Show F 7 THE FOURTH The day we celebrate has gone and left nothing but pleasant memories mem-ories and brighter promise to the s citizens of Salt Lake The occasion was marked by the absence of those bitter animosities and piteftll feelings J feel-ings which too often have characterized charac-terized public celebrations and cere monies hereabout and which are soT a l so-T P le ssa nt to most people and so o i ominous to a community bent on building up a great commonwealth on the frontier The speeches songs t + sentiments and music were all patriotic pa-triotic and contained no offensive M slurs they were all appropriate and e t I I nobody felt called upon to go outside 1 out-side the Fourth und indulge in pert per-t 1 f sonal spite insulting individuals iJ or classes 0 the surface there was S 1 nothingbut harmony thethousands t Of people unUmg in enthusiastic and patriotic commemoration of the 1 glorious events of the last century e resulting from the declaration of i s lights the anniversary of which was c celebrated To him who is familiar I with the affairs and people of Salt Lake for the past dozen years the scene at Liberty Park on Tuesday h j + would be strange and peculiarly 1 pleasurable for he must have seen there the mingling of those who on F r previous occasions of the kind were 1 I spoiling for a fight and heard k J nothing but proper and timely expressions f ex-pressions from persons who not so ii t I j long ago in the past never thought of speaking without saying harsh I things of others The celebration t the other day had in it nothing of the lion and lamb lying down together toge-ther it was simply the meeting of I men and women in their sane and C J civilized moods and the extolling of famous events and mighty deeds 1 that were brought about and performed per-formed for the American people of I all generations Lnd not for a sect 8r class The Fourth belongs to i all the people of this city who have ared to accept of its great legacy 55 and as a common day it has been observed i i ob-served How much blighter and bette has been the occasion than IB the past whenorators have taken advantage of the opportunity r to speak to scandalize the Declaration Declara-tion of Independence and make sport of the national brotherhood I that made it a sucess a hundred i 1 years ago by scattering the seeds of disunion and making harmony impossible im-possible Now that the day has departed who does not feel better for the r liberty Park celebration There may be some who desired an old time affair with its spites and ill will its abuse and blackguarding its cuts and slashes and making of sores that years could not heal if there are any such they ought to understand that the Fourth of July t S is not for them and that those whose brave conduct distinguished it from all other days in the American Ameri-can calendar did not fight for disunion dis-union for the breeders of strife nor for the enemies to freedom and the human race The great majority of the people of Salt Lake without with-out regard to creed or party the HERALD believes are 1 F < 1 < q p 5 10 9 S < p > ri 4 > T 1 L a < i o < has the Fourth pleluul that been observed as it was and we also believe that the masses desire repetitions of this sore of appropriate appro-priate celebration The HEIIALD I hopes that Tuesdays event marks an agreeable departure in certain the things here and that hereafter Fourth of July will he doubly dear and twice significa to all the people peo-ple of the pa e who are interested in the material md social development develop-ment and progress of Salt Lake City and Utah |