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' Vol. 27w7 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 20, 1917 No. 28 I
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. An Independent Paper Published Under
:: the Management of T. L. Holman ::
EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN
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( Admiral Dewey
THERE was nothing finer at Salamls; noth
, - ing at Actlum; nothing at Lepanto; nothing
1 L when Nelson iblasted the night in the estuary
, of the Nile, than -was the driving of the little
' fleet into the inner harbor of Manila Bay and
the "breaking of the arm of Spain in the east in
I the next morning's battle.
There, in an hour, an unknown sailor wrote
his name 'among the immortals; there, the no-
tice was flashed to the world that the United
r States was a world-power, and as sucii must
hereafter be reckoned.
I Throughout tiie centuries war nas been
f changing its implements. At first native sav-
I- , ages had fought with clubs; then men clothed
i ," themselves in armor and jfofught with swords
' and spears; then fulminating powder awakened
V1 its roar in battle; the armor fell from men and
' , valor brought new skill to its defense. Then the
. armor was put on ships; then, too came the
i planting of mines in the paths of ships and the
t torpedo to defend ships and ports. And the
walls of oak behind which men had defended
themselves changed co walls of steel; the guns
increased in efficiency; wars took on new ter
rors. Christianity instead of doing away with
wars gave the increased knowledge to men to
increase war's destructivenessj and force upon
men the thought that the only way to do away
with wars was to make them so terrible that
poor human nature could not stand against their
horrors.
For her immeasurable cruelties, the United
States had declared war upon Spain. In the far
Pacific Spain had an island empire from which
5 It would be easy to send out commerce destroy
ers.
In the Pacific the United States had a squad-
ron of little ships under command of a man
whose name as a sailor was not familiar to his
own countrymen still he had a record. As a
l'eutenant he had commanded one of the im
mortal Farragut's ships in the Mississippi, when
t In the Civil war the task was given to Farra-gut
to storm the forts at the mouth of the Mississippi
and, in connection with the army, capture New
f Orleans.
This lieutenant had watched Farragut; had
caught from him his methods and caught, more
over, the inspiration which the great commodore
shed to all ' around him. The ship of the lieu
tenant grounded, but he fought her until it caught
fire, from the fire of the forts and ibecame a total
wreck.
To him was given the task of making safe
the commerce of the United States In the Pacific.
He sailed at once for the Philippines, sailed into
the entrance of Manila harbor in the night and
when a mine exploded in front of his ship, he
thought of what Farragut had said at the ent
rance of the inner Mobile Bay a"nd repeated the
great admiral's words; "D n the torpedoes!"
and held on his way. Then came the battle, the
destruction of the Spanish fleet, the capture of
the forts and a few weeks later the capture of
the city.
Since then, his name linked with those of
Farragut and all the world's immortal sailors, ho
has been working for his country) at his desk.
Now, on the eve of four score years of age,
he has been called and the millions of his coun
trymen stand at salute hefore his grave and offer
their: All Hails, and farewells. They call his
name" and the feeling in their hearts is well ex
pressed in trie old words:
"Oh, thou great soul in dim Valhalla's hall.
Say cans't thou see us, cans't thou hear us
call;
Know'st thou how much we love thee and repeat
For thee the prayers to marshall spirits
sweet?"
May the high soul find his old commander
and comrades and may everlasting peace be his.
"Buffalo Bill"
WILLIAM CODY was the most picturesque of
all the modern trail-blazers and scouts. He
was handsome, ibrave, dashing, a wonderful rider
and shot, and within his limitations he was the
highest type of his class.
He had the same order of mind as General
Custer, the same as had Murat, Napoleon's most
picturesque marshal. With yellow trousers, blue
coat, a plumed hat and his breast covered with
decorations, he would have ridden Into battle as
exultlngly as ever did the wild Frenchman.
The disposition to be the center of attrac
tion was inborn in him. He was not educated
to play a high role, but he made the very best
of what he had and filled a most useful placo
in his sphere, just when the horse was passing
and steam and electricity were picking up the
heavier work of men. He may be looked upon
as perhaps the last of his kind, at least until
In the mutations of nations the -United States
gains another frontier.
We are glad that he was able to play his role
to the end. He lived to see the 'buffalo pass, the
horse passing, the frontier melt away until the
sports and dangers of his youth became spectacu
lar to a younger generation by producing for It
a realization of the long ago.
The locomotive first disturbed his empire;
then the electricity which cowed the savages by
striking at them in their secret fastness; then
civilization destroyed the buffalo, but Cody had
the genius to make an imitation of what was a
fascinating attraction for modern men and
women.
Col. Cody has earned his reward, and the rest
that has come to him.
Prohibition
PROHIBITION with the lid down and riveted
is the program and doubtless will go through,
but none of us should take up the idea that it
will result in making all the youth of Utah great
men. Turkey has been a prohibition country H
since the time of Mohammed, but the Turks have H
ceased to be a great people. Neither have they H
established that prohibition insures long life. H
And as we look the world over we ilnd that the H
nations -who use intoxicating drinks are the ones H
who rule the world. The men who hold ships H
up in storms and battle, and who storm "the H
Imminent deadly breach" on land, are prone to H
drink when they feel like it. M
And some of them, who ordinarily never use H
it, mutiny when they are told they Bhall not do H
a thing which they believe they have a perfect H
right to do, and resort to meaner devices to carry
out their desires than they ever did before.
This has caused the nations who have had H
the most experience to decide that the evils of H
drinking can be best met by regulating the traffic H
by wise laws. Prohibition in Utah, will, if effec- H
tlve, have many good effects, but those who are H
engineering the business should not take up the H
Idea that they are specially called agents of sal- H
vatlon, and that hence other people have no
rights which they are not bound to respect. H
The law can be made Just as binding without H
Including features which will make people of H
ordinary intelligence take the idea that It is a H
virtue to defy it. H
The Trail Blazers H
TVHEN at Col. Cody's funeral, one speaker H
YV usea the old expresson, "'He blazed the H
trail' in the West," the term was literally true. H
He came in regular succession in the line of
those wonderful men who, in the settlement of M
the wilderness three thousand miles in width M
between the world's two great oceans, were M
conspicuous path-finders. M
If some artist, sometime, picks up and car- M
ries out the idea of making a continuous pic- M
ture of that settlement, a few of those avant M
couriers, of whom Col. Cody was one of the last, H
will be the most brilliant details of the wonder- M
ful panorama. M
Among the first known of these was George M
Washington. On a survey he penetrated as far M
west as where Pittsburg now is, and with a M
soldier's instinct saw and noted the strategic M
importance of the place. We know this from M
the history which tells how he volunteered, or M
was appointed, to lead Braddock's army to that H
important point. M
But it is possible that the colonial authorities H
were inspired to suggest to Washington to make H
his survey by the report of that other path- H
finder and trail-blazer, Daniel Boone, made after H
he had penetrated the wilderness as far west H
as "the dark and bloody ground," of what is H
now Kentucky. H
Lewis and Clark were next conspicuous, H
though thoy were not native wanderlust ex- H
plorers. They were sent on a definite journey H
of exploration. As much interest attaches to the il
trek into Texas by old Sam Houston as clusters H
around any other of those wanderers. Indeed, H
there has always been and will always he a long- jjH
ing to know if there was not behind his going H
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