The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-01
THE CENTURY.



love. Order is Heavens first law, and the
mind of Washington was order Inc reYo-
luton defed God and derided the law.
Washington dcvOutly rcverenced the Deity
and believed liberty impossible WITHOUT
law He spoke TO the sober judgment Oh
the nation and made clear the danger. he
saved the infant government from rum,
and expelled the French minister who had
appealed from him TO the people. The
whole land. seeing safety only in his con
tinuance i'll office, joined jefferson IN urg-
ing MIN to accept second term. North
ami South. Up ea1ed the secretary, viii
hang together while they have you to
hangEto.'
NO man ever stood for so much to his
country and TO mankind as Washington.
Hamilton. jefferson and Adams, Madison
and jay, each represented some of the Gle
meHts which formed the union. Washing
ton embodied them all. They fell at times
under popular disapprOVal, were burned an
effigy, were stoned, but he with unerrlng
Judgment was always the leader Of the
people. Milton said Of Cromwell, that war
made him great peace greater The super
iority of Washington's character and genius
were more conspicuous in the formation of
Our government and in putting it on indie
,xstructible foundations than in leading
armies to victory and coDGuering the indie
pendence Of his country. The union
in any event., is the central thought
Of his farewell address. and all
the years Of his grand life were devoted to
its formation and preservation. He fought
as youth with BraddOck and in the cap
ture Of Fort DU Quesnc for the protection
of the whole country. As cOmmanderin-
chief of the continental army, his commits
sion was from the Congress Of the United
Colonies He inspired the movement for
the republic, was the President and dOmin-
nd
its constitution and its President for eight
years, and guided its course until satisfied
that moving safely along the broad high
way Of time. it would be surely ascending
toward the first place among the nations of
the world, the asylum of the oppressed, the
home of the free.
"Do his cOuntymen eXaggerate his viz
tles! Listen to Guizot, the historian of civil
iZation: Washington did the two greatest
things which in politics it is permitted to
man to attempt He maintained by peace
the independence Of his country which he
conquered by war. He founded free GOV
eminent in the name of the principles Of
order and by re-cstablishing their sway
Hear Lord Erskine, the most famous Of
English advocates: You are the only being
for whom | have an awful reverence Re
member the tribute of Charles James Fox.
the greatest parliamentary orator who
ever swayed the British house of com
mons: "LlustriOus man, before whom all
borrowed greatness sinks into insigniti-
cance.' Contemplate the character Of Lord
BrOugham, pre-eminent for two generations
in every department of human activity and
thought. and then impress upon the memoir
les of your children his deliberate judem INT 4:
Until ulme shall be no more will a test OF
the progress which our race has made in
wisdom and virtue be derived from the
venerdtiOn paid to the immortal name of
Washington
SChatham who, with Give, conquered an
empire in the east, died oken-hearted at
the loss OF the empire in the west, by follies
which even his power and elOquence could
not prevent. Pitt saw the vast creations of
his diplomacy shattered at Austerlitz, and
fell murmuring; My country, how
leave M country Napoleon caused a
noble tribute to Washington to be read at
tle head of his armies, but, unable to arise
to Washington's greatness, witnessed the
vast structure erected by conquest and
ccmented by blood, to minister to his own
ambition and pride, crumble into fragments,
and an exile and Il prisoner he breathed his
last babbling of battle-tieldS and of car
sage. Washington, with his finger upon
mis- pulse, felt the presence OF death, and
calmly reviewing the past and foreCastipg
the future, answered to the summons of
the grim messenger, 1t is WELL aud as his
nll4LllN soul GSttlltG 10 ATOu inc lduO was
~YdeluCed with tears and the world united in
his eulogy Blot OF from the page of his
tory the names of all the great actors ~ his
time in the drama of nations, and preserve
the name of Washington, and the century
would lie renowned
''We st md to-day upon the dividing line
between the first ana second century of
constitutional government There are no
clouds overhead and no commissions under
,71,, foot We 1AypppDtl,r Tpt1l,.r, fb1ul-s n
Almighty God for the past. and with conf
dent and hopeful promise march upon sure
ground towards the future. The simple
flcts Of these hundred years paralyze the
2imaginatiOn. and we contemplate the vast
Accommodations of the century with awe and
pride. Our population has grown from four
to siyty-fiye millions. It's center moving
westward 500 miles since 1883, is eloquent
with the founding of cities and the birth of
states. New settlements. clearing the for
estS and sdbduing the prairies. and adding
4.0O0,0O0 to the few thousands of farms
which were the support of Washington s
republic. create one of the great grauaries
of the world and open eXhaUst,ess reservoirs
of national wealth.
Tine infant industries. which the first
act of our first administration sought to en-
courage now give remunerative employ
meut u more people than inhabited the
Republic at the beginning Of Washington 5
presidency. The grand total of their an
uual output of seven thousand millions of
dollars in value places the United States
first among the manufacturing countries of
u the earth One-half the total mileage of
all the railroads, and one-quarter of all the
telegraph lines of the world within our
borders, testify to the volume, variety and
value of an internal commerce which
makes these states, if need be, independent
and self-suppOrting. These hundred Years
Of development under favorable political
conditions have brought the sum of our
national wealth to a figure which has
passed the results of thousand years for
the mother-land, herself. otherwise the
rich' st of modern empires.
During this generation, civil war of
unequal magnitude caused the expenditure
and loss of =, 0OO,OO0O00, and killed 600, 900
and permanently disabled over a million
young men. and yet the impetuOUs progress
of the north and the marvellous industrial
development Of the new and free south
have obliterated the evidences of destruc-
ton, and made the war memory, and have
stimulated production until our annual
surplus nearly equals that of England,
France and Germany combined. The
teeming millions of Asia till the patient soil,
and work the shuttle and loom as THEN
fathers have done for ages; modern
Europe has felt the influence and
lie eived the benefit of the incalculable
multiplication of force by inventive genius
since the NaEoleOnic wars; and vet, only
269 years after the little band of Pilgrims
landed on Plymouth Rock, our people.
numbering less than one-fifteenth of the in
habitants of the globe. do oue-third of its
Mining. one-fourth of it's manufacturing,
one-ffth of its agriculture. and own one
sixth Of its wealth.