The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-24

themselves and their posterity. The
success which has attended this expo
SitiOn Of products and manufactures
is not altogether due to the quality OF
the soil or the character of the people
in any of the contributing states, but
it rests largely upon the fact that
these states are members of a bench
Gently governed nation, whose natural
resources and advantages everywhere
have been developed and improved by
the influence of free institutions, and
whose people have been stimulated and
encouraged by the blessings Of per-
sonal liberty.
A contemplation of the benefits
vouchsafed to us by our government
easily reminds US of the Importance Of
hearty and united cooperation in
their support and protection. We
should lovingly watch and guard it,
not only because we are recipients Of
its precious gifts, but for it's own
sake and because it has been put in
our hands in sacred keeping to prove
to the world that man can be trusted
with self-government
A Division of Prosperity.
We shall walk in the path of patri-
otto duty, if, remembering that our
free institutions were established to
promote the general welfare, we strive
for those things which benefit all our
people and each Of US is content to
receive from a common fund his share
of the prosperity thus contributed We
shall miss our duty and forfeit our
heritage if, in narrow selfiShnesS, we
are needless of the general welfare
and struggle to wrest from the gov
eminent private advantages which can
only be gained at the expense of our
fellow countrymen.
L hope [ may therefore be permit
ted, in conclusion, to suggest, as a
most important lesson taught by this
occasion, the absolute necessity of our
national health and welfare, and con-
sequently to our individual happiness
as citizens, of a careful discrimination
in our support of policies and in our
advocacy of political doctrines, be-
tween these which prompt the promo
ton of the public welfare and those
which simply seem to serve selfish and
sectional interests. If we are to en-
joy the blessings our government was
framed to fairly and justly bestow,
we shall secure them in due time by
cultivating a spirit of broad American
brotherhood and insisting upon such
conduct as will, within the spirit of
the golden rule, promote the general
welfare.
Receives an Ovation.
The president was greeted by an
ovation which lasted for several min
utes. Hats We're thrown high in the
air and boundless enthusiasm was
manifested.
His speech, though short, consumed
considerable time in delivery because
of the frequent Interruptions of ap-
plause. At it's conclusion Mr., CIeye-
land held an informal reception. A
line was formed along the front of the
stand and a squad of police kept it
sition on one side of the steps and be-
gan shaking hands with all the people
who pressed up to him.
For five minutes he grasped the
hands of the great American citizens
at the rate of 1O3 per minute, then the
number per minute gradually lowered
until he was shaking hands at the rate
of one every second. In fifteen min
utes the presidents face was covered
with perspiration and he was evidently
firing. For thirty three minutes he
continued to shake hands with the
throng and to speak a pleasant word
to many. He finally said that he was
fatigued and the lane was closed. The
carriages for the party were driven to
the Piedmont club, where a cold
Luncheon with Champagne
was served to the company of 800 peo-
pie. After luncheon the president be-
gan a tour of the ground, visiting the
government building, the main build
ms, the negro building. and inspected
the exposition throughout.
The series of cOurtesieS extended to
the presidential party was concluded
tonight with reception at the Capt.
tai City club, which put itself on re-
cord as the most elaborate social func-
ton ever undertaken in the south. The
chief executive reached the club ac-
companied by the cabinet and the
ladies of the cabinet, between and 10
o'clock, and spent an hour or more re-
ceiving the fifteen hundred people
present. Major Livingston, president
of the club did the honors of the occa-
sion. After the reception. the presi-
dent and his party boarded their spec
ial train and left for Washington.