Show BECAUSE THEY ARE ABE BASEBORN an inhuman and anti american expression SALT LAKE CITY september 9 1887 editor deseret news seems strange two hundred and fifty years after the lowly dorn corn puritans settled new england and more than one hundred years after the great american republic was established to hear now and then people and journals our speaking as though nobility of character belonged exclusively to any rank or station Is it possible that men are forgetting the history of their ancestors forget forgetting bing the humble birth of many of the early ex expound erB of christianity including the savior himself as well as the history of the great majority of the worlds chief actors in all ages and countries it would seem so show thyself a man was a part of the dying charge of david to solomon So fomon his son and in all the record there is no intimation that solomon was oetter netter because of his poil position tion perhaps david remembered the time when he himself had herded the flocks on the distant hills he therefore exhorted his son to show himself adot a warrior merely not a statesman merely not a monarch merely but a man possessing the generous impulses of a man and display displaying ng a manly character in iu all his intercourse later course with men y in our times various and e 0 ry opinions are cherished in reg ardAo what constitutes manliness it if la Is not every everyone one that wears a human fonn that can claim to be a man in the loi IQ sense of that term mant many r live and move among us who are destitute estituto e of the chief elements of a manly ow acter they suppose themselves nun indeed ii and regard their own course as honorable and worthy of imitation the gambler has his bis code of ho honor or and even the highwayman has hla all but tyrants they seem to have no code they pompou pompously sl a bounce their decisions accord accor duic to their varying tempers and dream stances when persons speak of others As base baseborn born it might be well for teem to remember the words of Teany tennyson soll kind hearts are more than coronets cor and simple faith than norman blood W or the not less beautiful worda pi cowper but higher far my proud pretensions rite rim im sprung from parents skies shies he shows himself of the tae corr correct 00 t law of manhood who sacrifices h his interests that be may benefit oth others 00 who lays his own li happiness app his h Is 0 on a honor it may be a and n d even I 1 life e I 1 ithell ta 0 on the altar of a com common on hatim humanity awl denare men are too frequently attracted to the rapid accumulation of wealth wa tir giddy gi 1 dy whirl of the th Is an and show how of conquest an and d jorj p predominance nen men forget tai quiet and innocent joys of th their country homes I 1 in n athe the ik speculations of wall street a aad tb gilded palaces A of broadway a aad putli avenue yet frequently after biffl their struggle they flad when the 0 object y which they bey sought is accomplish ed that its result is no good to q UK world they have pursued the ph torn tom while the real and have been sacrificed what then are the elements of A t manhood wealth is botone not no tone one I 1 iab multitude of cases the possessor pos sesso the largest fortu nethe broadest fiel the richest mines has been found have views and feelings not at all proportion to the magnitude of wealth there is a contingency ab wealth which has nothing todo to do n moral or intellectual character H he we find that wealth furnishes us afi no criterion by which we may ante the dimensions of the man himself himself him 0 birth and blood are not ele elements eilts 1 true manliness royal vein veins re colw found to flow with s streak and crime and duplicity as often 0 li grace the palace ot of the monarch moi narcA the hovel of 01 the slave constad was an emperor blood ot which a at ages loved to beast flowed throb his princely cely temples the impe imperil crown ol 01 rome home was on his brow jm the foot of his throne proud na natio nestled and over all the known i his bis banner waved but had caen cae manly character was hie bis b thrilled by manly emotions henry VIII of england was a alj it monarch he could trace III his P age through a long list 0 of A I 1 and emperors but was henry a i m the Cae Oae sarand jhb tudor were monarchs mon aichs but they were the noblest sense no living link necked them with the great he humanity true they wore the hum kaffl form but aside from this they ni like demons t through 11 h the earth NM its flowers and withering its verdu on the other hand the world hu beggars and slaves is in whose vel velna as a drop of princely princ elv blood was IQ flom come forth from their lowly aboda startle the world with the e br lou their lives wake d up P t ftfe racedo race to deeds and produce a ond change through all the ranks of ifie and ill all the grades of h human dmn 8 read the history of bf the rich aud and in all times and countries doun tries espa esp our own whence com come the lights of the moral and atelle antell firmament the stars that shine 3 steady radiance through th the e have they not in the vast malor oases cases emerged to eminence from chilling depths ot oi obscurity dj do tion and want they are not oe abee of the rich whose pathways path was for them at every step who werft were for an instant compelled to j against vie the armed resi resistance stancie of A fortune penury and wrong so no are men of humble ps parentage parent renta whose cradles were rocked in 11 cottages and who have made progress without dependence upon the mercy of cod godana and the energies these are the true men of fla ture who have trod deB der foot the painted lizards lizarda of 1 and worked out their own with an ardor that could an quenched and a perseverance persever per ancs considered past achievements so as AW D 1 ing g while an anything thing yet nedi d do done e in tats this busy thinking W feih age the term baseborn base born bora I 1 W flung at the latter day saints 1 unscrupulous enemy is out oat ofa 04 the latter part of the nineteen ei tury is the wrong time and the he slope the wrong lougi longitude tude for i anti american and even antl anti b im ty expression |