The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-27

great deal of trouble is the question,
What is whisky? l have that subject on
my hands now, and l get letter after let
ter indicating that if l decide that whis-
ky is one thing, the whole pure food
law might just as well be abolished, and
that l will yield to an element in the
community that ought TO be condemned
and that have no right to live here any
way. 1t puts a man in rather an en-
barrassing situation, when the question
is really one of fact and law mixed to-
gether-largely one of fact-and one in
which. 1 may say in passing, l have no
expert knowledge.
Waste of Strength.
1.-The truth is. my dear friends, this
matter Of hatred and resentment, which
accompanies the attTibuting of bad mo-
tives to those who differ with you, is a
source Of waste of nervous strength, OF
one single good thing. l don't know how
1t has been with you, but it has hap
pened, time and time again, with me,
that some man has done something that
l didn't like, which I thought had a
personal bearing, and that l have said in
my heart, Times will change, and / Will
get even with that gentleman. Oh, /
don't profess to be free from those feel
ings at all. But it has frequently hap
pened, I may say generally, that the
time did come when / could get even
with that man, and when that time came
1t seemed TO me that l would demean my
at all if l took advantage.
Now l am going to tell you story
that interested me greatly when II was
told to me. and that 1 can make appli-
cable to this sermon by the reason Tor
its Introduction and its telling When l
was solicitor general, il became my duty,
in company with the attorney general, to
call upon each of the justices of the su-
pTeme court of the United States. in
Washington. On the bench, at that time,
was that distinguished statesmen. that
great orator and that most excellent
judge, Mr.. Justice Lamar of Mississippi.
As you know, he was on the other side,
supporting the COnfedeTacy, during the
civil war. It happened that we found
him, on the night of my visit, in a most
talkatiVe and communicative mood. and
when in that mood he was as charming a
man as l ever met. Something arose
which led him to say a number of things
along the line that / have followed I'm
what I have said to you: That early in
life he rather cherished resentments and
hatreds, and at that time he thought il
was evidence of great strength Of char
acter if he could only remember them a
long time.
But as he had grown older. as God
had seemed to be better to him. as the
years had grown mellow, and as he had
come 10 love every one Of his race with
real affection and interest, he had seen
the utter lack of wisdom in allowing his
time and mind and nerves to be taken up
in cherishing those unworthy thoughts.
Well l said. Mr.. Justice Lamar, you
seem to have had some expeTience-per-
haps you can say what has led you To
this
Well he said, there are a good
many instances. but ] can give you one:
I was the agent of the cOnfederacy, in
visiting England to secure a recognition
of our beiligeTenCy during the civil war
Mr.. Mason and Mr.. SlideI were the am
bassadOrs, really. but I was the active
agent. A resolution had been introduced
In the lower house of ngTiiamnnf the
house of commons, recognizing the bel
ligerency-and I am not sure but the in
dependence-Of the cOnfedeTaCy.
Friend of Confederacy.
Our great friend was a member OF
parliament, named Mr.. Roebuck and
walking on the Thames embankment the
Sunday before the Monday that the resO-
luton was to be discussed in the house
he expressed his great confidence in the
success of our side and the passage OF
the resolution, and I said to him, yes
Mr.. Roebuck, I hope that is true but