The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-20

speak with a million voices; no one can
reach so many races, so many hearts
and intellects as you, except Rudyard
kipling. and he cannot do it without
your help. II the Associated Press VIII
accept and use our simplitied forms
thus spread then TO the ends of the
earth. covering the whole spacious
planet with them as with a garden ~
flowers, our difficulties are at an tnd
lmpIores the Editors.
= Every day of the S65 the only pages
of the world countless newspapers that
are read by all the human beings and
angels and devils that can read. are
those pages that are built out of AS
ISOLATED Press dispatches. And so
beg you, I beseech you-Oh, / implore
you-to spell them in our simplifieu
form. Do this-daily. constantly, per
sistently for three months-only three
months-it is all / ask. The inevitable
result? Victory, victory, all down the
line.
For by that time all eyes here and
above and below will have become ad-
justed to the change and i'm love with
il, and the clumsy and ragged forms will
be groteSQue to the eye and revolving TO
the soul. And we shall be rid of phtnisis
and physic and pneumonia and pneumat-
les and diphtheria and pterodatyl and all
those other insane words which no man
addicted to the simple Christian life can
try to spell and not lose some of the
bloom of his piety in the demoralZing at
tempt. Do not doubt it. We are chame-
Icons, and our partialities and prejudces
change places with an easy and blessed
facility, and we are soon wonted to
change and happy in il. We do not re-
greet our old yellow fangs and snags and
tushes after we have worn nice fresh uni
form store teeth awhile.
Some Ouiet Sarcasm
DO | seem to be seeking the good OF
the world? That is the idea. 1t is my
public attitude; privately ! am merely
seeking my own profit We all do IT, but
ii is sound and it is virtuous. for no pub
lie interest is ANYTHING other or nobler
than amassed accumulation of private in
terests. In 1883. when the simplified SPELL
ing movement first tried to make a noise
l was indifferent to il. More, l even ir-
releVantly ScOfed at il. What l needed
was an object lesson, and / got it,
Here the speaker related an anecdote
Of having once been required TO write ten
pages OF copy for a magazine where
words of not less than ten TO twenty let
ters were employed, at cents a word
thereby suffering great pecuniarY loss
and continued:
From that day to this I have been a
devoted and hard working member OF the
heaVen-bOrn institution. the international
association for the prevention of cruelty
TO authors, and now L am labOring with
Carnegie's simplified committee, and with
my heart in the work
"Simplified spelling can convey any
fact you need TO convey, and IL can pour
out emotions like a sewer. | beg you.
beseech you, TO adopt our spelling and
print all your dispatches in it.
Too Old to Care.
I have reached a time of life. 20 years
and a half, where none Of the concerns of
this would have much interest for me
personally, because, in a little while that
i have got TO remain here. ] can get along
very well with these old fashioned forms
ana 1 don't propose TO make any trouble
about it at all; / shall soon be where they
won't care how / spell as long as I keep
the Sabbath. There are 100000 millions
OF people that use this photography and il
ought TO be simpified i'm our behalf but
II is kept In its present condition to sat
isfy 100000 Of people who like TO have
their literature I'm the old form. That
looks TO me TO be rather selfish and we
keep the forms as they are while we have
got million people coming I'm here from
foreign countries every month and they
have got to struggle with this orthogra ply
o. ours, and il keeps them back and dam
ages their citizenship for years until they
learn to spell the languages if they ever
do learn. This is merely sentimental ar
gument"
In conclusion Mark Twain said:
Now you see before you the wreck and
ruin of what was once a young person
like yourself. l am exhausted by heat of
the day; 1 must take what is left Of this
wreck. run out of your presence and carry
it away to my home and spread il out
there and sleep the sleep Of the righteous.
! There is nothing much left of me but my
age and my righteousness. but 7 leave
with you my love and blessing and NAV
yoU always keep your youth" prolonged
applause.)