The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-28
William J. BRVAN5 Thanksgiving DAY ADDRESS
Delivered at Banquet Given by Ambassadors Choate
at the Hotel Cecil, London
49, ttt

eVentful voyage. before the barons
Wrested Magma Charta from King John
the shores of this island-aye. before Ho-
mer sang-that sentiment had nestled IN
inc heart on man, and nerVed him 90 re-
slst the uppressOr- That sentiment was
not even OF human origin. Our own great
Lincoln declared that III was God himself
who implanted IN every human heart the
love of liberty. Yes. when God created
man, when ne gave him life he linked to
lte the love OF liberty, and what GOD
hath joined together let no man put
a5under. tCheers.) We have received
great blessings from God and from all
the Wortu, ana what IS our duty we
cannot make return to those from whom
those gifts were received. II is not in our
power to make return to the father
above. Nor can We make return 80
those who have sacrificed so much
Tor our advancement me child can
peFer make full return - the mother
whose life trembled IN the balance at It's
birth, and whose kindness and care
guarded 10 III all the years of infancy.
The student cannot make full return 70
the teacher who awakened the mind and
aroused an ambition for a broader intel
lcctual life The adult cannot make nun
return TO the patriarch whose noble life
gave inspiration and incentive. So
generation cannot make return TO the
generation gone; ii must make It's return
20 the generations 20 come Our nation
must discharge its debt, not to the dead.
put TO the living. How can our country
discharge this great debt2 in but one
way. and that is by giving to the world
something equal. in value to that which
il has received from the world And
what is the greatest g.ft that man can
bestow upon MANI Feed a man and he
will hunger again. give him clothing and
his clothing VIII wear out; but give MIN
noble ideal, aud that ideal Will De with
him through every waking hour. lifting
him 60 a higher plane Of life, and giving
him broader conception OF his relations
To his fellows / know, therefore. OF no
greater service that my country can rem
der TO the world than TO furnish to the
world the highest ideal that the world
has known. That ideal must be so Tar
above US that il will keep us looking
upward all CUR lives. ana so 1dr IN ad-
vance Of us that we shah never Overtake
fl. 7 know Of no better Illustration, no
better Symbols an ideal life than the
living spring. pouring forth constantly
not the stagnant pool which receives
contribution from all the land around
and around and gives forth nothing.
(CheersD our nation mast make a large
and IL is no reflection upon those who
have gone beIOTe TO say that we ought
to de- better than they have done, We
today If we did not build still higher the
social structure TO which they devoted
their lives (Chccrs( / visited the Tower
of London today and saw uDOn the wall
n strange figure. It was made OF
swords, ramrods and bayOnets, and was
fashioned into the form Of flower.
someone had put a card ON IL and apliN
named tx the passion flOWer-aDd IL has
been too often the International flower
But the world has madcN progress No
longer do ambition and avarice furnish
sufficient excuse for war. The world
has made progress, and today you can
not Justify blOOdshed except in defense
of q right already ascertained, and then
only when all Deaceable means have been
exhausted. (Cheers) The world has
made progress. Wc nave reached point
where We respect not the man who Will
die TO secure some pecuniary advantage.
but who Will die In defense of his rights
n fF he
man who is willing 10 die in defense of
his rights. but there is yet before us
higher ground. Is he great who viii die
IN defense OF his rlghtsF There rs yet
20 come q greater man sfiii-the man
who Wilt- die rather than trespass upon
the rights Of another tCheers.) Hail 60
that leads the wOrll towards the realiZG-
ton of this higher IDEAL. I am glad that
We now recognize that there IS some
thing more p0WefIQl IMAM pnFslcal Iolce-
and no one has stated it better than
Carlyle lie said THAI thought was
stronger than artillery parks. and at last
naoulded the World like soft clay; that
behind thought was love and that there
, never was wise head that had n0t be-
hind IL generous heart me world was
coming TO understand that armies ana
navies. however numerous and strong.
are imDOtent TO stop thought. Thought
inspired ny love viii Vet rule the world
7 am glad that there is a national rrOd-
net more valuable than gold or silver.
more valuable than cotton or wheat or
corn or iron. the ideal That is ner-
chandise-if I may cali tx such-tnat
moves freely from country to country.
You cannot vex it with an EXPORT tax or
hinder it with an import tariff. (Cheers.)
III is greater than legislators. and rises
, triumphant over the machinery Of gov
( eminent. In the rivalry TO present the
best ideal to the world. love, not hatred.
will control. and 7 am glad that on
Thanksgiving day 7 can meet with my
couptrymen and thcir friends here as
/ sembled return thanks Tor the progress
fansI1 MI favrr
plate with low tho coming OF that dav
when the rivalry between nations viii
he. not 10 see which caU iniure the other
most bUt 20 show which can hold high
est the liCht that ruidcs the pathway or
the human race 90 HIGHER ground. loud
and prolonged Checrs)