The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-21

proclaim You honored. On behalf of those
/ living when you entered this valley, and
who have since been gathered from every
nation, and who. with their children. have
/ partaken of the fruit of your labOrs
proclaim YOU honored. These all halls
are, however. but feeble whispers COM
pared TO the thunders of applause yet TO
come from nations yet unborn. and in
accents yet unknown 1t has been stated
that he who caused two spears of grass
20 ROW where but one or none grew
before, was Il benefactor to mankind, but
what shall we say of these men who
converted the wilderness into a fruitful
held and built cities and towns through
out me land? You indeed shall be held
benefactors. and be the recipients of graf
itude as long as the breath of life re-
mains in man.
of your expulsion from the state of Mis-
souri, and your subsequent expulsion from
the state of Illinois. of your expatria-
ton from the United States for on this
wrong, we are content with the result if
the people of those states are. To take
the statement of Missourian who at
tehoed the late session OF the Trans-Mis-
siSSippl congress. God used the expulsion
OF the Mormon people to build up these
regions: made good come out of evil. He
also said in speaking of the people here:
You have no enemies in Missouri. and
IT the people of Missouri could see you
here today they would rise to welcome
witness the attempts to do you honor. 1
can hear ringing in my ears '.the de-
sspised ones today sit in glory resDlen-
dent
l will say nothing of your great journey
across the deserts and the mountain
gorges- | will not attempt to depict
your struggles in the wilderness or your
conflict with famine when you arrived
here, for you lived through all of them,
and what l might say would be insiDid
10 you and inadequate to depict il as ii
was. | Will only speak of the character
of your work and its results but I will
congratulate you or the steady cOntin-
uance of your patriotism The wrongs
you suffered. the refusal of officials to
protect you in your rights as American
citizens did not SAVIOR of patriotism You
brought the old flag and planted it in
your new home. l congratulate you that
although you came TO land not then of
the great Union, you unfurled the Ameri-
can banner and have since remained true
to what it represents Look today at your
work, look at the states of this union
and Utah E Plurbus Unum is one of
them.
A few weeks ago witnessed the break
ing OF the ground where your great cap
tain was to be .commemorated- l saw
the granite cornerstone laid, / saw the
column grow until the great scroll on
which the names of the pioneers will be
placed was finished. and the bronze fig
ure of your leader placed on the summit
| then thought of the means when men
use 10 commemorate and perDetuate
events. | thought of the monuments of
Mexico, of the sphinx in Egypt which re-
fuses to give up her secret. OF Cleopatra
needles. one adjoining the banks of the
Thames and the other the banks of the
Hudson: / thought of the ancients' mon
uments of Rome. of the monuments of
London, Paris and Berlin, and / thought
how some of these speak of things that
are wholly good, some of things partly
good and partly evil and some of clay
and bronze are erected 10 emblazon
evil deeds. and l congratulate you that
the monument which you have erected
speaks only of that which IS r0nd II
will not speak of mans victory over his
fellow. will not commemorate scenes of
carnage and desolation. the groans of the
dying and the shouts OF the victors. Il