The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-31
ALL OGDENITES
CELEBRATE DAY
Services in Ogden Tabernacle
at Which Judge Howell Is
Principal Speaker.

Memorial day was generally observed
in Ogden yesterday. The weather was
ideal and all of the resorts did a great
business. At an early hour people began
to desert their homes and long before
noon all of the parks and other resorts
were crowded.
At Glenwood park there were bicycle
races, dancing and the baseball game in
addition to the usual attractions. There
was record breaking attendance. Al
Sylvan park, which was thrown open &c
the public for the first time yesterday,
the Retail Merchants association drew d
large crowd In fact. the capacity OF
the grounds was taxed, both afternoon
and evening. Several hundred people
went TO the canyon and other resorts
farther out of town.
The entire day passed without acct
dent. Transportation facilities were
good with the exception of about an hour
when one of the trolley wires broke at
Sixteenth street and Washington avenue.
Every car owned by the Rapid Transit
people was in service
Many persons visited the cemeteries
during the day and decorated the graves.
This is especially true of the local lodge
OF the Grand Army of the Republic and
its associate organizations. Prior to
visiting the cemeteries the members of
the G. A. R., the Spanish war veterans
and others marched from the city hall
to the Ogden tabernacle where services
were held commencing at $3.50 o'clock.
At these services Judge J. A. Howell
was the orator of the day. After short
addresses by Rev. ID. W. Crane, E. T.
Carver, Judge Howell was introduced.
He said in part:
Judge HowelI's Address.
This is the one day of all the year
when throughout the length and
breadth of this great land of ours the
people assemble together to render rev.
erent homage, not to some particular
great man in our history. the anniversary
or whose death ii is, but to all those
who have passed into the valley of the
shadow of death 1t is the day upon
which all the living lovingly remember
all the dead and in solemn assemblage
with appropriate ceremonies, renewing
their obligations to their predecessors,
transmit to the generations that are to
come the great traditions and ideals of
the past.
THE significance of the day has grad
ually DrOadened in scope until now be-
sides being devoted, as it was at its in
ceptlon, to concentrating the lives of
Ihose VINO TOOK part in the great Civil
war. it is set apart to the remembrance
OF all the soldiers of all our wars, of the
Revolution, of the war of 1912, the Mex
lean, the Civil. both those who wore
the blue and those who wore the gray.
and even our late war with Spain. Not
only is il devoted to the remembrance
OF those who served their country on
the battlefield. but all those who have
1Zatfon, and even those who, though I'M
known to fame, were kith or kin or
friends to US, whom We hold in loving
remembrance. to whom we owe debt
of personal gratitude for which we can
never sufficiently recompense them
Problems in New Possessions.
He spoke further on the achievements
of the American armies in putting down
oppression in Cuba, the freeing the
Philippines from the tyranny of Spain,
and the establishing of free American
institutions beyond the seas. AS a
legacy of the Spanish war he said.
we had thrust upon US the responsible
ty of the government of possessions far
distant from our shores and we have
set ourselves the task of preparing them
for the reception of our institutions and
laws. Just as in the past we have sent
missionaries all over the world to preach
the gospel of Christ. so now we are going
to send missionaries to the ends of the
earth to our island possessions to in
culcate in the inhabitants thereof the
principles of free government
Speaking of modern conditions and
problems which confront the nation he
said: THE greed of wealth and the
anarchy of ignorance form the greatest
problem this nation has had to face since
the abolition of slavery. 1t is another