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mm 111 "HI 4B A "UT "HiPPi "H "H IBn! ' liM Goodwin's VPeekly. II Vol XIII. SALT LAKE OTY, UTAH, AUGUST I, 198P No. 13 ijlj H ! ! iWw fl C. C. Goodwin, Editor J. T. Goodwin, .... Manager Lynn S. Gillham, Business Manager PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK OP GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. Including postage in the United Statos, Canada and Mexico, $2.00 per year, $1.00 for six months. Sub scriptions to all foreign countries within the Postal Union, $3.50 per year. Single copies, 5 cents. Payments should bo made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to Goodwln'ti Weekly. Address all communications to Goodwin' Weekly. Entered at the Postofflco at Salt Lake City. Utah, U. S. A., as second-class matter. P. O. Boxes, 1274 and 1772. Telephones: Bell, 301; Ind., 302. 221-232-233 Commercial Club Bldg., Salt Lake City The Bonds Were Vo!ed For. The result of the vote on the question of issu . ing $600,000 in bonds for needed improvements in r" this city Is most gratifying. It shows that a ma jority of the men and women who pay the taxes of the city want to see the city keep on its up ward way and made ready for the incoming busi ness and people. The city should grow moce in the next five years than It has in any ten preced ing years; the volume of its business should double. This is the natural gathering place of a region which in extent is an empire, and the character of the products of which is sure in the future as it has in the past, to make many men rich. And here is where the great bulk of the fortunate will come. It is going to be difficult for the city to keep up with its own growth, for with oery newcomer more will follow, and every newcomer will be an advertising agent devoted to further progress. It is to be the great railroad center; it is now the great mining and smelting center; it Is tho great mercantile center of all this region. It has, too, the schools, the churches, -the theatres, the 'newspapers, and its manufac tures will soon be a most important factor. Of course its natural advantages are unequaled. It should, aside from its business, be a natural sanl- Itarium, with its air, its springs and its lake. More, the tide which has been setting in strongly of late will greatly inciease, and tho vote on the bonds will give a new impetus to men outside this state to turn this way. The Presidential election will be over in a hundred days more, business East and West will resume its natural order; an immense harvest is being gathered; within a few weeks the stock boards will resume their old ac tivity and a fair portion of this progress will come to Salt Lake. The signs of the times were never more filled with hope than right now, and tho business men of this city have more cause for congratulations than they have had since the slowing down last October. Pictures ol the Presidents.' Tho current Munsey has an article on tho White House collection of presidential pictures. to There Is Mrs. Polk, wife of the eleventh pros! I dent, a most refined face and the old-fashioned curled hair down on her cheeks. There is tho copy of the portrait of Washing ton that was cut from" the frame when tho Brit ish occupied Washington in 1814. The picture of Jefferson is idealized a little, becauso Jefferson was not really a handsome man. The intellect and the power are all there, but this picture is a classic, and Jefferson did not havo a classic face, and moreover it was framed in sandy and rather coarse hair. But there is no doubt about the intellectual part. He showed that in his face, he showed it even in his hands and feet, that high-born, masterful, commanding mien which comes ' when great minds are unworried from youth by petty cares. Tho face of Grant, too, is idealized. He had one of those square heads which showed ho had a driving force irresistible. It is said that his pulse was about twenty beats slower than the ordinary man and that it took the roar of a hundred cannon, the braying of a hundred trum pets and the tread of a hundred thousand men going into battle to bring his pulse up to "normal. And we can well believe it. Ho ought never to have been president, becauso he was a poor 'udge of human nature. The great day of his life was not at Pittsburg Landing, it was not at Vicksburg, it was not at Chattanooga or Cham pion Hills, or in the hell of the Wilderness; it ' was when he in a coarse blouse sat down to write the terms of tho surrender of General Lee. There tho manhood of the man came out, and there is nothing like it in the history of soldiers. While writing he glanced up at Leo's sword which had been presented him by the state of Virginia, the scabbard of which was covered with diamonds and which it is said cost $10,000. He glanced at it and then he put in the terms of surrender that all ofllcers should be allowed their side arms. Napoleon would not have done that, neither would have Caesar, neither would have George Washington, not any one of the great soldiers in history except U. S. Grant. And when it came to speak about the horses and Gen eral Lee said it would be a hardship if the sol diers had to give up their horses, he at once re sponded that tho men would need the horses to put in their spring crops, and they were elimin ated. Nothing was taken but the arms, and they were only taken to be destroyed. The picture of Mrs. Van Buren is given in the list. She was the wife of tho son of old Van. She is a bright-looking lady, but her face some how reminds one of what the young lady told tho photographer when she wanted a picture. Sho said, "Take me with a look as though I was com posing poetry." Old Martin Van Buren's face is a fine one. Ho does not look like a statesman, but like a great financier, which he was, shrewd, cautious, careful, never taken by surprise, and one can understand in looking at his face why he said to a friend, "You had better ride twenty miles and say what you want to than to write one let ter. Letters come back to vex you." Mr. Arthur's picture looks more like a soldier than a statesman. Ho was a handsome man, a good soldier and a good lawyer, but the picture does not impress one at all as does tho picture of Thomas Jefferson. , The picture- of Mr. Cleveland is at his best. The most prominent thought which strikes one in looking at it is the will power there displayed. MBit ! m flKy 9BB His friends called it firmness, his enemies called m Hu fflW it stubbornness, but put it either way and it is J fma a clear case that he was not to bo moved from jiBHI ! any position he ever took, whether it was right llffwlt ! or wrong. 'Bfii l ! The picture of President Roosevelt is exactly H flflff j H as he is. There is no studied pose, there is KBm plenty of evidence of power, the combativeness ii Hp H natural to him shows out on his face, and look- mSm. BH ing at it the shadow of tho big stick is in full , WfM B evidence, the look of an impetuous, naturally ftJ99t fl passionate and fiery-tempered man, strong of will, HH ! impatient of opposition. It is a clear case that iiifHr H his life in the west has been of vast use to him, HHP HQ for he learned to associate with all kinds Of men 'SHh1- before his habits were formed. If he had gone 1H J to Europe when he left college, then returned to wHi "! New York and lived there up to the time he was ?j Hufr H elected president, ho would have been a hard . Byt 1 mil gentleman to get along with. As it is one thinks, ',$ jh sBm looking at his picture, that he has to have a fight yH p JHfl with himself every day to keep from going out "', ij ;' jH I and smashing things. The picture reminds us I l. fi I of something we read in an agricultural journal IHk ' fi 9 not long since. A man wrote the journal editor ( W&t fi I asking what to do with a horse that smashed his kl ji! HI manger and kicked down the stall every day, and ?i'i HI the answer of the editor was, "Put that horse iifli$ H to work and make him so tired that he won't Mi!fr fi9 want to kick." So, looking at this picture, wo iff fir H should say that no amount of work would hurt j 'jjjj Sl our president and a vast amount of work is nee- j ' 0' essary to keep him from kicking down tho stalls. $u fl I But thdre are other pictures that ought to bo 'mm ' fil in that collection. The office of president is the MiflnF 91 highest In this world and tho men that fill that j i WM office will be more or less the concern of the ' wf, H world for all time to come, and their pictures tm' BB ought to be where men can study them. j $ ft fifi Nothing In It. J j jH The World's Work copies a few words spoken 1 Sfljb1 Pfi by Mr. Taft from the railroad car in Virginia tho Ww flfl other day wherein he told his hearers that if ' iHI" ! they could break tho solid south they would dp a i" F great good to tho nation. Tho magazine picks '''111 If' H up this and thinks there is a chance for Mr. Taft t T J H to cany Tennesseo and North Carolina, and ! ji i H9 then goes on to say: "Tho old reasons for Dom- wfl ' H ocratic solidity no longer exists. There is no h$ ' BSK longer danger of negro supremacy; there is no lifPll HH longer danger of a force bill; there is no dan- wllr fH ger of any sort in voting for Mr. Taft against 'vit 1 9 Mr. Bryan. Tho only principal difference in. $fli'H H party doctrine is tho difference on tho tariff, and ftjin Hi that is at present a theoretical rather than a ;lf'l ! practical difference." Further on it says: III1 fifi "Meanwhile there are many pressing reasons ill HI why many business men in the south prefer Mr. ''Ulv Hi Taft to Mr. Bryan, tho foremost of which is their .! i If IH lack of confidence in Mr. Bryan's judgment. ... Mil HI They have built and are building a now prosper- Ljf I1' HI ity in that part of the Union. They are closely nHls- H allied in interest and in that with financial and ,f ill' 1 Btl commercial men in other parts of the country, 'fills IH and they have a broader view of the affairs and Hj! H financial and political policies than the politicians 1 , E have," etc. h i B That all reads vary well, but in our judgment ;M B there is nothing in It. It has not been any fear Ifc'l I'' I of nogro supremacy that lias hold the south E f J i 1 ' f 'I