2 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY.
H exceedingly if there had been any war, had Great
H Britain been thus prepared.
H Certainly our country should be learning very
H i'ust the old truth that the best possible guarantee
Hj of peace is to be ready for war. Without any wai
H a year for a youth in camp is the very best pos-
H sible closing year of his education. It iits him
H lor peace as well as for war. It is best for his
H health, improves his bearing and gives him the ini-
H tiative which is necessary to begin life right.
H It is the cheapest and most necessary insur-
H ance policy that a nation can take out.
L What Fools Some of Us Mortals Bel
IN SUNDAY'S dispatches was an account by a
German banker of the recent raising in Ger-
H many of an unparalleled great loan from the peo-
H pie to the government. In his statement the
H banker remarked that for several decades Ger-
H many had been accumu'ating vastly more wealth
H than either Great Britain or France.
H The first question awakened by that statement
H is, "How has that been possible?" The answer is
H easy. Germany has caught the secret of making
BM valuable goods by mixing and fusing cheap raw
, material with German brains. She has perfected
J her manufactories with needed machinery; to this
km she has added a thorough knowledge of chemistry
H and the graces that come of art schools, schools
H of design and textile schols which enables her
H to produce goods in the best form and when color
H effects are needed to adjust the colors. Then she
H has provided merchant ships to carry away her
H finished products to peoples who are unskilled in
H the arts with which ilier artisans are familiar, to
H exchange her goods for money and for such raw
H material as she needs in her factories.
H And she has kept her ships running regularly
H and when, in themselves they did not pay, she has
H paid them bounties to keep them running, that the
H trade might not stop and that her merchants in
H foreign lands might certainly promiso when any
H goods that might be wanted and which they did
H not possess wo id be forthcoming.
H rrho immediate effects have been that she has
H been. continually building larger and fleeter ships
H and has been covering her not naturally rich soil
Hj with more and more factories, making work for all
H her swiftly-increasing population.
H In the meantime she has been enabled from
H the profits to build a great war as well as mer-
H chant navy and to train 4,500,000 of her people to
H perfection as soldiers and sailors, and now when
Hj the stress of a great war is upon her, by a single
H call the people who have been engaged in the arts
H of peace are able to loan to the Fatherland a sum
H that has no parallel in the world's history.
H There would have not been the slightest dlffi-
Hj culty on the part of our government and people
H in pursuing the same course, but while the work
H and the results have bpen in plain sight, our gov-
M eminent and people have like sleep-walkers been
H looking on, but seeing nothing.
H And oven now, when the opportunity of a cen-
M tury is open before us, see how we arc, as a na-
H tlon, meeting it. The chief magistrate of the na-
H tion admits that we should have a merchant ma-
M rine commensurate with our place among the na-
H tions, but insists that there must be neither boun-
H ties, nor subsidies promised to sustain it, failing
H utterly to see that it is the only possible connect-
M ing link between our foreign and domestic trade,
H and that to keep up that trade in its present
H halting way costs in money, which is lost to us
Hj forever, annually, enough to establish a great em-
H plre in twonty years, and the majority of sleep
H walkers in congress look on, seeing nothing, and
H applaud his view.
Hj When the great war came on1 across the sea,
H the president lost no time in declaring that our
H people must be neutral in the war, which was
H right, but he failed to see that for thirty years
past, through our stolid determination not to
make some American ship owners richer, we have
been supplying Germany quite $100,000,000 in go'.d
annually, which is the dilefest reason why she is
now able to sustain a war almost alone, against
three of the foremost powers on earth.
Was not the great dramatist right when he
cried out, "What fools these mortals be?"
Frank Foote
THE death of Frank Foote of Evanston, Wyo
is a great loss to all this western country. He
was a splendid soldier and citizen, one of the most
lovable of men.
His public services wero always of a high or
der, the private paths of his life were lined with
friendships which made life a benediction to all
who know him well.
Ho always created an impression that he was
much greater than he seemed, and that wher
ever tried ho would be equal to the duties im
posed on him.
It is not too much to say that on the day his
remains wero finally given back to the earth, the
men of Wyoming all stood as mourners around his
grave.
He lived a high and unostentious life and not
one reproach followed him out into the beyond.
Hague Decrees
IN AN article in the New York Times Colonel
Roosevelt says: "The nations must enforce the
decrees of the Hague tribunal."
That is right, but how is it to be done? A
criminal law that has no penalty and no means of
enforcement is but a dead letter from the first.
What is going on in Europe shows that to trust
a nation to keep its covenants is but to lean upon
a broken reed.
A gentleman said recently: The United States
was the first to break The Hague covenant by
making war upon Spain.
Of course, there is no sense in that. As well
say that a man who is under bonds to keep the
peace must not interfere if he sees a brute assault
a helpless woman.
The new code of The Hague must forbid inter
national alliances, because so long as they are
permitted belligerent nations can, as in the stone
age, defy any penalties that The Hague may pre
scribe for violations of its laws. Moreover, so long
as they are permitted those in the alliance are
estopped from helping to execute the laws. With
alliances stopped, then any power that for any
purpose might essay to make war would have the
whole world to fight.
The second law required is one that will boy
cott in, trade any nation that dares to make war.
This would be the most effective preventative of
wars possible.
Finally, The Hague tribunal must be a real
court backed by the power of the nations to en
force its decrees, not a merely friendly confer
ence, the work of which is merely subject to the
honor and good will of nations, who to further
their ambitions lose their sense of honor and
break their most sacred covenants.
The Latest World Wonder
T.'IE report of Colonel Goethals of the building
of the Panama canal, with the exact figures
of the cost, is something so splendid in achieve
ment that it passes above the usual data from
which the progress of nations is computed; it is
a notice to the world of the latent and active
power and energy of the United States, it adds
majesty to our nation's flag.
For eight years past the powers of the old
world have been preparing for war, and what
ever reasons may be given, underlying all was a
dream for more land and the extension of com
merce. During those years our country has been mak
ing a conquest of peace, and when we go back
for a comparison for it, we find there has been
none since Columbus found a new world.
It has involved no sacrifice of armies; no de
struction by fire and sword; no spoliation; no ,
overthrowing of temples tp art and industry and r?
learning and religion; no sinking of gallant shipB.
no breaking of hopes and hearts. ,
'Rather it has been joining the world's two
greatest oceans, to make a new route for com
merce, to draw the peoples of the earth in
closer relationship.
And it is wholly an American work. Ameri
can In conception and execution, in the brains to
seize and solve every problem connected with it ,
and to pay for it
The purpose behind the building of It was al
together generous, for it was plain from the first
that the greatest immediate result would be the
transfering of millions of workers from over- j.
crowded Europe to the cheaper lands on this side
of the Atlantic where they could better their con
dition and at the same time have a steadying
effect upon the volitlle races of Spanish-America.
Looked upon from any standpoint it is great '
it is another command: "Civilization, forward
march!"
The Opportunity and The Need
A GENTLEMAN just from the east says that
he never saw such bountiful harvests as
have blessed the country this year, but that the
estimate is that 40 per cent of the men who were
employed at this time last year are Idle.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says that business
Is fearfully congested because of the want of ships
to carry away what they have to sell and to bring
to them what they want to buy.
Would it not be better if a large quota of those
idle men were busy in coal and iron mines, in the
smelters and rolling mills, on the railroads carry
ing the ore and the coal to the furnacesj and the
finished product to the ship yards, on the ship
yards, and on the seas carry our commerce under
our flag?
Cannot the authorities see the need of it all
and the opportunity presented?
And if they are afraid to establish a merchant
marine in the natural way, lest it may create a
monopoly, why not build and run the ships on
government account?
Of course, that would not be the best way,
but that wouM be better than nothing and,
through that plan, the government would learn
many things which It ought to know, and after
a while might obtain light enough to bo willing
to deal fairly with the country's shipping inter
ests 'on the lines of common sense.
Why do not the great manufacturers and ex
porting and importing merchants get behind a,
movement to insure our country against the fur- &
ther hiring of sea express wagons to handle their
commerce? This surely should be the accepted
time.
Rice Farming
WHERE water can be utilized in southern -'Utah
the farmers should be considering the
raising of rice. It should grow there as well as
in California; the cultivation is not difficult and
the market is world-wide. We have not the fig
ures, but suspect that Utah pays out some mil- j
lions of dollars annually for rice. 1
It is becoming an important crop in California, $" j
why should it not in this state?
In California a good crop yields from $80 to
$125 per acre. In Utah there should be enough
produced" to avoid sending away money to buy it?
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