Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-22
PRIEST. scHURMAN SPEAKS
"s4Agc OF Reform. Selected as His Sub
jcct, lie Tells Of Today's Problems.

jcct, He Tells OF Today's Problems.
The evening session of the conVen :
tion met in tho tabernacle on account
of the fact that more people We're pres
ent than could be accommodated in the
assembly hall. After Francis NJ. Ly-
man had delivered an opening prayer
and a song NUMBER had been rendered
by the Salt Lake Festival chorus, Presi-
dent Schurman OF Cornell was intro.
duced by Or. George Thomas
President Schurman spoke on the
Age of Reform, declaring that many
things We're tolerated 10 years ago
which would not be tolerated now. Tho
insurance Investigations he declared
ushered In this age, proclaLming for al
business that the common law could
not be Nini1ed at, that snort cuts dld
not pay, and that the end could NOT
Justify unworthy means. AS big busi-
ness men had senscd these new condl-
tions, and mad driven out the laXneSs
of tnelr. own establishments, thcy had
brought on the reform age. Continu-
ing, he said:
IF J. were to name the man who is
more closely associated with these re-
form movements, with the exposures OF
crooked concerns, and the man VINO Is
directly back of clearing up these
wrongs, I should pronounce the nanie
of Theodore Roosevelt. There are many
who believe him to be impulsiVe, who
feel that his administration has gone
for naught, but 1 believe that the mi
partial history of our country Will not
deny that even IL President Roosevelt
did NOT iniugurate all these plans CT
reform. he did stimulate ana lead III
enforcing them.
THE people are today calling to pub
lie office men of a higher type and o.
higher ability than in previous years.
The result of the recent election showed
that party lines were not so strictly
drawn as in preceding years The peo-
pie want the best man available to adj
minister our laws and our constitution.
These laws and the constitution are
only parchment and paper; 1t Is the
man behind them which give them
heart and soul. Voters today are max
ing higher and higher demands upon
those whom they invest with public of
flee, especially as to character and fit.
ness.
"a change which has taken place
Very recently is that of the people not
looking for tremendous wealth as of
yore. Today they care how their money
is made; they want to secure 1t hon
estly, WHILE in the days agone, the men
of wealth made their money any way
they could, no matter whether honest
ly or not. The rising generation is
what has brought about this reform.
There is more devotion now to virtue
and the virtues than ever before. Men
live mot by bread alone; their life con-
sists OF something higher and nobler
No abundance of possessions can now
satisfy the inner workings, the soul, the
conscience, which mako up the real
man.
PLAYING SMALL Pact.
Money Is playing smaller part in
4 the government now than few years
ago. Heretofore the great political par
ties had to have several millions at
hand to elect their candidates for Office
Now only a small fraction of such an
amount is required, and that is used
only to pay necessary expenses. 1t usei
to be that an accounting Of this money
was never rendered to the people. We
never knew how it was derived or to
what uses it was put. The first man
to perceive the danger to our republic
of the manner in which funds We're
raised and spent, and the man who is
responsible for the great financial re-
form now existing, is none other than
William j. Bryan. IT we can get good
men in public office, then there is moth
ing for us to fear.
in New York. some party leaders
few years ago collected money
secretly and used it secretly during
election times. This is not confined TO
general throughout the states. Where
such a practise prevails it is govern
uent of the people, through mammon,
by the bosses. Favoritisn must nee
essarily prevail where there are such