The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-11

higher moral standards and to everything
that goes to make our country worth liv-
ing fer.
''There is a text don't know that l
men before me who have taken part in
the battles of the war it will come by
reason Of it's comparison with great sig
nificance:
That he who cOnquereth himself is
greater than he who taketh a city,
Now the home application to the in
dtVidual of that text l need hardly point.
There are so many instances in lit
tie things. / like to dwell upon the i'm
portance of little things in life, for life
IS not made up of one great series Of
grandstand plays 1t IS made up of the
little things that go either to make others
happy or to make them unhappy
1T is the conduct of the husband as
he comes home after a tired day, in re-
stTaining himself while he is met by his
eager, curious wife, who wants to know
how he has been living during the day
and what has happened. Perhaps some
thing has happened that does not please
MIN, and he does not like to refer to
it, and he cuts her off with a short an
swer. l know it and so do you. You
have done it, So have l. Now it is the
overcoming of that disposition, the keep
ing constantly in your mind and heart
her happiness, and not your comfort and
your disposition. That is what makes
you greater than taking a city.
But 1 am supposed to look at things
from political and governmental stand
point, and the text appeals to me more
in any other, because of some very acute
experiences 1 have had in political mat
tiers.
About Popular Government.
Popular government we all approve of,
1 though sometimes | don't think we know
exactly why We approve it. l think We
mistake frequently ends for means. We
lfhnrfyv q fn no r.
cOmplished as an end. We think of popu-
lar government as something to be ac-
complished as an end. Well, neither is
true.
Liberty is a means in the pursuit OF
happiness. Popular government we have
because We believe in the long run that
it is the best government, that it is the
government that makes most people
happy.
But you cannot run a popular gov
eminent by merely calling 1t so. You
have got to have some means of deter
mining what shall be the course of gov
eminent; what shall decide. That is the
majority I do not know any other meth
cd in a popular government. We do have
checks. We do have indirect means of
government expression to that vote from
a majority, but when you get down to
the basis it is the control of the ma
jority.
Now, you cannot have a decent popu-
lar government unless that majority can
conquer itself; that is, unless that ma
jority exercises the self-restraint that
men with great power ought to exercise
And why2 / am not going into the va
rious parts of the world but / can call
your attentiOn-if ii was not that l am
in a responsible position now, with re
spect to foreign countries, and | have
got to speak with caTe-I could call your
attention to a good many instances where
those who are in favor of popular gov
eminent, and who, if l may use the ex-
preston, pull the tail feathers out of the
eagle in defying liberty and anathema-
tiZing everything that we think dear, and
yet just as soon as they become a ma
iority they think that gives them the
right to control the minority