The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-31

might be lcf, TO hear the remaining
toasts. one OF the prominent members
! OF the club was forced TO quietly re-
quest AR Williams to cut 10 OUT and
even then the orchestra had TO start
I'VE Won't co Home Until Morning
before the champion Of the trusts be
came aware that there were others TO
be heard.
"The sunny slopes" was tho text OF
tho toast TO which e. g. Goodwin, tho
next speaker. answered. Mr.. Goodwin
was hailed with hoartiest applause as
he rose upon being introduced by the
ionate speech. Mr.. Goodwin said I'm
part.
First In the West.
we do not enough appreciate the
hrst settlement In the west by our
that loaded their household goods and
household gods upon OK wagons and
starting out in the face Of a score OF
savage tribes upon an unmarked trail
for 1000 miles before them. the last
l,5oO miles Of which was over noun
tains and deserts. and never rested Uu-
l I'll they made their camp on the banks
OF the Willamette. why. Zcnophsn's re-
/ treat was pleasure excursion by COM
psrisOn.
They were not searching for gold
| they simply wanted room. and land.
[ few ncighbors and plenty OF fresh air.
They started the habit Of sleeping out
/ on tho porch. only the porch was not
there. and they took the ground in
stead. often wonder IL they over
stopped to- think how iudomitable must
Do tho souls that the great God had
given them.
How glorified that company was that
| first I'm force sought the enchanted land
OF the west i fear will never be fully
known.
THEY came. picked body. from every
state and from many foreign lands.
The beautiful golden coast greeted
Thorn valleys all flower
petcd in welcome. the sunlight from
| the rampartT OF the blue Sierras smiled
down upon them in welcome.
They looked around them, they
] looked into each others eyes and re-
allied that under sharp competition an
empire WAS 60 Do redeemed. and that
they must bo tle Instruments Co COM
pass iNa. ieCenl'l loh-
"Thcy BEGAN their work Where there
were no written laws. they established
order. where there were no courts. they
commanded and enforced Justice; with
in "a few months thoy had called con
ventiou and though fun half or them
rDrr from slave states. hf solemn or
ftrarsa tIev cDu~errlfcd tine new land
TO freedom forever.
Dc-oIntIon Of Desert.
Here under the shadows OF these soil
eun mountains different conditions
prevailed. different civilization was
planted.
"Uut here. perhaps. the greatest mir
acle N an WAS performed
$40 vision ~ golden mountains. at
least not % this EFr'd. lightcd the eyes
OF the first corners. Hard WORK ana
small returns we're FshUJ thcy contract
at their coming only the desolste
arms Of tho desert were stretched out
to them. only tho desert gave them cold
shelter on IFS f0rbiddinE breast
But undismaycd, without n murmur,
they began their work and pursued IL
REGARDLESS or the h2rdshlps ana Sullef-
inus that we're their portion.
"Glorv and success were tho slogan
Of the men OF the far west. here the
call of duty was as the voice OF God 50
and began and closed their days du-
Ties bv a praise service before those
aHut as under che blows Of an iron
fortune their hands became Enarled,
their faces scanned and sunlSen. their
ewes atm and the flush OF youth LETT
choir cheeks; the desert around them
"ETery grace that toll and aEc filched
from those sturdy men and those de-
voted women. every joy that they put
aside. every longing that thel SUD
. pressed. was transpiauted in this SOL,
and when those pioneers shrunhtu enu
wan. fen into their final sleep, the
homes. the dreams and the graces they
had lost rcappcarcd i'm blooms. In gold
[ en- grains and fruits ana flowers, Where
before the desert. through oil tho ages,
! had revealed only its repellant face
$50 looking back along these Lhree
/ score wears I'm which tho history or the
wet has thus FAR been written, we find
I "A region more than half the area oi
] Euronr redeemed. the froWn OF inc
/ Wilderness has changed 20 smiles; the
] .avare has been tanned; the frontier
has fled eight sovereign states nave
I rounded into form.
/ Cor,r,t..toncr urorvn Sprnk-