Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-25

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Their bleeding feet red-hued each
frozen ridge.
The burning plain. the wind-swept
| prairie's waves
a path Of pain, trail of nameless
graves:
The wondering world. that watched
to see them die
on barren wllds beneath brazen
sky.
Would cen the coolest heart for
bear to say
Good cause had gratitude to weep
that day?
or censure for a flow of manly tears.
That hrave-souled band-Immorta i
Pioneers"
MY friends and countrymen this
II Pioneer day, the day that makes
the heart of every true Utahn heat
with pride and thank God that he Is
| privileged To enjoy the untold bless
| ing Nouchsafed to him partially
through the sufferings, privations and
| courage Of the pioneers. we have
| come this day to pay homage to tho
| pioneer fathers and mothers OF this
| our beloved Utah. to recall their stIf-
| ferlngs, to express our gratitude for
| their labors, our admiration for their
virtues, our veneration for their piety.
| and our attachment TO the principle
OF religious liberty to establish which
| they endured so much.
ESTIMATE OF THEIR WORK
ut is fitting to give public expression.
teeplc though 1t may be, TO our esti-
mate or their work and to consider
what we I'm our day may be heaueath-
ing TO the generations that are rapidly
arising to I'll our places We are ail
citizens of fair Utah We all love her
and hope that our nosterity will be here
10 enjoy and suffer the allotments Of
humanity. We see before us marvellous
opportunities; we know that our own
fortunes have been happily cast and
God has been good TO us: and IL is
natural, therefore that we should he
moved by The contemplation OF occur
rences which have guided our destiny
hefore many Of us were born and SET s
tied the condition in which we should
pass that portion OF our existence which
God allows 10 man on earth. I never
read OF the wonderful story Of tho
establishing OF civilization I'm this inter
mountain country without being re-
minded OF how much It has affected our
own fortunes and our very existence.
IL would be still more unnatural for ma
the sons and daughters OF the pioneers
therefore. to contemplate with unaf
fected minds that marvellous and God
directed journey across those trackless
plains OF an almost unknown wilder
ness, when the greatest of modern
pioneers, Brigham Young, led a band
OF religious refugees to a new I'M
known, and then barren home. Think |
OF the responsibility resting upon this
modern Moses: think of the RESTLESS |
days and sleepless nights he must have |
spent during that and subsequent Jour |
neys, and imagine the joy to his soul |
when heaven at last granted him n |
moment OF rapture and ecstasy. IN /
blessing his vision with the sight Of "a /
now home bordering the shores OF an
inland salten sea. Imagine IL you can |
the consolation TO himself and associ-
ates when. gazing upon this valley for
the first time he said This is the
place God has prepared for his people
THESE pioneers were Americans do I
scendants Of the interviewing Anglo
Saxon race, which founded upon North |
Atlantic shores the mightlest and beat |
government that yonder sun has set
upon. They were patriots by instinct
and desire, state-founders by force OF
by tradition and divine |
destiny. They were the forerunners Of |
I'm this inter mountain |
country, the builders OF cities In tho
barren heart of the west. Here upon |
Mexican soil. among the first acts Of |
heirs was the unfurling of The Stars
and Stripes on yonder mountain peak |
md the taking possession OF the land In |
he name OF the United states. They
brought with them the flag that repre-.
'ented liberty and honor our flag the
me we would all die for They know
10 other They belonged to no other
country. They maintained. as we main
ain to this day, that America was
ounded by Inspiration from God the
Father.
STORY NEVER GETS OLD.
we cherish every memorial of the
worthy pioneers: we celebrate their
'atience and fortitude. To us. their
hlldren, the story OF their labors and '
can never be without inter I
st We shall not stand unmoved in 8
he shadows Of these lofty mountains {
While the sun continues 10 shine and !
he streams feed the thirsty land be- (
ow Nor viii We ever forget the loyal | |
Y TO country OF our pioneers when a /
equest was made by President Polk | I
pom the scattered. hunted, and de- I
leted fugitives from Nauvoo for a bat 4
alton of 500 men for the Mexican war. a
'righam Young declared without hesl- | a
alton You shall have your battalion. |,
apt. Allen, and II there are not young !,
len enough, we win take the old men. :
nd II they are not enough, we wifi 7
Ike the women" The battalion was 81
used without delay. and on the eve "
its departure the leader of his people r,
hid to them II want to say to every :
IAN that the Constitution of the Uni |
ID States. as framed by our fathers,
as dictated. was revealed, was put y
to their hearts by the Almighty. and d
tell you In the name OF Jesus Christ q
is as good as ever I could ask for n
say unto you. magnify the laws" -
ow well this battalion. known as the oi
ormon battalion, did it's work under a
e most trying conditions. let me not n
stfy 10 II, but hear what the his &C
rian has To say and listen 10 the re- bi
'rt OF the United States officer in al
inmand. After speaking OF the
arch OF 700 miles TO the Santa Fe.
lncroft, the historian. says:
. From Santa Pc the remainder OF ou
G troops set forth for San Diego. a ca
urney OF more than l, 100 niles The WI
tire distance between that town and tn
g Mormon camps on the Missouri ex- va
cding 1000 miles. Much % the route pr
Y throuh painless desert. at few tic
ints could food be obtained in suf- sa
tent quantity for man or beast, and ",
motimcs even water failed. Wells | III
re sunk In the wilderness: but on no
G occasion at least the men Travelled =
; hundred miles without water