Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-07

/, short by the invention of newspapers rs,
| In the first place 1t became, for me
| average man, Il much larger WoIia.
| BEFORE then he, of course. knew thu
| mon lived beyond his city, or manor
| or canton. but they affected ms eVSIs
| day life almost as little as II they hst ti
| lived in Mars or Venus: he heard OIL
them so infreauently. his acquaintance
With everything concerning them was
so imperfect and so tardy that fot
him. they could scarcely be said 10 OK
list When the newspapers pegan 70
place beside his breakfast plate an
epitome OF their yesterdays history,
II was as If a telescope We're coflstrn lp..
ed a million-fod stronger than any
vet known, through which astronom-
ers could contemplate and afterward
report the good or III fortune of intel
iigent beings on our sister plaIets.
This immense extension in the area OF
each mans attention ana sympathy
has naturally and powerfully reacted
in all respects for the better: the un-
selfish interests which any one can
take in the affairs of others is fixed
quantity or at least is not capable
of indefinite expansion, and when you
spread 1t out broad you also spread
It out thin. What we read among
tho locals Of our daily paper is of
heard in the agora or the forum was
to Pericles or to Cicero. When olie
learns so much about so many people
all the time the impression left by any
one incident in the life OF any one
person Is dwarfed and deadened. we.
feel everything outside OF ourselves the
less because there Is so much more
that we feel a little. But for the loss
there is more than compensation In
the development of our sense of proper
ton. and therefore of Justice. In q
Hindoo fable a fox, caught In 1000,
cries out: This is tho delnen which
will destroy the world Many AMI
mails rush affrghted to the spot, mt
only TO say one to the other: We
see no deluge. we see only fox gel
ting drowned" The newspapers make
MS realize that Il delube is not needed
to drown any one of US: the world Will
roll OH much as before when we no
longer roll with it; the great ocean
of human life will not be dried. it will
hardly be ruffled. when the little wave
let Of your or my separate conscious
exsistence shall subside. Just as the
telescope teaches us the insgnificance
OF our earth by showing US inconcev-
able nYriads Of other worlds in the
vast scheme of creation, so the press
mirrors the microscopic sinallness OF
each individual by showing him how
little of loss or gain to humanity the
success Or disaster of any one among
the countless multitude Of his brethren
may mean.--AttorneyG General Charles
j. Bonaparte, in the Forum.
Capital IN The socialistic state all
Socialism. The incomes of the year
Poverty. would be pooled. They
would make a composite
sum out ot which every ones stipend
would have to be taken. There would
be no special and personal profit for
any one. The gains that come from
improved technique would not be dis
tinguishable from those that come from
other sources. Every one would be a
laborer and every one would get his
daily or weekly stipend; and If capital
had to be increased--if tho needs OF an
enlargins business had to he provided
for at all--it could only be done by
withholding some part of that stipend.
L would be an unwelcome way of MAX
ing accommodations. 1t would mean the
conscious acceptance by the entire
working class of smaller income
than might otherwise be had. If one
has heroic confidence in the far-Seeing
quality and in the generous purpose of
the working class, he may perhaps
think that it will reconcile itself to
this painful self-denial for tlh, benefit
of the future; but 1t is clear that there
are large probabilities in the other di-
rection There Is danger that capital
would not be thus saved in sufficient
quantity, and that. If 1t were not So no
power on earth could prevent the earn
ing capacity of labor from suffering In
consequence. From mere dearth Of cap
ital the socialistc state, though 1t were
more progressive than we think, would
be in danger Of becoming poorer and
poorer-John Bates Clark, In the Octo-
Der Atlantic.
Fleeing We must get down
From the stairs to the cellar
Bullets. which was the only place
in the house where we
would be safe. But unfortunately the
house had only one stairway,
and it faced the front, where
the heavy firing was. 1t was a great
risk, but it must be taken; there was
no other way. Leaning down close to.
Diana SO she could hear me. / said:
We are going to be killed if we stay
here; we must run to the cellar. You
go first and I will come last" My
thought was to send them first, SO ii
they We're wounded I would. perhaps
be left to care for them. She started
promptly. ran down the hall to the
top of the stairs, jumped astride Of
the banister and slid rapidly to the
bottom watched till [ saw her dis
appear safely to the rear of the
house, and then said to Polly, "You
go next" She started to obey, but