The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03

| RES rendering service; there is a long
roll of martyrs, Catholic missionaries
who have gone into strange lands and
have given up their lives in their de-
votion to the work that has for its OBJ
| ject the bringing of blessings to the
people among whom they go. (Ap-
plause)
1 am gldd that 1 can attend a meet
| ing of this kind and here give testi-
mony of my appreciation of the work
that the Catholic church has done and
| Is doing, not only in this country, but
throughout the world. and l can ex-
press my qualification that / live at a
time and in land where these great
| religious bodies can enter into a rival
ry, the object of which is to see which
church can best apply to daily life the
teachings of the Christ who stands
back of all of our Christian churches
which church can best exemplify the
doctrine of human brotherhood that
he taught when among men.
Speaks Word of Hope.
| Now. my friends. / want to give you
word OF hope. Persons who deal
with political questions, especially if
| they are trying to reform conditions
are apt to become pessimistic, because
/ a man must first know that something
| is wrong before he is willing to apply
a remedy: and therefore, the first
work of the reformer is TO convince
| the people that something is wrong
| Until the people realize that something
| is wrong, they win not seek a remedy;
and because it is necessary TO point
out evils; because it is necessary to
point out the consequences of an evil;
| because ii is necessary to trace a
cause to its legitimate effect, the re-
| former is apt to be regarded as a pes
! simist. The first answer that is made
/ to the refOrmer is that there is no
ground for his complaint; that he has
simply q decease liver or a disorderad
stomach Oaughter), and that the trou-
bic is in himself and not i'm the world.
Then the refOrmer is apt to become
| discouraged because Ii takes so long
| to get anything done. l heard Gov
ernor Pingree say one time that the first
thing for a reformer to do was to select
ancestors whose history gave prom
Use of long life; that a refOrmer had
to be lOng-lived man; that it took a
long while for him to accomplish any
thing 1t is not at all unusual for a
reformeT TO get discouraged. 1t is not
strange that a man, after working for
ten or twenty or thirty years and not
seeing the people accept what seems 50
plain to him, should get discouraged.
L
Hermit, whose wonderful enthusia SIN
aroused so many thousands, at one
| time became discouraged; and the
great prophet, Elijah, you remember,
who had the courage to speak nut and
to condemn wrong wherever he found
it, at last sank down and said: Il
only am left" So it is quite common
and quite natural for a reformer, or
one interested in reform, to become
=
at least to be accused of being pessi-
mistic. l want, therefore, to speak to
you a word of hope, a word Of en-
Couragement, for, my friends, 1 am
satisfied that the world is growing bet
ter and that every good cause is going
to be benefited by this onward march.
(Applause) Let me give you some ev-
idence of it:
intellectual Advance of World.
In the first place, there is an intel
lectual advance. All over this country
you will find that they are increasing
the number of schools; they are en-
tending the term of the school; they
are increasing the attendance; they
are improving the methods of instruc-
ton, and everX year the percentage Of
illiteracy among those born in this
country is decreasing. Not only is
the world. Go where you will, and you
will find that there is an intellectual
advance; that people are making
progress in their mental development
and in their education. You win fiud
that in Japan, where they now can
boast that 80 per cent of the rising
generation can read and write, ffty
years ago scarcely any could read and
write You will find it in Russia. I
talked with some Russians VINO were
here year ago and they agreed that
twice as large per cent of the present
generation as of the former one could
read and write. Go into China and
you will find that even there where
there has been so much backWardness,
there is az great awakening and they
are establishing new schools daily. One
viceroy declared that he had rstab-
liShed four thousand in his district in
five years, almost a thousand a year
Another boosted that he had estab-
lished thousand in five years.
The reports of the Philippine islands
show, l think. three hundred and fifty
thousand children in schools: and
when I was in Manila. there were over
thousand you're men in the city
above the bachelor degree, studying
law, medicine and engineering; and
they told me that there was such a
thirst for knowledge that they could
not build school houses fast enough.
They gave me an illustration: There
was Filipino boy working for an
English woman, and he wanted to go
to school. He was such q COOL toy
that she was loath to lose him, and she
offered to double his wages and pay
him forty pesos a month instead OF
| twenty if he would give up the idea of
going to school and stay and work. His
answer was: Il love knowledge more
than 1 love money" and he insisted on
going to school. (Applause.)
You Will find progress in India, al
though they are woefully backward
there-although less than L per cent of
the women can read and write and less
than IA per cent of the entire popula-
ton; yet, even in India there is an in
crease in intelligence. an Increase in
education; and that is true among all
the different religions What has deem
the effect of this? As these people
| have become better educated, the peo-
pie of different religions have associ-
ated together with less and less fric-
ton, for with their increasing intelli-
gence they have more clearly recog-
nized each others rights and
| have become more tolerant il: