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I 2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY I H This record made it Impossible for Mr. Hop- H kins to be elected, despito his endorsement in the primary, and ever since he who was President of H the United States at that time has been comfort- H less. He personally insulted Mr. Lorlmer last H summer, and "The Outlook" "still pursues him," on H the testimony of two or three culprits who say H they were bribed to vote for Mr. Lorimer. At the H worst, Lorimer's record shows better than does H the bargain which guaranteed the olcctoral vote H of Utah to Theodore Roosevelt, for there are nine- H ty-two Senators and only one President. m Good Roads A GREAT deal of use is made of traction wa gons in the old countries of the world. A H great many are in use in England. Still H more in Germany, and Germany has sent many H to East Africa for service in her colony there. H The reasons for this are many. The expense H for fuel is much less according to work done, H than is the use of horses where land is valuable H and food expensive. The expense in human labor H is much less, for one of them, under the care of H one man, can do as much work in ten hours as H sixty horses and their drivers can accomplish. H Then all the roads on the other side are perfect. H The want of good roads here in this region is H what discourages their use. With macadam roads H and substantial bridges, it would be profitable to H deliver coal by traction wagons in this city for H just about one-half what it now costs. Of course, H no man or firm could afford to construct the H roads and put on the wagons, because the rail- H roads would Institute an opposition that would at H once make it impossible to compete with them. H But had the state and the counties from the first H devoted a fraction of the taxes to making im- H portant roads perfect, the saving now annually H would have been more than all the roads would B have cost. Utah is still a young state, and it is H not too late to begin. There is a good chance H for a company to build a road and put on the H wagons to get the Deep Creek ores out to a rail- H road. The road would be about forty-five miles H out to the Western Pacific or to the Nevada B Northern, and the builders could protect them- H selves against competition by contracting for the H hauling of the ores, before beginning the road. H In the same way with a little money a company could build and equip a cheap railroad from the H mines to either road. H The grading would not cost more than $600 H per mile. The miners would cut the ties and H take their pay in freighting their ores. Second- H hand rails and rolling stock could be obtained H from either of half a dozen railroads, on such H terms that the revenues of the road would pay H for the material, and it would have constantly H increasing patronage, for the short road would H have at least half a dozen mining districts trlb- H- utary to it. H; What' might be accomplished by a general BB1 system of good roads, in Utah is not as yet half H appreciated. m He Loved Him ONE day last week, little Rollie Thompson, of Morris township, outside New York City, H ran away to skate on Jacques point at Mor- H ris Plains. His dog went with him a little yel- H low, pedegreeless cur dog. When the boy started H for home he missed the dog and retracing his H steps he found that the dog had fallen through H a hole in the ice and was struggling for life. Try- H Ing to save the dog the ice broke under the boy, H and then it was a struggle with both to save their H lives. But the boy was plucky and, moreover, he H loved his dog, and he finally made the shore, H bringing the dog with him, when both fell ex- H hausted and half frozen. There might be a H drama built up around that little incident. It K was nothing except that a worthless yellow cur B was in danger and the boy risked his life and saved him, because the dog was all in all to the boy, his pet, his partner, his friend who would have died for him, and the boy loved him. What does pedigree count for in such a case? Neither boy nor dog had much, but they had each other, and between the two, nor rich boys nor pedigreed dogs counted thoy were for each other and to the death if necessary. Of course, the boy will get no Nobel prize for heroism. He ought not to, for he never thought of doing a brave act. His dog was in peril; it was only a little yellow cur, but the dog loved him and he loved the dog and that settled it. But there is something about real affection that does not stop at the formalities of the proprieties or the mandates of austere society. It calls out all that is manly and true. Moreover, in this case the dog needed help and needed it right away. It was no time to organize a debating society or to call upon some gentleman to deliver an oration over the proprieties of life. The dog needed in stant help and It was the boy's dog, and he loved him. To the deuce with the Nobel prize! The boy saved his dog, and if the dog was not much to look at, no matter; he loved him. Hereditary Vices And Tyrannies WHEN a vice or crime becomes, so to speak, nationalized, it is most difficult to eradi cate it. More than half a century ago the Republican platform contained a plank denounc ing slavery and polygamy as twin relics of bar barism. Slavery was brought to the British colo nies of North America as a money-making ven ture. When the colonies would have extirpated it England refused. She forced it upon this coun try just as she forced opium on China, for the money there was in it to her. When this Republic was organized and certain states were declared slave states, the best and ablest citizens of those states opposed it, and were reconciled to it only on the belief that It could not long survive under the increasing lights and mercies of advancing civilization. To his dying day Thomas Jefferson bewailed its presence, and expressed the fear that it would finally prove to be the rock upon which the Republic would be shivered to atoms. Henry Clay bewailed its presence all his life and sought in vain for some way to do away with it. But the invention of the cotton gin gave it a position that nothing but the red plough-share of war could uproot. However, through all those years there were thousands of southern men and wb wen who deplored its presence, and prayed that it might be eliminated, and when the war's awful tragedy finally accomplished this, they were glad. But the belief that it was possible to live on the unrequited toil of less fortunate men, still clings to thousands and hence the recent cases of foreign-born men being sent to certain districts there, and put under a system which in effect is but a condition of enforced servitude, is but a ntitural materialization of the old instinct which was trained to merciless perversity in slavery days. It has been the same way with tho "twin relic" in Utah. The so-called "prophecy" com manding polygamy, we do not believe that any man ever believed, came from God. We believe that thousands of women have believed it, for it Is a woman's nature to accept suffering for those she loves, and for ages she was subject to man's will, and no matter how much she may say of woman's equal place beside of man, and no mat ter how much justice there is in her claim, if something awakens her full affections, or appeals to her religious sense of duty, the old tyranny comes back upon her, and she cannot shake it off. Strangers often ask: "How can a woman in this age consent to plural marriage?" and can not realize that because of the influences that ruled her for ages; if the appeal comes through her af- "'" ill Don't run 1 your legs off paying bills Send a check by mail we'll furnish ' i you the checks J The National Copper Bank Representatives all over the World. Strictly Legitimate. 8TRIOTLY RELIABLE AND CONFIDENTIAL OPERATIVES 8ENT ANYWHERE yr Naylofl Detective Service INCORPORATED L. S. MAY, Pres. and Gen. Mgr. 207-208-209 Mclntyre Building, 70 S. Main. 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