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

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The achievements of those rulers had
+ been forgotten; whatever remained
| served only to crafty the curiosity of
modern men
No high, no generous thoughts. no
. sacrifices for native land had conse-
! Grated their work, and all had per-
! ished, save the dumb syenite, out of
which their tombs had been hewed.
/ From such things he learned that self
/ ish power has no elements of immor-
/ tally.
! He noticed, too, in the great cities
/ at home and abroad. that no statues
are ever upTeaTed to wealth. Heroes
and statesmen. and great poets and
/ writer's are remembered. Men who
| coin their hearts into the service of
native land; men who catch and tran
J scribe immortal thoughts for the
worlds good are the ones recalled. In
: his native land he saw statues of James
I Watt. because the humble mechanic
\ caught an inspiration from on high,
and from the elements of the mine. the
air and the water produced a living,
glOTified slave for mans use. He saw
| statues of Walter Scott and BObbie
4 Burns. for the one gave to Scotland a
! distinct location, nationality and fame,
/ the other found the inspira ton to write
what will soften human hearts to the
: end of time.
! He saw statues to the iron duke, be-
cause he. in his life. on one tTemen-
dous DAY. made clear devotion and
! valor great enough to give to native
! land a deathleSs prestige. He saw
I statues Of Napoleon, and. searching
! back for a reason, he read the truth
! that he was the battle genius Of mod
ern times. the needed force to cleave
with his flaming sword the fostering
/ horrors and wrongs of 1,J00 years OF
tyranny, injustice and misrUIe. and
that it was his mission to give to the
soil Of Europe such d solvent of blood,
that it would be possible thereafter for
the roots of the tree of liberty to -four
is therein.
on our soil he saw statues OF Wash
/ ingtOn, because looking back along the
path he trOd. above Valley Forge. above
Monmouth, above Yorktown, there
shone out a character so stately and so
high, that il was enough on which to
found and give direction to nation
He knew Abraham Lincoln in his life
time. he knew in how rude cradle his
babyhOOd was rocked: from what
sqUalOr and poverty he had emerged:
( he knew what a wine press of wrath
/ he had trodden, but how he had stead
led this nation through the anguish. the
faintnesS and the fear Of a second birth.
and now he. misjudEed and misunder-
q.
trust. that when his WTung spirit had
fed. the trail it left was white as a
planets light. and the world through
it's tears. saw at last that his life had
been a perfect conservation to duty.
that his was the highest soul that had
been given the world since the tragedy
on Calvary
So we suspect that Andrew Carnegie
on ton "a -
to himself:
Il have transmitted iron and coal
into gold, but the naked gold by itself
is valuelesS. It cannot carry my voice
beyond this life. it cannot, few years
hence. cause men to see me as l was
on earth.
There must be another transmuta-
tion if I would be saved from OBJ
Iivion"
That may have been to him a sor-
Towful day. for he realized in full that
great wealth has its limitations
But he knew Peter Cooper in his life
time and had seen how he. with but
1.-THE of the fortune Of the steel king.
had founded an institute TO prepare
young men and women to enable them
to make a better fight for life. and
noted that Peter CoOpers name was
taking on new reverence under the ebb
and flow of years
He doubtless had read Of the poor
! English and American clergyman. who
died at 81. but who left his little library
of 300 volumes. and his little fortune of
81. 0O0 to establish in Massachusetts.
then almost a wilderness. d school
He must have seen how from that
school seven generations Of young men
have emerged to take their places, IN
war and in peace. in the forefront of
American civilization. and how much
they have done in shaping the destiny
Of the republic. how they have been
most potent factor in making our cOun-
try what il is.
He doubtless. too. needed the fact,
that in its niche in the temple Of the
nations fame the statue Of John Har-
ward has taken on divine proportions
and the woven halo of the circling
years has aUreOIed his brow with ever
lasting light.
He may have read that Thomas JET
ferson as his life drew near its close,
asked that. when his grave should be
made. only a plain stone be placed
above it. but that there might be en-
bOssed OF it the words. Thomas JEFF
ferson. Founder of the University of
Virginia"
He had been eight years president
of the United States. he had written
the deathless Declaration of Independ-
litical hCuOrs. he was held as one Of the
worlds foremost statesmen; one of the
worlds most profound scholars. but
what he most glOTied in, as he looked
back along the path Of his triumphant
life was that he had founded an insti-
tuition where the choicest leaves of the
book of knowledge would be open to
the young men of the nation, for all
time to come.
And the young men who annually.
through the watches of a century, have
emerged from the classic spot. have
held their badges of membership there
as the highest possible honor. for with
them their names are linked INSOFAR
, ably with the great name of Thomas
jefferson.
At last a thought came to Mr.. Car
negie that il is possible. even If our life
( here is but a span, to transmute gold
( into a photograph TO carry human
/ voice so that it will sound forever down
| the ages; into radium, that with light
/ that never dims viii, to the eyes of men,
reveal for all time the picture of a
I mortal form, no matter If that form has
| fallen back to dust.
] He saw that it was possible through
/ his gold, to incorporate his life into the
! lives of thousands and tens of thou
sands of men who are to succeed him,
/ and that whatever Of splendOr they
might achieve. a little of it would be
| reflected back upon him who reached
/ out a strong hand to help to fit them
| for their high work.
! Then a holy peace came to him. a
/ new conservation OF his life began
/ He said to himself: Gold is but clay
| but like clay it has within it, when
] 4od f,r- hn fuh .