Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-23
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LIVING PROGRESS.


Upon the possibilities OF improve.
mont oil .he hopes Of progress rect. and
20 is only through experience that De-.
t'ais orc noted and effort bocomc.
stimulated toward desirable change.
All reform, too, 90 be- permanent and
OF real value must come from Inward
90 the outwari, must begin in the mfn,
tho inllilutious tho organization. Cru.
eism from without is elcctusl only aa
70 may nnd lodgmsns nnd rc1p3nio 'in
The cfiilcz3d. rrussuro may compel
outward tuDmaiiln OF acceptance Of
ioicyi but when tho pressure is r..
moved the normal condition folsaofla
lisulf, and whatever the benefit of
'uppoltd good, d. has simply been
iiauali0ry because 10 dli not originate
co was not seconded from tho insido.
A case In p0int as to Institutions was
inaugunle1 30 thi8 city many y1ar
ago. iB leading men asserted
that there was impencc,ion Ia the
Church Of which ibuy were MON.
bore that im authorities were
subject to human innrmilies and weak.
ucsags, ihat thrir policy did not repre-
.cut The ideal even Of accepted and
promulgated t,andnrI--aI Of which
was not unlikely seeing that human
nature, perverted human nature, that
training and tradition, that ignorance
aud euperutlou alo continually assert.
ing their influence ana power. But
the remedy was inside, was 10 BE-
occurred only by experience, by fuller
conversation, by better or broader
conception OF the ideal OF STANDARD
written or otherwise; and the male
contents held influence In thin dire
tlu as long 49, they hat recognition Boz
tlg boiy aud tempered their Views
with modclty and tho iruc Bpint o.
loving reformation. 10 pleased them,
however, Co scc0lr, TO inaugurato ",hu
Ncw MovoD 900 As t1roiorm from with.
OUT which Immediately provoked 10.
a.s,anco nnd probably deferred thiugl
u,s.raOlc, because force thus applied
Is uncongen.al, unauthorized, aud
Be- an innovation roc1gu aa
Interference by universal man.
This atCma b. DO just DO decided D.
principle iu business directions as iu
religion. Our largest institution hes
nau 60 contend VITA Ignorance, iugz-
psgIcuog aud such criticism aa ualuJ-
uly grows cut OF these conditions. The
work Of busingrs education iu Ciah
has been iu 1s 0ncr0us, has required
Joe. as mugn patience aud TeItiulC.iy
1s Iu tho domain already alluded 60.
Wlrn scmi.5alginl pressure wa
deemed advisable ia the oarly h.o,0Ig
thereof, acqu.ts1uuuo was pretty g ~.
om'i but when this siacboned the yrry
trlt t0 speculate 0n "a presumed liberty
were Iho mos. untitled f9F experiment.
aud because %. tloir inexpcruncc,
many Of the stores controlled by fuCA
brunms involved Ia difficulty, and
were only cSiric.t q attur considerable
lola, aud some "Wont 10 tho walln aI.
together Tho converted ono, those
WHO had the largest and longest gEpgr.
fence, or were the most lh0ughliui aul
conservative, nro today The most pf.s.
porous " local traders everywhere lu
the Territory. They have Learned
tho l,fsjn % well urdeulogd
auI fully accsl I'D by one OF our early
eastern buyer, thnt "oono1nirnlion IN
business" 10 one Of the primary Gle
nculs OF tuccess.
10 the organization Of the business
elumout Of this Territory were as com.
plelo aud o. susceptible TO instruction
as the religious one, tho financial
1thtls could b6 40 ujlidinuI that Ia one
brief year lls condition would be- la.
vulnerable 10 panic, or "nagd times"
1o.oEled, Debt, credit, maTke,s, Pro.
ducll0a aud distribution IN Gll Drmo
could Boo 30 supervised that failure
would become unknown; helps IL
needed, would come vt the proper time
and iu the proper way; aud tho splrit
OF progress vuuld DO no exhibit. u that
men would wonder how they could
have boon s'ayes 90 long b an ind.-
yidualIz1I loosonoas which even hors
has been financially fatal TO 40 many.
In the domain OF morals and
disqualification how onon hiss Il
been found that undue pressure,
that oven stringent legislation, has
been Inefficient as restraining
force, saws u.s. "a monetary thlu.!
The druakard, tue li1olti1us man,
tho Que whose profession 70 larceny, tho
one guilty Of capital crime In fact, ls
rarely over reformed by prison
discipline or confinement A few
months or years may suppress,
ppr'oroo, the Vicious inollnstlon or
propauBily, but far too often ON tlo re-
M val OF tho pressure "lhe last state of
that man Us worse than the fret"
Yeats gn generations have e5Sayod 90
curb suI staltain tho "l5Clal tyll,D
to hold 80 within respectable % Limits;
TO force % into allotted quarters, TO sub
Jcct 10 TO municipal ana medical clu.