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flj 2 GOODWINS WEEKLY 'B ONE WAFT OP WISDOM. iHjfl' I wouldn't for worlds advertise another HH magazine, unless paid for it, but there is a waft Kffl of wisdom in the Saturday Evening Post of July HS' 10 which might be a good thing for somo man HH and all women to hear. It is called "The Mort- H gago" and Josephine Daskam Bacon is tho author, H I won't undertake to toll tho story. Mrs. Hj Bacon does that bettor than I can. But there is H about tho first sane reason over advanced for H what is called a double standard of morals for H men arid women. Tho wise man of tho sketch H tho philosopher convinces his one and much- Hl loved daughter" that she should not reject a B suitor for the reason that he had had an affair E and a pretty intimate affair at that with an- H other woman. H Tho doctor points out that the everlasting H scheme of nature is boing worked out in men H and womon; that ono sort of nature bravery and H slrongth is demandod of men; and another sort E chastity is domanded of womon; that it doesn't HH moan mon may not be chaste nor women brave; PC in fact that either may invade so much of tho & territory of tho other, but that men must bo H brave and womon virtuous. And thoro is no H evading that law. Thoro is no possiblo other B way. Nature is insistent. Humanity must obey. H Oh, good women may rebel till they arc tired H but they will not ropcal that law. Our good men H may deny it, but it is true. For tho porpotuation M of the race, certainly for its advancement, for H tho survival of its best type mon must bo bravo H and women chaste. H For a pleasantcr exposition of this truth, m read Mrs. Bacon's story. H WHAT TO DO WITH BLACKMAILERS. H Ono may find some excuse for tho mur- H doror.' Thoro is explanation for arson, and folon- H ious assault may find classification with tho ec- H contri cities. But tho man who writes lotters to H women demanding monoy on penalty of doath to H her or harm to her loved onos goes beyond the H high horizion in tho country of crimes, and for- H feits whatever claims tho most savago of human H boing has on humanity. You can not treat him H as a criminal. That compliments him. You H must lump him with rattlesnakes, gila monsters, WM and horse flies. You must make his lino of work H unfashionable. And tho only way to do it is to H kill those 1 tter writers as fast as you catch them. H And don't lock him up in a comfortable coll, H with unaccustomod luxuries of food and leisure. H Garry him down to Main and Broadway, lay him on (ho broad of his back where the street cars H cross, link a Centre stroot trolly to his right wrist, H a Rio Grando depot car to his loft, a Ninth East j to one ankle and tho Waterloo to tho other, and H turn on tho current. Lot God do tho rost. H Because there is no placo in human contom- B plat ion for the blackhand lottor writer. Tho H night-prowling burglar is osoapablo. The pick- M pocket is a pnssing annoyance. lie loaves you H alive, or with tho comforting consolation M that tho worst is over. Tho ravening fugitive D who flies from larceny to manslaughter as B Morris did pays in tho spectacular for his brief Hj little eminence, and takes a receipt in full when H tho penitentiary guards shoot him, is bad, but m we banish him. M But tho letter writer fires poisoned arrows. H Ho plants a pestilence in tho heart of tho holp- H less. Ho sows seeds of sorrow that feed on ap- B prehension. He strikes out of tho dark at tho B' most completely defenseless. And it is because HI the mon must protect thoir women that ovon tho H! donsost fool of a letter writer, oven tho boldest H barnacle on the ship of progress, mast under- D stand that it don't anywhoro near pay to tako chances of demanding blackmail monoy. Ho and his kind must bo eliminated. There must bo an ond to that industry onco and forever. Thero is no penalty in the law that comes within a million miles of boing adequate in tho case of tho blackmailer. Tho severest punish mont proscribed looks like a vacation with pay to tho lazy and vicious but intelligent foe of man, tho domander of money from women. Tho punishment must bo made to fit tho crime. This is no ranting. This is no unconsidered flood of words. Tho blackmailer is striking at tho very foundation of civilization. Ho is escap ing tho protective arm of human society, tho de ponding caro of mon for their women, of fathors lor thoir children. Ho is dodging tho guard, and hurting whore no love can holp. If there bo noth ing but imprisonment, with a return of tho black mailer to the fields of his fattened opportunity, then the foundation of homo is gone. The value of a hundred centuries is lost in an hour. Just take the cur out and kill him. Wash your hands, and go back to work. Thero is no room in Utah for tho blackmailing letter writer. SAME NAME NEW MEANING All this, time tho Indiana autoists wore com ing across country tho papers referred to them as "Hoosiers." It is the old word, but it has a now moaning. Twenty years ago it was weaken ing as a term of contempt, in which service it had been used from time whereof tho memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Twenty five years ago it was a pretty effective slogan of scorn. Thirty years ago men from Indiana flinched when they heard tho word "Hoosier." And all through the history of tho state that one word was tho final and oxtremo description of tho crude, tho clumsy, tho ill-bred, the gawky, tho illiterate, tho dull. It was supposed to be expressod in ridiculous clothes, in uninhabitable houses, in coarse food, in an absence of books and a broad unconcern and donso indifforonce, about everything tho instructed know to bo worth while. Well, you don't think of thoso qualitios now whon they hoar the word Hoosior. Indiana mon don't deny thoir Lord whon you call them Hoo siers. They are proud of the title. People of other stales envy thoso who wear it. And the automobile industry has more Hoosier than any thing else in it. There never was a time whon people else where had license to speak in contempt of Hoo siers. They lived as well as denizens of other states. Thoir houses and thoir stock and their food and thoir clothing compared favorably with like dotails in any other commonwealth. No one knows how the word took on the opprobrious moaning. But wo all know why that tono was droppod. And bocauso of tho laurels won by Indiana mon and womon in every lino of work from sweet peas to politics, from muskmolons to manufacture, ' from lip to literature these Hoosiers who camo in cars desorvo all honor. MAKING A NATIONAL ROAD. Wo of Utah are a good deal interested in this trans-continental auto road, wo are just that much interested that wo want tho road to bo through Utah. And it doesn't have to. Wo all ought to recognize that fact. They can go to the north of us, and they can go to tho south. And whorovor they go with thoir Lincoln high way or whatever name is applied to tho rock road across this beautiful republic, inoy will oarry blessings for all tho years of tho measureless, limitless, beautiful future. Now, so far as this state is concornod, tho one BHHHBHBHi motive should bo to give assistance to tho plan, in such a way as will make that highway most usable for the tourist and most advantageous to the people of Utah. That means that wo should let them put thoir road where their best judg ment dictates, boing careful to lot them judge in telligently. By no means should thoy tako a bad route if thero bo a better available. By no moans should thoy go over ono foot mor.e of desert than Ihoy have to. Tho people who dttvo these trans continental curs are of prominence in their several homes. What they say about a certain state, or a certain sebtion of. it," will be believed. It will fix the status of tho state in tho minds of tho people of thoso communities, and Utah can not afford to have many communities call this a state to bo avoided. No commonwealth can af ford that. If tho route "to tho south of the Great Salt Lake goes through a difficult, an unlovely and a repollant country, and tho route to tho north of Groat Salt Lake goes through a better country, then it is tho duty of all Utah to point those reputation-making tourists to tho bettor way. It is our duty to them, and it is our duty to Utah. No consideration of laying foundation for a highway of local helpfulness will compensate for a bum steer now in the days of formation. It might serve somo local man's personal interest, but it would bo at an expense which in fairness wo cannot justly lay on either tho tourists or the state. Thero is more verdant country for tourists who go west of Salt Lake if thoy go through Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Box Elder counties than if thoy go through Salt Lake and Tooolo counties to the Nevada line. And ho who writes these perilous words owns a thousand beautiful acres in tho good county of Tooele. Thero is less desert on tho northern route. Thero are farms and gardens and orchards beautiful on this north ern route; and after you get past my land in Tooolo county thoro is only salt beds and a wild erness unreclaimablo on tho southern route. It is a northern Paradiso or a southern Sodom. It is green fields and pasturos now on tho north against tho abomination of desolation on tho south. It is mountain scenery and a land that will blossom with an increasing number of homes every year to tho north, and a region repellant through all the years to como on tho south. You sec, it is a question of tho good name of Utah that wo of tho stato aro deciding as wo build the transcontinental highway. Lets's give them the best we have for their interest, and for our own. And thoro was laughing1 Bronwon A-wadlng to tho Knee, While still tho foolish wator Wont racing to tho sea. Bliss Uarman. OUR EX-NON-PARTISANS. Hugh Hume, in Tho Portland Spectator: Whon you scratch an olocted non-partisan, you find a dyed-in-the-free-wool Democrat. Indeed, it is not necessary to scratch; tho first opportun ity to oxposo himself that tho non-partisan can find aftor election, ho oagorly seizos. Ho seem3 anxious to prove his hatred for his own doublo doaling and tho contempt ho fools for thoso who wore simple onough to bo decoivod by it. Your mojl virulont party man when ho gets office is the gontloman who was tho most violent non- ' partisan while ho was a candidate. In tho United Statos Senato from Oregon aro two hide-bound Democrats who secured their seats by false pretenses. Thoy bonded to' bo i