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

erty, with political liberty? Social JUS
tice, that all men shall have their
rightsl iApplause) That is. the need
of humanity today. God made com
mandment to men that in the sweat OF
their face they should earn their bread:
and just so long as any man lives, who
would toll and yet, by an imperfect
system of social life, is denied the right
to work, just SO long must the reform
go on. l wish that the impetus of
new reform-the social reforn-the
new development of human right
might date from the day when Utah
came into the Union. Great applause)
My friends, 1 always regret to have
anyone say that l am going to make
an grafton, especially to the people of
Ogden. I would prefer to say what
little l have to offer you without its
being dignifled in any such manner.
l like to feel that l have come home
for little While, (cries of Good! Good!
and applause) to talk with my friends;
and it is not an grafton that 1 want
to deliver to them-I want to consult
with them concerning the mutual duty
which we owe; to see if we are dis
charging it to the extent of the OPP
portunity accorded to us.
l said to you last year that believed
events were occurring in the United
States which would bring Utah to the
front OF prominence almost in day,
almost in an hour. l want to consult
with you here and at all possible times
to learn how we shall bear ourselves
when we are placed in the vanguard
of the battle, as we will be till the end
Of the conflict. It is for you to say.
A committee went up to New York
No lr-1r u fall mo-
Der, to view the coast defenses of the
country, and they showed us the
mighty guns; they showed the retreat
ing carriages; they showed US the ships
of war; they told US how much the
armament had cost; and then they
asked if we of the west were willing
to vote more contributions to be thus
expended. One western man said no.
His people had had millions expended
in their state where Utah had not had
one dollar of national contribution. For
you I said yes, we were willing, be-
cause New York and all were part OF
our country. Applause. New York
was our city; we wanted all the coast
of our country defended Just the same
as though this valley lay on the sea
shore-and more than that, we wanted
out here, every man and every woman
and every child who could read, that
prolonged applause And we wanted
the United States to be in a position
to say, Cuba, thou art freep' and she
would be free. Renewed applause.)
Because if Spain would raise the flag
of war against US, we hoped that the
United States would be so defended on
land, and so armed on sea as to hold
Cuba free through all the generations.
Great applause and cries Of Good!
GoodrO
Ny friends, I thank you for your at
tention. Mayor Spencer said it was
hard to talk in the open air. 1t is,
if one makes any effort to be heard. 1
thank you, not for mysef, but [ feel
that l may take this partial liberty of
thanking you in the name of all the
country for this great demonstration.
1t is better to come together al home
in our own city on the Fourth of July,
and celebrate national independence.
than it is to indulge in the grotesQuer-
les of carnival elsewhere. CHEERS, ap-
plausa and laughter,) Salt Lake has
always had us at a disadvantage-we
had carnival and she didn't. Oaugh-
teri And she has been forging ahead
ever since and we have been suffering
from it. Now that she has got car
nival, 1 hope that we will take the
subsequent opportunity to overtake and
outstrip her. daughter and applause.)
1 never knew of northern city that
could quickly recover from the effects
of one of these things.
Ny dear friends, for Ogden-after all,
though not the largest, the best city
in the state; for Weber county, though
not the largest, always the best county
in the state; for Utah, not the largest,
but as true and as brave a state as
any under the flag-let US all pledge
eternal devotion to the Stars ard
Stripes, and eternal love to the liberty
which they typify. Great and pre-
longed cheering and applause.)
In the afternoon games of all kinds
were contested for by all manner of
people and in all manner of methods.
The park was one great throng of peo-
pie and all enjoyed themselves hugely.