The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-05

Fellow Citizens-In the discussion OF
topics, somewhat new to the people,
and of the gravest public importance,
if my views conflict with those of any
who have honored me by their attend
.ances here, plead in extenuation that
this is the Birthday of freedom, and
that the questions 1 snail touch upon
must be met in the. near future and De
decided by the people. New problems
have arisen which must be solved, and
they will be easier of solution if they
are considered from all standpointS. l
have no doubt but what in the END
they Will be decided right. The Amer
lean people, though they are pushing,
energetic and uncomfortable, are,
nevertheless, conservative, slow to an
ger and advance with caution. They
feel their way and they often suffer
wrongs, rather than to hastily make
any change in their public policy until
they are clearly satisfied that the
change proposed is in line with the
spirit of our institutions and that the
policy proposed is right. Therein hes
our strength and our safety. We ad-
vance step by step, and we satisfy
ourselves that the ground is solid before
we press onward. The guarantee OF
the continuance of our institutions and
found in the intelligent action OF the
masses clinging with all the tenacity
of our race to the foundation principles
upon which we have builded the proud
fabric of our government
AMERICAS MANIFEST DESTINY.
I am one who believes that the hand
of destiny is guiding the advance of
the American people. l am one who
believes that the stirring events OF the
present are a part Of the great plan,
which when it shall be finally evolved,
will girdle the earth with an invisible
chain of liberty and progress. From
the palaces and the novels of the world,
from the emotional races born beneath
sunny skies and from the phlegmatic
people of rigorous chimes, great streams
of humanity have poured into our land,
and mingling and commingling, they
have produced a new race which Will
sweep away superstition, ignorance and
inhumanity, and spread liberty, Christ
ianity and the rights of individuals
throughout every land and over every
sea. You may fear for the future and
you may argue until doonsday that
our geOgrap hical lines must not be eX-
tended, but you can no more stop the
overflow than you can dam the noun
tain torrent, and the reason can be
found in the fact that the expansion
of American ideas is manifest destiny.
1t is a part of the plan of creation.
Race after race has swept over the
world, each succeeding race attaining
to a higher degree of civilization. The
records of some are lost in the distance
of the past Only here and there, in
the rude utensils of the cave jewellers,
in the earth. works of the n1nund
builders, in the Queerly fashioned i'm
plements Of the stone age, can we find
evidences of their having existed. But,
in the tracingS on the rocks, in the
ruins of their forgotten temples, in
the history of humanity, we learn that
each century has noted an advance and
that perfection is the goal which hu-
nlanity seeks. The marvellous advance
by this people in science, art, intelli-
gence and in all that makes a nation
great, is the forerunner of the
years to come, when even the
castles of cruel Spain and the mosques
of the unspeakable Turk will be light
ed with intelligence and freeov.-.. 1t is
the destiny Of this people to advance,
anG cur language will yet be Drattled
by infants born in the remoteSt islands
of the sea 1t must be remembered that
God sifted three Kingdoms to find
the seed for this planting.
Then sifted the wheat, as the living
seed ot a nation:
so say the chronicles old. and such
is the faith of the people
THE DAWNING OF A NEW ERA.
The echoes which reverberated around
the world from the cruel explosion
which sank the good ship Maine, and
which hurled two hundred and eighty
eight brave sailors into eternity, awak-
ened the people to the dawning of a
new day, and marked the beginning OF
another era. Our people had become
so engrossed in the art of money get
ting they had grown to look upon the
q haT Of rTrl11 1l1T>
than intellect, that there was needed
the awful shock of SPANS cruel dead;
there was necessary the crash and the
onset of war to awaken US to our duty
and 10 induce US to cease our worship
of combines. trusts and corporate things
and 70 recognize that there was some
thing higher and nobler than the mere
accumulation of riches The electric
spark which fired the mine beneath the
Maine, quickened the action of the con-
science Of America, and caused us to
recognize that the ninions of a cruel
race must be driven back across the
sea. u Sternly called us to account
for allowing hundreds Of thousands of
human beings, struggling as did our
forefatherS for the privileges of free
government, to be tortured and starv-
ed and murdered within one days sail
of our coast. It forever bauished the
lingering reSentmentS of our civil war
a harmonious and patriotic people. The
shock Of arms, the clash of war, the
resOunding roar Of cannon were needed
to Danish effeminacy and to cause the
land to recognize that the man in over
allS is quite as often worthy of honor
as the dudish representative of money
in bank.
AMERICAS UNITY OF PURPOSE.
The first effects Of the war have been
to astonish the world with-sthe unity
of purpose of the American people.
Political lines vanished in an hour and
the supporters and opponents Of the
administration Wed with each other in
patriotic efforts to make our purpose
effective. Geographical lines were OBJ
liberated and the blue and the gray
united to make the power of the United
States supreme. This great nation with
its wonderful resources and intelli-
gent manhood, moving without fric-
ton, has demonstrated that neither in
war nor in peace, in commerce nor
finance need we fear the world. We
have demonstrated that when the hour
of trial comes not wealth nor social
lines nor poverty divides the people.
Under the tropical foliage of Cuba,
under the oleanders bright hued flow
ers and beneas h the fan-Iike shadows
of the spreading palms scious OF the
financial kings of Wall street sleep the
last sleep in the same graves with the
cowboys of the plains and the rugged
mountaineers of the western states.
And their sleep is the sweeter, as their
lives were made nobier, by their burst
ing the lines with which caste would
enthrall humanity, and in their stand
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