The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17

II there is q weakness in Stanleyis
speech il is not in the facts he presents
or the argument he constructs but in
the eXuberance of his language He is
embarrassed with the riches of his vo-
cabulary. John Marshall the great
judge. and Samuel ]. Tilden, the great
statesmen, were necessitated To grOpe
in the dark for words, and they gath
cred the siraplest. Daniel Webster and
John C. Carlisle did not have TO grope
for speech, but they chose from null
titude of words the simplest. and that
is why their speeches are so massive
and so convincing. l think il the duty
OF every parent to require his bright
boy 10 read, re-read, and read again
10 the doZenth time or more, Robinson
CrusOe" and the Pilgrims Progress
to acquire a simplicity of expression.
Swift is another author that should be
thus cultivated. and also King James
translation of the Bible.
But those fond of the brilliant. the
ornate. the exuberant, the splendid, can
find it in these passages with which
Stanley closed his speech:
For centuries neither the telescope
of the astronomer nor the researches
of science could solve the mystery Of
that misty light. that glimmering gOs-
samer encircling the black brow of
night: at last the spectrum revealed in
this nebula unborn worlds. held i'm a
shimmering gauZe; revolving masses of
incandescent gas, cooling through the
passing cycles of time, growing deAser
without, shrinking within. forming
smoky cOncentric circles a Whirling
luminous fog. congealing into molten
rings drawn by their owe gravity into
rude globes, and these spinning spheres
shaped by the plastic hand of Divinity,
like clay upon the pOtter's wheel into
planets and their satellites, new solar
systems swinging for the first time
into their orbits in the trackless faith
omless depths above. Thus God peoples
the heavens luminous worlds.
4 have fancied that those daring
bands of eXiles. forgotten by one world
and lost in the dark wilds of another,
living and dying i'm ignorance of the
mighty destiny of their childrens chill
dren, conscious only that they were free
I have fancied that He. with whom
thousand years are as day or a watch
in the night when il is passed" saw
the unborn and puissant nation through
all the mists of misery, persecution and
death, through which succeeding gener-
atoms passed. first to independence,
then to the mastery of the land and
sea.
IN the vast WOMB OF Lne wilderness
the colonies took form and voice, vary
ing i'm their orbits and splendor, but
they differed only as one star differs
from another star i'm glory In the hour
of destiny each found its own place
about the great central power, to which.
like the planets, they We're eternally
bound. yet forever separate. The
fathers, / declare to you. heard the
voice of God when they covered this
continent with states even as the heaV-
ems are bespangled with the stars.
1.-The same peril awaits the star and
the state. The state discovered from
her sisters is lost. even as a planet
wrenched from its mOorings, comet-iike
becomes the wandering vagrant Of the
skies.
Either. drawn by the compelling
gravity of a central force into its
mighty vortex. is annihilated by the
power which should have been the
source of light and life
From the chaos of disunion and the
wreck of Capitalization may He who
ordained long preserve this constella-
ton of states.
Let no new Hamilton arise to disturb
or destroy their exquisite baiance-har-
monious, distinct, indissoluble, they
shall remain eternal as the revolving
stars.