The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-02
VAS A ROOSING
OF SLEEPERS
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when the immortal ward came mere anu
in this house delivered one OF those
lectures of his. He said, describing the
pictures, This is the farmer. This is
the milkmaid. going to pail the COW
(Laughter.) This is the COW. Q.auSh-
teri l know it is COW. for long years
after il was painted, the painter came
to me and with his eyes suffused with
tears, said he could conceal the fact no
longer; in other words. / pail the cow
Oaughter.) Now, the last speaker has
told you that 1 would tell you Of the
trials of the commission, and 1 am go
ing to do it. / will tell you.
My good friend Judge Powers
reaches out and culls from the garden
of literature some of the choicest flow
er5 which he weaves into very pretty
Sentences, which sound wen, and please
you. But in this instance l believe
better results would be accomplished
if he would strip his words of all their
beauty and present them in their naked
truth. (Applause.) 1 assure you I shall
do so. 1 came here for the purpose of
stating the truth, and shall not swerve
from nv expressed Intention
First, 1 want to make the broad
statement that when old Gabriel blows
his horn there will be more people
answer to the signal from this neigh
borhood than any other section in the
country. And a great many of them
will not have TO rise from out the
grave. either. All they will have TO
do will be to put on their wings and
fly away, without the trouble of resur-
rection; they are dead already. Not all
the dead of this community are buried
by any means.
Governor Wells picked us out from
among you and placed on our shoulders
the burden of raising the funds and
arranging for this celebration. Do you
think if he had il 10 do over again that
we would rush to accept? No, sir. l,
for one, would turn my back on the
setting sun and would HE myself back
TO Colorado, from whence l came. Why.
we have done all mortals can do; we
have fished in every locality and we
haven't caught clam. Gaughter)
After six months of wearing out of the
knees of countless pairs of pants in
we come here this evening TO tell you
that in this city of $1,000 people we
have raised S19,SS0. of which $1O.5O0 was
subscribed by II people"
The speaker then read the names of
those who had subscribed this amount,
and called attention to the fact that
of that s10,500 over half was donated
by four people.
"Of the money we have raised, but
one bank has subscribed. lions Saw
ings Bank & Trust company. The rest
of them are all busy; busy singing
Utah, We Love Thee and cannot
find time to donate.
We thought to have one day of the
school children. either in a parade or
in some place where they could be seen.
We thought we would like to have the
10000 little boys and girls out so our
eastern visitors could see that 'Utah's
best crop was still growing and was
our hope and our pride. We commune
Gated with that-what do you call it
this aggregation of trustees, this board
of education. and as yet we have re-
ceived no answer. We asked the su-
perintendent for some assistance and
have met with scant courtesy. We had
one member. q lady Mrs. Wallace.
who with commendable zeal dictated
letters TO % of the principals of the
schools and we have received-one re-
ply"
At this juncture Judge CoIborn said
he was sorry ne had omitted the name
of Waller Brothers, who had sub
scribed $500 and the New York Life,
which through it's local manager.
Colonel Newman. had subscribed and
paid the sum of 5000. This latter
anoourt was more than had been sub
scribed by any person or firm outside of
Salt Lake City.
I'VE like the word patriotism. We
roll it under our tongues and dwell
upon it until we are familiar with il and
use it at Fourth of July celebrations.
We are angered and aggrieved if any
one saws we are not patriotic. But
when we go out after money for this
do we find any of that feel
ing predominating? On the contrary
we are met on every hand with the
question: How much will get out of
this; how much will it benefit me?'
tell you that while few arms are barred
in an effort to go into the vaults of the
owner after money TO assist us, every
one, is barred to get into our treasury
to see how much of the fund they can
get for themselves.
You wanted me TO tell the truth and
am telling it.
I'VE have advertised this celebration
all over the country. We have sent
letters by the hundreds to the press:
we have sent cars of flowers into the
states; we have invited the
president of the United States to come
here. and il is no secret 1 am giving
you that he is coming.
I'VE intended to get up a line of /
floats representing the progress of
Utah from the time it was a barren /
desert until now. This all takes money. /
We thought if the old pioneers had a
train of wagons which in serried line /
crossed the plains and defiled through !
the canyons, it would be a good thing
to reproduce some of the incidents. I
say to you right now, there will be j
from $4,000 to $4,000 people here during I
the celebration. They will fill your
eity- You have got to have this cele- !
bration. You must give a celebration /
with your wealth and I
a,-1 he mill h<.
the worst laughed at people this /
has ever seen. You have got /
TO celebrate or be disgraced.
What will you do?
when l get off my feet the chair
nan of the commission will get on his. (
md while 1 don't know what he will I
say. if 1 were in his place 1 know what I
would do. If he has the backbone he /
Will lift this burden off our shoulders /
md shift it TO the shoulders of so Of the |
citizens of this city and they will as
sumo the responsibility and will say to |
Is: Go ahead and have the celebra-
ion: we will foot the bills
why right here want TO say to you /
hat if Brigham Young and the 143 /
people of this pioneer band had no
more pride and resolution than have !
heir descendants the party wouldn't /
lave got across the first creek this side
he Missouri. Qntense cheering)
The crowd was now getting warmed !
Up and what Colborn said was striking
home Continuing, ne said.
I'VE read in the Bible that Moses
vandered-how long was it?-40 years
n the wilderness. Why Brigham Young
md his band Travelled more in ten days
han Moses did in 40 years"
I came here to Utah beaver to
work, but / have been dragged down
~ the slOths. I feel to say to you this
evening that 1 believe / am making my
to you. Already 1 see the