Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], November 14, 1908, Image 1

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M x r So Much WorfeAhead
r npHBRB will be milch public worktor the people
. r ofi" d." here, and especially the Commercial Club,
! ' to put through this next few months. A big
i ypj struggle must be made to flx permanent head
' ? quarters for the mining congress in this city. For
'6 , three years Denver has acted as though it cared
fc (GJ nothing for it, but whon the effort shall be made
to withdraw its headquarters from that city Den-
'' f ver will wake up and make extravagant offers to
1 1 retain it. It ought to come here, for this Is the
I mining center, while Denver at best merely flanks
I the great mining section; but Denver is a fighter
f when any advantage is to be gained, and unless
, Salt Lake prepares to make a better sho'w'ing than
' iScuver can, this city will lose the congress.
L. Then the hosts of the Grand Army of the Re
I public will be here next summer, and they must
be received and entertained in such a way that
) when they go away each unit of the host will be
an advertising agent for Salt Lake and Utah. It
is a big undertaking to receive and entertain that
army, but it will be worth all that it will cost and
1 much more. Their faltering and solemn march
I ought to be such an object lesson as will impress -
this people as they have never been impressed,
for they will represent the skeleton of that other
host, that in the strength of their young man-
Af4 hood held native land as dear enough to die for
, if' need be and so "they went rollingon the.foe,
i and burning with high hopes," but only a part re-.
turned, the others "lie mouldering, cold and low."
1 It ovill bo Salt Lake and Utah's duty to steady the
faltering step3 of the veterans that will come.
'f Their long march is almost ended; final taps and
' the silence is Just beyond them.
The Dry Farmers' congress is anotner thing to
prepare for, and as yet the public does not half
p appreciate its importance. A gentleman from
Montana was talking here last week and we heard
i him say: "Tho farmers in that beautiful chain of
1 valleys east of Butte, those valleys that run down
to and merge with Yellowstone valley, had about
i1, broke themselves trying to bring water upon their
lands to irrigate them. Last autumn they deter
mined to give dry farming a trial; they ploughed
$ and planted their crops, and this year they have
harvested about the biggest crop on record."
" Anyone who saw tho products of dry farming at
the late state fair must have obtained an impres-
f slon of its possibilities, and the amount of land
, in this state that can be cultivated that way ex-
m ceeds tenfold all that can ever be irrigated.
I Then there is a vast amount of local work to
see to. On Monday last the trains on a new rail-
! road west began to move. That means that tow-
v ard the close of next year thore will be a new
through road, running its trains from this city
to San Francisco bay. These next twelve months
H will be groat months for Salt Lake.
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1 As An Evangelist
B& r--i HE appeal of tho clergymen to Mr. Bryan to
J drop politics and become an evangelist has
Mt only good thoughts behind it. Saul was
ft knocked out before tho true light came to him.
I and then ho mado a greater namo than he ever
I could have made as a lawyer and politician, or as
an ordinary rabbi. Tho world is filled with ex-
amples of men Avho might have made far higher
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names as evangelists than they won in other
fields. The field of the evangelist gives the ora
tor finer opportunities than any other. Lord
Beaconsfield made for- himself a great name as
,an orator,, a writer and a statesman, but we are.
not certain that liad hfs mind fed him Into the
church he might have won evdn greater laurels
than he did along the stormy paths he trod. His
apostrophe to Jerusalem is a wonderful specimen
of inspired genius. Just listen to this: "The moon
has sunk behind the Mount of Olives, and the
stars in the darken sky shine doubly bright over
the sacred earth. The all-pervading stillness Is
broken by a breeze, that seems to have traveled
over the plains of Sharon from the sea. It wails
among the tombs and. sighs among the cypress
groves. The palm tree trembles' as it passes, as if
it was a spirit of woe. Is it the breeze that has
traveled over the plain of Sharon from the sea?
Or Is it the haunting voice of prophets mourning
over the city that they could not save? Their
spirits surely would linger on the land where
their Creator had deigned to dwell and over whose
impendingfall Omnipotence had shed human tears
. from the mount. Who can but believe that, at the
midnight hour, from the summit of the Ascension,
the great departed of Israel assemble to gaze upon
the battlements of their mystic city? There might
be countless heroes and sages, who need shrink
from no rivalry with the brightest and wisest of
other lands; but fife lawgiver of the time of the
Pharaohs, whose laws are still obeyed; the mon
arch whose reign has closed for three thousand
years, but whose wisdom is a proverb in all na
tions of the earth; the teacher, whose doctrines
have modeled civilized Europe the greatest of
legislators, the greatest of administrators, and the
greatest of reformers what race, extinct or liv
ing can produce three such men as these?"
Mr. Bryan has dreams of rendering great ser
vices to his country and his fellow men. Suppose
he were to decide to make his fellow men better
by portraying to them a higher life than this one
here, who knows but it would be a greater ser
vice than he could render were all his political
hopes to be some time realized. Ho is a Christian
gentleman; he has been given extraordinary glftB.
As an evangelist he would have the ear of the
world every day; he might bring his countrymen
back to a deeper faith in God, to a more pro
found respect for human laws, and link heaven
and earth closer togethor in the souls of men. It
is an altogether lofty idea.
When Congress Meets
CONGRESS -will meet in a few days. We look
for some stirring times this winter. The
Democratic members will be quiet until a
chance word, or maybe a taunt, awakens them. It
Is quite possible that something in the president's
message may arouse them, for the president is
impulsive; o - strong emotion is enough to set
him going, and it will be just like him to forget
that under a quiet exterior the Democrats will
have a savage fooling this winter. They expected
a victory up to the last weok of the campaign,
and they have waited a good while. We do not
expect much legislation of value this winter. It
will require a good deal of work to pass the need
ed appioprlatlon bills. The Panama canal will
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conn itfforTa raking; the new battleships tovillbe JH
held up as failures on the strength of crmclSni H
already published; the growing deficit will, be liH
magnified; gross extravagance will be chi $ed, H
and newsjegislation will be fought. The tuSety 'M
'Mays' before the 4th of Mlfrch will be mostly frlt' jH
tered away, for there will be more bad temper dis-"- fH
played than has been seen for twelve years pasj H
Tho congress that will convene on the 4th of H
March will have a summer's work before it, forr H
with the unfinished business and the tariff to re,- ,H
vise there will be work for months on hand. H
It Will Be All Right H
THE American party was beaten last week, but' iH
it was only a temporary defeat, and Salt H
Lake is left to show what the American 'H
party's work is and has been. It has been trans-1 jH
formed in three years; transformed from a sleepy ,H
and uncertain village to a roaring city. Its busi- H
ness has doubled; its real estate has advanced H
certainly 30, probably 50 per cent; in the business H
section certainly more than 50 per cent. All its H
methods have changed; the money paid into tho IH
treasury has been spent on the city instead of, as H
in tho old days it was all absorbed by the officers. H
There are landmarks on every side to show what H
has been done. It is reaching out for more im- H
piovements; more and more people are coming H
here, to make their homes; thepopulation has in- H
creased 50 per cent, ifVdt 62;rthsafety6f tho H
city against fire has been vastly Increased; the H
sanitary conditions of tho city have been vastly H
improved, and the utmost demand of the party has H
been that tho people in the city, in consideration H
of the blessings extended to them, shall simply H
obey the laws. H
A great many Mormons are shocked at the H
means taken to carry the late election and thou- H
sands of them are glad it was not a city election, H
and that the results cannot possibly cause the city H
to revert to tho old rule; for they were hero H
through all tho long forty years of church rule H
when enterprise was dead, when progress was H
shattered at every point and every improvement H
proposed was fought to a standstill, and the little H
village drifted on simply because of 'its location H
and not by any effort of those in control to make it H
a city. H
Utah will have to be an American stato after H
a while, a real American state, a state in which a H
young Mormon that does not belong to tho higher H
families will have a right to hope that if he has H
the brain and the perseverance ho may attain to H
honors and to fortune without leaning upon the E
sovereign power that sits hero, simply struggling H
to make a state where the people shall be com- H
posed of a few of those in power, the masses the H
servile followers of the few. 11
There is nothing to lose hope on; it is going to ' ' iH
bo all right, and the biggest mistake tho dominant flg .AH
church has made in tho last twenty years was ? 11
when it threw off its disguises and forced its pao- IjH
pie to vote againbt their will. , WM
The Case of Foo Duck H
ONE Foo Duck, a Chinese Amr can, 31 years H
of age, was up for deportation in Montana B
recently. Ho wai ordered deported by the B9
United Stales commissioner at Missoula, Mont., .H
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