The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-04-15
THE BUSY AUTO

4 few rocks some of them good sized fellows, on
Main street, from the court house north to the
,ity limits. OF not many people believed
hat there were any rocks there, but the autos
hough differently, and when they were driven into
he various garages throughout the city, Sunday
vening, with tires SCARED and torn, evidences Of
hard days toll was abundant. But thanks to the
usy auto. Pshaw. While Logan City Is paying
street supervisor 5000 per year more than any
ther street supervisor has ever been paid and al.
owed to hire his own team in the bargain. the
alary being $3.50 per year more than is paid the
ame official in the city Of Provo, the busy auto
,oes out, and in one day knocks all the rocks off
he road Good for the auto.
i. + i.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In Saturdays issue OF the Telegram, Editor c.
:. Goodwin wrote as follows Thomas jefferson:
Tomorrow is of the saint days of the
Democratic party. They have but two. To-
morrow will be the Jefferson day. which they
most revere. especially when they wish 10 be
dignhed. Later will come jackson day, which
most Of them love best Jefferson wrote the
great declaration but it Jackson who pro-
mulgated the immortal sentiment that ito the
victors belong the spoils." And Just at this sea.
of this particular year, all that Is high in
science, all that is sublime in investigation all
that is beautiful in art and poetry, is embodied
in that immortal maxim
But tomorrow Is a sacred anniversary. When
the powers that ruled decided at last that there
was no hope for man save by new dispense
ton, and determined, the virgin soil of the
new world, to plant government founded on a
new theory: that whereas heretofore one mar
had been the power and the people had been
subjects, there would be a right about face of
he unit hat Twin RIGHT NJ
should no longer be accepted, but that the worlds
sovereignty should be in the hands of the worlds
people
To make that change needed some prelimn-
aries and among them 1t was especially needed
that few men should be born. One OF these
was Thomas Jefferson, and so his coming to this
world but the fulfilling of destiny. He
was great in nearly all the essentials OF great
man. He was fair lawyer, wonderful writer,
profound scholar, but he had little streak
Of the demagogue In him. On festal days he
liked to show off, He early took in the full
meaning Of the fact that II this was to be a gov
eminent of the people, to be controlled by the
vote of the peope then the successful man
must be the man who could get that vote. And
so from the first he sincerely or otherwise, pro-
fessed wonderful love for the people.
Then he went off to France minister and
there he picked up a whole lot o. red Republ
can ideas, and took 1t into his head that the
trouble with the world mostly was that there
we're too many laws, and that II the people could
have full show they would do about the RICH,
thing.
Then, there were some little envious spot
in the back of his brain. He hated Alexande
Hamilton chiefly because he knew that Hami
ton was a great soldier, great statesman
great writer and, more especially
he was the whom Washington ieane
on most And So when Aaron Burr killed Ale,
ander Hamilton in duel and went to Washing
ton. MI jefferson. then president, gave him
state dinner at the White House
We mention this merely to show that ther
was a time when he was not saint, when D
was Just a man, and imbued with some OF IN
great attributes of a great man, some OF the les
commendable attributes of common man
But his weak points never equalled his roI
ones. He was essentially "A statesman in a tho
sand ways His patriotism was never questio
ed, beyond that he wanted to see his countr
men all better of One of his characteristic
was shown when he went to Italy and found G
o. grain called rice. He tried to buy some, enou
to make a start in America, but they would n
sell it to him. SO he stole great coat poke
full OF 1t and brought II back 10 America
from that the rice crop Of this country stsrte
He wanted the land better cultivated;
wanted manufactures northumberland hence
favored h protective tariff, that some men W
money might be encouraged to build a manuf
tories and teach some Of the people how to
them He wanted the shipping Of our coun
10 advance until II reached point where
would be independent OF the earth Outside
40 Jealous was he OF the honor and the mamie
and the texture OF the people that at one time