The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-23
THE WELSH PICNIC.
Mr.. Bynon's Able Address at
the Welsh Reunion.
AN INTERESTING DISCOURSE
the Numerous Guests at Fuller's
RilI-Facts and Figures

Among the most interesting of the
exercises at the Welsh reunion was
the speech by Mr.. E. NJ. Bynon. The
speaker evidently took his audience
not only by surprise but by storm,
showing unmistakable ability in hand.
ling with great ease both the English
as well as the difficult Celtic tongue.
While we could not understand the
: gentleman when he would make his
most pointed thrusts. we could easily
tell by the serious faces at one time
and the boisterous applause at another
that the speaker was as familiar with the
Welsh character as he was with the
Welsh tongue. He spoke very rapidly
and gave his audience but short spaces
to applaud or to feel serious, carrying
them with him wherever he in his re.
| marks would carry them; fully one-hali
of the address was in the Welsh tongue.
We give the full English text SO far as
we could get the same:
Ladies, Gentlemen aud Friends:
BLOOD is thicker than water" is an
old adage, which has had the amplest
verifcation on these beautiful grounds
this afternoon. 1t is historical, how
ever, that the Welsh, as a nation, are
more friendly-the English callit "clan.
ish"-than any other nation, and in
deed it is historical fact, that as a
Welshman 1 am proud of. tor what re-
spect could you have for Cymro. who
would inditferently pass by a fellow
countryman without one throb of that
peculiar affection toward his brother,
which, while known to the world at
| large, is not, and cannot be so keenly
appreciated i'll any but the heart of a
| Cambrian, more especially one "o'' hen
! Wldd" ~
| To you my fellow countrymen and
woman l want to say-and think be-
| ter do SO in your own tongue, and thank
God. mine too, the Welsh. (Translated
from the Welsh In the United States of
America we have 300, 900 Welsh voters,
and this number you must know does
not include the Welshman's best friend
iUonadR, for in no place in this broad
land is woman more privileged in re-
spect TO the franchise, than is she in this
beautiful Territory OF Utah. This 300.-
| 900 male voters, according to the ac-
cepted method of calculation, making
each voter represent five souls who are
| not all voters, viz: men, women and chill.
dren would give US in the United States
| 100000 souls who are Welsh-sprIng-
ing directly from the iron and coal pro
ducing hills, and from the blast and
pudding furnace-llluminated valleys OF
never to be forgotten, and always dear
old Wales.
This one million five hundred thou
sand people are geographically located:
First-In Pennsylyania-400 900, the
working portion following principally
the manufacture OF iron and the pro-
duction of coal incident thereto.
Second-In 0hio-350, 600, following
the same avocation in the main, as in
Pennsylvania.
Third-In the State of. New York
200, 600, following the avocations of their
brethren of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and
adding thereto the production of slate
from the quarIies, for which that State
is justly noted.
Fourth In Wisconsin 10000, who
follow in the main agriculture.
Fifth-Indiana 100000; here again the
avocations followed Is the iron and coal
industry.
Sixth-Iowa contains 95 900 Welsh in
habitants, who pursue the ayocauons
of producing coal, but the major part
of whom are engaged in agriculture.
Seventh-Maine contains $4,000 OF
our people, who are Yariously employed
in the lumber and iron interests. This
sums up 1,3S5,000, and the remaining
1000 are scattered throughout the
various States north, south. east and
west, from Maine to California.
In so large a number of people of a
nationality one might expect to lind
genius, but among the Welsh people,
genius is the rule and the contrary the
exception.
1 had thought in collecting data for
this occasion that | would reach over
the ocean into our beloved Wales and
take few Of our noted men of letters
from the Mother country, but l found
in refreshing nv Iecollections of the
men who are Welshmen, and of this
country, being Americans by adoption,
that the material L had was so ample,
and indeed their worth commanded so
much attention that / determined that
for our present purpose we had.
enough material to set at fault
all other nations in the proGuc-
ton of so many men Of note
in proportion to our numbers in this
country. ~ st 80
Liewellyn Evans stands, my friends,
second to no man i'll this vast country
for ripe scholastic ability and exhaus-
tive research; as historian and scholar
perhaps he stands at the head. at
present he directs the Vale Seminary,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr.Wm.T. Powell, OF Ohio, the author
of Ancient Britons" is now seventy
odd years of age, and has been blind,
| think, for twenty years, and five years
ago he finished the dictation OF this
wonderful production The Ancient
| Britons," which astonished the literary
world by its consummate accuracy of
dates aud localities of the most noted
events connected with the early Celts,
occurrences intimately connected
with the early history of the
| Welsh people, and in which they were
prime factors, having successfully been
credited 20 other and less deserv-
ing people. Mr.. Powell, however, for
ever set these matters at rest, and has
conclusiyely shown to the world the
superiority of the Welsh people over
any and all people inhabiting the world,
I in DOint Of va ior rlndor fho ,e1os+ +rx,;p1