Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-01

leagues--i yc mind that you being
member of The pttsburg Press club IN
good standing they are colleagues '-
for dear old Robert Burns sake. for he
too was one of the guild hear bit %
plain truth from one who was born AMI
bred amid the luxury of BOOKS, who
grew up In q good private ana a great
public library; who possesses the love
OF books and has pursued the inside
and the outside OF books all his life,
and that truth is this. You set too
much store by books They are Ike
tobacco and Wine, and all other good
things good only In moderation, and
very dangerous to many people Never
a truer line than Popes Drink deep, or
touch not the PierIan spring,
ITO YOU Mr.. Carnegie, q man Of the
artistic temperament yet with an abb
normal business development IDEAL
ist-WhO with The love Of music and
letters singing day dreams To his soul
has had yet to waste his time making
mlllions-who when he might have
been painting pictures, or Composing
sonnets and soualas, has had to pile up
riches-to YOU the things that come 10
the poor devil offhand-thc exquisite
melody. the charming conceIt the hui
NOR and the pithos OF romance and
poetry may seem TO be fostered by that
which was not accessible % the enter
prslng hObbn huy--the aspiring Scotch
laddie when he began his wondrous
career Alas, they do not come with
reading ana writing! They come by ma
ture and they bring with them troops
Of ailments aches and pains, II "
much better 10 make money, IL Is
much safer 20 be rich.
"lIut there are those TO whom even
riches are denied. who struggle along
from the cradle TO the grave, TO die
poor, as you mean to die yourself, who
have committed no crime, nor wasted
any substance, and of these the news
paper workers can show the greatest
numerical aggregate bright boys, who
have wasted only their lives; noble fell
lows, who have had no time to make
money educated men, sef-educated
men men of grit and nerve'-men of
brain and hoart-men of lost oppOrtuni'
tes--to grow old with want staring
them in the face, and never u hand
stretched out from the counting room,
never a bucket Of charity coal 70 keep
them warm. The woods, as the saying
Is. are full Of them. From Maine 20
Texas, from Fifth avenue TO Nob'a Hill,
you shall see them and IL there be
such thing rs mans humanity 70
man, they ought to come In for little
of their share Of IT,
MEN DESERVE ATTENTION.
s3,Thls. then. Mr. Carnegie isss. our
! speech 70 you; divert some Of those MIL
| lions from books TO men. Already plot
| Of ground has been purchased within
easy reach OF New York and Philadel'
phia and some progress made toward
the raising of fund TO establish
home for disabled and superannuated
newspaper men. There ought TO be
one OF them for every geographical
subdivision Of the Union,
you, Mr.. Carnegie, can make this
possible And you owe something 10
the press to you not2 On the whole,
1t has treated you to less Of It's hurly-
burly sometimes It's cyncism and lack
Of disCernmcnt and reverence, than IL
It's wont 10 deal out TO those public
characters who are aggresslyely famous
and extensively prosperous. in spite OF
your riches the boys really like you.
They respect and admire you.
"But II you would be their patron
saint, the journalistic st. Nicholas,
sending good deeds down to the ages,
do this thing, for Ike the players they
are the abstract and brief chronicles OF
the time. After your death you were
better TO have a had epitaph than their
III report while you i've, though that Is
not to say that you may not have both
their good report while you live and a
good eptaph when you are dead. be-
cause, for all their heedlessness, they
are grateful and an appreciatlve body
Of men, who know perfectly the differ
ence betwlXt hawk and buzzard, when
the wind blows sOutherly,
"God bless you Andrew Carnegie: but
that God may bless you the more whilst
you are here 20 enjoy the blessing and
TO see the good OF IT, do this thing
make It the signal the slgnet Of your
own housewarming don't send us a
check; come yourself; this is no child
work and. having given us the bread
for Gods sake pat some butter on ii
for Christ's sake"