Show Wfi HAVE MUCH TO LARN We have much to learn in Salt Lake City Not content with halting between be-tween two cpnions the business men of our city stumble among manynearly as they number themselves There is a man in Denver rich respected res-pected and arrived at that time of life when most men past the hour for work sit them in the deepening twilight to await the coming of the night But it is not so with him The night will still find him doing With the development devel-opment of that bright and particular city his name is ineffacably identified with its growth and ho is very rich He not only has had the intellectual foresight to see what was required and what might be accomplished but he has bad the industry to embark in the enterpriser en-terpriser to stay with it and the our age to risk his means in it His unyielding un-yielding perseverance has made him successful and his own faith has been strong enough to convert others and make them to work with him Today I any proposition that has bIt endorsg1 ment not only secures his efforts in its behalf but also commands tin attention atten-tion and support of other business men This ia the secret of Denvers success and not her opportunities for we have two where she had one and gaz3 upon us I We have men rich men getting richer bat in the main we lictr any evidence of patriotism We tale l bv taa hour propose pro-pose in prodigality soceme like mOT nrcbsiliscu83 like gods do as idlers iil give line pauper Where is our piri Oti3m Where is our faith What man among us has the courage tho largeness of soul to execute his plans and sink or swim on cue result Is there one among ua who ha3 the divine di-vine gift of faith in himself Is thero a speculation at the bottom of which may i not be found the purely sslllsn without any mitigating qualities Just think it over this Sabbath morning ye neb If you should die before another Sabbath Sab-bath what record will there be toho that in the slightest degree you cared for tliosa whom GoJ in His great wisdom wis-dom has seen fit to blsss with lesser i trusts less poignant cares than the poorer and bless the thought 1 ir maybe may-be humbler Now we dont wont to write a sar mon but we would take a deep and lasting comfort in the thought that in the community there was one among all the wealthy who had a thought above the preservation to himself of his wealth who had faith enough in him self to do something that would ba a benefit all round end who did not demand de-mand a covenant signed for his proteo tion by all the powers both of light and darkness before he would lend or invest in-vest a dollar of his money in anything that might result in the general good Wa read in the contemporaneous history of our times that when Brigham Brig-ham Youns lived there was a oneman i power but it was a oneman power that took from tho rich and gave to the poor and it bulls up the only purely local industries which seem to have survived the selfishness of the times If that kind of man power can be had I again thre is no community that needs it more There havo been named schemes without number for the advancement of Salt Lake and our Territory Within our borders is tbat which might raise up build and sustain an empire Not a single suggestion from the building of the Chamber of Commerce to the founding of industries varied in their nature has been made which any one can prove thoroughly impracticable Each could have been made a success if the right faith and spirit and patriotism had been behind it but they have not been brought tor ward and there was lasting reputation unbounded public esteem and confidence confi-dence in the doing and something above it alla great public good But we havent developed the stuff so far that the men we need are made of Is it reserved for another generation Whenever a man prompted by a noble impulse has made u start ho hss had one damned kind friend or another an-other as Sheridan puts it in his Oritic to pour cold water down his spinal column and such donations as have been made upon close examination exam-ination prove to have a very strong cord conveniently attached to them Is this not true Such are not the ways nor are such the men who make communities noble and cities of desirable repute Is this not true Perhaps this is savage but isnt It so We take our castigation with the rest of you and have found something to ponder over between now and another I Sabbath day We have much to learn |