Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], October 11, 1913, Image 1

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VOL. XXII. Twelfth Year SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, OCTOBER 11, 1913 5 Cents the Copy No. 26 H
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LeROY ARMSTRONG , - - - Editor
"I AM SIR ORACLE!"
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1 Two weeks ago American citizens every
where read without disapproval the suggestion
that Theodore Roosevelt might be Republican
candidate for President in 191G; and now that
t dentatcd Sir Oracle indicates a willingness to
bo so honored only in tho ovont that the Re
publicans abandon their party and accept his;
surrender their organization and take orders
from his organization.
So far as there is anything generic or vital
in tho platform of tho Progressives, it is identical
with tho genius and tho spirit of tho Republican
party, and has been the watchword and inspira
tion of tho millions who have voted that ticket
evor since Colonel Fremont was a candidate.
(And if tho momentum of dominance had carried
some of tho Republican leaders beyond tho ideals
of tho party masses, and into habits and cus
toms obnoxious to tho rank and file, they have
boon punished and retired. Tho error has been
corrected. Tho variance has boon rectified. And
tho whole question now is: Shall tho Republican
party bo killed because some of its loaders
offended?
Why, no. Its basic prinoiplo is tho basic
principle of representative government. It can
not bo killed in a nation of ninoty millions of
people. Necessarily, that system must prevail
in so extensive a commonwealth. And men who
hold to that doctrine, as the Progressives must,
can gain in their now relation no advantago not
possessed or possiblo in tho old.
Wherefore, if Colonel Roosevelt is correctly
reported in tho statement that tho Republican
party must bo abandoned and tho Progressive
party enriched in consequence, he is demanding
the impossible.
My other old friend Emerson says: "It is
handsomer to remain in the establishment bettor
than tho establishment, and conduot that in the
best manner possible, than to make a sally
against evil by some single improvement." And
Emerson is evorlastingly right.
Besides which, noither Colonel .Roosevelt nor
any other man can accomplish the Republican
party's dismemberment and effect its destruction.
Tho millions of men who hold to the Republican
doctrine, who honor tho history of that party,
who show tho aspiration of its founders and
recognizo the splendor of its achievement, are
not going to abandon it so long as its hopes and
its mission can bo realized within the old party
lines. Thoy will not follow Colonel Roosevelt,
greatly as they admire him, generously as thoy
judge him. Thoy will recognize tho old party's
movemont toward its own correction of error,
toward its own elimination of whatever was
foreign to that party's original motive and life- i
long aim.
They will write Colonel Roosovolt down as
a groat man, but they will not surrender to
him their consciences. Tho Republican party is
not going to die.
To a fine ball playor for using bad language is much
like penalizing a baby for cooing.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH UTAH
ASPHALT?
Not long ago I had a spasm of printed praise
for Utah asphalt. There is a stack of it in rook
form on a vacant lot by tho Commercial club.
There aro mountains of such stacks in Utah, or
at least that claim has been made so oflon, so
long and so positively that most of us havo come
to treat it as a fact. It is doclarod with oqual
emphasis and repetition that this Utah rock
asphalt will make tho best and tho choapost
pavement ovor trod upon.
And yet there is trouble gotting it into u"o.
With a view to encouraging the Utah interest,
city officials hoi'o lately mako oDligalory tho
uso of Utah rock asphalt in city paving. Tho
contractors try it, and property owners protest
tho result is not satisfactory; that Utah rock
asphalt as laid down is not good paving. Advo
cates of tho Utah article retort that tho con
tractor is prejudiced against tho nativo article,
and in favor of an out-of-stato material, and
that, in consequence, tho contractor queers tho
nativo material in tho mixing. To which tho
contractor roplios that ho will gladly adopt any
proccess in preparation which will insure good
work with tho rock asphalt.
Something is wrong. Take tho case of P. J.
Moran, tho most prominent contractor in the M
city. '' No one has over accused him of business M
incapacity. And no one has over convicted him TM
of doing inferior work. If ho could got gopd jH
pavement with Utah material, ho certainly W
would not favor any other kind. And if the H
trouble is in mixing tho material, it would H
scorn to be up to the rock asphalt people to H
show how. If that matorial is all that has been H
claimed for it, Salt Lako can be paved from H
Warm Springs to Waterloo with Utah material, H
and at an attractively low cost. H
If it isn't all that has been claimed for it, H
now is the time to face the disappointment. H
Either that material is usable, or it isn't. H
If its ownors want to realize on their investment H
they must show cause. Disinclination of a con- H
i tractor to buy of them will not answer. Con- H
tractors aro human. Also, thoy arc business Rjl
men. If there aro "mountains of asphalt in H
Utah," and it will make pavement equal to other H
accepted pavement, thon contractors will uso it. H
And if thcro is such quantity and such H
quality as all of us havo hoard and havo hoped, LW
Ihon its owners havo only to make proof.
It is to be hoped they havo what they M
claim; have what thoy believe thoy have. Few Jm
things could bo of moro permanent valuo to tho M
state. But if it is defective, if in its nature it L
can not bo used in pavements thon tho dis- M
agreeable truth will havo to bo faced, tho dis- 1
appointment borno. It will bo bitter, but it will mm
make the ond of a conflict that is bitterer still. jH
Tho husband who boat ills wife when he found her Mm
sleoplng oxplnlnod that ho moiely deslrod to mako tho H
stato pormanont. H
PRESIDENT SMITH'S ADDRESS. H
In a broad and gonoral way I am for tho H
anti-tobacco doctrino promulgated by President H
Joseph F. Smith at tho opening of tho October H
conference. And I am unprejudiced, because I H
uso tho wood. Ono can be protty pationt with H
tho various weaknesses of human nature, but" H
horo is a habit which God novor planted in any H
human being. It is unnatural for a man to B
chow or smoko tobacco. H
No habit is acquired at such oxponso of pain H
and discomfort, or against so positivo and em- '
phatio an opposition of nature Tho man who H
smokes can romombor when ho began self- H
administration of nicotine poison, and ho can 9
romombor no other convulsion of his frame I
whioh oquallod that following his first cigar. '