| Show I 1IIR FITCHS SPEECH i He Speaks Eloquently of the Character I I Char-acter of Brigham Young j < I The main portion of the Hon Thomas Fitchs speech follows I My Fr ndsTh9 mnn whose birth I we commemorate and whose memory we honor today was Known to me not through the report of others nut wHh I an intimacy born of iho relation of lawyer aim client on Intimacy widen soon ripened Into a frlendsmp which I continued until he passed into the Be yond A quarter of a century has gone since he bade larewell with a olcsslug which although not of his creed 1 did not scorn yet his vital and vigorous personality seems as It it were here today throbbing with life and strong In I purpose It is such perceptions as these ot I the continued existence of those who have Journeyed J on thatwithout help from the dogmas of theologians and without hlnarance from the greater dogmas of scientists come to us at times and then with an Intuition that I Is higher than reason we are convinced I that oar little I Ufo here Is not rounded i with a sleep that It does nut molder 1 J J to ashes with the body In the dark 1 I house or perish In the Incinerating I llame but that It goes out to broader fIelds of effort to grander cycles of I time toworlds before which this t world t shall pale us u star pales in the pres I I ence of the morning This Is not time nor place to speak I J either In criticism or In defense of the religious faith in whIch and by which BrIgham Young lived and died nor of j the peculiar tenet of that faith which J excited the animosity and Inspired the hosilla action of the religious and po litical world of America w Any effort should effort be any where made to now placi > the people of Utah under a cloud because of their theological Idloayncraoles will fall ut terlj The world Is moving Into the new century It has left behind It the rusted rucks of Torqucmada the cold ashes of the fagot fires In which Serve tus wan roasted and the wrecks of the pillories In which the Puritans tortured the Quakers and It Is remembering that the Redeemer himself said In my I Fathers house are many mansions I not one but many many creeds many faiths many religions and none of thorn In which truth and honesty and I unselfishness are not virtues Brigham Young lived according to his light and no prophet priest or seer in all history was more sincere than ho In believing that the light came from I above > I His spiritual and material systems j were both entsraftures upon a Puritan tree Ho wan si Vermont Pericles an i American Cromwell a Western Colum bus but he was above nil the very Incarnation of the Puritan l earl ea-rl ham Young like his Athenian prototype was formative In his ideas I Ho was a masculine man He was Instinctively In-stinctively an architect a builder a creator He loved to plan houses l tPil organize Industries to provide for the erection of mills and factories The overland railroad and telegraph llnap I through Utah and the great Irrigating canals were constructed under his lead I ershlp He would tolerate no slighting or Inefficient work Every stone In the Tomple from foundation to spire was I cut to exactly fit Its place While apart a-part of the foundation was being laid President Young was absenL On his I return he visited the work and noticed I t a mason placing spawls or chips of I r T ii 1pI S I o i Thomas Pitch speaks of his acquaintance ac-quaintance with Brigham Young granite under one of the blocks What Is I that for he Inquired In order to malce the stone level was the reply How much of that kind of work has I been done he sternly asked All the way down was the answer Then said he tear It out all the way down I and begin over Make every stone fit its neighbor and stand level without any pawls and when the stones I dont fit cut and shape them until they will fit He had the patience with small an noyanres that Is an attribute of a great and placid soul He brushed away the saddles Instead of trying to crush them His suavltur In modo was superb su-perb but the fortltor In re was behind S It Beneath the velvet glove was the grip of steel I He was the Cromwell of 1 his people the Lord Protector of his realm He had the same desire as the great Covenanter for freedom for his creed and clan the same Intense belief In the righteousness and wisdom of his own Intuitions the same Intolerance of Interference with his methods the same Instincts of leadership the same love of DOWel A character which has become historic his-toric generally requires distance for toning and harmonizing effect but the high dignity of this mans character was Impressed upon all who surrounded surround-ed him I Ever In the vanguard of the emigration emi-gration to Utah was the leader comforting com-forting cheering advising and encouraging en-couraging his band and with brave and I prophetic messages Inspiring them even I ns Napoleon Inspired his troops when I he said Soldier from the heights of t I yonder pyramids forty centuries lookdown I I look-down upon you The follaged avenues I I nnd gardened palaces of the capital jjfj Ttah the inoet beautiful city In tnvT United Stales were planned and plant ed under the direction of Brigham Yourvsu and this magnificent pavilion unrivaled In Europe or America where the ozone of mountain heights mlngljs with the sweet t salt breath of an Inland I sea is I an offspring of his policy of Improving Im-proving every natural advantage of UtahPresident President Young was an ardent and persistent advocate and hclrwr of the cause of education Ho was an arch tec of States as of lunple and In the erection of both he provided for tho future He knew that no edlllce whether of character or of granite can I be erected without 1 A SOLID FOUNDATION and that the education of the schoolroom school-room Is the foundation of the House of Life Upon It we build tt structure which never Is completed on earth the structure whose building muse con tlnuo upward until we carry Us summit sum-mit beyond the reach of human vis on The education of the schoolhouac Is hut the preparative preliminary of the greater education of the world All our i lives we gather knowledge not merely j from books but from events Ineral fom I men from Nature and her Infinite tul > I tons from humanity and Its Illimitable lessons from the ant tolling under her I burdens and from the feeble pulse of oJ the newborn Infant to the rush of Uranus around the universe limo chief I value of school education Is that by It 4 wo learn how to learn Our habit of observation of memory and of reflop lOll arc strengthened and trained by It Ry this means we arc thereby bet ter fitted for the race and the battle and whatever may bp the case In the I other life yet In this life the race gen orally Is to the swift and the battle to the strong the proverb to the contrary notwithstanding I Under President Youngs direction I education of children xlendcd to norals and manner as well ai music and mathematics The boys In 71m chools did not smoke cigarettes dur ing recess Slander and malicious sos IsIp wero strangers In the homes of Utah and there was ever a single standard of morality for men and wo men The head of the Latterday ralf oy Saints advised his young people to aim IColl t high and make a point of reaching their aim and if they foil IJelo eftchlnr I go at It again with redoubled zeal for he knew that high and inflexible pur pose Is truth upon a cycle swift silent and sure to got there In private conversation as in public speech President Youngs words were 1 apt and to the point and he abounded in homely and forceful metaphors Said he In my presence to a young man iho sought his counsel No man can make it rain but any man can keep his plat ter right side up so as to get some of SOIC it when It doc rain To another he remarked Be sure there Is something you can do thoroughly well and It Is f your business In life to find out what I that something Is Dont frit tor away awnJRI your time by attempting the Impossi I ble Remember that genius Is often oCen judgment The enthusiastic Methodist brother who was haunted day and night by the letters G P C believed that It was a divine call to Go Preach Christ But after his ministrations had driven away the congregation he concluded that the letters really meant Go Plant Corn The history of Brigham Voting has except In Utah been written bCtn by his enemies who have allowed ihclr I hatred of ono feature of tho strange new faith I which ho preached and practiced TO BLIND THEM I to his greatness and goodness He wronged no man Ho lied to t no man I He kept faith with all men Ue was JUst and generous and charitable Hc I I wa loyal to his people cJwrlabJe country and hla convictions of cO1Jtons right Ho was gon I tie and courteous He was wise In counsel and fearless and unwavering i in a ton He ought not to b Jiulgtd < I by ordinary standards Indeed no J mans foot will ever quite fit another mans footprints ISvery man and I every woman who lives a life worth living must live an Individual life No two of UH see exactly from the swine point of IewIt Is I enough It wo arrange range our angles of vision truthfully I and conscientiously No men and women In all this land I are more progressive than are those of I Utah They do not resemble the mnn of whom Douglas Jorrold said He cap I never fully relish the new moon out I of respect for that honorable Institution Institu-tion the old one The Latter day Saints have adopted some valuable legal le-gal and social reforms When an advanced ad-vanced thought presents Itself they do not telephone for police protection they give It hospitable welcome Ihe y limit by law the hoqrs of labor they compel the managers of stores to provide Meats proJre tlS for female help they prohibit blacklisting black-listing they make wages a preferred debt and exempt them from garnishment garnish-ment they have modified the common law Injustice which denies redross against the employer to the employee Injured through the negligence of a I fellowservant they punish those who overwork or underfeed dumb animals l 1 tlizQrQ plonrera In establishing vo i I I j man suffrage and their leglalatures have never yet sold n Senatorial I toga I have already suggested that the I Puritan spirit has ever pervaded and controlled not only the spiritual and i 1 Intellectual but the economic life oC Utah President Young ndoptod the plan of building villages In which those I who tilled tho soil should live and from whence they would go forth to their j labors In the surrounding VMs i 1t the early New England Settlements this I method was adopted for more llm clficlent I defense against the Indians with whom m tlu colonists were usually sj uufrleud 11 uurrIeud ly that Lowell was Impelled Lowel InJIed to say that The Pilgrim Fathers flrst lull upon their knees and then fell upon the I abonginen President Youngs motive I i was to guard the young men cud wo l men against the discontent engendered by lonely and Isolated lives and to make farm life attractive by affording I opportunity social gatherings and rational amusements 5 S 0 The Industrial strength of Utah has ever been In the system of cooperative labor whloh owes Its otl coopcrtvo Its Introduction here to the advice and I efforts of Brigham Young aclce Coopera ton has given us Irrigating ditches and woolen mills and sugar factories rind Us extension to many branches of Industry now untouched will make of Utah a great and prosperous manu I I facturing State In the near future we I I I will export but little raw material for Bilk and wool and leather and Iron and I copper anti lend and r the varied products I pro-ducts of field mine and orchard win be woven and Dun and melted and hammered Into thflr ultimate forms of use In our own factories and Court derlcs COOPERATIVE LABOR I i supplied In Utah at an early day thn place of cjmltal and warehouses and palnccs pud mills and factories and ivHiflN and canps and villages and cities grew as If by maglo upon the shores of her Inland seas and amid the valleys whose streams emptied Into the emPied gorges of Pioneers the Colorado The Utah Instinctively followed the ex lowed ample of the New Engenders of a vS generation who even when wealthy had their sons Instructed In sorrfe useful trade and their daughters taught to cook and weave and son The cites ° C Utah today with fCW their hundreds totn wfh thel of miles of graded and shaded avenues with their Iron arms reaching out for the traffic of trafc mountain n em lire with their glowing ll gIowlng furnaces their clanking forges their humming ticfr tories their miles of costly and beauti beaut ful homes their palaces of pnllceR art and In dustry and trade their trolley trace trole cars propelled by prisoned waterfalls all lived In the brain of Brigham Young when fiftythree years agohe looked from the summit of Big mountain up on the Salt Lake valley and exclaimed Enough this is the right place drive on The lesson that may be drawn from the life which we h nor this day IB J that It Is best to be patient to bo wise to be strong to be brave to be hopeful and above all toi be good Virtue la I surely Its own reward it may be that In our earthlife It Is sometimes the only reward that virtue ever receives yet It Is a reward nevertheless I am I neither sage moralist nor preacher but I have found In a life that hay I mainly been one o toll and battle that the success or gratification which comes from disregard of the higher and I better Impulses of the soul is always uncompensatlns Such fruit will ever be Dead Sea apples nsnes and dust The sweetest and best of life Is In the remembrance o the evil Impulse that was not followed of the invitation to wrongdoing that was rejected of the selfish suggestion In whose face conscience con-science closed the door I Is better aa we step forward to our places In life always to choose the loftier planes alwnys to listen to the buglecallp from the heights always to let the line of our vision be above the horizon always to let our motto p be ad nstni to the stain Upon the marble column at Rome I erected to commemorate the conquests of the Emperor Trajan there IB carved I from base to summit a winding procession proces-sion of his legions nn they returned I leading captive races and bearing aloft the spoils of victory gathered from the North sea to the Nile from the Pillars Pil-lars of Hercules to the Indus The history his-tory thus perpetuated Is I a history of itelflshnesH and greed C raplno and blood without one benefit to conqueror or conquered and without compcnaa thin to the world The bronzes of conquest on the column col-umn Vcndome In Paris perpetuate the memory of triumphs won Napoleon who desolated a world that ho might Illumine r throne But no story of blood or tears mars I the harmony of the greeting which all Utah sends today even Into the all hail hereafter to the leader whose bronze Image stands under the shadow of the anthem In granite he planned glands In death aN In life watching over his Israel with unsiumbcrlng eyes The paths which he hewed through tho paUK passes and over the summits arc now resonant with the rush of Iron feet and about the ashen of his cjimpllrey riMes have LTOun yet not for many generations will l his name and i his I fame be forgotten by the people ho I served and loved HO well |
