Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], May 20, 1911, Page 2, Image 2

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H 2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY E
H . M who have been apprehended since. How long
H have they made this city their rendezvous? And
H how many more who have like Ideas of preying
H upon the public, are harbored here? In this busl-
H ness the city should help the police. Every block
H J should have its supervisor, whose business should
H i be to know every resident, all comers and goers.
H how long strangers remain and what seems to be
H the nature of their visits; to keep tab on them,
B i from day to day, and regularly report every suspi-
H r clous character to the chief of police. It would
HI not cost much to have two of these for each block,
H I one for the day, the other for the night and, if
i i tried, before six months the wisdom of the plan
H f would be amply vindicated.
Hj l A properly guarded city not only prevents the
JH commission of many crimes, but a city so pro-
jfl il tected soon wins a reputation and toughs avoid
H ' it Had there been a special supervisor over every
H i block during the past four months, the daylight
H , burglaries would not have been attempted, burg-
Hl I laries that cost innocent citizens tens of thousands
H of dollars; some murders, too, would not have
been perpetrated; and other crimes would have
H' been avoided. A certain class of criminals lay
H their plans on the supposition that at certain
B hours of the day and night certain parts of the
H I I city have no guardians. If they knew that every
M , ward of the city was being guarded every hour,
M ) day and night, they would change their plans.
H Indeed, many of them would decide not to make
m ! any plans for such a city. Such knowledge, too,
1 n would make the regular police'more effective, for
M they would not have nearly so many runs only to
M , find that the criminal had escaped. It should
M be tried.
K The Truths Of History
THE organ of the Lord in this city, with a
hypocracy more than half a century old,
H ', I continues to carry the idea that the Saints
H- t are naturally prohibitionists, that until Gentiles
H came there were no saloons, that the vices of the
Hil ' place did not exist or at least never found ex-
HVf pression until the invading Gentile brought them
HB with his other sins. The truth of history has
WKe often branded the assertions as false, but it comes
K back in due time with all its old manevolence
m and meanness. About the first manufactury es-
H ' tablished in Utah was that of a brand of valley
V j tan which was of a degree calculated to carry
H sufficient hell-fire in three drinks of it to make
H an honest man, if outside the three drinks, go
H out and steal a horse or a hot stove. And the
H i capitalist most interested in that manufactury was
I none other than the Lord's annointed, the prophet,
, seer and revelator and king of Utah, Brigham
H (. Young. And it in its full strength, blooming
I ' , youth and awful rawness was at once put on sale
H J in the church store, where the good citizens
H could buy it in any quantity that they could pay
H for. And the city council of this city, among
B its first ordinances, gave to the aforesaid seer
B L and revelator a monopoly of the sale of all
B , j liquor here, which continued "down to the estab-
B j', lishment of Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Insti-
B tute. Wlion the first internal revenue office was
B I founded here by the Federal government, the
m agent sent here to carry it on, found in the ter-
j ritory that twenty-three distilleries, all owned by
Bki good Saints, were in arears of taxes.
M The city government of this city was founded
B by the Saints and carried on without Gentile in-
terference for quite forty years. In that time
m there never was an ordinance passed without con-
H cent to its passage was first obtained from the
' first presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of
B Latter-day Saints. In that time the first "red light
B ; ' district" Was established, and places where liquor
B t was sold were established in every ward in the
B 8 city, and aftr the Co-op was founded it was
Br i the heaviest dealer in "booze." The above
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facts are stated, not by way of taunt, but to make
clear that the chiefs of the church in those days
looked upon the use of liquor as a vice which dated
back to the days of Noah; a vice that it was use
less to try to stamp out, but one which the experi
ence of the world had demonstrated could best
be regulated by prudent control.
And that, too, was when money was scarce here,
when the ways of the people were primitive and
before the passing of wealthy people through here
was a source of revenue. It was before the re
peated experiments to enforce prohibition had been
tried in other states and all had miserably failed.
Does the most fanatical Saint believe that ho can
improve on the wisdom of Brigham Young, John
Taylor and Wiilford Woodruff?
The question here now has assumed another
and more serious form. It goes directly to the
industries and property values of the city, for
with prohibition voted for, a hundred industries
now under contemplation will be abandoned; hun
dreds of men who depend upon obtaining wages
for their work will fail; thousands of tourists
who contemplate stopping off here will pass
through without halting, thousands of others who
would otherwise come here will never come near
er than Ogden; business generally will be further
crippled and property will depreciate in value quite
25 per cent. In the face of these facts, will any
good citizen vote to bring these things upon the
city, in a vain hope of bringing around a reform
which has never been tried that it has not failed?
What Of Education?
IN" ONE of his essays the great Emerson says
"truly, the only interest for the consideration
of the state is persons; property will always
follow persons; the highest end of govern nt is
the culture of men; and if men can be educated,
the institutions will share their improvement, and
the moral sentiment will write the laws of the
land."
That needs qualifying somewhat before It can
be accepted in full faith. Had some one looked
over the shoulder of Emerson as he was writing
that, and said to him: "That reads all right Mr.
Emerson, but now go on and write your ideas of
what constitutes an educated man," what would
he have written?" A course through a Boston
grammar school; then four years at Harvard and
then three years of travel? Would that fit a man
to be a wise member of society? Why, the judg
ment of such a man, other things being equal,
would not be worth as much as that of a newsboy
that had graduated from the street, established a
little business and made good.
To have told Emerson that he, himself, was not
educated, would have shocked and offended him,
but so far as the practical side of life is concerned,
he was a baby, and through the splendor of his
wrifngs we find him often expressing opinions
which make clear that he not only was writing
from superficial knowledge of his theme, but that
he was not trained In his youth in a way which
enabled him to draw just conclusions when some
thing antagonistic to his usual line of thought was
presented. The usual Bchool education is a great
thing for a youth, even if later he is obliged to
unlearn a good deal of it. By unlearn we mean
be forced to make a new application of it that
change when knowledge puts on the robes of wis
dom. But the courses through the schools are ,
but half an education, as is seen when so many
graduates come from the school helpless to go up
against an earnest life's requirements. Then our
schools fall in many things. As a rule they are
not schools of patriotism. How many who come
from them can give any clear idea of the principles
on which our government was founded? Any
clear idea of the differences between our own
and other governments and why ours is something
which should have the full roverence of all its
children? How many know aught of the local Wf
government under which they live, what the offi- il
ces stand for and the characters of the men who W l-
are to be selected to fill them? How many have W j
had any lessons upon their duties to society and Mi
the state? How many have ever had impressed ; m
upon them the truth that our free country is not a1
a gift to her childron, but that it imposes upon Rf
them the sacred trust of forever standing guard i
over it, to shield it, to defend it, to cry out when $
wrongs are perpetrated upon it and that it is so
sacred that every true citizen's honor, fortune and J, f
life are always morally pledged to it? If that ,J
was the kind of education given men they would Jf
be solicitous over the men nominated and elected
to office, over the measures advocated, over the (
way public men wero handling public trusts placed
Iv their hands. It is true that the first essential j
is to educate men, it is just as essential to edu- $
cate them .right. Jr
We have had some striking examples of de- V
ficient educations in the public service, of late '
years. Mr. Pinchot is a sample. He Would be
indignant if told that he is deficient in his edu- ,
cation. He might vent his indignation in half a j
dozen languages. But what does he know of ob- '
stacles that rise up in the path of the pioneer who
tries to forge out for himself a home in the wil
derness or desert? Henry George picked up the 1 1
old fad of a single land tax and rode it all his life
and never comprehended that to take the titles
from the humble homes of a country, the sacred I
ownership under which the boys grow to man- I
hood; the memories of which cling to them all f
their lives, would bereft a nation of patriotism in j
three generations and make the people as much f
nomads as so many gypsies. tT
People not only should be educated along all l
patriotic lines, but their education should con- ' I
tinue through every day of the'.r lives. Our 'I
country will not in fifty years outgrow the false 4 1
education supplied by the hired agents and subsi- I
dized newspapers of the great gold combine of the I
east between 1870 and 1897. It has cost our
countrymen more than would an exhaustive war
with the most powerful nation of the earth. I
Cure Of Tuberculosis ,i
THE story amply confirmed comes from Paris '
that Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, an accom-
pllshed physician, has entirely cured of con- j
sumption an American girl, prominent in Paris
society, Miss De Garmetin, after she had been I
given up by other physicians. The curious part j
of it is that the princely doctor is a great mu-
siclan as well as physician and that ho used his i
music as well as his other treatment to bring fc
about the recovery of his patelnt. The dispatch
says "he used to play the violin and the organ by
the hour to his patient."
People will be eager to learn the particulars
of the cure. If the music was part of the cure,
then it is a new confirmation of the belief in
the wonderful power of not only the mind, but '
the emotions over the action of bodily functions. ,
We should like to hear the explanation of the j
prince. Was it the rest the music brought the jjl
patient? Did it divest her mind from brooding il
over the thought that she was incurably ill? )
Was the patient peculiarly sensitive to music and 3
did it supply her wtih a stimulant more potent
than oxygen to her inflamed lungs?
When will we know half the mysteries con
nected with our own lives? (
The account says that a great Vienna con- 'v
sumption specialist, Dr. Hock, admits the com- )
plete recovery of Miss De Garmentln, but the Ba
varian physicians resent the interference of the
royal prince in their profession. '
Is nbt that characteristic? It reminds the
writer that one morning a score of years ago,
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