The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-07-20

epilogue are considered worthy to be
called progressive.
Somebody has defined standpat.
ter as man who has stopped and
can, not start and as progressive as
one who has started and can not
stop. If these definitions are TO be
accepted as accurate, sensible peo-
Pile will avoid both schools. II would
seem to be the part OF wisdom to de-
lay starting at least long enough to
ascertain where we are going and
why, and then to keep going as long
as we are headed in the right direc.
ton, and to stop whenever we discov.
er that we have lost our bearings.
Movement and Improvement are not
always synonymous terms. Just now
there is good deal OF political and
social unrest, not only among our
own people, but throughout the world.
That there is justification for much
of the dissatisfaction which exists
can probably not be truthfully de-
MED. The conditions, however, which
have given rise to this feeling call for
sane, wise, level.headed counsel and
consideration. But instead of these
the agitator is abroad and confusion
of thought results. Evils exist as
they have always existed. Many rene
dies are being suggested, some of
them good, some of them foolish,
many of them utterly vicious and i'm
practicable. There are quacks in po-
litics as there are quacks in medi.
cine. and in the one case as in the
other. the quack is usually identified
by the superabundance of the lauda-
ton with which he advertises himself
and his remedies.
The value of a remedy in politics,
as in medicine, is to be determined
by its efficiency as a curative, and
not by the name which its compound
ers have caused to be blown into the
bottle or the promises which they
have made in their advertising circu-
lars. Between the political quack, who
thinks only of himself, and the poll
teal zealot, who does not think at
all, we are In grave danger of having
all the stability and sanity ground
out of our institutions. What we
need. in my judgment, is not so
much the adoption of new, experiment.
tal--not to say dangerous-panacea
for the ills of the body polite, as the
conscientious and vigorous enforce
Sir, we are living in strenuous days.
Everybody seems to be afflicted in
one form or another with the speed
mania. We are not content to jog
along in the old family carriage after
the comfortable manner of our ia
Tiers; we must hurl ourselves
through the land in high.pow auto.
mobiles, dividing the population into
the quick and the dead" as we pass.
The stage-coach has been relegated
to the scrap heap, and the Twentieth
Century Limited has taken it's place
The post office has fallen into more
CT less disuse, and we are carrying
on our correspondence over the tel
egraph wires by night lettergrams and
day lettergrams. The housewife no
longer shops with market basket up
on her arm; she telephones the gro
Ger and adds the bill for both tele.
phones 10 the cost of living. To do
everything more quickly, to travel
faster and faster is the growing alb.
session of the times, and we are Gag.
erly looking forward to the day when
we shall fly through the air without
the CIRCUMFERENCE of gasoline tank
drawing promilsive power as we. &c
from the electric waves which fiji the
universe with the mysterious energ,
OF their rise and fall. The microbe o.
restlessness has invaded not only on,
social but our business and politica
| life as well. We are no longer salts