The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-03

can find here as nowhere else I'm the
world, an opportunity To help work
out the great problems Of the future
and any man who is worth hiS salt
ought TO feel the most supreme pleas.
ure over the fact that be IS given the
opportunity TO try his hand TO help
work out these problems
Everywhere | went abroad | was
interested in finding that the leading
statesmen of the various countries
were watching us, were looking at
what we were doing and wore con.
Sidering the methods We had tried to
solve, the different problems before
us. They snid that they were inter
ested in us because the things wo
were doing today were the things
they would have TO do tomorrow, the
day after.
Pioneers of Social Problems,
you are tho pioneers In solving
social problems in America and foT
the whole world 1t Is for you 10
solve these problems ln the spirit OF
democracy, | need not say that that
imposes a very grave responsibility
upon us. Two other things Impress
ed me. One was that the ordinary
man. tho man to whom life was pret
ty bad, wac looking to us 10 realize
the responsibility OF happiness on
earth The man who suffers injus-
tlce Is looking toward this country as
the place In which he would be free
from the pressure of much Injustice,
as the place where the ordinary mao
pOnl1 hnUp nIa in 1Ifn
There is another side to this pic
ture. Everywhere / went there was
q certain a5tonishment mixed with
much less pleasing feeling, over the
accounts Of business and political
color that come to Europe about what
happens here in America. | think
you will probably acquite me OF o1y
great admiration of the mere multi
millionaire at home. But | Ike hlu
even less abroad,
II want to call TO your attentos
that | have said the mere multi-mF
iionaire. There are good men In er
cry walk of life, and the man who
a good American citizen, who hs
done his duty and has a great Ter
tune is entitled TO our hearty respecl
and 1t is unworthy any one TO deny
TO him II he deserves 1t.
Difficult to Get to Them.
81 am speaking OF the same clas
of multi-millionaires of whom IL E&
said two thousand years ago that
was more difficult for them TO get U
heaven than for a camel TO 60 througo
the eye OF a needle II is the flc1
man who trusts to bis riches that
am speaking of, the multl-mlllionalle
whose sole title to distinction Is tne
fact that he Is a multi-mlllloDalfe
Such one is a poor citizen and =
very Objectionable American e1hiV
1t abroad.
j waS always ashamed when | saw
that type of men accepted abroad as
the typical American, and l felt ever
more ashamed when things happenet
here which gave the impression
abroad that corruption In business
in politics and lawlessness and oru
tai violence obtained hero more thai
they did in any other country.
Every corruption in our busines,
or political life and every deed
violence by n mob is a blow at de
mocracy; it is blow at self govern
ment. The mob in lynchlng a CRU
lnal puts itself down on the samt
level Of infamy that the crimln"
stands on. The big man of buslne'i
who swlndles the public or debauc1e.
a legislature, the grating poliuciSTT
who blackmnlls corporation. are 81
enemies of democracy and sell 70,
crnment Reports OF such corupuy.
and lawlessness bring Joy TO 1
hearts Of every reactionary IN ~
rope who wants TO see popular 50,
eminent fail, and who Is glad 10 Sc
that government by tho people Oh
large scale cannot succeed