The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13
Knows Utah.


darkness and the strife of Illinois.
Knows Utah.
I feel that ] am little associated with
the pioneers of Utah. for as a boy with
bleeding feet | marched beside our OK
teams every foot Of the way from the
Missouri river to these mountain valleys,
10 this city, forty-four years ago. felt
the restraining influence OF that church's
hand upon me, in the wayward days of
my boyhood. and boyhood passed into
manhood. deep conviction of the truth
of her teachings lay hold OF my heart.
representative abroad. and In the United
States. In the midst OF shame and perse-
cution and mob violence. l passed
through all those experiences later
days OF manhood came on. and | re-
sponded to the teachings she impaired
to me. and ] obeyed all of them. l found
myself behind prison walls and with
the stripe OF shame upon me. but God
was good, even then, for amid those
strange circumstances. which now seem
Ike dream. was called upon by War
den Pratt even there TO teach my faith
among the spirits in prison. (Applause0
Often allurenents were offered me 10
forsake her. this church whose cause il
has become second nature in ne TO de-
TO me. associations In business that
promised better rewards than the pit
tance that she was able to give TO me:
but in the midst OF such temptations.
poem, In which the Irish peasant adj
dresses his mistress. supposed to be. in
the alegory the ancient church of Ire
land. would occur to me.-and this Is
the way IL runs:
"Thro' grief and thro' danger thy smile
hath cheered my way,
Till hope seemed TO bud from each
thorn that round me lay:
The darker our fortune. the brighter our
pure love burned.
gh. t,,r. r.f, ,1Dx So.
was turned;
Yes slave as was in thy arms my spirit
felt free.
And blessed even the sorrows that made
me more dear TO thee.
Thy rival was honored. while thou vert
wronged and scorned
Thy crown was of briers, while gold her
brows adorned.
She wooed me to temples. while thou
lay'st hid in caves:
Her friends were all masters. while
thine. alas, were slaves:
Yet cold in the earth, at thy feet
would rather be,
Than wed what | loved not, or turn one
thought from thee"
7 hope yet to see the Mormon church
free from the dishonor of unholy alli-
ances with political trcksters, until she
shall keep her covenants. every whit OF
them. In letter and In spirit. and yet
WIN tDS. al rIllrutlOn OF all honorable peO-
pie at last; until she shall fulfill her high
mission of making proclamation of the
truth God had deposited with her. and
perfecting the lives OF those who receive
the truth; until the church shall make it
her sole business TO make men and leave
men to make the state. unawed by in
huence and unbought by gain. Cap
plause.)
/ see here in these fair mountain val
leys our state of Utah, with the re-
sources capable OF making an empire I'm
these mountain valleys. Valleys than
which none are richer in the world.
Mountain ranges, broad of base. rear
skies that DER bend the earth. A land
of fairest sunshine. n land where the
sunsets are more glorious than in Italy,
and whose sun-rjses, ms they chase the
shadows from the valleys, are the most
beautiful In the world. ! see these noun
happy people. whore liberation of Nor
mon and Gentle. 'and Jew. and Meth
odst, and Baptist, and Catholic alike,
shall prevail and where men, though they
differ in creed shall meet upon the
broad plane OF citizenship, content that
each shall worship the Great Father as
seemeth 10 him good. and prompted
by his own conscience; and YET stand
Ing on the broader plane OF ar inde-
pendent citizenship. where all may be
united in uplifting the character of our
state, and founding aud maintaining here
one OF the greatest commemorative in
the sisterbood OF states All this Is
possible. but before II can be realized
10 It's fullest extent present conditions
must pass away. and as ono of the first
steps essential to the day OF peace which
/ am confident win yet dawn on Utah
we must come to that understanding that
In civil government the people shall rule.
anil Nsntt for Mt i.Nt,