The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-31

ourselves, hence the necessity OF
good will back of law That there exists
throughout our country widespread and
growing discomfort is too obvious TO re-
quire more than the hint. The culmina-
ton of crisis may be delayed. But 1t
is certain to reach us sooner or later, I'M
less turned aside. 1t is not the time for
hasty, reckless, infiammatory speeches;
neither is it the time TO be silent. II
the country is in peril, and the god or
our fathers must know that 1t is, then
1T becomes our duty TO speak and act
as intelligent, law abiding freemen- Shall
we be deaf to wall of the millions VINO
are crying for bread? Shall we sustain
an administration and a Congress that
seems to be heartleSsly ind1nerent 10 the
appeals of the suffering mlll1onsZ SNAIL
we approve of courts and executives whose
treatment of peaceable and law aololng
citizens is unjust and un-Amerlcan
Shall we sit supinely still and see our
country wrecked to ruin? SUCH a course
would render as unworthy to streW now
erS over the graves of our comrades or
dedicate this monument to their memory.
Let US solemnly see to IL tnat mere Is
some little government for the people ana
by the people at Washington. our legls-
latorS have been in session at the ma
tons capital almost continuously for ten
months, and the condition OF the com
mon people and the country at large mas
become worse each succeeding day, ana
yet Congress lifts not a finger except TO
please and conciIiate the money power.
But my countrymen our appeal is not TO
arms. We must bow to the supremacy
of law, obey the orders of the judiciary
and regard the official acts of the execu-
tive, whether just or unjust; TO US is
given the potency of the ballot, the eX-
ponent of freemen's will, and therein
lies our peaceful resort. We must see 10
it at the polls that the wand of power is
put in the hands of true Americans, IN
some degree, worthy to occupy the cnaIr
of the immortal Lincoln, the rail- Spit,
and Charles Sumner, the uncorruptlple.
Herein lies the real remedy. While with
all my heart l sympathize with the op-
pressed, and the multitudes out of EN-
ployment, and promise high heaven that
l will stand by the common people II I'M
justly assailed or treated, nevertheless,
frets to which the laboring class is sub
jected, there is no law for material or
force revolution. No uprising to destroy
person or property can be tolerated in
this country. All of US must obey all
laws In closing, 1 turn from these
gloomy forebodings of the present TO
glorious future. 1 am not a visionary
optmist for l can see danger and plan
to meet it. 1 am not an imbecile pessl-
mist for am willing to help conquer the
perils without fear or favor. | believe
believe that the law of the survival OF
the fittest will find its sublimest political
illustration in the perpetuity of this re-
public.
In the language of Daniel Webster 1--WE
shall live and not die The illomened
sounds of fanaticisms shall cease. Inc
CHASTITY specters of secession and disun.
ion shall disappear, and the enemies OF
united constitutional liberty, II their
hatred cannot be appeased, may prepare
to have their eyeballs scared as they be-
hold the steady flight of the American
eagle on FURNISHED wings, for years ana
years to come.
On a certain occasion, Henry Clay had
climbed, with some friends, the helghts
of the Alleghanies, and had gone out on
projecting crag. Looking toward the
valley of the Ohio and the prairie lands,
as yet all silent and deSolate; ne was
seen to incline his mead as If listening 10
far away sounds. what nearest thou,
senator from Kentucky" asked his fam
!! liar friend. "Hear," responded the great
of the coming millions, that will ascend
these mountains, descend into these val
leys, and hold these pralries away anu
away and away to the setting sun
Fellow Americans, standing mere To-Day
in the memory of the monumental 1actS
of the past history of our country re
membering the way by which God hath
led us, 1 seem to hear the thunder tread
| and triumphant song of the coming mil
lions of freemen on this continent, PROUD,
intelligent, patriotic inhabitants OF our
heritage. 1t is the anthem OF a homo-
geneous people of many origins. and 50
all sounds mingle in its harmony-the
woodman's axe, clearing giant forests,
the rattle of the reaper gathering golQen
grain the hum of machinery manutac.
turing home industries, the whistle OF OF
the engine breaking the long silence OF
mountain and valley, the thunderlng
blast. significant of the earth giving up
her rich treasures, the cheer of loving
women, and the shouts of happy children,
mfngling their voices with stalwart men
! in home and school and church ana mar mar
ket-al in spirit. and tune with the
post tenebras Jux-After darkness
light"
Benediction was then pronounced by
Rev. W. H. Mcfarland, chaplain of the
Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteers and
the observance at Mount Olivet was