The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-04


not worth a continental.
lou see how uTge Ut il is that each
should guard his lips. chastcn his pen
aud aspire t0 simplicity of speech. No
more pcrversiou OF sense. circumio-
cution. retiCcnce, tergiversatio These
things serve only to Complicate and he
wilder. Be men. speak he speech
OF honor An hour of plain-dealing
does more for the salvation of the
world than years OF duplicity
a WORD now about national bias.
"A to those who have a generation
for diction and style Assuredly there
can be no quarrel with the taste for
grace and elegance Of speech. 1 am of
opinion that one cannot say too well
what he has to say. But it does not
follow that the things best said and
best written are most studied Words
should serve the fact and not sub
stitUue themselves for it and make it
forgotten i'm its establishment. The
greatest things are those which gain
the most by being said most simply.
since thus they show themselves for
what they are: you do not throw over
them the veil, however transparent. of
beautiful discourse, nor that shadow so
fatal to truth, called the writer's Vani-
~. Nothing SO strong, nothing so per-
suasive, as simplicity! There are sa-
cfcd emotions. cruel griCfs, splendid
'S'1s. passionate enthusiasms that
a look, a movement, a cry interprets
,e,ter than beautifully rounded pc
OF the heart of humanity manifest
themselves most simply To be con-
vincing, thing must be true. and GER
tain truths are more evident when they
come i'm the speech of righteousness.
even weakness, than when they fall
from lips too well trained, or are pro-
claimed with trumpets. And these
rules are good for each of US in his
everyday life. No one can imagine
what profit would accrue to his moral
lie from the constant observation of
this principle: Be sincere, moderate.
simple in the expression of your feel
ings and opinions. in private and pub
lie alike; never pass beyond bounds.
give out faithfully what is within you.
and above all, Watch-that is the main
thing
For the danger i'm fine words is that
Ibey I'VE from life or their own. They
are servants of distinction. that have
kept their titles but no longer perform
their functiOns-of which royal courts
offer US example. You speak well.
write well, and all is said. How many
people content themselves with speak
ing. and believe that il eXempts them
from acting. And those who listen are
content with having heard them. So
IL sometimes happens that a life may
in the end be made up Of a few we'll
turned speeches, a few fine books, and
a few great plays. AS for practicing
what is so magisterially set forth, that
IS the last thing thought Of And if we
pass from the world of talent to
spheres which the mediocre exploit.
there. in a pell-mell Of confusion. we
see those who think that we are in the
world 10 talk and hear others talk
the great and hopeless rout of bah
blers, of everything that pirates. bawIs.
and perorates and. after all, finds that
there isn't talking enough. They all
forget that those who make the least
noise do the most work An engine
that eXpends all its steam in whistling.
has nothing left with which to turn
wheels. Then let US cultivate silence.
All that we can save in noise we gain
in power.