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Goodwin's Wejjy. I
Vol XI. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 29, 1907. No. 8 M
C.C. GOODWIN, Editor
J. T. GOODWIN, Manager.
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Old Folks Day.
On Tuesday last the old folks day their annual
outing. This oustom Is, we believe, peculiar to
Utah, and nothing could be more beautiful. For
the young to gather around the aged and infirm, to
carry thom to a meeting and greeting place, to
feast them, to crown them with flowers, and for
a day to make them forget that the infirmities of
tho yoars are upon them, is a ceremony at once
bo solemn and so joyous that it makes a distinct
punctuation point in the year. It is solemn, for
all know that before another year comes around,
some who are with them will be called away;
solemn because where some were last year, there
were vacant chairs this year, and joyous because
tho old people, the heat and the burden of the
day having past, it for the time fills their hearts
to be at rest, to be cared for, to feel that they are
stjll a concernment to their friends. And how
garrulous they grow. "What stories of the long
ago they tell; the changes that have come since
thoy first came; and if now and then one exagger
ates a little, what of it? It is but adding a little
Interest to the old account.
Then when one permits the imagination to
hove a little play, how fine is tho picture that is
painted on tho retina of the eye of the soul.
The desert with its sere and wrinkled face
was lyire to greet thom with sullen lnhospitabillty
wljan they came, while the comers were radiant
ivfllf-youth and hope.
The toll began and with it the desert began
$' to grow less severe in its frown. At length flow
ers began to bloom; a little later tho grain began
to turn the fields to gold, and later still tho fruits
' began to ripen But with tho years as there were
more and more flowers, more and more grain,
more and more fruit, and the frown of tho desert
cqhanged to smiles, it was seen that ago was
creeping upon the toilers; their locks turned to
gray; tliair steps began to grow feeble, and then
that truth became plain: the smile and the flowers
arid the-fruits were but the product of the youth
and the strength and tho labor which this people
kc bestowed upon it, and as we turn to look at
vy tfcem we see that all thiB time thoy have been
making exchanges with tho desert they have
given the light, the joy and the laughter of youth
that they might be renewed where before the
desert frowned, while the attributes of the desert
htprp , attached to them the gnarled hands, the
soared brow, the wrinkles. How exacting is na
ture! It keeps its accounts. For the flowers and
fruits which this people drew from what had
been the desert, thoy had to give in exchange
their youth, tho hopes that painted rainbows on
tho visions of young manhood and young woman
hood; and meanwhile some of the solemnities of
the desert were drawn around them.
But children were given them to sing the songs
thoy were wont to sing, to reflect the hopes that
wore once theirs, and a peace came to them
ItfiMch was a balm. And all the time tho sun
Wahis foil upon them, a symbol hat when the
UmL. comes here, there will still be tho sunbeams,
the light and the warmth, and that there will bo
neither the desert's desolation "nor chill, but
flowers and fruits and music always and reunions
sweeter than even on Old Folks Day.
Work of the Hague Congress.
Wo-are told that The Hague Congress will con
fine itself to efforts not to bring around peace,
but to try to ameliorate some of the ferocities of
war. That will doubtless be of good, but the
world is growing old and it is time for at loast
Christian nations to begin to check wars alto
gether. Compulsory arbitration would do in
many cases. That would have stopped tho war
between Japan and Russia, for that war came of
land lust on tho part of Russia. Whore a nation
begins a war because of the abuse of its citizens
in another country, that should not be compul
sory arbitration, hut the rule even then should
be that tenders of mediation should be most
prompt' and that every considerable nation should
join in the tender, oven as President Roosevelt and
President Diaz of Mexico united to pursuado the
quarrelsome wretches in Honduras, Nicaragua and
Salvador to stop their foolishness and attendant
violence.
And the Congress should insist upon being
granted more and more powers, until it can grad
ually formulate a code that the nations will
agree to.,
The outlook for peace in India is not good.
Turkey and the States of southeastern Europe
are liable to be at each other's throats at any
time; tho Boxers of China are restless and
wicked. Tho Christian nations should in those
symptoms discern possible trouble in tho near
future, and try to unite- the pale races of tho
earth to act in concert Wllierever trouble may be
incubated. In tho meantime, while the son
voice is good, our country should never lay down
tho big stick, for the Wtflert way to avert dif
ficulty is to have the olwr fellow know that if
war comes, the United States will be ready for it.
Irrepressible Japan.
The Nation quotes from tho North China Her
ald a letter from Daniel Crosby Greeno concern
ing the eduoation at the Japanese schools and
universities.
In Tokio a, course of lectures arranged by a
Buddhist is given by a Reman Catholic, on the
history of Christian doctrine. The marvelous
thing, in Mr. Greene's estimation, is the spread
of information among the humbler classes. He
says that while traveling in the mountains near
Kiolo in 189C he overheard his kago bearer talk
ing about the probable effects upon Japan's
finances if Mr. McICInley should defeat Mr. Bryan.
He says that a career in diplomacy, in the army
and navy and in the learned world, Is open to all
the people of Japan.
"In the nine years ending with 1904, out of H
the fifty-three who successfully passed tho exam- H
inatlon for ontranco to the diplomatic corps of H
Japan, three were nobles, nineteen wore Samurol, H
and thirty-one were Keimiu (common people)." H
Fully one-half of the army officers are of this H
latter class; and out of twelve students who took H
their degrees at the Imperial University suma H
cum laude, three years ago, seven were Keimln. jH
There is besides a woman's university with H
over one thousand women. H
Japan Is the most alert nation of the earth. H
A Tale of Two Cities. M
Of San Francisco and tho recent convictions H
there the Argonaut says: "To have broken the jH
power of Reuf and to have brought him into tho H
shadow of San Quentin, to have convicted Eugene
Schmitz of his crimes and destroyed his authority H
these, indeed, are achiovements of tremendous H
magnitude. By these acts San Francisco declares H
to the world that her civil character, externally H
besmirched as it is, is nevertheless sound and H
vital at Its core." H
That is true; it has always been true of San H
Franolsco. Her trouble for tho past four years H
has been of tho same nature as that which caused '
the upheaval and violence there In 185G. The !
good people neglected their duties; they would ll
not even attond primaries and conventions and M
see that their vote was1 brought out on election til
day, until the city was Anally turned ovor to tho 'H
tender mercies of grand larceny thieves and H
toughs, until the tragedy of the killing of Jamos H
IClng of William was needed to arouse the people M
and cause them to know that the purity of their H
city had to be defended aggressively, and then H
they asserted themselves. H
Of late years they have given up the care of H
their city to grafters grafters of both petty and jH
grand larceny instincts; but while knowing this, H
they havo depended upon the newspapers to 9
bring them deliverance, while some of the news- H
papers were afraid to strike lest they might of- H
fend wealthy patrons. M
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The time came at length when their duty M
could" no longer bo put off; the law was vigorous- H
ly appealed to and- the chief malefactors have
been pinioned. It is good that tho city has been M
at least partially redeemed; it would have been
better had the exertion been sooner made and H
the th'ovos had never been given power. CB
In Salt Lake we have another form of evil to flfl
fight. The effort here on the one hand is to keep H
the rule of the city in the hands of a merciless M
church, hence the effort has been not to get ca- lM
pable men to handle the affairs of tho city, but H
to get men who would be obedient to church l
counsel. And so long as such -officers were prop- M
orly obedient It has not much mattered what they B
did the rule has been to sustain them. H
On the other hand, of late there has been a H
struggle to Americanize the city; to give the n
dominant church and all the people a square deal, Bl
and that is the irrepressible conflict that is on H
now and has been most of the time for forty years H
past. And this church here Is more vindictive H
and more jealous of its power than any other H
political organization that ever existed. H
But in one way the work In San FranciBco and ' H
In Salt Lake Is the fama. What is needed Is to
arouse the honest American sentiment and bring H
out Its full force. There Is enough In both cities H
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