Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-26
DEsRRRT Evening NEWS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2e 1908

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whitney taught US to tespoiI the cot
ton seed OF Its close hugged fibre for
the looms Of the world: Howe tipped
the rapid shaft with the cambria nee
die; Franklinrobbed the air OF It's light
ming, and Edison yoked It to q slender.
wire and tanned 1t to d mellow light:
Carnegie reached his hand deep under
the crust, and clutched the dirty ore
and squeezed 1t into tempered steel:
Rockefeller pierced the soil Will, his
long fingers, and the wells spouted oil
The Wright brothers leaped free from
earth, launched their airy ships in the
blue sky, and tapped the happy wings
of navigating freedom.
These, too, IRE Americans.
What thanks must we raise TO God
for an America worthy OF these he
roes, and for heroes worthy of such
an America!
And we are thankful that the Amer
lean spirit is not dead. but quickens
with new life at each problem. The
clear visioned prophet sees a land still
in it's infancy, and has a vision of an
ultimate subimed nation, refined, re-
deemed, transformed-a new America
like the now Jerusalem. coming down
out of heaven from God.
The true American has ever an UNI
attained possibility ahead. BY battle
Of fierce but kindly thought the rival
parties have worked great principles
into our Constitution. They are aliens
Who believe that the last amendment
has vet been written or even proposed
.--or ever VIII be written until the Con-
stitutio,i and sky are together rolled up
By battle Of thought, the religious
sects have come to n nearer. under
standing Of God. But no church IS
American that claims to write a final.
creed. THANK God today for the rich
contributions of all faiths--evcn those
most grotesque. and forbid. O my God,
that any final determination, shall ever
be sought by force, or by ostracism..
Let the battle FOR religious truth. ever
clearer, never ultimate, be vigorous by
charitable, and forever free. ! today,
highest in my thanks pour out truest
American thanks. that this country was
never made Catholic or Protestant, an
ti-Chatolic or anti Protestant. Jew Of
gentle, anti-Jew or anti-gentle--aha
God forbid that even the slcnderest
silllen thread shall ever bind Utah to
any religious or afiti-religious COM
pulsion.
Free as the prairie air we breathe,
and measureless as the sky toward
which we lift our pious faces. may our
religious faith With its Individual eX-
preston ever broaden and clarity. UNI
til the final solution of all problems
and man needs 70 think no longer, !
until all ultimate Americanism Is
reached, the perfect type that scorns
the brute tyranny Of mans faith by his
stronger or more numerous neighbors.
/ thank God for you. In public voice
| today, that Apprehension permits two
or ten free political parties, and scorfs
| those Eun-American aliens that gag with
| brutal sarcasm, or social ostraetsm an
opposing, though honest vote. ! thank
| God that true Americansm allows two
| or Il hundred religious cults, ever strug-
| Cling, constantly approaching. buthow-
| ever near, never reaching ultimate re-
| liGious statement--the genuine brand
Of AflericanisIn that scorns as I'M
| American and despotic sarcasm, or civic
I ostraeism that places on the rack OF a
new and subtle social inqutsitlon an
| others religious faith.
| THANKSGIVING to God, that with all
| the honest differences of civic views,
| fought out at ballot or in Congress, or
I worked out in executive office, VIC are
| at last reaching the shelter of courts
| that know no varying bias, but know
| only one oath to administer law just
| as the sovereign nation makes 1t.
| + thank God IN public Thanksgiving
| today that, While voters are free to
1 shout Or thlnK as :tney CHooSe, liie pc
! culiar planks Of any platform, the creed
| of any church, cannot be Brought b,
the dominant victors through the door
/ OF a little red school house. to tain
the freedom Of the public schools; tina
while varying theories are uncorporat
| ed BY varying thinkers into our laws
only one standard is allowed In on
child -trainfng-the standard of fire.
| search for truth. Let no IN American
ism lay unholy hands OF sectnrian con
troll or partisan graft upon the Amer
lean school. Let Tainn1any tiger grow
10 grown men--let the Republican ele
plant trumpet or the Democratic don
key bray to the voters musical delight
but our schoolhouse is not Il Noah's arr
for any beasts.
! / give our final thanks today, tia
this is becoming a Christian common.
wealth, and that our halls OF Justice
our Summaries Of learning, and on
hospitals Of charity find their highes
i supplement of safety in the churche
j or the cross, that never cease to sent
forth dauntless crusaders to guard tn
sepulchre of our. risen Lord from tn
| desecration Of infidel arms.