Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-26

between, winch had already absorbed
the swedish were in their turn abb
sorbed by the English, Pennsylvania
was founded and later stlll. Georgia
there were many wars with the 1n-
dians and with the daunteSs cap
tains whose banners bore the lilies or
France Az last the British flag dew
without a rival in all eastern North
America. Then came the successful
struggle for national independence.
For half n century after we became
a separate nation there was conn
pra1ively little Immigration to- this
country. Then the tide once again
set hither. and has flowed in over In
creasing size until in each of the last
three years a greater number OF peo-
pie came TO these shores than had
landed On them during the entire
colonial period Generation by gem
Grafton these people have been alb
soTbed tntO the national life. Gem
orally their sons, almost always their
grandsons, are indistlngulshnble srom
one another and from their fellow
Americans descended from the Co To-
NAL stock For all alike the prob
lens OF our existence arc fundament-
ally the same, and for all alike these
problems change from generation 10
generation.
WESTWARD MOVEMENT.
In the colonial period. and tor at
least century after its close, the
conquest of the continent the eS-
pansiOn of our people ives tward- TO
the Alieyhenies then TO the Alissi6-
sippi, then 10 the Pacific, was alNvo VS.
one Of the most important tasks, ana
some times the most in1p ortant, In our
national life Behind tho first set
tiers the conditions grew easier. ard
IN the older settled regions OF all the
colonies life speedily assumed mt UGH
Of comfort and something Of luxury
ana though generally 1t was on a
utuch more democratic basis than life
in the old world. it was by no means
democratic when judged by our mod
el-n standards, and here and there,
as in the Underwater regions at NiF-
ginid, q genuine aristoNracy grew ana
1lourished. But the men who first
broke ground in the virgin wilderness,
whether on the Atlantic coast or In
the interior, fought hard 1or mere life
I'm the early stages the frnnterSnlan
Rad 20 do battle with the savage, and
when the savage was vanquished there
remained the harder strain OF war
with the hostile forces OF soil and civ
mate, with Hood fever and famine.
There was sickness pnd bitter weather;
there were no Dads, there was u conn
piete lack of all but the very toughest
and most absolute necessarles. GIn-
women who made ready the cunti-
nent for civilization were able them
selves to spend but little tirne In do
ing ;tught but the rough work which
was to- make smooth the ways az their
successors IN consequence observers
whose insight was spoiled by lack of
sympathy always found both the set
tiers and their lives unaIttaftiye and
rapellent.
EDEN DESCRIPTION TRUE.
In Martin Chuzsswit ths description
OF America, eliminating in the de-
scripIion OF the frontier town OF Eden,
was true and ife-liko from the stand
point of one content 10 look merely
az the outer shell and yet 1t was a
community like Eden that gave birth
to Abraham Lincoin II was men such
al We're therein described from whose
loins Andrew jackson sprang-
A TASK FOR EACH GENERAT TON
Hitherto each generation among HIS
has had it's allotted task. now heavier,
now lighter In the Revolutionary war
tho business was TO achieve independ
enee. Immediately afterwards there
was an even more nlomentous task,
that to achieve the national unity and
the capacity for orderly development,
without which our liberty, OUR indie
pendence, would have been a curse
and not "a blessing. In each OF these
two contests. while there were many
great Readers from many different
states. it Is but fair to say that The
foremost place was taken by the SOL
dIers and the statesmen of Virginia;
and to Virginia was reserved tho honor
OF producing the hero of both move
ments, the hero Of the war, and of the
peaC. tlIat made good the results OF
tI,a ava Va while
the TWO great political tendencies OF
tho time can be syrmhOliaed by ths
names of two Other great Nirginians-
Jefferson and Marshall-flom one Of
whom we inherit the abiding trust In
the people which Is the foundation
stone OF democracy, and from the 9TH
elv the power To develop on behalf OF
the people coherent and powerful
government a genuine and representa-
tive nationality
CIVIL WAR PERIOD.
Two generations passed before the
second great crisis OF our history had
to be faced. Then came the Civil war,
Terrible and bitter In itself and In its
aftermath. but a struggle from which
the nation finally emerged united In
fact as well as In name, united for
ever. oh. my hearers my fellow coun-
trynlen, great indeed has been our good
fort une: for as time clears away the
nlsts that once shrouded bro other from
brother and lnade each look ''as
through a glass darby" at the other,
we can all feel tho same pride In the
yalor. the devotion and the featy to.
ward the right MS II was given 20 each
"a see the right, shown alike by the
men who wore the blue and by the men
who wore the gray. Rich and PROS
perous though We arc as people, the
proudest heritage that each of W has
no matter where no may dwell, north
or south east or west, IL the llnma-
terlal heritage of feeling, the right 10
claim as his own all the valor and all
the Pttndfast devotion to duty shown
bv the men Of both the great armies,
of the soldiers whose leader was Grant
and The soldiers whose leader was Lee,
The men and the women OF the CIvIl
war ala their duty btavely and well IN
the days that were dark aud terrible
ana splendid.
DUTY or DESCENDANTS,
We, thsll descendants who pay proud
homage 10 their memories, and glory m
the Seats OF might OF one side no less
rhhn or the other. need 10 keep steadily
in mind that rhc homage which counts
is the homage of heart and OF hand. and
not Of the Hips, the homage Of deeds and
not Of words only We TOO, IN our
turn must prove our truth by our en-
deavor We must show ourselves W0r.
Tbs sons OF the rnen az tho mighty days
by the way I'm which we meet tho prob
lens OF our own time We carry our
heads hiBh because our fathers d IA well
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