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. h , II Vol. XIII SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 26. 1908. t"M No. 21 : H The Logan Farce THE DEMOCRATIC state convention at Logan on Tuesdiy was a humiliating affair. As one of the delegites to It said on Wednes day: "All we have struggled for was repudiated." The hope that Jesse Knight would respond to the pracilca'ly unanimous demand of the pirty vanished and with it the other hopes of success. Then when there was a high and lespectiul efforts made to have something inserted in the platform which would place the Utah Democracy in accord with their party in other states, it was promptly voted down. The Sa't Lake Demo- Iciats who were there came home utterly hope less, for the fact was never more clearly shown titan was shown at Logan that the chiefs of the dominant church are determined to absolutely control the government of Utah. Nailing Those Lies IS IT NOT queer how the Deseret News about once in so often insists upon saying that until the Gentiles came here in force there were no saloons, no houses of ill-fame? Queer when the full history is perfectly known and when the facts still linger in the memoiies of many people here, Mormon and Gentile. For it was the prophet seer and revelator, Brigham Young, who built the first disti lery and theie was not a day a!tei the first church store was estab llshed that people could not get at that store an artical of Valley Tan, three drinks of which would make a man go out and steal a horse. Very many of the customers did not stop at the high wines that were sold, but bought pure alco hol, which, dilutod with a little water, they drank. When the fiist office of revenue collector was established in this territory the collector found that thirty-two or thirty-three distilleries were in default on their taes. And every one was built and owned by Latter Day Siints. And the city council gave Brigham Young a monopoly on the sale of liquois. And long after when Mr. Little was irayor he discussed the drink habit at his ward meeting house one Sunday n'ght and told hi3 congregation that If only Gentiles had drunk liquor during the past year then, by actual calculation, every man, woman, child and nursing baby among them must have drunk over five gallons each. As to the shady houses, it Is unnecessary to more than state that in no country on all this earth have these houses flourished when th& legal tender among the people has been carrots or church scrip payable from the tithing yard. Even a community saturated with animalism was not wual to making a success in that line of busi ness. It was different when the holy elders, -Xfiargfjater, hired houses in the residence section, I furnished and equipped them and opened them toNtho public. It is told on good authoiity that I the same thing on different lines is being worked up now. It is not pleasant to bring these matters back to light in these late days, but it is necessary to do it every little while to stop the mouth of the church organ that tries to, falsify history, in order to give to the early community here credit for virtues they never possessed, and to befoul the names of men the latchots of whose shoes it would not be safe to let the present editor of the News loose, lest he, steal the shoes. We do not see why decent Mormons do not insist that his lies should be silenced for they always react upon their own people. Political Speeches THE CANDIDATES 'for president and their friends are all making many speeches nowadays. How many of them are effec tive? What makes the most effective campaign sreech? sixty years ago Tom Corwin of Ohio was called the finest stump orator in the Union. A little before that Henry Clay wore the laurels, but his place was sharply contested by S. S. Prentiss of Mississippi. James G. Blaine could sway the House of Repiesentatives with his elo quence and power, but on the hustings he did not make votes. In 1880 he could not keep his own state in line for Gai field and the Republican banners drooped when the returns from Maine C3me in. It was then that General Giant, who had been beaten for the nomination, went to Roscoe Conkling and said: "C'lme with me, Conkling, you must save the Republican party from de feat." They started west next day. Giant was not a speaker, but a mighty prestige was his a-'d he went to Introduce Conkling. In ten days the whole face of the campaign was changed. It was the most effective ten days' work ever done on the stump in this country. Still Conkling was by nature haughty In his wajs and bearing. He never told a story, never sought to get In accord with his audience by any of the usual methods, but on the hustings he carried an earnestness which was most fetching, and while he was ever careful not to talk over the heads of his audiences, he reduced the real irsues of the campaign a to simple but regal language that all men could understand and drove home his arguments with a lucid power that men c-uld not resist. That journey was a long diawn out triumph to him, more splendid than was ever given a Roman soldier returning victoiious from war, loaded with spoils and followed by prisoners in chains. The most effective speech the writer ever listened to was by Governor Morton of In diana. He sat in his chair, there was no at tempt at eloquence, his v4ice was raised only a lltt'e above the conversational tone; he simply tall cd right along, but the audience, made up of every class of the community lawyers, doc tors, mei chants, mineis the whole aggregate of a great mining town hung upon his every word and forgot for1 two hours tjiat time was passing. In the old days in California, when it was a'most a reproach to be a Republican, and when tha opposition was rude and often violent, Col. E. D. Baker was wont to beat down to silence his opponents by the fire and power and sweet ness of his eloquence, but he never made many votes. The audiences paid tribute to the man, not to his cause. But when Morton talked his listeners forgot the speaker in the anxiety he awakened for native land and its government. A most wonderful speech was that made by John Hay in New York City fpur years ago. When light shines through a prism it3 beam's are soparafed ami the colors of the rainbow take m wm their places, each distinct from the others. Each j HH has its own color and temperature and all are fj jjB different. In that way Secretary Hay threw the p j principles of the two great parties on the prism Jl ', fl of his intellect and gave to each a color that m HH was tangible to the eyes of the audience. And k he made it all so plain and clinched his own ! fl conclusions with a logic so perfect that he took ' J'j M the minds of his hearers captive and made them !$! iH think as he willed. ; ! H This was the secret of the power of De- Wy fl mosthenes as was proved by Mr. Gladstone. He j ji H has come down in thought as the greatest of fj' Hfl oiators and men have imagined that the charm Uli Hfl was in the spell of his presence, his voice, his Iw, jH bearing and magnetism. But on one occasion ffl M Mr. Gladstone was called upon to address a tur- ' fjU flfl bulent host that were on the point of mob vlo- )jjf flfl lence. In his youth he had translated and com ?wr B8H mitted to memory some of the fierce philippics of xy lilS Demosthenes, and in that emergency he hurled " f B one of them, changing only the names, into the W flH faces of the mob before him, and the furious & hI English mob did just as did the fierce Athenian !l' 99 mobs two and twenty centuries before cowered A ftfl and skulked away under the blows of an intellect 1 ! j l that subdued them. The orators that can charm jjf jH men like music or appeal to their passions are M Hfl plenty, but our belief is they do not make many :$L M votes. IjT H The one that wins is the one who can arouse tr ISffl men's minds and then present facts that they ( ,'' ' Ifl cannot combat or get away from. This was the i, Hfl power of Webster and Calhoun; Clay had none M HA of it. Clay was a cavalry charge, all the flags j, BB flying, all the tuimpets sounding. Webster and ij f Hfl Calhoun were the heavy batteries that made Rr Hfl breaches in the walls. ' k BH What Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft need today is F f HH to have a Grant and a Conkling stait out and jij EH put the spell of their intellects upon the voters. if HI Japan's Pride of Race i'W jHfl IT IS SAID there is a seiious hitch in the 's' flH negotiations in the treaty between the United ril '. M States and Japan. Japan insists that the ex- jfjj ' M elusion act shall be set aside unless it can be j H applied to all other nations. She is willing to T'L HH try to hold her people at home, but she resents ' j ! 801 the proposition of any nation to say they shall j. IftlH not enter its countiy. Technically, Japan is t j JPB light. Our tieaties give her all the piivileges ' (J jjlffl which are given to any of the Caucasian races j 3jH and we think her claim is a just one. At the ' KH same time the equality of the human race can- J flH not be established by statute or treaty. ' . i Jm! White men can no more compote with Jap- , ! Hfl anese than they can with Chinese, and both 1' Kf Japan and China are exclusive, no ordinary man mtM can go to their countries and make a living, and j, Kl the reason the Japs and Chinese can make a ' HI living in the United States is because they are J Hfl willing to work for lesser wages, their mode of I jJ Kfl living is different, they can congregate in small I Kfl places, their centuries of conflict with famine ; j Ifl have taught them to do without everything that ,' f i KH is not absolutely necessary, and white men can- J Bffl not compote with them. T , Bffl This question will be better understood when j j flffl those countries Introduce machinery and learn jjf IH