The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-13
YeUNG MKN IN POLITICS.

Y8UNG MRN IN POLITICS.
Thsre be these among US who say
that the young men of Utah have
no need to become familiar with
politics and political procedure in
the United States, because our par
ties here do not drift with the great
political current just now sweeping
with renewed velocity through the
United States. 1t might as well be
said that the source and supply of
the suns light, the depth of ether
intervening between us and the
stars, the esuinoxes, the condition
Of inter~Africa, and the Symmes
theory, should not be touched be-
ca1se we are not actually brought
in contact with the subjects them
selves.
knowledge is power, no matter
whether or not there is an innmedi-
ate demand for the application of
that power. There may be no OPP
portunity to-day, and great enc
tomorrow. A locomotive engine
sometimes rests and even rusts in
the domicile erected for its protection
from the elements; but on
the sudden there is an
accident, q train needs extra
assistance to pull through a
snow DRIFT, or some such emergency
arises, and then the grand and
almost godiike powers of this mas
terpiece of mechanism SO long un-
used are called into needed service.
Thus should it bs with our young
men; the acquisition Of political
knowledge may Stem a superauous
accomplishment now, because the
condition of things at home is such
that it is not brought into immedi.
ate and actual service; but we are
not living merely for to-day or to-
morrow, but for lifetime; and
what we do not need at present, If
useful at ell, should be garnered and
slowed away for use in the future.
If it is never called for, il does not
injure the possessor; if 1t should be
demanded and he not have 1t, the
consequences would not only be IN
furious to him, but might be detri-
mental to those whom he would
prefer to assist and befriend.
There is no better, brighter or
Drawer class of young men in the
world than those inhabiting the
fruitful valleys, the majestic cans
yons, the wealth. producing plains
and the growing cities of Utah.
With reasonable opportunities and
the means of acquiring proper in
formation placed within their reach
Utah might become such a State az
would challenge the admiration OF
the world. This cannot be accom-
plished by discoursgements, by
Withholding from them such sources
of knowledge as would enable them
to develop the innate faculties
which they were born with, by con-
tinuaIly presenting to them such
condition of things as makes them
look upon the present as all there is
to be enjoyed In life, or by the fsil-
ure to employ such devices ard tao
tics as cause their inclinations to be
trained In the direction of coming
events and q knowledge of how to
cope with them when they come.
By all means, let the boys, especi-
ally those more advanced in years,
study the history of the country in
which they live and to which they
may some day be required to ad.
vance intellectual and material ss-
sistance; let them learn the differ.
ence between the parties and the
principles of each; the methods by
which our great national machinery
is operated; and everything else
having tendency to enlarge their
faculties of thought and place them
in line with the best and greatest of
our species. They can if they will,
and they willlf proper iuducemeut.
are advanced and improper infu.
ences withheld. There can be no
doubt of it.
TCIT THE TpUTus