The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23

securities to avoid the evils of imitation
and of DISQUALIFICATION.
I'VE wish to see American industry
expand. We desire every advantage OF
economic organization; every just OPP
Pcrtunity for the display Of talent and
Inventive skill; every possible improve
ment in the processes of manufacture;
everything-in short-which enhances
J the opportunity of labor and its fruit
ful employment at good wages. and
which develops and encoura ges trade.
AT the same time, we desire to put an
end to unfair practices. unjustifiable
preferences and oppressive proceedings
| by which, apart from proper economic
/ advantages or superior skill in induS-
try, rivals are barred from equal OPP
pOrtunities and thrust out of the way
| or destroyed.
Laws, state and federal, should be
as definite as possible. and should ap-
ply with becoming precision to the
practices sought-to be reached. 1t does
not make very great difference wheth-
er these engaged in improper enter
prise keep it's proceeds in one pocket or
in three or whether their transactions
are detailed in one or more sets of ac-
coums. The way to get rid of abuses
is to attack them directly. And I be-
lieve the most efficacious means is
definition and prescription, and ade-
quate punishment of offenders. The
punishment is most salutary when Wis
tied upon the guilty individuals. Few
men can be hired to go to Jail. And if
offenses which public sentiment recoS-
nizes to be of a grave character are
punished by Imprisonment, the law is
more likely to be obeyed and the pun
ishment to have its intended effect.
No Class Favored.
"In our legislation and administra-
ton, we must favor no class, but pro-
tect the interests of all our citizens
While the nation may devote it's pow
ers TO this end so far as matters are
within federal control, our state gov
ernments and local communities must
not miss their great opportunities Ii
the use of all these powers, according
TO their constitutional distribution, fol
the development of our resources, ths
encouragement of agriculture, the i'm
, provement of the conditions of labor
and the safeguarding of the freedom o
commerce, we shall progress toward tn
attainment of the aims of liberty.
Let us realize our mutual Deepen
! dence and rejoice with Washington
not in power, but in service; not in dis
tinction, but in duty well performed
not in what we have gained, but IL
what we have given"
\ President WheeIer's Address.
The Auditorium wass filled to over
flowing and the speaker was frequentl,
interrupted by enthusiastic applause
Later a second meeting was held il
l Orchestra hall. at which Benjamin Id
1 Wheeler. president of the University o
California delivered the chief address
|
subject, 1.-THE University in the Repub
2 lie" He declared that while Georg
1 Washington was in his life a staid ant
proper personality, there seemed to b
q some danger that men with the laps
of time would lose sight of the actua
characteristics he possessed. Befor
4 he became a symbol and name, h
q declared, the American people ha'
q something to learn from the real man
Washington, and some debts to pa.
him.
Nothing Done as Yet.
I washington, said President Wheel
J er, repeatedly and earnestly recon
d mended the foundation at the fedora
city OF a national university, and in hi:
win attempted to make provision TO
B the nucleus of an endowment for 1t. Al
yet nothing has been DONE We revere
his name and image beyond measure
we quote his words of advice and as
sumo to be guided by their generalities
but the one concert and specific rec
i ommendation upon which he laid thu
stress of a vital personal interest W.
have overlooked and spurned."
After quoting from ashington's let
tiers to show the great interest he fel
4 in the foundation of a national univer
sity. the speaker continued:
Jefferson, with his heart in the sin
gle state, devised the type of the stat
4 university; Washington, with his hear
in the federal nation. conceived the typ
j of the national university and. though