The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-08

will be stationary, or else have begun
TO go backward in population, while
many OF them VIII have already gone
very far backward.
There is much that should give US
concern for the future. But there is
much also which should give us hope.
NO man Is more apt to be mistaken
than the prophet OF evil. After the
french revolution of 1899, Niebuhr
ha1arded the guess that all civilization
was about to go down with a crash.
that we were all about TO share the
fan OF third and fourth century Rome
IA respectable but painfully over
worked comparison. The fears once
expressed by the followers of Nautilus
as 10 the future OF the world have
proved groundless as regards the civ
ilized portion OF the world. Il Is strange
indeed 10 look back at Cariyle's prOph-
ecles OF some seventy years ago. and
then think of the teeming life of
achievement the life Of conquest Of ev-
cry kind. and Of noble effort crowned
by success. which has been ours for the
two generations since he complained
to high heaven that all the tales hao
been told and all the songs sung, ano
that all the deeds really worth doing
had been done ! believe with all my
heart that a great future remains fO-
US. but whether IL does or does not,
our duty IS not altered. However the
battle may go, the soldier worthy OF
the name will with utmost vigOr do
his allotted task. and bear himself as
what VIII, we belong to peoples who
have not yielded TO the craven fear OF
being great In the ages that have
gone by, the great nations, the ma
tons that have expanded and that
have played mighty part in the world
have in the end grown old and weak
ened and vanished. but so have the ma
tons whose only thought was 90 avoid
all danger. all effort. who would risk
nothing and who therefore gained
nothing. In the end the same fate may
ILL.,
Of the one type perishes with It. while
the other leaves its mark deep on the
history of all the future Of mankind
Nations May BE Born Again
"A nation that seemingly dies may
be born again; and even though in the
physical sense IL die utterly. il may
achievement, and for all time to come
that arise in its place by the impress
Of what IL has done. Best OF all is II
70 DO our part well. and at the same
time to see our blood live young and
the task as we lay IL down, for so shall
our seed inherit the earth. But IL this.
least IL is ours to remember that IL we
choose we can be torchbearers. as our
fathers were before US. The torch has
teen handed on from nation to nation,
throughout all recorded time. from the
dim years before history. daWned. down
TO the blazing splendor OF this teeming
century OF ours. 1t dropped from the
hand OF the coward and the sluggard,
OF the man wrapped in luxury or love
OF ease, the man whose soul was eaten
away by self-indulgence. II has been
kept alight only by those who were
mighty OF heart and cunning Of hand.
What they worked at, providing IL was
than how they worked, whether in the
realm Of the mind or the realm Of the
body. II their work was good, IL what
hot unfFf rN.rrHrf hon
high success was really theirs.
Advance In Ethical Standards.
while freely admitting all OF our
follies and weaknesses OF today, IL IS
the incredible advance that has been
made in ethical standards. / do not be-
lieve that there is the slightest neces-
sary connection between any weaken
ing OF virile force and this advance IN
the moral standard. this growth OF the
sense Of obligation TO ones neighbOr
and Of reluctance 20 do that neighbOr
wrong. We need have scant patience
with that silly cynicism wn-Sh insists
that kindliness Of character only ac-
companies weakness Of character. on
many Of the men OF strongest charac-
ter are the very men OF Hottest and
most exalted morality. so l believe that
in national life as the ages go by we
shall find that the permanent national
types will more and more tend towards
those In which, while the intellect
H. r.
in which rugged strength and courage,
rugged capacity to resist wrongful ag-
gression by others. will 20 hand in
hand with a lofty scorn OF doing wrong
to others. This is the type Of TimoleOn.
Of Hampden. of Washington and Lin
coin These were as good men, and dis
interested and unselfish men. as ever
served state: and they were also as
strong men as ever founded or saved
a state. Surely. such examples prove
that there is nothing UtOpian in our
effort TO combine justice and str ~ 9Th
in the same nation. The really nigh
civilizations must themselves supply
the antidote TO the self-indulgence and
love OF ease which they tend to pro-
duce.
Difficult Problems to Solve.
Every modern civilized nation has
many and terrible problems to solve
within its own borders. problems that
arise not merely from juxtaposition of
poverty and riches. but especially
from the circumstances of both
poverty and riches. Each nation must
deal with these matters in its own
fashion. and yet the spirit in which the
problem Is approached must ever be
fundamentally the same. It must be
a spirit of broad humanity; of brother