The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-08
THE NECESSITY FOR
REFORM WORK
Chicago Tribune.J

The president of the Neighborhood I'M
! provement association had dropped in at
a meeting OF the Political Purity league
and had taken back seat, hoping. per
haps, to escape the notice of the chair
! man, but the hope was destined to dis
| appointment. He was discovered and
! compelled to take seat on the plat
| form.
Don't ask me to make a speech" he
| pleaded, in whisper, as he was dragged
down the aisle by the chairman. Il
| haven't the ghost of an idea in my head
+, tonight" Ae
THAT will be ali right he was as
sured. Just a word if you feel like it,
and If you don't feel like it you needn't
say anything"
But after a speech or two had been
made. and the hunger of the audience for
| oratory found to be apparently umap-
peased. the presiding officer arose and
I'VE have with us this evening. fortu-
| nately-providentially / may almost say
! q gentleman of whom you have all heard.
HIS work as the president Of an organi-
cation kindred in some respects 20 ours is
| familiar TO all of you. NeighborhOod re-
| torm-n aterial refOrm-goes hand in hand
Win ponIlcal reform. The one compile
ments and supplements the other We
/ need basis Of material reforua-neigh-
| borhood reform-on which to build the
| superstructure of political reform. We
! are fortunate indeed in this opportunity
| of listening to one who is working with
such magnificent success in a field of Ia
! and we shall treasure his advice which
/ he knows so well how to give Gentle
men CT the league. have great pleasure
/ in introducing President PnoOdles of the
/ NeiShborhoOd Improvement association.
/ who will now address YOU
Amid the loud clapping of hancs Mr..
Pinoodles arose. with CHASTITY smile on
"Mr. President" he said. and gentle
men OF the Political Purity league, not
I having prepared myself to make a speech
this evening, and not being expected to
| be called upon toto make a speech in
! fact. l find myself-er-unprepare
Your president, in fact, almost promised
me l should not be called on to say any
| thing. But''-here he brought his hands
! together in front of him, finger to finger
/ IN the shape of pointed arch, and as
sumed a severe expression of countenance
las your president has well said, your
organization accent on the. gan-"and
/ the one OF which l have the honor to be
/ the president are kindred organizations
/ perhaps cannot do better than to point
7 out some of the lines along which we are
The speaker took drink of water and
proceeded:
What we want, Mr. President and gen.
/ tlemen, issreform. I say reform. We are
working along the lines Of reform in the
/ NeighborhOod Improvement association
| We meet together and We've work along
/ those lines, as l said before. In working
! along those line we have to take into con-
sideration what we want to do That Is
! the first thing. Now what do we WANT
| We want reform. as l said before, and [
may say, for your encourag cement that In
working along these lines we work to-
/ gether. gentlemen. We work together.
You can't accomplish anything along
along these lines unless you work to-
gether. That is the first thing We have
got to have unity, gentlemen. unity of
purpose, unity of action unity of-of
whatever we have got to do along these
lines say we have got to have unity.
What is reform2 What is political pur-
ity? It is something we have got to have
gentlemen Take the old fable of the
bundle of sticks That shows what can
be accomplished, gentlemen. when you
work together. And l want to say right
here that nothing is ever accomplished
in this world along the lines of real re-
form unless we work together. If we try
to work separately what do we accom-
plish? Nothing. Absolutely nothing"
Vigorous applause at this point enabled
the speaker to collect himself for the next
onslaught.
and so I say, gentlemen. - he proceed
ed, with increasing emphasis, that it
should be encouragement TO us when
we find ourselves animated by the same
spirit and working along the lines of re-
form, as | said before, whether IL be In
neighborhood matters of in purifying the
politics of this great country of ours
eemented together. gentlemen. by the
blood OF our evolutionary forefathersr'
Now, gentlemen, l did not eSpect 70
actress you when came in, as l said
before, and as there are several eIoouent
gentlemen to follow me l will yield the
floor, but before I take my seat / want
to leave this thought with Won that
Whatever VIC do along the lines of i'm
Provement or purifying the politics of
this magnificent country of ours We can
not fall gentlemen, we Cannot come short
of success in each and every effort aIon.s
these lines II we work together. 1 thank
you, gentlemen.
And the applause of the audience vas
loud, prolonged and enthusiastic