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i Vol.25 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JULY 24, 1916 No 6 jH
An Independent Paper Published Under
;: the Management of J. T. Goodwin ::
EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN
The Troubled Situation
Tl II ANY people are trying to estimate when the
" great war will close. It is vain speculation
beyond the one fact that it cannot much longer
hold its present pace.
There is a limit to human endurance, there
; are limitations upon human power to provide
, the material to feed armies and supply them with
war material.
While the armies are held up to the firing
line by their excitement and military pride and
discipline, the indescribable sorrows of the people
are fast nearing the point when either there
must be a surcease or anarchy will come.
So far Germany has prevented any material
encroachment on her soil, but on the "other hand,
f4all her original plans of conquest have so far
failed and she is fighting a defensive battle on
every side except on the eastern and northeastern
front and success there can avail her little, for
a hundred years ago Napoleon learned the fact
I that even to penetrate Russia and capture her
I capitol, instead of being a victory was in truth a
I defeat. All Germany can hope for in that direc-
tlon is a temporary knockout of Russia, while she
K engages other foes.
"9 To the untrained eye it looks as though Ger-
k many must break through the western and north-
I western armies the British and the French
B front in the immediate future, or be willing to
B agree upon terms of peace, for her people at
B heme cannot bear the strain of another winter
SB like last winter.
B This leads to another thought which is that
B the British and French commanders must see
B that they will need all the forces they can get
B into line to meet the shock of the armies that
B will be hurled upon them within the next thirty
ffi days.
B The drive to the northeast we look upon as
B a diversion merely, an attempt to attract atten-
Bl tion away from the real point and perhaps to en-
fij able the withdrawal of half a million men needed
H when the great northwestern drive shall be un-
H dertaken.
H Doubtless all the commanders are working
Bj with 'the thought that something definite must
B be accomplished before another winter closes
w down.
Wn In the meantime we hope our government is
H watching for another opportunity to tender its
H good officers to help bring about peace. We
H should be glad if the president would call to
H Washington two or three dozen senators and rep-
H resentatlves of both parties those whom he
rejes upon for advice when congress is in ses-
H sion, to counsel with him now, for as the war
JB grows worse neither of the belligerents would
hesitate to involve our country in trouble if they
could see any advantage in doing so.
That note from Austria the other day was a
sample.
What she demanded was, in truth, for the
United States to take her opinion of the right
though what she objected to was really what she
and the other nations had caused to be written
into the Hague international statutes. In the
same way Great Britain cannot give up her old
habit of trying to bully the world on the sea.
Let us hope that this very dark hour immedi
ately preceds a real dawn.
Our Opportunity
WE are told, and can easily understand that
it is true, that the president has some most
perplexing questions confronting him. One with
Germany, one with Austria, one with Great Brlt
ain and the everlasting Mexican muddle.
There is still another more important than all
the rest. That is how to so adjust national affalis
as to permit the swiftest, safest and most effective
advancement of our own country. It is the central
government's business to remove all possible ob
stacles from the enterprise of the people; to put
no obstacles in their path.
Peace will come in Europe after a while and
with a weight of debt which will be a mortgage
on the toll of the people for quite two genera
tions to come.
Perhaps one or the other side will emerge tri
umphant and aggressive, but the prospect is that
it will eventuate in a drawn battle and a long
contention over the settlement.
In the meantime eastern and southern South
America is expanding very rapidly and to secure
the exchange of trade with those states should
be the real struggle on the part of our country.
We ought not only to obtain that trade, but to
obtain it in a way that would amount to a much
closer walk between those people and our own
Within the coming ten years a full hiilllon of our
young men should find homes there and profitable
occupation, and could this be brought about they
would not fail to obtain a directing influence in
affairs there.
Men learn mostly by example and experience
what to do.
Germany has not naturally a rich soil and but
limited resources. At the close of the Franco
Prussian war she was poor in money, and had
neither a navy nor merchant marine. Thousands
,of her people were emigrating to foreign coun
tries annually.
But her schools were fine and many of them
most practical and some of her factories were
turning out most finished products.
Her statesmen used the great Indemnity ob
tained from France to establish a merchant ma
rine and to build more factories. She promised
her merchants that if they would establish trad
ing posts in foreign lands, German ships would
visit them regularly and that they need have no
fear that this promise would be broken. Her
trade was at fir- mostly barter, but she managed
with the ba to secure likewise the surplus
money of the countries she traded with. In1 the
meantime she trained all her young men o be H
soldiers, which was at the same time the. 'best H
possible training of them for all the duties of'clt- H
izenshlp. She laid a tariff on what her people H
raised, reasoning that if because of 'the tariff H
some articles were made to cost a little more than H
they otherwise would, the money would all be H
spent at home and remain at home, and more of H
her people would have work. B
Then more factories and ships were needed B
and though her population was rapidly increasing, B
fewer and fewer of them were seeking foreign B
lands for homes. B
She founded valuable colonies and built a navy ! B
and in the meantime acquired such wealth that B
last year she looked upon the conquest of Europe B
with confidence. "All that she accomplished in
forty years, on a territory, a little larger than Call- M
fornia, a little smaller than Texas. H
It seems to us that if anything can be learned i
from experience and example, Germany's . work H
during the past forty years ought to point the
way for our president and congress to follow.' H
SanguinejQhamp.Glark H
TN a moment ex-itlMlolTHra'mn cf.uk,
in a speech in California the other day pre- iH
dieted that an era of marvelous prosperity,, for
our country was due to begin in aboutr? sixty H
days from the -present time and to continue for H
years. M
He seems to be obsessed with an old-time ,H
piospector's hope, a prospector whose eyes' had IH
finally become fixed on a golden mountain w'lilch 11
was to be his when one more ov divide sho'uld 11
be ciossed. j fH
'On what does Mr. Clark predicate his iH
prophecy? A great harvest and the demand for il
what we have to sell abroad? We have no ships 'immm
and freights on foreign ships have doubled. :';
Many of our manufacturers are running full to B
prepare war material, but what of the rest? J Is "
our trade with Spanish America or the Orient? In- lB
creasing? Our country has duiing the past jjear '
been filled with idle men. Have any new Indus- 11
tries been opened to give them places to work? 11
Every day the war continues some thousands
of strong men are being killed and the burden B
upon the living is being made heavier. B
What are we doing in either a commercial or M
financial way to open new fields for trade or to M
provide work for men who need work at home? M
We would not be a passlmlst, but cannot help M
but ask In what way Mr. Clark sees any certain H
s.'gns of approaching great prosperity? , H
Muir's Work H
IT Is said that anpinvestigation of the late John 1H
Muir's effects brings to light that he left ma- H
terlal enough to make several volumes. If this H
is true and the right man pan be obtained to rout IH
them in proper form, they will be a real con- H
tiibution to the world's literature. The. dagger IB
is that the thought behind the compilations will SI
be to prepare something out of which a syndicate JB
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