The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-06

of tons. This basin has been vast labor
atorv. where the primitive forces OF Ma
ture were long active. The great mines oil
the past and present, from the Con. Viz
ginia to the Ontario and the Horn Silver:
the still greater mines OF the future, and
the materials OF an iron production when
will 90 on forever, are amongst the re-
suits.
You have made a good start in man
ufacturing. The value of your manufacture
ed products has grown in so years from
less than $500, 600 (291, 223) to more than
$4,000, 900 (4,217, 434), an increase OF ,4OO
per cent, ret there are many Important
branches of manufactures which you have
not touched. You have nearly thousand
miles OF railroad in operation, ana are now
securing an important railroad connection
which is to bring influences TO Dear tnat
will transform your country so last tnat
you will hardly realize while Jou look al
it. Your trade is twelve times what IL was
before the railroad era. Yearly 1t is drawn
into new fields by the ever lengtnenlng
magical bands of steel. GeOgrapnlcally
in the heart Of the Rocky Mountains, the
channels Of intercourse must interseci
each other within your borders. The tide
Of business and population cannot run
IONA and Montana, without rising CORES
pondingly in Utah, any more than water
can bank up around the periphe y OF q
pond and leave the center dry.
Your country has then the resources OF
an empire, your valleys are lovely, your
mountains sublime, and both, In their re-
spectIVe ways, are fertile as Egypt. Your
mines and farms are twin brothers. The
streams which made and feed the one I'M
covered the other, and now open q way
for the iron horse. You have the best
labor In the United States. You have I'm.
limited water power, and the materials
and the market for great manufacture
industry. All the elements of material
greatness are yours in abundance. There
are 100, 600 OF you, soon 10 be a million.
What are you going to do with this fine
country? To make the most Of it you
must be free. Remember the men who or
this day hundred years ago solemnly
declared mans natural right to freedom.
and then, with halters about their necks,
went into the field and won that freedom
for themselves and for Us. Remember
that in this land all is granted tC
the strong arm and the honest heart.
There Is nothing, on the other hand, fol
the slave, but blows and burdens. There
is not enough on all the earth, there haE
never been enough promised to the
hope In heaven, nor imagined Of
the terrors OF hell, to even tempt Q
true man 10 part with his freedom. Nc
matter who comes for it or with wha'
Dribes or threats, tell him to stand aside
and make him do it. You may be reprov
ed, denounced or ridieuled. 1t Is by buf
fetting that the oak grows strong, and Il
the strong the gods give ali things, Be
free, then, at any cost. SO shall we to
gether build up great State In this lovely
land, full of grand men and noble women
State worthy to be one OF the illustrioui
sisterhood, whose grandeur, glory, ma
jesty and power, are soon TO fill the whole
earth, and to bless mankind with more
than redemption-witha new creation
By the time Mr.. HolliSter had fin
ished General McCoek arrived, he
having been unav0idably detained
at Fort Douglas. Response TO the
toast sour Heroes, Dead and Liv,
ing" was then made by
GEN. Med. MoCooK.
Called upon this natal day OF our coun
try to respond 20 the toas' Our Living
and Dead Heroes" L must say that I dc
not understand why our herOlnes should
not be included In this toast, and would
venture the suggestion to the gentlemen
who have arranged the toasts upon this
occasion, that in ali periods of the worId's
history, there were herOines before we had
heroes, and without heroines to-day,
heroes would soon cease to exist.
"Our Heroes, Dead and Living" This
is subject so great so noble, that lay
men should have little TO say or do with
it but in commentator. By poets and
orators alone should the ennobling anC
sacred theme handled. Hence L feel
yes | know how far short shall come Ii
doing justice to-day to those who havl
died that this country might live, anC
even to those heroes with whom we hav
to live and do with to day. Heroism II
our country commenced at an early perioC
of our history, or we would not be hel,
celebrating this Fourth OF July. Durins
our colonial existence 1t ripened, arc
thank God it ripens upon our soil to-day
The heroes of the revolution have by theil
courage and example, by their self-sacri
ficing conduct, taught in history oui
young Americans how to live and die fol
their country.
Where is the boy or girl of this period
having the benefit of our public schoo
education, that cannot tell OF Washington
and Knox, OF Greene and Schuyler, of LIE,
and Putnam, of Decatur and Paul Jones
Marion and Sumpter, Jefferson anC
Adams, and of the fifty-six heroes who
pledged their lives, their fortunes anC
their sacred honors, In order that they
and their descendants should be free. VIZ
have had heroes of the revolution, OF tn,
wars OF IL and 10: we have had heroes Ii
our Irndian wars, and heroes during on
late fatricidal war. Our heroes of the re-
volution knew well the dangers necessary
10 undergo, the sacrifices to be made &
create and form q eOuntr,, but th,
heroes who stamped out rebellion In thI
country from '61 to '65, learned of til,
magnitude OF the danger, sacrifices ant
blood necessary to preserve us as ma
ton. All honor to the memories of on
dead heroes. For them
The mufaed drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo,
No more on hfc's parade shall meet
That bold and glorious few;
Our homes, eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
While glory guards with solemn round,
The bivouac Of the dead.
Our living heroes, what shall we say o
them. Well have known 9 goodly mum
ber.of them, and it seems to me that my
task should be short here, for they al
seem to be able to talk for and take car
Of themselves.
The American hero, that epitcme OF al
that is brave, Intrepid, courageous, dar
in, valiant, bold, gallant, fearless, enter