Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-01
THE YEAR AND SOME SIGNS.

Iaborers have been laid off The pre-
vailing high prices made any consid-
cradle saving out OF the question. al
though wages We're high and many are
looking forward with anxious queries as
to the immediate future.
We would remind them of the fact
that this country cannot for very long
be affected by financial disturbances, as
long as its resources remain what they
are, And they are practically mex
haustible while the enterprise, the in
ventive genius of Americans are unfet-
tered and free to make use of them.
Nowhere in the world are there such
resources such vast uueXpored wealth,
as In this country; and nowhere else
have the inventive. resourceful faculties
OF man been DEVELOPED TO such an ex-
tent as here. Panics. whether artificial
or not. cannot last long under Ameri-
can conditions.
This hope has been strong all during
the past years trouble. The press. the
business men. politicians. all have been
united in predicting a speedy re-adjust-
ment of the Industrial conditions. and
optimism is the key note of the be-
ginning of the new year. People gem
orally have faith in themselves. faith in
the country and faith in that creative
principle which rights all wrongs. and
brings harmony out of discord. And
this faith will soon be triumphant.
Let IT. therefore, be happy new
yearl
The past year has presented some i'm
portant developments. one of the most
noticeable is. perhaps the phenomenal
gains made by the friends and advo.
Gates OF temperance. No matter how
this be accounted for. II has been so
real as to cause the saloon interests
considerable loss. Adolphus Busch is
reported to have lost million dollars
by adoption of prohibition IN Oklahoma.
AT recent meeting OF New York
state liquor dealers st was resolved
that the whisky interests are i'm grave
danger and that something must be
done to evade their impending fate.
They have therefore summoned tho no,
tel owners and managers to assist them
IN fighting the advance of prohibition.
This is one of the remarkable features
of the pres@nt Let the good work 20
on. The low class saloons are largely
responsible for the waves OF crime that
sweep the country. They have met all
appeals 10 reason and decency and com
mon sense with lordly rebuffs. With
their reeklng hands heavy upon munlci-
pal affairs they have often rejected
every proposition looking to public
peace and good order. Let the fight go
on.
Another remarkable feature of our
time is the agitation that is constantly
gong on for the widening OF the chasm
between the different classes OF society:
and that in a country where there
should be no class distinctions. A num-
Der of agitators are constantly preach-
ing to one class that they are Slaves
and that their duty is to rise" against
the 'oppressors" The other class con-
sists of 'oppressors" of "tyrants." OF
monsters What this viii lead to is
not yet fully apparent but IT Is moi
without effect, The ranks Of the dis
satisfied are rapidly filling up. and the
response to the clamor of agitators Is
heard as the gradually swelling roar of
Hood. 1t portends no good
Ihe religious outlook OF the presoat
Is worthy of our special attention. II
cannot be denied that both Catholicism
and Professionalism are losing their
power over human society. while new-
tangled systems, and absurd theories
are taking hold Of the heart. In sp.te
OF our boast in the interest of reason
and science,
Recently Il New Haven clergyman.
Dr. Newman Smyth, called attention
10 this fact, in a sermon. From re-
view of the address we gather that
the speaker himself n Protestant. free
~ confessed that Professionalism can.
not be considered the final aud highest
phase of the Christian religion. lis
mission was the establishment OF ln-
dividual liberty, ana thls can never be
undone, but that mission Is about
ended. According to Dr. Smyth, Prot
estantism has had two important
phases OF which the first was the ago
OF protest against the one great church
then existing, ana the second was the
age OF construction " new churches
and creeds, This second phase is now
ended, The separatst tendency has
exhausted itself ;and for two or thee
generations creeds have tended TO be
disintegrated rather than migrated.
lie freely asserts that Professionalism
is incapable of furnishing from with
IN itself the new Catholicism which Is
10 unite Chrstendom. II having lost
the unifying power. THE Roman
church says Or. Sinyth "once was
as a strong cable, one end OF which
was bound 10 the eternal power ana
the other end of which was fastened
firmly TO the whole mechanism OF hu-
man life, II controlled the world, and
moved II whittier it would. In Protest
antism the rope on It's human end has
frayed out into many threads, No sim
gle strand of II is strong enough to
move the whole social mechanism, it
is like so many reyolyings, at best one
thread may move a few wheels" The
meaning OF this is that Professionalism
~ TO pass away; II IL TO be merely an
element, In combination with other ele-
ments, Of the ultimate religion.
What is true OF Proestantism In this