The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-05

PROVO, Jan. AT $50 this morn
ing the news Of the issuance Of the
proclamation admitting Utah into the
Union of states, was received here,
every bell, whistle and cannon was in
action.
From the time the news was re-
ceived till night the people showed
their patriotism.
Many flags were displayed and in
each was a silver star to represent
Utah as the forty-fifth state.
At 1870 p m. the people gathered en-
masSe at the tabernacle, where mag
nificent programme was carried out.
Mayor HoIbrook took charge as
chairman. The choir sang the song
occasion, utah We Love Thee" and
prayer was offered by David John. of
the stake presidency Hon. S. r. Thur
man was the first speaker.
THURMAN'S ADDRESS.
His address was masterful effort.
He said:
In the mighty progress of human
events, Utah today clad in the royal
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the circles of the nation, and assumes
her rightful position among the sister
hood of states.
> I rejoise that have lived to see this
day and witness the ceremonies of this
occasion.
The electric spark flashing from
ocean to ocean, across the mighty
continent of the new world brings to
US the gladstone news that Utah is a,
fYNo nd iVa1a -4,fn fhof n
people are endowed with the rights
and privileges of American citizens.
For years and years we have been en-
gagged in building here the temple of
human liberty; we have laid the fouu-
dations deep and strong and erected
thereon a structure as enduring as the
Everlasting hills"
The last stroke Of the workman's
hammer has been heard resounding
through the nation. It's reverberations
roll from east to west and from west to
east, heralding to the nation the adj
vent of a new star in the galaxy of the
Union.
Glorious corsummation! wonderful
transition; grand achievement of the
mighty processes of evolutionI happy
ending of dark and dreary night
The proclamation has been issued,
the last word has been uttered, and
Utah proudly enters the arena Of the
nation.
With shining lance and armor bright,
she engages in the contest with her
older sisters for supremacy In the ma
tons onward march to greatness. Her
heart is light in her bosom, her head
is proudly erectI her form is as beauti-
full as that of Egypt's queen enthroned
amid the pyramids, and she looks the
world in the face. Her countenance
beams with love. her heart is warm
with friendship for all. and swells with
pride and devotion for the Stars and
Stripes. Henceforth under the direc-
tons of divine providence she and her
people must and will move upward and
onward in the march Of human pro-
gress.
Her constitution expresses the free
and untrammeled will Of the people
While we observe it's provisions and
admonitions we need not fear. The
founders and statesmen of Utah,
guided by the principles of eternal
truth and imbued with honest and
patriotic motives, have engrafted upon
the sacred charter of our liberties the
enduring principles of civil, religious,
and political freedom.
They are planted deep and strong in
the hearts of the people Nothing can
hurl us from the proud pedestal upon
which we now stand save 1t be the in
vincible forces of revolution.
Nothing can wrest from us the
priceless boon of emancipation which
we enjoy today, SO long as we direct
our highest efforts and loftiest am
billions toward the advancement of hui
man freedom and the strength and
glory OF the nation.
AS we look back on the dark and
dreary past and travel along the pages
Of history. observing its land marks
here and there, the struggles Of the
people of Utah for the sacred privileges
Of local government fill US with
wonder and admiration. From the very
day our forefathers, the founders of
Utah, unfurled the Stars and Stripes
on Ensign peak and took possession of
this goodly land in the name of the
United States, we have hoped, prayed,
and struggled for the rights and
privileges Of American freemen.
AS I might say from the day they
were driven from their homes and
loved ones on the banks of the Mis-
sissi}>pi and commenced that wonder
full march towards the Golden gate,
the struggle has been going on, never
ending, never ceasing to build up here
in the vale of Utah o commonwealth
which in glory and magnificene would
one day outshine the splendor of
Anahuac in the days of Montezuma, A
commonwealth which in morality,
virtue, honesty and love of country.
would be the pride of the Union, the
glory of the nation, the exemplar of a
nobler civilization.
Oh, how we have longed for this
glorious event! How we have pleaded
for this priceless boon! Convention
after convention has been held Consti-
tuition after constitution has been
framed Memorial after memorial has
been presented. We have knocked.
knocked, knocked, at the door
of the Union. We have been a
house divided against itself Brother
lifted his hand against brother, neigh
hor against neighbor. friend against
friend, in an unnatural, unholy conflict.
until Utah, in her deep humiliation, be-
came a hiss and a bvword among the
nations of the earth. War, revolution and
internecine strife mark the pages of orr orr
history These are "reminiscences of the
dark and dreary past. Then came to our
dark and foggy sky the dawn of a bright
er day. The precursor of an upwa I'd
holrd in the naTrh of civilization Men
forgot their aninosities. Brother looked
into brother's eyes and there beheld hon
esty of heart. love of country and loyalty
to the flag. Hoaiilit'es ceased. Weanons
wore thrown aside. hand clasped hand in
friendly grasp. enemies became friends.
abnormal conditions melted away like
froet in the blaze of the morning sun.
The bitterness OF hate vanished like a
trr,1Nled dream.
Then commenced that wonderful revo-
liberty and local self-goverDment. Then
cnv-7r-1Arced that glorious march unwa rd
and onward to the pro1d nosition we &C.
cupv today, Men and women of every