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Goodwin's Weekly I
' Vol. XVII SAL'i LAKE CITY, UTAH, JUNE 4, 1910 No. 7 H
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When He Comes, What?
IF his usual luck attends him, Col. Roosevelt will
be home in a few days from a journey that has
brought him more triumphs than any private
citizen ever before received. Since he emerged
from the African jungle his journey has been
; j. an ovation. There was one little jolt in Egypt
i i and another in Rome, but they hardly count in re-
' counting his triumphs. His mouth got away a
I little with him in Egypt and the incident in Rome
was unfortunate, but in France, in Holland, in
P Norway, in Germany there was not a hitch; he
I made a good speech in France, another in Nor-
l "way, a superb one in Germany. The chances are
that his greeting in England would have exceeded
all others, save for the death of King Edward;
' and he returns to his native country flushed with
the knowledge that no other American ever before
returned to his- native land after a long absence,
' with so many plumes in his hat. Of course, New
' York will try to outdo all that was done abroad in
i his honor. And then what? He will be the same
l old Roosevelt that he tfas when he went away.
He will not have gained a friend during his ab-
( pence, nor lost an enemy. He will be just as apt
: to call any one a liar who opposes him or dis-
r putes one of his propositions as he ever was. His
enemiesNWill cheerfully concede his great abili
' ties, and liis native right impulses, but just as
f strenuously as ever they will insist that his judg-
! nent is not always level and that in office his im-
pulses and overbearing will would lead him into
mistakes just as often as they did before.
? "We predict that his first work will be to try
to help his friend the president out of the quick
sands in which he seems to be struggling. Just
now the Republican party seems to be the victim
of too much success. It had its own way until the
' old party leaders apparently decided that the
machine was the only thing, and they ran this
until they converted that machine into a Jugger
naut to crush all who got in its way. However,
successful that may work in India, it will not Io
in America, and significant protests have been
filed in Massachusetts, in New York, in Iowa
t everywhere that the voice of the people have
been heard. That will bo the. situation that will
1 bo presented to Col. Roosevelt. His frlenu, me
president, has a sound judicial mind, but little
Initiative. The colonel has plenty of initiative
and a strong and quick intellect, but no one has
ever accused him of possessing a sound judicial
mind. And there you are. What will he do for
Mr. Taft?
From this distance it looks as though about
the very best thing that could happen for the
Republican party, would be to have the control
' of the House of Representatives go to the op-
L position on the fourth of March next. The Re
publicans cannot agree upon a financial system;
i their last tariff law suits no one except a few
- - New England manufacturers; it is making no ef-
fl fort to restore our export trade to the Orient; to
2 date it has accomplished nothing toward restor-
1 ing the country's merchant marine; it is torn with
contentions in a dozen states; it looks to us as
1 though if the Lord still loves the party It is
I about time that he permits It to be chastened.
One of Lord Lyttou's stories has for a title, "What
1 Will We Do With It?' The American people are
M watching for Col. Roosevelt's return, and many
S i are asking: "What will ho do'"
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Russia's Mistake
THE continued banishment of Jews from Rus
sia is noted from day to day in the dispatch
es. Nearly a. million have come to the
United States in the past decade. For justification
Russia urges that this race does not give to the
Russian government full allegiance. In the Rus
sian sense that is true, for in Russia the Czar
claims to be the head of both the state and the
church, and hence, no matter how good a citizen
a Jew may be, when it comeg to his faith he is
still what his fathers were one hundred genera
tions ago. Then as the foundation stock of Rus
sia were Asians, there still linger many of the
ancient antipathies which have kept the tribes of
sAsia fighting since before th days of Nebuchad
nezzar, and ft is with Impatience and hate that
those in authority in Russia hear men in their
midst, humble and poor, still proclaiming that
their people were spreading enlightenment upon
a darkened earth when the original Russians had
but little emerged from the barbarism of the stone
age, and fail to note the full significance of the
fact that while other nations have arisen and
flourished and passed away; this one people have
held their way in the world, even as does a special
current in the sea, unchanged in volume or qual
ity no matter through what climates it may pass;
that it was this people that began the
civilization of men; that wrote the first books,
that dictated the first lasting laws to men; that
invented poetry and eloquence and left speci
mens of both to men which have never been ox
celled, which all the breaking waves of time can
neither erode or wash away. And now, after all
the cruel years have done their worst, wherever
this race Is given equal privilege with every other
race, where the opportunities of a country are
open to them, they are found to be the peers of
the best as scholars, as artists, as men of af
fairs, as masters of the learned professions
everywhere. As one of their brightest statesmen
and writers and &cholars wrote: "The monarch
whose reign has ceased for three thousand years,
but whose wisdom is a proverb, in all nations
of the earth; the lawgiver of the time of the
Pharaohs, whose lawsi are still obeyed; the teach
er whose doctrines have moulded civilized Eu
rope; the greatest of legislators, the greatest of
administrators and the greatest of reformers;
what race, extinct or living can produce three
such men?
Russia cannot claim tha't the race has deterior
ated in the least intellectually; it is as virile as it
was under Sinai, or on the.Red Sea's shore; mis
fortune cannot daunt it; persecution cannot
bieak its spirit; the circling centuries have no
effect upon it, nor break Its Indomitable heart.
Were the authorities of Russia wise they would
say to these people: "Worship what God you
please; hold to whatever faith you please, but do
not leave Russia; help leclafm its lands; help ex
tend the schools;' help the state while you are
helping yourselves! Let us all work for a greater
Russia!
If they had the wisdom and strength and clear
ness of vision ta say that and act upon it, in two
score years Russia would bo the foremost power
of the old world; the arbiter of war and of peace
in Asia, and intellectually perhaps the superior
power of this old world, for Russia has not yet
attained the strength of the middle age of a na
tion; indeed, her real expansion has hardly yet
begun.
It is a grievous spectacle to see her driving H
from her support a vital factor of intellectual
strength and financial power. H
No Waiting Strategy Can Win M
IN the Democratic organ here last week a pro- H
gram was put out for the fall campaign, which
in brief is: "Put out a good platform, noml- H
nate a strong ticket, then no campaign speeches, H
not a cent to be spent, but on election day go H
and vote the ticket and wait until the people be- H
come sober enough to contemplate and finally en- H
dorse Democratic principles."
That carries with it dignity and a stately, far- H
off self-respect. The troub'e with it is, if tried, it W
will win no cause, establish no principle, make no H
progress in a thousand years. It would have W
the same effect on Utah that the comet's tail had W
on the earth. The atmosphere here is1 too opaque W
and too elastic. If a farmer were to treat a patch W
of weeds or thistles in his field that way, the re- W
suit would be that in a few years he ,would have W
nothing1 but weeds or thistles. No wrong was ever W
eradicated that way. It is contrary to I the genius M
of free institutions; Jefferson would never have W
endorsed such a program, while, could the spirit W
of Jackson have such a program submitted to it, W
out of the ether would come a voice crying: "By W
the Eternal, no!" H
Let us consider the situation for a moment. mW
Utah was original'y settled by a few cunning H
leaders, a good many devout and faithful slaves. jH
Those leaders determined, simply to be a law H
unto themselves. The first generation here grew H
up under that rule, most of them being honest jH
fanatics. H
Then Gentiles began to come in force and to H
demand that the laws of the republic should be H
enforced. That made trouble, endless heartburn- H
ings, and finally culminated in much suffering H
to the saints, until at last those leaders cried H
out, called for peace; agreed to come in under H
the laws and to take their hands off the political H
beliefs of their people. They did not mean to H
keep their pledges, voluntarily made, but wo all H
accepted them as sincere and helped secure state- H
hood for Utah. Then followed two years of pro- H
found peace and such happiness as Utah had H
never known. H
Then the cloven hoof began again to" appear, .H
and though we all cried out against it, and pointed lil
to the perfidy involved, it made no difference H
with those chiefs. They made plain again that H
the only thing they respected was force, the H
only thing they feared was loss of power. H
When this became so plain that all men, who M
desired, could see it then a few sincere souls M
revolted, put out a statement of facts and under JM
the name of a new party, called for Utah's re- Wm
demption. Some true men gathered around this m
new standard, and this city was wrested from vu
the un-American control that had covered it 'with
shame. The city in a material way responded M
as a sail does to a breeze, and the new party M
has gained in strength ever since. It is made MM
up of men who in national politics have their ' H
fixed principles, but here they work side by side, MM
Intent only upon redeeming Utah and making It H
in truth a real American state. The one thing H
that rejoices them more than any other, is that mm
every year the sons and daughters of the old wM
fanatics are coming into a full realization of what H
It is to be a real American, and they are swell- IH
ing the ranks of the new party. By and' by this mm