Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-18

alteration reached It's zenith, his speech
was as follows.
| shall not embarrass our honored
guest and friend by attempting "A
recital OF the multitude Of good feel
ings with which our hearts abound to-
ward him. No matter how sincerely
meant, such expressions might have TO
che OF his type and temper the SEM
blance Of fiattery, and that would give
offenso, The effort would be entirely
superfluous moreover so far as this vast
and beaming company Is concerned, Tor
az best | could only feebly and In part
convey the sentiments Of esteem which
one feels. You may, therefore, rest con-
tent, sir, with the assurance that your
presence gives US genuine pleasure, and
that our greeting possesses the true
cordiallty that should exist among
friends. And when TO this assurance Is
added the observation that the senu-
ments here manifested are shared by
the whole community. enough will have
been said 10 cause you to realize that
you NAV make yourself feel Just as free
and natural as you want to, and that
you are entirely at home.
SHEER FORCE OF PLUCK.
In the personality OF self-made man
there is always something OF interest,
something that eXacts esteem In his
record and from the fund OF his ex-
teriences may ever be drawn something
that win give encoura cement to others.
We like to meet and mingle with men
who, by sheer force and pluck and per-
sevcrence have advanced themselves
frots. plnko % he. 10 a fif.
ence and emlnence and lofty station.
Such mems lives and labors furnish A
spur TO resolution, and supply new evi.
dencc VI the comfortable thought that
with those who are made OF the right
STUFF, there IL no such word as fail.
HAS WON HIS SPURS.
II is a pleasant and exalting reflection
that from those who seem born to dig
and delve, there comes now and then
one who moves mountains. Tolers
there must needs be, and there are mil
lions whose ambition and capacity are
content with such a fate. But captains
there must also be. whose ceascless
energy and breadth Of conception mt
them out OF environments however me-
diocre or constrained And the pro-
position is both sure and salutary that
In this great land OF ours. by neither
birth nor bequest nor adventurous in
cldent are our captains endowed. By
merit and industry they show their At.
ness, and no hindrance can keep them
back. II Is because Of the possession
Of these qualities, and because of the
attainment Of this position that Wa
make manifest on this occasion our
OF the particular captain
who honors US by being our guest. His
success he has himself won; and for
any new Pegasus he may choose TO
he has already won his
spurs
RAILROADS ON PAPER.
our present concern in him. however,
Is less excited by any possible lnten-
lions as TO the winged horse. than en-
lievened by his aims and declarations
as TO the iron horse. II is not the pur-
suit Of the muses-it Is the capture OF
the markets, the establishment OF new
commercial relations, that moves us TO
lively interest IN his operations. We
have had many railroads to southern
paper There have been
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cesslons and rights OF way. with COM
fortably furnished local offices for the
magnates. and great volumes
Of journalistic eloquence and ingenuity
explaining how Il was going TO be done.
HOPE DEFERRED.
our hopes have been sent soaring as
on eagles wings only TO be dashed
with sickening thud, like the IA
bled tortoise, upon the rocks Of the
hard, unyieding earth, which somehow
or other declined TO grade and girdle
Itself with rails al the wish and behest
OF promoters We have at so many
times had railways 10 Los Angeles IN
our minds that we almost feared 10
put our fingers In our ears lest they
should be crushed by the machinery
We have not only bestowed boquets
upon those who were going to do this