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

Loyalty by me until it made me a, senator
OF the United States, nd still stands
Ioya1ly by me, despite the charges against
owing.
My friends, before undertaking to speak
PhariseeS," let me saw to Won what 7
thought would have been unnecessary
that what shall say and what l shall do
mere tonight, shall do on my own re
SpohslDllIy, / am ready to meet here or
anywhere, all the accountab bility which
any man may choose to bring against me
tor what shall say or do. This course
Moulu not nave been required, nor would
THIS statement have been made but that
prominent men, among them the best
men know, have been to me today and
beSought me to stay nv hand and nv
word lest l should bruiSe some one's feel
lnSS. Tonight, just before I came here
the best beloved man and the best man
IN TINS STATE, my own father came to me
ana Salu: BE generous and be patient
ana dc not say things that would wound
us, and wound you; remember that all our
Gays we nave been willing to wait for
and God and time will vindicate him. [
am bad man, and l am going to Vindi-
cate myself. and attack my enemies here
and now. (Applause)
WHY HE TOOK THIS STEP.
Why do take this step? Because anv
poor, weak words of mine can establish
me in the regard of confidence of the neO
pie of Utah? Not at ALL You have con
trlbuted to me so much more than I de-
serve that need to say nothing now to
Elndicate myself in the especial sense of
poIltlcal preterment. l shall say il now
as debt which l owe to you; I say to
you that in all the history of this state
the institutions which we love and which
VIII make us grand, never We're in such
peril as now. l tell you that it is not the
personality Of any candidate for the SEN
ate; 1t is the fight of progression against
reactionism in Utah; it is a fight on the
who have tah
power in the world against reactionists
like John Henry Smith or Heber j. Grant
(Applause.)
It is the progressionists that succeed
and their purposes fail; if they achieve a
triumph we and all the things We love do
fail, and the generation yet unborn will
work out the destiny which we ourselves
should have achieved and so I conse-
crate myself to the destruction of this re-
dictionary spirit in Utah, no matter
whether it is promulgated by apostle or
writer in any capacity No state in this
Union owes as much to the nation as we
do. For fifteen years, with one exception
l nave been participant IN every fight
for the rights of Utah; have sat in the
senate galleries in Washington in the old
days. and have seen one great man of
the country rise up and speak his word
and cast his vote against Utah because
of the feelings in his own state against
US
It seems to me that if those who are
to come after US the next generation
could ever know the right of American
then all our time and all our
trouble would be repaid.
Standing in my place as a senator of
the United States, the first time 1 ever
rose TO speak on any great question, this
thought came to me: Utah, like Hager,
came out of the wilderness with her
empty water jar, and her dying child,
and the country opened its arms in love,
and took US to its bosom, and made US
d sovereign state, and next TO our duty
to God is our duty to our country, to
"a off
plause)
How shall we do it? On. it is a mighty
that is vested in us, the au-
thOrity of a sovereign state.
No man living can foretell, no one
would dare to attempt the prediction of
what our career may call for in the early
future. A state with two votes IN the
senate and one in the house may even in
the early years to come hold the balance
Of power in the affairs OF the United
States: and it follows, as night the day.
that if we would be true to all the history
Of our past, if we would vindicate what
has been done for US, our motives must
be high, our methods must be pure. Are
they pure?
POVERTY AS A QUALIFICATION.
/ said / was going to talk on Senatorial
Candidates and Pharisees." 1 will. Every
citizen Of the United States possessing the
qualifications has the right
to aspire to a senatorShip; he has right
to utilize everything of nature or adVan-
tageOus possessions which he has, TO ad-
vance those interests, so long as he does
1t honestly. He has a right, if he pos
sesseS the power of oratory, to say
through the mouths of his friends, as one
Of my good friends and competitors does
say, that he is wonderful orator-bril-
liant, dashing--and that oratory, brilliant
and dashing. is needed in the senate of
the United States. IF he have wealth, he
by the possession of wealth can, in Wash
n=ton, entertain, and dignity the name
Of Utah, and you have the right to ac-
cept it or reject ii, as you see fit. If he
S poor. he hath the right to say with me
what Victor Hugo said. L am going to
read it to you, because 1 want the
thought of the people of this state to be
directed Alright on this question, and don't
know of anything that begins to compare
With this apostrophe to poverty by Victor
Hugo. While we are worshiping wealth,
and while the reactionists are bargaining
off senatorships for money, let us. con-
slider what the master of literature said
about the poor man:
For poverty, when it succeeds. has the
magnificent result of turning the whole
Will to effort and the whole soul to as
9iration- Poverty at once lays bare ma