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OODWIN'S WJBKDY. 3 J. I 8 . . . i ' , THB CHINESE TRADB. Ex-Minister Wu tells the men of San Francisco about Chinese trade. But he did not mention the real troublo whch presents a great trade from growing up between the United States and the Orient China is naturally very rich. She could supply the world with wool, with rice and prob ably with coal. But in her exclusiveness she fights back every attempt to push railroads because if once introduced they would run through the burial places of the Chinese and they will not have their dead disturbed. Hence there is no transportation with the interior except by water or by camel pack trains. But the great obstacle in the way is want of money. All China can do is to sell to foreign powers her products or to trade product for prod uct, while the difficulty of carrying from the in terior to the coast is so great that only a tithe of her products can ever reach a foreign market. She needs railroads and money. This latter need Is so great that the question ought to force itself upon the merchants and manufacturers of the United States in a way to cause them to wonder why they were ever induced to join in the interest gather's cry to have silver demonetized. If silver was money at some ratio with gold, primary, independent money, they could loan it to China, taking Chinese products in return for prin cipal and interest, and not only control the Orien tal trade but in a few years increase the dimen sions of that trade to proportions never dreamed of. Silver, by the way, is all the money that China can use, that is the Chinese people. Their daily transactions are too small to be rated in any other substance known to mankind. British cruelty in destroying silver as money in India caused the deaths by starvation of millions of the poor wretches in that country and restored the jungle to many fields that had. for centuries, been prosper ously cultivated. The cruelty of American money lenders, which was at the bottom of the destruction of silver as money in the United States, has lost to the trade of the merchants and manufacturers of this coun try all but a mere trifle of the trade of the Orient. Think of it. All the silver taken from American mines since the discovery of the Comstock forty four years ago would give the people of China only about $5 or ?6 per capita. In, that light, think how idiotic was the cry that we were being overborne by a great flood of silver. If that amount were loaned to China and distributed among her peo ple, Jim Hill's dream of selling to the Chinese goods to the value of $5 each per annum might be realized. If It could be half realized it would mean a market for American products of 1000 millions of dollars per annum. What would that be for the fanners, artisans, railroads and ship owners of the United States. To kill that possibility the so called statesmen of our country struggled for thirty-five years before they made it a success. It started with the interest-gathers of London, Berlin and New York. They exult still over their triumph and do not yet realize that it is the first time in modern history that the sharp devices of Pawnbrokers have passed for statesmanship. Gentiles should keep in mind that 95 per cent of the registered Mormon voters will vote for school trustees and if they can accomplish, their purpr,se none but Mormons or Jack-Mormons will te e.ected. THE SCHOOL TRUSTEES. So soon as the result of the election was "known, we warned the people of this city that the next Sniggle of the Mormon church would be to get control of the schools for the three-fold purpose of drawing all the revenues of the schools to Mor ton teachers and the Mormon church; to debase the public schools to the level where they were up to the time when the Liberals obtained control, d to so emasculate the high school that It would "ther cease to exist or would cease to interfere with the preparatory schools of the University and Mormon colleges, and offered the advice that Gen tiles should in every precinct put first-class candi dates in the field and vote only for Gentiles at the school election. Only once before have the saints showed their hands openly In school elections, since the transformation wrought when the Lib erals gained control of the city. That was in the effort to defeat Mr. Walker four years ago, but now we see the highest officers of the church in the field rustling for candidates on the single ground that they are Mormons, entirely regard less of their fitness for the place, and using the ly ing assertion that if the Gentiles get control of the schools, all Mormon teachers will be dis charged. This is utterly false and serves no public pur pose except to give Gentiles new notice that the schools under Mormon control would no more have a Gentile teacher than they did when the same power controlled the schools before, and when not one Gentile teacher, no matter what might have been his or her qualifications could get a sit uation except something was needed that no Mor mon could teach. In the Third municipal ward there was a plan, made up by the friends of the public schools, Mor mon and Gentile, to agree upon a live, competent man for trustee. The question of creed was not being considered, only worthiness for tho place was desired, when suddenly Apostle John Henry Smith, Bishop Emery and Bishop Beatty appeared on the scene and said that only W. J. Newman was to be considered and made it a direct church fight for control. If the fight is any less pro nounced in any other precinct it will be only a matter of policy, the Mormon voters will be in structed in the same way and this may be safely assumed; every Mormon will vote for only Mor mon trustees, and the Gentile who may be beguiled into voting for a Mormon will wittingly or unwit tingly be voting to have the schools of Salt Lake reduced to the vassalage of the Mormon church will vote to have them under the direct control of Joseph F. Smith and his counsellors. It must be understood that Mormons will have to vote as they are instructed against their absolute knowl edge that they are aiming a fatal blow at the ex cellence of the schools, but they cannot help it. Their minds and souls are dominated by their superstitious fears and they cannot help them selves. The Gentile who will help in this degra dation is a coward, sneak and quasi traitor to na tive land. THE NBWS AND THE CLERGY. With the venom of a cobra the News assails the Ministerial association of this city for daring to protest against the sending of an apostle of the Mormon church to the Senate of the United States. From Its own degradation it effects to sneer at those educated American gentlemen. It refers to them as the "little ministers' 'and yet it holds such accomplished gentlemen as one Tay lor and one Grant as apostles of the Lord, as seers upon whom prophecy has already or is about to settle, forgetting how odorous and odious com parisons sometimes are. In its blind wrath the News could not look forward to possible results. Suppose Apostle Reed Smoot elected to the Sen ate; suppose him presenting his credentials and demanding admission and some Senator objects and an investigation begins. Suppose then the protest of these Christian ministers is read, and then the editorial in the Lord's organ Is consid ered. Some Senator may ask what the Deseret News represents, and then the answer will have to be that it. is the organ, the mouth-piece of the first presidency and apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. What will be the natural effect? Will not some member ask If the sentiments of the editorial are the sentiments of the Apostle who Js seeking a seat on that floor? And when the answer is given that the writer of flhitiB Jl the article is a slave ready to establish that the J!iicH earth is round or square as the first presidency 3 FP fl and apostles direct, and that without their per- j 1mPjB mission he would not dare to say that twice two i&jfni'il are four, will the article help the standing of tho ' 1 1H applicant for a seat? Will not the next question iImIiB be: "Is this the way Christian ministers are l 'E,.1' rHH treated in Utah by the brutal majority of the Mor- JMw'vB mon church?" !: f ''&' jH What will the apostle answer? Ho cannot re- i; tUCMH pudlate the News for It is his official organ. '! j,i jj-1'jM He cannot charge the brutal article upon tho F'w. $'JM brutal editor for the question would come in a f . f: ijftfH second: "Why do you keep a blackguard of that ''IMitfll kind to run a church organ year after year?" Tho jfr T lH next question would be: "Have not educated Amer- , if'liH lean gentlemen the right of petition and of pro- j jp jJLtifl test?" What would the apostle answer to that? I'.lraH When the News tries to be funny or sarcastic on i fr & 'irfiM a subject that has a direct national bearing, it jff tj? should remember that the majority in the East 1 !$ p?'v ? 9 are not of the same kidney as are tho majority In 4 c (J':i! ( Utah, and be careful not to make its superiors pos- K tf J 9 sible trouble. I$k3$M 1 in jftjjjH When the hold-up was taking place near the 3 ' Ifwjjfl Eagle Gate on Monday night three policemen were 1 nr!$wH in evidence on Main street between South Tem- MfflllH pie and Third South street. That was none too . ill VVJM many, but is not this city rich enough to have a , I 'f rfjjfl few guardians in the densely populated portion I'l'SJifl of the city? It would be a good idea for pedes- l''" 'jUkI trians to go in pairs or trios after nightfall and Jjjjj SJfjB to go heeled. If the authorities cannot protect ! I 41 citizens, the old law of self-preservation will jus- 1 'JtV'telwIB tify them in protecting themselves. ffi fefjflJM BEATING BACK THE TIDE AND THB SPRING. Plflfl When the tide comes in the piles of the wharf lltw-IwB resist it and turn it back for a little while and Jr pljfiH there are loud murmurs In tho wash of the sullen ' ,T f ffl waters. When the spring Is due; when tho snows A f jjfcfV disappear under the sun that is daily mounting j-'l- !l"''jB higher and higher in the heavens; after the birds 1'ollfl are mated and are building their summer houses, Jj 'JLff the winter delights in sending back his frost, to- )WMwttm wither the young vegetation and mock the efforts ''PkJH of the farmer to get an early start with his vege- t lift P'fB tables, grain and fruit. ', $!;; $ifl But these phenomena are not confined to the ! Irlsl elements of the ocean, the land and the atmos- ' $ ilfl here. j j m f jjffl . There was a. similar exhibition in a Third ward ! fra jjfjfB primary on Monday evening of this week. ! ji&ffinafl A vast mob of people was driven in by their i ifffnfB priests, to vote for the turning back of the tide; JpflraB to vote for a frost to try to kill the progress of ifl ipOl our public schools. There were scores of men and 1 CsNbIS women there who knew they were by their votes ;,,j3 ) Mm offering a premium on bigotry and incompetency, f cjffijH but that mattered not; they were there merely to fe j' ffi?H obey the orders of some bigots and the spell of the J ? MmM superstition that was upon them made cowards of I'.ilUliflfflB them all. They knew they were doing an injustice IpJIIJIctB to their children, but they could not shake off their mi 111191 fear; they forgot for the time that they were un- " -'-y fPjflBl just to themselves and their children; they voted ; ' fg ffiml for the turning back of tho tide, for the last frost M IEI in the spring, but they had no strength to resist ' if H Gentiles should note the fact .and on election day ! i fH should only vote for Gentiles. They should do JLiHi what they can to save Mormon children from the hHH weakness and fear of their parents; should do what ImiflH they can to Americanize Utah and should believe infll that discouraging as it now seems, the tide will HtmI eventually come in, the frost will eventually be fflWBm driven away and the summer will triumph, and j nfflHB bring its fruits and flowers. Utah will have to bo IfisiBjH in real truth an American State. We must not be il9Hfl discouraged no matter if faith is betrayed and StBH promises broken; no matter if the weapons of su- HflR perstition and fear continue to break down the HHI