The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-03

of the world, is the fact that she was
a faithful. devoted wife, a pure and
noble mother. (Applause).
Queens of the White House.
Against this lady spoken of so elo-
quently by the gentleman, put the
queens of the White House, unen-
franchised, it is true, and uncrowned.
/ And yet they have every reason 90 be
prouder than Victoria upon her throne;
| because, sir, their positions grow out
of the fact that there is behind the
husband, by whose side they stand,
4 intellect, ability, force OF character,
that have been recognized by their
! fellow citizens, and she has cast an
] influence upon his efforts, she has lent
/ courage TO him in the hours of dark
ness, and the glory is not his, but
/ they share it together and the unen-
! franchised wives of presidents in this
United States have reason to be more
proud than those who come to places
i OF honor simply by the accidents OF
birth.
Now, we come TO the proudest peak
! of them all. Oaughter). You seem to
! know whom I mean. Before I enter
into criticism Of what that gentle
man had to say upon this subject, I
ought to pause upon the threshold Of
the undertaking and ask myself what
l am. what hero in the history of the
I WI IL i dLl not. Will nero Has Dc6A
selected to represent me; but most i'm
portant OF all I ought to discover
whether I am fish, flesh or fowl, and
locate myself in the animal kingdom.
as well as to seek out my place among
the heroes OF history. Oaughter).
Arrows Dipped in Gall.
The assault of the gentleman, for it
could be called nothing else, was de-
liberately planned. In the silence of
71Nar
shapened and I must needs think, sir,
dipped in the gall Of the gentleman's
own bitterness. He denies me the
honor of being Horatious at the bridge
beating back the Tuscan enemies of
Rome. He would not permit me, in
his comparisons, to be represented by
LeonidaS at the pass of Thermophalae.
He elevated me one moment, only that
he might debase me the more the next
moment, and finally. sir. concluded
that [ was a bull without judgment
an ass without inspiration.
[ grant you, sir. that the thought
was negatively expressed. by that pc
culiar trick Of rhetoric, which affirms
d truth in the form of de-
NAL of it. but in his gratuitious-
ness, and some pity coming into his
heart, he finally gave me an alterna-
tive from those dire comparisons with
Napoleon flying from I.einSic i'm
priSoned at Elba, back to Waterloo,
thence banished to ST. Helena. to die
in solitude; or if I chose 1 might be
compared with that proud spirit that
looked Omnipotence in the eye and told
gentleman for the alternative. l pre-
sumo that either Napoleon ar the
devil would be preferabl to Balaam's
ass, especially when inspiration shall
not accompany it. daughter.
Refined Arguments.
But the gentleman overshot the
mark, if he intended to wound my
feelings because he kept me in such a
state of suspense to know what my
final destiny would be, that in my
anxiety to find that place, 1 forgot
was receiving a castigation. However,
If the gentleman is satisfied with his
elegant comparisons (and OF course ne
is a gentleman of refined tastes as we
all know. a poet too of no mean
ability if his remarks are satisfying
to his soul, why then, I shall not COM |
what relevancy all this had to the dis |
cussion that was brought upon this |
door.
1 can see only one means of explain
ing it and that is, the gentleman |
sought to break down the force of my
argument. by making me appear con-
temptible. Well, sir, I am not very |
proud. l have no reason to be, and
am willing in this long list of COM
parsons, to take the humbleSt of them |
ALL and in doing that I presume that !
I shall please the gentleman and at the |
same time, I think I shall be able, |
even in the capacity of Balaam'G ass,
to still instruct our poet delegate. |
daughter and applause.
Facts About BaIaam's ASS.
The facts in the case in regard to
Balaam's ass, if the gentleman would |
but read the story, are decidedly in
structive, especially as there sre SO
many points Of resemblance to this
case. One, Balac, the son of the king
of Moab, discovered how merciless was
the war that Israel waged upon the
and sent for this prophet,
Balaam, to curse Israel, proffering
him high honorS and high rewards if
tIe would do It. 1t seemed that the
dazZled for the moment by
the glamor of the promises of the king.
forgot his true office both to God and
the people and started out on this mis-
sion of cursing.
It is said, that an angel with a drawn
sword stood in the way tn head Off
the prophet, and the ass, taking alarm
at the threatened danger, fed into a
field near by. The prophet, If he did
not use imprecatiOns, at least did use
blows, and finally brought the ess back
to the road. Presently, when the road
sntered into narrow lane, with a wall
on either side, the ass was again con-
fronted by the danger that 1:.reatened
the prophet, and in his mad effort to
get by the danger, he damned the
prophets foot against the vail and
this again aroused the wrath of that
man, and with blows he
brought the ass back to the middle of
the road. The next time the danger
confronted the prophet was in q still
narrower way, where there was no
escape whatsoever from the threatened
danger and the ass lay down and re-
fused to go any further in the direc-
beat him more.
The ASS Spake.
At last the kind powers above, in
pity of the dumb brute, spake through
aim, and the ass reasoned and said,
Have I not been thine ass these many
YEARS? Have you ever known me be-
ore to treat you after this manner?"
As if he would say. Know you not
hat there is some danger in the way.
You ought to know that an ass so
iocile, so faithful, so careful of you as
have been, would not have taken the
course I have unless there was some
obstacle of danger in the way" ZAP
1lause). And then the eyes of the pro-
1het were opened ard he at last saw
What the ass had seen. He beheld the
LANCER. and in humiliation, he said, Il
lave sinned."
4 Note of Warming.
Now. when this question was first
brought upon the floor of this conven-
ion. knowing that there was danger
or statehood to Utah, if this measure
vas put to an extreme, 7 sounded the
tote OF warning in this convention |