, 1914-09-24
working and Weeping all the Time"

The following editorial from the pen of Judge Goodwi of Salt
Lake, is worthy of your study and attention. Judge Goodwin is one
of the most expressive writer's of the west and we find much food for
thought in his wonderful writings.
"Our government is neutral in the present war; our people are
supposed to be, but the desires of former nationalties of thousands
and tens of thousands of them are heard every day praying for the
crushing of this or that power. OF course this cannot be changed,
but to thoughtful people there was more in the few words of a Salt
Lake lady Just returned from Europe, and published in a local paper,
than in all the dispatches detailing the carnage going on. Those
words in substance were: The women of Germany are doing the
work, working and weeping all the time' So are the women of
Austria, of Belgium, of Great Britain, of France, of Servia and of
Russia. The young and brave men who r dying in battle III not
the chiefest sufferers. In the battles eestacy, with martial music
playing, great guns roaring and flags waving. they are translated and
sink to everlasting peace.
But the mothers, the wives, the sisters, the sweethearts, what of
themP There is no music for them, the shouting of mel and the
roar OF guns Is to them a horror, and the flags are but funeral plumes
I'm their hearts is the pain that no anesthetic can quiet, in their
minds there every day grows a doubt of the mercy of God.
This year or next or sometime the war will exhaust it's sinister
energies, but the shadow made by the heartaches and the hearbreak-
ing will continue through all this generation and over millions of
people will be continued to the next. And the shame of it all and
the sin. That the nations of modern Europe should fall to killing
each other, just when the oriental hive is beginning to swarm and
the millions there are learning with the arts of peace all the arts of
war. The blame of the war is laid on this o that power. Why dis
cuss this when all we're 30 ready that in a single fortnight, from a
profound peace, millions were engaged in that legal murder called
war. Here we must distinguish between the two kinds of war, the
one holy, the other wicked beyond description. When an oppressed
people strike for liberty, that is a holy war on their part.
when a nation arouses itself and goes to break the chains from
the necks and wrists of Il long oppressed people, that is a holy war.
When behind a war there is nothing but a sordid commercielism and
but for power and territory, such a war is but rolling back the
wheels of civilization, the returning of man to the ferocties of bar
true American with sollcitude and sorrow as he thinks of the inno-
cent men who are dying, of the innocent women who are given a
measure of suffering more bitter than death.
"Our nation is neutral in a national sense, but it cannot escape
some of tue wars sorrows, and can only wait and hope that the
mighty tragedy beyond the e may quickly exhaust itself, and that
reason NAV return and begin anew to smooth the fields made desoIota
by the red plowshare of war"
The result in Maine is very gratifying to the republican party
Their vote increased approximately 125 per cent, while the progress
sive vote fell off 63 per cent as compared with the vote for president
in 1914 The democratic vote increased about 10 per cent, showing