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Show I MORAL LESSONS. An esteemed contemporary, the other morning, told us how in the play a scion of a French King disguised himself in the character of a barber and in that role fl failed to obtain recognition of even what his grace merited. This, to our contem- porary seemed as filled Avith a moral les- son as the average sermon. Wo think so, too, we trust that we may have more chapters like it and venture to suggest for a theme some one born away outside the purple, who later became weallhy and who then posed as the only true Prince, Band how well he succeeded. The moral of course will be that real gold, when obscured, does not count for as much as Ha thin washing of it does when the wash is kept in the snu where the glitter can be seen, and, tersly rendered, it means "nothing succeeds like success". The les-son les-son cannot be too often impressed upon the youth of Utah. High thoughts are all right; good blood is all right; the graces of the schools are not bad in their way ; but the discerning eyes of the world are fooled by none of these. These accomplishments ac-complishments have always sold short on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, and justly so, for the people long ago learned that it was better to eat with ones knife than to have no dinner. But why inivegh or scoff or jeer or draw morals? This is the age of gold. All the moving forces of the world are controlled by it. It buys respectability re-spectability for those so vile that without with-out it pure women would draw close their skirts as they passed, lest they be contaminated. con-taminated. It buys indulgence from the churches and from the courts, though in the one the statue of the crucified cru-cified one gazes down from the cross, though in the other the severe cartoon of justice adorns the wall above the judge's bench. For it fathers scheme and jeopad-ise jeopad-ise their souls every day, for it mothers , train ther daughters to tvy to make a respectable but profitable sale of themselves them-selves in marriage. Because of it what Avould be coarse and vulgar in the poor man, becomes "exquisite wit" from the rich brute or boor. It is true that the advancement of a nation na-tion is regulated hj the amount of gold in that nation's strong bt-'x. It is just as true that a man's standing advances or recedes according as his wealth advances or recedes. Great wealth is a certificate of character. It gives to vulgarity tone, it gives to gross ignorance "such a charming charm-ing originality" ; it whitewashes crime so that it becomes merely a naive excen-tricity, excen-tricity, it seats coarse ruffians in places where they are enabled, when the roll of gentlemen's names is called, to answer "Aye". Fortunately the "Aye" dies on the air and the sound is quickly forgotten. It was the-same way in Pompei when the cinders of Vesuvius brought to that city fifteen hundred years of silence; it was the same on a small scale in St. Pierre three weeks ago before Pelle began to vomit her dead air and hot scoria and in a moment put out the life of the city. Why complain? Why not be comforted com-forted rather? There are men who are able to purchase penance for all their crimes and vices and ignorance and brutality bru-tality from the world, but they cannot get away from themselves. It may be a pleasure for them to say : ''It is merely a question of money", but they cannot long keep from properly estimating them- j j'M selves at their real value, and when a man j jH cannot take his own self respect to bed II jjffl with him, how much is his sleep worth? 111 Nature is a close accountant. It fixes IIH values on a correct scale Queen Bess ffiffl was the most powerful sovereign of her ffiitH age but at last she offered her kingdom jffi H for one moment of time. Let no one envy jB H the power of wealth that was unjustly jgliH gained or is unworthly used, for while in- H H deed it rules the world, it cannot hide ;RB from its r lessor any stains that he has B jH put u x is own name; it cannot pur- IBB chase for him the self respect that he ex- : B Jfl changed for it. H H |