Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-25


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busine.s in the state OF Utah al
together But the American
party a. not right, and the
existence and activity of the national
parties in Utah are just as necessary
and just as beneficial as they are in
other states Of the Union.
The difficulty with the American
party is that It has become so narrow
Nv its prejudices that il is able TO
see but a single rhase of one question
and that one only in very partial
and biased fashion.
THROUGH A FENCE-HOLE.
There are two ways OF looking at
things In this world. one I may de-
scribe as the fence-hOle way and the
| other as the hilltop way. II an indi-
vidual will fasten his eyes to the hole
| in a board fence and limit his obser-
| vance bv that method, he VIII, OF
necessity. obtain very restricted ana
/ n very misleading notion Of things IN
general n he remains there long
enough. so that he finally concludes
that nothing which is not revealed by
that limited aperture Is OF any paruc-
uiar consequence. he finally becomes
q very narrow and IN all propauNly
I
"Such man needs 20 be taken TO
the hilltop and hidden to look over
the varied landscape, with It's pleas
ant fields. it's limpid streams, It's radi-
| ant valleys its Verdant meadows It's
villages and towns. It's wide expanse
| OF Hill and valley and into the illimit-
| able sky which stretches above, up 10
the very seat OF God himself Who IN
/ giving him an these beautiful and
1 Il 70 % and al the
| same time blessing him with the anil
~ 10 see them all. never INTENDED
| that he should confine his horizon by
the limitations OF a knot hole In
board fence.
.'-rhe American party has been look
ing through the hole in the renee ~
has seen only the pile OF rubblsh ana
| cobbIe stone which has been raked from
| tho garden from time 10 time during
| Inc last 90 wears. II has not even seen
! the garden itself. much less the broad
| fields and the open country which lay
| beyond. Having this narrow ana
sectional view. II has. OF necessity, be-
/ come a marrow and sectional party
seasons have come and gone, bringing
with their eternal succession vast
| changes. not only In the physical worm
| bit in the political and industrial ana
| social and religious world as we'll but
/
/ seen not and needed not
| "Au about IL are the wonderful ac-
| fivitles OF a great state, the move
meuts OF ninety millions OF people ii
| az tremendous commemorative, but IN
| these as well as In the vast problems
Of government which concern all the
people and the whole country anu
| with which the destinies OF our own
state and our own people are indis-
soliblv interviewer, this party has
| nlaved no rsrt and occupied no place.
| Wuh its eyes glued 10 the hole m the
fence A has beheld only the move
ments OF few men who happen 70
be al the head OF religious orBaniza-
| fion whose entire membership com
prises perhaps one-tenth part or the
| population Of the country.
NO QUARREL WITH THEM.
NOW. with the rank and hle OF
| the American party / have no quarrel
| They are. In the main. good men ana
good women, Just as the members or
the other rarties are in the main good
! men and good women. honestly ana
| sincerely desiring 10 see the truth and
do the right. But the point ] make IL
| that they can never see u ana they
can never do IL I'm the fence-hOle way
They must FIRST OF an climb 10 the
] NllNHN0U uNAn W ANAA AAt So 49,
how small thing. how inagniicant q
thing. comparatively speaking mas
beon mouopolizlng the field OF their
vision an these years.
II sometimes wonder whether thc
leaders OF the American party have
ever paused long enough to ask theme
selves what good has been accom-
plished BY the food OF bitterness whlcn
they have poured into our local poll
tics during the last four years. They
tell us that their whole effort has been
20 upbuild the city, and yet they nave
spread broadcast al over this country
tholr advertisements of the entire un-
fitness OF the city and OF the state as
an abiding place for any sclf-respeot-
ing man Just how they may reason
ably expect 10 Increase the population
ana the wealth by the wholesale pubh-
cation of statements which if tiuc,
constitute every reason why nobody
should come here al am, and why mo-
body should invest dollar IA an is
beyond my comprehension.
"And so they may boast 81 the
growth OF the city and rlaim the credit
for n until their tongues are weary, but
anyone with sunrieni Intelligence Ga
cat when ho IL hungry Or drink when De-
lr thirsty. knows that tho campaign of
vllncation which This party has car
licd on for tho last four years must in
The very nature Of things, have pre-
vented the coming ~ thousands of pco-
pie ANA tine investment % millions oi
dnllars ln both the city and the state.
INSULT TO SALT LAKE,
IN rs not no very long ago that GER
tain members Of this party caused a.
pe published far and wide that when
they were visiting IN any eastern clay
ihcy were ashamed 90 register al any
hotel na coming from Salt lake
presume that they thought that that
KIND Of statement waH calculated 10 en-
courage immigration Thank God there
afr not many people in tho state Of
nl nina. am proud ~ the city Of
NHlt Lake and J am always glad a.
claim u az NY home. I am proud of
'he State Of Utah, and 1 am Away