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Goodwin's Weekly I
I Vol. XVI SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 2, 1910 No. 24 H
What Must The Ghost Of Ananias Think?
ON Saturday night last a young merchant of
this city was killed and his place robbed
by some robbers and murderers. The
I crime shocked and horrified the city. But com-
r menting upon it on Monday evening, the Deseret
.- News, in the course of a rambling article, after
stating that a gentleman had, on a journey here
! from California, recently encountered in a short
distance "no less than forty tramps headed this
way," added: "It is one of the curses that in
evitably follow the establishment of temples of
vice in any community." We might construe that
f literally and ask if "the spirit of apostasy" has
come upon the News, but we prefer to ask the
News a few questions: (1) Under whose abso
lute rule and safeguard were the first temples of
vice established here? (2) Who built and still
own the costliest of those temples? (3) Were
they not having unrestrained license to carry on
their business when that absolute rule was
broken and the city heard the first note of prog
ress that had been sounded here for years?
(4) What other agency except the Deseret News
has for nearly four years past been falsely ad
vertising the government here as one of mis
rule? (5) In all the half century before that,
when blood-atoners walked these streets, when
the police force was made up of thugs, and when
"holy elders" of the church which the News says
r is the only true church, were establishing, fur
nishing and finding inmates for those temples
of vice, did the News utter one protest?
'Within an hour after the murder and rob
bery on Saturday night, through the adroitness,
sagacity, instinctive perception and vigilance of
one man, those murderers and rpbbers were
safely caged. Could the News have had its way,
where would that man have been? Did it not for
many months and years pursue him? Did it not
publish the statements of bunco steerers, hold
ups, confessed thieves and harlots, as truthful
statements, and on them try and convict this
man daily? It at the same time being in a con
spiracy to pursue him with false charges to his
ruin.
And this is the organ, a part of whose record
i3 truthfully given above, that for fifty years
was busy in condoning offenses, compounding
, felonies, justifying horrible crimes, and helping
to shield criminals, that has suddenly become
lWMI fearfully concerned about the maladministration
V of this city's government and the carnival of
L crime. Could hypocrisy and falsehood go fur-
'I ther? '
Some desperadoes stopped off here a few
days ago; they committed the murder and rob
bery in the evening, in an hour they were behind
the bars of the jail. Was that work by a city
police ever excelled? Will that cause other
would-be murderers and robbers to come here?
f A hundred reports have come from the west
of late that California was literally overrun by
f . tramps this last winter. It is time for the spring
' 'K work over there, and doubtless California is male-
$fc ing it hot for men who will not work when there
' ' is plenty of work to do, and they are swarming
! along the railroads. Those who have taken to
the Southern Pacific are of necessity traveling
x west. Some of them may come here. Their
JjA business in life is to go and come. But how long
ft$H will they be able to remain here? And what
lji 0 proof do they supply that they are coming this
!p
way because the city of Salt Lake offers them
any encouragement to come?
From every source except the Deseret News,
all the word that has gne out from Salt Lake
for months has been thv the city is prospering
as never before, and more working men are em
ployed here and at better wages, than in any city
of the size of this one on all this round world.
What, then, is the object of the foul croaklngs
of this journalistic bird of prey that is continual
ly fouling its own nest? Does its religion require
that kind of boosting? If it does, what kind of
a religion is it?
Was ever a spectacle so grotesque seen be
fore? A newspaper that on its first page pa
rades the motto of "Truth and Liberty" as its
symbol, and claims to be the official organ of the
only true church of Christ on earth, and on its
fourth page bears more false witness against its
fellow-men than can be found in any other dozen
publications on earth. Where in the history of
the Saviour does it find its authority for this?
And just on the eve of conference, when all
young Utah will know how it is lying. Go To!
Editor Carnegie
I'T is said Andy Carnegie intends to start a
newspaper. One paper looks upon it as a
sign that Andy never will get out of trouble;
another that it is a clear proof that he intends
to die poor. Our own idea is that if he starts a
newspaper it will be In the interest of his own
soul. He is very rich, naturally a little vain,
and he has been petted and praised and puffed
up so much of late, that we suspect the thought
has taken hold of him that what he is and what
he has done is due altogether to the great heart
edness and great headedness of Andy himself.
Now, we do not know the man, who, as a rule,
does not feel competent to either run a newspa
per right, or to superintend a quartz mine, and
we suspect that Andy, deep down, has an Idea
that with a newspaper through which he can be
heard daily, he will establish that, had he not
chosen to be a steel king, he. would have been
the greatest editor in the world.
And that is what, perhaps, is to save his
soul. He is perfectly satisfied, no doubt, that
he can write anywhere from three to seven col
umns a day, that will come upon the world, very
much as what happened when on that first morn
ing of creation God- said, "Let there be light."
And that is where we think there is a chance to
save Andy's soul.
He will bo very prolific and profound the first
three days. After that ho will begin to feel a
sort of all-goneness in his intellectual stomach.
By the end of the first week he will wonder what
in the world men find to fill a newspaper with
every day. At the end of two weeks he will dis
cover that his head is, after all, a reservoir, and
not a spring, and it will make him modest. At
the end of the fourth week he will heartily wish
that he had never established the paper, and the
chances are he will be looking around for bril
liant writers, to fill the space that he thought he
could fill without any trouble.
r o succeed generally, men have to be trained
to some employment. No man would take a
broken watch to a blacksmith; rio man would
trust a severe case of illness to a quack, knowing
ly; no man would permit a chump to put out for
him an asparagus bed; but mosf any man thinks
that neither training nor careful preparation has
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anything to do with running a newspaper. That 'H
what is needed is a man in whose hand "the pen H
is entirely great," and the majority of them think H
that they have the hand. After a. few weeks' trial H
they are sadder but wiser men, and we suspect H
it will be that way with Mr. Carnegie. H
Hereditary Fears. H
RICHMOND castle in England is about to be- H
come the property of the government. The H
London Times tells about It. It was H
founded by one Alan Rufus, one of the sons of H
the duke of Richmond, who was prominent in H
the suppression of the Saxons. Later it passed ,H
into the possession of Edmund Tudor, who mar- m
ried Margaret Beaufort, and they were the father
and mother of Henry VII. Henry was born Earl H
of Richmond and he bestowed the title upon the MM
magnificent palace which, when king of England, m
he built upon the banks of the Thames. m
The only curious thing about it all is that the ,M
curfew is still rung from the towers of Richmond M
castle at 6 a. m. and 8 p. m., a custom which has M
continued ever since the time of William the fl
Conqueror. Mm
When we read the nervous articles being pub- MM
lished on the comet which is coming in May, and M
the tone of half-fear which accompanies them, we M
wonder if there is not something like heredity in M
men's hopes and fears and customs. Ringing M
the curfew on Richmond castle is simply continu- M
ing a custom that has come down through the H
centuries, and the half doubtful articles on the H
comet, perhaps, have come down the same way, H
a sort of hereditary custom, because four hun- H
dred years ago the coming of this same comet MM
presaged a fear which spread through whole H
states, and the boldest did not breathe free until H
it finally shook its tail clear and made off into jl
space out of sight. 1H
We presume it will do the sme this year. H
There is no reason to expect any more danger H
from it than has accompanied It in half a dozen H
other visits which it has made to this part of the H
universe. Indeed, there is nothing about it, so
far as scientists can discover, that woula in the H
least affect the earth if it should envelop it, ex- j H
cept, perhaps, there would be some heavy rains; H
because the idea of astronomers is that the IB
comet is a little like the prospector when hp
starts out on the desert. He is a little partlcu-' !
lar about how much food he takes, but he is very 1H
particular about the water he takes, and if ho JM
expects to be gone three days, he takes water H
enough for four or five, because to be out on JH
the desert on a hot day, and to know that the IH
water keg is empty, has a tendency to make peo- II
pie very thirsty. Often they do not feel the fil
thirst until they find that the stopper is out of II
the big bottle, and the water has been lost. Then ll
they are nearly choked. HI
But there is another feature about this comet jtfl
which no scientist has yet been able to explain, II
and that is that at the near approach of one of MM
these wanderers with the "flaming hair," the pas- 91
sions of men and nations seem to be aroused. II
Among themselves men want to fight; among fll
themselves nations are ready for a row. That HI
part we do not pretend to explain. It probably ml
will be explained one of these days when men II
perfectly understand the working of electricity. MM
But it is a singular fct that heretofore, at the fll
coming of this comet, there have been wars WM
among nations,' and there have been fierce wran- jjll
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