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

alteration reached its 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
enc of his type and temper the SEM
blance Of nattery, and that would give
offense. The effort would be entirely
superiuous moreover so far as this vast
and beaming company is concerned, for
at 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
cordially that should exist among
friends. And when to this assurance Is
added the observation that the senti-
ments here manifested are shared by
the whole community, enough will have
been said to cause you 10 realize that
you may 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 a seli-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 will give encouragement to others.
We like TO meet and mngle with men
who, by sheer force and pluck and per-
seycrence have advanced themselves
from the ranks Of the masses TO afiiu-
ence and eminence and lofty station
such mems lives and labors furnish a
spur to resolution, and supply new evi.
dence If the comfortable thought that
with those who are made OF the right
stuff, there Is no such word as fail.
HAS WON HIS SPURS.
II is pleasant and exalting reflection
that from those who seem born to dig
and delve, there comes now and then
one who moves mountains. Toilers
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 ceasoless
energy and breadth OF conception lift
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 bequost nor adventitious in
cident ere our captains endowed. By
MORT and Industry they show their At
ness, and no hindTance can keep them
back, II Is because OF the possession
Of these qualities, and because Of the
Of this position that ws
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-
Iieyened by his aims and declarations
rs to the iron horse. II Is not the pur-
suit Of the muses-it Is the capture OF
the markets, the establishment OF new
relations. that moves US 70
lively interest IN his operations. We
have had many railroads to southern
'alifornia-on paper There have been |
numerous surveys, and charts, and con. |
SESSIONS ana rights OF way with COM |
'ortably furnished local offices for the |
Sould-be magnates, and great volumes |
IF journalistic cloquence and ingenuity |
explaining how Il was going to be done.
HOPE DEFERRED.
our hopes have been sent soaring as /
IN eagles wings. only 20 be dashed |
with a slckening thnd." Ike the Ia
Dled tortoise, upon the rocks Of the |
iard, unylelding earth. which somehow
" other declined to grade and girde
tself with rails at the wish and behest
II promoters We have at so many |
lines had railways TO Los Angeles In
'ur minds that we almost feared 10
mt our fingers In our ears lest they
houd be crushed by the machinery
We have not only bestowed boquets
Ipon those who were going to do this