Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-14

which william j. B'YAn was prescott
as tho guest Of honor. ALTHOUGH tho
polit cal party named claims Jeiarson
as Its paternal source. and thus has
some foundation for q partisan Gale
brstion, II teems as though such
occasions should be held In respectful
II not reverentlal regar1 by all glasses
II American people, whatever their
politics. religion or citation. Jefl5r'
sons principles were more national
than anything else, and such thing o.
clsnnishness never i,u ID prominent
expression In word or exempliualion
10 any act OF the great statesman. lie
wss republican in the national, nll
the party sense OF the word, AMI
democrat In the dictionary as well as
tho political meaning OF the term
that IL, be upAeli Ia the fullest man.
ner possible republican form OF
government, ami believed and prac'
iced the doctrine OF the political and
social equity OF mankinu.
Tue mind OF the stu isni Of Amsri.
can history instinctively reveits to the
Inauguration OF J,ilsfson, whou wit
easing or reaJing Of the ehowy dem
onstralions which have OBTAINED on
such occasions in more recent times
and under tho auspices OF
all parties. There was tlen no
great pageant male up OF btii.
llAaly uniformed cJrdons OF troops;
great columns OF gaily equipped c,ti'
zius 10 vehicles, on horseback and
aiOoi; magnificent DECORATIONS CIV lry.
where; grand aggregalions Of vario us
organizations, representing all tue In
teres!s OF the country; AMI tho air
Illed with martial and other music
by bands gathered from every part OF
tbs nati0u-noue Of these nor any
pomp or display OF any kind. MI.
Jefferson, having taken the oath oil
office, bestrode nis horse, rode him 10
the White House gate, and there dis
mounting lied the animal to the fence,
anu wslzed In and took possetslon In
the name of the mmon people OF
the land which he honore1 ami had
honoTed him. The barriers Of eete.
m1Dy and exolusivsness which even
thus early had tegun to grow up around
the executive maneiOn were thrown
down, as ne GOubtlesi hoped and be.
ilevsd never more to be erected, anu
the plainest aud poorest petson In the
grand commonwealth was made as
welcome within the pOTtals OF the
Presidents home rs were the self.
cjnstituted patricians and plutOcrais
OF the day. How vastly different It
has become In the last half a csnturyl
Perhaps the Que act which more
than any other makes secure the Ina
mortal character OF Jeilersou's fame
was bis authorship Of the Declaration
OF Independence. 1t is at once the
plain.st and most powerful document
ever penned by man. While being a
OiIl OF righle in the broadcast sense Of
the term, 1t is also an Indictment and
arralgnment OF the royal ruling power,
and 1t did as much toward impressin.
| George III and his mialons with TIE
| intenso eitnestness anu iDviDciblt
determination OF III, patriots as DID
the first actual conflict al Bunker Hin!
1t brought cohereney and cohesion
into the political AID military opera
tons OF the RevoIutionlsls, it nerved
| their arms, oneured their hearts add
s,eadied their aim. 1t proclaimed In
trumpet tones to all the peoples of thii
world for all time that truth, and
honor, and valor, and justice, thu
eternal right and the unswervlng in'
tent 10 be Tree are more potent facIoH
ia the affairs Of mankind than 81
other human forces by which our race
was ever or can be- swayed, and tina
people thus nctuAted, thus Inspired
thus determined cannot be kept II
sutJ sction. II was, all In all, the NOV
ing laulor In the greatest OH ct lessor
in human advancement which thu
world has had since the One who's
precepts and practices in behalf o
mankind led Him to the cross OF Cal
vary.
Honor TO the name OF Thomas Jeiier
son, and may his great deeis an.
splendid character rest securely VIII
the coming agst!