The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-15


red flag of anarchy may float long in
American air; no sacreligious hands
dare rend the veil in the temple OF
liberty; no dictator may long rule on
ruin this fair land, so long as the sons
of New England remember their faith
ers and hold in reverence the memory
of their mothers. Not alone in war
and council has she made her fame
bright, but along the paths of science
and of art she walks with an assured
step. and the voice of her singers is
sweeter TO the lover of American
achievements than all the piping of Pan
20 shepherds on the hills of Greece. The
burden of the obligations of her great
achievements is heavy upon her sons
and daughters and they shall not es-
cape it.
What of the great commonwealth of
Virginia? All, gentlemen, words fail
me. and glibness of tongue shall not
save me- Consider well the Virginian.
He has left his native state in great
mum bers and shares the distinction of
ubiquity with the gentleman from Ire
land. Whatever may have been the
personal environment or social comet
ton of his birth, the waters of the
Mississippi WASH out the past and he
becomes when he has passed them, an
p F. V. and the blood Of the cava-
Tiers courses riotously through his
veins. His lines may have tdlen IN
such rough places and the winds OF
fortune may have blown so rudely upon
him that you may not detect from
speech or manner that he was born in
the purple of the ancient Dominion and
was prince in the house of his faith
ers. but he will tell you Of it ere your
talk has grown long. He may have
fallen from his high estate. Qndeed.
they tell US that though Virginians fall
rarely. the fall is hard and long
one when it does Gomez He may have
lost all that men hold dear, honor,
love, obedience, troops of friends, but
as a drowning man catches at the
passing straw, so he clings to the fact
of his nativity. 1t may come TO pass
with him that he shall die in strange
land, unwept, unhonored and unsung.
but before his spirit passes from its
earthly tenement, listen and you Will
hear him "babbling of green fields"
the green fields OF Virginia, blessing
her with his latest breath.
Honor may come to the Virginian
who has left his native heath and men
may speak we'll of him; he may come
in time to stand before kings IN
abashed but neither amid the plaudits
of his fellow citizens nor in the royals
presence does he forget that he holds
in fee simple an undivided interest in
princely heritage of honorable fame.
The United States sits upon the western
hemisphere enthroned as queen between
the oceans. She holds in her hands the
possibility of power and dominion over
the earth. The character of nation IS
but a reflection of the character of her
citizens. 1t is therefore within the power
of her children to so conduct themselves
to put their private and political actions
upon so high a plane-that she in time
may come to be the lawgiVer of the world.
ha frra oil future
mankind.
Comprehending intelligently all that her
great power gives her, she can say with
authority to the nations OF the earth,
Peace. be STILL" and to any kingly muir
dere- of innocent men and women or TO
any who devastate defenselesS land, the
figure of Columbia shall stand as q non IN
the oath Dronering the White blossoms
of peace to the world. but reminding 1t
always that behind the smiling face of
the flowers there turks the frowning 'front.'
of American guns ready 10 sound new new
note for liberty. When with honor this
-l-ce shall have been attained, then all
our paths shall be paths of peace ana
along all the ways of our national life
there shall bloom the pure and stainless
flowers of Christian chivalry.
Following Mr.. Harris address, MY
Old Kentucky Home" was sung by the
club.
NAT NJ. BRIGHAM.
Nat NJ. Brigham responded to the
toast "Utah-The 45th Star. He said
that while the subject might demand
Z. more complete knowledge than he was
of, still he challenged any
one to show a greater enthusiasm Tor
his adopted state than himself The
speaker referred to the early history OF
the country and the gradual march OF
westward. Coming to Utah
he pointed TO the celebration at our
doors. which is to commemorate an
event as sacred to Utah as the landing
of the pilgrims to the Union. He paid
an eloquent tribEte TO the pioneers who
came into the -alley where the still
ness of the desert was on every hand,
now changed to fertile fields, mighty
cities and the hum of commerce on
every hand. All honor TO the honest.
patient. frugal souls who have built UP
the western states. To Utah's found
ers the future of the state was. not
fully realized, but generations to come
would realize that Brigham Young
one of the grandest states in
the Union
The speaker said if he should write
the motto that should guide the young
state of Utah he would write Chris
tan charity Creedal differences
should be forgotten and all should unite
in paving weil-earned tribute to those
pioneers who laid its foundations. Con-
tinuing he said:
In Grecian mythology is the legend
that there was one spot of earth for
ever dedicated to the ways OF Peace
Fable made it the sun-kissed island of
Delos, far out in the Aegean sea. How
ever bitter may have been the alter
cations OF the gods, contending from
heir airy battlementS, when once they
llighted on this favored spot for SOL
emn council strife and discord fed
away, and their deliberations were
in the wholesome atmos-
Dhere Of peace. Gentlemen, there is a
common ground here in our own fav-
bred Utah, on which her citizens of
Every name may meet. 1t is the ground
If our common needs and our common
slory-the best possible basis of sue
,eSs-and none need to be excluded /
rom the council. We can meet on the !
ground of a common desire for the
physical and material developments
md the intellectual and moral ad-
of Utah. There never need |
De a suggestion, even, of creedal differ /
,nces; and when our citizens shall so !
ose themselves in a united effort for |
Ter welfare, a new vigor will thrill |
through all the arteries of the common !
wealth, and there will come a day for |
Utah as much in advance of this day |
Is this day is in advance of that mem 1
,rable morning, nearly a half century |
lgo, when the pioneers broke forever |
he silence which had lain on this sun |
Kissed valley ever since the 'dewy !
morning of creation
Then, too, we are drawn by a thou /
and charms TO feel a just pride in the :
atural glories which we share, for in /
II that delights the eye what more |
ould the native son or stranger ask?
Does there come anywhere in the
pring time a brighter green upon the
Are there mountains any
here that greet The morning with a