The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-29
these sheets back when done with


| Then follows a portion of the Ora
ton" 1t is exceedingly funny in
spots-so funny that were one to hear
| 1t and the saying laugh and grow
fat be true, one could put on a pound
or two of good solid flesh then and
there. The Orator has no regard what
ever for punctuation, or anything else
for that matter. Under the heading
United States he begins: THE
United States the vast and splendid
Metropolis and the most renowned
country on the face of the globe, not
only for its numbers and the wealth
of its inhabitants, but their industry,
bravery and humanity and unconquer-
able love of liberty and our useful and
dignified establishments of learning as
Well as trade and our universal manu-
features, our numerous hospitals for
the sick and afflicted and assylums for
the orphans and receptacle for the
reforming of the wicked and aban-
doned and suffering and decayed;
form together such a grand and en-
livened people whose benevolence End
acts of charity are so enlarged and
noble that language must fail TO do
justice to the exalted views and trates
of character that transcend and
abound in this first of all nations of
the globe"
On the whole the above is a good
paragraph, even if ii does rush along
somewhat. 1t is valuable in this, that
it opens the eyes to new phases of
existence in this broad land of ours.
Hitherto the west has. been unaware
of any ''receptacles'' for the '.reforma-
ton of the 'decayed."
Then, too, the fact that the United
States is or are a vast and splendid
Metropolis is something worth listen
ing to. Mead wanders into the realm
of history in the next paragraph. He
relates: Ills years ago the Goth of
last April completed the Inauguration
OF George Washington as first Presi-
dent of the United States having a
population of some $500. 900 souls then
occupying the thirteen American col
onies covering an area of some 473000
square miles, This is a little dense,
however the reader being puzzled to
know whether the inauguration had
| a population of -, 100000 souls or
George Washington had them. Then,
too, one is not certain as to whether
George Washington was occupying the
thirteen American colonies or the
souls, and it is a bit uncertain as to
whether the colonies or the souls COW
cred some 473,000 square miles" But
let that pass; Mead can explain when
he comes.
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Mr.. Mead further relates: THE en-
sign of American liberty stretches
from the Atlantic to the Pacific"
pie and nation we have become an OBJ
ject of dread to the despots of the
world" Mead evidently doesn't read
the editorials in the Spanish news
papers.
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Mead grows poetical the further he
dives into the subject He wakes elo-
quent each step he takes. Listen to
this: To-day the whole civilized
world pays homage at the 'schrine' of
American freedom. EmDerors. kings,
queens Che might have added jacks
and the aristocratic potentates on the
earth are today striving TO do homage
to the Republic of the United States.
again is the remark about editorials
in the newspapers of Spain pertinent).
Then let US ask where has the AL
mighty delivered the 5000, 900 souls
looking upon such opulent plains as
ours?"
This last conundrum is too hard, and
the writer gives it up.
Where such fellowship of temperate
and tropical chimes abound, where gold
and silver are found in abundance,
where sweeps the millions of acres and
where sleep the cattle and sheep of
thousands of hills?"
such blooming viniards of mineral
wealth which only centuries to come
will develope? Where else has the Al
mighty connected such social bless
ings with material good? I do not, I
cannot speak this boastingly. 1t is
general of this country
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One sheet is marked "Peroration"
1t is a honey, although it ends very
abruptly. 1t reads: "A Bright era
begins to dawn and future historians
may record America the home of hui
man rights that nurses arts into
strong and imperishable vitality. 1t
is scarcely possible to imagine but
other nations rally around the United
States as planets around the SON Civ
ing light TO all others. l desire that
our pOsterior may know and approve
of it. The United States speaks to US
in the most emphatic language of the
pride of man. and the noblest monu-
ments of human genius architecture
seems to have lavished all her orna-
ment and display on this country of
ours. Oh America, America. Land of
the free and home of the brave.
Where the corn taSSelS wave in the
breezes which come from the mighty
gulf and the song of. the sparrow is
breast sings his good night song to the
black men picking cotton. Land of
Washington and Sergeant Jasper. Land
of Andrew Jackson and John Hancock,
who fought in the revolution. Land
of home and hearts and happiness and
heaven, when shall thy glories fade
like the front of a calico skirt? Oh
America, America, America. May thy
stars never fade nor thy sons sleep
the sleep which knows no waking up,
nor thy daughters see the strong staff
broken nor the beautiful arch bursted
up. May the silver hairs on thy
fathers never be brought low in grief
nor the eyes of thy mothers suffused
with the wet drops of disappointment
oh Columbia the gem Of the ocean
The harp that once through thy halls
the soul of music shed
Now hangs as mute on thy walls as if
that soul were dead
And thy banners make tyranny trem-
BILE when borne by the Red, White
and Blue.
This CRATE country is full in my
view. it's glories beam upon me and
it's spirit is being breathed into my
heart. Nothing will ever separate it
from me but the river of death, the
home of the wise and the free, the
land of all the classical refinement of
the ages gone by. The son of right
eousness has been gradually dawning
on this great nation and country and
now fills the whole nation pouring a
flood of grandeur wondering how God
should design this. to shine upon this
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