The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-24


is that II has become so narrow by It's
prejudices that 1t is able TO see but
single phase of one question, and that one
only In very partial and biased fashion.
An Unhappy Citizen.
There are two ways OF looking at
things in this world. One I may describe
as the fence-hole way and the other as
fasten his eyes to the hole in board
fence and limit his observance by that
method he will. Of necessity, obtain
very restricted and very misleading no
ton of things in general. If he remains
there long enough so that he finally con-
cIudes that nothing which is not revealed
by that limited aperture is or any paruc-
ular consequence, lie finally becomes
very narrow and IN all probability very
'.Such a man needs to be taken to the
hilltop and hidden to look over the varied
landscape, with its pleasant fields. its
limpid streams, its radient valleys, Its
verdant meadows, its villages and towns,
it's wide expanse of hill and valley and
into the illfmitable sky which stretches
above, up to the very seat of GOD hlm-
self, who, in giving him all these beauu-
full and beneficial things to see and ar
the same time blessing him with the
ability to see them all, never INTENDED
that he should cOnfine his horizon by the
limitations Of a knot hole In board
'sThe American party has been looking
through the hole in the fence. 1t has
seen only the pile Of rubbish and cobble-
stone which has been raked from the gar
den from time to time during the last
twenty years. It has not even seen the
garden itself mitch less the broad 1lelds
and the open country which lay beyond,
Having this narrow and sectional view, 1t
has of necessity, become narrow ana
! sectional party. Seasons have come and
gone bringing with their eternal success
! sion vast changes. not only in the physic-
To-, h.
trial and social and religious world as
well but these changes the American
party has seen not and needed not.
IAN about It are the wonderful aCtiY-
/ tiles of a great state, the movements OF
ninety millions of people in forty-six ire
mendous commemorative, but IN these'
as well as in the vast problems OF gov
eminent which concern all the people ana
/ the whole country and with which the
destinies of our own state ana our own
! people are indissolubly interviewer, this
/ party has played no part and occupied
/ no place, With its eyes glued to the mole
in the fence. # has keheld only the move
ments of few men who happen to be at
the head of a religious organization
whose entire membership comprises per-
haps one-tenth part Of the population OF
the country.
Good Men and Women.
Now. with the rank and file OF the
| American party I have no quarrel,
They are, in the main, good men an9
/ good women, just as the members OF
/ the other parties are In the main good
men and good women, honestly ana SIN
| cerely desiring to see the truth ana DO
| the right. But the point l make is that
| they can never see it and they can
never do 1t in the fence-hole way, They
| must first of all climb to the hilltop
| and in the larger view realize now
small a thing, how Insignificant a
! thing. comparatively speaking, has
/ been monOpOlizing the field OF their
vision all these years,
I sometimes wonder whether the
| leaders of the American party have
| ever paused long enough to ask them
| selves what good has been accom-
| plished by the flood of bitterness which
| they have poured into our local poll
I tell us that their whole effort has been
/ to upbuild the city, and yet they have
spread broadcast all over this country
| their advertisements of the entire un-
1 fitness of the city and of the state as
! an abiding place for any self-respect-
| ing man. Just how they may reason
ably expect 70 increase the popuIat;loI1n
/ and the wealth by the wholesale publ
! cation Of statements which, II true,
! constitute every reason why nobody
should come here at all, and why no
| body should invest a dollar at ell, is
| beyond my comprehension
"And so they may boast Of the
| growth of the city and claim the credit
for it until their tongues are weary but
/ anyone VIII SulllC4Sut tIAElAlE EASH ~
eat when he IS hungry OF drink when he
| is thirsty, knows that the campaign of
| vilificatiOn which this party has car
ried on for the last four years must. in
the very nature of things, have pre-
vented the coming of thousands of peo-
pie and the investment of millions OF
dollars in both the city and the state,
Insult to Salt Lake.
! 1T is not so very long ago that GER
/ tain members of this party caused 10
| be published far and wide that when
they were visiting in any eastern city
hotel as coming from Salt Lake.
presume that they thought that that
kind Of statement was calculated 10 en-
/ courage immigration. Thank God there
are not many people in the state OF
| Utah who are in that humiliating frame
/ OF mind. | am proud OF the city OF
Salt Lake and l am always glad ia
claim it as my home, ! am proud of
the state of Utah, and I am always
glad to claim it as the state which
IN part represent in the senate Of the
United States
/ Il am proud Of the people Of Utah
and I am always glad to claim them
as my constituents-With one eXcep-
toni am ashamed of any man who
is ashamed of Salt Lake. I am
ashamed of any man who is ashamed
Of any city or any state which he call:
his home, and which he is still willing
to remain in. If he feels that way
to move elsewhere so that his opinion
may be expressed as the opinion Of &
| stranger and not as the apparently re-
! luctant confession Of a member of ths
community.
"There are certain well authenticated
cases in history where entire commu
mites, perfectly sane about the ordi
nary affairs of life, have become wflC
NOR Omaniacs over some one particular
subject. One Of the most notoriou.
| examples that we have any record oil
was the craze of witchcraft which
/ swept over New England like a pestf
lence some two or three hundred year!
ago. During that period Of nightmare
and horror whenever anybody in the
neighbOThOod was stricken with what
: in this modern and prosaic age, W.
would recognize as q plain, ordinary
| everyday case Of fits. the entire pOpu
| lation proceeded to become deIiriOus
| with the belief that the stricken indi
vidual had been bewitched ana to e
up and down the neighborhood II
J search OF the individual who was re
sponsible for the affliction. They usu
ally found her, because it was usually
a woman, in the person Of the poorest
most harmless, forlornest old woman
in the village. If in addition to beinl
poor and harmless and forlorn she wa.
|, also ugly, the proof of her guilt wa.
made perfectly manifest. Having 10
Gated her and established her guilt b,
her looks, they proceeded to disposl
of her in summary way by drowning
or burning.
I A Set of Fanatics.
'They were a conscientious set o
: fanatics, however, not entirely devoi,
of logical processes. and moreover anx
ious that nothing might be omitte,
which might be calculated to elucidat
the truth, and so they applied a per
} fectly fair and reasonable test to de
termine finally and with certainty tn
. question of her guilt or innocence. The,