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I 2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY. 5
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I Wfiaf It All Means
If HPHE GENTILE clergymen and Gentile ladles
Hi. J who are Working in double harness with
H I Apostle Heber J. Grant, with prohibition as
H' their slogan, are supposed to favor the Cannon
H so-called prohibition bill. If that is true they
HI should undeceive themselves at least. That is
H not a prohibition measure; it is not intended to
m stop or even reduce the liquor traffic. Its pur-
H pose is, first, to turn the sale of liquor over from
H the saloon to the drug stores; second, to adver-
B tise that the Mormon church favors prohibition,
and third, to give Salt Lake a black eye "and pro-
Ml gress in Utah a check-mate.
M v In this free country every person has the
M right to entertain any opinion that appeals to his
W conscience, but no person has a right to be de-
H ceived about a simple proposition that is so plain
H that he who runs may read. Tho bill does not
H mean prohibition. It does not claim to mean
M that. It is bogus through and through,
j The institution that made and sold the first
H benzine ever sold in Utah, has ever since been
H the most extensive and persistent vendor of the
H lightning-charged fluid. Let any prohibition
H shouter read this bill carefully and see if it does
H aught except to turn the sale of liquor away from
Hj saloons to drug stores.
H But it is wanted by the authors that It may
H be advertised to the world that Utah, under the
H leadership of Mormon apostles has declared for
H prohibition.
H Why Is this desired? First, to advertise a mo-'
H ralily, which does not exist, on the part of those
H Mormon chiefs, and second, to warn away the
H people and capital needed to keep Utali and espe-
H cially Salt Lake O'ty on its upward splendid pro-
H gress toward a great and prosperous city. The
H plan is to reduce realty business, employment ror
H working men and general business quite 30 per
H cent the first year. To place the city in the
H same groove it was in during tho first forty years
Hj of its existence, those halcyon years when thirty-
H three distilleries, built and owned by Saints, many
H of them the chief priests of the Saints, supplied
H( the city with bug juice, and when all the revenues
H, of the city were absorbed by the office holders.
H When there was not a sewer built, or a decent
H school house, when there was not a street sprin-
H kled or a sidewalk laid; when the police force was
H' made up of thugs and blooQ-atoners and it re-
Hj quired half an hour for tho fire department to
H reach a fire two blocks from the engine house.
iln those days Heber J. Grant was not worried
about saloons or dives, or other sinister institu
tions for they all paid licenses and 10 per cent of
hi the whole went to the tithing fund.
H We commend this history to the clergymen
Hj and tho ladies who are now seconding Ileber J.
1 Grant's efforts to - tore tho city to that ancient
rule, under the guise of a bogus prohibition bill,
and who are giving aid and comfort to the Des-
, eret News that in the fifty-five years of its ex-
Hf istence has been the stolid enemy of every ad-
Hp vance in Utah and which has done more to keep
flHj this state and city bound by the Juggernaut of su-
H perstition, hate and fear, than any other one fac-
H tor in the territory and state
Coming Home
THIS FLEET is coming. It passed the Pillars
of Hercules, the bands playing "Home,
Sweet Home," and turned into the home
stretch exultingly.
The ships are to be in their home port on the
22d, possibly a little before that, for they may
want to dress a little for their reception.
They rounded our continent; they went down
under the Southern Cross almost to the Antarc
tic ocean; they fought out a typhoon off the coast
of China; they rounded Asia and made the long
lap across the Indian ocean; another up the Red
sea; still another, the long stretch of the Mediter
ranean, and are now stretched out for the hom
run a winter's voyage across the stormy Atlau
tic. If they all reach home in good form it will
be something for the whole country to exult over;
a triumphal close of a naval feat that no other na
tion ever dreamed of attempting. Let us hope
that no misfortune may overtake any of the ships,
and that when they roar their greeting at Hamp
ton Roads, they may be as perfect as when they
fired their parting salutes, as they sailed away.
The world does not know from any merchant
sh'ps which we possess that our nation exists,
but wherever this fleet has touched the people
know that on the sea the United States has a
place, and in their cruise they have picked up
much prestige for their country. They will be
most cordially welcomed home, and still the prayer
will be that the time may bo hastened when the
nations will learn war no more.
Still considering the fleet and its voyage, we
must not forget that the navy is, and always has
been, the most perfect institution of our country.
It represents the highest patriotism, the most pro
found consecration to duty; the most perfect dis
cipline known in our country and always has. It
has some immortal mottos as guides: Paul Jones'
words when summoned to surrender: "I have not
begun to fight yet," is one; the words of Law-
rence, "Don't give up the ship," is another; Perry's
"We have met the enemy and they are ours," is
another; the words of Farragut, repeated by
Dewey, "D n the torpedoes!" is another. When
one day, President McKinley was much depressed,
because the news had come that Cervera's fleet
was on the way across the Atlantic, and at the
same time tho Oregon was on its way home and
there was danger that Cervera's fleet would inter
cept him, a friend said to the President "Sup
pose the Spanish fleet meets the Oregon and over
comes the American ship in battle, what think
you Captain Clark will do? "Captain Clark and
the Oregon will not surrender," was the reply; -"tho
Oregon will never be a Spanish prize." Mean
ing that Captain Clark and his ship might be
sunk, but never made to surrender. When Ad
miral Smith was told that the Congress com
manded by his son, had surrendered, he simply re
pliedi "Then Joe is dead," and so it proved.
And when the discipline of the navy extends
to the American people, they will be the greatest
people on earth; the greatest that ever were upon
the earth. ,
Races, and the Money ol flue Races
THE STATEMENT of Senator Newlands of
Nevada, as to the irrepressible conflict of
races and the impossibility of their min
gling frfjely together without one becoming a sub
ject race, is most Important, and the truth of It
becomes the more important as we look back and
trace the history of tho world as far as civiliza
tion extends. Out of the soil of China relics are
still dug that make clear that at one time China
was inhabited by the Caucasians. But he has
disappeared. -Why? The Mongolian car j with a
pole on liife shoulder and a bundle on each end of
the pole. He was a non-pombatant, he was In
dustrIous$hdfeuld work at half wages. He ob
tained employment, he learned the simpler trades,
by his thrift he saved money; he was more -and
more employed; the generous race of workers
could not compete with him; gradually he crowded
out his competitors, only the land owners of the or- ""
Iglnal race remained. Then John began to ldase
small patches of land, then more and more, and
then began to buythe camel's head was in the
tent and the original occupants were crowded out. ,
The lesson is that the rule should be for the sep
arate races to each have its apportionment of the
world's area, and should not be trenched upon by '
any other race. ,
But there Is another thought in this connection.
While it is not well for these separate races to '
dwell on the same soil, each is more or less de- ,
pendent on the others in the way of trade. The
brown and yellow races produce articles of com
merce which the white race needs, and under nor
mal conditions the brown and yellow races would '
purchase much that the white race produces. And s
this would be to the mutual Interest of all. But
It is true that the trade between the white and
the yellow and brown races, is decreasing. That
is, the latter races are taking less and less of tho
products of the former. We do not have to search
far for the reason. From beyond the time to which
the memory of man extends, the money of the
brown and yellow man has been silver. Up to
date he cannot carry on his daily business in any
other money. In the last thirty years the domi
nant white nations of the earth have reduced
their currency to the single standard of gold,
which, of course, has caused silver to fall to such
a price as the demand of the arts supplies. So,
measured by gold, silver in this country and Eli
rope has declined 60 or more per cent. But it has
not changed in the. Orient so far as labor is meas
ured. An ounce of silver pays for the same
amount of labor that it did in 1873, hence the Ori
ental manufacturer can afford to sell us his wares,
measured in gold 50 per cent cheaper than he
could thirty years ago.
But when it comes to buying our products at
gold rates, he, having nothing to pay with but sil
ver, recoils before tho price, with the result that
tho ships of our great railroad companies, built for
the Oriental trade, are swinging idly on their
chains in Puget Sound and San Francisco hay.
And this is just when Japan is building up a great
merchant marine with the thought that she will
dominate the trade of the Pacific, just when China
is fast awakening from the slumber of centuries,
Is building manufactories, is making a stand for
liberty and all the rights of man. And in that
region live half the inhabitants of the earth and
more than half the world's human working forces.
There are so many, indeed, that China would bo
glad, were silver once more recognized as basic
mone at some ratio with gold, to take all the pro
duct of our own mines and the mines of Mexico,
paying for it in tea and such other of her pro
ducts as we annually purchase.
One would think that the eastern press would
see the situation and cry out, that eastern manu
facturers would do the same; that exporting mer
chants would do the same; that our great railroad
magnates would l( the same; that congress,
reading the reports of all our consuls in the Orient,
all agreeing that tho steadily falling exchanges '
were killing trade; would arouse itself and de
mand that the mighty wrong should be remedied.
Just Before the Dawn 1
THERE is one fine feature of the controversy
now going on in Utah. It was exemplified
the other day when a Mormon bishop told
a noisy apostle that he would not obey his coun
sel on the prohibition question, because he was
exceeding his apostolic power, or abusing it, when
he was seeking to coerce the legislature on a
proposition which was one purely of business and
which the church has no authority over. That
spirit ha3 expanded more In the past thirty days
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