Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-01-27

w the most popular. The public Is
welded to the mouldy lies of the past
and shrinks from the progressive ideas
which compels it to think along new
lines. When, to conventionality,
writer joins a pleasing style, he has
some of the elements which makes his
views marketable The scientific
thinker must labor for love of truth.
Not only must he furnish opinions
gratis. but he must address an I'M
willing audience and wage thankless
war until his views are accepted and
become conventional. The conven-
tional thinkers who come after him,
reap the reward.
Judge C. C. Goodwin, who has just
mounted the editorial tripod of the
Evening Telegram, belongs to the con-
ventional school. Because of his nat
ural ability he was able to voice the
Gentle prejudice against the Mormons
and the theories of the free silverites
his ability to express what the ma
iority thought-his opinions attained
popularity that can never be hoped
for by the writer who cries in the
Wilderness Make straight the path
of Progress
WIFI dll lCopOSI LII ehS JUNSO
he is one of the most generous and
kindly men who ever trod the earth
he does not think. He is an echo that
repeats in melodious sentences the
siren song of the ruling class. Now
and then he stumbles on a truth, but
before you have time to congratulate
him he proves that the stumble was
accidental by giving currency to some
moss-grown lie.
| JUDGE Goodwin's economic insists
are due chiefly to his ignorance OF
the law of social evolution. He does
not realize that the world moves. What
was good in one age, he imagines, is
good for all time. Beginning life In
the mining camps of the west where
existence was a gamble and all men
got an even start he has never out
grown the idea that the ethics of the
gambler were the ethics of civiliza-
ton.
His mental twists came out con-
spicuously during his first day on the
Telegram in an editorial on the Com
mon People, Taking a saying of Tom
Watson that the day of the common
people is at hand, for the masses are
being educated as never BEFORE as his
text, he declares that every American
can get an education if he wants it.
"By education Watson means one
thing and Goodwin another. Watson
means that the people are learning
economic truths. Goodwin means that
they can learn readin', writin'. and
'rithmetic. The difficulties in the way
of economic education are not in the
lack of books and school houses, but
in the economic falsehoods propa-
gated by the beneficiaries of the
status quo through such instruments
as the judge himself.
"Then the judge proceeds to recite
cheap platitudes about high and
honest exertion' and by the sweat of
his brow man must earn his Bread
Is it not a pity that this latter quo
tation should be prostituted to de-
fend a system whose essence Is the
creation of an idle and useless class
which neither sweats nor earns it's
bread?
go to, Judge Goodwin! Learn that
the more Industrious is the common
lperson the greater is his contribution
to this idle classl You say that
wages are higher now than ever be-
fore and therefore the common per-
son should be content. But who
ever heard of a rich man who was
content because his fortune was larger