The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-18

of the human spirit-this science is none other
than the fruit OF association. Humboldt works
together with Livingston Herschel laDors
side by side with Agassiz, Kant tolls a bond
slave with Hamilton. Darwin is yoked with
Dana Stuart Mill cheers on Spencer; associa-
ton IS their law.
IL men today are freer than they ever were, If
: larger numbers of men are freer than they ever
We're. why is this sos Not by one brave hero's
TOLL or trials, or triumphs, hath this been won.
EssayistS wrote TO win this. poet sang TO win
this, sage prOpounded to win this. artist painted
to win this, martyr historian penned his glow
ing paragraph to win this, patriot fought and
Dled, rotted in dungeons and climbed the scat
fold to win this Hampden and Sidney. Locke and
Washington, Lafayette and Garibaldi. yielded
their sweat of brain and sweat OF heart TO water
the immortal seeds of that tree of liberty be-
meath whose ample and grateful shadows we
IND sanctuary tonight. Our freedom is the
fruit of association And, indeed, so convinced
are tyrantS OF the power 10 upneave Inelr
throne. lurking in and ready to leap forth from
associations, that they bend their utmost eff
forts and energies to the purpose of breaking
up all such bands of cOnspirators against their
dynasties of despotism. 1t is one of the sure
and certain evidences of the reign OF freedom
when associations multiply unchecked for the
defense and propagation OF opinion. They are
the terror OF tyranIs they are the favorite off,
spring OF liberty. And inasmuch as all asso-
Citations make their members very much purer
and nobler and Drawer men than they would
otherwise be- or else very much baser and fouler
and falSer, no one can hear of new aSsocia-
ton with Indifference or without some measure
OF interest such is the strength OF association
that even the anarch of pandemonium recog-
niZes it, He has a Kingdom. He is not SO TOOL
ish as to be"divided against himself. " Distinct
as the pillows, yet one as the sea- his forces
rally round his dusky banner, catch his Will ana
hasten forth to further his behestS by strew1ng
the earth with havoc SpOilS. So also one man
"chases a thousand, " but such is the power OF
union, two shall put, not two but, ten thou
sand to flight The advent of Christianity
testifies to the same principle, for there the
disciples were all with one accord IN one
place." Assocation-it is confluence OF many
streams; it is gathering of many forces: 1t is
combination of many talents; 1t is concen-
tratiOn OF diversified experiences. And II IN
union there is strength for good or evil, how
solemn the state of mind in which we ought to
contemplate an addition to the associations OF
tue age such as this
For it is an association of young men. Ha
What magic In the words ''youn, men," Who
would not be young man " hat snowy headed
sage would not be again young mani What
halo of romance encircles the brow of a young
man What hopes cluster around him What
hearts beat deep and high by reason of his pos
sibilities! What forces Turk, what founts of
poetry lie unSealed within his breaStl What
perils haunt his pathway What gins and
traps are spread and laid for his IN
wary feet. What habits are held forth
TO lure him What seductive voices
float in upon his earl What meretricous Wis
ions swim in upon his Imagination. What i'm
pulses heave him What passions thrill ard
throb his being Towhat height may he hew
his way With what robe OF honor may he
fold his spirit! From what a throne of moral
kingship may he not dispread, and through
what ages may he not transmit his influenced
He touches chords that shall vibrate through
out eternity. He is beginning to form charac-
ter. Who5eg His own prominently as well
as others. All things wait upon him 10 serve
him, to ennoble to enfranchise to adorn his
character. What will he do with himself?
bow does he purpose using himself? To what
depths shall he descend? With what foulnsss
shall he clothe himself? How far froln God
shall he drift drift, drift, driven by the demon
lac passions OF falsehood and foulness? How
soon shall all tenderness pass away. all beauty
vanish, all truth give up the ghost and all man
hood be pawned for pleasure the most sensual;
and his very soul, like Cleopatras jewels, be
dissolved in the swine trough of deoauchery,
until only the Ompiscient God shall be aole to
detect amid the utter spoliaton evidence the
most hlmy that such monster was once
man?