The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-13

| 10 preach and practice before the
Hail, Utah. Hail, endearing sisterhood
| of statesI
The occasion is an suspicious one. With
fractional division buried out Of sight in a
| spirit of amity and comfy as broad and
| warm as the ermine Cantle which covers
/ the valleys and mountains of the new
state, protecting the roots and buds of
| future productiVenesS III The valleys, and
| the springs OF fruitfulneSS IN the hills;
/ with the returning sun of equal political
/ independence ana industrial prosperity
! mounting the heavens by day, and the
glorious moon of social and educational
advancement sailing Serenely over the
/ beauteous landscape by night, the sky
! Is fulI OF promise; yes, fun OF promise.
No state Of the Union has had such
ample time TO study its problems before
! hand, to gain such maturity Of self
! knowledge, ana knowledge of the opinions
! OF the rest of the world concerning self.
J Utah comes not as a child into the family
Of states, but of full stature. Much,
] from the new state.
May she fulfill all the best hopes of her
/ friends! May she disappoint all the fears
/ of the faint hearted Having by new
/ constitution invested men and women
alike with the privilege and responsible
! ties Of sovereign citizenship, may she
( be enabled to take a position at once
4 statesmanlike and queenly, in her own
lnter-mountaln region, and in the council
/ halls of the nation. May she assume a
! strong and dignified attitude on the great
I
/ haste or cupidity.
The incalculable wealth of our coun-
/ try and the large share Utah possesses of
! material good, have been often dwelt
upon. But wealth also has its dangers.
/ a recent writer on economies utters this
as truism: Liberty produces wealth
and wealth destroys liberty" To scan
the signs of the times with an earnest
4 gaze Dehooves every true lover of person
al and national liberty.
The privileges of full citizenship for
. dwe1f ct a
hint rather at the responsibilities and
difficulties. Great were the responsible
4es before resting; upon Womankind. and
/ L speak as one who has always been in
cllned to deprecate an increase of the
load, to favor such a division Of labor
4 as would leave woman free to concentrate
her powers in the home and social circles.
But such, it seems, was not to be Wo-
mans permanently favored lot. The
rushing spirit of the age leaves no
! peaceful nook Of secluded quiet where
( personality and individuality may de-
velop, and where the family life may be
/ the center OF interest as Wen as OF in
1uence- 1t may be better thus. At least
the demands of the times must be met If
( possible, and We must prepare to meas
ure up TO our opportunities lest after the
much-apostrophized emancipation Of
woman" craft, policy and selfish partisan
zeal forge new letters for US more CALLING
and more humiliating than anything we
/ have ever known.
How can woman place her hand upon
the engine Of constitutional government
/ in such a way as to direct its course
more surely, swiftly and unerringly to
/ the best and highest ends?
4 AS l ask the question the vision of
i Ezekiel passes before me. When the
prophet turns his cOntemplative gaze to
the armament he beholds in the air the
! likeness of a throne oYerarched by a
/ sapphire sky. Before and below it there
are living creatures" with wings" and
/ eyes" In the midst of them are GOALS
! Of fire" and one walking clad in white
/ linen"
The attention fastens itself especially
upon the living creatures, for the de-
/ scripton of them is very strange Each
of them has four faces and four wings
and four wheels. The wheels instead of
running side by side or after one an
other as in our modern wheeled vehicles,
present the appearance of complex
+ mechanism "a wheel within a wheel. =
and what is still more remarkable ''the
spirit of the living creature was in them
also Not only had the living creatures
also full of eyes" OF the four faces
one was the face of a cherub" another
/ the face of a man. third the face of
a ion ana the fourth the face of an
/ eagle"
/ y aat may such a vision mean? 1t may
have as many interpretations as there
may be seers to look upon. What may
it mean TO US as assembled fellow citi-
zens on this statehood day? Let me at
tempt a brief translation.
The throne We VIII call the seat of
J "
distributed among the whole number of
voters. Each of US is seat and source
! Of governmental power, a throne and the
/ occupant of a throne. No wonder if to
US, gazing upward with Ezekiel today,
! the 2rching sky should have the fair
color of "a sapphire stone, for over the
! throne of free government the sky as yet
I is blue, even though some OTninouS clouds
/ Turk on the horizon.
The wonderful living creature we will
/ call citizenship personified. The face of
aNo aud he fcn IF will
! regard as the masculine and the feminine
/ elements of citizenship. The face of the
! lion shall symbolic the dauntless cour-
| age Of royal virtue and the face of the
/ eagle shall stand for spiritual aspiration.
What are the four wings, then? The
! four departments of life with which citi-
zenship must especially concern itself,
! family relations social relations, bust
ness relations. political relations. And
| what are the four wheels? The complex
/ governmental organism, which in our
| country is well represented by wheels
/ in the midst of wheel" the municipality,
The county, the state, the nation. 1t is
| said that when the living creature stood
| still these stood still, when it mounted
upon wings these mounted up also. for
the spirit of the living creature was in the
! wheels.
He who walked among the living cre.1-
/ lures clothed in white linen may represent
J the son of man who recognized the duties
! of political service as well as of religious
I worship when he said, Render unto
! Caesar the things that are Caesars and
unto God the things that are God's''
But there were Goals of fire all among
the wheels. These are the destructive
elements of fraud. corruption. bigotry
vice, intemperance, greed. If the living
creatures stand still the wheels of local,
state and national government will take
! fire and eventually the wondrous fabrics
bequeathed by our forefathers viii be
| destroyed. But not so. Surely. not sol
This must never come to pass How shall
! 1t be averted?
The face of the cherub,' as well as
'the face of the man" has the organs of
/ vision. So long, too, as coura geous
/ virtue and heavenly aspiration are not
! dead they may be made to animate every
part. The countless eyes of eternal Wig
/ ilance" must turn their piercing glances
upon every question and every act; then
1 the spirit Of the living creature, if it be
I the spirit of intelligence, devoted, Chris
ton patriotism, will become. mighty
I wing 10 the home, to social life, the bust
ness world and the whole political frame,
uplifting citizenship above the shoulder
/ ing embers Of selfish strife. to seek in all
things THE sole wealth which viii not
/ fly away"
Logan Lines.