The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-02

only in the history of your old city,
but in the history of our country.
II congratulate you to-day as one instruc-
tive and interesting feature of this occa-
sion, that the thoroughfares dedicated to
trade have closed their doors and covered
! the insignia of commerce with the stars
and stripes, loud cheers that your great
exchanges have closed, that in the very heart
in Wall street the wall has been car
ried and upon the old historic spot men
who gave their time and energies to trade
had given these days to their country, to
| thoughts of her glory and to to the aspira-
lions of her honor and prosperity. l have
great pleasure in believing that love
of country has been intensified,
not only in you who might
be called to give witness to your love OF the
| fla upon the battlefield, both of the sea
and land, but of these homes and among
these fair women who look down upon US
tonight, and in the hearts of these little
children who mingled their piping lines
with the cheers of men as they moved
along your streets to-day, and | believe
that patriotism will be blown into higher
und holier flame in many hearts. These
| banners with which you have covered your
walls, these npatriotic inscriptions must
come down, and the ways of commerce and
trade be resumed again here, but may not
ask you to carry these banners that are
hung on the walls into your houses, into the
public schools of your city (applause), and
| into all your great institutions where chill
| dren are gathered, and TO drape them there
that the eyes of the young and of the old
may look upon that flag as one of the IA
miliar adOrnments of every American
home (applause). Have you not learned
that stocks, or bonds, or stately houses, or
lands, or mills or fields are not our country!
1t is the flag and what it stands for; it's
| glorious history; it is the fireside and
home; it is the higher thoughts that are in
the heart born of inspiration which comes
of the story of the father of themartyrs
| to liberty; it is the graveyard
into which our grateful country has gath
cred the unconscious dust of those who
died heroes in these things is that thing we
| love and call our country rather than any
thing that can be touched or
handled. Great applause). Let me add
| the thought that we owe a duty to our
country in peace as well as in war. Per
haps never in the history of our nation
have we been so well equipped for war on
| land as now (crieS Of good! goodD and yet
we have never seen a time in our history
when our people were more smitten with
| love of peace, to elevate the morals of our
! people, to hold up law, as that sacred
thing which like the arch of God
| of old may not be touched by irreVeren hand
to frown upon every attempt to dethrOne
| us " tAllLlt Jul pCOplS III oil
that makes home pure and honorable, as
well as TO give our energies i'll the direction
| of our material advancement. This service
we may render, and out of this great
| demonstration we feel like recOnSecrating
ourselves to the love and to the services of
our country. prolonged and loud APP
plauSeD New York did not succeed in re
tanning the seat of the national government
here, though she made liberal provisions
for the assembling of the first
Congress in expectation that Congress
might find that permanent place here. but
though you lost that which You coveted, |
think the representatives here OF all states
will agree that it was fortunate that the
Inauguration of Washington took place in
the state and city of New York, for where
in al our country could the centennial of
the event hare been as WOrthily celebrated
as here: What seaboard offered so mag
niicent bay on winch 10 display our mer
chant and naval marine: WHAT city offered
thOrOughfareS SO magnificent or u people
as great or SO generous as New York has
poured out TO-DAY, 20 celebrate that event?
l have received al the hands OF the com
mittee VINO have been charged with the de-
tails onerOus, eXaccing and too often IN
thankful, of this demonstration, an evil
dence OF their confidence in NY physical
endurance. (Laughter). Must I, too,
acknowledge one other obligation: The
committee having in charge the exercises
at this event have also giveI me evidence
OF confidence which has been accompanied
with some embarrassment. As l have no
ticed the progress of this banquet it seems
to me that each of these speakers mas been
made acquainted with his theme before he
took his seat at the banquet and that I alone
was 10 make acquaintance with my theme
when | sat down to the table preferred to
substitute for its official title which was
upon the programme, that familiar and fire
SIDE expression Our Country"
The next toast was TIE Senate, spoken
to b. Senator Daniel