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1 H Goodwin's Weekly. I I Vol. XIV SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 23, 1909. ' No. 12 H 1 A Poor Nominating Speech i q ENATOR BADGER, in nominating Apostle j Smoot for re-election to the Senate, told how the apostle had won not only the friendship, but the active support of the President of the United Slates. That is a fact so interest ing that it seems a p'ty that Senator Badger did not elaborate a little on that portion of his theme. "Was it a political of religious trade? Was it a mere vulgar bargain to see that the state, undet priestly orders, should go for the Re , publican candidate for President in 1908, or did it go further, into the deeper religious mysteries of the Latter-Day cieed? 1 1 For instance, did the Senator undertake to Wr have-toe President, by proxy, baptized for a f baker's dozen of dead Saintesses, for Theodore l in kingdom como, that, arriving there, he might renew his arguments against race suicide? This thought is suggested by the well-known fact that no one has ever done anything that we have ever heard of, anything good, we mean, that the Presi dent has not sought to try it. Or was the contract merely to have a few (l baptisms to save the President himself, lest that r old Dutch Reformed creed might, as he lived it, I , prove insufficient on the final balancing of the ft books? Jb Or was the bargain simply to put the Theo- f1 dore of the United Statqs in a.ccord with the Theo- m dore of Abyssinia, in case, in the pursuit of F game, the President should enter the dominions of that dusky descendant of old man, Solomon, who, in his day, was something of a trump him- A self? i Senator Badger must see that in the crucial . moment he let down badly in leliearslng Sen ator Smoot's accomplishments, and achievements. f It is quite possible that a six-act comic opera might be written around the Senator's grand- I stand play to win the President to his side, and J in this the member from Cache certainly made a f mistake, because when some Elder Penrose, j twenty-five years hence, with the unswerving F truthfulness which for forty years has been such a distinguishing feature of the writings of our Apostle Penrose, undertakes to depiefhow, when the friendless Apostle Smoot was assailed by enemies in Washington, he had the divine gr.ico f and grand strategy to enlist the great Theodore In his behalf, and after that It was easy; there I should also be filed a bill of particulars, showing how he did it. Was it for value received in this world, or for a certain rewaid when a strict ac " counting is to bo held above, where, in case our v now President gets the worst of the balfuice- ! sheet and calls St. Peter a liar, It won't go, un less ho can pioduce other assets? These aie (epoch-making days, and the charm which Senator and Apostle Smoot used, through which to make the President of the United States, see the ciown- Ing virtues of polygamy, and which caused Sen ator Hopkins to fall down in woiship before the a purity of the soul of the senior Utah Senator, L should be magnified, that the work of redeeming ' this sin-bowed earth may be hastened, even if in r the Senator's merchandise n Pi oyo. theie is in cluded an article of Valley Tan, Which would, if applied, take the hair off the back of a dog. I We confess to disappointment in Senator I Badger. We had hoped that his speech, nomi nating Senator Smoot to succeed himself, wo-ild f tmagmujjaamvggmMtamaaaet r T-ltr -jiTrr'f T" " ' ....... ": bubble over with divine giace, and make clear to the wicked Gentiles in this region why Senator Smoot, with God, made a majority. He told us in his speech that the contest over the Apostle's seat cost the United States more than $75,000. He might at least have told us how much it cost the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to be "wonderfully vindicated." Just a Common Blackguard THE speech of Representative Willett, of New York," assailing the President, lost all its force by the nature of the arraignment. The speak er simply established that he is a natural black guard of the vilest oider of police-court billings gate vendor. The House should have stopped sooner than it did, should have stopped him as it would had he been deformed physically and had insisted upon disrobing to show to Congress and the world how hideous was his nakedness, only that a deformed soul is a more fearful thing to contemplate than a deformed body. Whatever he said will not much affect the President, but It showed that the speaker has no conception, of his duty as a Representative, and it was a disgrace to the constituency that elected him their Representative, for above all things, the House of Representatives should be. made up of gentlemen, and the speech of Willett makes clear that he has notitha slightest conception of the constituent attributes of a gentleman. The Tariff and Automobiles A FREE-TRADE journal in the east says: "We are not of the opinion that the auto mobile trade would be seriously disturbed even If the present tariff of 45 per cent ad volo lem were wholly done away with in the coming 'revision. And it gives as a reason that all the materials entering into the manufacture of automobiles are cheaper or as cheap In this country as In Europe. One-thing, however, this writer does not con template. That Is the disposition of Ihousands of Americans who believe that if anything made abriad is not better than the same article pro duced in the' United States, it is vastly more aris tocratic and theiefoie vastly more comforting to own the foreign article. This feeling Is inherent in the minds of millions of Americans; hence we can think of no article on which it is more just to raise levenue than to tax foreign automobiles But there is another thought connected with it. Were the tariff lemoved would it not make the home-made article cheaper? The Alaskan-Yukon Exposition THiE pi ojectors of the Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific ex position, to be held In Seattle next summer (June 1st, to October lGth), have gotten out a flaming prospectus in words and in illustrations, setting forth what is to be, and they do not hes itate to declare that it will be the world's most beautiful exposition. And it ought to be fine. Seattle is a wonder i ful place, with its bay in front, with its lake in the rear, with its mountains of peiennial green; and then there will be charm about this expo sition, because it will bring, down from the north i soi .ew types, and we shall se.es too, American ci -n of the last frontier of the country, where i the strong men are making their fight up against H almost the Arctic circle those men of the mid- H night sun, those men of the northern type, which H after a few years in that region take on some of H the power of the northern cold, some of the glory ! of the aurora borealis. H A learned piofessor in the east wiote a book H some years ago, in which he took the ground jH that the sun is not a fiery orb, as it seems to us, H that our heat does not come from.-the sup,..but H comes from the electricity thrown off by the sun H which, traveling the awful space of tremendous H cold between ua and the sun, finally strikes our H atmosphere and then begins to warm and makes H for us the summer day and the harvest. H His idea is that the sun Is a beautiful semi- H tiopic world, and that what we see and which H looks to us like flame, is but a beautiful corona, the protosphere which always hangs above the H sun and gives it a canopy of everlasting light, even as it says In Revelation, "There was no night theie." H Well, on our earth that same corona hangs H over the northern latitudes and makes what we H call the aurora borealis, and the men of the north under that light, take on, after a while, natures M a little different from ours; they grow, after .a M while, not to care for the ordinary dangers and H the hardships of life; they are up there, as it were, M on the rim of the world, making a sturdy struggle H .out of the frost and out of the snow to wrest a fortune, and the emblem of their lives js the M mighty Yukon. that flows in, awful volume on and M on, sometimes choked with ice, sometimes ice- M packed, but never stopping, following out its des- M tiny to find a home in the sea beyond. And so these men fight their way against ob M stacles, suie that this year or next they will strike M Jt, and when they do, with frontier fierceness they M spend their money, with utter recklessness, rp- M gardless of the effort it cost to procure it. M They will be down in full force to Seattle, and M It will be worth going to Seattle to study them as fl they will appear in what to them will be a strange, M new world. They will have their dog sleds, they M will haye their furs; probably the ill bring with M them some of the natives, and Seattlo will be to M them a summer land and their thought will bo fl that they must be nearly on the edge of the world M and that there cannot be much beyond it. M That Puget Sound country is an ideal country fl in which to hold an exposition; that Puget Sound M is an inland sea; it is very beautiful almost every- M wheie, and one cannot Imagine a people growing M up on that Sound, with facilities for navigating it, fl that could ever be a small or a mean people. All M the tendency Is toward largeness, whether It bo M on the Sound or in tho background of mountains, M over all of which Ranier stands out, majestic and M austere. M Our advice to people is to lay by a few dol- M lais now and then and make a trip up to that m exposition, for in the exposition itself and in the M surroundings there will be plenty that will enter- tain them during a whole month. M ' i H Edgar Allen Poe LAST Tuesday was the hundredth anniversary H of the birth of Edgar Allen Poe. In many H places in the East the event was celebrated, M and a curious thing is the different forms in which H his memory was treated Generally ho was held H