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Vol.22 SAJ taii!" Un,Vorsy of FEBRUARY 28, 1914 No. 10 H
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An Independent Paper Published Under
:: the Management of J. T. Goodwin ::
EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN
The Off Horse
PLATO pictured the souls as a charioteer driv
ing two winged steeds, one of which was
vicious, and the life long work was to subdue this
refractory steed and bring it into reasonable
subjection. It was a good simile. The normal
man in health is driven on by fierce passion,
and appetites, and the sense of duty and the
desire to be just all the restraining moral at
tributes of his nature are taxed to their utmost
to lold him in restraint. Often too, there are
hereditary reinforcements to these appetites and
passions and then there are temptations on every
hand. Wo often are astonished to see one
against whom there has never been a whisper,
suddenly fall. None of us know how much such
a one resisted before the long-bent bow suddenly
snapped.
In such cases the immediate cause can be
found. It may be a sudden belief that he is
custodian of the mdney of others and the thought
comes to him that he can use some of it, make
I a fortune and return it before it will be missed;
it may be his path has been crossed by one
m . "whose face seems a paradise and form fairer
I than pale Dawn when she wakes the world."
f When the trial comes it is too much for some
T men and the reputation they have been building
up for years, is blasted in a day. A kind and
. firm training in childhood and boyhood is a
great help to a youth and lingers around a man's
life always. Many a man would have fallen
who has been saved by the knowledge that a
contemplated excess would bring sorrow to those
he has always loved, but that while a help is not
a sovereign cure. It applies to both sexes; there
i is much of the earth earthy in poor mortality,
and then there is much to swerve a soul from its
base in the actions and methods of society.
I All these things being true when we see
Sfr men who have but trifling knowledge of the
world, and next to no knowledge of even them
m selves, undertaking to make men good by statute,
then we wonder whether or not manx has very
1.1 much advanced from the stone age.
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; Senator Teller
1 1 C BNATOR Henry M. Teller, has long been
j If very feeble and his great age has precluded
W any hope of recovery. Still while the men of
) Colorado know that the peace that has come to
him must be most welcome to the tired man,
they grieve exceedingly for him, for all in all he
was their foremost citizen for two score years.
He was secretary of the interior in President
Arthur's cabinet, he was for a generation a sen
ator of the United States. He was the logical
and expected nominee for the presidency by the
t Silver Democracy in 189G and would certainly
f have been nominated had not Mr. Bryan's cross
of gold speech charmed the convention out of its
steady judgment for the moment.
He was one of the oldest champions of silver
in the nation and never changed his mind on
that subject, though for many years he has never
given any public expression of his views on that
question, believing, as" ii nas often said in pri
vate, that it might require thirty years for a
misguided public opinion to recover Its reason
and finally reverse the costly work of 1893.
He had three paramount attributes, his
clear judgment, his prescience on all public ques
tions and his stainless integrity. He was not a
winsome speaker; his voice had no rythm; ho
had some mannerisms which were not attractive
when he spoke, but his clear reasoning could al
ways hold an audience.
His mind was purely practical, public busi
ness was always a serious consideration with
him; he had no magnetism. No greater con
trast was ever seen between two men than he
and Senator Wolcott presented when both in the
height of their intellectual powers were colleagues
in the United States senate. But Senator Teller
was a kindly man and had the faculty of drawing
friends to him and always holding them there
after. The senate was wont to lean upon his
judgment and naturally so for it was always
sound, while behind it was that priceless thing
called character, which left no room to doubt his
absolute sincerity.
He long "gave his state and his country mas
terful and faithful service; he lived a long life
which was devoted to duty and the upholding
of the right as God gave him to see the right,
and his grave will be a sacred spot in the soil
of Colorado so long as honor is revered and hon
est and high service is appreciated.
As To Mexico
ENGLAND is a country which has been a
concernment to the world for twenty cen
turies. Great Britain has been a mighty power
in the world for a thousand years. Her record
is crowded with illustrious names and deeds.
But in all that record there is nothing finer than
her sending of an. army under her foremost
soldier into the wilds of Abyssinia to avenge an
insult inflicted upon a British subject by a bar
barous king.
We can understand by what she has done
how slve looks upon the death of one of her sub
jects at the hands of a hpncTit chief In Mexico,
and how she must be restraining herself, in per
mitting the United States to handle the matter.
We can understand, too, that had she been
in the place of the United States she would
never have advised her subjects to get out of
Mexico. Of course, we want no intervention in
that land if it can be avoided, but something will
have to be done soon. The deeds of Villa ure
beginning to give Huerta a character of a saint
by comparison, and it will be a relief to us all
when President Wilson finally reaches the con
clusion that it is a delusion to cling to the belief
that there are elements in that distracted land
which, if nursed long enough, will establish and
maintain a constitutional government there.
The merciful thing for our country to do
would be to take in that country and civilize it.
That "Point of Honor"
THE great New York Times, which is prone
to espouse the cause of Great Britain when
ever the shipping interests of American shipping
are concerned, thinks that President Wilson
"goes straight to the heart of the tolls exemption
matter when ho Bays as to the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty." H
It is at least debatable, and if the promises H
we make in such matters are debatable I for one H
do not care to debate them. I think the country H
would prefer to let no question arise as to its M
whole-hearted purpose to redeem its promises in
the light of any reasonable construction of them
rather than debate a point of honor. H
It does not happen to bo a point of honor, it H
is first a matter of justice and, second, a matter jH
of business. Repeated attempts have been made H
to repeal the law which limits the seagoing trade
between the ports of the United States to Amerl-
can ships. Under that law and because of It the H
tonnage of tho American merchant marine ex- H
ceeded that of Great Britain between 185C and H
1801. It is to begin to break down that law that H
this insistance Is made by Canada and Great H
Britain. To suppose that either Mr Hay or Mr. H
Pauncefoto ever thought of neutralizing that law H
is not a 'Point of Honor," but rather it is im- H
becility. H
Why Divorce the Old Roads? H
P OR the life of us wG cannot see the object or H
1 the sense of the suit tho government is H
pressing to force a separation of the old Central H
Pacific railroad ownership from the Southern
Pacific. It is charged that the two as at present H
controlled 'are in restraint of trade." No patron
of these roads has made the complaint. It comes H
only from tho office of tho attorney-general at H
Washington. M
On an average the roads arc COO miles apart, H
almost as far as St. Louis is from New Orleans; M
farther than the Central Pacific is from tho North- H
ern Pacific and Great Northern. The Southern Pa- H
cific has to compete with the Atchison & Santa H
Fe on the south; with the Northern Pacific and H
Union Pacific at Portland, with the Northern Pa- H
cific and Great Northern on Puget Sound, and with
tho Rio Grande for all eastern business. To sep- B
arate them would leave the Central Pacific's H
western terminus in the air while to isolate it H
would bring on the old contest with tho Union H
Pacific at Ogden. Besides the competing lines H
the Interstate Commerce Commission is every- H
where to fix the rates. H
Again, with tho roads separated, what will be H
the position of stockholders who hold the joint H
bonds of the two roads? In what position will H
either road be in to obtain needed money to keep H
up their roads and rolling stock to meet the H
steadily increasing business of tho country?
Finally there will be another competitor next H
year when tho Panama canal is opened. V
What good to tho people does the government 9
hope to accomplish by pressing the separation? H
Don't Despair -(rV- I
TV7E call this "the commercial age" and de-frj
W plore tho struggle among men for great H
riches, to be exclusion of nobler persuits. But jD
we often forget that men are prone to bo ere- H
atures of habit, association and environment, K
Men today do not love money any more than
their forebears did fifty or one hundred years B
ago. The reason that Adam fell because of tho H
apple was because lust at that season no peach H
trees were bearing in the garden. Tho boy who
loves to play marbles nnd to win, will, when H
grown, bo sure to be ' 'ing for bigger stakes. H
Through supernatural mercantile geniuB and the H