The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-07-13
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fected flag of smallpox or cholera. II
is more serious offense to poison Ia.
minds OF the children and the students
OF the country than it is to infect them
with a disease. The mind. once ta,nt.
ed, never is restored to perfect health
A suggestion of dishonor made against
the representative bodies of the PEG.
pie of the country is never eradicated
from the mind of the child.
If 1t is said that the charges are
true, why Investigate them? No man
should say that these charges are true
unless he can stand in his place and
show that they are true by giving the
day, date, data, and names. The things
charged in that document are crimes.
They are crimes against the law of
citizenship; they are crimes against
the law of the land. There should De
no necessity for an investigation of
such charge by a committee.
What would be the result? Send
out a committee of this body to travel
up and down the land for months ana
months, sitting in various places, wIl.
its daily proceedings made the sub.
ject matter Of newspaper bubble and
comment, charge and vituperation and
you had as well send the trailing bag
Of infectious disease from one end OF
the country to the other to poison the
air. There is nothing more important
than that the minds of the people of
the country, especially of the youth
and those whose minds are in process
of formation, should remain untainted
by a charge coming from a responsible
body.
1t is bad enough to be confronted
with irresponsible Islander, but II IS
infinitely worse to be confronted by
a charge coming with the sanction of
the Senate of the United States
for investigation in the local commun.
tiles of the United States. The COM
mittee would succeed in procuring con
lecture, uncertainty but would any
man come before the committee and
make definite charge? If he would
he is accessible now without this pub.
lie exhibition of irresponsible charges
The thing to be desired is that what.
ever has occurred during these poll.
teal contests shall be buried in obi
won as soon as possible that most OF
the men shall be forgotten at the ear
lest possible moment. The names OF
men who engage in disgraceful con-
duct in the performance of public duty
ought not to be remembered over
night. No man is entitled to fame be-
cause of his misbehavior.
This, If 1t is calculated for anything
more than another, is calculated 20 per
petuate the consideration of the evil
deeGs OF evil men. We do not wanT
tina. kind of history written. We want
to write only the history of the good
deeds of good men. and how much OF
it would be found in the report OF
this committee? 1t does not ask thai
the committee shall investigate lawful
deeds of men engaged in lawful pro
ceedings. 1t is a little on the order
of the journalism of the day. | have
not seen in any paper any statement
as to the good deeds of man IN dis
play type at the head of column.
have not noticed any reference to the
class of men who do good deeds ex'
cept, perhaps, in obituary. Would =
sit under the resolution
hear the facts in regard to really gre
and pure statesman actuated by high
motives of craftsmanship? 1t does not
ask that they shall do it, and they
have no jurisdiction. 1t is simply
dragnet in search of crime, in search
of the disreputable, in search OF that
which should be forever hid.
Now, Mr.. President, 1t is not a sub
ject to elaborate on very much, in my
Judgment. 1t contains suggestions
innuendoes enough to wipe out ever!
good and patriotic impulse in the mil
and breast of every child in the land.
A suggestion that those things are
true to those who are studying the IN
situations and learning the lesson OF
citizenship is a blot upon their life,
care not what are the politics OF the
officials who are charged irresponsibly
against whom suggestion is made
that II you will enter into this investi-
CATION you will probably find that they
are disreputable. would like the
man IN stand nm hafnra us and make