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Vol. 25 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, AUGUST 21, 1915 No 10 ! I
j4j Independent Paper Published Under
:: the Management of J. T. Goodwin ::
EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN
Should Be Attended To
AND now Mr. Chairman Frank Walsh, "Chair
man of the Industrial Relations committee,"
does not hesitate to charge the Rockefellers -with
murder and demand the confiscation of their
property. When did Mr. Walsh do an honest
day's work? There has been a mistake some
where. The face of Mr. Walsh, as shown by his pic
ture, does not reveal him as one who has devoted
his days to fasting and prayer, and spent his
nights in weeping for the woes of the poor.
A good many years ago an organization was
formed in Montana under the holy name of labor.
At its head was a cowardly, murderous thug.
It did not commence operations there, for
Marcus Daly happened at the time to be em
ploying more miners than any other one person,
and the chiefs in control of the organization did
not care to antagonize him.
But they did begin their work in Idaho and
when it became too raw, the governor of that
state caused it to be put down. Then they went
to Colorado, and there for years carried on their
murderous work. They committed murder after
murder, all the time crying out that they were
being oppressed and harrassed and persecuted.
Everyone who opposed them was a marked man.
Mr. Wrench, who died in this city a few weeks
I ago, sat in their hall one night and heard them
discuss the methods through which he was to bo
assassinated, and at the same time how to estab
lish their own innocence. They finally sent one
of 'their murderers to Idaho, who made his ar
rangements and assassinated the governor who
had put down their deviltry in that state. When
this assassin was arrested he made a clean breast
of the business, admitted the murder and ex
plained that he was sent to do it by the chief offi
cers of the organization in Denver.
When these men were arrested and arraigned,
he repeated his story and explained how the other
murders had been compassed in Colorado. It was
impossible to convict men on the unsupported tes
timony of a confessed murderer, but no one
doubted the truthfulness of his statement. The
words and acts of one of the men accused have
accentuated the belief in their truthfulness many
times since, 'Hie trial of the principals caused
the organization to slow down for a while, but
when the Rockefellers bought a property in Colo
rado, they began again. Some more murders
were committed. As before, they were all inno
cent and were being persecuted that is to hear
them toll it.
The Rockefellers had paid full price for the
property, were paying employees the highest
wages, paying for everything they got, but were
so singular of disposition that they were deter
mined to manage their own property. This was
their sin and their only sin in Colorado. For this
Mr. Walsh openly charges them with murder and
wants .their property confiscated. This last is
evidently the milk in the cocoanut of Mr. Walsh.
To get something for not' !&, ho evidently is
ready to grow eloquent at an time. We opine
that he would rather have his jaw than his hands
do his work. He dares to quote something and
charge it to Mr. Lincoln. Where did Mr. Lincoln
utter those words and in -what connection? Mr.
Lincoln, who never asked for any favor, save to
honestly acquire what he could by hard work.
It is a shame for 'him to be quoted by a demogogue
who would, if he could, convert this country into
anarchy in the interest of loafers who are deter
mined to eat bread they never earned; who would,
if he could, train up a race of plunderers in a
land where labor receives double the sum paid in
any other land the world around, where the em
ployers of labor were the laborers of yesterday
and where, because of the country's opportunities,
the poor man of today will be the millionaire of
tomorrow.
The Business Outlook
THERE is a great struggle all around to cre
ate the impression that business in the coun
try is rapidly improving.
We are told that there has been a great de
crease in the number of idle men of late. A great
many thousands of men have been needed to
gather the harvest, but outside of that will any
one tell us what industries have required extra
men during the past few months? v
The demands for certain metals and certain
food stuffs, from Europe have, during the past
three months been very great Which has
brought much money to certain places in this
country, but is it not true that were the war to
stop tomorrow there would at once be stagnation
in our country from sea to sea?
The year's deficit despite the millions of rev
enue received through the income tax makes
clear the real situation. It is true that what pros
perity the country is enjoying comes from the
misfortunes of the old world. Despite the great
harvest of last year, had there been no war, the
condition of our country today would have been
most pitiable.
The war has been raging for a year, but our
merchant marine has not been increased by a
single ship through any needed legislation. Wo
are still depending upon foreign ships to "move
the crops."
Well the war will stop sometime and then
what?
Europe will bo too poor to buy even food for
her starving millions. Where will food prices go,
where will the prices of the metals go? What
has been done in preparation for that time when
peace shall come to prostrate Europe?
Senator Stone of Missouri, when here last
week expressed the belief that a special session
of the senate would be called in October. What
for? The president does not look upon congress
as the distinct law making power of the nation,
but merely an auditing board to ratify what ho J M
thinks should be done. i
We saw a fine exhibition of that fact last year. ,JH
The elections were drawing near; there was dan- BB
ger that the party which he runs would lol the M
majority in congress. He had received direct H
proof of tho outrages being perpetrated upon M
Americans in Mexico for a year and a half and )H
all he had done was to advise Americans in l
Mexico to get out. But when there appeared ;H
danger of changing the majority in congress, he ! H
bestirred himself. A boat from a warship in H
Tampico Roads, went ashore for the ship's mails. H
A worthless, unknown greaser bandit on shore H
insulted the three or four men in the boat. H
Then the president became incensed in a min- , H
ute. He sent a peremptory demand to another H
bandit, one Huerta, Who was running a little H
branch government in the city of Mexico, five H
hundred miles from Tampico to salute our flag. i H
That worthy declined. Then the president or- H
dered all our north Atlantic fleet to Vera Cruz; H
then went in state to the hall of the house of 'H
representatives, and solemnly read a message to
congress explaining what he had done and asked H
congress to ratify his work, which it hurried to H
do, as though something was really at stake. !H
A bill to make effective what had been done H
and to settle matters once for all in Mexico was fl
summarily voted down, but the result desired H
was obtained the Democratic majority in con- iH
gress was maintained. But what is proposed when :.H
congress meets in regular session? Will any- .H
thing be done to meet the slump when the war jH
abroad shall be stopped? H
We fear not, because no stream can rise above H
its source. H
As To Lawyers" jl
IT is a good thing for tne great lawyers from H
all over the country to get together now and 7? H
then and to take the measure of each other. Tho ' kH
law is an absolute science when absolutely under- ) y H
stood, and unconsciously, the character of a state f ' tjH
or city is at least in part established by its law- ""H
yers. Four score years ago tho state of New IH
York was famous for its bar, Seward, O'Connel, H
Van Bureii, Tilden, Fillmore, Sibly and the rest. 1H
Three score years ago Illinois had a wonder- jH
ful bar, Lincoln, Douglas, Trumbull, Stephen, jH
Logan, Davis and the rest. ?
Virginia City, Nev., had tho most splendid H
array of great lawyers ever seen in a small city, H
and they received the biggest retainers ever H
heard of. The St. Louis bar has always been a ) VJ
strong one. Merritt, brother of General Merritt, fl
when asked who was foremost at the St. Louis ' H
bar, with his usual stammer said: "It it's me" , 6H
and when asked how ho could prove it replied: H
"It it isn't, nee nee necessary. I admit it." !
Joe Choate was called to preside at a banquet 1H
of the New York Legal association. Rising, ho 1H
said: "Gentlemen, in as much as we are all law- i
yers except the judges, and some of them are," jH
and seemed astonished that he was interrupted H
by applause. M
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