The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-03
SOME DAY.

4 piece of music lately drifted to the
west is entitled "Some Day" it is very
pretty when sung by those capable of
interpreting it correctly, rendering the
words distinctly and giving proper ex-
preston to the notes. 1t then calls up
all the better instincts OF our nature,
places before us 2 retrospectiyepanorama
of the past, and seems to cause hope
guided by effort, to reach out into the
infnity of the future But it is mott
song nor the singing we wish directly to
discuss.
The man who ventures and dares,
plans and contriYes, works and yields,
in the face of discouraging circum-
stances, now in the slough of despond,
again a few steps towards the summit
of prosperity's hill with the beacon
light of hope sending forth its benef.
cient CLEANS adown the path, looks
ahead and says within himself-"S Some
day"
The man who devotes himself TO the
welfare of his race; who is utterly I'M
selfish and asks for no more than viii
furnish the mind and feed the body;
who makes no complaints; who is
ostracized because he is poor aud unap-
preciated because he is not brazen, when
quite broken down and deserted by even
those he thought were his friends,
doubtless in his moments Of unex-
pressed anguish, as he looks above and
beyond a life wherein honors are rarely
the rewards OF merit and where poverty
is too often a badge of responsibility,
thinks of that haven Of repose and says
Some day"
The youth who writes sonnets on his
mistress eyebrows, and sees the favors
which he deems properly belonging TO
him bestowed upon one whom he deems
unworthy of them, sigh deeply, and says
Some day"
The manacled captive, toiling Ike
slave to expiate an olfense justly
atoned for or never committed, as he
beholds the glorious light OF the all
Illuminating orb stream through his
prison bars and catches breath of the
pure air of heaven, while thinking of
home, family and friends, must be con
tent with the thought which accompan-
les the groan of anguish which escapes
his lips as lie says Some day"
The people who as pioneers forsake
the busy haunts of men to penetrate
the wilderness, make homes for them
selves. and their posterity, as well as for
those who may follow when the brunt
Of the stubborn battle has been bravely
borne and victory is accomplished;
who, when the hard lines in social and
physical life have been erased, and for
bidding places made to smile as though
the rugged hand of the tyrant desola-
ton had never held the hills and valleys
in its iron grasp; who establish an EN-
pire in the midst of a dreary waste while
surrounded by danger, embarrassed by
care and depressed by toll; whose
bronzed faces, hardened hands, and I'M
shod feet tell a sOrrowful but eloquent
tale of sufferings by day and weary
vigils by night; who wrested from
foreign land valuable addition TO our
own public domain and planted the
banner of the free upon the nations
dome, a signal of warming to their
enemies and a tribute of honor
to their friends; who, sometimes
goaded beyond endurance, have
at times refused TO turn one cheek when
the other was smitten, and yielded to
the natural resentment dwelling in the
breasts OF all their kind, but never sought
TO annul the laws or refuse TO obey those
that were properly enacted; who fed
the wayfarer and returned good for
good in every case, liking those who
liked them, and never Tesorting TO re-
venge until driven into such corners
and treated with such vileness rs would
make the meanest thing that crawls
within the grass turn upon its asSailant;
whose hardihood and daring have
shortened the advent of the iron bands
E&1lC llUiil4C anu acme DN a
generations span, and reared the most
promising commonwealth within the
nations borders; who have been re-
warded by being shorn OF political
power and bereft of social prestige, be
ing branded as outcastS and felons, and
al for principles which they deemed
just and sacred.
Some day these people will find in
the records Of the historian, the words !
Of statesmen and the results surely to
follow, that justice and reward which
like the sun at night IS presently un.
seen but IS steadily pursuing his ma
jestic march toward the eastern horizon.
where his rays viii fall upon the hills
and wales populated and made grand /
BY a free and united people.
"Some day"
TIE T,ter-M Mountain says Judge Zane