The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-18
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Esding of this nature you shoClI
euIn Commemorate the herOisn
~ founders of American lib
.n0 Of Bunker Hill, 107 years
ny DAY. On that day your
s go devoted their lives to the
pc coIese of civil liberty. To-day
~ dedicate to liberty and to the
oG av men of the public portion
~ nublic's wealth. In adver-
- WI hut with heroic souls, they
:yJif ba nIanting. In prosperity we
IL 'n md enjoy the rich fruits for
e9P c.; one Of the fruits of that
nlo.+oJ struggle which was destined
.et Inmate in securing to US the
.yIas.ing of liberty. And as it hap
lleo s Rat this, among the first If
en2 5odications of the kind in your
. itr is on the anniversary Of one Of
Js5' earliest contests in that long
.I trU,goip may we not hope that as
ssl ST. Vas followed ty many others
L Lbich added to their glory, so this
mav likewise be followed by many
a Dtber similar occasions indicating
V oC40 oniy your prosperity, but also a
Uni. III devoted to public improve
a sp5It and warmed by a love of the
.omfort and the pleasure Of the
.sonIe, as in the productions Of
srt We discover mans idea OF the
Seautiful: as we find in the law
Sis conception of justice; as IN the
5niIding of churches and temples
no zee his effort to manifest and
smbodv his belief in the eXaltation
oFtbe Infinite; as in the pyramids
OfFgvpt we behold his attempt to
Sy and declare bis dream of eter-
nitv. so do we read in public i'm
nroyements, in beautifed public
PPTounds, the love, the affec-
sfion. the just pride which people
cherish for their home and their
country. The Iiberality with which
neopie devOtes a portion Of its sub
stance to the public use and pleas
nre. together with the nature of
such use is an index to the chan acter
of the people Sordid and narrow
are those who delight not in that
which adoTns the town, or is an or
nament to the country. See the
generous Athenian under a leader
iikePericles voting the public money
for identifying the AcropOlis; and
Won do not wonder that he is the
most perfect type Of the man and
of the citizen Of which history gives
an account. Besides, public works
which exhibit beauty and afford
pleasure have a reciprocal influence
upon the nature and character of
man. In the beauty which public
generosity and cultivated taste dis
PLAYED before the eyes of the Greek,
the greatest Of German critics finds
a cause for the beauty and the per
lection of the man himself.
Look around you and behold the
magnificent beauty which Nature
has laVished with pTodigal hand,
upon your new home in the noun
tains; see how it invites yeu to sup
pIement its gifts by your own ear
nest labor, guided and directed by q
well cultivated taste, urged by q
desire for an appreciation of the
supremely beautiful-what an OPP
portunity for exciting the admira-
ton of the stranger, and securing to
your city the affection and the
pride Of its every inhabitant, by
making it one Of surprising
beauty.
Around that which is for public
use, ornament and pleasure, every
eitizen-the whOle people-may
gather without any feeling of bit
terness or envy. 1t gives to the
poor a feeling of interest IN his
country, and to the rich, a satisfac-
ton which ever follows the act of
giving to those who need. And who
viii say that the man, woman or
child does not need the opportunity
of enjoying a pleasant Walk-of be-
holding the beauties Of art or nature
even as they need bread. Let US
ever remember that sometimes "the
beautiful is as useful as the useful
perhaps more Sc"
Croxall's Silver Band performed
the "CoI. Bush March.
Mayor Jennings proposed the fol-
lowing toast:
The President Of the United
States Of America"
GOVERNOR ELI 81. MURRAY
Responded as follows:
IN. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen :
Conceived in the highest aspira-
tons Of Godlike men, borne through
out the centuries in travail, in the
thrOes of patriotic revolutions, on
the shores Of then far-off North
America, with the formation Of the
government of the United States,
universal liberty WAS born,
The founders Of this government,
with dauntless hearts, gathered
about the cradle, claiming that ''all
men are created free and equal, that
they are endowed with certain in
alienable rights, that among these
are life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness"
These patriots, appealing to the
Supreme Judge Of the world, pledg-
ing one to the other their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honors,
gave to liberty the government OF
the United States and to the nations
OF earth an example of a govern
ment. "of the people, by the people
and for the people" The wisdom
OF their action must, in the light OF
our second century, challenge the
admiration of the enemies Of pOpu-
lar government, as certainly as they
have received the affectiOnate graft