The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-08


Ladies and Gentlemen:
/ Not long since, through a phono-
/ graph, I heard a song. The voice was
| that of woman
! I asked her name and when it was
| told me I knew that she had been for
| some years dead.
| But her voice remained. The spirit
/ had fed. the body had fallen back to
( dust, but the intangible voice. as from
the grave below. or from heaven above,
! sonOrous and sweet. had returned to
enchant the listener.
The old tones were all there, while
| the melody rolled on, those who had
/ known and loved the woman. as they
/ listened saw her again as she had
q walked on earth. heard her again as
/ they heard her in the long ago, and
the sense that she was dead, for the
moment at least, passed away.
To me the song was a vivid reminder
of a great longing in the souls Of many
men and women.
How can they make their voices
heard, how to friends bring back a
reminder of what they were. when they
shall have fallen into their final
sleep2
This fair structure which we have
met today to dedicate. is Il reminder Of
that same longing. A man born in
foreign land, while yet a child came to
America
! The change from the crGmped en-
! virOnments of his native land to the
: limitIeSS possibilities that opened be-
: fore him here. was a transformation
: which must have impressed him more
and more as childhood merged into
manhood. and with more and more
] brain he was able to comprehend that
all this lands opportunities were open
( to the humblest citizen. that mans
I n. fvo col
/ limited only by his capacity and cOur-
/ age: that he could accomplish almost
anything that he had the daring to
undertake. and the persistence to pur-
sue
He began as a tofler for others. he
tsoOn became an employer He was stu
diOuS, industrious. observing. and
/ shTewd beyond his fellows.
/ He read Of those who had succeeded:
4 he noticed that the most success
! full around him, had, from nothing but
their own eXertionS, reached their
! prominence. with faith in himself. he
! began to carve out his career.
/ He was but a young man when the
! great civil war closed and it did not
require a very vivid ina ginatiOn for
/ him to see what must be in land like
ours. when, with ineXhauStible mines
I of gold and silver and oil. and bound
( less areas of fertile soil. that millions.
unburdened by any oppressive laws
and free to do any legitimate thing.
would. in concert. begin the full re-
demption of the continent
He saw. too. that the age Of gold
and Of iron was about to be ushered
in: that the gold would lay the tracks
! for the steam evangel, that over the
| iron tracks the treasures would be
brought back.
He remembered what the iron and
coal baTOns We're in the little pre-
/ scribed land from which he had come.
/ he began to dream Of what a steel
king might be in this free country.
1t is fair to suppose that in those
days. his chiefest dream was Of honey.
and the power which money carries
with it.
It was only natural g such was the
/ case It IS the dream of most men.
The most fascinating books laid be
! fore children are those that tell how
/ good fairies and obedient Genii bring
gold and gems to their masters. how.
through money. men grow great and
/ famous. and are fawned upon as their
/ riches increase: how almost every evil
act can be condOned with money. how
/ indulgencies can be bought with it:
how the sweetest smiles of beauty are
reserved for it: how the possession of
great wealth is liable TO cause man
kind to be Indifferent as to the means
employed to obtain it
As his wealth increased his influence
/ grew. Great statesmen seemed CRATE
full for his advice. all doors opened
to him. on every hand his vanity and
ambition were flatteTed.
Every year his works were enlarged
more and more poor men found places
in them to toll at generous wages
See. the blessings of the poor fol-
low me. because of my far-sighted-
ness thousands are made more COM
| Portable. the two dark substances. iron
I and coal. I have caught the secret Of
; transmitting into gold
He was fIattered on every hand. The
| rich Carnegie soon became the great
! Carnegie and there was no break in
his continued prosperity
Then came the combination that gave
him untold wealth. and an income so
princely that he could not spend it
On both shores OF the Atlantic he
was known, looked up to, praised ap-
plauded-
II is fair to say that in all these
years. he was a sterling, public spir-
tied and most patriotic citizen. He
was ever ready with voice and pen
to champion what he believed to be
right, and what. in his judgment, would
/ tend to enhance the security. the pros
peTity and the splendOr Of his adopted
country.
He began to be the foremost Of the
COuntTy's industrial leaders. He
brought all possible devices and inven-
tiOns to bear to reduce the cost Of pro-
ductiOn and TO increase the efficiency
Of labor. either by human hands or
the tireIeSS arms of steel and eIectri-
city. He carried the production Of
structural iron and steel to perfection.
4 shrewd man has expressed the be
lief that Andrew Carnegie reduced the
/ cost of making iron and steel 30 per
1 cent. That means countless millions
/ Of money saved to our country and an
/ industrial prestige abroad that can not
/ be estimated.
He was generous, too. He was
! ready to further any good cause: his
/ ears were always open to the appeals
! OF honest charity We suspect that he
{ inherited from his shrewd and self
/ questioning ancestors. a conviction
/ that a 1.-THE of his profits should be
/ made to minister to a struggling
/ worlds needs.
But one morning his sixtieth birth
/ day came around, and then ne realized
! that all he had could not buy back
! the youth that long before had deserted
/ him on llfe's trail, that all he pos
/ sessed could not for one moment of
! time, put off the end which was ap-
/ preaching.
/ Then he realized, too. that mere
wealth in itself. counts for nothing
/ that what he had so striven for would
\ not buy him what he wanted. that
/ as things were his voice was soon TO
/ be hushed. that i'm q little time men
| would no longer remember him or care
/ 2 hot he h-a