Show POLl llCS i The most critical time in the career of man is that period when the character is forming the time when experience has not matured the judgment but when the mind is plastic and readily receives impressions pressions It is the most critical because those impressions will form the character and make up the material upon which the judgment of the individual will bo bated If wrong impressions are made then the judgment based upon such impressions wile wil-e erroneous If the youth be taught to look only upon one side of human char acterthe evil sidehe is incompetent to judge humanity and if the vices of man the deceits duplicities insincerities dishonor dis-honor fraud and general corruption of which man Is capablebe altogether concealed cealed from the youth he will then be equally incompetent to form a correct jUdgment of his fellows or to properly shape his conduct in relation to them As thamost critical time in the career of i man is the formation period so is it also the most critical time in the career of a state Through such a period is our Utah passing today And as it is important that correct impressions be made upon tho developing de-veloping mind of man so is it important that correct impressions be made upon the public mind of the gradually forming state It is important not onjy that correct political politi-cal doctrines bo taught but that correct ideas in respect to politicswhich in its best sense refers to the science of civil government gov-ernment be impressed upon the public mind It is the custom in our community we are sorry to say to refer to politics as very poor kind of tics and when this refers to politics in its worst sense it may be true but it is a statement made too broadly and needs modification When we regard politics in its worse sense in relation to the frauds perpetrated in its affairs chicanery of ward heelers wire pullers and the dirt and filth of political L strifein these respects politics may bo a poor kind of tics But politics viewed as the science of government as an assemblage assemb-lage of means and the application of prin pies to secure human freedom and the cs tablishment of justice between man and man it is not a poor kind of ticsbu the noblest science and the one burdene with the most good to humanity known t 0 < mankind We Know of nothing so important impor-tant or that bears so directly upon human happiness and human progress as the proper pro-per administration of government and it I is that with which politics has to doth e administration of government Our YOung men in fact all men should be taught that and they should not be taught that politics is something too far beneath their notice As compared with religion politics may not bo so important The administration of human government may be transitory while religion and its affairs may be eternal in their nature and as the heavens are higher than the earth so may religion be above politics yet politics bears such relation re-lation to human happiness to human pence and the maintencncc of right that it cannot can-not be ignored however transitory relig II ionists may regard it Politics in its best sense and it is in its best sense that amen a-men may deal with it is a spbero wner noblest intelligences have operated for the good of their fellow men It is a business where the most splendid men the world has ever seen have found scope for tb6 exercise of tho great talents GOD has given them A subject that so nearly concerns human happiness hap-piness progress and general welfare and which has engrossed the attention of the noblest and best of our species should not be treated lightly or referred to as a POor kind of tics but on the contrary should be held up to our people us one of tho most serious affairs with which they have to done one which most nearly concerns their interests in-terests and an occupation so far as it may be looked upon as such the most honorable honor-able |