Show I I W ATTER ONS S LECTRK A Very Instructive Talk on Money and Morals I THAT WHICH THREATENS THE NATION SHOULD NOT BECOME A VAST PLUTOCRACY How Canada and Mexico Hae Become Be-come theRefnge For the Abs > con tIers From This Land A Pleasant Informal Reception at the Press Club I the fame of Colonel Henry Watter son the Star Eyed Goddess needed any enhancement in Salt Lake last nights entertainment would have proved ample for the attainment of the desired end Thq orator that has charmed so many audiences by his rare powers gained anew a-new following in Zion and scarcely one of the large and representative audience that assembled went away without feeling feel-ing higher resolves and more worthy ambitions am-bitions stirring within them The lecturer did not appear on the stage until almost 5 oclock much to the surprise of the audience but when he came on the stage accompanied by Judge Goodwin he was received with a perfect storm of applause Judge Goodwin arose to introduce him and said that Salt Lake was entertaining a great and representative rep-resentative man one that could lookdown look-down upon presidents and cabinets He had refused office when tendered to him He had attained rIches and represented the Ideal editor of the future That he was competent to handle his subject there could be no doubt as there is nothing noth-ing possessed by editors in such quanti ties that they can throw out a bit once in 3 while so much as money and morals Colonel Watterson then arose and came forward and announced that he was not going to give a learned discourse on any economic question or to rip up either President Cleveland or Governor West He wished to avoid controversy and admitted there is no question public or private to which there are not two I sides and commonground on which all men can stand However if he should provoke controversy he wanted to be I understood as like the New England deacon who said I cannot give in and you must He said humor does not often enough descend to lay bare the follies of philosophy Then he took up the thread of his lecture which briefly is as follows I want you to fix in your mind the map of this country Caesar never look don d-on anything so magnificent Napoleon in his highest flights of ambition never contemplated such an empire I stretches from the bleak northern shores of Alaska and fades away into the warm and tropical lands on the south What a wealth Is here to elevate the mind and make us proud of our citizenship What stories are associated with every foot of this ground From the extreme north to the extreme south there is no place but has its stories of heroes slain on the field of battle for their countrys sake In the history of war of labors in the Senate the toil in the workshops and the progress of the nation there is much of which to feel proud But can we see anything to mar the prospect Is there anything that will obstruct our progress as individuals and as a nation There is We have Canada on the north and Mexico on the south To these places flee those tourists that have taken that which is not their own The line used to be drawn at the line of Texas and the client when advised by his lawyer law-yer to flee from the consequences of the murder was justiftedMn saying What Flee Am I not iI fe ± as But since the Lone Star state has been divided into forty prosperous states the line of Mexico is the boundary However Canada still seems to be the favorite resort of those gentry that sniff at Cooks tickets and have not time to wait for passes probably prob-ably on account of Its accessibility But this is not in disparagement of those neighbors that soon like Texas will be of states knocking for admission G into the Union No one that is pta enough to nave I I had the experience of robbing a peach orchard or melon patch has not had his thoughts of riches In the dark when about to go to sleep dreams of wealth have come Jgole aim and he Sea reflected re-flected what good he would do were he in possession of that which he coveted I Many the poor man who has thought of the help he would give his needy friends in these hours Many the spendthrift spend-thrift who has thought to pay his debts with his suddenly acquired wealth But money is relative The man who has ten millions Is only a poor man be said he who was a hundred and fifty millions While the poor devil with a paltry million must appear little better than a pauper to the latter There are those atttu have oa income of i or a year that can not imagine how a man could get along on less than 2o000 per annum A man that has an income of S100000 and desires that would need SloO I 000 Is no better off than a man without 00 cent in his pocket that needs his dinner Men in all stations In life prince and peasant philosopher warrior and statesman states-man have been struck at some time I in their lives by that golden rod and have longed for money Money is the first material I ma-terial fact that comes into a mans life It is the piston rod that moves the affairs af-fairs of men It is the one thing universally univer-sally used and abused sought after and levlled I was never really unhappy until I bad an income and was compelled t make the acquaintance of those friends that go with a bank account Promissory Notes and Renewal Discount and com I pan Money I am inclined to believe will not be a bar to eternal salvation a there I have been many good men that were rich But many a man of generous impulses has may been spoiled by coming into the possession I of spoied Where there Is an instance of one man being helped by it there are ten instances of those who were not I Is I not satisfying when it has come to men and there are many who have had the brightest expectations turned to ashes upon realization I A senator once said to me that once In his younger days he had been elected to the Senate and later had been cheated out of his seat Therefore his ambition for i fifteen years had been to regain that seat He did so at last and what did he gall I A president once said to me that he was presient in his exalted station For I twentyfour years he had been before the party conventions and each time had met with defeat until at last he was nominated nomi-nated and elected But he was old and weiih Kl down with 1 care His friehds whom he wished t reward were dead his enemies whom he had wished to punish pun-ish had become friends Clay and Webster at the zenith of their fame were sorry they had ever enter d public life Each had fixed his heart on the White House and each had fajled Preiitiss said to me that if Clay had evir gained the presidency he would have been the most wretched man on earth as he had covered the public service three ply over with promises and he would never have been able to fill them 1elng an honorable man he would have had his happiness turned to gal The trouble with men is that they fix their ideas on something I material I and think if they attain to that they will be content But the men that are the happiest happi-est are those that have happiness from within and feel that their wife their home and their children are the best one on-e rth For the men that go on indefinite visits I have a great deal of sympathy as I believe the most of them tried to make everything right until the last moment mo-ment They are not all rascals but the greatest rascal of all is he that pretends to be a pillar of the church and becomes be-comes dishon st Hypocrisy is every where and few men escape the meshes of he that would rob them under the guisa of friendship All nations have good and bad within them Find the sin that is in thorn and there you willfind the danger American citizens should not look to Europe put Should ser what it Is that Is threatening their own country Is it the corruption found in municipal elections Is it the dq sty lclflltel t 1 1 race question Is it the labor or social question No In a country like this here the baby born In the lowest hovel has an equal chance for the presidency with he that pulls the mustache of his millionaire father these questions will settle set-tle themselves and the country that has come through a civil war and is now stronger than ever and a constitution that has met all requirement for a century will 1 not be endangered by them I have found it to be true that wheii any party in this country thinks it has the world In A silng public opinion will rise up and kick it out But the evils that do threaten are the money devil and the devil of partisanship From the minister that preaches for S10WW a ea to the United States senator that drawS SlfiOOOO the trade mark of money han s Qcr us alt Money has a grip on the whole country f How ready we are to r 1 1 5 forgive the sins of the rich and partake of their hospitality But there is more happiness in one kind thought than in nilllons The people in Europe the Swiss that are relatively the poorest are the happIest But we are drifting too much to plutocracy pluto-cracy The statesmanship that leads upwards up-wards should appeal more to the morals of the people and lawmakers should never forget the homespun that makes the country coun-try To New England I would say take vhat good you can l In the south a1 the south I would say take what good you can find In New England Then we wo aid free the nation from the pitfalls of Rome and make It pure and virtuous Be happy that you are American citizens citi-zens All cannot get prizes tcSI can be happy finding good in everything |