Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-15

President Springer introduced Gov. II.
NJ. Wells,
GOV. WELLS WELCOME.
Governor Wells delivered a speech Of
hearty welcome In the following lam
guage which was warmly applauded:
Mr. President and Members Of the
National Live stock COnvcut0n:-One
year ago / had the pleasure Of extend
ing to your association, then convened
az Fort Worth, a written invitation To
hold your next annual convention IN
salt Lake City, and among other things
/ said that wherever you might decide
to go, nowhere within the broad eN-
pauso Of our mighty nation would your
welcome be any warmer than here IN
Utah. I now desire 90 cOnhle TO you
that when / wrote those words II was
ln the FUN consciousness that an cleo
tion for Governor of this state would
take place before your next convention
and that I'm all probability The chickens
which ! then Matched would come nome
20 roost upon the shoulders OF another
man.
However since the pleasant duty OF
welcoming you Is deNolved upon me- !
ann here 20 make good insist upon ana
emphasize those utterances Of last year
and furthermore a. assure you that no
matter II the weather man reports a
frost In the vicinity, the hearts OF the
usople of Utah and the homes Of the
people of Salt Lake city are as warm
AS Inc sunny side Of tall hay stack
COWBOY on THE RANGE.
when night overtakes the cowboy
riding the range. he pulls up at the
nearest ranch puts his horse IN the
barn and goes I'm the house with his
spurs on and proceeds TO cut the FAMILY
out of house and home, with none 10
modest or make afraid. In Ike manner
we invite YOU TO come 20 our homes ana
lay OF your things and put your feet
I'm the oven and get acquainted. my
friends, the town is yours TO DO win u
as you please so long as you leave II
on the map.
Western people as a rule are not
willing To roncede that SOutherners are
any more hospitable than they are
even II Southern hospitality was dls-
covered first. But far be IL from me 10
IAN the flame OF sectional prejudice. 1
agree with Mr.. Dooley: AS Hogan says
there should be no North( no South no
East no West and no Northwest Lei
us remember we are all nephews OF the
same great Uncle Sam.
EVERYTHING FREE.
owe haven't as much to offer you
out here as you would get at the wal
dorf- Astoria, but there Is no tail iron
fence all the way around the yard, and
Won win not find the little we nave
chained TO a marble pillar or lockeu
In a steel safe. You must remember
that our State is not as OLD as Me
thuselah. and we have lots Of time yet
10 get over our growing pains ana come
out IN society. You must remember 100
that we started with nothing. go
when the Pioneers came here IN a.
they didn't have any more TO eat thHh
a rabbit Aunt Hannah Pratt used 10
tell me that IN those early days II she
could get a drink Of water and plenty
of good greens, she was happy. Old
Jim Bndger the trapper told brigham
Young when he was coming out win
his historic band Of Pioneers, that ne
would give him a thousand dollars TOT
every bushel Of grain he could raise IN
/ The salt Lake valley. II Jim were awe
today. he would owe more than the
national debt.
PIONEER DAYS.
"It took a day and a half for a good
/ live stream Of water. diverted from lts
original channel. to run half a mile SO
fearfully dry was the soil In AZ, but the
| Pioneers were young and brave and
/ strong and had nothing 10 do but i've
and so they kept turning the water out
ON the land and grubbing out the sage
brush. and by and by they began 70
raise crops. and then when the crlckets
who invariably sat at the first table
left anything, some of the Pioneers
would get light lunch. From TINS
! poor beginning we have grown until We
| have several millionaires in our midsl
/ who always get enough TO eat aud
sometimes too much to drink.
There are some tall bull rush.
/ % growing In some Of our
streets down by the river yet
| but our faVorite sons In their forensic
| efforts have stated so frequently tha'
Salt Lake City Is a great midland me-
| tropolls that we all believe II and We
hone you will help US out In spreading
/ the report The howl OF the coyote can.
/ not be heard any more within several
| miles OF the Temple and the chirp OF
| the cricket Is hushed especially IN tht
winter. The wilderness Of fifty years
ago. where lizards crept and prairie
dogs turned hand springs in the sun
has been transferred by the sweat and
genius and energy OF a patient, GOO
fearing people into a garden OF promise
where children swing their baskets OF
their way to school. where peace and
plenty are scattered DER a smiling land
and great national conventions are
held
UTAH LIKE TEXAS.
utah like Texas, was not a part OF
the domain OF the United States unit
long after the second OF the two great
wars with our political parent Great
Britain. the first OF which secured oul
legal the second our actual sovereign
" While these great struggles were In
progress and for years thereafter tbs
territory out OF which the States named
were carved, were such raw and unta'
miliar sections OF the continent that
they did not figure upon the charts OF
among the geographical literature OF
, the country at all All the while the
steady western trend Of civilization was
being maintained. however the marvel
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