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

gress becomes more and more mani
fest.
The second evidence of progress is
political 1t is the spread of our ide
of government. / need make no aDol-
ogy for speaking of this here and en-
phasizing the truth that the doctrine
of self government is the only doctrine
that will stand the test of time. Gap
plause) The doctrine that a govera-
ment is a thing made by the people
for themselves is the growing doctrine
throughout this world. A century and
third ago an idea of government
was planned on our soil. A little more
than a century ago we adopted a con-
stitution, and that constitution has
been the model for something like 200
constituencies. There has been a
marvellous growth of the idea of self
government, and there is not a nation
in the world. where they have any civ
ilization, that you will not find people
battling for the application of our
ideas of government. In different ma
lions you will find different stages of
progress: for instance, China has not
yet a constitution, but three years ago,
or a little less. the Chinese govern
ment sent ENJOYS throughout the
world to gather information for a con-
stitution, and that constitution is now
being prepared.
Japan has gone a step farther. She
has her constitution, she has her par
Lament, but her emperor appoints his
ministers from among his friends. and
in Japan the political controversy is
around this propositions: Whether the
ministers of the empire shall be ap-
pointed by the emperor from among
his friends or appointed by him from
the dominant party and thus represent
the sentiment of the country. There is
no doubt as to how the question will
be settled. | cannot tell you when it
will be settled, but II is certain to be
settled on the side of the more popular
government.
In England they already recognize
that parliament is supreme in the Sc
lection of ministers. The king of Eng
land selects his advisers from the
dominant party in the house of COM
mons. and therefore the king may
send a very conservative message to
parliament this year, and a very rad
zeal one next year, for he simply says
what the dominant party in parlia-
ment wants said; and yet in England
they have an issue; they have house
of lords that has q veto on the house
of commons, and within a year the
house of commons has by a vote of
nearly three to one declared that the
house of lords ought no longer have
veto power. | do not know how long
it will be before they carry out that
idea, but. my friends, it is as certain
as the rising sun that the time viii
come when no house of lords will be
permitted to veto what the people de-
sire. (Applause)
Now, this growth in the idea of
government is going to bring increas-
ing justice, and this growth in the
idea of government must help all peO-
pie everywhere who are denied the
right to shape their own destiny and
frame and control their own govern
ment; and, my friends, so sure am 1
that these ideas of government that
are exemplified here-that have been
transplanted everywhere and are
growing everywhere-so sure am
that these ideas will triumph that /
have no doubt that the time will come
when Ireland viii receive the benefit
of this universal impulse. (Applause.)
Moral Movement, Also.
The third evidence of progress I find
i'm a moral movement. 1 am not mis-
taken when l say that we not only
have throughout this world an intel
lectual advance and a political ad-
vance. but also a moral advance. To-
day more than ever before in history
people are thinking Of ethics. l do
not mean to say that we have vet
reached perfection; l do not mean to
say that our business life is as yet
purged of all its iniquities; 1 do not
mean to say that graft, large and
small. direct and indirect, has been
eliminated from government. I do not
know that any of us will live to see
perfection in any part of our govern
ment. In fact. as long as government
must be administered through human
hand, I do not expect to sea perfec-
ton, for imperfection attaches itself
to all with which man has anything
TO do.
When 1 went to England for the first
time, l told a story there, just to test
the Englishman and see If he could
appreciate a joke. Q4aughter) You
know they say that the English do not
enjoy our jokes. We are very much
more like the Irish in the matter of
stories than we are like the English.
There is no doubt about the Irishman
seeing the point Of an American story,
for I suppose there are more stories
told on the Irishman and by the Irish
men than on or by anybody else. But
l thought I would just test these Eng
lishmen and see if they could see the
point of a story; and when / say this
do not want you to think that this
is any reflection on the Englishman,
because there has been a great misun-
Outstanding of the Englishman's
sense of humor. The Englishman has
a sense of humor, and the hUmor thai
runs through the writings of some
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