The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-16

against me- and went down to death as
lnartvrs and TO the gentleman from Vir-
gina Comrade Harms, the hand or friend
ship and brotherly love-
Nevius Sounds Warning.
Il want to say 10 this gathering that
heIjeve that the Grand Army of the
RepubIic assembled at Toledo last sum-
mer made no mistake in selecting Salt
Lake City for the next annual encamp-
ment | have been more convinced than
eyer of this fact since l came TO Utah
This afternoon | visited your magnificent
tabernacle and am convinced that there
is no division between Mormon and Cen
tile on this fact, at least, you all want
and Won are all going TO do all in your
power TO entertain the veterans.
still / would not feel that l were do
ing nv whole duty did / not tell you of
tention this afternoon. Before l tell you
of it / want to ask you what would
have become of this republic were IL not
for the Grand Army of the Republic
what would have happened II TINS nation
had been divided into as many nations as
there are states and territories in this
country: what would have happened to
this great railway system that spans this
nation from coast to coast! And then
want to tell you that unless a reason
able rate is made by these same rail-
roads the commander in chief is empow-
cred to calk only a delegate convention to
Salt Lake or 10 transfer tne encdmpfnent
to some other city.
81 want to ask you people as represent
alive citizens OF this great city of Salt
Lake to urge these railroads to grant US
a rate of ] cent mile to Salt Lake as
they have done until the past two years.
We are not asking any privilege that any
citizen is not entitled to. We believe that
the railroads can carry US at that rate
and at a profit. We believe we are en-
titled to il, and if that rate is granted
promise you that we will bring $1,000
people to Salt Lake next summer"
The Great Republic.
Speaking to the toast, THE Great Re-
public o. W. Powers said:
Thirteen stripes of red and white. For
ty-six stars upon field of blue-that is
the emblem OF the Great Republic,
Sixteen stately battleships encircling
the globe, everywhere received with pomp
and circumstance and glad acclaim is
the visible evidence to all the world of
the virile power of this wonderful ma
ton where the people rule.
Nearly a hundred million intelligent
workers welcoming to their midst the
thousands from other lands whose souls
long for light and freedom; manifold re-
sources; myriads of factories; farms of
and men and women whose hearts are
filled with patriotic impulses; this is the
home of liberty.
statesmen. scholars. law-givers, poets,
beautiful that the light of heaven shines
from their eyes, brawny toilers and pa
tient students. all striving to advance,
all reaching out for higher aims and no
the Great Republic. who have grown with
its growth and who have been nurtured
by its advantages.
I'm all history there never was great
er army than the one that gathered at the
call of Abraham Lincoln. 1t went not
forth to conquest. but to preserve and
when it had done its work it had struck
the shackles from four million human
beiags, and yet its greatest achievement
was the respect and goodwill that it
obtained from men of the south that it
had been organized to fight. 1t battled
not with bitterness of heart and fierce de-
sire for vengeance 1t was imbued with
the spirit of the great president whose
sole desire was to save the Union. 1t
was a fit descendant of the Army of the
Revolution, and many of its members
lived TO see their own sons marching
shoulder to shoulder. with the sons of
men who wore the Gray. as they went
forth under the one flag to the strains
of Dixie and The Star-Spangled Ban
ner' TO right the wrongs OF Cuba.
I'VE are favored and most fortunate
that the remnant OF the great army
that marched with Sherman 10 the sea-
that fought above the clouds at Chatta-
nooga: that faced the hail of shot and
shell in the seven days fight I'm the Will
derness; that rode with Sheridan and
marched with Mcclellan. Grant and
Hooker, are coming here to us to break
bread with us. and to meet their COM
rades- They are the hOnored of the Great
Republic because they We're the saviors
of the Great Republic. and because of
the fact that their greatest achievement
consisted in cementing by the ties of af-
lection the sections of the country that
had been divided
Looking to the Future.
What of the future of the Great Re
public2 What of the daY when Canada