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

outburst which contained millions
of tons. This basin has been vast 10 DOT
atorv, where the primitive forces OF Ma
ture were long active. The great mines OF
the mast and present, from the Con. Viz
ginia to the Ontario and the Horn Silver:
the still greater mines of the future, ana
the materials of an iron production which
viii 90 on forever, are amongst the re-
/ suits.
You have made good start in man
ufacturing. The value Of your Manufacture
ed products has grown in 80 years from
less than $500, 900 (291, 22S) to more than
s., 200, 900 q, 217, 434), an increase OF l,4UO
per cent, yet there are many Important
branches of manufactures which you nave
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 that
| will transform your country so fast that
Won will hardly realize while you look at
! it. Your trade is twelve times what IL was
before the railroad era, Yearly II Is drawn
into new fields by the ever lengtnenIng
magical bands of steel. GeogIapnlcany
in the heart Of the Rocky Mountains, the
channels of intercourse must intersect
each other within your borders. The tide
| of business and population cannot run
high in Colorado and Californis, in Ar.
IONA and Montana, without rising cores
pondingly in Utah, any more than water
can bank up around the perlphe y OF g
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 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 manufacturing
industry, All the elements of material
greatness are yours in abundance. There
are 100, 900 of you, soon 10 be 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 on
this day hundred years ago solemnly
declared mans natural right to freedom.
and then, with haIters about their necks,
went into the field and won that freedom
for themselves and for Us. Remember
j that in this land all is granted to
the strong arm and the honest heart.
| There Is nothing, on the other hand, for
the slave, but blows and burdens. There
is not enough on all the earth, there has
never been enough promised to the
hope In heaven, nor imagined Of
the terrors of hell, to even tempt a
true man 10 part with his freedom. No
matter who comes for it or with what
Dribes or threats, tell him to stand aside,
and make him do it. You may be reprov.
ed, denounced or ridieuled. 1t is by buff
fetting that the oak grows strong, and to
the strong the gods give all things, Be
| fro Of ~
gether build up great State in this lovely
| land, full Of grand men and noble women;
State worthy to be one of the illustrious
sisterhood, whose grandeur, glory, ma
| iesty 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 unavOidably detained
at Fort Douglas. Response to the
toast sour Heroes, Dead and LiY-
ing" was then made by
GEN. Med. MoCooK.
Called upon this natal day OF our coun.
try to respond to the tOas-, Our Living
and Dead Heroes" 1 must say that I do
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 all periods of the worlds
history, there were heroines before we had
heroes, aud without heroines to-day,
heroes would soon cease to exist.
"Our Heroes, Dead and Living" This
is a 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 and
sacred theme handled. Hence L feel,
yes know how far short I shall come in
doing justice to-day to those who have
died that this country might live, and
even to those heroes with whom we have
to live and do with to day. Heroism in
our country commenced at an early period
of our history, or we would not be hele
celebrating this Fourth OF July. During
our colonial existence it ripened, and
thank God it ripens upon our soil to-day.
The heroes of the revolution have by their
courage and example, by their self.sacri-
fcing conduct, taught in history our
young Americans how to live and die for
their country.
Where is the boy or girl of this period,
having the benefit Of our public school
education, that cannot tell of Washington
and Knox, of Greene and Schuyler, of Lee
and Putnam, of Decatur and Paul Jones,
Marion and Sumpter, Jefferson and
Adams, and of the fifty-six heroes who
pledged their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honors, in order that they
and their descendants should be free. We
have had heroes of the revolution, of the
wars OF ~ and rs: we have had heroes in
our Irndian wars, and heroes during our
late fatricidal war. Our heroes of the re-
volution knew well the dangers necessary
TO undergo, the sacrifices to be made TO
create and form a cOuntr,, but the
heroes who stamped out rebellion in this
country from '61 to '65, learned of the
magnitude OF the danger, sacrifices and
blood necessary to preserve US as ma
ton. All honor to the memories of our
dead heroes. For them
The muf1ed drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers' last tattoo,
No more on lies 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 OF
them. Well have known q gOodly num-
ber.of them, and it seems to me that my
task should be short here, for they all
seem to be able to talk for and take care
of themselves.
The American hero, that epitome of all
that Is brave, intrepid, courageous, dar-
inv Va liant hold liant faa rlaao opt.r