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1 VOL. XXI. Eleventh Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 16, 1912 5 Cents the Copy No. 31 rUllIilSIIED EVERY SATURDAY. j SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: I Including postage in tho United i States, Canada and Mexico, $2.00 per f yoar. $1.25 for six months Subscrlp- l tlons to all foreign countries within u tho Postal Union, $3.50 per year. Single copies, 6 cents. Payment should bo made by Check, " Money Order or Registered Letter, pay- ablo to Goodnln's Weekly. Address all communications to Good win's "Weekly. Entered at tho Postoffico at Salt ' , Lako City, Utah, U. S. A., as second- class matter. P. O. Box 1253. Telephone: "Wasatch" 2007. 525-526 Felt Bldg., Salt Lako City, Utah. The Goodwin's Weekly I'ubllfililns Coinpnuy. BURL ARMSTRONG .... Editor I , EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. WITH this Issue of The Weekly, Mr. Burl Armstrong relin quishes his duties as editor and will hecome business manager of the paper. Mr. Leltoy Armstrong assumes the editorial direction of The Weekly with next week's Issue. The passing of the buck from son to father Is a reversal of the traditional order, but It will mean an instant widening of the sphere of Influence and activity of The Weekly, to the vast Improve ment of the literary tone of this jour nal, and perforce, to the very great delight of thousands of readers. It was tho original intention of Mr. LeRoy Armstrong in the purchase of The Weekly to give his time to tho building of a smart, high-olass jour m nal, while at the same time directing 4 the energy of the publication toward the upbuilding of tho state and its I varied interests. Tho management of Tho Weekly lakes a keen pride In the announcement that Mr. Armstrong Is to assume tho editorial post and those who know of his literary worth wilt join us In the confident hope that his ambition will not bo over-long of fulfillment. THE NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY. SPOKESMEN for tho Progressive party declare their organization has come to stay; that they will hold meetings presently at which stops looking to a permanent organi zation will be taken. And they even pause a moment to heave a brick or two at what Is left of the Republican party. In that latter exercise wo believe they make a mistake. It Is none the less an error because of tho state j ments occasionally made by Republl- i cans to tho effect that the Progres sives are rebels, and must bo treatea as such. That spirit of hostility may j reasonably bo expected from gentle- j mon who have so recently arisen from f tho dust still bearing the impress ot I the election steam roller which is the severest steam roller that ever rolled. There are going to bo two political parties in this country. They aro go ing ito contend for the mastery of this Republic. There is no more room for three parties, even distantly approach ing ability to control, than there is room for tho second young man In a porch swing glorified by the pres ence of a girl. The Democratic party Is In the saddle, and is going to stay there for four years. It depends on 'bbe Democrats themselves If they stay there twenty years. They certainly will be assisted by the bickerings between the Progres sive and the Republican parties. Most of the Progressive party is made up of men and women who formerly were Republicans. The spirit of the Progressive p'arty is just the spirit which attracted the men who formed the Republican party. In June of the present year, they were all In one party. And they didn't split so much on measures as on men. They can play the part of doddering idiots, and fight each other. But if they want to benefit themselves not to speak of tho .possible benefit to the nation they will get together, drop their mutual recriminations, and solid ify Into an organization that shall ev press the principles worthy to live In both of their platforms, and go for ward more capable and more deserv ing to win. The name is something, of course. But It Isn't an essential. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. One can believe that Itihe old Whig felt some regret at sloughing his party name when ho joined tho Republicans. But he found there the substance de sired even more than no aeslred the name. He found a party pledged to the work of a progressive age; tho work ho believed holy and right. If his twentieth century descend ants are as conscientious, let them make sacrifice of their party name whether new or old and get together on a common platform of progress, with the ability of the old party and tho possibility of the now, and prove their organization worthy to win. For the world does not move back ward. Tho progress demanded by Borah and Hadloy and LaFollotte and a host of others near and far Is go ing to be achieved. The Democratic party today Is more progressive than the rulejrs of the Republican party were four years ago. And that new party which can with any hope con test results with the Democrats can not In reason expect success with any lessening of the forward inaroh. Now that the long evenings have come, with the cheer of plenty to eat and a business condition that Is in all ways desirable, there is a good time to think politics instead of raving about them; a good time to formulate the calm judgment; a good time to frame that statement to the rudimen tary tyrants who even now are laying their plans to make a now party pos sessing all the boss-branded privi leges of the old, and as little as poa. slble of tho benefits to be hoped for In the new. WE WISH HE WERE RIGHT, BUT DAVID STARR JORDAN says tho war game Is played out; that the march of universal peace is still onward, and very near Its goal. We wish David Starr were right, but fear he is letting his wish be father to his statement. It Is a whole lot more likely that Dr. Eliot, presi dent emeritus of Harvard, has the bet ter judgment. Dr. Eliot came back from a careful study of old-world con ditions, and declared that he did not feel warranted In saying that war was over. Ho believed tho day of univer sal peace was still a long way off. It would be a blessed thing if Dr. Jordan's prophecy could be fulfilled. But in a day when grim war rages over all the land from the Balkans to the sea; when every capital of Europe is trembling with apprehension of a general struggle that will Involve not alone 'the small, but great powerB) in a day when every effort of tho strongest governments Is to spend ten times as much for war as for peace there doesn't seem to be any fair ground for the hope that tho war game Is getting out of fashion. Bu,t what a folloy war has come to be. All the world claims to be get ting more and more civilized. All tho world knows that a gentleman can get through life without knocking any ono down. All the world knows that the waste of a war represents lhe sac rifle of a generation. And yet It Is the one enterprise on which nations can spend money without accounting for It. It is the one business In which acceptable results aro measured alone hy dead and wounded men. The cosit of ono battleship would put a family on every fertile quarter section of land In Utah. One torpedo boat destroyer would complete tho biggest irrigation project from tho Rockies to the Cascade range. One flag ship, reduced to dollant and In vested for life instead of for death, would finance industries which would employ every worthy man from the Missouri river to the Golden Gate. We wish David Starr Jordan were right, and that Dr. Eliot wore wrong. Crusade against church bells In New York. The Manhattanltes not merely won't go to church, but they get mad when the bell Invites them. tMMMMMMMMrtlWIMMI Ill PRESIDENT TAFT'S OPPORTUNITY H ONE of the things which the com- TM placent President Taft over- H looked was the mauling of Mex- H ico. You may talk about no Inter- H national law having been violated till jH you are blue In the face. But the cold H fact Is that Mexico violated every law, H human and divine. And if tho inter- H national laws are not there included, H It Is time to rewrite the international H statute book. H Mexico offended, bec"Bo Mexico H outraged humanity. That alleged re- H public which Is not now, never was H and never will bo a republic has H abused, robbed and driven from home H thousands of good Americans. Mexico H has cast countless Americans Into pris- H ons, denied them trial, subjected them mm to suffering and measureless Indlgnl- KS ty. And sho ought to have been Bj whaled for It til) the punishment H should have been effective from the H Rio Grande to tho middle and dlvld- H ing line of the Panama Canal. H That is one of the things the PresI- H dent neglected, failed and refused to H do. Just why he dldnlt march an army H of correction to the saddle-colored H capital; just why he didn't announce B intervention and send down sufficient iH force to make tho intervention effec- H tive, are things about which no fellow H cares to Inquire. Maybe It was busl- jH ness. Maybe It was diplomacy. But !H it looks like pusillanimity. H The President still lias nearly four H months in which to redeem himself, jH and justify his nation. It may bo IH tardy, but it will bo welcome. jH the Panama; exposition. mm TWO events, big with possibilities JH for Utah's advancement, will fall H within the next four years the jH four years during which time William B Spry will serve as governor of Utah. H One is the construction of the capitol H building; tho other is the Panamn- H Pacific exposition at San Francisco. H The building of the now state house will be a work of tremendous benefit H to tho state. It will bo colossal in ex- H tont, demanding a mountain of mate- H rial and an army of men. Much of H tho preparatory work is finished. Ex- H cavation will shortly begin. H Utah has a bettor standing in tho H eyes of tho world than over before. H People In other states have learned H more of tho truth concerning the state H and give to Utah the credit she de- M servos. In this rising tide of recog- H nitlon, the Panama-Pacific exposition H offers an uuusual opportunity. DIs- criminating men and women from H every country almost from every B cltv in tho world will study the ex- 9 hlblts made at San Francisco in 1915. JM They should find a fair presentation B of Utah's resources and accomplish- H ments on demonstration there. H The site for tho Utah building at M