The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29

Yesterday l met a young man who had
Just graduated at college and was on his
way home. 81 am a little sorry to leave
college," he said, ''for l have had good
time l have been pretty well supplied
with money by my father, and graduated
pretty well up, for l made a good showing
and good speech. If you will not give
my name ! will show you the speech and
tell you where l got it. You see have
put in a good deal of time at college out of
doors, and I have made some little money
out of the boys teaching sparring, etc,
etc, so hated TO stay indoors and suffer
when it didn't fit my style.
got the address of Colchester, Roberts
* Co., Tiffin, o., and for SIS got beauti-
full Grafton. l am pretty good elocution-
ist, though very poor thinker, and made
q great hit with it. The firm is an mag
mary one, for bright young school teacher
does all the work himself, and that is all
he could do He writes a good lecture on
geology or autumn or thought and charges
so much hundred words. He did rather
extra for me, and paid him well, for we
had just made something out of little
sparring match in the spring. l will give
you some of the speech. 1t was on Thought.
It starts out:
"Oh, l sometimes think how glorious a
thing is thought. Thought makes the mare
20 Thought threads tunnels with trade
and traverses the follies. Thought fills the
granarius and goals of the earth. Who can
eafely monkey with thought! She builds
churches, schools and colleges, bridges the
torrent, declares dividends after paying
large salaries, glolifies the pulpit, places a
wreath of fame about the knobby brow of
the statesman, erects monuments to the
courageous dead, giving the names Of
the heroes in lower case and the sculptured
names of the donors in full, gothic ex-
tended letters, together with the cost of
the monument and other things which do
not relate to the deeds of those whose dust
lies buried there.
''Who can overtake or put salt upon the
tail of thought!
mo one CAMP
''You man count the volts in stroke of
lightning and charge the same up to the
con sumner, but yoh cannot muzzle thought.
You can harness the tornado aud make it
pump water for your stock, but You cannot
even read the thoughts of a petit jury.
Who knows what petit jury thinks. You
kn~w how long it. takes for the light of the
faintest is ed star TO reach the United
States You can weigh tue planets and
map out the political divisions of the moon,
but you cannot even prove that petit jury
thinks.
.'Then let Us do more thinking as we
tourney adowu lies pathway. Let US, so
far as possible, think our own thoughts
unless we are able TO employ thinkers to
advantage. Let us encourage thought in
others and do some of it ourselves.
Thought scars beyond the beautiful rain
how and finds out how it is done SO that art
and science and manufacture may even
initiate it. Thought skins the milky way,
and com lining it with the mush of our
busy life, makes food for still more
thought.
son. let US, therefore, encourage thought
even among PEG lie whose time seems to be
mainly taken up with other things. Let
ms put the thinker on its back, as one
might say. and bid it do its best.
'tShow me the nation that has asphalt
payements and honored wives and mothers,
and | will show you nation that thinks
and progresses. Show me the people who
try to do business over cobble stones and
woo their wives in the tumult of a stone
payed street, and l will show you people
who cannot think unless they have roll
of cotton in each ear. Show me a nation
of people who do not think, and l will show
Won a nation of people who eat their
enemies and whose victuals do not agree
with them.
Thought is really very desirable
thing. A man may be good penman and
vet be a poor thinker. Give me aman with