Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-22
EVIDENCE THAT IT IS GROWING.
!. Matter Of the Growth of Crime
Conditions Now and Fifty Years
AGO Not Distinguished
THERE IS A NEW PATRIOTISM.
II Is Born of Religion and II is De.
yotl0n to High Principle Greater
Tolerance Necessity.

Atlantic tllEt ~ -" 'Ni' -
,ooo delegates were in attendance at
mo opening session Of the National
corfererce Of Christian Churches to-
aov An address of welcome was made
bv Mayor f. p. Stoy, and was respond
"a 10 by President Carroll d. Wright
COL. wRIGHT's ADDRESS,
Mr.. Wright said in part;
oThere is a great deal OF discussion at
the present time relative to the suppos-
"a decadence OF the church, OF church
attendance. and of real religious spirit
cannot assent to the suggestion THAI
there il any decadence or lessening OF
true religious spirit, taking our COM
munity as a whole. There seems TO
me- 10 be so many evidences OF the
growth of a real religious sentiment
maj / take this occasion to present
hem The public conscience today'ls
more acute. more sensitive than at any
lime IN the history of mankild we see
be evidence OF the ruth of my asser-
lion In the question of crime. ] think 1t
4 The general belief that crime Is largo
h ON the increase The statistics OF
crime support this contention. The dim
Guilty Is, however. that we do not stop
10 distinguish what Is crime today and
what was crime 40 or so years ago The
statistics comprehend not only the per-
slNent crimes. but those crimes when
have been established by legislative en-
actment If we look beneath the fig-
ures we shall find that the crimes that
have remained persistently so under the
criminal code during the last 80 years
Ia ltaas aDh ~
relatively decreased. This is the true
test This new conscience If constant
~ eleyatng misdemeanors that were
ofenses against Individual conscience
into offenses against the public con-
science, and making them punishable
as crimes Growing out Of crime thele
comes penoogy We now believe thai
the criminal must be restrained because
OF the desire TO punish him. The old
doctrine OF the fan of Adam has been
eliminated from psychological science,
and we are dealing with the criminal
as man morally diseased. ] know OF
no better or more emphatical Illus
tratlon Of the evidence Of the growth or
practical religion than IN the penology
Of our day.
"rhe temperance question occupies
the public mind In n manner 1t never
did before and its treatment is an ex-
application Of the very elements of
religion.
"'rhe economic aspects involved In the
treatment of the temperance question
are having an influence which IL
spreading everywhere and which Is
comprehended in industrial establish
ments and by government. The simpm
Idea that man with clear brain IL
better emplOyc than one with mud
died brain Is carrying this question FOR
ward TO success.
THE treatment Of the labor question
offers the strongest evidences Of the
growth Of religious spirit. The best
men are willing to grant to other men
what they claim for themselves, and
Ibis is one of the highest conceptions
Of religious action.
Arbitration which can never be a
solution but only a means to an end
takes broader and grander lines than
The mere adjustment Of labor troubles
as they occur between employer and
employe The growth OF the religious
sllit In the settlement and adjustment
OF International affairs Is an evidence
mat public conscience has received
some stimulation fi0ln some source
which leads II ON TO reasonable con-
slderatIon of questions involving inter-
national rights, duties and obligations.
This is "a religious splrt
There Is new patrlotlsm-that pa
ulollSm which Is born OF n religious
spirit II * devotion 70 a high prin-
cple one of the most gratifying re-
suits Of this broad and religious pa
ulousm Is what may be called the new
american diplomacy. our martyred
President Mckinley set the world an
example when he established truthful
ness as the essential element of dlplo-
mauc action, and today truth sis the
spirit OF diplomacy truth and the ac-
Veplance Of high principles The old
diplomacy was systematic deception.
HeIlglon has done away with the old
FORM ~ charity. We treat the whole
subject In a way which means the
up'lerment OF men themselves and not
hrGllncallon 70 the glver. We estab-
ilsh university settlements and scrutln-
~ an charity work. The spirit Of true
LIthslon Is being excmplhed In this
objection alone.
During the past few months there
n'le been some very edifying and
uIoaoenlng experiences which touch
no5'y not only the spiritual nature OF
tt.' wv tn'H AuiRlulltct tntlf ueNO-
loN TO high personal character as rep
,se.led by individuals. thus testlfylng
helr devotion 10 the very highest
Wiuelples themselves We have been
s,,oiatlng the centenary OF Emerson,
ana all denominations, whether our
..Wn or others, have Joined I'm paying
Hnu'e 10 the memory OF pure soul
Gnu IN the centenary of Cumming II
hS been disc losed that his thought
i',S work. his message to the world
n.lped not only the people TO whom he
Weached, but the whole public to q
stluprehenslon of pdrer. better, q
day "'''V" 'V'''e h''
:, bnt perhaps the granicst experIenc,
We come through the death of Lee
~ TO read the estimates of nj,
snaIocter as given in different Protest
SSul churches, by ministers OF different
,upInlhauons, one would suppose .hai
He Ola attitude towards Cathclicisn
"I passed away. Not an acrlmoniou,
"oIa mas been said. there being onl,
b.alse Tor that sublime character anC
eenout spirit which attended tho late
sovereign pontiff.
hese universal estimates of Elmer
sSn ana Charming on the one hand an,
m lne pope on the other, symbolic In,
"uest religious development OF our time