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Vol. II. ' SAM? LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 31, 1903. No. 12. olBl
C. C. GOODWIN, Editor.
j. T. GOODWIN, - - r - Manager.
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THE LIGHTS OF SCIENCE.
In the realms of science the new century is
turning on strange and brilliant lights with a rap
idity which promises more miracles and more
blessings to men than any preceding century has
produced.
If the discovery of Dr. Barrows of New York
fulfils expectations, it will be a veritable boon
of mercy to the world. If a fluid, harmless to the
human body, can be introduced into the blood
when so vitiated that death is iminent, and in an
hour restore it, driving the enemy away, it will
remove a shadow that hangs over every home and
will take from maternity its chierest terror. It
will, moreover, incite new investigation along the
same lines of practice. If one form of blood poi
son can be swiftly arrested, why cannot another,
and why cannot the dream be realized which pro
poses an antidote for the fevers that sweep every
land?
The paper read the other day by a California
scientist, in which he claims that the air does not
purify the lungs, that t is that other mysterious
agency, electricity, that, acting on the elements
of the air in the lungs, gives the needed vitality
and gives also the tinge of red to the blood, is not
only wonderful in itself, but it will start investi
gation on a score of new lines. Experimenting
ith the properties of light shed by the X-ray, a
great many physicians have obtained wonderful
results in the past two years, without being able
to explain why. There are several physicians in
this city who have about reached the conclusion
that all surface cancers will disappear before the
X-ray, but not one, as we understand it, can ex
Pkin the secret of the healing. The brightest
Hght in the world is the electric spark. It is imi
tation sunlight. The latest theory is that what we
1 sunlight is caused by the electricity thrown
0lt by he sun, a positive wave which flows un
ited until it strikes the negative of the earth's
mosphere, which kindles the light. Is not this
e healing factor in the X-ray, and if it is, what
Witless possibilities await further investigation
and experiment?
A late dispatch asserts positively that dumb
Wroals can be made immune against tuberculo
is by inocculatlon. If dumb animals, why not
"Uman beings?
It sems, too, that wireless telegraphy Is very
siftly approaching absolutely practical use. Then
it comes from the East that John Jacob Astor
has made an improvement on the application of
the turbine wheel for the propulsion of vessels,
which foreshadows a revolution in shipping almost
as great as was caused when the sails were dis
carded and the swifter and surer steam power
was adopted.
No other study is bringing more triumphs than
that of chemistry. The mysterious air of the old
alchemists is still around the study, but its prog
ress is very great and swift. Maybe that, after all,
it holds within its yet unexplored chambers that
very elixir of life which the old alchemists sought
so long and so eagerly to find.
Speaking of the experiments being made in
science, a gentleman remarked the other day that
"even what seem foolish experiments must not
be jeered at. Why," saia he, "no really scientific
man could ever have discovered the cyanide pro
cess for saving gold. The man who did discover
it flew directly into the face of all the rules that
govern scientific men in their investigations."
Before the writer of this is a letter which says:
"General believes he has made a discovery
which will make all other discoveries for pro
ducing power seem small by comparison. He in
sists that with a little machine that will not oc
cupy a space 4x6 feet he can generate more power
than can the engines on a trans-Atlantic steam
ship, and at only trifling expense." This reads as
did the pronunciamentos of one, Mr. Kelly, of
Philadelphia, but who knows? The man who
makes the claim is an engineer of national fame.
After electricity runs cars, lights houses and bores
teeth for the dentist, who shall say that anything
is impossible?
In the stately description of the birth of the
world and the creation of man is the promise that
man shall have dominion over the earth and all
its living creatures. There Is no doubt that the
dominion extended to the elements of the waters
and the air. The triumphs of mortals during the
past few years give a new dignity to that history,
give glimpses of man's higher self and make more
plain and sublime the declaration that man's place
Is only a little lower than the angels. With every
new discovery the whole race of mankind becomes
more and more exalted, and it is reasonable to
believe that when enough more lights are vouch
safed to make clear to mortals the exalted place
which the good God intends they should occupy",
they will have new horror for anything wrong,
new appreciation of the right, and the regenera
tion of the race will become a passion among
men, and that as unclean things creep away be
fore the light, as base men suspend their dark
deeds in the sunlight, so under the new lights that
science is kindling men will, by and by, of their
own volition, forsake what is evil and depraved
and seek the new dawn.
PASS THE BILL.
We think the taxpayers of the state would be
glad to see Dr. Condon's bill calling for an appro
priation of $6,000 (conditioned on the raising by
citizens of Ogden of $3,000 more) for expenses of
the executive committee of the eleventh Irrigation
Congress, become a law. The vrhole state has a
direct interest in the matter. The people of the
east are just beginning to understand that Irrlga-
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tion ought to be almost as essential to the farmers If 1& Hf
of the east as to thosein the arid west. This m tll
change of sentiment is more due to the work of 'W ''W
the Irrigation Congress during the past ten years B Hl
than to any other one cause. This state is hoping bhIS
that a good proportion of the money set aside by jfc , HfMf
congress for establishing reservoirs in the arid S' KM
region, will come to Utah and a favorable oxpres- B'iH
sion by the Congress to meet in Ogden next sum- fi I III
mer will be worth a great deal. Then Utah's pride jMi
ought to be aroused to make the Congress a great It, i?
success. It was in Utah that the first irrigation by &! f H
white men began in the United States, and Utah i'SBHl'
men should show the faith that half a century's lififlr
work has given them. It will be an Important llit9'
gathering. Shrewd men from probably twenty- MmwtM
five outside states will be in attendance; they will n9i
receive their impressions of Utah and the way SIKHI
Utah does things, and will advertise those impres- ff 13H1
slons when they go away, hence they should be ftiM
generously received and thoughtfully cared for. BlH
The bill ought to pass. wlH
CHURCH AND STATE. ElflH
The Muscatine (la.) Journal quoted from the hHB
Constitution that "No religious test shall ever be HBF1E
required as a qualification to any ofllce of public wHiEi
trust under the United States," and then proceeds iKillHB
to say: mTlttH
"This brings up the question of wnat are the kViIwH!
legislators going to do about it in case Mr. Smoot SB
is elected. If chosen he has the right to a seat in I KH
the Senate whether a polygamist or not. If he JSflk
has a plurality of wives he is amenable to law, IBH
but this does not disqualify him from holding of- 9H
flee. These are the plain facts. In view of this iHI
wise legislators will keep hands off even though ll
they are bitterly opposed to Mr. Smoot's religious lHI
views fn common with a great majority of other liHI
people." iffl
Will the Journal writer, when he has a little hH
leisure, explain what connection there is between IhI
his remarks and the quotation he makes from the $ H
Constitution? We had supposed that the words I'JSH
quoted were those chosen by the fathers through HI
which to give notice that no established church ifll
should ever in the United States keep a citizen tH
from holding ofllce because he did not happen to RJIHH
belong to that particular church. They had in Ml'jHB
mind the manifold tyrannies of one established K li
church in England, of another in Spain, and an- B jH
other In Russia, and the purpose from the first B jH
with them was that while all churches and creeds !6$flH
should receive ample protection under righteous EHH
laws, not one should ever be in a situation to in- SltiHn
terfere, by authority, with the civil government SilwIH
of this country. MlHH
Considered in that light, In what way can it be MB
used as a text on which to preach a sermon for BlOI
the benefit of Apostle Smoot? KUBBB
Again, by common law, by ecclesiastical law, MfftBBB
and by direct statute, polygamy is a crime. By BfwBH
what process of reasoning does the Journal writer jKlaBH
reach the conclusion that if a criminal is elected BHHH
to office, it Is beyond the power of this govern- S9BH
ment to question his right to hold that office? And BIESfl
in case the Senate were to refuse such a member BHHfl
a seat, what redress would he have? But taking HBH
the converse of the dictum of the Constitution, HJHIB
and assuming that as no religious test shall hi HB
required, neither shall a religious test be invoked flflHI
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