The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-05
ly, favoring' the plan to establish post
al savings banks.
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND
SENATORS.


ELECTION OF PRESIDENT AND
SENATOR'S.
Judge Powers spoke unequivocally
in favor of the election of the president
and vice president by direct vote of the
people.
HEROES OF WAR AND OF PEACE.
This day we celebrate the birth of
freedom; the triumph OF the rights of
man; the Declaration of Independence;
the marcl - progress; the obliteration
of the biz hess of the civil war; and
the achievements of our soldiers and
sailors. We have greater cause for re-
jcicing now than ever before. We be-
hold the army and navy led by Of
ficers from the north and from the
south, and we behold our flag protect
ing the single star of the youngest re-
public of the world For one hundred
years America failed to do her duty.
We behe,G the cruelties of Spain in
Cuba, ard we tied the hands of the
natives of that isle when they man
fully battled for their freedom. At last
we have awakened to our responsible
ity, and the flag Of the oppressor will
be beaten back across the sea. Column
Gia, win enlighten the world with lib
erty ard the blood of her martyrs VIII
regenerate the soil of the oppressor.
Our hearts throb with pride, as, day
by day, the stirring events in which
we i've demonstrate the courage and
lofty purpose of our sons in arms. We
knew what they would do. We have
watched them in the days of peace
Upon burning buildings and counting
the embrace of death. they have brave
" rescued the suffering. With hand
upon the lever of the locomotive, and
with thought upon the lives in their
charge, they have ridden to an un-
tim ely end as sacrifices to duty. Down
within the earth through poisonous gas
and amid falling rocks they have rush
Id to the rescue of comrades. In f-tid
cellars, and at paupers' pay, with
dc aths finger branding their brows,
they have toiled for a pittance rather
than beg. 1t is the manhood and the
WCmanhood OF the American men and
women that blossoms, when the trial
comes TITO such deeds of courage and
self-sacrifice, that life becomes illum-
ired.
The heroes of peace are as brave and
self sacrificing as the heroes of war.
No pen recounts their deeds and their
praise is not sounded in loud declaim
Our pulses quicken and our hearts
beat fast when we read of gallant deeds
of war or sea and land. while we
scarce take thought of the heroes of
peace Ella Wheeler Wilcox has re-
--rtly said, in words that will live:
az. that is story that takes ones
breath
How tie men rode out in the face of
death.
Rowed as calmly as fishermen may.
Who haul their nets at break of day.
But never was fish net hauled in the
weather
That rifle and cannon and shell together
Rains on those sailors who drew from its
Inc wise sea serpent and crushed its mead
Heroes of war are theyl Song and story
Shall add their names to the list of glory.
But where is the story and where is the
song
For the heroes of peace and the martyrs
of wrorc?
They fight their battles in shop and mine;
They die at their posts and make no sign.
And the living envy the fortunate dead
AS they fight for pittance of BUTTERFLIES
bread
They herd like beasts in slaughter pen:
They live like cattle and suffer like men.
Why, set by the horror of such a life,
Like merry-go-round seems the battle S
strife;
And the open sea, and the open boat.
And the deadly cannon with believing
throat.
Oh. what are they all, with death thrown
in,
To the life that has nothing to lose or
The life that, has nothing to hope or gain
But ill-paid labor ana beds of pain?
| Fame where is your story, and where is
your SONG
For the martyrs of peace and the victims
of wrong?