The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-05-20

against the Underwood bill. Other senator's whose
states are certain to suffer seriously from the ras
ing of the radical flag of free trade would like only
too well to see the bill greatly changed or alto
gether defeated in the senate, but the party lash
threatens them and the loss Of patronage looms
up before them. They lack the nerve and the
courage either to stand by their own convictions
or to vote for what they know to be the interest
of their constituents. Some Of them frankly
Indifferent and brutal. For example, Senator Bry
an of Florida who is quoted as saying:
Frankly, OF the opinion that the Florida
oranges need no protection, and doubt IL the BILL
at thirtyfve cents a box, will raise more than an
insignificant revenue.
Now the citrus growers of Florida unit
in asking for protection. Surely they know their
own situation and needs in this regard. Senator
Bryan cannot possibly be better Judge Of the
matter than the men who grow the fruits. But
he waves them aside with the assertion that they
need protection. He will Of course vote that
way. But there will come another vote not long
hence. That will be vote of the people of Flo.
ida and II will decide whether Senator Bryan Is
right and they wrong, wee versa. Il the,
decide that he is wrong the gcntlemans senatorial
career VIII come to a stop. The same dec sion,
based upon the same cause will terminate many
careers in both the senate and House within the
next four years.-American Economist.
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UTAH
The fairest picture ever hung in a rustic frame
Long ago 1t was the fashion to say that Utah was
SIMPLY desert. Those who said 1t did not know
the ways of nature Where she had cached the
great treasures, what more natural than that she
should place her guards over them? So in 1.-THE
long ago she upheaved her mountains, giving them
a majestic but solemn look to awe the curious com
81 he her aIleyo nd hat.
wealth might not be known, carpeted them with
the gray serge OF the desert.
So through the ages, dreamed Of the
treasures in her mountains, or how her valleys
might be transformed ..# ~
But the pioneers came at last. Save the
warmth of the summer air and the smile Of the
sunbeams, there was no sign of welcome awaiting
them, and the desert silence wrapped them round
like winding sheet. -
But they knelt upon the desert ground and
gave thanks for the mercies that were theirs. II
was the first prayer heard in Utah. Then
rising they sang praise service. It was the first
music that ever rang out on the air of Utah
Then they went to work and to.led on until
the bloom fed from their faces and their hands
grew gnarled. So they filed their measures of lifes
duties and passed on.
But in the meantime the frown of the desert
SreW less ana less repeilant and IN places was re-
placed by smiles; and in compensation for the
youth that had fled and to the face that had
become scanned with toll and care, flowers be
gan to appear where only the serge of the desert
had been.
In the meantime, too, the sulen mountains
opened their treasure chambers and poured forth
their wonders.
Then 1t clear why at first they had sta
toned their sentinels Of desolation and cold and
snow on watch. 1t was to hold those treasures in
violate until the coming of those who could use
them wisely.
Then rare structures began to appear in the
valleys, further and further away the desert re-
coded. Now from the heights such pictures can
be seen In their rustic frames might have been
painted by angel hands with brushes dipped in
sunbeams. And II the stranger will set out from
Salt Lake and go either north south he will be
greeted with such views as he never before
of fruitful fields and thriving hamlets, all watched
over by overhanging, gloriHed mountains, SO filled
with sunlight, the songs of birds and bloom of
flowers and fruit trees, that he will admit the en-
and acknowledge that every blessing Of
God seems to be In Utah and that the moving pic
lures before and around him must have been paint
ed by immortal hands with dykes taken from the
fountains where light and love and glories unspeak
able brewed.-C. c. Goodwin in the Educa
tional Review
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PEACE DAY IN UTAH
The promotion of universal peace perma