Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-04-08

fortune how they have inter,narricd with
England, Ireland and Scotland, and later
with the Americans, who arc an excellent
! mixture ofthem all.
Ny friends, you have chosen the name
I Inherited for your town with an cxtraor.
dinary unanimity, aud have thereby con.
ferrcd an honor upon me, the proper ac
acknowledgement of which do not feel fully
able TO express. but l beg you to be as
surrd that it is Appreciated and that it will
be gratefully remembered with II living in
tcrest in your prosperity wbilo liia remains
to ne, and, | trust, beyond that by my
children after me.
If this name has bccomc noted among
the many that are worthier around you
that is greatly due to lis publicity. May /
I've permitted to stato whence that came
Until within a few centuries ali the civilized
nations of the globe werr pcnt up on the
Eastern continent. Two or three hundred
years ago they leaked over into this; few and
few ieariully at first, then more and more
but always in their settlements tinidly
hugging the Atlantic coast Within The
last two or three generations. they have
burst out, as it were, aud ovcr-run these
vast continents of tho West, Now they are
scattered here and possess these measure
less stretches of mountains and valleys,
hills, plains, forests and prairies with the
boundlcss pampas and mountain ranges of
South America. Former generations lived
in villages aud towns, lhickly settled to-
gcthcr where physicians were plenty and
near at hand, Now, the people are widely
scattered, in many sections Of these many
counties. For great numbers the timely
treatment Of physicians cannot be had !:
over large tracts of country good or conf
petent physicians cannot be had at all.
They can not visit patients enough many
miles apart to live by their profession, nor
can they carry medicines enough with them
on horseback for their requirements. Hence
has arisen in these modern times, neces-
sity for remedies ready at hand, with iirec-
tons for their use--a present recourse for
relief in the eXigencies ofsickness, when no
other aid is near. 1t is new necessity
consequent upon the changed conditions of
human life a want have spent my wears
in supplying, and / will tell you something
of its extent. Our laboratory makes every
day some G30,000 potions or doses of our
preparations. These are all taken by some
body. Hero is q number equal to the
population of fifteen cities as large as Low
ell, taking them every day (for sickness
keeps no Sabbaths) nor for once only, but
again year after year, through nearly one
third of a century. We all join in the jokes
about mcdicinen as we do about the Doc
tors mission to kill, the cicrgyman's in
sincerity and the lawyers cheating. Yet
each of these labors among the most serious
realities of life. Sickness and its attendant
suffering are no joke, neither is the treat
meut ofthcm. This system of transportable
relief to be made available TO the people,
must keep its remedies fresh in their mem
ories. This is done by advertising Mark
its extent. An advertisement, taking the
run of the newspapers with which We con-
tract (some 1900 annually is struck off in
such numbers, that when piled upon each
other hatwise, like the leaves of Il book. the
thickness through them is sixteen miles.
In addition, it takes some seven millions of
pamphlets and twelve millions of circulars
to meet the public demand for this kind of
Our annual issue Of pamph-
iets alone, laid solid upon each other, make
a pile eight anl one quarter miles high.
The circulars measured endwisc reach 1894
miles, and these assertions are matters of
mathematical certainty. What evcf the
estimation in which these publications may
be held here, they reach the fresidcs of
millions upon millions Uf men who do
treasure and regard them, and who in their
Not only over these great Western con-
tinents but throughout that other land SO
little known to you, under our feet, the
Australian continent, there are few villages
rs large as this which are not familiar with
the name you have chosen, and employing
the remedies that bear il.
Thus, gentlemen, have | strivcn in my
humble sphere to render some service to
my fellow men, and to deserve among the
afflicted and unfortunate some regard for
the name which your kind par.iality hangs
on these walls around mc. We may look
forward with confident hope to the rcnown
you will gather under it, and the prosperity,
which there is reason 10 trust the future
has in store for You. Situated as you are
here OH one of the main arteries between the
west aud east, between the great industries
OF the plough and the spindle you must aid
in their exchanges and thrive with them.
Soon these channels will be opened wide
and pouring through your precincts streams
of men and merchandise that will need your
iurtherance and must contribute to your
growth.
Located here in the center OF New Eng
land to vi NJ dearcr spot can You turn that
men mhabity Beginning lie rich with the
honors 0fyOur mother town whose influence
through her sch0Ols and her scholars Is OF
itself an Inheritance, with such examples
as Lawrence, Boutwell,, llOar, what may
YOU not hope for OF usefulness in the coun-
ellis of the state aud nation
Contrast onr condition with that Gf the
European nations, alternately torn aud inn
provshed with wars, credit II as YOU may
10 the better education of the people, and
YOU viii realize the value of the example
old mother GrOton has set YOU, 81 worthy
of your children and find talent To teach
them, then intelligence aud intergrity Ia
prosperous aud happy homes will be your
sure reward.
Associated as you have made me With
yonr veal and va, wish might be allow
cd 10 contribute from my means such Us
they are, something towards this hIst
foundation of the public good,
Gentlemen, have detained you too long.
Oppressed with the fear, that do not de-
serve the Distinction you bestow, | pray
God 10 make me worthleI, aud lo smie
upon you with His perpetual blessings.
TnERE Is tough time eomipg Coz poor
brigham Young, ioF tl.s Lion of Utah Is Ia
bo bearled IA his den. The liey, Mrssrs.
of iiist0n; llooe, ofAew York,
and lusktn al nalliulars slarf 40 Nj month