Show count blessings dr rich has a thanksgiving message for the people of utah this is the season ot of the year that thai we halt ball and look back over another teed seed time and harvest reckon up accounts and render reader thanksgiving for bounties we receive As A people of let us consider agala our assets it has been my privilege to sojourn in a nearly every section of at this ibis grandest esl of all republics I 1 have lingered lonk long under a parental root roof in the ibe tar fat with its blizzards and drought and cy cunes and 10 40 I 1 have shook aej perspired in a des dc perdee battle with malaria and befogs and strained artill artificial clat civilize tion in the east I 1 have wilted one ano swore vengence veni ence on the south I 1 have shot the shutes been underground arid and cussed a climate with so a grind as was afforded abos who had gone the limit toward the pacific what I 1 want to say Is in simply this ibis not every one ot of the favored few who inhabit this seu sequestered estered god blest bles nook la in the valleys of the mountains appreciate as a well as aa I 1 do the wonderous assets that have been bean hurled burled down into the midat midst of 0 us by a bounteous creator I 1 want the man who cannot nl ful appreciate this most excellent 0 of all climates to spend a month on a sum mers day in san ban diego or visit abile I 1 la a new orleans or wear a still collar some july day on the pavements ot of washington I 1 would like to aay man who take soi for granted the glory of this bracing snappy mountain moun tala at allsion la appreciation by heri hermetically his ap pa caratu ratu or ne him with a pello if you pl 11 defor for a few minutes some people are lacap ableon the beauties bea of tia nature ture the giant crevices and of the wasatch that till to ti iving the iorli of some orime with aar adr ad produce no effect whatever tn in il liers I 1 want the dullest and least responsive oile soul that reads this to the he first lake bench any bright morning and open his eyes to lo the panorama that is ii there eager to please atal when we consider that utah ha the flament floe t climate the best mixture of and nitrogen the grandet t eliy of 0 sunshyne bune the mot most elaborate eli borate dl of minerals the adaptability to the widest pro of fall all good shingi that grow the most liberal out pouring of heavens beaven 8 ble aliw thil almighty god ever bestowed upon auy any one ona section why should wo we sit elt down like a set of dumps anglet and el all the rest of creation curse curie us oo on account ot of mistaken mesa in order to impress others with the blessings we enjoy we must become imbued with for those bl sings ourselves granted then that tbt our nur sluggish selves have hava become by a training la in the school there la Is tor for everyone ever jona to do and the ob ol 01 let le t of this appeal first to illustrate some time ago I 1 write aa article for or an eastern collene college paper in which I 1 stated that utah was the utopia ot of the world and the subi substance tance of 0 things hoped for or I 1 also stated that polygamy poly gany was waa a thing of tile the past ind and a mistake that the latter day saints maln were as ai anxious to correct as any true true citizen of the republic since that article appeared I 1 have received communications from various parties W q seriously doubted my iny a sj si thoroughly amal paia gaina tied ted have the two ideas of 0 mormonism and polygamy become I 1 in the mind of the outer world that at the ibe present time they are lit inseparable separable wherever Wh freter you so go the old bugaboo of 0 Is ID of the utmost importance a baneful influence upon the pro yet this commonwealth A east or wet north korth ar or south has to denials stamp his bis foot and enforce the truth this chis bycer exaggeration of 0 our mistakes with the concealment of 0 our v virtues should ao longer be 10 it la our t lo 10 bowl ea tact fact that the people of 0 utah revere the law of of the land tell aloud that the sanctity of the home Is intact and the position ot of the wife la in it Is not more enviable anywhere in the universe than it Is here shout praises tell till all theme theae things to 0 o every friend you know outside our lord rj ordera ets tell the straight truth and roost boost just as M soon as we do this and dl bra licate a knowledge of our true condition peace and greater prosperity will supplant the hie constant knocking riven utah by every religious organization and motters mothers club on the face fageot of the earth utah Is reaping more than she has everybody get busy E A AE it |