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Vol. 25 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 20, 1915 No 23 H
An Independent Paper Published Under
:: the Management of J. T. Goodwin ::
EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN
Humiliating
THE schoolmaster has been at work again.
Many people long ago decided that he was
weak, but all clung to the impression that he was
a thoroughbred that had perhaps been a little
overtrained. It is hard now to shake off the im
pression that there is a decided mustang strain
in him, and that now while advertised as a four
mile racer, six hundred yards is his utmost limit.
In his egotism, vanity and longing for furtner
honors, he seems incapable of realizing that by
his last performance, he has directly insulted the
executive and judiciary of this state and through
them the people who elected their state officers.
His note to the governor is most fawning but
it is over the signature of the president of the
United States, which in one sense is a command.
His first note was all right or would have been
had he sent his attorney general or some other
equally strong legal authority to officially investi
gate and report to him. Such a report would
have stopped the mouths of ill-informed or malici
ous men and hysterical women. But he did noth
ing of the kind. The Swedish minister employed
counsel and has a full report and Is silent. But
the schoolmaster waited until almost the last day
and then wired an executive who is under oath to
perform his duty to do something which he did
not think is his duty. Despite the soft tenor of
the request on the part of the chief magistrate
the note when analyzed says: "I have received
so many petitions from malicious blatherskites,
vicious so-called leaders who desire to maintain
their positions and salaries; from men who are
ignorant of the law and who have no thirst for
justice, and so many hysterical women who, to
rt : save their own lives could not explain what they
are excited over, that I am constrained to indi-
j, rectly remind you that your western courts often
lack tooth a 'fine knowledge of the law and a sensi
, $ive solicitude to iproperly interpret it aright, and
I am forced to request your excellency to inter
pose and yield to my request. The demand was in
truth the acme of both insolence and impotency.
Have Handy The Big Stick
( HTHE spineless arguments that the "peace at
any price" advocates present should be "dis-
. counted everywhere.
f The assumption that all nations are like ours,
i and that all other peoples are like ours and that
hence if we are always peaceable we need antici-
( pate no foreign complications is all untenable.
The bandits who from beyond the Rio Grande
i have been ravaging the homes of the poor Texas
farmers, have been doing on a small scale pre-
fc cisely what the strong nations of the earth have
been doinp "i oe before Thermopylae and Mara-
i thon and & tnis were fought; since before Cam-
r
byses started out upon the conquest of Egypt;
since before Alexander made a conquest of the
then civilized world and was followed on the same
mission by the iron legions of Rome.
The same spirit caused England to circle the
earth with her colonies. And they all find ex
cuses for their work. Cortez and Pizarro com
mitted their atrocities in Mexico and Peru under
the plea of extending Christianity. The first Na
poleon swept over the thrones of Europe and
raged like a lion on his career for twenty years
and to hear him, he had no object in view except
to defend France against her enemies.
An apt illustration of this spirit is given in the
droll story of the two hobos who carried between
them the corpse of a third hobo, leaned it against
the bar of a saloon, ordered the drinks, swal
lowed their benzine and then went out, leaving
their burden leaning on the bar.
The man behind the bar demanded his pay,
and the man leaning upon the bar making no re
sponse, the barkeeper struck him and he fell to
tUe floor. Hearing the fall the other two rushed
inland, looking at their friend, told the barkeeper
that he had killed their friend. The accused man
came around from behind the bar, and seeing that
the man was really dead, straightened up and
declared that he could prove that before he struck
him the hobo had pulled a gun on him.
Five or six years ago the school board of San
Francisco decided to exclude Japanese children
from the same public schools, that their own
children attended. They, however, supplied the
Japanese with just as good school houses and
teachers and the same books as in the American
schools.
The reason was that parents did not like to
have their little girls occupy seats in school be
side little Japs who were eighteen and twenty
years old.
But Japan was fearfully incensed and would
have made war except that she had not the trans
portation to bring a large army to our west coast.
She still holds that event as an indictment against
us. When under Mr. Taft, the army wa3 hurried
to the Mexican border and tlip fleet on both the
Atlantic and Pacific was swiftly put in fighting
form, no reasonable cause for the flurry has ever
been given except that Japan was negotiating
with the revolutionary government of Mexico for
a lease of the great harbor in Magdalena bay.
That is a reminder that while President Wil
son is on good terms with "President" Carranza,
he ought to obtain if possible a lease of Lower
California for fifty years, to make sure that no
foreign power can obtain a base there from whic
an attack upon our west coast would bo made
easy.
Colonel Roosevelt had exactly the right idea
when he said in substance that while our mission
is altogether peaceful, we should always carry or
have handy a big stick.
Science And Genius In War
A LONDON cable the other morning made an
opponent of Lord Kitchener say: "Lord
Kitchener will not accept advice." That is some
times a good trait.
After that fearful day at Spottsylvania there M
was a council of the Union officers called. It has H
leaked out that a strong majority favored falling H
back as the army had ibeen wont to do under for- H
mer commanders. Grant was imperturbable, but ll
finally wrote a note, sealed it, then repeated the jE
same thing several times. Then he handed each H
corps commander a note. It was written to each 1
to open the envelope when he reached his head- H
quarters. The meeting silently adjourned. On H
reaching headquarters each note was an order to ',H
at a certain hour move forward by the right jl
flank. iH
It has likewise leaked out that when Lee saw Ul
the movement in the morning he, through closed H
lips was heard to say: "The enemy has a general "1
in command now." tH
When General Grant went to take command '
of all the armies in the field, President Lincoln
bad a plan of campaign mapped out in his brain
and unfolded it to Grant. The latter listened pa- '1
tiently and then told the president that he would il
consider it. il
He had been listening and had even then ifl
seen that the program of the president was alto-
gether untenable, but he did not want to tell him 'iH
so, and had merely said that he would consider it. fH
Whether Lord Kitchener is altogether a great ' ' H
commander, in the sense that Napoleon was su- fl
preme, has not been demonstrated, but he has ll
over and over proved that he is a fighter. H
However, many a captain is invincible when H
a single enemy is before him, who is prone to lH
fail when the problem involves directing at the ll
same time several widely separated armies and H
the question is how to so direct all that a certain tH
result may be achieved. Napoleon ordered three :H
armies, one in the north, one in the west and a H
third in the center of France, at what hour to H
leave and on what day to be at a certain designat- H
ed point He had calculated the exact time each
would require so perfectly that they each made H
the rendezvous on the same day and then Aus- H
terlitz was fought with results which still ring
the world. But that was Napoleon. H
There are many 'diers in the present war H
who are perfect in tt ) odence of war. H
Whether there is one inspired genius of war H
whose moves are like those of fate, has not yet H
been demonstrated. H
And then science has so progressed in means M
of defense and destruction, that nearly all the M
genius that formerly ruled has been anticipated ttM
and discounted. !!!
War is well nigh reduced to wholesale murder. )H
A Story With A Moral jH
A FEW days since, near Takola, thirty miles H
from Aberdeen in the state of Washington, j H
Mrs. B. E. Burkhead started out over a trail to I H
where her husband was at work. She was carry- ' H
Ing her baby on her back, when she suddenly came " H
upon a cougar chasing a fox. Seeing her the H
cougar dropped the chase of the fox and sprang at jH
the woman, tearing her gown with the first spring. H
Fortunately a piece of iron pipe lay beside the H
trail. The woman siezed this and then a battle fl
royal began between the woman and the cougar. H