The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-05-26
The Utah Pioneer Jubilee.

The special COHlH'iItcc "Pt"'
invite President Mckinley to attend The
great five days celebration at Salt Lake,
from July ~ to July 25, acquitted them
selves OF their task or May 10Th, ana
were cordially received by the Chief
Executive. who assured the delegation
that if Congress was not in session at
that time he would certainly he present.
This insures the visit. for it is generally
known in the National Capital that
Congress Will adjourn in July.
The invitation 10 the President was
written by Judge Goodwin and lisa gem F.:
"Your Excellency-we are come, a
special commission, in behalf OF and ! n
the name OF the people OF Utah-lndeed,
OF the whole inter-mountaln country
to invite and tp-urge Yonr Exceliency to
visit our Statef
at will he fifty years on the 2ith day
of next July since the first band OF
pioneers entered the valley OF Great
Salt Lake. So.
NAKED almost, and almost in despair
they blazed the trail from the Missouri
river to the shore Of u Dead Sea, only
to be saluted on their arrival by a des-
ert. Such a journey made to find a
home amid ssuch desolation, was
before undertaken. 4
"For years thereafter their,yokemates
were poverty, and hardship, their lot un-
Getasing and poorly requitted toll.
sUpeomplainingly, they bore up
against their iron fortune ; SLOWLY acre
by acre was reclaimed from the waste,
until flowers and fruits took the place
of the garments Of sage, Which clothed
the desert. F''@, =. -
"Strong men and delicate, women thus
wore out their lives. The dreams of
youth were repressed; they put aside
their, earthly hopes; if songs were in
their soul they were never sung.
"From the rugged path they trod n
by one fell out until now only a reninant
of the band remains, Upon the sacred
a ~. e. fLEF
graves of those pioneers. on land en-
riched by their tears, u states founda-
tons have been.laid. sh
"ln July, in honor of those who still
live and of the memories of those who
have died, a jubilee is to be held and a
Te Deum sung.
"Then the story will be told OF how
the trown of desolation MAS chased
away !. how the simiies of civilization
were warmed intolifs'in' Utah; how the
waters OF the streams, turned aside from
their natural chans+ls. gave life to the
soil; how the desert relented ut last
and smiles grew on its savage face
through flowers and golden harvests
how, at the miners sumnsons, the sterile
mountains opened their "adamantine
doors and brought forth their jewels
until Utah became one Of the fret OF
mining States how, in the waste, tenn
pies of religion, to education, tosorder
and to Law. were reared ; how the ~toilers,
while subduiDg the wilderness, subdued
at the same time their own prejudices,
until, when Statehood came, it, was
greeted by y people rs loving, as loyal,
rs true and as devoted to our Tree insti-
tutions as ever lived.
"Wille yon not, Mr.. President, accept
the invitation Of the whole people. of
Utah and the West?"'
will you not come and listen as
swell the acclaims of our Jubilee?
I'VE PROMISE you all courtesy, all.
hospitality we pledge. moreover, that
welcomes shall be everywhere-in the
sunlight, in the sparkle of the waters of
our great inland sea, in the flowers, in
the. eyes and in the words of our people.
and We believe the visit will add to yonr
pride in native land and intensity your
determination to serve with all faithful
ness this great nation, and, ii possible,
to give e majesty to her flag" %