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I "A free nation, is better than a compulsory
sober nation, or a compulsory moral nation, be
lli - cause to freedom all other things are added, but
where there is no freedom to choose between
i good and evil it is the evil that comes without
H ;, choice."
H '' That would apply in Utah except that there is
H ,' Nno intention here to establish prohibition; the
H L object, so far as outlined, is to turn the truffle over
H l"' to the drug stores and take from them all re
H I sponsibility for the effects. That is the object on
H ;t the face of the business, but behind that the
H I special purpose is to cripple the business and the
H future of Salt Lake City, by the power which
H I made the vijest kind of whiskey here for forty
H i" years and sold it without either scruples or lim
H itatibns. One other object is to pose before the
H country as favoring prohibition which is just as
H sincose as their other claim that they have given
H j up polygamy, though that is just as much a tenet
H of their faith as it was twenty years ago, for
m j there is nothing in their records to show that it
m !' has ever been done away with, or even suspend-
II ed.
fl ' The petitions which are offered ought not to
M count any more than a vote in conference, which
M is a mere perfunctory affair, there not having
1 I been thirty dissenting votes in twice thirty years,
i -Finally, the movement is a square repudiation
H of 'the bargain these same chiefs entered into
H last summer to insure the carrying of the election
H their way. But then, for them to repudiate their
H covenants is an old trick, and they do not mind
B i that any more than did the sons of Jacob, when
B they did up the circumcised Hivites.
H Why Such a Comparison?
H; ry- HE NEW YORK Nation begins an article
H j with these words: "The acquittal of T.
H -J. Hains brings up anew the question
H whether the morals of New York are any better
Hi thun those of a frontier mining camp." Now, we
Hj havo-heard some pretty tough things said about
H frontier mining camps, but nothing quite so tough
H as that.
H There is short shift for the assassin in mining
i camps; no mercy to betrayers 'of innocent women;
m infinite tenderness to children; adventurers and
B adventuresses are soon estimated at their real
M worth ; frauds and grafters are speedily under-
B stood; there are no reeking tenement houses, and
m broad charity is the rule. Why should the morals
j of such a place be compared to that of New York
H City? What depth of depravity was ever sounded
H below what New York City can display? And
M - why should an honest mining camp be slandered
M by invidious comparisons?
B John Nicholson
J OHN NICHOLSON, long known and much
honored in this city, has passed away. The
b. world had grown dark to him here; let us
H hope the light has been restored to him in a hap-
H pier land. He was a sincere fanatic; he would
H have gone to the stake for his convictions with a
H smile on his lips, but ho had none of the usual
D prejudices of the real fanatic; ho was considerate
H of those who differed with him, and was honest
H in every hair of his head. He did not believe in
the methods of many around him, for bo devout
was he, and so fixed in his convictions of the
rightfulness of his belief, that he could never
imagine that there was any way to promulgate
the faith within him save through absolute truth.
Ho was a scholarly man, a strong writer, a win
some speaker, and. the greatest charm of both his
pen and his voice was the clear evidence of the
sincerity of the man shining out through all he
said. His last trail was a dark and thorny one
may he have found the tents of everlasting peace
to rest in now.
The Old American Navy
AT THE last annual dinner of the National Geo
graphic Society, Secretary of the Navy New
berry reviewed the history of the American
navy, and showed that from the first It has been
a glory to the counti'y, and made clear why in
its latest presentation through the battleship fleet
it had been the admiration of the nations. Apropos
of that, In a speech the same evening by Vice
President Fairbanks, he told of meeting an Eng
lish gontleman recently who was in Australia
when the fleet visited there last summer. This
gentleman asked the Vice President: "What is
the most magnificent spectacle you ever saw?"
Whereupon Mr. Fairbanks turned the inquiry and
asked the Englishman: "What is the most mag
nificent spectacle you ever saw?" to which he re
plied: "The most sublime thing I ever saw or ever
expect to see was the great American squadron
as It came into Sidney and anchored in the bay.
Thousands and thousands of Australians had gath
ered there and with heads Uncovered bowed before
the majestic power of the Republic of the United
States."
But to return to Secretary Newberry's speech.
In the course of it he said:
Since Wilkes' squadron of six wooden sailing
ships, the largest being of 700 tons' displacement,
sailed out from Norfolk in 1838 and passed
through the Straits of Magellan on its peaceful
mission of exploration and scientific investigation
to mark out in the vast and unknown oceans the
pathways of commerce, over which was destined
to sail seventy years later, from the same port,
the magnificent fleet of today, bearing the peace
ful greetings of the nation to the maritime coun
tries of both hemispheres.
The operations of the Wilkes expedition ex
tended over a region of ten million square miles,
within which more than five hundred islands were
charted, more than two thousand drawings of cos
tumes, scenery and natural history were brought
back, together with thousands of geological and
botanical specimens.
Wilkes also realized the dream of his life in
the discovery of a large body of land lying within
the Antarctic circle, which he named tho Antarc
tic continent."
That was the father of our Major Wilkes, the
same one who twenty-three years later on the old
San Jacinto, rounded too the British, steamer
Trent and took from her the Confederate embas
sadors to England and France, Mason and Slidell,
for which act our government apologized to Great
Britain, but made Commodore Wilkes Admiral
Wilkes the next day.
Wo may add that the accuracy of some of the
Wilkes surveys of the Southern Pacific ocean
were questioned by an English navigator some
years ago, but within the past three years they
have been absolutely confirmed by a British naval
officer sent down to that southern continent.
Turkey's Rejuvenation
THE 'EVIDENCE accumulates that the 23d of
last July was to Turkey what the 4th of
July1776, was to the United Colonies, an.
epoch In Turkish history; the dawn of a new
day to the xirrklsh people.
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Indeed, the comparison with the new birth of
what has since become the nation of the United
States, does not seem to express the, whole case.
That July day in 177G was the date "when the
allegiance to the mother country was surrendered;
that July day in 1908 was the day when without
any severance of fealty to tho Sultan and his
government, the tree of liberty burst into bloom ,
in Turkey and with the full consent of the Sul
tan, the manhood and long-veiled womanhood of
Turkey, emerged from the shadows of weary cen
turiesand stood forth unshackled and unashamed.
A constitution was given Turkey thirty years
ago, but it was to the people little more than a
vague promise of freedom and so far as its work
ings went it was little more than a dead letter.
But it seems that the Sultan, while practically ig
noring the putting of it into execution, began at
once to prepare his empire for the Inevitable
change which he saw was coming. He began to
build school houses, 'of which, there are now 40,000 n
in i.he empire, to apply and enforce sanitation In '-.n
the cities, to build railroads, later to light the
cities; to open his empire to foreign colleges,
Catholic and Protestant, and to make many more
advances, and when out of the schools and col
leges the young Turks emerged and demanded
a new constitution, and a retreat from the exclu
slveness that had hedged Turkey round about so
long; they found no opposition and the noiseless
and bloodless revolution was accomplished in a
day.
There are still many wrongs and savageries in
Turkey; there is still a world of ignorance and
superstition there, but, nevertheless, the whole at
mosphere is changed, as much as is seen in a
mine when a new air-shaft is opened, a new cir
culation established, the fatal dead air is driven
out, and all the levels cleansed. The railroad
from Damascus to Medina and Mecea is almost
completed and the change from the camel to the
palace car, for the annual pilgrimage is typical
of the change that has lighted the hilltops of the
empire with the signal lights of liberty.
This goes, too, to all the realm of society. Wo
man are emancipated with the men. Before long
the heavy veil will be discarded when women
walk the streets, her citizenship will cease to be
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