The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-30

tages can do much. but most must De
done by the individual man, the indi-
vldual woman. for himself or herself
tCheers) Nothing can take the place OF
the sturdy, of the sum of these sturdy
qualities in the individual TO which we
allude when we speak of a given man
or a given woman that he or she has a
strong and fine character. Character is
what counts most (Cheers9
have been welcomed TODAY by the
men OF the Grand Army, by the men who
were my comrades in the Spanish-Amer-
lean war and the war of the Philippines
ana Dy men VINO took part IN the Indian
wars The freedom with which Utah has
sent her sons to the front when the ma
ton called to arms is but a proof of
your power to combine the capacity for
dealing in practical fashion with prac-
teal hands, for combining that capacity
with the feeling of fealty and a lofty
ideal No man is tit for anything if he
has not got both qualities J want him
10 keep his eyes on the stars. but his feet
on the ground. OF course, if he does not
If the average man here does not earn
his own living. does not develop the land
does not show that he is a good business
a good professional man. in whatever
work of life he has been called to-if he
doesn't do that. the nation will crumbIe
NO amount OF heroic aspiration takes
the place OF ability to earn ones bread.
lie had better have the ability to earn
his bread first. I don't care how anxious
q man Is to show a national standard, or
national virtue If he does not take
care of his wife and children and pro
Is his first duty. His first duty is to
pull his own weight. His first duty is
TO be able to support himself and those
Dependent upon him. His first duty is
TO be able TO earn his livelihood to be
able TO show the thrift. the energy the
power TO sustain the business with intel
ligeuCe and skill to which he is called
and thus tend to build IN our material
well being. That is his first duty and
if that is al he does he is pretty poor
creature also.
Must Force Success.
No one quality is enough to build up
any man. OF course. YOU may as well
talk of mans body being sound if one
half of il is sound. He has got to have
ne must have. the thrift. the power TO
material things as a foundation, and the
nation must have that as its foundation
The nation must have material prosperity
and material well being brought about by
the average citizenship as a foundation
and then upon that, on top of that fOun-
datiOn. must be raised the SuperStruCture
life which teaches as what the best things
Z in life really are, the Superstructure of
an education. using the word education
in the deepest and the brOadest sense,
which VIII make every man and every
woman anxious to do disinterested serv-
ice, disinterestedly TO do his or her duty
in the family, as neighbors and to the
state.
And. finally. each man and each woman
must have in his or her breast the lofty
trait, lofty things which mark a good,
generous nature / have spoken of the
men of the civil war. We owe to what
they did the fact that there is now
president to address you (Cheers.) The
fact that now the president of the Amer
lean republic can 60 from one end Of the
nation to the other and be at home
among his fellow countrymen anywhere.
These men. the men who volunteered in
the war that this nation has had to