The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-22


was being amended; but they are
amending all of them. There Is COM
mandment against covetousness. and
we all know that if a man covets some
thing Of small value, he is a sinner. But
If a nation cOvets the government of
another nation of i200 islands, there
are people who cali il destiny. There
is a commandment that reads, Thou
shalt not kill Now they say that you
must not kill a man-unlesS he has
something you want. Or, as they still
say, that one man must not kill an
other, yet, there are people who be-
iieve that seventy million people can
band together TO kill eight million, If
then can extend their trade thereby.
Punishment Inevitable.
DO not be deceived because the pun
ishment does not follow Immediately
on the crime. A man may at so pay the
penalty for sins committed at 20, and a
nation may pay the penalty for sins
committed 100 years before. Let me
give you an illustrations:
"Seventy-fve years before Abraham
Lincoln affixed his signature TO the
emancipation proclamation, Thomas
Jefferson was pleading for the eman-
cipation OF the slave. But they turned
a deaf ear TO his appeal, and because
they would not listen 10 him, we paid
a terrible penalty seventy years later
in a war that cost us hundreds of thou
sands of precious lives and hundreds
of millions of money. 1t is true OF a
nation as of an individual that the
harvest is according to the sowing, and
if this nation has sowed the wind it
viii reap the whirlwind, though many
seed times and harvests may pass be-
tween the sowing and the reaping.
IT believe that if you want 10 help
a man you must give him a high ideal
to take the place Of The lower one, and
that high ideal will lift him to a
higher plane and give him a broader
conception OF his relation to his fell
lows. Let me pause for moment to
apply this doctrine TO q question about
which we have been thinking since
that terrible act took from US our
chief executive.
The Suppression Of Anarchy.
"There has been much discussion of
the subject OF anarchy, and many rem
edies have been proposed, but they
have all been in the line of suppress
sion. But ! want to go beyond that
and correct the spirit Of anarchy, for
there is no place in the United States
for the doctrine of anarchy, but are
you going to destroy the spirit Of an
archy by suppression alone? No. The
nations that have suppressed the man
| ifestations of anarchy by severe laws
/ have the most anarchists today.
How are you going to destroy the
/ spirit OF anarchy? By education. and
/ by education only. Teach the people
/ that government liza necessity. For
/ it is. Teach them that our government
| Is the best on earth. For il is. Eut
/ that is not sufficient. Then il is the
/ duty of each one TO exert himself 10
/ the utmost 10 make the government
/ so good that every citizen will be will
4 ing to die, if need be, to preserve that
] government and it's blessings to his
I children. The government can be a
| great blessing or a great curse, and
as the government takes from the citi-
/ zen the right to redress his own
wrongs. it assumes the solemn duty OF
/ protecting him from every arm up
J lifted for his injury; and If the gov
/ eminent first disarms the citizen and
/ then leaves him helpless to be de-
| spoiled by those who act under the
/ favoritism of government, then the cit
izen who has thus been despoiled is
/ in a good position to listen to the voice
! Of the anarchist.
"Yes, my friends, l believe we must
/ overcome evil with good. ] say that
l am an enthusiast in education, and
nothing made me more angry in the
campaign of 1886 than the statement
/ of an eminent divine that we were edu-
! eating the farm boys too much: that
/ IL. a fcfa . y.
| position that God intended for them
| l do not believe God ever made a man
/ wise enough to decide In advance the
position he intended my boy or your
/ boy to al. / do not think that God
made any man wise enough TO draw
/ that line in society 10 say that the
/ children of a man on one side should
be educated and the children of others
/ in ignorance.
Proud Day in Cuba.
1T was my good fortune TO be in
/ Cuba when the formal transfer took
place, and I was never more proud OF
my nation In my life than I was when
this great republic rose superior 20 It's
/ great temptation, recognized the in
/ alienable rights Of the people Of Cuba
and gave to them the victory for which
( they had sacrificed for more than a
generation. Tell me we can't haul
down the fiagi / know il can be done
for they did haul cur flag down in
Cuba, and raised in its place the flag
/ OF the Cuban republic. But there was
no humiliation in it, for when we
hauled cur flag down we raised il high
er, and when we brought Il away we
left il enshrined in the hearts OF the
people. on the night Of the 10Th OF
May l stood on a high bluff and
watched the fireworks on Moro castle
( and Cabauis, and they told me that
when they hauled down the stars and
stripes from Moro castle-that grin
fortress that had been the scene of SO
much bloodshed and misery-that the
Cuban soldiers ran forward and caught
II up and said that IL must not be al
| lowed 10 touch the ground, and they
kissed II. for they had learned 10 love
| that flag ] want IL 10 be loved By
every human being; 1 want them Il
bow their faces before II, and thank
God that there is one flag that stand:
for human rights" Great applause
and eheers).