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Vol. 27 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 12, 1917 No. 44- H
.Ai Independent Paper-Published Under
:: the Management of T. L. Holman ::
EDITORIALS BY JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN
j The Present Call
p ALF a century ago the girls were wont to
I play upon their pianos a number called
I "The Turkish Review." It was intended
I to represent in music the approach and then the
j retirement of a martial Tjand.
' At first were softly heard the mingled mur
murs of sounding fifes and drums and trumpet,
afar off; then the mingled notes grew louder and
more distinct and, joining with them, the sound
S . of the measured tread of marching men. They
i grew into full volume at last and it was easy for
' one with a little imagination to see before him
the marching columns, the flags, and to hear the
4 , trumpet calls and rolling drums.
' Then the music began to lose its volume, tho
marching was sweeping on into the distance
growing less distinct until its final disappearance,
and the music ceased.
To old people, the present situation recalls
that far away music. "We are in a state of war
and every day's dispatches are filled with tho
far away echoes of the preparations going on.
And in each succeeding day, those notes of
preparation are growing louder. The fifes, the
drums and trumpets are swelling in volume, and
already the sounds of marching feet from every
state are growing more distinct. But there is no
break in the solemn melody of it all. When one
hundred million people, moved by a holy purpose,
4' are moving over an expanse of 2,500,000 square
I miles to where their gathered strength may be-
I come effective, they surely make an impressive
spectacle beforo the world. To the thoughtful,
they give an impression of a power that should
awe the world.
For sixty years our people have been waging
a war of conquest upon a vast wilderness, and
i', utilizing the mighty opportunities that wilderness
XX presented.
tik 1 First steam came as an ally, and later the
It lightnings came down from their Olympus and
X consented to be man's most subtle servant. The
r, telegraph and telephone became man's domestic
jc servants. This expedited the work; the conquest
' is now completed, and twenty new states havo
' been rounded into form.
1 Twenty years ago, to stop some unspeakable
wrongs, our country engaged in war. Because
of what our fleet did in Manila Bay, and what
another fleet did off Santiago, our's suddenly be
camo a world of power.
And now, perhaps to stop our ' pursuit of
wealth and the arrogance that comes of plebian
fortunes, another call has come to us to go out
and prove that the claim that our republic was
founded on the majestic watch-word of equal
rights and peace, but peace with honor, was not
i a false pretense.
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And the mighty host is moving. The tread of
marching feet is heard in every state. Tho
echoes of trumpet and drum are coming to. us,
while In softer tones one hears:
"Weave no more webs, ye Lyon's looms,
To deck our girls with gay delights;
The crimson flower of battle blooms
And solemn marches fill the nights." t
It means that ours are to be a chastened peo
pie. When the storm shall havo passed, ou
country will not be so rich in monoy as it now
-is; there may be mourning in many homes; but
the world will understand as never before that
"Liberty with Honor" and "Eternal Justice" are
not catch words, but eternal principles of our
republic. And the world will also understand that
it is a dangerous experiment to doubt the. integ
rity or the valor of the republic's sons, and to
challenge their defensive powers.
A MOTHER TO HER SON
OO you know that your soul is of my
, soul, such part,
That youseem to be fibre and core of my
heart?
None other can pain me as you, dear, can
do;
None other can please me or praise me as
you.
Remember the world will be quick with its
blame,
If shadow or stain ever darken your name,
"Like mother like son" is. a saying so true,
The world will judge largely of "Mother"
by you.
Be yoi then the task, if task it shall be,
To for e the proud world to do homage to
me.
Be sure it will say when the verdict you've
won,
"She reaped as she sowed," Lo! this Is her
Son.
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The Horrors Of War
HE coming to this country of the English,
vJ French, Russian and Italian delegations in
directly shows how far spent all those nations are
by the drain of the mighty war. Thero is no com
plaint, no word of a weakening in the determi
nation to win, but that tho burden is most heavy
there is no attempt to conceal.
It is no wonder. The dead that are being
mourned for, the maimed that must be sup
ported; the further sacrifices still necessary; tho
fear of a food shortage; the debt that must be
provided for; the uncertainty of the future all
combine to weight them down. What it must bo
in Germany we can only imagine, but it must be
equally if not more severe.
But the situation is far worse in Belgium; in- M
finitely worse in Poland. There, some millions of M
people have lived for months on less than half M
the needed food to sustain life itself; tens of jH
thousands of little children have died; tens of H
thousands more that could once walk are unable
now to stand, and will never walk again; tuber-
culosis is raging fearfully among the adults due iH
to insufficient food. JH
Then among the prisoners of war in all the jH
European countries, besides the maimed, thous- jH
ands have utterly lost their minds under the hor- 'H
rors they have passed through. :ne would think H
that tho rulers of those lands would cry out for H
peace; one wouid think that if there is any an- H
swer to prayers, tho Infinite would command H
peace. H
Since tho beginning of time, no such a situa- H
tion as tho present has affected the peoples of the H
earth. H
Colonel William Farish M
GOL. WIILLIAM "BILLIE" FAUISH died in M
Los Angeles on the 4th inst. It . is sad H
news to some of us who knew him in the long H
ago, when all his faculties were alert and the H
promptings of his mind and heart could be read H
as an open book. H
He was born in Tennessee, we think in 1843. H
In 1849 or 1850 his parents brought him to Marys- H
ville, California, where he lived until he was H
about sixteen years of age when his parents H
moved to San Francisco. There lie worsted his jH
school teacher in an argument that ended in con- H
tused faces and blackened eyes. Then lie went K
away to the mountains and found employment in H
the Sierra Butte mill and mine. fM
In a brief time he had increased the percen- H
tage saved in the mill some fifteen per cent, but
he, told the owners that the mill wa3 a rattle trap M
' and should bo discarded, and that a modern mill H
of sixty heavier stamps and improved gold-getting M
devices would have to be built beforo any profits j
worth while could be obtained. M
Tho owners were shocked. A sixty stamp mill Wi
had never been heard of. But Farish pointed out M
that the increased expense would not bo in pro- M
portion to the increased output, and that the ore H
was low grade and no profits could come save RH
by increasing the volume of ore reduced. "But H
where are we to get the ore?" was the next IH
question asked. His answer was: "This mine jH
will supply it, and will keep supplying it long H
after most of you aro dead." jH
Tlie now mill was built and tho mine soon be- jH
came famous. The stamps a little later were
increased and the mine supplied the mill up to
about, ten years ago. flH
That was the most pronounced faculty of Mr. H
iFarish. He knew the alphabet of tho rocks ap- H
parently by instinct, and it told him where a jH
great treasure was located.
When he left the Sierra Butte mine he went jfl
to Shasta county and made a great success there. H
Then he was called to El Dorado county and M
made another wonderful success. When the fl
mines in the Black Hills wore discovered, the fl