Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-31

The Term Peanut" politics are small,
'.Pcanut' partial. petty politics. me
Politics.. term is applied usually 10
individuals practising 1t, not
to groups OF men. But groups of voters
can play the game as Well as puollc
officials and political leaders. 1t IS re-
ported that New York physicians pro-
nose to vote against Gov. Hughes be-
cause he gave new and better legal
standing TO osteopaths We do not
credit the report. II Is too great q re-
Election on the intelligence and breadth
of view Of learned, honorable and al,
truistic profession. But IL 1t shoula
prove true 1t would only illustrate now
easy it Is to reduce government 70 d
matter Of barter Of strife between
classes. II you once conceive OF govern,
ment as existing to promote persolial
or Glass" pecuniary interests. Sucn
view OF government exists today 70 a
degree never known before In TINS
country. II the wage Garner and iiiat-
ual laborer is justified In taking II, OF
If the capitalist promoter or lnoustts
and commerce is so 1ustlned' the i,,.t ~
course. the professional man is 1usli-
fed. Once the process begins there Is
no logical stopping place this side OF
chronic class warfare, with ofilclais
and lawmakers as puppets. 70 execute execute
the desires of the strongest groups
Boston Herald.
Advocates II the Investigations now
Marriage in progress reveal tnsl
By PROXY, our law prohibits or makes
no provision for marriage
by proxy" the obviously proper course
will be to amend the law SO as 10
remedy that oversight. Such mar,
'riages have been recognized as leSal
and proper in most times ana couh-
tries, by both church and state, ana
certainly, on the theory that mar
riage Is a contract, there is no reason
why the principals should not be per-
mltted to bind themselves as they can
in other countries, by the acts OF duly
authorized representatives.
We are under the impression that
such marriages have before now,
though very rarely, been performed
and recognized in this country. They
are frequent In the annals of Euro
penn royalty, and nobility, though even
In those higher realms they seem to
have gone out of fashion in recent
years. The change has resulted, how
ever, not from any particular ob1ec-
tons to the proxy by marriage. but
from the fact that modern conditions
of life are not likely often to make that
form of ceremony essential to the pro-
lection of important interests or even
especially convenient. OF course they
were never much In vogue with the
ordinary people who married for rea-
sons exclusively personal and, as it
were, "of the Yicinage."
Naturally, Americans have had lit
tie or no use for marriages by proxy,
and that doubtless accounts for the
fact that our laws make no explicit
provision for them. but when crcum-
stances do arise which, in the opinion
of the interested persons, render It
desirable that the hymeneal knot
should thus be tied arguments for not
letting them do 1t seem to be entirely
wanting. That marriages should have
certain degree of formality and pub
Icity Is essential to the proper conduct
of society, but it is decidedly against
public policy to put unnecessary diffi-
culties In the way of those with u right
as well as an inclination to wed anu
If even only once in a. while young
people, or old ones either, for that
matter, find it expedient to enter into
matrimonial bonds by the utilization of
o deputy why shouldn't they be al
lowed to do it?--New York Times.
Better or disregarding certain sec
Than Ever. tions, and taking the ma
ton as Il whole, | be-
lcNc ii to be true that the farmers in
general are better off than they ever
We're before. We Americans are making
great progress in the development of
our agricultural resources. But it is
equally true that the social and
economic institutions of the open coun.
Nelopment of the nation as whole.
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