Show deseret agricultural valid land manufacturing manu Hanu fac society COUNCIL HOUSE G S L city sep 13 7 pm jt present edward hunter preside wilford woodruff lT C II 11 oliphant and IV C staines directors J C little and R L campbell officers several members of the awarding 0 committees mit tees and of the committee of arrangements for the fair called to order by pres lia ila hunter n t e r prayer by elder jeter clinton minutes of last meeting read and accepted the delegates reported having visited the various wards in this city but in consequence of the ath loth and wards not having received timely notice the tho delegates were instructed ted to visit them tomorrow to morrow evening bishop william smith of centerville Cent erville was added to the award awarding ine InZ committee on stock bishop edwin D woolley was added to the committee on plowing mr winder exhibited a plan for the proposed cattle stalls sheep and hog pens and reported estimated cost at some 60 or 70 the plan of the committee was accepted and they were authorized to proceed accordingly much was said in relation to decorating the building build inc inz known as deseret store for the exhibition hibi tion and in relation to the arrangements for the fair estimated expenses ac garden lines made of hemp grown in the valley a 25 23 cent ball of hemp twine and masons lines made by mr IV A mcmaster of the lith ward were exhibited and pronoun pronounced cd to be superior articles and worthy the patronage ae a e of the community 11 benediction ene diction by elir eier elder eider IV woodruff lT remarkable particulars part ic ulars these are ithe removal of al a 1 l restraints from the alienation of proper I 1 ty 2 th ther thee el universally ally aily of the rul rut means and facilities for rising in life and 3 the equal daffus I 1 ion lon on of knowledge in reference to the wise and judicious employment of such means menus and facilities there is here at the commencement a perfect j equality the fact of birth confers no special privileges no titles leonors llo Jio nors distinctions cluster around the infant to erect between it and the race tace to which it belongs utterly impassable barriers but although equality exists at birth yet it does I 1 not long continue death finds the conditions of men extremely unequal it itis is rather a misfortune than a privilege to have wealthy or illustrious par parents eras eias I 1 the parent in such cases is usually too much j engrossed with business or a multiplicity of pur suits to admit of the education of his children or the instilling into their young minds co correct notions of things hence they are suffered to come up with whatever impressions or ideas they may chance to acquire and these afe aie ai e often derived through such imperfect cr false media and are based upon such erroneous views of life and of things as to render them of little value in fact frequently worse than useless the consequence is is that they are but little prepared to act upon the stern realities that may present themselves at every step in life they are ara generally objects of envy to those who have been burn under less prosperous circumstances although ill in truth i and in fact there is is little in their condition lo 10 envy j from the fact that they are never thrown upon j their own resources they have little opportunity of learning the necessity of directing their powers and energies into any department of effort and I 1 are often but ill acquainted with the powers and energies actually possessed by them tiie the condition annexed even to the knowledge e of the functions olour of our corpo corporeal reul power powers is that we should use them we must open the eye before j we can know that eliat we possess the sense of seeing expand the nostril before we attain a like know j ledge of that of smelling and move the muscle before we aro are aware that we are in possession of the powers necessary to stir stif it from a state of repose the same condition attaches to the know ow j lede ledge of our mental powers and energies and without actually using them we ru run n the hazard ot of dying in in ignorance I 1 gnor ance 0 of their possession anere are also dangers attending llie tile tion of desires arising early in life where the object of every fisli is 13 supplied and every want satisfied the individual cornes comes at last to regard as his ills inherent right what circumstances purely accidental had placed within his power hence he demands concessions which others are unwilling to make and requires that to be perr performed ormed upon principles of duty and right which lf if conceded at all is claimed by others to be placed upon the tha ground of favor he is thus preparing himself for collision with his fellow men at ev every ery I 1 important step which he takes in life habits of idleness which such are ure too loo apt to contract are never without their dangers tile the internal 1 to some species of effort can never be suppressed by destroying all the motives that conduce to laudable exertion exer tion tian the place of amusement will then their become a substitute for the place of business and the intoxicating cup for that mild and constant excitement which grows out of variety of pursuit and rivalries ollile idleness in youth is laying almost a certain foun foundation dalio dallo 0 for o r a dissipated manhood a dishonored old age an rire tire gre cre tied death and a memory to which w aich the tile h highest agh est eat privilege we can accord is the mercy of forgetfulness do the les ies lessons sotis of af experience verify ill in this particular the deductions of reason with what kind of stuff was that vessel freigh freighted that first neared the shores of new england it was with a little band of puritans who from su frering suffering all the hardships and persecutions of the old world were prepared to subdue tile the new the sound of whose hose axe first dil disturbed the hitherto unbroken silence of or the western wilder wilderness nem nel and whose ploughshare plough share first upturned the deep soil of the fir far distant prairie who wiio have been thu tha earliest pioneers in the paths of improvement who have originated the new discovery stuck out tile tiie new invention first carried carrie d ilfe life actie activity lly ily ari ali and 1 enterprise into every department of industry who carry with them a determination ties tic tio s cannot daunt a resolution that dangers cannot lessen an inflexibility of purpose that revers reverses ps cannot shake whose voice is heard in tile tiie pulpit at tile the barin the halls ofle of legislation 7 the counting house and workshops work shops and labor fields of cf the bd abdy y state and of the land of steady habits and of ofle the granite hiis hills of new 11 hampshire tl and of tile the green preen green mountains of vermont must clairn to be ba large arge stockholders stock holders in that raw material cut out of which man toan is made the success of the poverty stricken the tiie hardy and til ill the persevering should never furnish matter of surprise it is in strict subjection to that same empire of cause causa and effect that embraces as well the phenomena of the intellectual rind find mor moral 1 as the physical world it in is those w whose iloe young spirits have grappled with adversity in I 1 its is various forms whose first efforts ava ben b en summoned forth at the call of want with whom the plough the spade the hoe the scythe scythes the of mechanic art have been ea eally easly I 1 y familiars whose frames have been knit together by tha effirot of labor who have havercome come up tip bilone alone whose ha lithas bithas been to eat because they were hungry and to drink bebau because e they tiley were thirsty who have havo never stimulated their pilled pitied p ap appetite petite uy b y delion dallon del dal ioa loa cies cles or sought in tha drunken r revel the excitement craved ly by a morbid feeling or the refuge from themselves which some are so desirous of finding it is these thebe who are and ever will continue conti 1 une ure tp to be destined to become the master matter spirits of this word of bursi and andu it is right they should I lecome acome pao so the tiie supremacy of that law chich assigns to labor its unfailing reward is thus powerfully vill vindicated dica ted teil those fearful adversities that thai call fo forth rill fill I 1 all tle energies of iho tho he louth youth ta q surmount them lierd t I 1 become the mere sport of ills his ma manhood nu I 1 and they pre prepare paire that manhood for great kreit exploits had not juno dispatched lier her serpents serpent a to destroy the infant hercules in ins his cradle we e never neve r should have seen the muscle of his hn manhood dealing deain g lle ile the lie blow to tile the lion one inference I 1 regret to perceive from ell this ibis too powerfully forces itself upon us if is that one great diffie difference rence between beaw een the tile sons of oatha the poor and those of the rich and illustrious 6 i that tile the first learn and practice the art of kisir the last that of sinking in life this however is 13 not a matter matler of necessity the sons of the rich enjoy superior advantages if they would lut but profit by them thero instances are afe found of their doing so and then tl en they are very likel likely to become distinguished they thes therefore as well as the poor are interested it in the inquiry bs its to tile the choice cho ce of a business profess profession lon ion 0 calling to be followed through life for they the ought by no means to attempt living without one the laws and customs of civilized nations lare lave always favored the early designation by individuals of particular pursuits and the persevering perse enig adherence to them through life the athenians had a law that excused the son from the obligation of maintaining his parents in their old age tf if they had neglected to have him brought up to an ap op frentice trentice ship in in some gome useful trade or occupation in n making choice of the profession slon sion or kind of business to be pursued through life reference refer erce erco should b be e b bad a d to the qualities or powers mental or corporeal vv which aich that pursuit requires andallo to those possessed by the individual am ahren journal |