Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-12
of bro,hcrly love and all intensely and
patriotically American.
\ GREAT COUNTRY.

patrioucally American.
\ GREAT COUNTRY.
This is a great. eounirXsin which We
live. This is mighty nation which our
fathers created Its manifest destinS
is TO spread civilization and Christian.
| ity throughout the world and to light
| the darkest land with the torch OF ILL
| erty. You who have Travelled partly
over It's vast eNpanee have gained some
idea of It's extent and still latent c.yor-
entities You passed over great plains
Of virgin soil, which will yet bloom With
vegetation. You came here through
the eGteWays OF the mountains that
wall these vflleys. The genius of man
enabled you TO speed with comfort over
the shadcless plans across which the
Pioneers tciled and upon which tender
women lushed the handcar.s thrcugh
weary days 20 the heart of the Rocky
mountains where they laid the founda
ton of this young yet mighty state.
When you looked down upon this val
ley, you beheld flowers and well TILED
fields, and cities and pleasant homes,
and all the evidences of civilization,
When the Pioneers. under the leader
ship OF Brigham Young, looked upon
the valley of the Great Salt Lake, thel
saw sagebrush and arid soil wrapped
in the solitude of untamed nature. They
reached into the hills and chained The
mountain streams. and leading them
upon the thirsty land transformed the
wilderness into busy marts of trade and
commerce.
WATER, THE LIFE BLOOD.
Water is the life blood Of the soil.
Water transmutes the desert sands in
to gardens of fabulous fertility. Strike
the rocks like doses of old and lead the
water upon the sagebrush plains over
which you passed and farms and towns
and cities viii spring forth. We may
honestly disagree as to the wisdom OF
extending our dominion over distant
islands, but there should be no lack OF
harmony as to the advantage Of addinL
millions Of fertile acres to the nations
area. which Will furnish homes and
competence TO hundreds Of thousands OF
disheartened workers In our overcrowd-
ed cities. This internal expansion can
be accomplished by turning water upon
the arid land. This is not a work for
the Individual. This is not a work for
the municipality or the state. 1t Is a
work of national Importance as impera-
tive as the canal across the isthmus.
extend this thought in the hope that
you will carry II to your homes and
help to embark the national govern
ment In this work Of national import
ance. To conquer and redeem the arid
lands needs none of the engnery OF
war. II is work of peace, and when
accomplished the glory and power oil
the nation win be magniied.
'MoRMoNS" MAGIC WORK.
LOOK about you, and seeing with your
eyes What has been done you viii |
appreciate what can be done. The !
"Mormons" tapped the streams and |
wheat fields waved where only sage. |
brush fiourished. a vast emolre here !
awaits the conquering hand Of man.
An empire devoted to production can be !
created. greater than any that was ever
subdued by the mghtiest warrior OF the |
world. Ills vast region will yet teen |
with population. Its men and women !
will be OF the highest type OF American
manhood and womanho0d. Ii ls In the /
arid regions OF the world that humanity
has the power TO attain TO the great
est perfection This Is the history OF
the past and IL Will be the demonstra-
ton OF the future.
A LAND OF PROMISE.
II is to this land OF promise that we
bid you welcome. We welcome you to
a city and TO a state, where abject pow
arty Is unknown. We welcome you TO a
section where opportunity lies in wait
10 reward honest and earnest toll. We
welcome you to the valley OF the great
lead sea OF America. whose fingers once
raced its shore line 1000 feet above
you and within whose breast is locked
he mysteries OF the ages. We welcome
you TO a state filled with hospitable
homes. whose hills hug within their
breasts the yellow gold and whose VOL
eys lifted mile above the level OF
he sea are kissed by air as pure as an
infants sigh. Into this land you have
'ome as our guests and our hope is,
hat no Ions as you shall remain, YOU