Show lett jell mev mew 06 efi MOUNT PLEASANT Utah july 1871 mr editor I 1 see by the pap papers ers ets the emigrants are arriving in the city 1 ty an and d thad that the bishops tyre ere requested e d to 0 o be bw atthe at the capot fo to see them thim cared for fbi I 1 thought what whai an excellent chance there was for jor lor many of them to t obtain profitable work here fo for sot one is a forced to ta ask the question who can gather all this ripening grain water is scarce which may impoverish some but when you yon survey the broad nielda fields of this and all ill the setti hetti settlements mends you yau must also say bay a power within burken our ken has ellent silently ly removed curse the hopper farmers of hatched batche dAnd and nearly ready reads for devastating but they are gone a and d as indians in battle carry off their de dead n d oc or wounded go po these pests peats have packed off al all ali the hex sex and sizes the delightful place spring city has lengthened her borders and made some nice additions tn dWelli dwellings and surroundings I 1 here I 1 found fund president 0 hyde b buby busy us as ever in the oversight of agriculture and its kindred pursuits per suits the great care bo he has haa for his be peoples oples spiritual welfare fa Is manifested by constant visitations time did na nat permit a visit to the reservation town of gunnison Gunni son aon but report says bays that in common C with all the settlements she holds lemp tempting ting prospects to her pers erving orving citizens ITEM i f 9 Y when we entered the old tabernacle at 8 last evening there were not fifty persons present but they continued to dro drop I 1 in I 1 in n agn groups ups of two or three until antil it t there ere were about three or four hundred persons seated principally of the sterner sex although garnished here and there bythe by the presence of a fair one set like a niwen flower in the midst of a bunch of prickly pears the audience was certainly as luch much diversified as the most extravagant leveler could desire there were gentiles and jews saints and sinners democrats and republicans riff rafn rann 11 and ministers mechanics and nA miners iners merchants and manufacturers and the fattest man had the softest seat beat e at after sitting about half an hour the audience began to show symptoms of impatience impat lence lenee by rapping and stamping with their feet fer in the tumult of which a large black dog just in our rear joined most moat vociferously vociferously after two or three demonstrations rations of this kind mr pomeroy was introduced to the audience b by mine host of the american hotel cot col J C little when he laid down his written lecture before him and began reading as follows it is one lhing thing to run a saw mill another to display laces and fib fit fabrics to forms to follow fashions and please the wearer it is one thing tol tobe an editor guarding and defending the freedom of an honest ini Ind impartial partial press watching a country and a 4 people from the outer walls of thought and progression another thing to be to orai or of it isone bisone thing to bif a maken maker of newspapers atida and alida a chronicler of history yi bending over a desk watching the growing letters wor words sf lines lined arld alid arid and sentences follow the trao tracings idt ora ofa a pen peti your ybur ey eyes e freeing nothing b but tit the page pago olbo fa for eyou as your mind d dwells dwelis upon facts and their presentation ic IV is quite another thing to wipe the pen pelf neatly lay it on the rack cover the inkstand put your desk in order and step drom from the almost de deathly athly silence of the that great think shop to the aurig the glare lare iare of lamps and the gaze of ever lever OUS eyes i t so it is that one who never hash has tried to be everything ti to please everybody cannot expect to please all ail allsho who may be in alten attendance danee dande here tonight to td night 7 od anthis this thia occasion I 1 will have nothing to do with politics or mention of the thet cameto bame same to make in sueh such a manner as to please political friends or offend political enemies rather bather let me as a young working man speak to we the workers all about me men and women t thinkers h in ai ers erb toilers boilers and hopers copers that they th ey insy may become conquerors in pro P por arrion Clori as aff they are lire honest earnd earnest st plucky industrious and deserving my subject therefore is ig Su success edess net thau that brazen imitation thereof which wah follows wrongdoing for that is ix not tut but iut with those god diven given powers within us all hll which properly cared for fon and developed reward heward lour tour labor open nelvo new aven avenues lles lies to future re resting tin g pl places aceb aces add to our oui happiness prave our greatness and a n d at tit least ensure us ue a place ilace with the workers int ini inythe the garden gaiden of god where thought ia the im lm tand the minds of men nor for countless ages to come the field an which we who makes of this thib life a success delightfully labor forever leeo the germ of eternal life the success is found in the hearts of fall nil AIL it Is found in the poor boy who starts from a woodpile wood awood pile before a country countr y farmhouse bids goodby good by to carves his way to fame fortune reno rono renown wn position influence and usefulness not by idling away his time but by work it is easy to succeed in life true e manhood will succeed that not will fall what a man was or springs from is nothing he maybe may be itis it is not so much in luc as ad in pluck the pluck to dare the pluck to be honest to withstand temptation to take care of ourselves to be men accountable to the laws for our krimes crimes to god for our sins 1 f r i the boy who succeeds the maii man who ho re reache roache aches sr success successes sis is no coward he c cares I 1 r es not hot for the speech of others he I 1 lives ilves up to his bis convictions of right ationo and no matter what envy may say against him how itow malice may wound slander blander injure or pr selfishness stab to the very soul boul he works on and walks wilks up to td the glory odthe of the eternal as we the grand soui soul inspired martyrs of the olden time tithe walked through mobs persecutions revl revil ings lings and torturing indignities to the portals of heaven i and on t to the rest we all hope to reach re av the man marr manor or the woman who suca succeeds pe As is Js the one ono who wbk has an individuality a determination no words of othero can cau 1 1 11 1 1 continued on s VC 1 f f c jr from page crowd back thel thele e e area are a million ways to success rathers million successes success ps to be reached s from that of the housemaid who puts knives in order to tbd the man whose genius girdles the scarth with Wi sireana wire reana and makes the godif god of lightning h his Is errand boy from they the young n 4 wife who labors to make her hamou home e attractive and shelter therein her earnest manly intelligent husband to the student of humanity who from the people draws lessons and learns of their wants till he is able to weave a panoply for their protection we must study ourselves first others afterwards if we wish to succeed we worship more at the shrine of success than at the shrine of religion 8 lowly slowly but surely columbus columbua gained on that long voyage neared the new world and gave na us the home we now have bave today to day would be but a wilderness only for the work of heart and brain which hasso has so added wealth and given greatness to our nation little by little the work progressed upon the ark built by noah until it reached nio ached that thu perfection feces the salvation of a drowning world little by little step by step but always in id advance moses led the children of israel through the depths of the bed red sea until they emerged upon terra farma firma and effected their salvation let us see what made of america a success not the people robbing labor taxing tyrants ahoi who with crowns and titles self seif giyen given counted their vassals iia ba the we morn and their profits at even and who spent their nights in revelry revelry and dran drunkenness kenness the ones who locked their treasures in ironbound chests cheats a and nd their hearts in casings of elfishness selfishness not theories the ones who believed in the so called divine divino right bight of kings rings to rob to plunder to devastate and give royal ditlea to themselves not the ones who bat sat on the distant shore and prophesied the failure of those who in the olden time aime went forth aa as does the ahe word of god to plant truths ideas colonies and liberty under the shadows ota western sun not the ones who knelt kneit at court and I 1 crooked the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift might follow fawning 1 as at it does political loyalty to one party or the other with us degenerated sons bons of bof heaven di rented patriots who I 1 then made america a success who alethe are the dpn arch sot bof of our land the borki workingmen of the nation the brave death facing patriots of the revolution Be the grand fathers who clasped their bibles to their bleats bared their heads to the storm stood amid danger like men of marble bif bli clinging nging to their faith and standing in earnest fealty to their self allotted work till the grand old aisles of the forest oj i Rarig with the anthems of the free the brave men who had the pluck to darc dare da rethe the will to persevere the faith to work and sad thus the power ta accomplish not all at onee once country bud and blossom till it became a land of homes not in aa an honra houra day or a year did work gain the vic victory tofy tofi but at last at Za StAT lasi it triumphed and the stars of god are hardly more numerous than the homes of the earnest working mehan in this our well beloyed beloved land the wilderness yesterday tha the garden now the long tramp through forests and siong along indian trails then the rushing fram ocean to ocean in palace cars care now and how c came awe this success by ark I 1 not alo aio neof the rich but of the poor rooi fbi for tha the handiwork ork of every man is imprinted on the nations record and tit letto lefto success the ibe wo work rk i of those who w were ere and are li laborers borers plan flan planners ners thinkers ar ik of those who arose early in the iii ili orning morning and nd dared the trials of the day wit with brave hearts willog ar arms ma i and most heroic faith do ido you ever eve r sneer at labor 2 do you ever insult hini him who was and is and will ever be the great worker 2 i 1 U let me tell you that the time is com corn phen you yoa will cease to sneer at the ho honest n W laborer who supplies you with the ele bents of your prosperity the time tine innear at band when the laboring men the men mendt af nerve and sinew the honest and industrious toiler shall applause just here iet let jet a word gord or two and throwing aside his manuscript he spoke more lear jear earnestly nestly and forcibly when whon I 1 was a young man I 1 desired to gain a position and standing stand ingin in the world I 1 wished to own houses bouses and lauds lands good clothes and trunks to put them in this was before the days of carpet bags applause there were many young men of my acquaintance who were very 9 goad d fellow Sj happy go luck lueky lucky fellows who bentito wen went tIto to work regularly on monday morning and worked corked steadily and faithfully all the week and then spent the whole of it in gambling drinking boiling alley aliey etc until oli on h e ensuing n T au monday moaning they had bad not fiot a cent to bless themselves with I 1 watched these young men they went on from one thing to another until unell some af pf thern them brought up in the poor hruse some in the state prison while some af pf the themore more hardened hard Eard ened were sent to congress applause when I 1 was waa a boy my parents were rians of ot the strictest school and we boys used to have to attend meeting regularly winter and summer rain or shine three times a is day for about tw two 0 hours and three quarters at each sitting until the benches got so tired that they oid did did old not get fully rested for a week after our minister was a very good old man his bis hair was whiter than the fhe driven snow heald preached reached there in that bame same church for 60 dr or ap 7 or 80 years the oldest inhabitant could not tell when he he commenced it was re ported that when the first bettler settler came they found him there and built the church up around him I 1 dont know whether this was so or not but I 1 can assur assure you eyou he was a very good man I 1 dont think I 1 shall ever listen to another like him and I 1 dont care if I 1 never do laughter here mr pomeroy gave a sample of the style of the old ministers delivery in the pulpit as follows 1 I find in a drawling tone a notice on the desk for a meeting Meil ting in iu the vestry at six this evening the object act of this meeting is to raise t the e salary of the pastor I 1 would take occasion to here remark that the salary for thelast six months has not been paid up it behoves behaves asto us to look after the temporal wants of our pastor while be he administers to our spiritual wa wants ants I 1 shall take for my text the passage ansag e which will be found we think thin K it F t was leviticus 1818 18 18 the laborer ia worthy of his hire you must believe beleve or you will not be saved there is no hurry there is an ebern ity before us but you must begin either this hour or the next either today to day or tomorrow to morrow this month or next month this year or next year or you will not be saved but will lose your balya Al Tation tion and nd gd go down below during in g thib this harangue which we sat under tinder re regularly gulard y three times timis a day mo most i st of hr congregation slept most peacefully but just about this time there came along a young methodist minister a regular ra litan ritan kerous customer he said he be had keon been sent to preach in lil that settlement find and raise kals eup up a church and alid he meant to do it lr if he could not succeed in a week or a month he should preach there a year or until be he was successful he wanted the use of the school house every evening the trustees con consulted suite among themselves the preaching could not harm any one it keyek had hurt anybody laugh laughter terso so he got it and comb comi commenced preaching in it whether any auy wab was present or not hot he spoke very loudly so go that the neighbors up and down the creek for a mile were disturbed by him they could not see the necessity for such loud talking they were not accustomed to it finally they began to drop in to hear what all the noise was about until his hil house was crowded and when they were ait alt assembled he tather rather astonished them by the force of his langi language fage he called them sheep stealers steamers ste alers rascals thieves th emesi ers era who sanded their sugar watered their codfish etc I 1 and preached so forcibly that he made them believe it Laugh laughter teh tet he raised up a church there whose spire towers above all the rest and ana warf waif a pie to te me of the power of perseverance this instance of success induced me to take a stand and maintain it I 1 determine determined d to become a printer and to own an office and control a d paper pamper ad BO that thit I 1 might have the last word I 1 went to work for but SQ Q a year and was somewhat bashful the cheek I 1 think they call it that some people have but I 1 ha had 4 a stiff upper lips I 1 always had plenty of lip and I 1 believed I 1 should earn an office at that time I 1 could not furnish means to buy a press nor even a congressman bu buy the president then though 1 coul could come pretty near it |