The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
MEN AND WOMEN NOW.

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should be- When all women are thus
qualified. then will society begin to
approach the IDEAL, then will we find
the ideal home over which presides a
mother vino has been carefully and
specially taught both at home and in
the school. how to make it.
This then is what womans life may
be. large part Of the responsibility
OF regenerating mankind is hers She
has life work--a sgnhere if you please,
that is more satisfactory than any she
could ADOPT. 1t is the natural one
which has always been and will al
ways be hers and which can be made
80 ennobllng that man in contemplating
1t viii be moved to exalt the holy in
1uence OF woman and her work into
the realm of the divine"
BE HONEST.
The next number on the programme
was an address by Hon. Waldemar Van
Cort who, in eloquent terms exhorted
the graduates to always have a proper
appreciation of the word honesty. and
TO practice it faithfully throughout
their careers. Mr.. Kan Colt said in
part:
1t is most fitting az such times as
this, that we should do honor to our
graduates; they have struggled nobly
Tor an honorable end and have reached
1t. with what difficulty each student
knows. we can only surmise; perhaps
few, literally endowed, with com
paratlvely easy strides. but most by
unceasing toll. 1t is for your present
success, gladly doing our parts, we
meet and welcome you at the first
summit in life.
Today nothing is too good for you;
we show you every delicate attention,
give you our best thought, our best
nope, and We're ii possible, would pour
our experience--coined in toll, in heart
aches-into your laps in golden show
ers; but life admits of no proxy. each
much carve his way, hew his niche,
and live his life; many here today
would gladly shed their tears to save
you tears, would live again their keen
disappointment to save you disap-
pointments, but it is useless, no sub
stitution' is possible
Then at the first mile post. each of US
Gas earnestly thought what little thing
could be done or said to point your
"S~Js VI AAe5Al yOQI Rdlu, dulQuS the
towering life peaks you must climb;
we would not touch you with sadness,
our thoughts are too tender for that
but we would impress a single COM
mand to save you much sorrow in the
great future; it is better now to think
a moment before the great ascent, than
1T is at the nig'htfall to reflect on a sor-
Towfu past
Then let us pause a moment over one
little command-be honest; little per-
hapS when compared with the whole.
yet mighty il its influence and des-
tiny; It is that which we desire, all
strive. to. appear it, many endeavor to
be 1t; II is never the appearance but
the reality which finally wins; some
may veneer themselves so successfully
that appearance and reality seem one.
but eventually no veneering can blend
the two, they are the antipodes of a
principle; so different are they that
the little innocent child often instinc-
lively repels the veneered article,
though gifted mentally and cultured to
a high degree, and clings to the hon
est person, though ungifted and un-
cultured.
Honesty may make many mistakes,
but it is always forgiven; make many
blunders but it is always understood;
honesty is the an-mOr which no lance
pierces. Honesty is like an ore vein,
Ii will be tested and assayed in so
many ways that its worth is sooner
Or later discovered; dishonesty is like
an ore vein too, ii may be loaded in
places with gold. in others with silver.
but sooner or later it is developed and
IRE tested until its worth lessness is
demonstrated. Honesty is a straight
hme-however undutating it may ap-
pear, you may not now see it's end but
be sure its end is g. good place and will
produce you contentmefit and honor
Its opposite may produce temporary
honor. but the secret canker viii des-
troy your permanent peace Honesty
Is contagious; one act of honesty
breeds an her; one honest act en-
genders d love for many more; honest
acts develop geUmetricaily; you cannot
act honestly and think dishonesty.
nor act dishonesty when you think
honestly; you must be honest with
yourselves and it Will follow as a
coroIia1y that you will be honest with
thoughts nor even think them, they
WIFI surely corrupt Honesty is so
good that 1t is truly said, Honesty
Is the best policy if one cannot prac-
tice honesty as an abstract principle
of right, then practice it as a. policy:
but persisting in and practicing, this
policy will yield such rich results that
the policy will soon become the princi-
pie.
Honesty has divine instincts; it
points the path Of rectitude where
learning fails and often reaches
through the mists of futurity with
certainty, when reason itself falters
and knows not where TO go; honesty
Is the pole star round which our be-
Ing revolves.
One of our own citizens, now dead,
Retuated only by honesty to himself.
took stand for his honest convictions /;
he was bitterly attacked and vialified;
many of his friends deserted him,
many of his colleagues condemned
him: he was stripped of his official
position: but his honesty pilot.as1 him
where combined wisdom failed to dis
Germ; his honesty was the rock against
which vituperation and abuse dashed
IN vain; it was the cloak which neither
wind nor water could penetrate; but
his vindication was glorious, mis- hon
esty rears itself like a golden shaft,
around which all now stand, sealing
his word with their word, perpetual