The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-10

terial life and renders it hideous: and
hence come indeScribable soarings toward
the ideal life. The rich young man has
thousand brilliant and coarse amuse-
mentS-raceS, shooting, dogs, tobacco,
gambling. good dinners, etc, which are
the occupation of the lower part of the
mind at the expense of the higher and
more delicate part. ne poor young man nan
has eaten, reverie left him. He goes to
the gratis Spectacles. which God gives
him; he looks at the sky, space, the stars,
the flowers, the children, the humanity in
which he is suffering, and the creation in
which he radiates. He looks SO much at
humanity that he sees the soul, and so
much at creation that he sees God. lie
dreams. and he feels himself great: he
dreams again, and feels himself tender.
From the egotism of the man who sui
ferS he passes to the compassion or the
man who cOntemplateS, and an admirable
feeling is aroused in him-forget1ulneSS
of self and pity for all On thinking or
the numberlesS enjoymentS which nature
offers, gives and lavishes on open minds
and refuses to closed minds, he, the mil
Honaire of intellect, learns TO pity the
millionaire of money"
1t is time the lesson should be taught in
this state and in this country. over to
the west Of us, in California, which has
done so much for the world by its en-
richment. which has been such a splen-
did name in the world for more than half
a century: now. over in that state they
have had senators. Turn your minds
back a little. What names come out in
the annals of the past from California as
senators? Baker! Think of Leland STAN
ford, if you know that he was a senator
from CALIFORNIA; man of millions.
Bakeri They cannot write the history Of
this world without Baker, while Stanford
as a senator is already forgotten in the
dusk of the few years that have elapsed
since his career terminated there. Mag
nif1cent as he was in other respects, as
a. senator his millions were but a clog
upon him.
THE IDEAL SENATOR.
I am. not going to particularize as to
senatorial candidates. l have no griev-
ance against any of them, but l do have
a profound determination that inasmuch
as you, gentlemen of the legislature did
not decide this question today, it Will be
decided with notice of the proper ground
before you do finally cast your ballot for
any man. (Applause) There are other
qualifications than those which the con-
Sutution preScribeS. A man should, first
of all. be perfectly truthful; truthful, as
good friend of mine says, to the verge
of brutality, because the senate of the
United States is conducted purely and
entirely on a basis of mutual consent,
and the man who is not absolutely truth
full will lose caste there inside of twenty
four hours, and never regain that caste.
Secondly, he should have senatorial abil-
ity, and senatorial ability does not con-
siSt entirely of being able to pull friends
out of the mud, or TO brace up other peo-
pies financial anatomy. daughter and
applause)
That is the bankers province. not the
senator's province. From the gift of
wonderful possessions to brace uD the
financial anatomy Of ones friends. one
might possibly utilize the senatorship
itself with its wonderful opportunities TO
brace up peoples means. But we do not
want one from Utah. They have enough
of those senators there now who brace
UP the financial anatomy at the expense
of the people of the United States. CAP
plauSe.) Yes, we want ability in the SEN
ate. don't think that you people of
Utah have the best ability in the senate
there are better and ADLER men than either
one of the senators who sit there but I
am going to take you into my confidence
while l tell you that those better and
ADLER men are not running now before
this joint assembly.
If you are going to pick out the best
and ableSt men in this state, call on the
men who made the state.
Senator Cannon at this juncture was
called upon to speak from the platform,
and said: Il cannot speak from the plat
form: did not expect to see so many
here tonight. 1 thought l would have a
little knot of you gathered around me-"
Then, continuing, he said:
BOASTS GRANT, SMITH AND BROWN.
We want pure men in the senate men
whose personal lives are pure; if that is
a Syncronym, pick one out. | understand
that at a Republican club meeting quite
l was asked to resign because
did not happen to suit the ideas of the
people who passed the resolution | am
going behind the people who passed the
resolution. Whatever other immortality l
may have committed. l never spoke dis
para gingly of woman in my life GAP
plause) She may say what she pleases,
but behind her Detticoats 1 see towering
the form of Arthur Brown. Great APP
plause) Come out, Arthur Brown! You.
want me to resign. Mr. Brown, | won't
resign: nor will 1 try TO live up to your
idea of morality. And the rest of you,
The rest of you who get behind women's
skirts; you people who started this; you
Heber J. Grant, and you, John Henry
Smith (Applause.) You, John Henry
Smith, who went TO members of my fam
lily and wept crocodile tears over my fall
and wrongdoing; and YOU Heber j. Grant
a member of the church to which | belong
I am a Mormon, in every fibre of my
being / am Mormon. If l do not live
its theology as well as you l live its
spirit of fraternity quite as well; perhaps
better than you do. (Applause) A part
Of its fraternity IS to be just TO all men.
to be gentle and helpful in Weakness I
want to ask you, Mr.. John Henry Smith
Of you come to me in that spirit of fra
ternity. and say to me: Here, boy. we
have entrusted you with mighty author
ty; live up to it; let me steady you q
little as you walk across this dangerous
path" Did you ever 90 it? MOI Men
say to me now that l must not attack
YOU or any one here because of your
families. When did any one Of you ask
f my wife was sick, or If her heart were
(ApDiause.) 1 have seen my
little children get upon their knees and