| Show A HP JKhAKLE STITEMEM TrrniE can be no question as to the fact that n > Baskin stands usa us-a historical character in the B1Dnl of Utah The consistency or even Luroaniry cube part lie has jjayed In a drama of throbJiDg jntenstls i a theme to Jo not propose now ton I ilfsfuiA to-n the treatment of such a subject would not bo opportune It is solely on tliu ground of bid prominence that w s make the fol Jawingercerrt the rhetoric of which I Is largely Intlateil from a Liberal anJ rAbid f amIMormon organ tublisbed In this tity Judge It IT JJaskln has wo understand under-stand sold his farm and hOrses and eaya lis mints to eell his home preliminary pre-liminary to closing up his business and going back to his early borne to Ihe When told that bis friends desired de-sired him to remain that be migbt be thor first Gentile representative In Congress from Utah ho answered that orb an honor would a few years ao have au aliened tho full measure 01 Ills energies and onlUted them all in Ibo work but now It would be Ilttlo moro than Dead Sea allies to his parched lips Perhaps this b true Tlie blows have been thick and heavy upon tho tout of It > Baskin and the II n within him which causes him to close his lips and make no complaining against fa e only rraLes his real siuTer Sngs the more severe Still as we read bin naure we do not believe that it will be possible for blm to go BY i I with a thought that h3 is leaving while yet the work which called out tbe best energies of life manhood 1 remained unfinished un-finished The first effect of a great Borrow fc to turn ones thoughts in upon bim elf or herself tbe second C is to expand the true bean to give it a brmder fellowship with the world a gentler patience a more profound rcterencefortbo command of dUly So reading It X Baskm n e do not expect ex-pect tbat be will go away eshould be glad to heo him close up his affairs ana 11 u ntiuro xuuuiii iu travel logo where ho can catch the voices of wncrUlls or the winds in the forest where tbo mountains and the ocean n ill be reminders to him tbat all things in na nre have their stations and must do the work marked out for them whether that work be incessant like the never reUng oceans or whether it be but to bold Ibo snows and the springs foi the rivers and to bear the forests like tbo mountains Our I excuse for thus bringing op a private pri-vate citizens name and discussing discuss-ing his position is that It V Ba ktn I Is in one sense public property and the public have claims upon him Asa As-a rule men aro mere Instruments to work out decrees which formulated I by the fates The destiny of some at least is to bear heavy burdens that the burdens of others may be made lighter and this was what compelled It X Biskln to do for Utah what he has done In the past what ho must hull do in the future Although a volume might be written upon the other side of the question presented in the foregoing wo pos it without comment further than to cay that the talk about the cat blpocs not asrte with the boats uttered by representative Liberals In favor of Orlando W Powers who was paid ten thousand dullars for canJin the lat municipal muni-cipal election atoll hazards It is to lie hoped that Mr Baskin is I not being paid a disingenuous compliment compli-ment |
