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K 2 GOODWIN' S WEEKLY. Bj ' There should be concert of action on the Htj part "'of 'tho men wijo build and sail ships witii) Bi ' great' manufacturers', merchants, bankers and H the government. The ships should bo built, not B bought, for that would involve the mining of the B coal and iron, the converting of the iron in the K ore to steel, and the employment of an army of Bi men on all the work needed to convert the crude H material into ships. Hr Then there should be department stores and Hj . banks in tho countries -with which our best trade B would be looked for, and a sensible, law would B 4rlng around all these things. And now is the B opportune time. There is plenty of money seek- H ing investment; tho need of a merchant marine B to be established on a permanent basis has been H sufficiently demonstrated during the past two H and" a half years; the further need is the more 1 apparent as can be seen by England's prepara- H; tion to take in hand tho ocean commerce of the Hj Atlantic and Japan's preparation to do the same H' in the Pacific. Hi Should someone seriously propose to tear up Hj the tracks of the Great Northern railroad and H; turn the work that road is now doing to the H Canadian Pacific, the man would be put under H surveillance as a man of unsound mind, but it H would be just as sensible as has been our man- H agement of our ocean traffic for the past ritty H years. H And what should be done is so plain a propo- H sltion that any 'business man ought to see it at H a glance. We have paid extra freight on what we H' have sent away to and received from foreign H countries during the past two and a half years H , to subsidize a hundred great steamers for forty Hr years to come, and the "losses on what wo could H' not send away and receive amount to as much H' more. Suppose our shipping had been managed H as Germany managed her's for twenty-five years H before the great war was sprung, what would H; ' .have been our place today? Would not all the u, South American states be looking to New York H as tho world's great commercial center? Hf Their banks in concert with ours handling H the international business; they depending upon H us for a, market, buying from us what they M needed, relying upon our country to carry through H their needed enterprises; our citizens building M their railroads, developing their latent resources , and drawing from us part of the immigration Bt of the old world. Bj As it is we are not much considered and H their children are growing up without knowing j! the American flag when they see it. And we m fondly flatter ourselves with the belief that we H ; are a great people. H General Osterhaus THAT old General Osterhaus, whose death is reported from Berlin, was, a superb soldier R but he never could master the English language B r perfectly. H When the battle opened on Lookout Mountain H he advanced his division so rapidly that General Hj Hooker feared he would disorganize the battle H -line and send an aide (with an order for him B to go slower. Osterhaus read the note, then H turning to the aide, said: "Give my compliments I 1 to the shenerl and tell him if he keep watch H for about ten minutes he will see me make dos H' I rebels hell smell." Tho height was swiftly car- I ii riGd B "Y General Osterhaus was in all respects a great B 'A soldier. From the ranks he rose to the rank B??i "of major general of volunteers, and was retired B t1) -a ibrigadliv -general in the regular army. He (went B.' back t' W8 native land to spend his declining m years; but he left a son who is one of the fore- 1 most officers in our navy and has the warm H affection as vell as tho great respect of his Hi I ' brother officers. I t:it Time To Put On The Brake THAT wiis a tlme'iy and thoughtful speech made 'by Senator Borah last week In which he cautioned the senate against giving blind ap proval to all the president's sayings lest it un consciously approve of something which would insidiously change the whole former policy of the government. The president believes he is always right and, in his naturally obstinate way, wants what he says approved. His re-election will naturally intensify his oelief in himself, and the senate at least should keep a close twatch against possible mistakes that might prove to be very serious. Tho speech of Senator Works was that of a disappointed man but many of his charges can not ibo refuted, especially that which pictures congress as the catspaw of the president in blind ly endorsing the president's will. Some of the things done were shameful, like "the. levying of tolls on coast shipping passing through the Pan ama canal, the elevation of Brandies to the su preme bench in payment of a political debt, and the driving through congress of the Adamson law to influence an election. That kind of work should cease. Just A Breath IT seems that some of our extreme prohibition Democratic friends have decided that a whiskey breath is prima facie evidence that the owner of the breath has in his possession more or less of the fluid that both exhilirates and intoxicates. Come to think of it, the case is plain. That ought to justify the creation of one more office that of "The Public Official Breath-Smeller." But one demand of the Utah Democracy is that economy and efficiency shall go hand in hand. And what veteran Democrat will be able to sit in judgment on a wretch against whom the suspic ion of an intoxicant breath may He? And if one sobers up long enough to be a com petent judge how many breaths could he inhale before all his good resolutions would dissolve into thin air and make him crazy to trace the breath back to where it originated? It looks as though the great new fortune that has come to our Democratic friends would have its trials. The Election Bill HTHE new election act as outlined in the news- papers seems to make it a crime for every man during a campaign to mention politics and to inhibit everything on election day except to vote. There is nothing like fixing the moral status of mankind by statute. Still there seems to be some idiosyncracies in the bill. There is a clause that makes treating a friend punishable. As the lid is to be closed dojwn and riveted on all intoxicants, this clause must be aimed at; the vendors and vendees of buttermilk. Still we are not sure. A good many of the men who sell buttermilk sell in truth a substitute, so it may be just as well to include them. Everybody seems to be included in the pos sibly bad lot except the sugar trust. To leave that organization out shows that there are a few Democrats who are not ungrateful for favors received, or that perhaps the thought has come to them that they might need the same help in the future. Jackson's Birthday WE notice that more than one Democrat at the banquet on Monday night rererred to the day as Jackson's birthday. The old records fix the date on tho 13th of March and they tell that he was born In the Waxhajw settlement, North Carolina. But there has always been a cloud on the statement for the very, oldest record declares that ho was born onHshipbdaru when his parents were on the voyage to tills country. '. It Is good then to have his birthday definitely fixed on the 8th of January. It settles doubts ' that have been in some people's minds for more than a hundred and twenty years. This exalts his birthday and reduces that little affair at New Orleans as only one of his birthday frolics, or something that would have been a large affair for an ordinary man, but merely a characteristic incident for "Old Hickory." Their "Patronage" Saint NE speaker at the 'banquet on Monday night -' was reputed as referring to Jackson as "our patron saint." Those stupid reporters. Jeffer son is the patron saint of the party, Jackson "the patronage saint." Still who knows? Jackson is the saint most revered just after a successful election of the party, if not just before. His immortal (words: "To the victor belongs the spoils," are remem bered and bubbles to their lips in a refrain sweeter than a Christmas carol, by millions .of Democrats who could not repeat the Sermon on the Mount to save their lives. That Tax Amendment '"T'HE governor wants a constitutional amend- ment to permit the placing of some officer of the state to fix the valuation of mines for purposes of taxation. We had thought that that fallacy was effectively killed at the polls In No vember. It was a question that was seriously consid ered 'by able men when the constitution was originally framed considered from all points, and unless the present legislature can hear some thing new on the subject, our advice would be to keep in mind that mining has transformed Utah from a stock range and vegetable patch, and to leave the present law as it Is. WHY permit the use of sacramental intoxi cants? Would not grape juice answer every purpose? Why the affected reverence? Had the Saviour postponed His coming, and then come here and attended a marriage up in the 21st ward, and done there what he did in Canaan, under our enlightened law he would have been arrested, "convicted of felony and sent to jail for not less than one year nor more than tjwo years." Why affect a reverence that would make an old-time pharisee laugh? OUR new legislature is in session. Some of the members must be having the same expe rience that the Indiana congressman had. He said: "When I reached the House of Represen tatives I kept looking around the stately chamber and saying to myself 'how the mischief did I ever get here?' After being there six months, I got more courage and looking around I asked myself: "How the h 1 did these other fellows get here'?" THE steering committee of Democrats who have taken the legislature In hand have undertaken a big job They are liable to need a new set of branding irons and some extra lariats, for some , of the herd will want to jump the corral before the session Is over. THE war in Europe takes on new brutalities every dav. The treatment of the dead and of prisonerfc llcates that a settled hate Is caus ing the souls . the combatants to gravitate back to barbarism.