Show J T TEACHING G TilE THE UNIVERSITY IDEA F It was was was' rather a serious responsibility that le rested te on 01 onI il I the tho heart an and the thc conscience and to some extent on the thc i fi tongue of Mr Mt 11 Brigham ham H. H Roberts when he addressed J 4 tho the members of the thc Political Science league at the University Uni Uni- j r c rity ity of Utah Thursday night And Antl we hasten to assure as as- i. i s sure rc him him that tat he discharged ed his duty uty handsomely lIe He was expected to lo differ with the thc present administration adminis adminis- r of ot national a affairs 11 and with the system which the nation nallon has adopted against the protest and endeavors of his party parly And he lie did not nol dl disappoint any anyone one If IC there be a better defender of a lost cau cause e than Is tho the talented 4 Judge King who spoke e there two months ago It is tho the I stron strong Mr Roberts who talked this week r But we would hold hohl brief converse o with this tills favorite I J son soil of Utah Mr AIr 11 Roberts holds the American sy system tern o of II protection protection responsible for foJ most of or orthe the evils which he y Would then abolish would ha have remedied he that sy system tem if If so 00 o the ho nation might go o back to the tho layS days when L there were blacksmith shops at al the crossroads where all t i the 1110 the making iron for the tue region was performed the Ct da days s 's when we all were so happy and so poor The farmers farmers- use used to get got their wagons there and their plows and their various implements of ot agriculture ag It answered J its purpose purpose in an earlier da day and in a less developed condition condition con con- of society But nut we har hardly l think even eon Mr Roberts would assert that that primitive s system tem is sufficient for forthe the activities of the present Tho Those e were the golden days of the republic accord accord- lug ing to tho the tenets of ot the political faith of which Mr Ir Roberts is so bright and n nd shining an example o v- v But they couldn't do the business now j j There Is the difficulty This nation which Americans Amen Ameri- cans ana founded has grown vcr very rapidly Maybe It would L f have ti d Hs In eight or r t ten tc centuries s sit if it it had never nc had access to the protective In ine e economics But it did Invoke the power of ot that s system stem and the tho ten centuries centuries' advancement has lias been accomplished accomplish accomplish- ed in IA one W Which VIch enables us Ut to Unit turn back another leaf in this th's story of oC national growth which Mr Roberts seems to prefer to read from fron right to left len instead of from left to right There were men in the da days s 's of ot Clay and CalI Calhoun Cal- Cal I houn oun who mourned for the thc vanished times of oC the he colonies the the times when all men were equal and when everybody wits s happy happ when no man was yas rich and none nono were were poor pOOl d Ai then there were the days before beCore even Clay and Calhoun Cali Cal- Cal i h houn lioun un when Roger Huger Williams and Governor Bra Bradford for went wenton on record deploring the evil tendencies that were creeping creep creep- h ing g Into nto their governmental bodies crowding out the perfect per per- feet amity and Ideal peace which all Puritans desired And nd back of C them were Bacon an and Coke still sUIl Slashing Hashing before the thc eyes yes of their contemporaries the mirror of a b better age that had hud passed And still farther Juvenal tells lell of the deterioration of oC the times limes which he has the ass assurance as as- as- as s rance to call caU modern And still farther Jeremiah pui pu upon record a lingering lamentation because the glory an and lI the e loveliness had passed away from front earth rth And if Ir the hool books 8 of or the tho Chinese se I were opened to lo Western r reading there would doubtless be found foun expressed ed regrets at the Ute of the better belter days das of or the past and arid the pica for a a. return to the systems which an earlier Infancy c could uld abide no doubt but which a faster asler celestial age had had demonstrated to be Inadequate And still HUll earlier one will have lave to argue from analogy analog I. I 1 that the tho Political Science leagues of or tho stone age listened to the pleasant tales or of able ers speakers who told with re regret regret re- re gret of or tho the decadence cadence of oC their then present systems and k voiced the hope that their hearers might retreat with th them m Out but of the cleared cleaned land Jand and ba k back into Inlo the iho forests forest i th thai t had never nevor been disturbed 1 And And so on With every leco of or Mr Mi Roberta's Robertas acumen a as S n 0 n. n 1 Hunger III W nl-W I and anti his nis ability as a speaker we ve want to lo su sug sug- i cs lo to him that his face is toward the cast whereas front from the he da lay day of oC Abraham the faces of ot nich mch men who sho have hav i helped Is toward the I west It Is Impossible to put th the r man into childs child's s 's clothes or to lo make the government o of f J tho the twentieth century wear he he the garments of or the elgh elgh- i i Maybe the protective ju tariff system has lias given J. J for lur grasping men to lo get gel big foi fortunes tunes It also hamade has ha made It possible for all the rest of oC us to better our con- con i And Mr 11 Roberts himself Is in iii Iho enjoyment of oC more of lifes life's necessities in possession of more of lifes life's acquirements than he could have been if It there had been It f no protective system o 0 develop his countr country A few men i have helped themselves to moro more than titan the they can use hut but all th the rest rit of us have been enabled to J J help ourselves to toJ the things we have needed to use use and and could coul not havo have secured d without the the general uplift which the system has 1 brought into the age 4 Neither man maji nor stands alone People People People- v th thu of or the tho average nations nation's population ar arts aro better educated edu caled now than they ever vcr were before They are better better better bet bet- ter clothed They are better provided against adversity ad They are better equipped for tor the tho maintaining of health And this bettered Cond condition in I goes a a. mass Each detail i la Is part of ot the general advance And In that g general advance ad ad- adVance vance no factor has been so potent so largely contributory contributory contributory tory to tho the present happy state as Is the protective system I One thing moro more If It there is and for tur ten years cars last las past vast has been a tendency on the tho part of ot men to get ge money in the biggest quantities possible it is largely because they had just prior to that period been through some years of ot Democratic groping for the halcyon days das of th the past a groping which had resulted In a thin gray I line lino of soup houses and the crowding of or bankruptcy court coull records Out of that bad bod time lime came caine a generation of men with a fevered re resolution nev never er r to be caught so helpless again And if IC the they hey have been a little too loo strong In the exercise of or their talents for COI acquisitiveness eness AIr Mr Ir Roberts being a pillar In the temple where the they worship worship wor won ship should be ono one of oC the to excuse them theta |