Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-22

1 promise to those who shall come ai'er
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| ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR KINGS
/ BURY.
Professor Kingsbury spoke as fol-
| lows:
TT affords me great pleasure to have
| the opportunity and the honor 10 spenan
| at the first regular meeting OIL
! State Historical Society OF utah. ,,'
| is nv native home and what has con-
cerned the people of Utah has more "
less concerned me. the various vloiss y,
tudes through which theyhave passeu,t "
u large extent have l passed. Altn ,,,,,
not a Pioneer the almost immeIuu5se
effects of a Pioneer life have h'in n,,
their Impressions upon me ana lnes
, have irrcsistibly instllled into me
warm patriotic and kindly feenns ~
wards Utah and her people FROM the
time the people of Utah Launched tnein-
selves upon the desert ocean OF tiis ~
termountain region until a rev years
ago they had almost an ihcessant
stormy voyage. but now the FURIOUS
portion of the storm has ceased anu !.
is sincerely hoped that the turpuIent
waters OF the past Will forever IN tnu
future remain calm. Privauon nnu re-
ligious warfare which have DIVIDED US
all, and the bitter and unpleasant reel
ings which have divided the people INTO
two distinct classes. 1t is to he hoped
will never return again, but that mar
mony and well wishing VIII suppIant
all the past dlscord. and that the peo,
pie of Utah will become one united
commonwealth working together to
build up within these mountains
prosperous and magnificent state.
Now, after the storm is passed and
quietude prevails over this land OF
yours and mine, we should spare a
moment now and then for meditation
- IL. - InV ItH
made clear no doubt to all OF us VINO
are fair minded and thoughtful that
the past discord and religious warfare
In these valleys have been due to DIFF
fcrences of honest opinions and honest
convictions. and the fact may be
learned and appreciated that each con-
tending faction has exhibited nature
in accordance with the laws. of the
great God of the universe who has ere
ated all mankind and given to each
Individual n nature which seemeth to
Him best. Furthermore. 1t may be
learned that human nature varies as do
all things else. that each individual
mind looks out upon nature through q
different pair of eyes and surveys the
open fields from different points OF
view, and usually sees different set
of objects and the same objects in diff
ferent phases. My friends. who would
have it otherwise? for. 1t is this that
dividual entity. We have good reason
therefore to forgive each other for past
differences. for past prejudices. We
know more than we did in the past, we
know human nature better, we know
more of natural laws, we are wiser and
1t Is to be hoped that we are better.
''The Pioneers of Utah are mostly de-
scendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of
America. They came to Utah for the
same purpose as did the Pilgrim Fa-
theirs land upon the shores of America.
They have had more or less the same
characteristics. They are human NOR
tails as their forefathers were and like
wise have made some mistakes. Had
they not made mistakes they would
not have been human. When they en-
tered Utah 1t was a desert covered In
places with alkali and sage brush.
There was little water flowing from the
mountains into the valleys below.
Great Salt Lake covered small area
as compared with the area since COW
cred by its waters. Savage Indians and
wild animals roamed through its val
leys and over It's mountains and all
seemed no doubt as desolate to the
Utah Pioneers as the bleak shores of
Plymouth on the Atlantic did to the
Pilgrim Fathers. Nothing was to be
done on entering Utah but to become
reconciled to the conditions and to
make the best of them.
Cabins were Immediately construct
ed and all walled In as a protection
from the attacks OF Indians. The
sage brush was cleared from the land.
the earth ploughed up and sown with
wheat. water bitches dug and roads
Into canyons made. and thus did the
Pioneers of Utah make beginning OF
life in this desolate looking country.
In short time Professor Orson Pratt
surveyed and laid out Salt Lake City
now the metropolis of this vast inter-
mountain region from the Rocky
mountains to the East to the state of
California on the west and running
north and south through the whole ex-
tent of the United States. Men and
their families were soon sent to all