The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13

| The Thirty Years War" caused the
ancestor of these boys to leave Ger
many and settle In America The Puri-
tans left England because the law of
the realm allowed a subject of the king
to worship God after forms and cere-
monies the Puritans did not approve,
and so they came over here and set up
a theocracy and would not let a Qua
ker or Baptist worship God at all Yet
your American of average intelligence
will tell you the mission Of the Puri-
tans was to set up In New England
"a government that allows a man to
worship God according to the dictates
OF his own conscience. Rufus Choate's
eloquence. beginning There was a
state without a king and a church
without a bishop" is one of the finest
specimens of hyperbole in the language.
But the Lands family left Germany
because 1T was in the army only that
a man could worship God at all. The
land was devastated from the Baltic to
the Rhine, and Catholic and Lutheran
practiced the gospel that the one way
|
men, Some years ago the Hon. Bou-
tell Of Chicago delivered a lecture on
Gustavus Adolphus in this town that
contained more sorts OF impossible his
torical cock-and-bull-ism than any
thing l had ever before read / am
sure the Hon. Boutell never read
Schiller, or he would not have pictured
the Lion of the North" as the lamb
he did. In fact, Gustavus was as much
of ruffian as lilly, and as ready to
cut throat or sack a town as Wallen-
stein. He was a great soldier, not in
fertor to any man Of that heroic age.
He was invited out of the north by
Richelieu, and every victory he gained
made France more secure; but there
Is no record that Richelieu shed any
tears when Gustavus fell. He was get
ting troublesome, and the dominion of
all Europe would not have satiated
his ambition. But this is Protestant
country, and, of course, we have to
stand up for our Protestant cut
threats.
The father Of the Lands boys Is a
native of Butler county so long the
Democratic Gibraltar Of southern Ohio.
He was an abolitionist before there
was Republican party. and held as
gospel, or a little better than gospel.
Harriet Beecher Stoves absurd fiction
of Uncle Toms Cabin" He believed
in Theodore Parker, Joshua r. Cid
dings and that set Of incurable luna
tics, and when the inevitable war came
he did his devoir like the man he was.
He Joined the army and was nearly
shot TO death at Kenesaw mountain.
a battle that was useless slaughter
Of federal soldiers, and that would not
have been fought If George H. Thomas
had had the place he had earned and
ought to have had-command of the
army.
There must have been a grim sort of
humor about DIR. Lands, for he named
his favorite son Kenesaw Mountain
Lands, for the battle that was, per-
haps, the completest rebel victory of
the west, where Harkey made that des-
perate charge, fruitless of everything
but blood. prodigally shed, death de-
family met, and courage that reached
to the dauntless. Perhaps it was worth
the trial-certainly federal arms did no
drawer thing.
DR.. Lands had this secret of human
life that should be universally prac-
ticed-everybody scratched for a living
at his house but the baby. AS soon as
one of his chaps got able to do a stunt
he was set at it and kept at 1t. That
is why the Lands boys. five of them,
have all succeeded in life. like Char
ley best. He Is the brightest of the
lot and the bravest. I am certain that
his heroic father did not display more
desperate valor in charging up Kene-
saw mountain than does my friend
Charles in sailing into tariff debate, |
under the banner OF the familiar de-
vice-"Post hoe, ergo, propter hoe" He
will n 10
product of a protective tariff. He will
show you that taxation for private |
purposes is the soul OF national pros !
perity. He will roll off a string of |
paradoxes until the hammer falls, and |
each and ell of them a breastwork be- |
hind which is that grand error-hoary |
with a thousand ages-that the only |
virtuous taxation is for private pur- |
poses.
The Democratic party retired from |
politics in 1896, and Charley Lands |
was that year elected to congress. His |
maiden speech was a forensic triumph |
and made against the civil service law |
1t was eloquent and it was bright. He |
set the house in a roar, and the Demo- |
Gratis were even more delighted than |
the Republicans, for they had run up |
against the thing during two entire |
By ''tellers" the house |
SUSTAINED Ld1uls WIFI al OVOTWnelIn-
ing majority. On a roll call he went |
down under a majority just as big. |
The easiest and the quickest way in
the world to change the entire per-
sonel of congress would be to repeal
the civil service law.
LandiS next exploit was to drive
coach and four through the constf-
tuition of the United States in unseat-
ing Brigham II. Roberts, who had been
elected to congress from Utah. Lit
tIefeld made a great constitutional ar
gument, and was backed up by Bailey
Of Texas A million of women petit
toned congress to turn Roberts out be-
cause he had three wives. The yaller
journals threw sundry fits, not that
they cared a damn for Roberts, or his
wives, but that that was what they
we're there for. But the constitution
was seemingly in the majority until
Charley Lands got the floor. And
such a speechi I apprehend few of our
public men would not be glad to have
made it. However that may be. 1t did
the work for the Hon. Roberts. and he
never got his place.
Charles Lands is that important per-