Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-27
COMMENCEMENT
DREAMS AND REALIZATION.

The advent o. tho Pioneers into |
these valleys will be orys,aliEsd IL
story, and sung In songs for many a
year to come. The center Of these |
memories will bs In Uiah, but the
sound thereof will TO heard In that |
Gordon Of states which will surround |
her In the not far distant future.
The keynote VI that gtea, movement
which included tho exodus from Nau.
VOC and the colon Eation Of this Terri |
tory may have lost It's original sharp.
moss. II may nave soitened with the
passing away Of tho iathsrs. Its eeh.
Gee may be hardly audible In the ut.
lefanCcn OF their successors. Each
recurring anniversary may mako more
mythical that record OF rApine and
sorrow, OF suffering and death; aud the
growth Of liberal sentiment may que'.
lion the alleged excuses q riot and the
compulsory forces Ut mobi cracy which
drove twenty thousanu people from
their hatd.eafucd homes amid the
seventies Of winter. Hut the facts are
Inscribed on the pages Of history, al.
though Missouri, Illinois aud the
nation al large may wish that the
whole could be obliiuFsttd or forgotten
as ievcrish dream.
Compulsory as this untXamplet
movement wa, % IL yet uvidtn. that
there were pod posing cause, Tor
| pre- judice sgRiusI ,ho Mormon people.
Ia the very pfr,sntatlOn OF their
yiows there was an Indirect assumption
Of superiority which became intoler.
able 10 the ignorant frontier population
/ which wps 10 proximity to them, for II
called in question, by Inference, their
customs, traditions, institutions anu
civilization. This IL productive OF
antagOnism In intelligent oentsrs, IN
crow ded cities, aud has led 10 aim.
Guilty where thought and liberty
Of speech arc claimed 40 beyond
all question; anu while there may
a trace OF this thought In spsrssly set.
tied OF rural districts, the uniformed
hre generally impatient u rev ideas,
or even Oi customs efficient from their
own, as exhibited by new oomers into
their locality. rhe incoming Of
unified addition to such population
wa, assumed 10 be menace. lnii.
ylduals might have beou LIBERATED, Out
moving masses swevpins ny counties
and growing by sympathetic aocro.
ton was unfamiliar phenomenon they
could not comprehend. Hsaor suspic-
Ion, Misrepresentation and exsggcTa-
iiona,oig early, aui iIis probably lair
10 say tHa, many an iulemperago eE'
preston thoughtlesslY inside by tho
legiIlmlt5 iuyllors famed tue dam
OF popular ignorance until IL became a
consuming hrr.
At this lar Oh dato II Ia probably
difficult to aAslyzs iully the fact
VI spirit Of thoss early day. Ihe
Alofmons counted ON opposition, ON
persecution, aud weak human nature
may have half cOurted that which II
expected, Their neighbors wsro CON.
sciols, too, OF legAlizei Injustice In
their midst 10 the form OF slavery and
tho essential liberty Of the Gospel as
held by the eastern oolOnlsts was 90
suggestive OF possible tempotiEing
with the subject element, that Shakes.
peRre's sentiment found renewed en-
douomen', i4r ",rife, light rs air,
were ~ tue lsalous condemnation strong,
Es ptoat Of holy writ"
IL Is Won,sJls any way, Tor thc m
lohty OF Utah's population 10 familiar.
~, tIsmsslves with this pet, ana no
way ia more enectuAl than that Of
celebrating tho arrival OF the Pioneers
IN these valleys. II many u the de
tails are hidden by tue wings Of time,
the great salient FEATURES OF Mormon
character and profession which made
II obnoxious half cen.ury ago, should
yet be- In tue Ascendant. Never
;holess most are consc Gus Of
notifications In both theory and
practice. While ISOLATION prevailed
there was more or lees color to tho IDEA
OF being auI continuing "a peculiar
people," ilr society lnllv.Iusllsm WIS
cultivated, ami oil the prgdomiaating
feature, OF the people teftidsd to the
tuccers OF the manipulating authority.
ElITtt were GtreIu0 aud uutsmi.-
ting .yr lhv creation OK o new people.
by theory, by faith, ty practice, by IN.
ull.utu ths was IN part accom-.
g'shci, There WINS obedience, uuity,
Authority. From these came me hods,
such D., c)loaizh.i1n with H. ollla'.
era D'css OF IN ,sionary devotion Gud
a gathering by continued slcrlno7.
From thi, came the suggestion 81 "lls
Dsserg. AlphSbe'," whoa VS. ii-
,ygdoi ru auxiliary In favor o. lie de.
nation iI.E,tion OF converts isam"svsTy
cline Usucllh the sun" II was