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the world for England to retain India. If India be not fitted to govern herself, no other power than England is so well fitted to govern her. To the government of so-called inferior races England brings qualities which no other nation can bring England does not bring sym pathy, and is in peril of bringing semi contempt for these races. But what is more important 1t does bring keen and larger sense Of justice which is far more precious than either sympathy or per sonal respect could prove to be. The Indian knows that the low court in his district or the high court at Madras is as sure of giving him his rights as any court that the mind of man could de- wise. Such an assurance Is of the high est value to the Indian himself and also to the interests of civnization. England,
 furthermore, governs under the condi- tions of religious freedom. Each man is liable to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, or not to worship The right not to worship Is. to some minds, made even more evident than the right to worship. For the gov ernment is accused of being atheisttc and agnostic in it's influence and tend
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run thus: Brethren, if you have any dis honest people in this church, turn them out. or you can not expect reviVal.9 Still. The preacher who pretends to know just how much, or just what kind of sin on the part of the church will cause God to withdraw His blessing from the earnest and faithful preaching of His own gospel to sinners-that preacher. l suspect. would be helped by "a wise agnosticism."
 In matters of religion il Is safe to know only what the scriptures reveal. Any sort of natural religion" is thin diet for hungry soul. What lis written and that alone is the creed of evangelical Chris tians The interpretation of the writ ten word is a task noble enough and deep enough to give full employment to the highest human powers. You are not called to make any religion. The famous philosopher. F1chte. went clean out of all human bounds when, In closing one of his lectures, he said: Gentlemen. tomor- row I shall proceed to make God Stall wart and impurturable ignorance is often the highest and deepest wisdom.
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"A WISE AGNOSTICISM"-By J. C. Hden, D. D.

religious meetings in which the eeelesias- teal tactieians called upon all who knew that they were saved to rise' or hold up their right hands," and I must confess that in each ease I could not help think ing of the phrase. "a wise agnostieism. Lid Paul mean nothing when he wrote: Let him that thinlzeth he standeth take heed lest he fa1l?"-Ist Corinthians 10:12. Had he no personal apprehension when he wrote, "I keep under my body, and bring it into subjeetion. lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, l myself should be a @staway?"
 Again: Not a few preachers. in begin ming a protracted meeting. insist that all the differences between the church members must be made up,' or we cannot have a revival" Aehan's case is frequently quoted to sustain this extra ordinary contention. But the Bible does not tell us that Aohan had difference with anybody. Achan was a thief. and if his case is in point at all, then the nat ural and logical exhortation should rather
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ing), for reproof, for correction, for in- struction in righteousness (right living) that the man of God may be perfect tcompletel. thoroughly furnished unto all good works Timothy ,. 1e-17 But we must not forget that the Apos. tla Paul, who wrote these words. wrote also the warnings not to give heed te fables." to refuse profane and old wives fablesn not to give "heed to Jewish fables, and commandments Of men, that turn from the truth" l Tim othy 1:4. 4:7 Titus 1:14.
 There are not few hard questions which are quite easily solved. if you will only Ignore the conditions. But TO well-instructed mind can fail Q discern the utter worthlessness of such solutions. The truth is that the con- ditions are the very clements of the problem; and if they are to be ignored tine problem not only cannot be settled. but 1t cannot be intellfgently dis cussed.
 In the presidential campaign of 1S44 the
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ENGLAND RETAIN INDIA2-By Charles

fish trade more easily and naturally fol- lows the union jack than it does any other standard. The inference, tkerefore. seems clear enough that England wishes to re- tain India.
 But furthermore. it is best for India herself that she be retained. India has usually been her own worst enemy. Eng land saves India from herself. The tes- timony of native scholars and thinkers is conclusive that the retirement of England would be followed by civil war. Moham- medan would rise against Hindu and IIinSu against Mohammedan Hindu ser against Hindu sect, and each cause U other to be put to death. In war, says Cicero, the laws are silent; not only are laws silent, but also tie loom. fhe potter's wheel and the harvesters fiail. War is a cessation of the industries as well as the industry of peace. The ine- vitable civil wars, following England s retirement, would prove to De the worst disaster which ever befell India. and her whole history has not been without severe disasters.
 It might also be said that it is best for the interests of the civilization of
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"Some other time!' His little plea denied. His little lingering figure in the door, And then shadow, and the world once more, And strife and conflict and the sea of care That hid from me my whimpering baby there!
 some other time I'm busy now!" He went, With child-lips puckered and his fair head bent, A crystal tear-drop trembling rom ms eye And in his throatla sob, his breast sigh; The broken engine trailing after him Into the shadows that his grief made dim; I could not stop, I thought, so let him go, He'll soon forget and soon put Off his woe.
 Some other time and now he never comes,
 No broken trinkets and no battered drums, No unkept promise and no chance to say:
 '.Im busy now, run out awhile and play!' Some other time-and Pm waiting, dear,
 For little footsteps that I'll never hear,
 And little lips that never more Will De
 In childhood love held up like blooms to me! Some other time-and here I sit and dream Of golden childhood with it's eyes a-gleam, Rushing for help and comfort, as he came
 To me that day, with all his heart afiame- While care bowed fathers cry, as l cried then: Don't bother me, I'm busy. come again And watch them fading in the enfolding gloom Where faltering footsteps lead them from the room | An. bring them now, dear son, those toys of thine, | Unto these idle, trembling hands of mine ! The little barrow, with It's broken wheel,
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Oregon question was one of the issnesi and the alliterative phrase, "Fifty-four- forty or fight" became a highly popu- lar slogan. An old gentleman, not at all distinguished for intellectual aeumen, said to a Virginia statesman: "They are making great stir over this Oregon question; but just give me a little slip of paper and pen and ink and l can set tie 1t in five minutes" How inquired the statesman. Why, I'd write down on that slip of paper that we own up to -fonr-forty and we are going to have it" But suppose the British won't agree to that?' Well. then let 'em come on. ' The settlement did not settle
 Jesus Christ said that he did not know when the end of the world would come. He said further that God the Father was the only being in the universe who did know; and so, when l hear of tfor I never read) books which pretend to fix the time. l feel that there are virtue and wisdom and religion in asnosticism. We do not know, and nobody has any means of finding out.
 When I hear half-edueated men glibly
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all-too -rare-public character-a man with
 opinions which he will not surrender.
 Henry Allen Cooper was born fl
 Wisconsin in 1850, and after col
 legiate course in the North western
 university, he studied law and was
 graduated from law school in Chi
 cago, after which he entered upon the
 practice at Racine, his present home.
 He was three times elected district at
 torney, after which he was state sen
 ator and in 1892 he was returned to
 the Fifty-third Congress as repub-
 lican, and has been seven times re-
 elected. He was the first and on'y
 chairman of the committee on insular
 affairs, a council made necessary When
 we bought some millions of orienta9s
 to civilize and fetch up in the way
 that they should go.
 Cooper distinguished himself his first session. Though a minority member,
 republican in a democratic Congress, It is scarce too much to say that cooper
 speech against the funding bill asked
 by the Pacific railroads was more
 potential for the defeat of that mea as-
 ure than any other. He was pioneer
  After the government had voted em- pires of land and millions of cash loans to the Pacific railroads, that were con structed on the credit mobilier plan. Jay Gould got possession of them and made money out of them; but when Thurman and Edmunds chased the oc- topus, Gould withdrew, and the roads were acquired by that Boston set who caused Wall street to stand aghast in admiration and envy. With the earn ings they constructed parallel lines and diverted traffic to these latter Now they were before Congress to extend the government loan for so years st per cent. That was the thing Cooper did so much to defeat. Since then the government has collected the entire debt.
 But the roads swore it was ruina- ton, Yet they paid all those millions into the treasury without financial em- narrassment and their properties are among the most valuable of Mr. Hai - rimans entire holdings.
 In 1896 the republican national con- vention was guilty of the stupendous folly of preferring William Mckinley 1 to Thomas B. Reed as the candidate for ! President, and we had as sequence the far from glorious war with Spain. and | the sequence of that was our acquisi- 1 ton of the Philippine archipelago. an other superlative folly that the republic can party has the impudence to lay on Almighty God. Cooper added immeas S. urably to his reputation as a forensic Gebater by his speech on the Philip pine question. Hoar of Massachusetts and Carmack of Tennessee had opposed 1 the governments policy in speeches in the Senate that rank with /the finest specimens of parliamentary eloquencc l in our history, and Cooper gave us the othe CT side.
 Nobody in Congress has ever pretended l to give the one tenable reason for the 1 presence of the American flag in the | Orient-the British alliance and the fed l eration of the English speaking peoples | That would insure the peace and secur- | ity of all who speak our tongue and l make for the tranquility of the world
 But here is the republican party. that
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cause we. Palmer and Buckner, pluto- crats, traitors. and things. howled when "the Bryan democracy undertook to join forces with the populists in 1S96." He closes by bidding me and the rest of the safe and sane layout to get on the pluto crat band wagon. etc.
 Does Colonel Parker mean to say that there was a particle of sympathy on Grover Cleveland's part for what the populists call their principles" which. interpreted, are only another phase of mschevious, worthless. profigate, and unconstitutional paternalism? If he does then he cannot even see, much less ob- serve. Does Colonel Parker deny that "the Peerless One" and the 'Matchless'' not only sympathizes with, but cordially approves and fondly embraces all the stuff the populists promulgate as their principles and things? I trow not Was Grover Cleveland nominated by 8 populist national convention? William J. Bryan was-by two of them-and he &C., cepted.
 Colonel Parker accuses me of "manu- featuring bogus history" However that may be, I will now give him some of the real stuff that any man possessed of the power of observation will understand.
 In 1892 the democratic and populist parties found themselves opposed to d common enemy. It was to the interest of each to eurtail or destroy the supremacy of the republican party, to the end that the democrats might obtain power in- mediately. leaving to the pops hope of power remotely. Hence, in its own in- terest, and not in the interest of the pops, except incidentally. the democratic party accepted the populst party as an auxiliary, just as Maj. Gen. Andy Jack son profited by the services of the pirate Lafitte at New Orleansf
 In 1S49 Thaddeus Stevens Joined with the slave power to defeat Robert c. Win throp for speaker of the Thrty-first Congress, and by the act of Stevens, How ell Cobb a southern shareholder, was chosen speaker. It was the object of the south to have a prosavery speaker; it was the object of Stevens to defeat a northern ''doughface." but it would be ab- surd to say that Stevens had sympathy for slavery or shareholders. and yet he had as much as Grover Cleveland had for popullsts and populism.
 But I will now cite a case that even CO1Onel ParKer can unuefStdnu w nen James II was King of England the Catho- lies and the Quakers found themselves in alliance against the established church to secure religious toleration and allow all nonconformists to worship God ac- eording to their accepted forms. Would Colonel Parker say that there was sym pathy between these two-Catholic and Quaker? Why, the Pope of Rome looked on William Penn as the most despsable of heretics while Penn thought the Pope the same as anti-Christ or a little samer. And that was the feeling existing between Cleveland and Weaver Y -ea2.
 But Bryan and Weaver weres>s ..nck as Brindle and Cherry There was noth- ing the pops believed that Bryan did not accept That is why the democratic party has been hobo ever since it de- posed Cleveland in 1893 and set up Bryan and Jerry Simpson, Bland and Tom Wat son as democratic demigods, or rather demaGogueA.
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solving the mysteries which have puzzled 50 generations of thinkers-mysteries which perplexed Job. and Lueretius and John Foster and Edwards and Mecosh- I think of a scene which is said to have occurred at the University of Virginia. T don't know: don't know; 1 don't know said one of the ablest thinkers of Amer iea to a pert student who was plying him with hard questions Why, doctor, said the youth, T thought that when we came to the university you would tell us all the things that we did not know. You are very greatly mistaken, said Albert Taylor Bledsoe. "I can tell you what l do know: and that will be short story; but if l were to tell you all that you don't know the story would pc very long one'
 I am aware that. thus far, l have given only a general discussion of my theme and that it is perhaps expected that I shall apply in some specific way the principles which have already been laid down-in a word, to give some e1- amples, so here they are:
 More than once I have been present at
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HIS phrase is taken from an. edi-
 torial in religious paper. The
 phrase occurred incidentally and the editor did not enter upon any thing like an elaborate discussion of the matter; but the form of expression was suggestive, and led me into some serious reflection on the question: What sort of agnosticism is wise?"
 Prof. T. H. Huxley, I believe. is credited, or charged, with coining the word "agnostieism," which is. strictly speaking. only a Greek name for ignor- ance. The agnostics are a sect who insist that it is impossible for man to know what are commonly called re- :igious truths Is there God? The agnostic does not know; and he insists that nobody knows or can know. Go1 is called the "Unknowable." Prof Noah k. Davis, with characteristic acuteness says that the agnostics try to rub a little unction into their word "Un
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]" FIFTY years ago Wlsconsin carrieo
 the doctrine of state sovereignty u to the pass of successful nullifica- Lion. and when the big war came Wlscon- ain was under rule to appear in the su- jnreme court at Washington to purge her self of her contempt of the orders of that Tribunal; but law is silent in the clash If arms. and Wisconsin went unwh1pped If her treason Perhaps that Is an unfor- sunate term in light of the fact that nulli- sication is a local question-treason in s;outh Carolina and patriotism in Wiscon- Lin-and so we will just let it go at hat. for since hypocrisy was hrst porn in the world it is given to the elect to lyork iniquity in behalf of virtue, or, as Sir John Falstaff put it.
 ! why, thou unconfinable baseness, 1t IS hs much as I can do to keep the terms bf mine honor precise. l, l. l, myse1, kometimes leaving the fear of heaven on Inc left hand and hiding mine honor in Inv necessity. am fain to shuffle to hedge Ind to lurch.'
 kAnd so with Wisconsin and the fugitive Have law, the Dred Scott decision, and he orders of the supreme bench. Leaving oyalty on the left hand, and hiding her huty in her fanaticism, Wisconsin nulli- jed the law of the land and violated the constitution of the. United States.
 But since Wisconsins S treason was made lffulgent patriotism by the fortunes of var Wisconsin has been thoroughly goyal state and for the old flag and a tension. She has always held up her end If the log in Congress-both houses-and h Carpenter, Spooner and Villas she was Ia the first rank in the Senate. In Bragg he had the most feared and best hated nan in the House of Representatives. There was an election in the Wisconsin legislature some time ago to choose a han to supply the vacancy in the United ltates Senate occasioned by the resigna- Ion of John c. Spooner, and we have the tory that this paper was. presented to he of the candidates for his signature: "I hereby promise and declare that I Till in case of my election to the United Itates Senate from Wisconsin, most eartily support and uphold Senator La Nollette in his work. endcavor, and po- tical effort both in Washington and with | the state as we'll
 He emphatically and Indignantly spurned he offer, and besought somebody to tell km the answer to this question: "Is thy
 
 Neat thing?" He was not elected, and Inrhaps he would not have been had he Excepted the proposal to sell himself for he senatorship.
 HHenry Allen Cooper was the man who Mas invited to become a senator with a pte in pawn, if tradition is to be taken Br truth as it sometimes is. Nobody Aho knows Cooper would credit him with Aly such baseness He is conspicuous for independence of thought, and inde-
 Hence of character. He ofttimes leads ends and enemies alike to be-
 ne is the stuff of which mugwumps
 Fade. He has been known to break
 Ehaclzles of party, not osly in debates,
 On the roll call and if all the swasll-
 xlers had had his determination the .1gressional cat would likely have Zen belled long ago. Not even to sbm Reed himself did Cooper trenb1e In Mar or bend in sycophancy, He is that
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SOME OTHER TIME.

By Bentztown Bard in Baltimore Sun.
 Some other time, I'm busy now l said And saw him go with sad, uncertain tread His broken trinkets dangling by his side;
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SOME POEMS FOR SUNDAY READING

The shattered engine and the battered
 reel, The bursted spring. the top that will not
 run, The leaking sailboat and the twisted I shall find time to mend them, as l said, For all my need of hurrying now hath
 fled!
 Some other time-and now tis that go With head averted and sad tread and
 slow, Calling the little shadow here and there, Through empty hallway, up the hollow
 stair Down the long path that follows through
 the bloom Unto the hillside with it's marble tomb Some other time-O darling, all the years My idle heart now waits amid the tears
 THE RIVER OF YOUTH. By Arthur Stringer. From all the golden hills of Dream, Dew cool and rainbow kissed, It twines and curls, a silver stream, Through valley hung with mist Down past enchanted woods to whore Romance walks ever young, Where kings ride forth to take the air On steeds with velvet hung Where secret stairways tempt the bold, Where pirate caves abound And many chest of Spanish gold May solemnly be found. Through magic years it twines and creeps Past towers of peacock blue, Where still some captured princess sleeps And dreams come always true. Then gleam by gleam the light goes out, Then darkened, grief by grief, It signs into our Sea of Doubt And Manhoods Unbelief.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-01-29
Stockholders Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the an.
nual meeting Of the stockholders Of
Logan, Hyde Park and Smithfeld
Canal Co. will be held In the county
coart room Logan, Cache County,
Utah, on Monday, the 10th day of Feb.
ruary. 1908, at O'Clock, for the pur
pose Of hearing the annual report Of
the Directors, Secretary and Treasur-
er, and transactlng any ether business
that may properly come before the
meeting
LARS G. PETERSON,
Secretary.
Dated at Logan, Utah, Ian. rs, 1908.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1908-01-29
1.-THE Man Of the Hour
Criticism Written by One Who Saw it as
Thing Of Beauty and a Joy Forever.

rake are invadinglthc stage as up.to.
date dramatic data, while love.
which Is commonly supposed to make
the stage, as we'll as the world 90
round. 10 becoming Of secondary In.
terest. In 1.-THE Man Of The HON."
the lion is Horrigan, the political boss
Of large city, who,t further his own
designs and those Of a certain fnan.
ceer, uses his influence to get a rich,
college bred young man elected mayor,
thinking that the young fellow in re.
turn will be at his service to help him
10 putting through any bill he may
desire, especially one TO secure, a per.
petual franchise for street railway In
which he Is interested. The young
mayor, however, though ne has been
elected by the machine, has not sought
his nomination and feels In no wise In.
debted to the boss. Moreover he IL
pervaded by an abnormally clear sense
Of what il right and just and desire
to present clean and distinguished
record to the young woman with
whom he Is 10 love. Aided by the
genial alderman Phelan he finds out
that he IL meant merely to be 4 tool
and resolves to veto the franchise.
And In spite Of pressure Of all kinds
brought against him, disgrace to his
ramily, loss Of fortune. brides, misun.
derstandings with his finance, he
sticks to his purpose but final.
ly downs his opponents secures clean
administration add wins the girl he
loves.
The persistent way In which the
noble youth sticks to the right and is
rewarded In the end savors OF melo.
drama and his virtuous uttefances, oft
repeated, won much applause from pit
to gallery, all Of which is a credit to
Logan. 1t is not In that respect, how.
ever, that the play is great. 1t Is
rather In the clever working up to a
dramatic crisis at the end OF each act
and in the faithful portrayal OF two
we'll known American types, the rich
ward politician, so sure OF his influence
and so openly unscrupulous In his
methods, and the Irish alderman, so
full OF wit and blarney, that the play
attains distinction and becomes the
equal Of the best dramatic work Of
Chas. Hoyt and George AIDE, especial
ly Of the former. Like them Broad.
hurst gives US slices of American life
and characters Astounding In terse,
sensible and often humorous remarks
The Interpretation Of the play last
Saturday was always acceptable and
IN many places admirable. The most
difficult part to play was that OF the
young mayor. To be now q prig,
now lover, now hero, and
always tan estimable young man Of
culture and wealth, Is no easy matter
and the actor to whom the part fell
did creditable but not great work,
his acting In the love scenes especially
having a false ring. By far the best
acting was done by the man who had
the part Of Horrigan. Good acting is
as much matter OF repose as OF ges-
lures and intonations and, whether
silent or speaking, he played the part
to the life. He Is gifted by nature
witha commanding voice and ply
sique which would lend dignity to any
saloon while his face and eyes took on