The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-06
Speaker of Next House Of Repre-
sentatives Cites Missouri to
Show Less Lawlessness.
AIRSHIPS WILL END WAR
Democratic Leader Speaks TO
Young Men s Christian Asso-
citation.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Feb. Say
ing he is an optimist and believes the
world is growing better, Representa-
tive Champ Clark of Missouri. speaker
elect of the national house, delivered
a message Of "hope and courage" In
an address today before the Young
Men IS Christian association here,
Mr.. Clark contended it was better
to look upon the bright side of things
than upon the dark, and that q "lubl
late is more pleasant music than n
miserere'
If the world were not growing bet
ter, he said then the school system
which America boasts and which costs
so much was an lgnomlnious failure and
all religion was a failure and he did
not believe either to be true. Why so
many good people believe the world is
growing worse was explained by Mr..
Clark as a matter Of evolution of com
munIcation; that nowadays, any place
on earth is in reach Of the telephone
or telegraph and man may do n thou
sand good things and never get his
name in the newspapers, but the first
time he does bad thing, in it goes.
Missouri Is Better.
Mr.. Clark said that when he went
to Missouri thirty-hvc years ago. the
average number of homicides in Pike
county was between four and Ave a
wear. and now they averaged less than
one. That. he believed was measur
ably true of every other county in the
country.
Somebody once said'' continued
Mr.. Clark. 'that after all we are sim.
ply veneered savagcs. ! neither affirm
nor, deny that proposition. Up to ten
or fifteen years ago, prize fight could
he pulled of in any state with abso-
Lutte impunltv, there is not a single
state in which it is not penal of
fense.
Cup to comparatively recent years,
a duel couId be fought in any state
without any fear Of serious conse
quences. Now there is no state in
which it is not felony a man who
would have anything 10 do with duel
in Missouri is n stark idiot. il Is
murder in the first degree to kill a
10 fight duel; felony 10 agree IN
Missouri to go out of the state to
fight a duel.
Wars Less Frequent.
Thanks he to Almighty God. wars
are becoming rarer and rarer. One
thing which the flying machine will
accomplish will be to put an end for
ever and forever to all wars. Lotte
ries have been stopped. Institutions
for preservation Of moral relief of hui
man sufferings for perpetuity Of our in
stitutlons are sprlnglng up on every
hand.
"The idea Of reformation of crimi-
mails rather than their punishment is
taking a deep hold on the minds of
men. There is more money today de-
voted to charity per capita than ever
before. Controversial religion has
passed and practical religion is at
hand. The masses of the people are
waking up to the fact that politics
should be purified. demanding primary
elections, senatorial elections by popu-
lar vote and other important reforms.
'Of course we have not attained
the millennium, The mighty republic
is built not for day but for all time
one and indivisible. destined by God to
be the dominating influence th-oug hout
the world IN all the centuries yet to
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