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! Vol. 22 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL S? 1914 No. 16 I
An Independent Paper Published Under
:: the Management of J. T. Goodwin ::
EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN
Russia and Japan
A RECENT dispatch tells of the hostility of
Russia to the United States; how after
she had loaned us her moral support In our great
war, wh i her mighty trial came In her war with
Japan, our country gave its sympathy to her
enemy; and how, were a war tojae sprung be
tween the United States and Japan it would be
found that Japan and Russia were in n close
offensive and defensive alliance.
i The "war between Japan and Russia was due
solely to Russia's indifference to the rights of
other powers. On the part of Japan it was a
fight for life, on Russia's part It was a war solely
for conquest and totally without cause, save Rus
sia's lust for land and power. A nation is like
a man. No man can afford to give aid and com
fort to a robber, plying his profession because
he Interposed to prevent other robbers whom ha
hated from a much desired scheme of contem
p'ated robbery. Our belief Is that Russia resents
more the abrogation of the treaty between our
! country and hers than our sympathy for Japan
in the war. Our country gave Russia repeated
notices that she must cease mistreating Amerl
can citizens who were Jews. She paid no atten
tion to the demand and -the treaty was abrogated
by our country. That hurt Russian pride, but
It was the only thing our country could, in honor,
I do.
As to her help to Japan in case of war, there
are but three ways she could help her. First
would be her moral support, which would not
count; second, she might loan her money, which
would help, but that loan would be a Hen which
Japan would hesitate to have filed and third,
Russia might loan Japan soldiers to occupy her
i. seaports while the Japanese were fighting us,
but that would be a most dangerous experiment.
Imagine Port Arthur again In Russian hands.
When would Japan get them out?
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But we discount all the taUc about Japan
' making war upon us. She knows perfectly what
a sea fight with the United States would mean,
and knows, further, that were she to take the
Philippines and Hawaii, and Invade our Pacific
ccast, they would all be retaken and there would
not be left a safe acre in Japan itself.
Japan is a husky little b'uffer and when it
comes to a fight she has a devoted army, all
. fatalists and fighters, but she has no desire tc
try conclusions with the United States oven If
J backed by Russia, with Great Britain anxious
I to sell her war munitions.
i All tho same, we should continue building
fighting ships, training the entire militia of the
country and keep our coast defenses in order, foi
j , no nation is safe un'ess prepared to fight.
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j, The Chaos In Mexico
I I HP HROUGH the confusion of the dispatches
I' sent from northern Mexico during tho past
ten days, but one really Important fact ha? cc-me,
which is that Villa, after a week's fight' ,' has
captured Torreon, which gives him a baue and
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communication with Juarez and tho United
States.
Now Villa Is lauded as a great soldier, rank
ing with tho most gifted soldiers In the world.
That he, with an army of 12,000 men under his
personal direction after a long, hard fight, cap
tured a well fortified town, shows that ho is a good
fighter; not that he is an efficient great com
mander. The truth is that he was a brigand
who naturally, under the conditions became a
soldier. If he states correctly, tho number of
dead and wounded of his own command and of
the enemy, he must have won by the superior
guns which he has obtained from the United
States. On tho other hand, Huerta Is an accom
plished soldier, one which was most trusted by
old man Diaz to handle a campaign. If we re
member correctly he was the soldier who finally
after 100 years of struggle, conquered the Yaqua
Indians.
It is said that Villa has control of more than
half of Mexico. But that does not -'include one
fifth of the population.
What Huerta will do is mere speculation. If,
ho feels that the dense population in southern
Mexico is ready to desert him and go over to
some other assassin or would-be assassin; that
the United iStates in secret favors Villa, he may
leave Mexico between two days. If, on the other
hand he feels sure of his hold on those he is com
mander of, he will gather his strength and try
conclusions with Villa with every prospect for
success. The taking of Torreon is magnified.
It is five hundred miles away, as the bird flies,
from Huerta's base. The final result will rest
on the loyalty of the people toward the two com
manders. Under natural conditions Villa would
be taking more and more risks every day he
moves south, while Huerta would be concen
trating his army to meet him. But there are no
natural conditions in Mexico, none that may not
be changed in a day. And .there you are.
We can all afford to wait further news and
be reasonably sure that when any comes, it will
be reversed the next day.
Easter Sunday
EASTER SUNDAY is the sacred day of tho
year. No other day is fraught with such
memories as it brings, no other day symbols such
hopes.
Its birth marked the most momentous punc
tuation point in the world's history; it was as if
upon a heavenly wireless a message had come
from the stars bidding the children of men look
up, to no longer limit their visions to the narrow
horizon of th's life, but to strain their eyes to
ward tho other life which surely awaits beyond
the twilight and the night which must be jour
neyed through toward that other dawn.
The day should be one of solemn joy. No
music "can be too grand and deep, no sacred ob
Forvanco too ostentatious, for this is the anni
versary of the day that marked a new epoch
on earth and made sure what before had been
but a dream, that man is immortal, that in his
soul is a life that the waves of death cannot
wash away.
Young Rockefeller's Testimony
WE THINK a careful reading of young Rocke
feller's testimony before the congressional
committee on Tuesday last shows It was greatly to
his credit. Ills self-restraint when asked if ho was I
not 'a dummy director" in tho business of hia I
family in Colorado, was superb. He knew that H
the question was Intended as an insult asked . H
by a man who had probably never employed any H
one except perhaps a coacb nan or servant girl, H
and that the question was Intended to make this H
questioner solid with a bucolic constituency, but H
the reply was straight-forward and sensible. His H
inquisitor would never have thought of asking ,H
such a question of say George Gould, had his com- H
pany been in tho throes of a strike in say Salt jQ
Lake City. IH
But really, the Rockefellers are handling more H
capital than would be necessary to build and iH
equip a first-class railroad from New York to H
San Francisco. q jjH
And there is nothing difficult to understand H
about the Colorado strike. Tno question is the H
same that has made Colorado so much trouble; W)
which made tho trouble In Massachusetts last fl
winter; which has kept Michigan In a turmoil for H
nine months past, and when set to words Is slm- H
ply whether an organization of loafers and mur- IH
derers shall take control of a great business. H
Hence young Rockefeller's reply that there was H
nothing to arbitrate was most apt, and It was H
right to the point when he said not ten per cent H
of the miners of Colorado favoied the strike H
and that sooner than submit to tho outrageous
demands the Rockefellers would sacrifice every M
dollar's worth of property which they owned In H
Colorado. 'H
We think his testimony was manly and to tho H
point, and that the scrub on the committee that H
questioned him was tho one who came out baf- M
fled and beaten. M
Who Knows? H
IN THE April Forum Thomas Perclval Poyer M
has an article, "The Everlasting Life," in B
which he puts out the theory that some peoplo m
never come Into the possession of a soul; that
man is born without any soul or that something
which develops Into a soul; that the babe has H
no soul and man may travel through life and
never get one. That Is not a new thought, and
it is but speculation at best. M
The Bib'e says that God determined to make H
man in His image, that Ho created tho first man H
Adam, tb-t He breathed into his nostrils and he
became a living soul. M
But later Ca!n, after killing his brother, H
went away to the land of Nod, preempted a home- H
stead and took a wife. Now who was this lady, M
or, rather, what was her pedigree? Later Mr. B
Darwin came along and declared that man's orig- Hf
inal progenitor was a gray ape, or a monkey, glv- H
Ing us but the one advantage that Mark Twain H
gave the cauliflower when he said that the caull- H
f'ower was only a cabbage with a college educa- H
tion. m
Now, who knows but the Bible and Mr. Darwin H
are both right, that the man God made in His
own image Avas the first one with a soul, while (H
tho family and race that Cain married Into were H
but of the earth earthy and came up from the S
monkey? IH
The experience of the world rather emphasises jfl
the truth of this theory, for wo meet men nearly fl
every day who, lfhey have any souls, only God H
can see them. M
And when men claim to be descendants of H
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