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Goodwin's Wickly I VOL. XVI11 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 5, 1910 .1" No. 3 ! PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. NINTH YEAR , SUBSCRIPTION PRICE OP GOODWIN'S WEEKLY Including postage in tho United States, Canada and Mexico, $2.50 per year; $1.50 for six months Subscriptions to all foreign countries within the Postal Union, $4.00 per year. Single copies, 5 cents. I Payment should be made by Chock, Money ; Order or Registered Letter, payable to Goodwin's Weekly. Address all communications to Goodwin's Weekly ' Entered at tho Postofflce at Salt Lake City, Utah, U. S. A., as second-class matter. P. O. Boxes, 1274 and 1772. Telephones: Bell, 301; Ind., 302. 915-916 Boston Block, Salt Lake City, Utah. J. T. Goodwin, Mgr. L. S. Glllham, Bus. Mgr. C. C. GOODWIN '. '. '. '. Editor Vote The Straight Ticket VOTER, scan the American ticket before you vote and note that for candidate for every important office there stands a name, the mention of which supplies a guaranty of integrity, intelligence, capability, and unquestioned honor. You will see that your business will be safe in such hands; indeed with many of them, you would, were you going away for a long absence, entrust your own private business and never have a doubt that it would not be as carefully handled, as though you were here to supervise it. "jMtev the grafting that the county has been reeking with for the past Ave years, would it not be a satisfaction to know on Wednesday morning next that after two months more it would all cease? Vote the American ticket! It is the third lever on the machine. One pull will do your part in the victory. The Showing They Make THE Utah Democrats are training on a plat form to catch votes, but they have made an honorable and manly campaign, and the result on Tuesday ought not to bring them any self reproaches. . The so-called Republicans have made about the meanest, most cowardly and mendacious cam paign on record in any country. Guilty of every sin, both of ommission and commission, they have assumed a virtue which they would not possess 0i for a thousand dollars, and from a stolen station have shrunk from no falsehood in denunciation of those opposed to them, and have frantically called upon us to mark what angels they are, and now their wings are sprouting. They have played the part of confidence men busy in trying to obtain by false representations, honors and emoluments, and they have been backed by two newspapers that would paralize the billingsgate of the vilest fish woman and make the bones of Ananias gangrene with envy. Do you want the county in the hands of men who will advertise to the world that it is an un- $, safe place to live in? What The Party Stands For REMEMBER voters, that while the American party stands in the lead for progress in Utah; for progress and a square deal, while it points to the Salt Lake City of today in com- I ! i a . .... , . . - parison with the city of live years ago, as an earnest of its work and its material purposes; it stands for something vastly higher; for the Am ericanizing of Utah, for an untrammeled ballot; for absolute free thought among the people; for free thought, a free press, a free ballot; for the uplifting of Utah from the position it lias always occupied as a subject state, to its rightful hon ored place as a sovereign American state; for ab solute separation of church and state and the emancipation of a people who have been held in leading strings for quite three score years, until all her people, all together can raise the acclaim: "Utah is at last redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled." Redeem Salt Lake county this year and Summit and Weber will be easy next time. Why San Francisco Should Win r-i HE contest between San Francisco and New I Orleans for the, world's exposition to bo held upon the completion of the Panama canal, seems to have reached an acute stage. Our idea has all the time been that such city might have an exposition at the same time, and that each might minister to the other. Any one visit ing the canal will not wish to return over tho same route. From San Francisco tne people will want to go around to New Orleans; from New Or leans after passing through the canal, the blue Pacific will be before them even as it was before Balboa and they will naturally turn toward Cal ifornia. But if there is to be but one exposition, then it surely belongs to the west coast, for the Argo nauts pointed the way; except for them and those who followed, the canal might have been opened in 2015, but certainly not in 1915. It was the Argonauts who, on the charnel ships, which tho New York companies sent out to carry passengers to and from California first taught the peo ple of the United States how to pronounce Pan ama the accent used to be with them on the second syllable it was they and their followers that caused the west half of our continent to round into form as sovereign states; it was through the treasure that the western hills and sti earns and deserts have yielded during the past . three score years that made the products of the east valuable and available, and enabled the peo ple of the east to produce so many millionaires. If they do not believe this, let them compare the advance made during these three score years with the three score years Immediately preceding, and explain if they can how this late, mighty change was wrought! There are other reasons. The canal when fin ished, will have for the chief reason of its having been built, the commerce of the Pacific and the swift means of defending our west-coast in case of need. And when the eastern people urge New Orleans as the more appropriate place for the exposition because the bulk of the people of the United States live east of the Rocky moun tains; they must not forget that it is to be a world's exposition; that half tho world's people live just across the western ocean and that one country there only fourteen days' sail from San Francisco, has four inhabitants to each one of the United States; that that country is now shaking off the lethargy of the ages, and that if our wise government ever has the sagaci.ty to pass some simple, wisely? i necessary legislation, the com- H merco of thaTmlghty realm will just as naturally H come to us as effect is sure to follow its cause. ;H Again there is another power nearer than tho H one referred to above; tho only power that the H United States has any occasion to over apprc- H hend possible trouble with. Her representatives H will be present in force at the exposition. They H will come in their own cruisers and will want to H make the run through the canal; measure the H time down the coast, through the canal and up H to United States territory on the other side. Their H first stopping place will naturally be San Fran- H cisco, and there they should get a reception so H lavish that in its very magnificence taey will see H what kind of a reception could be given them H were they ever to decide to try conclusions H with this country to determine which was to bo H master of the Pacific. H New Orleans has no claims for the exposition H except her splendid hospitality, the knowledge of H which is known to the world's ends. San Fran- H cisco has every claim for the honor, both from the H place she occupies and for what she and the west H coast people have done to make the United States jH the mighty world power that she is. H Vote the American ticket straight. H The Study Of The 'Bible H A FRENCH writer has discovered that Victor H Hugo owed much of his style and obtained M hints for his poems, dramas and narratives H from the Bible and unblushingly paraphrased a H great deal of the book, though he was a professed H Christian only from 1821 to 182G. In 1821 Hugo M was nineteen years of age. He was doubtless an H omnivorous reader and from 1821 to 1826 he was H just at the period of life when he would be most H apt to absorb all that he read, and to have impres- H sions fixed, and a style of writing formed which H were to last him all his life. As he read doubt- H less the marvel grew upon him that such a book H could have been prepared when as a rule the H world was dense in its ignorance, when there H was no such thing as printed books or copies of H them; but still there were men so masterful of H intellect that the modern man finds it impossible H to find in all the works that flood modern libra- H ries anything to compare in grandeur or power H or original thought with what that book contains. H We often hear men wonder that certain mod- H err eminent men lack something which their H predecessors of only two generations ago seemed H to possess. H We suspect that in nine cases out of ten, espe- H cially among m"s who are called orators, tho lack H is due to the fact that in their .earlier years they H never made the bible their study enough to be H profoundly impressed by V In the same way H modern statesmen are lacking. Three score years H there were not many strong books. Tho race pf H statesmen that impressed themselves upon our H country at that time were mostly in boyhood too H poor to have many books. But they read the H classics and the bible, the most perfect classic H of all, and the order of their minds was partly H formed by that reading. Had Daniel Webster M been brought up in a city with the run of the jjJ theatres to fill his nights, hurried through col- H lege and a law school and then sent out to rustle B for a livelihood, he would doubtless have been a jH masterful lawyer und thinker, but his oratory H M 'H m ...,B