The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-12

You may know, my relatives. After
Harry and John Young had enlisted l
had a conversation with their mothers
on the course they had taken They
felt. Notwithstanding that they were
not native Americans, that they were
doing their duty to send to the war
their sons. Though it broke their
) hearts 10 do so, they gave them up.
I WaBS to say on behalf Of the father
of young Parsons, who has requested
me to do so, that his son did not run
away from home to go to the war. He
enlisted without his fathers knowledge
when ne was away from home. Though
the father could have taken his son,
who was under age from the service.
he did not do So but told him to 90
and fight"
Councillor Joseph Z. Taylor spoke
with some energy
1t is not in my province. said he,
Ito discuss the question of the right or
the wrong of this war. which has been
going on for more than one year. Many
Of Utah's citizens recognized its right
eOusness and sent their sons or went
themselves to uphold the glorious ira
ditiOns of the republic.
Il want TO show you that TWO Of
these men, the two with whom I was
acquainted Harry and John Young,
came from fighting stock. The grand
father of Harry Young fought in the
revolutionary war, and their great
grandfather was a -sachusetts vol
untear who served against the French
in 174S. The fathers of both were
among the men who came across the
wilderness in thQse trying pioneer days
of long ago.
''AH praise 20 these four brave boys
all honor to their memory. 1 cOngratu-
late them that bear blood relation -
these heroes
S. ". Stewards Tribute.
S. ". Stewart. who had come at the
invitation of one of the families of the
dead men. was the next speaker.
I knew DR.. Harry y. Young" said
he His life was a pure one; he was
brave, simple and courageous. His in
teliectual attachments were of the high
est order 1 knew Corporal John c.
Young lie was a noble and exemplary
young man, and he leaves a name
among his comrades to be hOnOTed and
initiated"
Then followed a song by The Har-
mony Glee club. The Vacant Chair"
which was rendered with much feel
inE.
Seymour B. Young was the next
speaker.
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patty for the relatives of the boys
whose bodies lie before US Two Of
them were my near relatives. Their
fathers were pioneers and their great
/ grandfathers We're patriots and war
riOrs away back in the history of this
great nation. These boys went out to
unknown lands bearing what was to
them the gospel OF salvation and civil
izatiou.
Or. James It. Kinssbury. president of
the university o. Utah. who had known
/ DR.. Harry A Young told how he was
a student ten years ago and how
anxious ne was to secure an education
He said the doctor had graduated
there and had gone east TO take a
course III medicine, and had practic5d
I in one Of the large hospitals 20 perfect
+ himself before returning home.
President Cannon announced that
( President Georse .. Cannon. who was
il feeble health had been taken I'll and
was not IN a condition to attend the
meeting and deliver his promised ad-
dress.
The most eloquent speech of the serv-
ices was the few words of Dr. Taahage
OF the state university. IN tender
ana beautiful manner he touched upon
The sEJiUentS 0f TIE oecasi5n- So
rapidly does he speak that tee fine
pnraS.Cg Cf his sentences is lost for
ever and TIE flights ut eloQUt1ce cannot
be caught =
There is little necessity of adding
more Co the pra .Sc bestowed Oh these
young men, said he. They were
honorable and true and bravs It is
sufficient tina, when the nation called
they aDEU cred and when the solder
adds the seal OF his blood he becomes
a martyr Utah today mOurns her
dead, but she knows she did her duty
/ in an hour of national need We Go
well 10 give rein 10 cur feelings on &C.
/ CasioCs Of this kind for we can co so
without glorifyinE the horrors of war.
There is q deep and wonderful mys-
( terry in death. Few there are who have
{ not stood ia the shadow Of the death
I of their loved ones. These men died
a more glorious death than is the lot
Of nest men for they died in the line
RI their greatest duty"
DR.. Talmage went or at some length
housh 50 many speakers had gone BE-
fore that little time was left him His
clear baritone voice could he heard in
I the ferthermost parts Of the hall and
T ne moved many Of his listeners as they
+ seldom have been moved before
1 At the conclusion Of the services
many in that vast audience moved on
/ down the aisies in slow procession
3 past the four caskeJs. They viewed in
+ sadness and in admiration the last that
1 remains Of the four men who had
given up their lives in a faraway
tropic LAND. IL was an impressive and