Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-30 | Page 10 | The Want of Great Leaders.

THE E WANT OF GREAT CREAT LEADERS Dr Feltz Adler delivered a lecture in ill Carnegie hall hail New York City a i few da days s 's since on Our National National National Na Na- Shortcomings and declared that mn among ng Mother other things this country lacked ed cd great leade leaders He declared that the th average American intelligence is s 4 high hut hal we have not the time peaks that tower above average averageS But what country has 7 Looking back hack along liong the records of the ages how many of these appear At least how many outside military militar lea lead lead- 1 There was old Aristotle who was trul truly a won- won i cr but his till theory orr of the time universe universo was long ago 1 shown to be a fallacy though it held beld the thoughts of men nen in thralldom for twenty centuries Julius Caesar and nd Napoleon Bonaparte were two of those peaks Continental Europe has had a few in all the walks of life lie so has Great Britain for t ent twenty years rears in the United States three giants Clay Clar Calhoun and Webster Web Web- ster stood out outS distinct from their fellow men but they were b bigger than they would have been een had the telegraph and perfecting press been invented ll forty years ealS earlier carlier There were subtle leaders lenders among men through all the middle ages of but Columbus Co lumbus and Copernicus and Galileo and Bruno arc are about all that men remember remembers there were others great in literature oth others rs in art art but bow how fe few of those that were lea leaders ers in the science of government 1 Napoleon was the pro product of the time wrongs of fifteen hundred years earR as much as yellow elloW fever feyer was the time product product product pro pro- duct of a hundred years ears of filth in Havana ana TILe Thc i trouble in our country is not a want of leaders bu but ithe the trouble comes in adjusting the time rules that have IHl havel governed l 1 in monarchies for centuries and makin making I them th m apply to the government of free men The J i methods are arc prone to either infringe upon manifest rights frights while hile on the other hand there is a demand to convert liberty into a kind of license No one man a as yet et been able to d define fine the proper dividing line iline Benjamin Franklin was close upon pon the trail Chief Justice Marshall possibly came nearer holding lick hold ing jing the thc exact emet cube in iu his brain than any other oilier man luau I The Tile question would have been settled settled now except for fOl two things One was as the system of slayer slavery in inthe the south and the bitterness growing out of its cx- cx ti pation the tile other has bas been the steady swelling flood of immigration to our shores with the tinge of f fages ages of hardship Up upon them and the time wild dream of I freedom r edom that was to be theirs And still we arc looking for a leader that can call brush hrush away the doubts and ancI outline a a. truly free flee strong government