Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-20

and we are as little to be excused if we
permit our ideals TO be tainted with
what is sordid and mean and base.
as If we allow our power of achieve
ment TO atrophy and become either
In capable of effort or capable only OF
such fantastic effort as to accomplish
nothing of permanent good The true
doctrine to preach TO this nation, as
to the individuals composing this ma
ton. Is not the life of ease, but the
life of effort. IL it were IN my power
to promise the people of this land any
thing, l would not promise them
pleasure would promise them that
stern happiness which comes from the
sense of having done in practical FASH
ION difficult work which was worth
doing,
AN IDEAL COMBINATION.
"rhe Puritan owed his extraordinary
success IN subduing this continent and
making II the foundation for a social
life of ordered liberty primarily TO the
fact that he combined In a very re-
markable degree both the power OF
Individual Initiative. OF individual self
help, and the power of acting in COM
bination with his fellows; and that
furthermore he Joined to high heart
that shrewd common sense which
saves q man from the besetting sins
of the visionary and doctrinaire. He
was stout hearted and hard headed.
He had lofty purposes. but he had
practical good sense, too. He could
hold his own In the rough workaday
world without clamorous insistence
upon being helped by others, and yet
he could combine with others when
ever It became necessary TO do Il job
which could not be as well done by
any one man individuallv
TODAY VS.. YESTERDAY,
"These were the qualities which en-
abled him to do his work, and they
are the very qualities which we must
show In doing our work today. There
is no use IN our coming here to pay
homage to the men who founded this
nation unless we first of all come in
the spirit of trying to do our work to-
day as they did their work in the yes
terdays that have vanished. The prob
lens shift 1iom generation TO gener-
alton, but the spirit in which they
must be approached, If they are to be
successfully solved. remains ever the
same. The Puritan tanned the wilder
ness, and built up a free government
on the stump-dotted clearings amid the
prtmeval forest. His descendants must
try to shape the life of our complex in
dustrial civilization by new devices, by
new methods, so as to achieve in the
end the same results of justice and
fair dealing toward all. He cast aside
nothing old merely for the sake of in
novation, yet he did not hesitate to
adopt anything new that would save
his purpose when he planted his COM
monwealths on this rugged coast he
faced wholly new conditions aud he had
TO devise new methods of meeting them.
So we of today face wholly new con-
ditons in our social and Industrial life
We should certainly not adopt any new
scheme for graphing with them mere
ly because II Is new and untried; but
we cannot afford to shrink from CRAP
pling with them because they can only
be grappled with by some new scheme,
"sMITE THE TRANsGREssoR."
THE Puritan was no Laodicean, no
laissez-faire theorist. When he saw
rights-of the rights of man. the rights
of God. as he understood them--hs
attempted to regulate such conduct
with instant, unquestioning promptness
and effectiveness. If there was no 9TH
er way to secure conformity with the
rule of right, then he smote down the
transgressor with the iron of his wrath.
The spirit Of the Puritan was a spirit
which never shrank from regulation of
conduct If such regulation was neces-
sary for the public veal. and this is
the spirit which we must show today
whenever it is necessary.
THE PEOPLE, ALWAYS.
1.-THE utterly changed conditions of
our national life necessitate changes In
certain of our alws, of our government
tai methods. Our federal system of
government Is based upon the theory
of leaving 20 each community, to each
state, the control over those things
which affecy only Its own members and
which the people of the locality them
selves can best grapple with, while
providing for national regulation IN
those matters which necessarily affect
the nation as whole. II seems to me
that such questions as national sover-
eighty and states rights need to be
treated not empirically or ACCIDENTALLY,
but from the standpoint Of the inter-
ests of the people a q whole. Nation
al sovereignty Is 10 be upheld in so
far as II means the sovereignty of the
people used for the real and ultimate
good of the people; and states rights
are TO be upheld in so far as It means
the sovereignty of the people used for
the real and ultimate good of the peo-
pie; and states rights are to be up
held In so far as they moan the peo-
pies rights. Especially is this true In
dealing with the relations of the peo-
ple as a whole to the great corporations
which are tie distinguishing feature of
modern business conditions.
AGAINST ILLICIT FORTUNES.
Experience has shown that II is nec-
essary to exercise far more efficient
control thar at present over the bust
ness use If those vast fortnnes, chiefly
corporate. which are used Gas under
modern conditions they almost invar-
iably are) in Interstate business. When
the Constitution was created none of
the conditions of modern business ex-
listed. They are wholly new and we
must create new agencies to deal eff
fectlyely with them There Is no OBJ
lection in the minds of this people 10
any mans earning any amount of mon
ey If he does II honestly and fairly. II
he gets il as tho result OF special skill
and enterprise as n reward Of ample
service actually rendered But there
is a growing determination that no
man shall ainass great fortune by
special privilege, by chicanery and
wrong doing. so far as It is in the pow
er OF legislation to prevent, and that
the fortune when amassed shall not
have business use that is antisocial.
INCORPORATION LAW.
Most large corporations do bust
ness that vs. not confined 10 any one
state. Experience has shown that the
effort To control these corporations by
Wholesome results. In most eases such
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