| Show 1 speeches music and song A THOROUGH SUCCESS tho opening of the new building senator frank J cannon was chairman of the evening A sumptuous spread and the post efforts were meritorious and much appreciated A fine musical program everybody had a splendid time those who were fortunate as to attend the tabernacle banquet last eve nine have baue to bold in memory the occasion RS one of the most enjoyable of a lifetime the hall the banquet the speeches epee ches the music the appointments wera juat right it was a time for thanksgiving over the completion of the new tabernacle for the old building his been converted into a new one and an occasion tor rejoicing and flood fellowship among all the leading citizens of leis ot political differences a and religious gulfs gathered to congratulate abo builders the succeed of their labore salt lake also a good elded delegation included ber were president joseph F amith apostles J H smith and J grant dr james E talmage and elder george goddord among the representative men ol 01 ofden were john A T wright A 0 emerson judge macmil lan sidney stevens A P hall major creeden joseph S peery geo J kelly I 1 L alark henry gwilliam bishops stratford stevens aad maudre Mau lre judge ration sheriff wright dan hamer E T woolley We olley Ballantyne Presidents shurtliff ift and flygare E andersen prof jesse driver W W fife geo tribe david eddee john wat eoa ad hubn dr luch and many in most cases the gentlemen were accompanied by their wives the scene from the platform was an enchanting dream the enory whiteness f the coiling glistening in the bright electro flights presented a boft beautiful beauli ful echt beneath eat three handled and fifty chesis the tables were handsome parallel terraces tisvan on above the other from the west end of the hall to the eastern entrance each table seemed to vie with the others in presenting the most delightful appearance pe arance the viands merethe we rethe beet known to the cut flowers wafted exquisite perfume from hand painted vadee giant pyramids of cake ore cone shaped of elegant put try rose commanding from the lower tables the whole composed a most striking picture presently the bum of voices gave way to animated conversation the reverberating sound of clinking china filled the hall and the banquet was under full headway at the bead of table no 1 sat prest jos F smith while at the other extreme end eat apostle who offered erace at the right of breet smith eat apostle grant while on the left were seated presidents shurtliff and flygare and bishop stratford on the liht of Iti chardi eat venerable george goddard and directly opposite waa Juu geCS zane the center of alie fable sat cannon haid apostle john henry smith other guests Bc altered amona the various mablee beautiful wallers dressed in white flitted amoul the tablet and kept the guests bounteously berred at a eig nal from breet shurtliff the cuesta rose in a bod yand those alio faced the east quickly turned their abaire and then the whole Kat berini resumed their seats all facing the platform in the west end of the hall president aa the chairman of the evening lion F J cannon mr cannon responded in abo following summarized remarks my ri ends it is a areat thing to live at the end ol 01 he forty years that ibis building has witnessed some epochs of life are barren but some art and it bae been our lot to appear at this time at a period when we are mamil line at the progress made by it is forty years ago since this burkline bui kline was started and I 1 could diab gothing creater then that each one abo helped to build it might be here to the grand edifice 1 haa been converted into this adobe building ie a monument ol 01 human greatness as much as if each two adobes were cemented together wilb blood this building lias been mcany changes it lived the tryian times abea a hosti force threatened tho people of these valleys when it was built nails could not be yet the change has been so marveline mar velone that we tonight sit down to french menus the speaker here paid n glowing tribute to the men who were asenci atad with the building of the old nacle lorin farr bishop westy architect william fife and others tha speaker continued the old nail that bear the covering the built forty years ago suggest the etring character of the state the pioneers planted the first seeds of character and for all of them ano pioneered abo way that we might inherit every one ol 01 should have thoughts sen ator cannon congratulated the and the in charce of toe he said it is ae fair as the eye conid desire to look upon it is a demonstration of what we can do and what we shall do with the passing of ahe years it in forty years we much how much more will b doner in the next forty years 11 president jos F 0 early utah he told of the forbidding aspect of the country in abo early days and traced the growth 0 abo from the time brigham and others landed in salt lake valley joly to the pres entime iia compared the the and now and the contrast prompted him to what god 0 W penrose was introduced ae tbt editor of the first dally adan his subject was the press by that amidst so much talent senatorial judicial ecclesiastical ami journalistic he might have a of ideas be would read the he had prepared lie paid I 1 approach this task with diffidence for it is a theme to which the finest orator could not do fall justice the press is the pioneer progress it is the most potent of all agencies lav the diffusion of intelligence it far ex eels in that respect the pulpit the platform and the stage each an educator and a power for enod or evil abe preacher the orator and the actor may sway great crowds of men and women their gifts and their presence bat with out the their talents would find but a small sphere compared with the fields it opens for them where bat hundreds could hear mil liona vault and ponder on what they read things eaid and done in a corner MB carried to the ends of the earth and spread from land to land and sea to sea by the press it is at once the dispenser and the preserver of great deeda grand thoughts that which ii only spoken would perhaps perish with the sound is kept tor the benefit of distant nations and future generations by the press the ireae is jupiter JUer cary and mara embodied in one an incarnate trinity in unity it is tb cr the messenger the warrior combined it proclaims with the voice of jove it carriee tidings as on the wings of the wind it battles for great causes and is thus three potent power in one great force it is a great error to think that members of tho press the press desire to misrepresent As n rule abey earnestly aim to be accurate they usually leli the troth tey make mistaken mi as all mortal do but abey ere far oftener rishi than wrung when abey differ in opinion they argau in print as men debate the tongue and the public may pay their money and take their choice merits of either side that there are persons connected mill tie press who exaggerate and cocoe 04 fifth THE tabernacle BANQUET CONTINUED FROM FUIST times manufacture sensations I 1 need not to this enlightened audience even in the great metropolis ogden and the village or suburb on the south salt lake there have been occa eio nally known persons called journalists hose regard lor the exact truth baa not made them bald beaded or kept them awake onighter but these are the exceptions and the press has not made them what they are but merely given them an opportunity to exhibit their true character I 1 have a high regard for the gentlemen of the press class and know them to and truth loving it is to be greatly regretted that the mighty tr 0 the press ever falls into unworthy bands when a falsehood in fact or principle or a libel against per bonal character is put in print it is much than that which merely comes from the lips eliat the passed upon it by the juet is correspondingly great the freedom of the press is rightly guaranteed by our national and state constitutions and endorsed by popular sentiment but it is or should be understood that the liberty secured must not extend to that license which encroaches on the rights of the humblest individual in the land that the newspaper press can and should be greatly improved in tone and purpose I 1 do not dispute but while deploring the lurid style and sensational attitude of many journals we must not lose sight of the fact aba they seek to cupply a great demand while the public now opens and cries for such highly spiced pabulum it will be provided and until public opinion is reformed the up to peppered and hot sauced press will push the else and particular press to the wall this is sad but it is true the press how everno matter how imperfect i a necessity with all its faults we love it still still indeed we would have it when we dont want our names to get in the pacers but when wo do want to get in print how mad we get if we are not mentioned society people as they are called pretend to be scandalized when their doings are detailed and their dresses are described but if you knew how many of them either in writing or by vocal whispers furnish the very descriptions they publicly condemn you would cease to wonder why the society baa become an essential feature of the sunday papers will doubtless doubt lees come a time when the press will rise to the full height ot its and become the former rather than the expression of popular opinions and desires when the buei nesa department will not shape editorial thought nor muzzle editor hl utterances but while ary profit ie the chief end in view in the publication of books and papers the press will like all other human agencies be flavored with with that which comes from the earth and lean to that which will please the multitude after all the press with its mighty power tor claims our admiration and our support we cannot do without it we should all strive to make it what it ought to be and give it that credit which is his due ogden owes much to its but talented and vigorous journals and journalists and the beginning of its evolution from the muddy village to the paved lighted watered and progressive city dates from the time when its first newspaper was issued from the press and made its existence and its prospects ecta known to a wondering world it ie to the press we will look for s f alj 1 l f jasa full description of this astonishing aneta the new grand edifice from the old tabernacle not exactly like the knife that had six new blades and tour new handles but a transformation which is as great as the common chrysalis into the gorgeous butterfly hail to the the evangel of progress the champion of liberty the defender of the oppressed the foe of superstition sti tion the electric illuminator 0 the world I 1 may its influence enlarge and extend until error and bondage and evil shall be banished and strife and sorrow shall cease and the nations ahall unite in everlasting brotherhood while en lightened thought shall find expression in every on this jubilant and trans figured globe dr J E talmage wae given by senator cannon the title of the man who stands first in utah scholarship dr talmace spoke on electrical forces ilia speech was a masterpiece of facts clothed in magnetic english lie told how mans ingenuity had made him con lie had first conquered alie earth and the animate things and now he was the elements and commanding the forces of nature to obey him electricity is the most potent of great forces and the most mysterious the speaker told of the development of electoral force from the days when franklin sent his kite into the clouds to abo present time when the telegraph and telephone sound the praises of the giant power he said electricity was the great transmitting agency of the age it is rapidly becoming the great motive power ot the nations the power company in ogden is one of the grandest enterprises of the time by the active operation of its machinery we will be enabled to walk at night through the streets in the light ot the biro con averted from the water to the dynamo the age is so progressive that it is not inappropriate to say that we can bread by the fire of the thunder and broil our beef stake by the heat of the aurora ilia ad diess was warmly applauded judge macmillan spoke on later utah he said his subject had been fitly answered in the splendid assembly and noble edifice in honor of which wo have assembled he proceeded as follows mr and gentlemen J suppose it ie but gt and proper that some one use myself who bat recently has come among you should on this occasion be allotted the subject of mod ern utah it is but six years since cast my lot herwalt here alt hough for more than a quarter of a century I 1 have lived your neighbor on the west and during that time have watched your progress with much interest when I 1 arrived in utah the old lines of battle unsteady and to an experienced eye showed signs of dissolution old things were passing away and new things were taking their places the clouds of smoke by day and the pillar ot fire by night were becoming more indistinct we ao longer needed a to lead us through the wilderness of territorial homage but a joshua a youthful hero to uns beath the sword of right and justice to rend in twain the veil of the ten pie of prejudice and let reason and confidence imbue the people of the united states when sitting in judgment upon their br ethern of utah and the joshua came and god divided the waters of the political jordan and we crossed over into the promised land of statehood a freo and independent people nd then was placed another star in the federal firmament to abino for all time with resplendent glory if it revolves in the sphere of right and jos tice or to dwindle into insignificance and sink into oblivion it it upholds fraud tyranny and oppression mr president badiea and gentlemen we are indeed blessed above the nations of the earth by situation climate and surroundings placed in the heart of a continent elevated above the aea level in an altitude which makes it impossible for a disease to generate or exist among us distant from our borders far that the gana of an alien enemy can never reach us nor does the ships ot war of an invader bring any terror ti us aur and lakes are tilled with the finny tribe our mountains with precious metals our plains and tablelands table lands bear ing rich barvetta of golden grain fruits and vegetables our population building a new race of brave men and fair women the anglo saxon and the celt the dane and the No raeman german and the frenchman the hardy eons of new england the sturdy men ot abo middle states and the cavalier of the sunny south are all gathered here with the of the west to pursue happiness and freedom enthroned upon the summits ot our areat continent we look proudly downward upon our nothing above us but our snow capped peaks a matchless eky and our heavenly land ot lake and mountain high whose rugged assault the sky land of brave men and women fair ano breathe bat freedom in our air A people eminently qualified and fitted to bijoy the bl ersing of a free government ern ment surrounded by natured na turee bountiful store house whose gates are scarcely yet ajar revealing to our astonished mst hs 0 o ja craze a plentitude of treasure undreamed of in the fancy of the most sanguine imagination our mines with even the little development which we have made gleaten with precious in the uncertain light of the miners candle away down in their solitary depth i and casts the fabled riches ot golconda in the shade all the precious things of the mineral world are strewn beneath our feet in profusion god sowed bountifully the seeds of his rarest materials and locked ap the liar vest for cycles ot years for our gathering nor have the people of utah entirely neglected their opportunity for they have made the wilderness to blossom like the rose they have diverted streams of water and utilized them in irrigating well cultivated fields they have lighted |
