The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-28


Do you ask what elements they Will
conquer and add to the service of man?
Then look about you Three hundred
of the three hundred and sixty-five
days of the year the sun in its regal
course sends its golden arrows into our
hills and valleys, and they take root
and grow into fields of grain and into
vast harvest of the earth's best
fruits. Our great mountains, redolent
with the health-giving breath of pine
and balSam, vocal with the voices of
feather choirs, filed with babbling
brooks, born from everlasting SHOWS,
ana which, like the Sea of India, have
gold beneath their tides, are filled with
precious metals. They are ready, when
the east shall cease to worship the
golden calf to pour their wealth into
the nations lap and break the chain
of industrial slavery which bind the
faces of so many millions Of Gods
children to the great grindstone of plu-
tocracy The seasons, we'll marked in
their course, never torture with the
extremes of heat or cold, and the air
is so clear and pure that it is like
incense from the fountain which Ponce
de Leon sought. The days in Utah
are as sweet as the songs of birds with
rare plumage, and the nights are SO
grateful that when tired man lies down
10 steep ne OTGdIlS LId( lie - d CHILL
| again, rocked by his mothers hand.
The state which this people are to
build will be founded firmly upon the
great cornerstone of the republic-the
common school. Even the Athens of
America cannot excel US in our temples
of education or the thoroughness Of the
training to which our children are sub
jected. Your brethren of the press
transmit to the homes of the people
newspapers, SO complete and so enter
prising that they would do credit to
metropolis and the names of our ar
lists, our sculptors. our theologians,
kour lawyers, our musicians, our ar
tiSans and our politicians have been
carried upon the wings of fame and
are not unknown to you, whose work is
to chronicle and comment upon the
achievements of man.
Utah has possibilities so great that
| the imaginings of men cannot encom-
pass them Her arms enfold more
land than is contained in all the New
! England states. Her fertile valleys are
! linked by chrystal streams, her lofty
mountains battle their heads in the
clouds of heaven, her varied climate
produces the apple and the flax in the
north, and the orange and the cotton
| in the south; her mountains OF iron
and copper, her treasure vaults of gold
and silver, her coal and her vast cham
! bers of natural gas, her marble and
her onyx and her alabaster, her untold
wealth which is as yet untouched-is
! her dowry to those who dwell within
! her gates.
You saw the god of day this evening
as he drew the gold and purple folds
| of his royal tent. You looked upon
Americas great Dead Sea, within
whose breast is locked the mysteries
! of ages, and which is without coun-
terpart in all the world. 1t has seen
empires rise and fall; it has watched
the centuries lose themselves in the
! ages. Once, when the world was
young it traced its shore line one thou
sand feet above US. 1t has yet to see
more than a million happy and Soon
tented people about its shores who will
| bring to the service of man the mar
velous and manifold advantages Of
| Utah.
1t is our hope that you who have
! gathered here with us will tell in more
| than three hundred thousand homes
that here, under the shadow of Mo-
roni," you found a land flowing with
milk and honey, the land of the
| blessed, and that you will whisper in
the ears of the toilers of the east,
| Eurekai I have found 1.-THE land of
homes whose doors are open wide for
a million more.
Hon C. w. Penrose.
c. w. Penrose, in reply to the toast
of our guests, extended a hearty well
come to those who had come amongst
! us for a sojouru of a few days. He ten
/ dered them the freedom of the city
and also that of the territory. The
people of Utah were hospitable and de-
| lighted to do honor to visitors from
wherever they came. In the country
! the people generally owned their own
| homes; they are an Industrious and
hard working people and Utah is about
to enter the Union of states as loyal
and patriotic commonwealth which
will do honor to the country and help
to make the United States the great
est nation of the earth. He referred to
| the treasures of the mountains only
( Just been touched, and asked the edl-
| tors to tell their tens of thousands of
readers of what they had seen and
would see while they stayed with US.
Professor Harvey.
Prof. L. d. Harvey, from Milwaukee,
was asked to give his views of Utah
from an eastern standpoint. He said
/ he was a stranger here, but from the
hearty welcome he and the other visi-
tors had received he was completely
! captiVated. The beauty OF the country
brought him to the conclusion that
gods. but a garden prepared by the
Gods, but a garden prepared by the
gods for men.
He was glad to welcome Utah into
the sisterhood of states as a loyal
people, American citizens who loved
their country and their flag.
The school system Of Utah was
greatly to be commended, so were the
people for adopting the system so sue
cessful in the east Most hearty the
east welcomed the new star on the
flag.
Rev. II. c. Tiff.
Rev. T. c. Tiff, in response to the toast
Of THE Press and the Pulpit ac-
knowledged the services rendered to
the church by the press. The pulpit
was under great obligations to the
press and the most cordial relations
should exist between them. They go
hand in hand in the march of civiliza-
ton and are the two greatest officers
for good that the world has ever seen.
! The editor of great daily seated on
his tripod yields a greater power than
ever Jupiter did in all his thunderings
from Mount Olympus. The preacher
from his pulpit, if he lived consistently
with his teaching, was a mighty power
also. The pulpit and press united can
command this world from ocean to
ocean. The two great powers should
therefore work together and fall in line
for the conquest of the world.
F. A. Clark, Washington, D. c., said
in the capital of the nation there was