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I Vol. II. SAX.T LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 27, 1902. No. 7. 'lH
1 C. C GOODWIN, Editor.
I J. T. GOODWIN, - - - - Manager.
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' IE NEW YBAR.
II While solemn bells toll for the year that's fled
H The year with its achievements cold and dead
S B Joy bells are ringing in the new-born year,
B That comes with happy greetings, and good
! B cheer.
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t B Men like the years grow old and fall asleep
B In that last slumber dreamless and so deep,
B While raptured mothers strain to loving breasts
I B Their infants, thankful that they are so blessed.
B Thus moves the endless chain of death and life,
- B The morning's joy, the noon day's heat and strKe,
1 B The evening's chill, the hushed and starless night,
tt B Again the morn, again the warmth and light.
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4 Is it a symbol that, life's long year o'er,
T B There is a waking on another shore?
5 B Where silver uells rinS la a softer light,
m B Beyond the soundless shores, the chill and night?
Z B THE WORLD'S PROGRESS.
m B The year just closing has not been punctuated
sL B by many great exclamation points. In Great
EB Britain the great South African war has been
C B brought to a close; a king has been crowned and a
B great industrial triumph, under British guidance,
R fl has been completed in Upper Egypt. On the conti
W B nent nothing of special interest can be named.
m B Tne ancient inertia of Asia has not been much
BB disturbed except by the awful cataclysm in Tur
EBkestan and that Russia has been completing
BBher great through highway to the Pacific and pre
W B Paring to divert what she can of the world's com
RBmerce across her territory.
SB Australasia is still prostrate under the mighty
fcBdrought that has afflicted Australia for years
g Buatil a great proportion of the live stock has per
wL Bished and many once prosperous regions have been
BBrendered almost uninhabitable. The mining re
r Bgion of West Australia is still productive though in
RBlessened product of gold.
w B Mexico has gone on prospering, though the con
It BUnued fall in the price of silver has disturbed her
BJ Bfinances. The great Diaz is still at the helm there,
b Bind our sister Republic is running on an even keel.
CI Canada has been generally prosperous; some
r Bpeat industrial enterprises are being perfected in
RVat country, and the flow of the precious metals
vwom her western provinces supplies her with. ever
WL Bncreasing means to carry on her work.
El Terrible volcanic eruptions and earthquakes
t pave wrought awful disasters in some of the West
BBQdIa islands and in Central America. On the
Bsland of Martinique thousands of lives were lost
jBnd the island made practically uninhabitable;
great loss of life and property was suffered in
Guatemala.
There is not much to report from South Ameri
ca except that Colombia and Venezuela have been
swept by revolutions and just now half a dozen
nations of the Old World are trying to enforce their
demands upon miserable Venezuela, which has not
much with which to satisfy the demands except
alligators, boa-constrictors, parrots and monkeys.
Our own country seems to still be the greatly
favored land of all the earth; except for the great
industrial strikes in the coal and iron regions, and
the lesser sympathetic strikes in different places,
there would not, on New Year's morning, be a
cloud upon our skies. The war is practically over
in the Philippines, and those sunny islands are
slowly rounding into civilized form; Cuba has been
restored to her own people, and the act of restora
tion makes a page of history on which the letters
are printed all in gold; our harvests of cotton and
wheat have been very great, of corn the greatest
on record; the yield of the precious metal mines
has been the greatest in history; the wave of pros
perity is sweeping on in continuous and increas
ing volume; four hundred thousand people from
the Old World have come to us; railroad mileage
has a good deal increased; the shore end of the
great Pacific cable has been laid off the abutments
of the Golden Gate, and is now being paid out to
draw our Pacific island possessions close to our
mainland. Never before was a land so favored,
never before was free government so vindicated;
never before did the world have an object lesson
so potential to show what a free people, unham
pered by unnecessary laws and all permitted t
hope for any legitimate thing, can accomplish.
The old saying, "Time was when to be a Roman
citizen was greater than to be a king," can justly
.be only a little" paraphrased to read: "Time is
when to be an American citizen is to enjoy a
crowning glory to man's sovereignty on earth."
NEW YEAR.
When, in ancient days, the people who watched,
saw the sun stop in his southern journey and turn
again toward the earth: as they noted that a few
minutes began to be added to each day, they said:
"Our God is no longer angry; he is returning to us;
see our granaries are filled and there is in the air
an indefinable promise that the winter shall again
pass away, that the birds will return and with
their coming an awakening of the dead world, that,
with her long sleep over, the flowers will again ap
peal; the trees will again put on their robes of
green; there will be a resurrection." So they set
aside a day of rejoicing and named it the New
Year. It was dedicated to gladness, gladness for
the harvest that had been gathered, for the prom
ise of another harvest.
No one knows how far back the custom dates,
but the feeling is the same, human nature must be
the same as in the long ago. In some things the
world does not much progress. True, in modern
days, at the coming of this season merchants take
account of their stock and estimate the old year's
gains or losses. In the old days merchants did not
keep books and may be they were the wiser for it
But the habit of making good resolutions on the
New Year's anniversary we suspect is older than
history. When the habit of breaking the good res
olutions began was probably coincident with the
first brewory or first distillery.
But more people than the merchants run over ti lH
the accounts of the year. The hopes of the last ' tyt'i'-MiM
New Year's day are called up and their joy over t '-,jfl
their fulfillment or sorrow over their failure is felt; .fv ' ,, fH
the changes in families are brought vividly to I i fifl
mind; maybe a baby's cooing fills the home with (t 'jv IjH
sunshine, or the silence where the cooing was heard ( ft t 4111
a year ago robs the sunbeams of their light. But VuSl'B
the secret, indefinable thrill that comes with the , j jf 4yH
day is the assurance that it brings of progress that i & afl
never lags. The seasons roll on; from nothing j fUf IB
men spring into existence, make their showing, ' j'Pf RfH
sometimes shake the world, but in a little while ' '':j? H
they are swept away and there would be utter de- M&nr,',sB
spair except that by the seasons and the stars men )') I IfH
have learned that it is as natural for a soul as for , .V f
a body to cast off its old clothing, and that the -I iM
new garment which it done must be softer and ,, '. fsfH
whiter than the old one was. iiSUB
They have, too. relearned the old truth that '? ?f grfifl
Death is but the brother of Sleep, and as the weary kuLWDM
body, when the night comes on, sinks to sleep to t f fijljfl
awaken with the singing of birds in the sunshine, i" PJ$fl
so when the brother of sleep touches the eyelids of if mBB
one who is overborne with the world's work and t 3lSjfl
cares, what will be the music and the light that $f i9
will greet the awakening? t fl i!H
This festival of the year is good for men. It is l (A 7, 19
good for them to greet each other in friendship, i v?9
good for the day to forget resentments, good to j ' I flj 19
wish each other well, for the wishes of men make 1, 1 fH
their impression on the world; good to be thankful 1 (ji BfJM
for the harvest that has been gathered and to look U ffl& Kjfifl
forward with hope to another, for hope is the life uBiwififl
of man and the mainspring of all his achievements. yiltf'flaH
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THE ELECTION OF A SENATOR. i 111111
The time is drawing very near when the Utah mIIIsBB
Legislature will convene. Very soon thereafter, I! IIP P fill
the election of a United States Senator will be in' 11 PljiillfW
order. imwml
Once more we protest against the election of ijffiinllO
an apostle or any other high officer in the priest- nUlivfl
hood of the Mormon church. Our objections are liisliliiH
two-fold. First an apostle of the Mormon church ifflH
is not a citizen of the United States. He has fore- !! IlimlBI
sworn his allegiance and given it with all the sol- liJJfllfIBB
emnity of the most binding oaths to another tern- .. iJfliwrilH
poral government, a government the machinery of . IfHiwIfl
which is in full operation. .It has a president $9BhbB
who exercises dictatorial powers; it has its own iinHI
courts, which frequently reverse and put to naught PiBwflH
the decisions of the States courts. Up to recently, ItlffllEflB
if not up to date, it maintained the nucleus of an B8flff0H
army under an ancient despotic name. FgBttSl
Moreover, it levies its taxes upon its subjects, Infffiiilfl
distributes them without accounting, and makes fffllffiffll
the payment of those taxes a test of citizenship in mBl
its kingdom. When its subjects desert it pursues jWMBP
them with the boycott and with ostracism. The IffllBflH
existence of this kingdom is not denied. The SlilfllH
claim of its chiefs is that it is the only legitimate JPipiJ
government on earth. When alone by themselves iffilliil
in Utah territory the nominations of men for office 1 MM all
were made by the chiefs of this Government, their HKlPW
names were announced from before the altars sfiB
where the people met for worship, and the people SHmBH
were simply instructed to vote for them. 1BBBN
It will be seen at a glance that such a govern- CmBBB
ment is the very antithesis of a government of the IhhHB
people, by the people and for the people. It is a IfliHH
direct violation of the principles on which the iflH