The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-13

fortune 10 embark upon the tid'
when it is at its food, sll other con
celebrations are apt to be forgotten
Let but success in any under:
taking attend the efforts o.
the one making the venture
and, though we may from the force
OF habit or the impulse of principle
be disposed to antsgonize him and
his methods, we overlook these as
IL by an instinct in the human fam.
lily which impels US to applaud the
result instead OF the means. This
state of things, worked out to its
logical conclusion, ia subvers-
i've of every principle which
lends dignity to manhood
and encouragement to progressive
thought and action. One must sue
coed in life or he is unworthy Of
SUCCESS, is the criterion established
by such a a policy. The patient and
perseveripg. who spend days aud
nights in physical tell and mental
labor to accomplish a great purpose
and through come unforeseen cir
cumstance are thwarted, have the
jeers and excavations Of the public
to meet as consequence Of their
disaster; while another person, in
pursuit Of the same or similar OBJ
ject, is waited to the goal without
the effort or the study, through the
influence of friends and perhaps the
use of money, and becomes at once
the proud hero of the hour and the
occasion.
The optimistic doctrine tina: this
is all right, is itse'f all wrong. To
exclude manly and intelligent ei~
fort from a contest, is to emasculate
those who enter into it; and to be-
stow al the laurels upon the victor
without so much as a word of re-
spect or even thought for the van
pushed, is merely to walk rough
shod over honor, virtue and integ-
rity when the object aimed at is not
reached, and to extend the hand CT
greeting to unfairness, knavery or
guilt even if 10y means Of all these
and nothing else the race be won.
We presume it will not be q 'es-
toned that the principles for which
the colonial revolutlonists contend:d
were just and patriotic, yet they
would have been treated like
so meny rabid dogs for
attempting to establish those prin-
ciples II they had not succeeded !;
the leaders of the movement to es.
tablish Southern Confederacy upon
American soil, impellei by what
they considered similar or the same
did not succeed, and
Acknowledgement, ostracism, and
disgrace were their portion
That their Inundated position by
reason of their, failure is not over.
looked, |aS amply demonstrated by
the thin attendance at the
recent mee.ing in New York,
whose object WAS the CD.
OF d Eund for The e,;ab-
lishment o! home for disa bIed Con-
federate sold ers. Sectional preiu.
dice was painfully aoparent. espe-
cially when it is considered that
men like Hancock and Grant could
get no nearer to the meeting than
sending letters of regret. And vet.
there never was mora contrite
feeling among vanquished people
than that experienced by the
5outherners when they found their
struggle a failure-not because
they were willing to admit that the
cause was a base or unmanly one
out because the fortunes of war had |
,urned against them and In 60 |
turning had changed their position |
rom that Of an armed force to that |
If inhabitants OF a common coun>
;ry. They did not seek to evade
he consequences of their acts, |
put claimed the right to hold |
n sacred remembrance the hard.
hips, losses and sacrifices endured
N the field and provide as best
hey could for the destitute and
helpless. This the more cynical and
lnforgiving northerner is pleased