The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-28

wealth, have possessed in the highest
degree the great virile virtues or
strength, courage, energy and un-
daunted and unwaVering resolution.
Their typical leaders-of whom Abra-
ham Lincoln, though the most excep-
tlonal was the most typical-have pos
Sessed keen intelligence, and a character
not merely strong but lofty, q char
acter exalted by the fact that great
power was accompanied by high and
Tine determination to use this great
power for the common good, for the
Advancement OF mankind.
Pioneer Days over.
The pioneer days are over, save in a
few places; and the more complex life
OF today calls for a areater variety of
good qualities than were needed on
the frontier. There is need at present
to encourage the development of new
abilities, which can be brought to high
perfection only by q kind OF training
useless in pioneer times; but these new
qualities can only supplement. and
never supplant the old. homely virtues;
the need for the special and distinctive
pioneer virtues is as great as ever. IN
other words, as our civilization grows
older and more complex, while IL is
true that we need TO develop men whose
lives are devoted wholly to the pursuit
OF special objects. it is yet also true
that we need a greater and not less
development or the fundamental from
tier virtues. These virtues include the
power OF self-help, together with the
power or Joining with others for mu-
tual help, and, what is especially i'm
portant, the feeling of comradeship, OF
social good-fellowship. Any man who
had the good fortune to live among the
old frontier conditions must, in look
ing back, realize how vital was this
feeling OF general cOmradeship and
social fellowship. There were good
men and bad men in the new communi-
rs - a n1 . To-
and the conditions on the frontier were
such that the qualities of good and
bad alike We're rather more strlkingly
manifested than in older communities;
but among the men who tried TO lead
Woodworking, decent lives, there was
a feeling OF genuine democracy, which
represented an approach to the Ameri-
can ideal, which we certainly should
DO everything in our power 10 pre-
serve. We did not try TO say that men
were equal when they were not equal,
but we did our best to secure something
equality Of reward for good service:
and, moreover, each man expected to
be received, and, on the whole, was re-
ceived, wherever he went, on the
footing that his merits warranted.
Social Retirement.
Now. so far as possible these quail
tiles and the conditions that bring
the great states which are growing out
Of the old frontier communities. We
need to strive for the general social
betterment of the people as a whole,
and yet to encourage individual liberty
and set high reward on Individual in
itiattVe up TO the point where they
become detrimental to the general well
fare. In continually and earnestly
striving for this betterment OF social
and economic conditions in our COM
pick industrial civilization, we should
work in the old frontier spirit OF
rugged strength and courage, and yet
with the old frontier spirit OF brotherly
comradeship and good will. 1 do not
mean that we should refrain from hat
ing wrong on the contrary, I would
preach fiery wrath against wrong. But
would not preach such wrath against
the wrong-doer; save in those cases
where his wrOng-dOing really is due to
evil moral attributes on his part, and
not TO a wrong or false system, OF
which he is almost as much the victim
as the beneficiary. Sometimes a wrong
represents the deliberate wickedness of
the wrong-doer, in which case the rem
edy is to punish him; but sometimes il
represents the effects of a false social
system. in which case the right course
is to alter what is false in the system.
Both principles need to be kept in view
as guides to our conduct, and it is
necessary sometimes to work in ac-
cordance with one and sometimes in
accordance with the other"