The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-10-22

the performance The audience was not
extraordinarily large, there being not more
than three thousand present, yet they
thoroughly enjoyed the programme, as
their loud and continued applause testified
Judge Zane opened his address by saying
that the hall might not be large enough Tor
the singers, yet he feared it was too large
for the speaker. but all be uttered was so
distinctly and deliberately said that diff
Guilty was felt in catching his words. He
referred to Columbus, his humble occups-
ton and his achievements and Isabella end
her superiority oyer other women OF her
age. Columbus had been criticised for
taking possession of country that did not
belong 10 him, but. said he. If a civilized
nation can improve and add to the happl-
ness of q barbarons people by taking pos
session, it should have that right The
Spanish did little for civilization compared
to the English. The Pilgrims came for
freedom of thought, religion, and yet they
were sometimes tyrannical This example
of free government has shed its ray and
benefited q whole civilized world. The
speaker closed by saying he trusted the
flag would for ages wave over happy,
contented and united people.
The following was the programme:
Patriotic Song-"Star Spangled Banner" by
grand united chorus-Salt Lake tabernacle
Choir Choral society and Utah County
Addre ss7Chief Justice Zane.
Grand National Anthem-"America' by COM
bined choruses and entire audience. The
audience is urged to rise and sing. Patriotic
waving of flags.
Soprano solo-.'O Salutaris Hostia." II. 9.
Ganss, Mrs Ann Colburn Piummer, violin
ooiigato, Prof. Anton Petersen.
Chorus-"The Heavens Are Telling" Salt Lake
City Tabernacle choir
Original Historical Poem-"Columbus. read
ing by the author, Orson +. Whitney.
Grapd Organ March and Chorus" Irvine Ye
the Garlands," Prof Thomas Radcliffe and
Salt Lake Choral society
Soprano Solo and Chorus Land OF the Trum-
pet and spear" Miss Lillian Roberts and
Utah county Choral union 81. f. Giles
Conductor.
Grand Finae--"H alleluiah Chorus" mammoth
combined choruses conducted by e.
Stephens.
Miss Lillian Roberts selection met with
stormy applause, and for an encore she gave
The Song That Reached My Heart' very
feellngly. She has very sweet high
soprano and could be distinctly heard.
Mrs. Anna Coburn Plummer's full, rich
soprano rang out clear and sweet. For au
encore abe gave WAY Down Upon the
Swanee River" enchanting her hearers.
Bishop Orson f. Whitney's poem, Colum-
bus, was very fine, both in composition
and delivery, aud was received with in
mense applause. 1t is given in full below !:
COLUMBUS.
So long as lofty peaks Ger lowly PLAINS
Catch Iirst tue gllmpsos OF the glorious light
That lamines this dark world; so long shall
men,
Or souls that seem far more than men, be
found
To loom above the level OF their kind
And greet the earliest rays Of r!s ny truth.
What though the shallow world shall soon and
scorn.
Not seeing what their my site sight beholds;
IN GRO pfOv iinp nd all
save what their slres or antique times have
known;
Content to lie at ease in Lethe's wales
And hailng those who soar to higher things.
These walk and talk with Gou on mountain
tops.
On sacred hills of solemn thought and thence
Like Moses from the blazing Mount descend
TO kinule wisdom's peacons for mankind.
OF such q one sing the Genovese.
World binder, bridger of the boundless seas,
The conqueror and colossus ofthe waves,
Who stood on m eaitation' s starry height,
Above The clouds that canopied LIE age,
And looked upon the eartn and said, ''Tis
round.n
AS later quoth Copernicus 'It moves"
SUN later. Calico he who groaped
In letters for like truth reatirmed.
Thrice kingly three, encountered and I'M
Not theirs the purple robe and diadem;
Whom science crowns full oft doth misery
clOthe;s
Chains were their sceptres, dungeon cells their
thrones;
And these Thy portion proud. o sailor sage.
The need of all thy waiting, wandering toll,
NO marvel; thou vert God's no. ma 's elect
Ana thou didst serve Eternity not Time.
OF tyrant kings and priests-earth's recreant
powers
VINO governed but to.goad and gall mankind
The grcaning world was weary aud the hour,
The fated hour when Freedoms PROSTATE form,
Bursting the shacl<les of long centuries
AS samson, rous;ng, rent Philstian bonds
Erect should STAND IN might and majesty.
And shake her locks in anger at her foes
Drew on apace- Twas meet that ere that hour
Of tottering thrones and trembling dynasties
That day OF reckoning and red revenge
On crowned and mitered heads and reeking
hands,
On grinding greed and trampling tyranny
A haven from the universal storm
That France saw hercely burst-yeJ only saw
The faint beginning not the furious end
Should heaven prepare. a land OF liberty,
A home of peace and human brotherhood,
Where men should equal stand, sovereign
host
Nor owe to naughty birth their high degree;
Where merits star DER mammons might as
cend;
Where brain and Drawn should blood and birth
outweigh,
Where law should liberty and life defend, -
And TYRANNY be traitor TO the realm;
Where right, not might, should monarch rise
and reign
Ger all that breathed or blossomed meath the
sun;
Where, linked in chain OF loving unity
The only chain that freedom s land could bind
A sisterhood of empires hand in hand.
Might time their steps to Truths triumphal
tread,
And march 10 music of Millennial strains.
Glad harbinger OF still more glorious state
The welding OF the nations-worid i'd wide chain
With Freedoms ensign waving over all.
The brave task thine, bold wrestler with the
main,
pn,s
Tossed not alone on wild Atlantic's crest,
BY angry trident of the ocean god,
But on Il sea OF troubles fiercer still
The unbelief and envy OF thine age,
Whose waves OF cold contempt and clouds of
scorn
And wrathful winds had we'll nigh overwhelmed
he bark OF thy adventurous emprise,
Ere glorious Isabella's friendship beamed,
And Palos saw thy Notwithstanding sail
The brave task thine thou Titan OF thy time
Albeit thy lot TO better build than know
To plow way for Freedom through the waves,
And plant her standard on stranger shore
The banner OF tue cross, whose law divine
Is love of right and human liberty;
10 pioneer path for freedoms own,
10 pave the way for her great champion
A mightier cen than thou-whose patriot arm
Enelothed with thunders of omnpotence,
WELDING the iightn1ngs of a RICH eouS cause,
Should cleave the clanking cham OF tyrannv.
Which bound. as captive 10 the chariot wheel
OF Britain's power. C0lumbla's bleeding form.
And tnen-oh. glorious conquest, grander tar
Than Furnished steel and batting hosts might
win,
To turn from all he was or might have been,
To waive the all but pronered kingly crown
And seek the sweet secluslon of repose;
suiiiced 10 reign-where kings too rarely reign
Without rival N mis- countrys love.
Yet thou the glory OF that deed shalt share.
Which gave TO half the world-tny hemisphere
What all must have and hold ere Time expire;
Since truth proclaims. had no Columbus been
Our land had never known u Washington.
What though proud Spain withheld thy guer-
don rr.i nd