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Goodwin's Weekly I VOL. XXI. Eleventh Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SEPTEMBER 14, 1912 5 Cenls the Copy No. 22 H PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. &.$$. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: A3m Including postago In tho United tflRl, States, Canada and Mexico, $2.00 per ftnMPV' V year. $1.25 for six months. Subscrip- flWffAiiii' tlons to all foreign countries within TAvIjjfc, tno Postal Union, $3.50 per year. Single copies, 5 cents. i ...,.. i, ,,-! Payment should bo made by Check, 1 1 '!&&,& Money Order or Registered Lottor, pay- tSflHJK able to Goodwin's Weekly. iWHwHnK Address all communications to Goo'd- fmmbffi' tvlu'n Weekly. 'fwDwr Entered at the Postoffico at Salt t 'w!$rst Lako City, Utah, "U. S. A., as socond- 'lft",w'1'1 class matter. I r5s 1 p - Box 1253, " ."SEp Tolophono: WasatcR 2007. i-SISKj 303 Folt Bu,ldInB, Salt Lake City, fVl il The Goodwin's Weekly Publialilnc if vwLiljS. Company. BU.RL ARMSTRONG .... Editor 1TZTT7TVZ7TZ1 HP FOR PRESIDENT g.H'1 Theodore Roosevelt WM FOR VICE-PRESIDENT r Hiram W. Johnson -'jlWftS; A POLITICAL MARATHON. '"" """J"'tf J w t came to pa3s that the Republicans " jLt I of the great state of Utah were jfSS about to gather among themselves I wtm and dece what the leaders want the iii u people to have. And there came also iTnjiitfiWiil a few of the political litterati who are some skillful in the matter of hewing WMjg&m planks. As they sat with their heads Dft together, their eyes cast upwards and IHv their pencils stuck point3 inward be- fPSBSSl tween their molars, a great storm raged without. Even an ominous man!- Ifr -Sfet testation of the weather ofttimes fur- yCjjm niches a thought. This one certainly aJK!?' did. So they observed: lffflmtjM "They (the last four years of Re- UHM" publican rule) have been years alike p:"S'i-7J yt of material prosperity and moral ffiiJillSb Four years ago a similar ob3erva- :'.gjwEtE'' tiori was made in a Republican state j. JrTfrWr. platform. The "moral awakening" , feature, however, was not included in -s$m it. The wlord wizards who then hewed yW planks were not aware of the storm ,jH outside. It was merely brewing four ff $. years ago. This year when the same I hewers of planks got their brain boxes I'nUraLffil together they laconically observed "KESHt tlinfc durinS' the la3t four years of Re- sjifiHii publican rule there has been a moral ' l&SISSSS Still considering the raging of the rrjnr1? storm outside, tho platform builders w&Sr$ became annoyed at the failure of the IJhR people to digest tho shopworn plati- fljfSjj&fiH tude's; they worried over thefcvident IfiMiiKi epidemic of political dyspepsia and ' themselves proscribed a remedy cal culated to readjust the dige3tive or gans and re3toro an appetite that would be appeased by the same old rhetorical ballyhoo. The anti-pass and maximum freight rate planks were Written into the plat form as the antidote for atrophy. It was the Worcestershire sauce added to quicken the appetite and make the ' rest of the dish more palatable. In Utah a progressive element has for years demanded the enactment into law of these two provisions. But the Republican party always has been strong enough to refuse. This year a great majority of the people of the m state demands the enactment or pro gressive legislation that has lifted other states from the rear rank into the fore. The anti-pass and the max imum rate planks were a cheap con cession, forced by a growing demand for sake of policy and not by any de sire upon the part of the machine to be sincere. ANOTHER STRAW. AT a farmers' picnic at Whites vllle, Marshall county, Alabama, speakers of the three big nation al parties were present. Assistant U. S. District Attorney C. B. Kennamer represented Taft; Mr. Wilson was rep resented by James Rayburn and Dr. D. A. Norton of Boaz, .Ala., represented Roosevelt. It was understood beforehand that after all three had finished talking a vote would be taken on the popularity of the three candidates for president. After the first twp speakers had ex tolled the virtues of the Republican and Democratic partieB and candi dates, respectively, the Progressive speaker took the stand. He had con sumed about five minutes when some one demanded that the vote be taken. It was. It stood: ,Taft, 7; Wilson, 28; Roosevelt, 567. OSCAR S. STRAUS. OSCAR SOLOMON STRAUS, who has been nominated for governor of New York by the Progres sives of that state, has the dlstinc t'on of being the first Jew who ever became a member of tho United States cabinet. In 1906 he was ap pointed secretary of commerce and labor by President Theodore Rooj. volt. Mr. Straus was born on December 23, 1850, and spent most of his boy hood in Georgia. At tho age of 10 he was placed under the care of a prl i vato tutor, and later was sent to Col lingsworth institute. In 1865 Lazarous Straus, the father, suffered business reverses and was compelled to move to New York, taking the son with him. Soon after the family had moved to llffH New York Oscar Straus entered Co- j&ffffifcjsSL 'fl lumbia grammar school, where he re- i&NBliifs 1 mained for two years, going from fiSNwl ,11 there to Columbia college, from which ffMCT !bI Institution he was graduated in 1871. rMMHMffifil 'jfl Two years later he graduated from Columbia law school. Later he began fflBtitii&l H the practice of law,.. wjijJi Jamea HT 'dBfljflj i H Hidson under the' firm name of Hud-" ''MHflfl ' ! 1 son & Straus. Afterward the firm be- ii$Sflf' 1 came Stern, Straus & Thompson. It H was prominent in corporation prac- IffijjMfe'- H tice and was counael for the chamber ,(BkL H of commerce, the board of trade, and 0 - fHlh I H other prominenlt corporations. Mr. Hlll&fflJH I H Straus' health suffered from nervous iMHwMiiU M prostration and in 1880 he was cdm y, .!,,.,..,,, H pelled to give up the practice of law. 3HHHk H After a few months' rest he joined WKUft H his father's firm, L. Straus & Sons, flR Hfl importers of glass and pottery. flSBBSjj. H Mr. Straus wa3 appointed minister H to Turkey in 1887 by President Cleve- lljHEfl land. His mission to that country Hflt H was remarkably successful. In 1889 jwroJKI H he returned to America. In 1897 he JSMaMlj H was reappointed to the office of min- H ister to Turkey by President McKin- FjSi'iS! 1 ley, which office he retained for three JBflHKj H years. In 1902 President Roosevelt 'sfflBflfcl H appointed him to fill the vacancy in vfjfilil"! ifl the permanent court of arbitration at unwreAftiSa H The Hague caused by the death of ex- . . .nv, j H President Harrison. fflK H Mr. Straus has all his life been a 'HIk H deep student of history' and interna- Vrfw 1 tional law and is the author of numer- wyj jH ous publications dealing with these " H subjects. In 1885 he published "The 0S&3& H Origin of the Republican Form of H; Government in the United States." He flK H also is the author of "A Life of Roger ;pHM!p Williams" and "The Development of t'Tmfwsjl H IReligiou3 Liberty in the United KiUfe,.' ' I 1 States." A treatise on 'The Reform of tK" H the Diplomatic Service" came from his IkVe 1 pen about the time when the Vene- '"MPaH 11 zuelan controversy started. tSuuwUaJ IH THE PURE FOOD SITUATION. HHi ? B THE editor of the National Food jffoo j 1 Magazine, who was one of the ImHH 1 first to begin the agitation for VifTK!o H pure food laws, now takes sharp issue with Dr. Wiley, whom It has praised -3l$&r and supported hitherto, because he Htw 1 prefers Wil3on to Roosevelt. The Na- rft flP tional Food Magazine comes out vig- JbLLZli B orously for the Progressive candidate. liiirarniiriini M "Pure food advocates never had a 'iffragagjBggl better friend than the party's no mi- fl38HB" nee, Theodore Roosevelt," says this ''IHMP H advocate. "He it was who compelled IHHHk ! the enactment ot the national food pjmSSaSa B law. Ho it was who caused tho en- 9ZtfMriiir I actment of the meat inspection law. IkM fl He it was who began the invostiga- tMfc H tions which led to the discvovdry of ImMwv H the revolting conditions in food mami- jKtttfL H facturlng and caused a national clean- H Watch the "Third" Party Become, the. First Party I '! J