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I. Goodwin's Weekly I
VoLXVl SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 6 rST No. 3 -
Ilk The Election's Lesson
iiJlJr r-ri'TJESDAY was a great day for Utah. In the
! ., J capital city of the state where one-fourth
I of the population reside there was a square
contest for the right, and those who helievo in
( law and the full separation of church and state,
ft won against the combined forces of all the other
factions in the city. It was not only a victory
J! for Salt Lake, but for Provo, for Ogden, for Lo
r gan, for all Utah.
I Never was a party more foully assailed dur-
I ing a campaign than was the American party by
j the concentrated venom of a corporation of liars
..J " so rich in their sinister capital of mingled men-
J dacity, malice and meanness, that they, really,
B I formed a trust, a trust, too, that the father of
i lies must have felt a twinge of envy as ho con-
'( J templated it. But it availed nothing. The prop-
r j osltion of the American party that ,all the peo
J, j pie should meet on the common basis laid down
j by the laws, was accepted by the voters as fair,
I and they filed their opinion with their ballots.
,1 So ifc goes out through the state and there is
' j many a saint that will quietly rejoice over it.
t We wish the heads of the church might read
the writing on the wall and determine to adjust
their church to the country they live In.
!They have fought all the time but three years
in Utah for sixty years. They began with an
overwhelming majority. They have spent hun
dreds of thousands of dollars; they have involved
, their people in measureless sorrow and inflicted
' upon them Infinite heart-burnings and pecuniary
loss, and now in the capital which they founded
thty are whipped to a finish.
1 This has been made necessary. The Ameri
can party while rejoicing over their victory are
fl sorry that it was ever made necessary. It is
made up of earnest Democrats and Republicans
' who would like to be in accord with their partisan
friends in other states, but the church made this
impossible. The presiding officers of the church
believed that with statehood they would bo in
vincible, and so on their broken covenents they
assumed their old rule.
They pushed Reed Smoot into the senate of
I the United States, not because of his equipments
as a man but .because of the power of his priestly
office, and they permitted him to come to this
city and to dictate who should be city and county
i and state officers, am1 it was all with the air of:
f "What are you going to do about it?" Looking
I back now, was not that rather of a costly ex
periment after all?
When the president came here a few weeks
ago, there was a studied effort to keep from him
the foremost men of Utah, and It practically suc
ceeded. But, after all, was it best? What ex
planation could this senator make to the presl
k dent on Wednesday morning, when the news was
1 flashed to him that the men he did not meet in
' Salt Lake were, after all, the brain and brawn
i of the city?
Has not the little company of high priests
g whose iron rule has held this people in thraldom
so long, seen enough to understand the mistake
that has been made from the first?
And do not they see that their own people
are slipping away from their control? Would it
G not bo better for them to proclaim that hence-
I forth the things that are Caesar's shall be ren-
S derod to Caesar; that for them to ibe a guide for
their church shall be enough, and then keep their
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word? That would bring peace to Utah, peace and
good will, and nothing else ever will.
Their Asiatic rule has spent its utmost power
here, had they not better accept that fact, and
not wait until the shaky structure on which
they lean shall come tumbling like a rotten ice
berg around them?
The On-Sweep Of the World
THE Bank of England the other day raised its
rate of discount and called a halt on the
alarming increase of speculative invest
ments. We suspect that was wise advice, but,
after all, that speculative business, or rather the
rush of it, is but typical of the world's work to
day. Look at the mining at Bingham and com
pare It with ten years ago; look at the smelters
ai Garfield and compare them with anything ever
seen, save perhaps in a few great iron works, a
few years ago; look at the ships coming into New
York and San Francisco and compare them with
the floating coffins that the Argonauts went to
California in; the contrast is still greater in war
ships; look at the changed in city blocks in the
past forty years; the changes in railroads and
rolling stock; see the air filled with aeroplanes,
and listen, here is a message that found its way
in from the deep sea, announcing that the ship
from which it was sent is just now riding out a
hurricane a thousand miles out to sea. About
all that is left that Is natural is the proposed
fight between Jeffries and Johnson and tho depth,
sincerity and steadfastness of a mother's love.
The wholo material world has become revolu
tionized. There are many causes for the tremendous
changes. Modern schools are bearing fruit. The
number of accomplished men to do the world's
work has vastly increased during the past fifty
years.
Then steam and telegraph have brought tho
nations close together; then tho perfections of
invention and machinery have led to a vastly
greater Interchange of commodities; the ad
vances made in the medical science have about
taken from men any fear in visiting any coun
try; the explorers are doing thejr part and with
in two score years vast tracts of country un
traveled before are made hunting grounds now,
and places for miners to prospect
Behind all is the mighty Increase in tho
world's money. The sky scrapers in the cities
were made possible by it; so were the 200,000
miles of new railroad that have been stretched
through our country in the last forty years; bo
have been a thousand gigantic enterprises like
the road from Moscow to Vladivostok; tho Capo
and Cairo road; the Panama canal; tho building
of $5,000,000 steamers; tho purchase of works
of art; the moving perpetually of an army of tour
ists from land to land; the endowment of uni
versities by individuals; tho exploiting of gi
gantic enterprises by companies. We doubt
whether they would heed it themselves could they
see a fair profit ol loaning $500,000,000.
Going Back To Barbarism
TWO or three of the tobacco-growing coun
ties of Kentucky seem to have adopted the
customs of Naples ao described by Forsyth
out the beginning of the last century. Ho tells
of a mattress maker who related tho circumstance
of the killing of a man by his son. When asked
I," r& an accessory, he answered: "Nay, 1 H
oi . f Id the rascal's hands while my poor boy H
dispatched him." Then In a sorrowful tone he H
related how it had cost him 200 ducats "to ac- H
commodate this foolish affair." He further ex- H
plained that all were reconciled except a brother H
of the deceased, "a malicious wretch who will
listen to no terms." And when told that the M
brother was right, the mattress maker replied:
"Not if he consult his own safety. My Gonnarro, H
I can assure you, Is a lad of spirit." And when M
asked if he would murder the brother, too, ho
answered: "If it be the will of God, it must be M
done. I am sure we wish to live peaceably with M
our fellow citizens, but if they are unreasonable, M
if they will keep honest people away from their M
families, they must even take the consequences, H
and submit to God's holy will." The account con- M
eludes by saying: "My landlord on repeating this M
to me, added that the mattress maker is much M
respected in Naples, as an upright, religious, M
warm-hearted man, who would cheerfully divide M
his last ducat with a friend." M
The governor of Kentucky seems to be doing M
his best fo reduce the state to the rule of order M
and law, but he is having a task that seems to M
bo too much for him. Those "upright, religious, M
warm-hearted" constituents of his "who would M
cheerfully divide their last ducat with a friend" H
have never learned that society must be founded M
on law, and are determined to be a law unto them- M
selves, and the injury they are doing the state M
and themselves and their children does not seem H
to be a factor in their calculations. They repre- 'M
sent the barbarism of the middle ages rather than H
tho enlightenment of the 20th century. ,H
The Sinister Pair H
THE two men who must draw the least com- H
fort from tho election returns ought to bo H
tho respective editors of the church organ H
and the Smoot organ. Their faith in tho efficacy H
of lying must have received a fearful shock, and I
oven through the reinforced cement of their H
brains the thought must have finally burrowed 'H
that beastial and mendacious ebulitions are not H
after all, accepted as convincing arguments by H
decent men and women. Their present situation
would bo enough to excite sympathy except that H
the public understands by intuition that men jH
never do what they have been doing for a month ;H
past, until they have first lost both conscience and jH
self respect, and hence the shame and sense of !
degrcdation which men less hardened would feel, '
glides from them without ruffling a feather of iH
their stained plumage. ;
But tho prospect which the election leaves fl
ahead for them must have something of worry '
in it. '
And Now
THE election is over, Mayor Biansford has I
been wonderfully vindicated, so has been the I
principle on which the American party was
founded. But the trust which the people havo "M
reposed in the men of the American party im- il
poses a new responsibility upon the men elected M
and the party behind them, Some wrongs exist jl
here which must be righted. It is not necessary I
at this time to name them, but every man elected l
on Tuesday last knows what they are, and the iH
rank and file of the party expect that they will jl
be righted. Tho vote of confidence given Mayor I
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