Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-02

turtles look down upon YOU The To-
liaged avenues and gardened palaces OF
the capital Of Utah--the most beautiful
city In the United States-were planned
and planted under the direction OF
Brigham Young, and this magnificent
pavilion-unrivalled In Europe or
America-where the ozone Of mountain
heights mingles with the sweet salt
breath OF an inland sea Is an offspring
OF his policy Of improving every natural
advantage Of Utah.
A FRIEND OF EDUCATION.
President Young was an ardent and
persistent advocate and helper OF the
cause OK education. He was an archie
tect Of States as Of temples, and in the
erection OF both he provided for the
future. He knew that no edihce, whe-
Their OF character or OF granite. can be
erected without a solid foundation, and
that the education Of the school room
Is the foundation OF the House Of Life.
Upon 1t we build the structure that
never is completed on earth; the struc-
ture whose building must continue up
ward until we carry rs summit beyond
the reach OF human vision. The educa-
ton OF the school house is but the pre-
paratlye, preliminary Of the greater
education Of the world. All our lives
we gather knowledge not merely from
books, but from events, from men, from
Nature and her infinite tuitions from
humanity and It's illimitable lessons,
from the ant toiling under her burdens,
and from the feeble pulse OF the new
born infant up 10 the rush OF Uranus
around the universe. The chief value OF
school education Is that by it we learn
how TO learn. Our habits or observa-
ton, Of memory ana of reflection are
strengthened and trained We are
thereby better fitted for the race and
the battle, and whatever may be the
case I'm the other life, yet In this life
race generally is 20 the swift and the
battle 20 the strong, the prOverb to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
TAUGHT HIGH AIMS.
Under President Young's direction
education OF children extended 10 NOR
ais and manners as well as music and
mathematics. The boys Ia lions
schools did not smoke cigarettes dur
ing recess. SANDER and malicious gos-
sip We're strangers In the homes NJ
Utah. and there was ever a single
standard OF morality Tor men and wo-
men, The head % the Latter-day
Saints advised his young people 20 aim
high. and make a point OF reaching
their aim. and Il they fell below II 20
go at IL again with redoubled zeal, for
he knew that high and inheNible pur-
pose is truth upon a cycle, swift, SILENT
and sure 20 get there.
in private conversation as In public
speech President Young's words were
apt and to the point, and he ab0unded
In h0mely and f0rceful metaphors. said
he, In my presence, TO a young man
who sought his counsel: mo man can
make Il rain, but any man can keep his
platter right side up. so as 20 get some
OF 10 when @ does rain" To another he
remarked. he sure there IS something
you can do thoroughly Well and %
Is your business TO find out
what that something o. Don't fritter
away your time by attempting the inn
possible Remember that genius Is Of
ten judgement" The enthusiastic
Methodist brother who was haunted
day and night by the letters &C. j. c."
believed that IL was a divine call %
$50 Preach Christ" But, after his
ministratlons had driven away the
congregation. he concluded that the
letters really meant go plant corn
WRITTEN by HIS ENEMIES.
The history Of Brigham Young has,
except In Utah been written by his
enemies. who have allowed their hatred
which he preached and practiced 10
blind them TO his greatness and good.
ness. He Wronged no man. He lied
TO no man. He kept faith with all
men. lie was just, and generous, and
charitable He was loyal TO his people.
his country. and his convictions OF
right He was gentle and courteous.
He was wise I'm counsel and fearless
and unwayering In action. tie ought
not TO be judged by ordinary stand
ards. Indeed no mans feet will ever
quite III another mans footprints
Every man and every woman who lives
life worth living must live an indi-
yidual lie. No two Of MS see exactly
from the same point Of yiew-it Is
enough II We arrange our angles OF
vision truthfully and conscientlously.
A PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE.
No men and women in an this land
are more progressive than are those OF
Utah. They do not resemble the man
of whom Douglas Jerrold said "He
can never fully relish the new moon
out Of respect for that honorable insu-
tuition the old one The Latter-day
Saints have adopted some valuable
legal and social reforms. When an
advanced thought presents itself they
do not telephone for police protection,
they give Il hospitable welcome. They
limit by law the hours OF labor they
compel the manager Of stores 10 pro-
vide seats for female help they pro-
hibit blackllsting; they make wages
a preferred debt, and exempt them from
punishment; they have modified the
common law injustice which denies
redress against the employer TO the
injured through the negl-
gence Of a fellow servant; they punish
those who oyerwork or underfeed dumb
animals; they We're pioneers in estab-
fishing woman suffrage. and their leg
islatures have never yet sold a sena-
torial toga.
PURITANICAL METHODS.
have already suggested that the
Puritan spirit has ever pervaded and
controlled not only the spiritual and in
tellectual but the economic life OF Utah.
President Young adopted the plan Of !
building villages IN which those who |
titled the soil should live, and
whence they would 60 forth TO their
labors In the surrounding fields. In
the early New England settlements !
this method was adopted for more ef- !
hcient defense against the Indians,
with whom the cOlonlsts were usually |
so unfrlendly that Lowell was impeled |
TO say that "the Pilgrim fathers first !
fell upon their knees, and then fell upon |
the aboriglnes." President Y0ungs |
motive was 20 guard the young men !
and women against the discomfort en-
gendered by lonely ana isolated lives, |
and 10 make farm life attractive by |
aff0rdlng opportunity for social gather |
lngs and rational amusemeuts
II has sometimes been charged |
against Brigham Young that he was |
disloval 20 the government Of the |
United States This unjust aspersion /
rests solely upon the conjectures Of his
enemies. FOR there cannot be found a |
single authenticated act or utterance OF !
his 20 sustain the accusation. When |
demand was made by President Polk |
upon the scattered. hunted. and depict. ]
"a fugitlves from Nauvoo for a battal- |
lion Of 500 men for the Mexican war /
brigham Young raulipI without baofto