as sweet.
One can believe that Itihe old Whig
felt some regret at sloughing his party
name when ho joined tho Republicans.
But he found there the substance de
sired even more than no aeslred the
name. He found a party pledged to
the work of a progressive age; tho
work ho believed holy and right.
If his twentieth century descend
ants are as conscientious, let them
make sacrifice of their party name
whether new or old and get together
on a common platform of progress,
with the ability of the old party and
tho possibility of the now, and prove
their organization worthy to win.
For the world does not move back
ward. Tho progress demanded by
Borah and Hadloy and LaFollotte and
a host of others near and far Is go
ing to be achieved. The Democratic
party today Is more progressive than
the rulejrs of the Republican party
were four years ago. And that new
party which can with any hope con
test results with the Democrats can
not In reason expect success with any
lessening of the forward inaroh.
Now that the long evenings have
come, with the cheer of plenty to eat
and a business condition that Is in all
ways desirable, there is a good time
to think politics instead of raving
about them; a good time to formulate
the calm judgment; a good time to
frame that statement to the rudimen
tary tyrants who even now are laying
their plans to make a now party pos
sessing all the boss-branded privi
leges of the old, and as little as poa.
slble of tho benefits to be hoped for
In the new.
WE WISH HE WERE RIGHT,
BUT
DAVID STARR JORDAN says tho
war game Is played out; that
the march of universal peace is
still onward, and very near Its goal.
We wish David Starr were right,
but fear he is letting his wish be
father to his statement. It Is a whole
lot more likely that Dr. Eliot, presi
dent emeritus of Harvard, has the bet
ter judgment. Dr. Eliot came back
from a careful study of old-world con
ditions, and declared that he did not
feel warranted In saying that war was
over. Ho believed tho day of univer
sal peace was still a long way off.
It would be a blessed thing if Dr.
Jordan's prophecy could be fulfilled.
But in a day when grim war rages
over all the land from the Balkans to
the sea; when every capital of Europe
is trembling with apprehension of a
general struggle that will Involve not
alone 'the small, but great powerB)
in a day when every effort of tho
strongest governments Is to spend ten
times as much for war as for peace
there doesn't seem to be any fair
ground for the hope that tho war
game Is getting out of fashion.
Bu,t what a folloy war has come to
be. All the world claims to be get
ting more and more civilized. All tho
world knows that a gentleman can
get through life without knocking any
ono down. All the world knows that
the waste of a war represents lhe sac
rifle of a generation. And yet It Is
the one enterprise on which nations
can spend money without accounting
for It. It is the one business In which
acceptable results aro measured alone
hy dead and wounded men.
The cosit of ono battleship would
put a family on every fertile quarter
section of land In Utah. One torpedo
boat destroyer would complete tho
biggest irrigation project from tho
Rockies to the Cascade range. One
flag ship, reduced to dollant and In
vested for life instead of for death,
would finance industries which would
employ every worthy man from the
Missouri river to the Golden Gate.
We wish David Starr Jordan were
right, and that Dr. Eliot wore wrong.
Crusade against church bells In
New York. The Manhattanltes not
merely won't go to church, but they
get mad when the bell Invites them.
tMMMMMMMMrtlWIMMI Ill
PRESIDENT TAFT'S OPPORTUNITY H
ONE of the things which the com- TM
placent President Taft over- H
looked was the mauling of Mex- H
ico. You may talk about no Inter- H
national law having been violated till jH
you are blue In the face. But the cold H
fact Is that Mexico violated every law, H
human and divine. And if tho inter- H
national laws are not there included, H
It Is time to rewrite the international H
statute book. H
Mexico offended, bec"Bo Mexico H
outraged humanity. That alleged re- H
public which Is not now, never was H
and never will bo a republic has H
abused, robbed and driven from home H
thousands of good Americans. Mexico H
has cast countless Americans Into pris- H
ons, denied them trial, subjected them mm
to suffering and measureless Indlgnl- KS
ty. And sho ought to have been Bj
whaled for It til) the punishment H
should have been effective from the H
Rio Grande to tho middle and dlvld- H
ing line of the Panama Canal. H
That is one of the things the PresI- H
dent neglected, failed and refused to H
do. Just why he dldnlt march an army H
of correction to the saddle-colored H
capital; just why he didn't announce B
intervention and send down sufficient iH
force to make tho intervention effec- H
tive, are things about which no fellow H
cares to Inquire. Maybe It was busl- jH
ness. Maybe It was diplomacy. But !H
it looks like pusillanimity. H
The President still lias nearly four H
months in which to redeem himself, jH
and justify his nation. It may bo IH
tardy, but it will bo welcome. jH
the Panama; exposition. mm
TWO events, big with possibilities JH
for Utah's advancement, will fall H
within the next four years the jH
four years during which time William B
Spry will serve as governor of Utah. H
One is the construction of the capitol H
building; tho other is the Panamn- H
Pacific exposition at San Francisco. H
The building of the now state house
will be a work of tremendous benefit H
to tho state. It will bo colossal in ex- H
tont, demanding a mountain of mate- H
rial and an army of men. Much of H
tho preparatory work is finished. Ex- H
cavation will shortly begin. H
Utah has a bettor standing in tho H
eyes of tho world than over before. H
People In other states have learned H
more of tho truth concerning the state H
and give to Utah the credit she de- M
servos. In this rising tide of recog- H
nitlon, the Panama-Pacific exposition H
offers an uuusual opportunity. DIs-
criminating men and women from H
every country almost from every B
cltv in tho world will study the ex- 9
hlblts made at San Francisco in 1915. JM
They should find a fair presentation B
of Utah's resources and accomplish- H
ments on demonstration there. H
The site for tho Utah building at M
