The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-30


which he had been called to fill. He re-
piled that his Office in Christian church
was more important than his seat in the
diet. Finding him immovable on this point
they then suggested even if he retained his
| church office it would be better to absent
himself from church meetings and thus his
connection with the church might not work
| to his injury. TIC this he replied that he
| regarded his attendance at Christian wor-
ship as a greater privilege, as well as a
higher duty, than any other-an answer
worthy of the first Christian centuries.
Apropos of the hardness of England to
recognize Japan as civilized nation, it
may not be uninteresting to quote here the
address made by, the Utah legislature in
1872, to the Japanese Embassy, which in
that year visited our territory. In it the
| civilization and excellence of the Japan en-
pire are fully appreciated. The address was
made to SIoNII ToMoMI IwAKURA ambassa-
dor extraordinary from the court of Japan,
and his excellency JUssAMI TAKAYossI
KIDD, and other vice ambassadors extra
ordinary. 1t reads as follows:
We, the legislative assembly OF the territory
of Utah, assembled in a legislative capacity
| feeling honored by the presence of so many dis
| tinguished representatives of the ancient ma
| ton of Japan, beg leave to present to you the
following testimonial of our high appreciation
and regard
| We realize that we are only in an imperfect
state; for this country has only been settled
twenty five years, while we recognize in you the
distinguished representatives of the oldest and
| Iii rat in Fl
much to offer that can be of interest to a vet
eran nation of twenty-five centuries; but in
spired with the natural sympathy and homo
geniety of our race, we bid you hearty welcome
to our mountain home.
| We are aware that as no nation can boast of
SO long and unbroken line of ancestry Gas can
you, there must be wisd om vitality an in
| tellgence, power associated with your gov
| eminent that elicit our profound admiration
1Cotemporaneous with the great Assyrian en-
! pre- you have seen it dwindle and decay and
It's renowned Babylon annhilated. You have
witnessed the conquest and defeats. the rise
and fall of the great Medo-Persian empire You
have seen Greece go forth to CONQUEST and
power-the then great emporium of philosophy.
| science, literature and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
10 decay. You have witnessed the rise and fall
OF imperial and republican Rome which with
| nations.
and boosted of being the worlds mistress and
| conQueror The great country of Mid
hyama, Thumb, Hindostan or India has
been overrun and conquered in turn under
your gaze by the Mongols and Persians; while
the Saracens, the Dutch and the English have
| each in turn run their erratic race-have
breathed, struggled and lived, and all but the
last have ceased to rule. You have witnessed
| Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs and Nile, in its
| glory and ruin. Your neighbors the great
| Chinese empire with its Voo-vang, its Tsin its
Han, and other dynasties, has been overrun by
| the Deg or Tartars. All the European nations.
including the great Russian empire are modern
compared with yours On the great continent
| OF America, in your day, two great peoples, ex-
| elusive OF the Aztecs, according to our history
| (the Book OF Mormon), have risen fiourished
and fallen, leaving nothing but this record, and
the ruins of ancient cities and monuments to
tell OF their former greatness and glory The
present nations of this continent including the
| United States, are not yet century old; while
according to your chronology and ours, you
number twenty-five centuries.
| Graded amidst revolutions and changes
mixed with the various European races and
fraternizing with all the nations, we have
gathered much that is good, profitable. useful
and interesting, to which we invite your atten-
ion We may excel you in the arts and
sciences, in railroads, telegraph and literature,
IN steam, in electricity, chemistry, the arts of
war, in ship-building and navigation; whether
we shall be as proficient in governing can be
better told twenty-four hundred years hence.
| Your abundant crops, your industry and energy
exhibited on your terraced hills and mountain
sides, show that you are, at least, our EQUALS in
agricultural pursuits; while, according to re.
port, your knowledge of mineral Developments
is equal to our own.
| We are very little acquainted with your his
tory; but we know that, while Europe, Asia and
Africa have in turn destroyed and desolated
nations to crafty their desires of conquest an6
their lust OF gain, you have been contented with
your own lot, and cultivated the arts of peace
We know, also, that the spirit of rapacity en-
gendered by conquest, has been cultivated il
high places, permeated the nations, vitiated oul
Jurisprudence, weakened cur sense Of Justice
and demoralized the peoples; while you
have executed infexible justice to high and
low to the ruler and ruled, not exemptine
your notables, pioneers, rulers or law-givers
hari-karl meeting out equal justice to all
We have not much to exhibit in our little
| twenty five year-old settlements; but YOU viii
find in the great American nation of which We
form so small part, very much to attract, in
Struct and interest you. We bow with rever
ence before the representatives of venerable
ancestry; who alone among the nations car
trace its gencalogy through half of the world.
age; we grasp you by the hand and bid yor
welcome to our mountain home; as the grea
American people welcome you to their EN-
brace. We feel honored by your visit and bic
you share with US all that is good useful an6
interesting, and would ask at your hands, some
lncc DIV ,oO1it
art or science of government, that we may be
enabled to perpetuate principles conducive t.
the best interests of humanity on this vast con
tinent. We would show ourselves as ready Il
learn from any source as you have exhibited in
your lengthy voyage to this far-off country
And we sincerely hope that the amicable rela
tons, SO generously commenced by you. ma,
be emulated by US, that we may be as liberal
enquiring teachable and COSMOPOLITAN as Won
that in the mutual interchange of social ant
national ciyiliiieS, we may vie with each Other
in the arts Sciences literature; that with YOU
experience and venerable age and our youthful
vlgor we may be able to call all that is grea
and good, intellectual ~virtuous and noble ir
the world. We again bid you welcome.
Signed in behalf OF the legislative assembly
of Utah by LORENZO SNOW,
President of the Council.
ORSoN PRATT,
Speaker of the House OF Representatives