The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05


Galen Wood.
! A medley of patriotic songs by the
full chorus was the next number and
a very catchy one it proved.
The lively airs and quick changes
aroused enthusiasm. Mayor spencer
! then made his brief but forceful open
! ing address. saying among otner gooo
things:
You have left your fields, stores and
| the like TO pay tribute to and snow
your love for the greatest nation on
1 earth Governments ike individuals
are not infallibIe but prone to err, out
power rests with the people, ana as
| long as it does so, wrongs can ana VIII
! be rightad. For the past three years
! financial disturbance has been rte. w
have been in our financial "alIey
For The bread of charity has been
eaten by the willing but unemployed
1 laborer. Let me congratulate you on
signs of reviving prosperity and on the
fact that after all this is the greatest
government that Gods sun ever shone
upon
Mrs. Kate Bridewell Anderson sang
20 Ship of State. Sail On assisted py
the chorus, which sang the refrain "
the beautiful piece in fine style. Mrs;
Anderson sang with much teelihs anu
was loudly applauded.
The next number was GLORIOUS
Songs of Freedom" by the tabernacle
choir.
Miss Edith Ashmore read the Declar-
alton of Independence in voice SO
clear and full that even the people on
the outskirts of the crowd heard II ana
listened to the end.
Mayor Spencer, in introducing sen
ator Cannon, referred to MIN as man
horn in the territory. raised in the
country and as the one who conceived
the plan of Harvesting the water pow
or of Ogden river and of sending It's
mower in the form of electric force over
the entire country.
Mr.. Cannon's speech was as toliows'
NV Friends and Fellow Citizens
Sometimes when il is cloudy we tnlnK
the sun viii never shine again. But
natience. a little time, and the clouds
vanish and the darkness is dlspelea'
and the great orb of day shines forth
in mighty majesty. And SO with the
eternal light of our llbertles-
sometimes the night GEMS dark ana
long; sometimes the clouds obscure II ;
but it is there-immorta as the God
who made us 10 .ove the freedom
which he has bestowed. (Applauseo
And so this country IS all right. after
all. Some men are 'ometimes wrong,
sometimes a good many OF us are
wrong; but the country, the instltu-
lions of our liberty. cannot perish from
the face of the earth, because America
has not yet discharged her mission,
and it is not within the power of men
that the country shall fail until the
work is done.
Two mighty days belong to the peo-
pie of this earth-one, when from a
cradle there came the Lover of his race.
The epoch which his birth established
viii never end. and until all men are
spiritually free. The other day is that
on which the devoted band of patriots
signed their names to the charter Of
our civil liberties, which you have
heard read here today. And that epoch
so instituted will not end while across
ore human heart there is cast the
shadow eff an earthly throne. (Ap-
plause.)
We came to give liberty to men.
We are in the nationa, sense as Christ
himself. who came to give peace to
men; and whenever you fear that the
country is passing into dangerous chan
nels, whenever you fear that this great
ship Of state may be wrecked upon the
rocks, remember that it cannot perish
until its mission is achieved
A friend said to me, when he learned
that 1 was to speak here today: Don't
tell the people how great the country
is; don't tell them what a. glorious
day this is-but tell them that this is
the year of their ensldvpment" And
] thought for q moment that we ought
to talk with each other. and confer to-
gether concerning the dangers to the
body polite. And then I remembered
that three hundred and sixty-four
DAYS in the year are devoted to that
purpose. Surely the American people
n he,
l-S65th part of the year to clarifying
the name of God, and the nation which
he has tablished here. (Cries Of
Good. good and great appiause.)
The land is ours. and we love it. The
Nation is greater today than it was
one year ago when 1 addressed you,
because it has one more staunch pill
lar to support the fabric of govern
ment. (Cries of Good! Goodi" and ap-
plause.)
Forty-four pillars it had then-fortv-
five now; and the last as staunch and
as true as the granite of these noun
tains. (Applause.)
There is greater love between the
people Of the nation, because there are
more people now in the nation to love.
Every man who holds full citizenship
in this republic and whose heart is
filled with love for its institutions, is
oAlOllCi lle tIldl DlDuS.
My friends, we of Utah have had orr
wondrous experience since a year ago.
We have the gift-greater tc US than
anything else which men can bestow-
we have come into the full association
and full citizenship with our fellow
beings of the republic; and when we
took the mighty benefaction we took
1t with the responsibilities which at
tached to it, and as we are to be a
pillar of the nation. strong and great,
1t behooves us now on this day, rs
perhaps on no other, to see how the
pillar has been fashioned; to see wheth-
er it is strong; to see whether it is
capable Of supporting the weight
which Will be imposed upon it.
One day was ours: the oath of July,
the day on which We We're born: and
that was a dearer Gay in one sense of
the word, to the people of Utah. than
any other But the Fourth of July is
now our day--he best of all for the
people of Titan, as the people of all
the land. Great applause.)
t'orty-nine years ago this month
Utah was ashes-the ashes of the dead
centuries-the ashes of the decaying
elements-and there came in through
a gorge in the Wasatch range a hand
full of men, the first act of whom was
to plant the flag Of our country in the
Rocky mountain region.
And they TILED and they toiled; they
wrought and they worked: they wrote |
the new Genesis-the creation of a lit
ne world within the confines of these
hills. They conquered nature-and vet
not all was done. AT a later hour
many things were needed. because the |
clVil1za ton of this country is compos-
lte. No little handful of people-alone, |
isolated distant from the world in |
lhought-can be as good supporters of |
the government as those who. drawing |
from all parts of the nation and ali |