| Show A remarkable STATEMENT THERE THEBE can be no question as to the fact that B R N baskin stands an a historical character in the annals iff of utah the consi consistency steney or even humanity of the part he has played in a drama of throbbing interest is a theme we do not propose now to discuss as the treatment of such a subject would not be opportune it at is solely on the ground of his prominence that we make the following excerpt the rhetoric of which is ia largely inflated from a liberal aul rabid anti mormon organ published in this city judge B R N baskin has we understand nd sold his bis farm and horses and says gay a he wants to sell his home preliminary to closing up his business and going g back to his early home to live when told that his bis friends desired him to remain that he might be their first gentile representative in congress from utah he answered that uch an honor would a few years ago have awakened the full measure of his energies and enlisted them all ah in the work hut but now it would be little more than dead sea ashes to his parched lips perhaps this is true the blows have been thick and heavy upon the soul of B RN N baskin and the lion lin within him which causes him to close his lips and make no complain ings against fate only makes his real sufferings the more severe still as we read his nature we do not believe that it will be possible for him to go away with a thought that he is leaving while yet tile the work which called out the best energies of his manhood remained unfinished the first effect of a great sorrow is to turn ones thoughts cro in u upon pon himself or herself the second is to expand the true heart to give it a broader fellowship with the world a gentler patience a more profound reverence for the comm commands 13 of duty uty so reading B R N baskin we do rl not expect ct that t at he will wl go away we should be e glad to see him im close up his bis affairs and give some months to travel to go where he can catch the voices of waterfalls or the winds in the forests where the mountains and the ocean will be reminders to him that all things in nature have their stations and must do the work marked out for them whether that work be incessant like the never resting oceans or whether it be but to hold the snows and the springs foi the rivers and to bear the forests like the mountains our excuse for thus bringing up a private citizens name and discussing his position is that B R N baskin is in one sense public property and the he public have claims upon him As a rule men are mere instruments to work out decrees which are 9 reformulated formulated by the fates the destiny of some at ai least is to bear heavy burdens that the burdens of others may be made lighter and this was what com compelled I 1 led R N baskin to do for utah axt what he has as done in the past what he must still do in the future although a volume might be written upon the other side of the question presented in the foregoing we pass it without comment further than to say that the talk about the loes not agree with the shouts uttered by representative liberals in favor of orlando W powers who was paid ten thousand dollars for carrying the late municipal election at all hazards it is to be hoped that mr baskin is not being paid a disingenuous compliment |
