The advocate., 1897-08-11

united states mas ever seen.
Sioux City Journal: Good things can
be said Of the MOrmOns. Personally
they are honest and industrious. They
are thrifty and intelligent. They have
made study Of the conditions which
environ them and they have solved
many sociological problems in their
own way with satisfaction. Non-MOr-
mons have mingled freely with them
and become a part Of the Utah pOpu-
lation, and contact with others has
brOadened the view Of the younger
MOrmOns. The late celebration was
participated in by many who are not
Mormons, and all rejoice in the ma
terial prosperity of one of the youngest
States of the Union and the men and
women who made it.
COurier-Journal: The improvement
in business this year is literally com
ing from the ground up and for that
reason it will benefit every class. Every
promise that was made to the farmers
when they were urged to vote against
Bryan last year has been fulfilled and
every other promise will be in due
time. The great advance in the stock
market shows what is thought Of the
prospects Of farmers and railroads for
this fall. The improvement which has
been sending up railway shares little
higher every week for three months is
based on exactly the conditions revealed
by the gardens and fields Of the South
and West as we'll as the merchants
and manufacturers Of the East.
Chicago Journal: Perhaps the
United States, when it had OppOr-
tunty, should have barred Canadi-
ans from the California gold fields
Perhaps it was foolish to invite the
world to sit at its table of bounty.
Everybody, Canadians to Cinnamon,
had chance at it's great yellow store,
and just as good a chance as had any
American. Is is too late to be stingy
with California. But something else
can be done. If the Dominion Parlia-
ment acts in any such swinish fashion
as the Cabinet proposes Congress car
destroy the last vestige of market for
Canadian goods that the Dingley bill
left in this country, and the Canadians
should be notified to that effect imme
diately.
Stinson Jaryus, in August Arena:
Everyone should in some way be made
certain, either through personal expert
ment or reliable hearsay that in the
human makeup there are faculties
which may be forced by will power into
an activity which they do not manifest
in the ordinary daily life. There is no
reason to doubt that these are the same
faculties which become so apparent in
the keen -sightedness of those who are
great in statecraft, diplomacy, busi-
ness or in any other way. With Ordi-
nary people, especially the labOring
classes, these faculties seem more mac
tive, through disuse. In most men
they seem to show activity only when
forced by concentration and will power
but there are bright people of both
sexes in whom they seem alert with
out urging.
Indianapolis News: 1t is reported
that society has been formed in the
East, composed exclusively of college
men, whose object is to secure laws
providing for the electrocution of
idiots lunatics, deformed children and
old people. 1t is to be hoped that the
ignorant will not take this society as
an evidence of what the college usually
does for young men. OF course there
is some good in the proposed plan. 1t
might not be a bad idea to do away
with the idiots who paint statues red,
or those who imagine that a college ed
ucati0n consists in wearing white duck
pants" and the acquisition Of an un-
meaning college yell; but to the aver
age citizen the mere proposition is
enough to convict the members of the