The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-27
PRESIDENT TAFT
breaches A SERMON
AT THE TABERNACLE
Continued from Page /.

strength. And so ! say that our friends
OF the southern cline and our Oriental
friends have touched a point in philos-
Ophy, the philosophy of life, that we may
well learn from them and introduce into
our lives more courtesy and more polite
ness, more real, genuine desire to make
everybody happy by the little things Of
life which, after ALL constitute nearly
all there is in life.
Il do not for a moment decry the ne
Cessity, at times, for speaking out, ana
speaking out with all the emphasis pos
sible; but what l am urging upon you
and what I have seen in other countries
the advantage of, having had an Oppor-
tunity TO see both civilizations, is the
added happiness that comes to the whole
human race when each member Of 1t is, in
a small but effective way, trying to make
each other member whom he happens to
meet happy for the moment, for life Is
made up of moments, and that contrib
utes to the happiness of all.
Now, another cOrOllary from the text,
which / would like to draw, Is that We
ought TO ascribe TO our neighbOrs and TO
those with whom we come in contact or
with respect 10 whose actions we nave 10
expresses an OpiniOn-We ought to aScTibe
as high motives as we can. We ought TO
avoid this acrimonious discussion that
cOnsigns everybody that is opposed to
our view TO perditiOn, and to having the
most corrupt motives, and aScribes to
those who stand with us only the purest.
Life is too valuable to waste in anger
citation Of our fellow men when they do
not deserve it.
Pure Food Discussion.
Now. there are to me some things as
full of hUmOr as possible. Just within
the recent three or four months we have
had a disCussiOn-yOu know, something
about the pure food law, which has been
passed for the purpose of saving the pub
lie from food that will inJure the health,
or from deceiving the public by giving to
the public, in form that decetYes II,
something for consumption as food. Well,
there has arisen a discusSiOn-Over what?
Well, you don't know what It is, and l
don't know what it is, but, for lack of
more definite information, We will call
il benZOate of soda
Now, that question has been sub
mitted to experts. Some experts have
said that II is deleteTiOus when used in
connection with food; and other experts
have said that it is harmless; but if you
read the discussion, you will think that
benZOate of soda is a moral lie, and that
any who take their place on one side of
1t are doomed to hopeless corruption, and
that the other side are carrying on
cause OF highest morality.
Now, do not mean to say that the en-
forcement of the pure food law is not one
Of the most important laws on the fed
eral statute books, and it ought to be;
but what / do mean to say is that in its
enforcement and in viewing its Construc-
ton, we must ask that where men differ,
they differ honestly, unless corrupt mo-
tive can be shown; and that while it may
be necessary or useful for the public
press to encourage the idea that some
body is moved by corrupt motives, in or
der to make the headlines a little more
salaCiOus and attractive, and increase the
circulation of the paper, il is not neces-
sary for the happiness Of the people that
it be thought that that question presents
a great moral issue which is going to di-
vide men between the bad and the good
Now, we will reach a proper solution some
time 1t will probably be found, when the
differences are examined closely, that
those who oppose each other do not stand
so far away.
Another subject that is making a