Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-16

| Why DO Not Can II be that Nature Is
| The Women reasserting her author
| Talk More? ity? We may NOT deny
that upon all females,
except those politely considered as hu-
man, she did and does enjoin submis
siNe Silence. II is the cock that crows.
the gandcr than honlts. the ather bird
that sings, the bullfrug that pulps, and
even the masculine gtasshopper that
stridently rasps his wings. So today
In conformity with barbaric customs.
quictude Is imposed upon the hatcm OF
a urk as upon that ora chantiCleer,
but how long since not without cause
did we suppose we perceived the dis
appearance OF the habit among civilized
peoplcsl Are VIC not then. driven to the
conclusion that women uf today are be-
ginning to talk less In the hope of thus
better pleasing men? If so, while COM
mcnding the motive, we would unhesi-
tatingly question tho method. Ameri-
can women err grievously in assuming
that their actual or would-be lords dis
like TO hear them converse upon all
suitable occasions. The mere music
OF their voices as contrastcd with the
raucous male note easily counterbal-
ances any possible disparity in the
Ideas expressed And. compared with
sheer stupidity of studied sullSiness,
loquacity is a joy TO all mankind. Upon
all grounds therefore--in the interest
of progress and enlightenment, for the
unburdening of the spirit, to enhance
cheerfulness, to discourage care. to
brighten the home, for sincerltys sake
no less than for circumspection's even
for the preservation OF peace and quiet
within and without the American fam
iiy,--we cry out for loosening of the
delicate tongues now so strangely and
so suspiciously stilled. George Harvey,
in the North American Review for May.
Disciples With Mr.. Wu Ting
Of Confucius fang's undoubted talent
In America. for winning u public we
must now look forward
to a boom in Confucianism. The name
we have known for a long time. only
it has been nothing but a name to u.s.
Yet the maxims of Confueius are in
far greater accord with the essential
spirit of our civilization than the var
ious incarnations of Buddhism and
spirit worship which have gone into the
fashioning of our New Thought relig-
ions. For If certain inclination towards
the supernatural be the mark of our
newest religions and medical sciences.
these represent only a pathologic state
of our national character, or stand out
at most as a reaction against the pre-
vailing materialisIn of our national
ideals. 1t is to those ideals that Confu-
cianism Is admirably qualified to min
Mr. Otis SWEET Marsden Of Success,
has offered better counsel in the viz
tues that lead to getting on in the
world than the Chinese sage who built
his entire system on the principles of
Smile even when You are down and
out and Never knock. New York
Evening Post.
Enelands The new cabinet Eng
New Cabinet land now has Is
Very Strong. stronger because on
all questions of for
eign policy the prime minister and the
foreign secretary are now at one. so
far as the latters department of at
fairs Is concerned, the cabinet is a
Rosebery cabinet without Lord Rose
berry. 1t would be hard TO conceive
two men in closer political agreement
than MIR. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey.
Both belong to the same school of po-
litical thought and to the same order
OF political temperament. Both are |
pledged TO uphold the continuity of |
foreign policy. In the last cabinet 1t |
not infrequently happened that the pre- |
mier and the foreign secretary spoke |
with two voices. "C-B' subscribed to |
the sentimental view of foreign affairs, |
and rarely yentund on questions con- |
nected with them without compromis- |
ing his country His handling of the |
Hague conference and the limitation of |
for instance, was altogeth- |
er opposed to the general sense of the |
country. Nobody In England thought l
ii was Sir Edward Grey's doing, or I,
that he really approved of it. II was |
recognized as q stroke off |
CHS" own bat. and the awkwardness
of the prime minister having one poll
cy and his foreign secretary another |
was widely commented on. Nothing of
the kind ia likely to happen while the
present cabinet remains in office. The
agreement between Mr.. Asuuith and
Sir Edward Grey on the first principles,
aims, and methods of British foreign /
policy is complete, and the nation most
gains by 1t. Again the new
cabinet is stronger because 1t has got
rid of some of the less satisfactory
members OF the old. Lord Elgin leaves
the colonial office after ruling an as
tonished empire in the manner of the
heavy father of stage tradition, Dull,
slow. and unresponsive, he resembled
that predecessor whom Lord Rosebery
has crucified as one Of those strange
children of our political system who
to MI the most dazzling Of
fees with the most complete obscurity"
British personality that ought never to
be allowed inside the colonial office
the kind Of personality from which IL
was hoped that Mr.. Chamberlain had
forever rescued the governance Of the
empire. Lord Tweedmouth, again, is
transferred from the admiralty at $685.
900 year TO the dtgnhed ssclusion of !
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