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I lTEL SAM? LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 15, 1902. No. 1. I 111
I c. C. GOODWIN, Editor.
I j, T. GOODWIN, - - - - Manager.
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WHO WILL FIND THE WAY?
A commission made up of strong and true
men is sitting in the East trying to probe to the
bottom the differences between a mighty syndi
cate of employers 'and a host of employees so
great that they form an immense factor in the
army of workers in this country. The hope of
tills commission, which hope is shared by the
country, is to sound the depths of these differ
ences and to formulate a plan to settle them.
This is good; it is directly on the lines of pro
t gress; it is putting aside physical force and ma
king an appeal to enlightened brain force; it is
an attempt, in a measure at least, to bring about
a triumph of mind over matter. We hope it will
succeed, for it would be a beginning.
At the mouth of the Columbia river twenty
five years ago the river spread out over a wide
bar and the only channel through which ships
could find their way ou. to the sea or in from
the sea was more torturous than the trail of a
serpent and when from the outside a storm
heaped up the waters of the deep sea to meet in
fury the rivers volume there was a roar as terri
hle as that of an earthquake and such a chaos of
tumbling waters, that the mariner who sought to
cross the abyss took his life in 'his hand with
hardly an even chance of saving it. Indeed his
safest guides were the half exposed skeletons of
ships that had missed the channel and gone to de
struction. But an engineer was sent for and after
two or three years work the great river was com
pelled to confine itself to a single straight chan
nel and made with its own waters to hew out that
channel deep and broad and now the largest ships
cross that bar without difficulty.
Well, all that this engineer did was to make
mattresses of willow wands, to place them in
line along one border of what he intended should
he the new channel and then sink them by heap
ing great blocks of stone upon them. He
kept extending these mattresses and building
them higher and higher until they arose above
the water and extended out across the bar some
two or three miles. This obstruction turned the
stream and became at length a sea wall, on the
one side the river, on the other a mighty waste
of sand dunes. It was a great triumph of mind
over rebellious matter, and of such material sig
nificance was the work that it amounted to a no
tice to the world that a new central station for
commerce had been created.
Now if this commission which is investigating
the cause of the graet anthracite strike succeeds
and adjusts the matter on a basis which will sat
isfy employer and employee alike, still it will be
but as it was in the old days when a ship suc
cessfully crossed the Columbia bai That one ship
succeeded, but nothing was changed. The crooked
and shifting channel remained, the war of
waters' upon the bar continually raged, the dread
of mariners, the menace to ships and all the lives
on board of them.
Where is the engineer who can turn those
forces into peaceful channels and stop the unrest
and danger?
Our thought is that the tactics of the engi
neer in the Northwest will have to be adopted.
The plan will have to be yielding and elastic.
The code will have to be broad enough to include
the rights of all men high and low, it will have
to be woven In justice and yet in mercy, but when
completed it must be weighted down with such
blocks of law as will hold it in place until such a
channel shall be cut out as will leave ample room
for labor and capital to move their respective
argosies In safety.
No matter how successful this Eastern com
mission may be, if in performing It they are not
inspired enough to make clear a plan through
which similar troubles may be satisfactorily set
tled, they will but half meet the hopes and expec
tations of the country. If with the light, which
the investigation will turn upon them, they can
not outline a plan which can later be formulated
Into a satisfactory code for the settlement of like
differences, the country will be disappointed. But
if they fail, still that code must be framed. Pro
gress comes through mind exerting itself through
the two great factors capital and labor. When
they clash progress stops and chaos begins, and
we have no right to advertise our country as
great and free when all our statesmen stand baf
fled over a problem on the solving of which so
much of the future peace, prosperity and progress
of our country depends.
How do you think Brother Smoot will look to
Brother Roosevelt, Brother Kearns?
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN CATACLYSM.
The Seismic disturbances in Guatemala and
southern Mexico indicates that upheavals which
began in Martinique several months ago are still
on their march. They give fresh coloring to the
gloomy picture of the sunken continent of Ala
lantls. Those who believe that the world's
events and the lives of nations are subject to cer
tain cycles which the stars indicate will watch
with keen interest the actions of volcanoes and
earthquakes in the islands of the Caribbean sea
and on the adjacent mainland. Before they are
over the Isthmus canal question may be definitely
settled, for a power is on the march there which
overwhelms islands, tears asunder continents
and changes in an hour the face of nature. The
description of the falling ashes and scoria, the
awful detonations, the furious lava flow which
was sent out from Martinique seems to cover the
Guatemala cataclysm; the story of the working of
forces awful in their destructiveness; the under
world surcharged with super-heated steam, a
generated force that rends the rock foundations
of islands and continents, filling the land with
wreck and death and the sea with debris.
Before it man stands helpless and confused,
and if reflection is left him, it but emphasizes his
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knowledge, that mortals at best but stand upon a t'l' , !fl
crust and that all around them are forces which f Vl f!9
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need but combining in the right way to bring J r illfl
annihilation in a moment to all animal and vege- jt ' ifl
table life on earth and leave it but a corpse of a fa t $H
world floating in the deep seas of space. bH " fjSM
It is peculiar that these late disturbances jty &. jlfl
have occurred in places among the most beautiful ft w 'JffH
of the earth. Martinique was famed for its love- 'I MH
liness, while the coffee region of Guatemala, for jj X ''fM
years has been held as one of the world's charmed " $j tyfjM
spots. Clear to the mountain tops the land Is de- $ 'JlffH
scribed as covered with luxuriant orange groves, t 3 f$JH
wild groves, but bearing delicious fruit, where h Vf flfl
the blooms of a new crop shine out beside the $jd W jjgf9
golden, unpicked previous crop. Then there are jjjj ilH
pineapples that melt in the mouth, mangos, J$'iVllH
spices, bananas, plantains, in endless profusion, fflfjf $4 JW
while the spaces are filled with marvelous flow- C?- v iH
ers which are not content with a home near the 3 ; (JM
ground, but, rather, seizing upon pendant vines J! '"49
climb to the tops of the trees and fill all the space if t$ i'W
there with their blooms, offsetting the splendors iJifl1pB
of the gayly plumaged birds that make their Jg , 19
homes there. Sffl'LCJIfB
A lady who was there eight months of last H1 4M
year passed through this city last week. Speak- fllrdlfl
Ing of the country she said: "It is so overwhelm- ifi J jflH
ingly beautiful that it does not seem to be real. H 'ftfiH
One cannot shake off the impression that it is but W J H
a fairy scene gotten up In most extravagant form i J'VI
for some great festival." ,yA fS
Think of an overcharged volcano pouring out j! '" ,fjH
its molten fires upon such a spot. To those who jJ J v&jB
look on and can keep sqlf-contained enough to w' MIS
think, it must look as though the mountains had W "j fflH
been converted into a drop curtain to reveal-In jE'llliH
splendor and terror the dissolving view of the 5r $, vfM
universe in the closing act of the great world's iwift .iH
final tragedy. Si !
THE OLD WAY MORE DIRECT. j if ;H
In Bishop Whitney's History he says that at WtM Jifl
first the government of Utah was a pure theoc- ': fcSnf I
racy. That is the government of the State was 3I:SB
like the government of the church; the same 13 Bill I
minds controlled both and named all the officers iS'lPfSlH
of the State. How much different is it now? The J ' fPH
form is a little changed but how much are the !N S ff9
facts? J , IS
The First Presidency did not publicly proclaim ffH
the names of candidates In the late campaign, but 4 'ffrH
they were all agreed upon In secret, and elders, m I Jigfl
bishops, presidents of stakes, and apostles went 1 ililiJB
Into the conventions and whooped up the brethren 'illljffiB
to nominate them; the counsel was sent out that Imj'fH
they must be elected, and when the result was an- jffir I fl
nounced, Apostle Smoot at once declared that the rilli-HI
Legislature was his and that he was sure to be JI'IfHI
elected Senator. It was really easier In the old SI' jtH
days when from before the Tabernacle altars the L
names of the candidates were announced and- th; fmi HI
people were instructed to vote for them. lHHHIH
SAVE THE SCHOOLS. llfiBH
The Gentiles in Salt Lake City should all awako llUHH
to the fact that there is no politics in the Ameii- ISHH
can sense In Utah. The chief priests of the Mor- UHIH
mon church have grossly broken the pledges III WW
through which Statehood for Utah was obtained; BUHI
In the late election they made but a poor pretense JHHI
at disguising that fact. j tHHI
No doubt they justify themselves as they were flBIBI