Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24

pete determination of this people. In
able to accomplish this extreme they
must now content themselves with this
fact that their victims have departed
and they are at liberty to feast upon
the fruits of their labors, to convert
i their churches into places of carousal,
and to desecrate with violence the
precincts Of their temple.
And what OF the fugitves? Onward
they go an almost endless train into
the vast prairies. Through winters
piercing cold and driving SHOWS to
drencihng rains and bowling winds of
spring. suffering and enduring the dis.
comforts OF each season, but onward
still to the land of the setting sun
Iatlysy, go. They halt at many a new
made grave where loved ones shed
their farewell tears. Then on again to
the golden west. In their hearts is 4
prayer of gratitude and on their lips a
song of praise. Before their eyes is the
vision ever of n new land untrod. uu-
titled, its glor;es yet untold In song or
story but golden to them with Its
lpromise OF Il future nome where they
4 can live In peace and love and wor-.
ship God according to the dictates Of
their own consciences.
JULY SO YEARS AGO.
One more picture let us look upon.
Steep Bluffs juttns into the horizon.
AT their plse a mighty river upon
whose banks we can trace the fading
outline Of another city. This is a city
| of tents and wagons, of camp fires and
'boweries and browsing cattle. The
hard months have left their traces upon
our travellers. Many are in the rear,
| unable as yet to Join their foremost
ones Many lie stricken with disease and
] weakness, the result of exposure ana
insufficient nourishment. For all this
] however, there is a note of JOY and
4 gladness In the air in this month Of
July the month of glorious frution Of
promise of all the months But see.
| some strangers have entered among the
camps. There Is n buzz and stir of eX-
| element. What can be the object OF
| their visit? Can 1t be that enemies are
about to carry out their repeated
threats to cut off their journey west
ward 2 Their eager questions are soon
answered. Capt. Allen of the United
| States army has come into their midst
| to enlist 800 of their able bodied men
as soldiers to take up arms and march
to California in defense of their coun
try. That government. now in
the hour of her need demands
from their weakened ranks five
hundred able bodied men. What
| RTedler 1lcSLs Oh ltSlI1 lOydlly. " uelE
| flag or patriotism for her Institutions
could that government make than this?
Such a march would be undesirable
under the most favorable conditions To
leave wives and children, many of them
| sick. without shelter save the fiimsy
cover of a wagon, or sufficient food
or male protector. and that upon an
open prairie, the home of savages and
wild animals. Is requiring at their hands
ytb,, taC sacrifice that thew can
offer There Is a moments consulta-
ton and the word goes forth with one
accord. that Cant. Allen shall have the.
| Battalion.
In many of these men flows the blood
of Revolutionary ancestors. In Their
childhood they sat at the feet o. Nen-
cradle grandsires and listened with
rapture to the tales OF Valley Forge
and the crossing of the Delaware. They
had grown to manhood with the pulse
of patriotism Beating Strnrg and true
and when their country calls. although
she had mlsindged them. they do not
leave that call unhee'led. There Is an
inspection of the ranks. Recruiting
officers go back and forth In quest CT
the strong healthy. vigorous ones. In
three days four companies are eriisted
and on the 18th day OF J'ly, 6: Years
ago, on the public square. under the
shadow Of the Stars and Stripes that
have been floating from nearby tree,
the Mormon Battalion is mustered in.
FATHERS AND GRANDFATHERs.
Who are the men of this Mormon
Battalion, these strong, valiant ones,
the flower of the ranks of modern
Israel? They are our fathers and
grandfathers. And these to be left be-"
hind in sickness and weakness berett
oFt ai,,, Iral NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. WOlll-s
en- who shall ever share in the glory of
this sacrif1ce-who are they? They are
our mothers and grandmothers. Ma"
our daughters and granddaughters in
all the generations to come emulate
their courage voiced in the words of one
of them who said rather be a soldiers
widow than a towards wife.
A meeting is called and the wise and
noble leaders of the people speak words
of rarest comfort to our Battalion.
They are assured thai thci. families
shall have no fighting save with wild
animals. They are eShorted to be
brave, virtuous, true TO themselves,
their families, their brethren, their
country and their God.
Many Of the last farewells are spoli-s
en- under the bowery at the pall.
Through the long hours of the after
noon, loiterers along the river listen
with rapture to the strains of rare mu-
sic waited to them. This is no ordinary
frontiers makeshift. This music is be-
ing played by one of the famous or
chestras of England. The masterpieces
of Mendelssohn and other great artists
lend inspiration to the dancers.
COSTUMES AT BALL.
Could we draw forth yet another pic
ture ne should see a strange array of
costumes at this ball. Not the beauti-