Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1914-11-26
Intelligent Thinking Needed.

This sentiment 81 sending large
sums tU Europe was aroused first IT
all by the Hp-cailed 'ancicty crowd 81
the Eastern cities and has been taken
Iup by others who have thpughtloaily
followed the lead Such leadership is|
never good. because u IL not and can
not be- based upon Intelligent think
ling The fact IL that We have In every
large city today AZ much suffering
cauHrd by this war NJ have cities ~
the same siz" In Europe
before the winter " over IN our
great cities We viii need every dollar
and we ought Co meet our own prob
lem and care for those who are SUI
fcring through NO fault 10 Their own.
You say. Well. those yondcr are SUI
lfcring through NO fault ~ their own
That IL true In part ilut the sooner
the people ~ Europe are forced To
know that they can never bc safe until
they get rid 81 rulers and policies that
live upon war. then the sooner will We
have world of peace, and the en-
trance of that day when righteous
mess and not brute force shall rule
the world.
surely he who knows the history
LOT our Institutions and has drunk In
lnnything of the spirit that character
lied those who founded this nation
believes that We shall have n mighty
part In leading the nations to world
LOT brotherhood n only We are true "
our sacred obligations.
This IN the most difficult Thanks
giving period most Of ua have ever
known, The harvest IN our own land
LIS the most bountiful that We have
ever known. Every corner " the
land has brought forth wheat and
corn and grass and grain until the
learth has fairly groaned under the
, abundance. Aud then Ia this won
lderful autumn the trees have show
lercd fruits until there IN hardly room
for them all.
The granarlea are all full, the him
are bursting with their golden stores
and all over our land men are hun
, CRY. AS view the situation there
! ARE two Fundamental causes for THU
condition The immediate cause Of
Our natural trouble today In the wal
with Europe. We have no market
for the products of our fields and
mines
This In the twentieth century. the
century that men prophcsied was dcs
timed 90 be the greatest of all the cen
INullth w ANAh hhhhAAH VIZ w" -
cease and there was To be fedora
ltlon OF the world. But this centur,
Twas ushered In by two wars, th'
lspaniHh-American and the South AZ
lrlcan. The century Ii only fourteen
Years old and yet II has witnessed II
Its brief fourteen years three wars 81
the first magnitude-the lusso-Jap
anese war the Balkan war and th'
present war OF the nations.
and this present war of the ma
lions Ii the most terrible thing Of his
tory IL has upset All the prophecies
IL has caused doubt 10 linger az man!
an altar OF faith. We have said ter
y rihle things about the barharianH, hu
!, this war puts modern Europe below
the barbarinns, II may be honorable
20 fight under certain circumstances
hut "a be "a thug IN never honorable
To-day ship h sailing the water
oheying the rules 81 war when sud
denly she and an her men are blow
into eternity by the explosion Of
hidden mine,
That Is the tactics of the thug II
the alley who strikes from behind
And that method of today puts so
called civilization below barharism
We have used terrible words 10 de
nounoe the nations OF antiquity tina
poisoned wells, but We have deyisel
y a method that puts US In class b.
y ourselves; we have poisoned the Wa
tiers OF the thoroughfaTes Of the ma
= lions. We have laid mines along TN
ocean floors to he manipulated In IN
dark and 10 strike from the back.
| what nonsense To talk OF the rule
OF modern warfare! There are IA
rules; the mines and the Zeppelin
have put modern civilization on a pa
with the Huns. and have made Assy
ria and Medea great in comparison"
large steam Vulcanizing plan
has been opened by the Price Tire
| Vulcanizing company, w. w. Lewil