The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-01
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: THURSDAY OCTOBER l. 1908

Ogden does not need to humbly plead
for recognition. She has reached the point
where she commands it. And what of
her resources? She has tributary, besides
her great railway center with ali that inn
plies as a distributing point both for
freight and passenger traffic a splendid
sugar factory, cement factory. q Smelt-
er, flour mills, canneries, creameries, wa
ter power, electric power, hot springs.
canyon resorts. an arm of our great salt
sea. sheep and cattle upon 2 thousand
hills. schools, churches, hospitals, unusu-
al talent in music and invention. Behind
Eospitable. ambitions, patriotic and God
fearing that would be a credit to any
Christian country under the sun.
This tribute to Ogden applies in many
features to the other growing cities and
settlements within the confines of these
four counties For who can measure the
fame of Brigham City's peaches, or where
in all our state can be found sweeter
what would Salt Lake City do without
the gardens of Davis county?
With this brief review of present con-
ditions it does not require the voice of
a prophet to declare your greatness in
the years to come; ii only requires work.
1t was Mark Twain who said: We are
all lazy as we dare to be, and most of
US are pretty bold But work applied in
diligently with all these resources as a
basis will make of the owners of this soil
a race of kings. The only degraded man
is he who looks on and watches the great
world work
when 1 see this picture my thoughts
reach out to the men and women who
pioneered this favorite spot l was not
here when Hon. Lorin Farr first came to
the banks of this beautiful river, nor do
l personally know to whom more than
any others is due the credit of laying the
foundation of this choice commonwealth.
1t was before my day, but L do remem-
Der that ] knew some of the men whose
NJ ST have their
names here for all time. | do not forget
Lorin Farr, who is still with us, nor l.
J. Herrick, David II. Peery. Franklin d.
Richards, Lorenzo Snow, Samuel Fran
els and ]. w. Hess, who are gone. These
men and many others-God bless their
memories-were empire builders and de-
serve to live in our memory forever.
What of the men of today? With all
her advantages, Ogden could not stand
where she does were it not for the cali
Der and character of the men who DO
things here and now. You may well De
proud of the strong men OF Ogden, most
of whom are no doubt identified with the
Weber club and chamber of commerce.
They are too big, too patriotic, too loyal
to be divided and torn asunder in the
religious strife that abstracts some parts
of our state. The men and women of Og-
den are winning health, wealth and happi-
ness for thousands of comfortable homes
now here and thousands yet TO be"
Congressman Howell Next.
Congressman Howell spoke next. AS
Mr.. Howell is in congress and has prl-
vate secretary paid for by the govern
ment he was able to have longer speech
than Mr. Martineau, who is not yet in
congress and who has no private secretary
competent to write his speeches. Believ-
ing that the Wellsville spellbinder should
be limited to the same space as given Mr..
Martineau. The Herald mas selected a
couple Of the five pages of his typewr:t-
ten speech. which fairly represent its av-
erage worth not worse and probably bet
ter than the other three pages Here it is:
LAS l look over this vast concourse g
people. of free American citizens, sur
rounded on all sides by the fruits of toll
and Industry. ] feel to congratulate you
in having your lot cast in pleasant places
1t was related of an Ogden man, who was
favored in being escorted through heaven
by benign Saint Peter, thal as he ap-
preached one very beautiful aid fertile re-
giOn, with towering mountains ard in
Viting canyon retreats, with broad boule-
wards and crystal streams dashinG AMI
SplaShing over the rocks, a stretch of fer
tile. sloping country, IF Soile fields anI
ripening orchards, extending from the
marking of the lake that lay glistening IN
the morning sun like burniShe6 silver.
that Saint Peter grew animated in deS-
canting upon the marvellous and incoa:-
parable beauty and fertility of the coun-
try and this enthusiastic Ogdenite de-
lightedly exclaimed: This is like the
gion of the Big Four counties that has
Ogden for its metropolis
Certain ii is that You have everything
to be thankful for. This splendid eXhibj-
ton of cereals, grasses and fruits be
speaks the strength and fertility of your
soil and climate. and the skill and in
dustrv of your people. This splendid dis
play of manufactured articles to be seen
here is proof OF your advancement AMI
progress in manufacturing. And YET
when | see these splendid evidences of
your toll ard iudu: try, | must take -
glance into the dim and distant vista of
believe
a transformation has been Wrolgnt A
little over sixty years ago a hand of foO--
sore. weary wanderers reached the
heights Of the surrounding mountains
From those heights for the first time they
looked down upon these valleys, their dis
tant future home. AS Moses stood on Pts
gahs height and viewed the promised
land. so they from those silent peaks
viewed their asylum of rest.
Around them silence and desOlatiOn,