The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-03
PAINTS IDEALS
J OF DEMOCRACY
Mar vs.. Dollars the Case of
America, Says Rev.
F.F Eddy.
A RELIGION OF CONSCIENCE
BROAD NEW GOSPEL TO BE
WRITTEN IN LEDGERS.

At the services of the First Unitarian
society yesterday Rev Frank Fay /
Eddy preached on Ideals and Democ-
racy."
Some one has well said that de-
mocracy meant the kingdom OF God
within you" he said. 1T means that
the average man must assume respon-
sibility for the governing of himself
and his fellows. All representative
government is based on the rigEteouss-
ness of the average man.
"Of course. the uncommon man VIII
always lead. The success of a, democ-
racy depends on the capacity of the
average man to comprehend good lead
ership. Otherwise the mob rules and
the dema gogue fouTishes.
In democracy man dominates law
and government. By public opinion he.
makes and unmakes laws, makes them
powerful or what we metaphorically
call a dead letter. He who makes or
moulds public opinion in a country like
ours is often more powerful than he
who makes laws or interprets them.
This being true, we see the import
ance of having something big and noble
I'm the way of ideas for public opinion
TO express ir its rough and ready way
Man VS.. Dollars.
in materialsm as some of our foreign
critics think. but there is no Clistakins
that our danger lies in that direction.
1t is for us to prove that we can be-
come rich without becoming weak and
q wicked. With every other great nation
luxury and degeneration have usually
accompanied each other. The same
must be true with us unless we retain
our ideals.
That we are in the presence of a
real national peril is undeniable. Judge
Linsley of the Juvenile court of Den
Yer tells us that he discovered that the
men who obstructed him i'm his work
usually did so because they valued
things more than they did lives. The
case of America before the high court
of heaven might be described as man
vs. dollars. The nation that Is not lord
of it's dollars and the things dollars
will buy has chosen the path Of deSene-
ration.
Religion of Ideals.
Every nation mas a religion more ol
less indeDendent of its churches. 1t Is
the religion of its ideals. Let US make
q little study of this religion of Amer
lean ideals.
In the past men have died herOical-
& " mainly for two motives; for military
glory and for religious conviction II
q democracy we for the first time re-
% cognize the herolsm OF the worker. L,
the credit OF our American manhood
let is be said that a craven rear 81
risk or danger is nowhere much II
evidence in our national life. Hh'
miner in his dark tunnel, the fisher
man on the seas. the engineer Wit
hand on the throttle. the chemist in III
labratory. the physician. nurse %
mother tenderly caring for those sici
with malignant and infectious dlseas
che hai M a 4
course
.'Toke the men who chose freight
J ing as a profession. The fidelity an
courage they exhibit the country owe
is worthy of a panegyric. This IS IN
dustrial heroism. Modern life abound
with opportunities for its exercise.
Buccaneers of Finance.
.Justice is another ideal unspeakabl
precious in our national life. 1t is in
timateIy connected with courage, as IT
exercise often requires moral courage
Tine buccaneers of high finance haV
been playing a merry game hitherto
They have been allowed the liberty {
license But there are signs enoug
that public opinion is soon TO cali
halt That there has been duplicii
and connivance to defraud we haN
long suspected. Recent inQuiring con
T. missions and investigations have give
" 1
sic ! this city last week added ITS quot
- bee 4,lic opinion is rapidly forming whit
sep make a demand for justice so lol
as clear that frightened politician
..nuC al he scared into a little genuine
1 coercive and restrictive activity.
I In our American life we nave a
Z other ideal that peculiarly belongs
. democracies 1t is the ideal of know
edge. The ideal OF knowledge in
democracy inspires the average man
I keen Informed as 10 what IS iappenl
1 i'm rhe world 1t is in our country, 2
ought to be disgrace TO be unable
read and write But the text book
democracy is the newspaper lot
men. the magazine for a large ana
creasing number of the more though
full. while the bound volume as ever
little used except by the student
Gospel in Ledgers.
Finally the ideal of worship is pr
ert in every democracy that Is al
thing more than n painted sham
democracy can last without talth-
fundamental faith must be that I'M
is such A thing as righteousness ma
Ilain i'm the many voices OF truth.
must have faith in human nature
well as IN the eternal order of physi
nature.
"Our T-nitarianisnl gets its meani
in its aspiration TO be the voice OF I
broad new gospel which must be WI
ten in ledgers as well as IN sac
hooks 1t is a gospel which must
al all costs open-nlinded and incura
optimistic Unitarianism or any OF
form of religion which seeks to be
religion of the whole people OF Amer
needs must voice the ideals Of dem
racy. its capacity for heroism. its p
4 sion for iustice. its thirst for knowles
md its deep faith that righteousn
and truth are at the heart of TIM
cuch is The religion of democracy.
Announcement.