The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-06-09

,oss Of pre-eminence IN camp ana in
council chamber tro,,ora as in
srsat empire Of Rome. 1t was not
Sa,,b which came, but transformation.
ueat' nstt, tInliand and Italy teach us that
races that fall may rise again.
DANCER Of Race Suicide.
,,,.so ora ouestions which we OF the
- civiIized nations are ever tempted 10
esk of the future Is our time OF CROWN
drawing to an end? Are we as hauons
coon TO come under the rule OF that great
law of DEATH which is itself but part Oh ,ne
.. Iam - ta,y of iife7 None can tell Forces
80 4 ,,e ca see and other forces that are
SiSden or that can but dimly be appre-
tnn1ad are nj work all around us, potn
| Tor good and for evil The growth IN lux.
,r,, In love of ease. in taste for vapid
| and frivolous excitement. Is potn eViueht
and unhealthy. The most ominous sish
| ia the dlminution In the birth-rate, III tile
rate of natural Increase no" " sha
or lesser degree shared by most Oh tne
| civiIized nations OF central and western
| r,nrone of America and Australia ulin-
| ,nution so great that II II continues Tor tne
| next century at the rate which mas op-
| tanned for the last 25 years. all the more
| highly civilized people will be stationary
| or else have begun to go DackWaru III
| population, Wnlle many VI t"Si' '''
| already gone very far backward
There is much that should give us con-
| Germ for the future. But there Is much
| also which should give us hope. NO man
,s more ant to be mistaken than the
| prophet of evil. I believe with ali my
| heart that a great future remains Ior US,
| but whether II does or does not our
| duty is not altered However the pat
| tie may go, the soldier worthy OF tne
| t.t, ,,t, ,aaA Niv
| loted task, and bear himself as vanant-
| ~ In defeat as in victory. Come what
| will we belong to peoples who nave not
Yielded to the craven fear of being great.
| In the ages that have gone by' the
| great nations, the nations that have ex-
panded and that have played mighty
part in the world, have In the END
| grown old and weakened and vanished;
but so have the nations whose only
thought was to avoid all danger, all ef-
| fort, who would risk nothing. and who
| therefore gained nothing. In the end the
same fate may overwhem all alike; but
the memory of the one type perishes with
| It while the other lea >es its mark deep
on the history of all the future OF man.
| kind.
nation that seemingly dies may be
born again; and even though In the
physical sense 1t die utterly, 1t may yet
hand down history Of heroic achieve
| ment. and for all time to come may pro-
foundly influence the nations that arise In
It's place by the impress of what 1t has
done. Best OF all is 1t to do our part well,
| and at the same time to see our blood live
young and vital in men and women fit to
take up the task as we lay 1t down; for
so shall our seed inherit the earth. But
II this, which is best is denied us, then
| at least II Is ours to remember that IL we
choose we can be torch-bearers, as our
fathers were before U.S. The torch has
been handed on from nation to nation.
from civilization to civilization through
out all recorded time. from the dim years
before history dawned, down to the bla-
zing splendor of this teeming century of
ours. 1t is 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 1t has been kept alight only
by those who were mighty of heart and
| cunning of hand. What they worked at
| providing 1t was worth doing at all, was
Of no less matter than how they worked.
whether in the realm of the mind or the
| realm Of the body. II their work was
good, II what they achieved was of SUBJ
stance, then high success was really
| theirs.
In the arst part of this lecture I drew
certain analogies between what had oc-
Nuiieu 10 lor1nS Oh animal lie through
the procession of the ages on this planet
and what has occurred and is occurring
to the great artificial civilizations which
have gradually spread over the worlds
surface during the thousands of years
that have elapsed since cities of temples
and palaces first rose beside the Nile and
the Euphrates. and the harbors of
Minoan Crete bristled with the masts of
the Aegean craft. But of course the
| parallel Is ffup In ha hact
ana most general way. Moreover, even
between the civilizations of today and
the civilizations of ancient times there
are differences so profound that we must
be cautious In drawing any conclusions
Tor the present based on what has hap
pened In the past. While freely admit
ting all of our follies and weaknesses of
today, 1t Is yet mere perverslty to refuse
10 realize the incredible advance that
mas been made In ethical standards | do
not believe that there is the slightest nee
essary connection between any weaken
Ing OF virile force and this advance in
the moral standard. this growth of the
sense or obligation to ones neighbor and
OF reluctance to do that neighbor wrong.
we need have scant patience with that
SHY cyncism which insists that kindli-
ness OF character only accomna nies
weakness OF character. On the contrary.
Just AS in private life many of the men
VI strongest character are the very men
OF loftiest and most exalted morality so
believe that In national life as the n eee
go by we shall find that the permanent
nationa! types will more and more tend
towards those In which, while the intel.
, iect stands high, character stands higher.
In which rugged strength and couro ee
rugged capacity to resist wrongful ap.
, gression by others, will go hand in hand
, Win LOFTY scorn Of doing wrong to 9th.
, ers RMS Is the type OF Timcleon M
mampden, Of Washington and Lincoln
lhese were as good men, as dIsinterestaT
ana unselfish men. as ever served j
state and they were also as strong mer
as ever founded or saved a state. Surely
, such examples prove that there Is moth.
ing Utoplan In our effort to comhin,
: Justice and strength in the same nation
3 me really high civilizations must them.
selves supply the antidote to the seif.ir.
= uulgence and love of ease which the,
3 tend to produce. ''e'
: problems of Modern Nations.
Every modern civilized nation has noon,
ahu terrible problems to solve within e.,
: own borders. problems that arise no
netely from juNtaposition OF poverty an,
7, rlches' but especially from the sole an a,.'
\ seriousness of both poverty and riohns
p rach nation must deal with these rnot
a ters IN its own fashion, and yet the snir,