The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-08-21


to Salt Lake City to have the oppor-
tunity of responding to a toast when
there is such a toastmaster as Mr.. Jo-
seph Geoghegan. (Applause.) The trou-
BILE, however, with the toastmaster was
that he introduced me, but forgot to tell
me what I should talk about. I suppose
it doesn't make much difference. /
heard him say to a neighbor OF his,
Just talk few minutes and l nave
learned that lesson since 1 came to Salt
Lake City-that brevity is the soul OF
wit-that if I would in even a remote
way follow the leadership of those who
have gone before me this evening, the
first announcement would be that l am
very near the end of my speech.
Joke on Clergyman.
81 remember once there was young
clergyman who was very fond of talk
ing and who delivered wnat he thought
was an eloquent grafton, and when he
went in--he was just an assistant cler-
gyinan-when he went, in to the parish
priest he asked what he thought OF that
sermon, what passage he admired most,
and the old priest was somewhat Gym
ical, and he said: Well, there was one
passage 1 admired very much, and his
chest expanded; he was prepared to re-
ceive bouquet larger than this before
the governor here when the parish
priest said: The passage I liked most
was the passage you made from the
pulpit into the sacriste.' Naughter.)
There is where brevity was the soul of
wit, and the feeling that one who runs
away will live to speak another day.
Il feel, however, that the knights of
Columbus must regard me as somewhat
the solution of that very difficult prob
lam hapn
that of creating something that would
be in perpetual motion. l think 1 am
personally the nearest solution to that
vexed problem, because in so far as the
knights of Columbus know me, l have
been in perpetual motion for the last.
three or four years. 1 have been at
their convention at Norfolk talked at
them there. | was at their convention
in St. Louis last year, talked with them
there, and / was at Mobile last week
and heard them talk to me and I did
some talking to them, and so here to-
night have had the privilege of greet
ing the Sir knights of Salt Lake City
and Utah. I have this to say, that in
all my perigrinations, wherever I have
encountered a Knight of Columbus
have always met a Catholic gentleman.
(Applause.)
Christian Needed.
And as a complement to this morn
ing's rather long talk, the complement |
to it, the completion of it, would be to
say to you, sir knights, that the thing |
we want most-the crowning glory of |
America, after your homes and the wife, |
mother and daughter who dwell there, |
the complement of the home and those |
that L have mentioned who dwell there, !
hn he 1ric rI.oI
shall preside over it. He, if he has the |
spirit of a knight, will stand before |
that door and see that none shall |
molest the home or those whom he |
loves and who dwell there, except they
march over his dead body; and there 1
take it is the mission of the knights |
Of Columbia-to give to US in every
town, in every hamlet, in every home in
this broad land, the ideal Christian
Catholic gentleman. (Applause.) A
nan of holy living, a man of consecra-
ton, man of intellect and moral
strength, a man who will not float with
he tide, a man who will not yield to
he seductions of Mammon, a man who
will live rightly and act bravely, and
.hink truly and worship the good and
beautiful and true in nature and in God.
Who will regard his conscience as his
King and who through all the years
will wear the white spear, the white
plume of a ,blameless life. who with Sir
Salahad of the long ago, may be found
worthy 10 seek the Holy Grail. because
lis soul was Stainless and his con-
science pure; man therefore in this
lay of materialism and commercialism
viii be able by his lifes energy to cast
'Ver that pail of materialism that is
preading all over the land. the gleam
# the higher things; the man who will
'e able to lift the cross and say in this
manner we Americans shall grow; the
nan who will set that cross as the sun
ight is set on the hills to the west and
he east of you here, and make your
alley bright and beautiful of its bene-
cent rays, that will see it CLEAN in the
norning light, and see it reflected from
he golden glow of the sun as 1t sets
4 the west man who in its radia-
ion shall i've in its inspiration and un-
er its protection shall die, when he is
arried TO the cemetery. the cross of
he knight shall be placed above his
omb and for that knight there shall
OF be an eternal night, but the opening
the eternal day, for those who go
own with the cross anchored thereto
hall find that beyond the cross is the I
lcry, beyond the cross the crown, be- |
ond the calvary the resurrection. !
Tribute to Zion.
Gentlemen of Salt Lake City, what a t
lorious future you have here Make
lese hills and valleys resound with the S
raises of your Maker. Live high, ex- t
tied lives Go onward and upward t
taking these lives of yours. worthy of +
lie beautiful setting that nature has
wen you and that the God of Nature I
as bestowed on you; that these hills 9
lat look eternal shall teach you the q
ernal principles of truth, and the blue /
Ky above you shall teach you of the
atter day that is yet to be for human t
Y: that the spirit of Columbus of old, +
lat sought new lands shall be your Y
,trit to seek the newer and the better u
nds, the land of the spirit, the land p
intellect, the land of faith, the land a
God. l thank you. prolonged ap- I
ause.) I
Senator smoot's Address. a
Senator Reed smoot was the next s
eaker introduced and responded as fol-
ws: a
Mr.. Toastmaster, Reverend Fathers. s
nights of Columbus and Friends-Au- c
lst 10, 1909, will always be a memor- C
he day in the history Of Utah, not
ly to Catholics, but to every man.
oman and child who loves the state =
Utah. No one. or no set of people. =
n accomplish what this great Cath =
C community has accomplished in our %
" here without affeo+ipor a,,or-~ .z.,1