Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-27
TAFT DELIVERS
SUNDAY SPEECH
IN TABERNACKLE
PRESIDENT AT SALT LAKE;
ADDRESSES M0RM0NS
breaches SERMON ON TEXT
FROM PROVERBS
Chief Executive Faces Large Assem-
blage of Brigham Youns's Dis
eipIes in Discussion of
Right Living
fnont,nned from Page onsl

NC0nE1uueO from AhAG INV
to their fellow citizens and their ram
lilies.
But it does seem as if they were de-
priving their families and their neigh
bors of something in their not living
up to that standard in little things as
we'll as in big things; and the truth Is
that if we yield to negligence IN the
little things, if we yield to the momen"
tary desire to be lazy and not attentive
and not courteous to every one SO as
to make every one feel as comtortaple
as possible during the day, we are
going to cut down that higher char-
acter that we assume to have under
greater exigencies when we are snow
ing forth its strength.
"And so | say our friends of the
southern climes and our Oflental
friends have touched a point in PM
losophy-the philosophy of llfe-tnat
we may well learn from them ana IN
troduce into our lives more courtesy
and more politeness, more real genu-
inc desire to make everybody happy
nv the little things OF life, which after
all constitute nearly all there Is in Ike
''Now, another corollary from the
text which L would like to draw IS
that we ought to ascribe to our nelgh-
hors and to those with whom we come
in contact, or with respect to whose
action we have to express an oplnlon-
as high motives as we can.
I'VE ought to avoid this acrimonious
discussion that consigns everybody
who is opposed to our view to perdl-
ton, and to having the most corrupt
motives, and ascribes to those VINO
stand with us only the purest motives.
Life is too valuable to waste in anger
and hatred and the charging and de-
nunciation of our fellow men When
they don't deserve 1t.
1.-THE truth is, my friends, this mat
of hatred and resentment Whlcn ac~
connpanies the attribution of a bad mo-
tive to those who differ with you is a
waste of nervous strength, Of time, Of
worry, without accomplishing one sin
gle good thing.
r.. Nursed a crudge
: 81 don't know how it has been with
you, but it has happened time and time
again with me that some man has done
something that I did not like, that l
thought had a personal bearing
heart: Times will change and
will get even with this gentle
man. 1 don't profess to be free from
those feelings at all. But it has fire.
.ouently happened, I may say, gener-
ally that the time did come when |
could get even with that man, ana
when that time came it seemed to me
that I would demean myself and that
it would show me no man at all II l
took advantage.
And so, my friends, what I am urg-
ing is less acrimony in public discus
sion-more charity with respect to each
other as to what moves each man to
do what he does and not to charge dis
honesty and corruption until you have
a real reason for doing so.
I am the last man to pardon or to
mitigate wrongs against the public or
against individuals. I believe. and I
regret to say it. that throughout this
country the administration of the Grim
inal law and the prosecution of crime
is a disgrace to our civilization, but it
is one thing to prosecute a criminal
when you have evidence, and it is an
other thing to ascribe motives to the
act of a man when you haven't any
evidence.
And now, my friends, I cannot in
the presence of so great an audience
like this, an audience that inspires one
with higher thought of country and pa
triotism-fail to refer to the depth of
feeling that has been awakened in me
of gratitude for your welcome. of an
appreciation of the basis Of that vel
come, which is loyalty to your flag and
country, I understand that in the great
office Of the president, the personality
of the man who fills it for the time
sinks and that office typifies the ma
tfon, so that all people of whatever
party ought to feel that for a man who
for the time being holds the office they
are manifesting a respect for the ma
tion in which they live and for which
they would be willing to die"