Show orageous trees or indulging inS in-S 1 luncheon for hours at a stretch or anor of talking nonsense to sweet girls Jo or drinking in the nonsense of entertaining enter-taining if not enlightening novels The day was all that could be desired YNE de-sired and never did private man enjoy more thoroughly his own pleasure grounds than did the good citizens of Salt Lake seem top to-p enjoy tLeir Park on Tuesday By the time the invited guests had arrived there must have been in the neighborhood of 8500 persons in the I A D E Park and before the iiist 1 part of the programme had been finished this number was doubtless increased to 11000 Large numbers assembled about the stand which had been Gents moved from the open space where it was first placed to the very de rightful spot on the northeast part of the glove whtie it was in the shade and where the auditors could hear and still be unaffected by the rays of a burning sun The btand was decorated with starsand stripes and green boughs while the p 1ft famous which faced the east was ornamented orna-mented with a large arch about which an immense Jlab was neatly draped and fastened at the centi I where a shield was placed All about the stand and fastened to the trees wera small banners bearing the names of states while there I C there were a few on which were inscribed in-scribed very appropriate sentiments ttended to The seats in front and on the sides of the grand stand were crowded while all the standing space within a distance which enabled the auditors SONBLE audi-tors to hear the speakers was also crowded On the stand were three tables each with a bouquet Among he prominent citizens present were 0 1 Governor Murray Mayor Jennings General D H Wells Kon W II TREET Hooper Judge S IJ Twiss Secretary A L Thomas Judge P T VanZile Marshal Ireland Judge E r Sprague Receiver M M Bane Gen TORE a B Clawson Colonel 0 J Hollis ter members of the City Council and geutlomep 10 take part in the exercises beides a number of ladies T 1 4J Gen Bane called the assemblage to order and introduced Governor as Murray as the president of the day The Governor taking the I position after a few woifls began I the carrying out of the programme P IHMAPV I u The Sixth Infantry band played IIL1tLU 1 I j cllail Columbia following which 1 I the opening prayer was offered up by Rev R McXiece 4 > j Prof T JJ Lewis followed by reading the Declaration of Independence t i i pendence iu a full fine voice within I with-in effect that brought to the reader IneS r < i hearty round of appla ise at its ¼ coaeJusion t ArtIcles I Mrs Careless then ang The Star Spangled Banner The clear sweet 1 din a tones of the lady in the divine song aSTOBE I lang through the trees Diving it a STOBE u magical effect whue the violin of Prof Careless and the brass instru Il1ents by members of Cioxalls TS rJEJ Band together with the singing oft of-t TScr the assemblage in the chorus added zItz cr sight stiangely and strikingly to that effect The applause that followed iL was unmistakable S q Following this was the reading of S R the a very superior poem appro pi iate to Ve occasion which was read by the I author C C Goodwin Esq and it brought also out abuist of applause i l1fj poem is here given i in ancltmt days as did the dawn unfold Upon the east In purple and in gold As the great sun too bright for znorta eyes All panoplied in fire blazed un tho skies The prayerful Persian bent his vows to pay Unto his deity the god of Day As dawns upon the east this day of day Each year this nation wakes its hymn of praise When on the tky there warms the first fnint trail Of coming light and nights great lanterns lan-terns paleTte pale-Tte anthem wakesthe picas clear and high Of millions chanting hyrrnsto Liberty Where gainst the coast of Maine with foam and roar Old Oceans surges lash the rockribbed shore The song is wakened and on startled wing The hours take up the echoes HS they ring Bearing them westward in their wondrous wond-rous flight Hailing the day and diving back the night Until grown resonant beneath the strain The whole broad land rocks to the deep refrain Until the tones aro lost in the wild war I Wnich stormy seas wake on Columbias bar With cher with roaring guns with trumpfits blare With bright flags lighting all the joyous air With songs and all hail to this sacred day The millions of our land their deep vows pas This day which marks the epoch when to man The thought took form to try an untried plan To frame a government where heart and brain By their own splendors should their honor claim Wherf when Gods angels bent them down and smiled TTpse the cradle of the humblest child That smile should not be lo tj but with its grace Should light the way to honors powers and place Where men should make their own laws where the knee hould bend alone to God and Liberty This day which folds tho mtiule sof of rest Around the form of loB the worlds oppressed op-pressed This day or days which to the tri ubled earth Came with the bilious of a second hrlb t i And on thi3 day each soar the lale iJ i tsld What there was wrought in the brave days of old1 Bow after men through eliding cen tunes messed Finding no spot where weary souls could ret How afver natiuiii one by cue ware rutLr j And ran their course then sank and dis ppiieurtii Leaving uo sign on earths bare breast to tell Why they had toiled or why at length they fell How with the years when Hope was wel nigh dead Beyoudthfj seas a mariner was led Who round a New World there the sea beside I Waiting in virgin splendor like a bride I To be possessed a fair land where should be A throne upro red sublime to Liberty Where shaking off the chains which bound him fat Man hhoud gland firth a sovereign at last The tale god on how oer that ocean trail Brave tpiriU C1IDO in vessels small and frail And how though met by Famine Want and Gold With Eoulu iiifpircdnil 2 hearts contained and bold Ibey entered 01 tb conquest of the wild At want thuv lnugheJ M suflurlng they smiled THey felled th < i forests tilled the stubborn dade Fought aavago jesand toiled and sang and prayed And while the work of conquest they pursued They for their children built the schoolhouse school-house rude Until one morning all the world grew bright Buneatb the radiance of a wondrous light Which in the west had kindled been a sheen Such a > > no mortal oer before had seen And all l the Nations heard In tearful aye To Fpedvm oneecrhted and to Law A Nation bad been launched upon the plan Of equal guyeiignty to every man The tale proofodd from that tremendou hour With dtnppr paihos and with added power And tells how first our fig that h ughiy fCIO Was hailed by henes how with soemi toil Tho bells called up the toil rij how they came > A band immortal all their hearts afiamo And tireless fought till seven long year had fled And then above their sorrows aud their dead Their victory came and Peaceher gentle reign Stretched oer the land and made it her domain Then Progress followed slow with cautious cau-tious tread The way through weeds and over streams it led At first till Steam the modern Geni came With iron arms and with its breath of flame And took mens burdens up then swift and grand Moved on the mighty conquest of the land Until at last upon each mountain crag WR planted aa a signal lamp our flag Till every valley thrilled was by the cheers Of swelling hosts of tireless Pioneer Until at last there rang I from sea to s > Ea The winged anthems of a people free And the great angel stationed in tae s jn Heard as each day hid shining cou e was run For ful Ir thousand leagues unbroken ringing The eongs of children in their free Echool singing Who can recall how mightily wore tried The splendid race that lived and grandly died To make this land a plrje for Freedoms seat And for earths poor a safe and sure retreat re-treat What toils were borne wars fought and dangers faced As one by one were hewed and firmly placed The corner stones of states until at last The days of doubting and of dread wore passed Until the Great Republic robed in light Splendid in graces and superb in might Shone on the world as shines in space afar Out on the upper deep thj Polar star To guide the mariner to guild the night Midst sweeping suns the one unchanging light And while we grasp the glorias of this hour While all that this day means comes in full power Upon our hearts we question should our souls Could we from out the storms and thun derrolls BringOrder forth and Peace Amid wars shock Could we a nations cradle calmly rook Or could re like our brothers bear our breasts To meat rebellions lances set in rest And wait through anguish like a second birth To says free government upon the earth We know not but in thought we see agtin The desert trackleas and the stormswept main As yet no pthj marked on the Golden Cjatt The whole great west in barbarism lost Until wo came and counting since the years Marking what hearts have broken and what tears In silence have been shed how with stern piide Brkve men have smiled oer broken hopes and died Without a plaint uotiig the pain and toil R < quired to consecrate a savage soil To order ai d to law t > build secure The archers on which states are to endure We take some credIt to ourselves j in thought We kinihip claim to those brave souls who wrought Where their great deeds will as the ages roll Glitor forever ou Fames golden scroll So from these altars nero today we may prefer tbia prayer Uod of our fathers keep ibis land forever in Thy care Keep mET it our holy flag with stars in creiihiig bright The nation radiant uuide by day its Utwp of light by night vnep i tire and teal our maids and wives our men keep brave and true Keep T tiou our tages strong and wise and as tny years renew The geiiHraiiotis on our sbores may they incrnftee in might Until immovable in power invincible for right Vhen ring each year the aoleina poas to mark the swIft year fled Standing bofure the living aud above the mighty dead The men succeeding as shall see a nation ot such grace AS neer before in glory woke a smllo on earths sad face A nation held by justice up wbose soil by peace is tiod Where freedoms temples shed their rays sweet QS the smile ef God Croxalls Silver Hand played with unusual feeling Nearer My God to Thee at the conclusion of which Judge P T Van Zile was intro duced when he read the oration The document which is given below be-low is quite able and its delivery was clear and distinct and well listened to and well received with approval when it was finished S ORATION S Today we as a nation are stand lug upon the outer boundary of another years march and looking back through the more than a century cen-tury that has parsed are reflecting upon the grand achievements of other years with their difficulties and trials opping here and bere aa we on memorys wings retrace our steps to breath In the sweet fragrince of the flowers that are blooming by the way side nourished and fostered by the beau iful sentiment of freedom and equal rigtits and with the history or America that is already written i before us we try hero to peer into the futuie and discern if we can upon what grounds the camp fires I of the coming years will bo lighted and what is in store for us Upon such an occasion ruled and governed and possessed by such though and reflections as ouly have place in the heart of a true Ame ican citizen what can be said It seems to me tbat the most eloquent elo-quent oration I could pronouuce at such a time would ba simply to stand here and point to the history of this grand country the birth of wh ch we today celebrate A nation wh ise grandeur is not old alune by her vast domains and nconquerable prowess whose strength lies not alon m brawny arms nd innumerable hosts but in the sentiments principles and grand institutions upon which it la build ed into which its life is rooted We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unaliena hid rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of hap liness That to secure these rights governments ernments are instituted among men deriving their just rowers from the consent of the governed Never before nor since have such beautiful and comprehensive truths fallen from the lips of men nevtr since nations have lived and man hag kept a recod of evfcnt have thou hts ideas and sentiments been ormnJated that stirred and fired and determinej men to deed of valor like these Thtse self evident truths filled full to overflowing the hearts of our orefathere upoir thii their souls I fed for thia they Jived and rather than be driven irom this their fortress for-tress of truth of right of justice tRey would die for to them it was better to die for the right than living be oppressed by the wrong bYJ These principles were not however how-ever wholly original with those of our noble forefathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence The germ of the sentiment which they developed into a perfect growth had taken possession of the hearts and lives of their martyred forefathers a century before it itl was declared by their noble sons in this sacred instrument instru-ment And to understand this and fully appreciate how thoroughly thor-oughly it had taken root in those early days of martyrdom for truth we need but to read the history of those times when the people were ruledby an unrelenting theocracy which deprived the citizens of every privilege which was in the least an tagonletic to the ruling tyrant and his followers Do you wonder that men and women i wo-men of those days were found who I were willing to and did turn their backs upon their native land thus ruled and oppressed and lacing storms and privationsstarvation and deathset out for a wilderness wilder-ness away beyond the teas Before them wad an untried land and an almost trackless ocean but dark and awful as it was and looked to them it was not so cruel and pitiless ni the lurid smoking fires that were continually burning an 1 smouldering the funeral piles of those they loved But it was not entirely for the I sake of escaping martyrdom that they fled their native shores but it was that they might enjoy and have and realize liberty from oppress op-press ion that they might breathe the pure air of freedon in a free land I Thus the watchword and guiding star of those of our forefathers who first took possession of American soil was freedom freedom to think freedom to act freedom to worship God as opposed to dictation oppression oppres-sion and tyranny It was these early pioneers fleeing from oppression oppres-sion and martyrdom and those who followed filled as they were with a longing desire for another and a different government where they might forever shake off the yoke and break the shackels of oppression which bound and bore them down they and their fathersthat firt planted and nourished the seeds of liberty and free government in America Scarcely hud their ships got fully I und r way guided by the star of hop which to them never set but stood like a pillar of fire in the western horIzonthan they began be-gan to feel and understand tbat governments gov-ernments were made for mnn not men for governments and that they had no need of crowned heads and royal blond but that they could govern themselves And whie they were yet up n the waves of old Atlantic I At-lantic far away from their northern country in the cabin of the good old May Flower with none other than themselves and tho omnipotent omnipo-tent presence of the great God of Heaven and earth who rule3 alike upon the land ad the seas to witness wit-ness it they made a solemn compact which became a part of the government govern-ment of the early colonies And now standing upon the rock ribbed coast of an unknown wilderness wilder-ness to which they had fled they could only look back through the dreary terrible past and into the dark an l awful present but to realize real-ize and know that they had hardly com wit need to pay the price that mu L I IB paid before they could obtain ob-tain the prize for which they sought but they were not despondentfor I they possessed hearts and souls that I glowed and burned with the living firea of freedom fires which could never be quenched I but with adversity famine and I death only grew and blazed the brighter Failure to them was a word unknown victory or death for Libertys sake was their battle cry and so they and their sons and daughters through the long weary years pressed forward toward the I goal with that grand determination that can only be inspired by duty to ones eelf duty to country duty to God I Separated from their mother country coun-try and eo far way from crowned beads and tit s and throne they began to lose respect for them and I having g > v < rned and defended themselves so well they commenced com-menced to talk of independence England looked on amazed but the irrepressib conflict was at hand There was no place for a throne no place for the palace of a king prince or royal family in this great western wilderness dedicated to free government and to liberty These principles which had taken possession of them who through so many years had breasted the storm stood like an impregnable fortress to shield and protect the young nation Better to them was the shrill war whoop of the merciless savagethe crackling flames that burned and consumed their homes aye even the tight of their dead and dying wives and children as they lay upon the blooddrenched floors of their little cabins In the wilderness than the monarchical oppres Ion of the old world With such willing hearts un < J strong hands to hold up the banner of hope and fan the fires of freedom th rr oould be no questi n about the re bUlt Engand was then the strougest of nations aud the Mistress of the Seas but there was a Jnnd away in the wilderness of the New World that she could not conquer She might take away the lives of her citizens but the beacon fires of liberty would still blaze and burn and with J tongues cf fira speak to all the na tlons of the earth this our sentiment senti-ment which would neVer die but grow brighter and stronger as time counted off the years All men are created equal they are Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable un-alienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness The trial of selfgovernment haa proven so great a success and their fondest hopes seemed fco posai ble to be realized that they were unwilling longer to r pay tribute to useless royalty And J when England persisted in lazation J which could not be tome and spurned with contempt their petitions peti-tions asking for relief these brave men arose in their might andwith one accord answered back to their mother country These colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent States and with this utterance accompanied with a refusal to I tiger pay tribute to King George and 3Snglandcomes the crisis Oppressive and insulting I insult-ing measures were passed by the English Parliament and when dis regrded the colonists British troops were quartered upon our shores to enforce obedience to the mandates of royalty Depredations were committed intimidation was resorted to but all I to no avail Our forefathers saw the black dread storm cloud of war fast gathering its mutteriugs spoke no uncertain language And when it seemed to envelope the whole land within its dalk and terrible shadow and was ready at any moment to burst upon them they began to gather ammunition and munitions of war and as best they could prepare pre-pare for the result And as we stand here today looking look-ing back upon those scenes what a picture is presented to uson the one hand wo see tile brilliant well organized well equipped army of Englandcomparatively speaking a host backed by strong government with inexhaustible resourceson the other a handful of men without organization without arms except as they could pick them up here and there without money Looking at it by the light of these fact we can but exclaim what an unequal contest how hopeless hope-less the chances of success Bat how true the sentiment that fell from the lips of the immortal Henry Tha victory is not to the strong alone but to the vigilant the active the brave This was the situation of affairs when England ordered her troops to at once destroy the stores of cm munition and supplies at Concord rney attempted it and on the 19th j day of April 1775 the guns of Lexington Lex-ington called a new born nation to regenerate the world The rubicon had been passed there was now no escape To I e defeated was but an ignominouB death to be victorious was life and everlasting honor The principles for which they contended and the sentiment Give usjiberty or give us death was to them a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night and by it they were led from the field of Lexington Lexing-ton where a ation was baptized In the pure blood of freementhrough that midnight darkness of despair at Valley Forge where but for Gods overruling providence In which they alone trusted they must have gone down forever on and on through terrible scenes oi carnage sacrifice and death out into that glorious light of victory which broke upon them on that cloudless day at Yorktown and ea Wished for them and for us and forever a nation free and independent indepen-dent On this the anniversary of that Immortal 4th of July 1776 when there was given to this nation and to the world that divineinspired document which has been read in your hearing the Declaration of Independence In-dependence it is not only our right but our duty to talk over the events which culminated in the establishment establish-ment of this nation Today we should gather around us our children and tell them the story of the great struggle for freedom free-dom that they may know and resize ire what the liberty they enjoy and i the possibilities that are vouchsafed to them cost Let them know and understand that these ceremonies by which we celebrate this our nations birthday are not idle and meaningless teach them that they live in a country where merit and true worth is rewarded and not royal blood teach them that because of the results of the struggle for independence in-dependence which today we remember re-member with gla 1 hearts the possi bilitiS are rendered alike to all I whether it be the child of the mil ionaire of high birth or the child of the poor man of humble parentage But while we remember with pride and gratitude the grand results re-sults and brilliant achievements of our illustrious forefathers in their struggle for liberty with charity toward them but with justice for those who following have preserved to us a nation we must not forget for-get that when they had trenched from England acknowledgement of Independence and established establish-ed for themselves n government tj though they had fcught for freedom and equal rights and had broken the shackles from their own limbs they allowed them to fall upon and be riveted to the limbs of others America was not what she boasted to oe the land of the free all men within her borders did not enjoy the the unalienable rights that they h d deem ed was the privilege and right of all men life liberty and the purs > it of happiness Upon the fair fame and name of America there was left u foul and ugly fitiin and it grew and spread and almost overshadowed her until it assumed such proportions and strength that it threatened the destruction of the nation We S had grown to p be powerful but f 1 4 4 1 In excusing and conciliating the l f i monstrous institution American i slavery that had been fostered I and protected by the government 4 govern-ment we had taken within our 1 i bosom the viper that was with Its poisonous fangs to rend ue and j while basking in the apparent sunshine J i sun-shine of peace and security the t thunderbolts of a civil war were j hurled into our very midst by the j lands of those who In the past had 1 bean onr brothers i I The events of that terrible strug gle are still fresh in the memory of most of you You heard the call T i coming up from the nations capital for the help of strong arms and U brave hearts ia that hour of need And Oh how It aroused the whole nation from her lethargy pj The appeal came home to every loyal heart individually and most glorious was the response J4 Who can describe the lally Young and old from the city and country rushed to the nearest rendezvous ren-dezvous and offered their services tOA government and the streets of our principal cities which but a short time before had been disturbed only by the peaceful pursuits of trade were born into a new life and now resounded to the marching squadron He who had been the mothers pride and the object of the fathers fondest hopes with his life J in his band went forth to battle for the right and if need be to sacrifice all upon his countrys altar The pale faced clerk and school boy left their counters and desks their yard sticks ii and their books and marched away to the field shoulder to ehonlder with the brawn and muscle of the country The farmer boy left the land half plowed the mechanic dropped the saw and hammer the minister left the sermon half finished the lawyer law-yer laid aside boots and briefs and r all rushed to their countrys rescue while old age with faltering steps came to utter God speed Day after daymonth after month year after year we watched and prayed and fought quota after af-ter quota was filled and you r bade farewell to some of the bravest anti the best And oh what partings part-ings these years of struggle saw Do I i speak the experience of any of you my brave fellow soldiers when Isay that the fiercest battles were fought within your own breast as you received re-ceived the last farewell from those f near and dear to you and left them standing almost motionless strickenJ with grief and anguish J 5 But for four long weary years you I witnessed these partings in your very midst and in many oh how it many cases when there was to be no more meeting this side eternity until a wall of anguish ascended to < heaven in piteous accents How long oh Lord how long But who can pronounce a fitting eulogy upon our fallen comrades Ah how vivid Is our recollection of them In our imagination we can follow them now in the rendezvous now in camp on the march at the fronton front-on the battle field where amid the din of battle they go down to death no not down to death but up to a glorious immortality as to us physically phy-sically asleep aye dead but in our hearts and the hearts of their countrymen coun-trymen to all the grand principles of truth justice ana liberty Alive and not only now but forever and forever 1 When the yaara of earth aro over and the cares of earth are done > When tha reign of time Is ended and eternltya J begun j j I When the thunders of omnUoionco on out wakened senses roll > And the sky above shall wither and tte gathered IQce a scroll When among till lorty mountains and across themfghtyeea Jl The sublime celestial bugler shill ring out tho reveille S Then shall march with brightest laurels and with proud victorious tread To their stations up in heaven our grand army of the dead i > I But the eulogy is not to be given i alone to the brave soldiers of the war for there were a thousand i thous-and Florence Nightingales allover all-over this broad land who not only gave their sons their brothers their husbands to battle 1 for the right but they themselves might be seen almost in the very thickest of the fight Oh I can never forget the bravehearted tianspirited women of the war how I i have seen them standing over the brave soldier boya both infield in-field and hospital now telling them of the Christ that died on Calvary J t now staunching the blood from some i ghastly wound that must soon pass J its possessor up higher to be mustered mus-tered into that soldiery around the 1 throne of the Great Eternal Ob women of America thy memtfry I j will ever bs bright in the history of i your much loved country and 1 especially in the hearts of the BOI dier boys of 61 Thy mission was a mission of love and you performed it not only in the 11 name of liberty and equal l rights but In the name of humanity 1 But thank God these days of car 8 and our 1 nage have passed away or country is not only free but her it + stitutions in being protected have been purified and today she is indeed I J in-deed the land of the free for there i is not within her vast domain a I serf a bondman or a slave Though once divided we are now a united people None whom do not acknowledge J ac-knowledge and would not today carry at the head of the ten thousand thous-and processions who are marching to the music of the Union that grand j old emblem of freedom for all i But I have not spoken of Americas t greatest achievements nor can I at 5 this time in detail but we must not forget that while her brave sens and daughters have established here upon our soil these noble igo i institutions and afterwards protS I I S L 5 |