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Goodwi Weekly. 1
Vol. VII. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 24, 1905. No. 7. j 39
C. C. GOODWIN, Editor.
J. T. GOODWIN, - - - - Manager.
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IT IS DESTINY.
The representatives of two great empires are
about to met in our country's capital to try to
arrange a peace. It is a strange fact that our
country should have been selected for such a
purpose ours the only really great republic in the
world. It emphasizes the fact that our nation
has become a world power in the worldVestima
tion. On the eastern continent the Caucasian is
confronting the Mongolian, the Indian and Malay.
With Japan triumphant it will not be many years
until it will be found that almost imperceptably,
her genius has infused China with a spirit of ag
gressiveness, and that her myriads have been
trained in the arts of both peace and war. It
was in anticipation of this that the German em
peror, not long since, expressed sympathy for
Russia, adding: "Russia is fighting Europe's bat
tle." That is, in fancy he saw the Asian hive
swarming in terrible competition for the world's
trade, if not in arms for the western world's
conquest. Asia and Europe are joined, but we
are so situated that we look to the east for
Europe, to the west for Asia. Plan as we may we
can no longer keep our sphere of influence to our
selves. This time two great empires seek our
shores to find a place in which to arbitrate their
differences. Next time our nation will have to be
the arbitrator.
Looking around over our country a wonderful
spectacle is presented. Our harvests are feeding
half the world; our textiles supply half the world's
looms; our mines are yielding such a tremendous
volume of wealth that soon, of the gold and silver
of the world, our country will possess a vastly
undue proportion of the whole.
Moreover, of the world's strong races a host
equal in numbers to the armies of Russia and
Japan are landing upon our shores annually from
foreign countries, and merging with our people.
Keeping in mind that God was watching at Valley
Forge, at Saratoga and Yorktown; that He was
watching at Lundy's Lane and New Orleans; that
He was watching when Texas and California and
the treasure-laden desert was wrenched from
Mexico to become a part of our republic; that He
was above Vicksburg and Gettysbmg and Appo
mattox; that our republic might be saved intact;
that He turned the missiles aside from our ships
in Manila bay and off Santiago; it would be im
possible not to believe that a purpose was behind
the creation of our great republic. To our dimmed
eyes it looks as though that purpose was to re
verse the rule of the ages. In all the past among
the nations a few people have been everything,
the masses nothing. Is not this present purpose
to prove that man is nothing, the people every
thing; that is, that there is to be a readjustment
and a leveling that the grosser forces are to
wither and that heart and brain are to rule the
world? And is there not a purpose in filling our
land at the same time with an irresistible host of
people and with inestimable treasures0 Does it
not mean that our country is to be the final ar
biter between the east and the west, and that our
tree of liberty is to expand until a reconciled
world shall rest under its benign shade? Who
knows?
But the possibility should cause our people to
the more perfect themselves in all the arts of
both peace and war, that we may never be caught
unprepared; that the manhood of the nation
be all the time kept alert and equipped to the
very highest point of efficiency, and every man
in the republic trained to think that the safety
and the glory of the country rests in part upon
himself, and that a failure on his part to make
the very best of himself would be a reproach to
the fathers, a dishonor to the flag.
JUST AS OF OLD.
As we all know the Salt Lake temple has been
closed to the outside world since its dedication.
No one of any experience has ever thought there
was anything strange about that. All secret or
ders have places where they can perform their
rites with reserve, and why should not a system
like the Mormon system have places reserved
especially for its own special services?
But in explaining why the.. temple is closed to
those not of the Mormon faith the News gives
away the fact that the idea was borrowed from
the old Jewish practice which closed the temple
not only against the outside world, but to the
lay members among the Jews themselves, that
indeed only "the priests appointed" could "enter
the holy of holies, and only at the times specified."
It is not a matter of much consequence except that
it reveals one ruling idea that governed when this
system was framed. When Moses assumed rule
over the Israelites they were densely ignorant.
Moses was "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyp
tians," and he knew with what awe the very lowly
and ignorant look upon superior intelligence',
especMI." if a flavor of the supernatural can be
invoked. The priests of Jewry were about all
who had even a smattering of education; from the
first the people were taught that the priests were
set aside as a superior class, hence it was natural
that from childhood the people should be taught
to look upon their priests as their superiors, and
vhen temples were finally built, it was natural that
there should be set aside holy places in those tem
ples, into which the laiety might not enter.
So, in the nineteenth century, when a
new creed was to be framed, though knowledge
was almost universal and it was hoped that ancient
superstitions had been put away forever, even
under the light of our republic which places all
citizens on d common level, the framers of this
new system, knowing that the people must be
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possible around the system, and the old temple ' j
services of the Jews, instituted before their cap- ij O jH
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was inaugurated, a government through which the ' H
priests should have the same unquestioned rule i! b
that Moses in his executive, and Aaron in his I n M
priestly capacity exercised. '. j
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the assumption that it is the rule which Jesus ' H
Christ prescribed, and, second, that men under H
the free standard of the United States could be H
found to accept it, for it does not lack one feature BH
of the old tyranny inaugurated when men were ( (. HH
groping in the darkness of ignorance and super- l (j KM
stition, and which, whenever tried, has ended j. i H
either in the degradation or disintegration of any jjH
people who have accepted it. Had no gold been i H
found in California and no gold or silver in the i H
desert this side, by this time the effect of the 'H
system would have been revealed in Utah, in a I'll fl
way that would have shocked the world. ' j flH
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men and women, would have been slaves, for the
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES. 1 1 i wM
The visit here of the Los Angeles business ' H
men ought to give them some serious thought, TM
especially what they saw on their visit to the 1 1 j jM
mines and smelters. They could not help noticing
that with that mighty and steady outpouring of (jH
treasure, of which this city is the clearing house, H
the result must be the building up here of a great j H
inland city. About all the land where water can be jH
obtained for irrigating is already under cultivation flH
around Los Angeles. Though the product of those j j HJJ
lands is most valuable the area is limited. Hence- I HI
forth the progress of Los Angeles must depend I
upon her commerce, her manufactories and her ' I I
climate. There is room there for heavy manu- '
factories. She may be able to draw away a little j
of the commerce of San Francisco, that is, divide 1 f BH
the subsequent increase of that commerce with i ' M
her northern neighbor, and she will always have ( WM
a good climate for people in the decline of life. ' j i
But what money she makes must be second- Ik9
hand money; money that others have accumu- ' 9
lated. Her business men saw when here how , ' gfl
money is created. Hence the difference between 9
the future gains of the two cities will be that 91
the wealth here will be created while in Los j I 9j?
Angeles it will be absorbed and concentrated i ' Bfl
from money already in use. Around Salt Lake ' 9
some millions are annually created, a part of 9
which will materialize in stately structures; in ( jM
Los Angeles from the millions already accumu- ( H
lated, Los Angeles will absorb a portion. To keep ' j M
up her present progress Los Angeles will have to ' ' HJ
resort to new devices, for the native resources ' jH
around her have already been utilized, while H
around Salt Lake the utilizing of her greatest re- jH
sources has but just commenced. Los Angeles fl
has one great advantage. She is near the sea ( H
shore and cannot be discriminated against by the . I H
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