The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-15

bemoaning that she was weary Of her
loneliness: and then from out the path
less chasms Of the hills, lifted up my
voice and babe her cease, saying: Earth,
be thou cOmfOTted; the period Of thy des-
OlatiOn soon shall end-thy human history
begln-thy wales be peopled with a multi
tude- The faculty in man which bids
him peer into the depths of what is vast
and infinite. tempts him to explore thy
measUreless domain. His restless eye in
terrOgates the west, wondering upon the
mysteries Of its mountains. piCturing the
beauties Of its parks and coYeting the
metals Of its caves. Yet a few years, and
thou, unsatisfied earth, that bemoanest
thy sOlitariness, shall feel how ruthless
is the hand Of him thou WOOest. He comes
TO scale thy peaks and trample down thy
fairest flowers for his vanity; he comes to
chase the deer and the bison from thy
parks, he comes 70 pierce thy sides for
mis- cupidity. Yet, though a tyrant, he
knows how to love and how to glory in
thy grandeur: thy fair face TO him shall
be the dearest under heaven. and his de-
light to gladden. thy waste places-on thy
breast he shall weave the destinies of his
majestic Will-shall rear his palaces and
make on thee his home.
And now, ye sons and daughters Of
those who came before, how has this, my
prophecy, been fulfilled?
Your fathers dared the desert and the
wilderness to find this bOunteous land.
Here the glad soil, laVishly responsive
to their filling, brings forth its fruits with
ever-increasing abundance; here the rock
ribbed hills pour out their streams of
golden metal; here glare increasingly
through night and day, the furnace fires
Of Industry; here active brains and cum
ming minds are working out the splendid
destinies OF an inland empire; while
flashing trains speed through the devious
paths of my mountains, bringing from
every cline the wondering hosts to gaze
in admiration upon your broad avenues,
where stately structures reared TO com
merce lift their many-storied walls.
'Tidings of these wondrOus things have
reached me in my mountain sOltudes.
News Of greater and greater marvels
multiplied, until I. the White Wizard of
the WasatCh. became curious to behold
Them, and hither have I jouneyed, with
my train, to gladden. my soul with the
spectacle Of your achievements.
"A great and prosperous city spreads
before me, set in the midst of surprising
beauty; its wide streets glowing in hOli-
day attire; its hundred thousand people
united in a single purpose, that of show
ing reverence to the noble remnant of the
great host who fought so valiantly in the
years gone by that happy places like this
might be throughout a nation.
7, the guardian Wizard of the Wa
satch, am so gratified with that which
greets my sight that it shall be my pleas
IRE each summer hereafter. forever, to
revisit with my train these scenes Of
hospitality, and in such increasing Splen-
cor Of display and pOmp Of retinue. that
my coming will be told throughout the
whole wide world.
so live that I may find that each re-
curing visit you have maintained
your lofty ideals and kept pace with the
spirit of progress.
"AH honor and congratulations to those
who founded this fair city; TO those who
have carried on its growth and those who
will add to it's splendor in the years to
come. Ali honor to those famous men of
wealth and power who have come from
afar to commit their faith and substance
TO the upbuilding Of a mighty city; all
honor to the men and women who toll
God keep them, every one