Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-07
1T WILL GROW.
BEN SHEEKs,
SIMON BAMBERGER,
of the Committee.

The little child watching its mother
plant here and there tiny seeds in the
flower garden, and told that they will
spring up and blossom into forms of
beauty and fragrance by and by, is filled
with ambition also to train vegetable life.
Begging few seeds, it has a flower pot
or a warm corner in the earthly beds set
apart for its experiment, and with rever-
ent hands covers the silent germ beneath
the soil. 1t takes but day to show the
difference between the self-poised mother
and the impatient child for the former
waits for the influence of the warm sun
and of the early and the latter rain /;
while the child eagerly and with ever
increasing disappointment digs up the
sensitive seed, to see if it has begun to
grow.
In politics there are few who are not
children. We plant the seed of truth,
and are impatient and disappointed if it
does not grow into great tree within the
compass of a day. We present line of
justice, and the mind trained to partisan
ship hesitates or rejects it altogether.
That which is honest and right does not
come into the world amidst the majestic
reverberations Of artillery and accepted
with hurrahs; but lies like the seed in the
earth to come forth to life in the set
time.
How many years of fierce contest has
Utah seen; how much of reproach and
anger; how much of hatred and ill-will;
how much of falsehOod and indecency
has been set before the people. A highly
favored dish indeed has been offered
them for food, compared to which the
plain bread of truth is tasteless. There is
hardly corporal's guard to prefer the
quiet of conscious rectitude to the excite
ment of contending wrong.
First, the seeds of truth must be buried
in the dark and silent earth. There is,
strife above and around it, but heaven
nourishes the tiny speck, because in it
there is the promise and potency of the
great and beautiful plant. The seed dies
but dies preparatory to immortality; it
is hid, but only to prepare to come forth
in beauty; it grows slowly that it may
gDw strongly.
This journal has planted the seed of
charity; it has judged men kindly; and
thus it will doubtless continue to do.
Shall we be childish now, and dig up the
seed to see if it has begun to sprout? VIII
men revolutionize all their ways and
habits of thought on the instant because
better way is presented? Have those
who are politically right in Utah
broken off all their sins? Did they
grow to correct understanding of polit
ical principles in week? If a poisonous
tree has forty years in which to send
down its roots and spread out its
branches, will it be expected that rival
will grow up and overshadow it in day?
Let us be patient, for patience is God
like. Let us be firm; for they who are
right can not afford to be blown about by
every wind. The pressure of radicalism
is an ignoble pressure. Let us not dis
appoint those who have waited all these
wears for light and peace. AS we said on
Monday so let us close the anxious week.
Though the battle be so long that our
children and not ourselves shall cele-
brate the end, still because this way is
the way of justice, we must turn neither
to the right or to the left, but set our
faces toward the SUM-"