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Show i " Ftrokca ncded to make this people homogeneous luivo bean delivered. On the ontt .side tho error against which tin) guvi-rument fought luvo been abandoned, and on the ot'.er a hearty aci-eptanco of tho conditions thereby create I has gone forth. We do uot mean to Bay thai all have accepted the : change, but wi do a.scrt that tho , ciian.jp! h:is conio to stay, that it is bo supported ou all sides that the i spreading march of prou'rass cannot ' be folded buck, and that Utah today has ! u.aise to i"ii ico with jri-it rejoicing in j the kiio.vl'.dge tit i'. tho doinrh.u burnt ; rio-ed upon tho era of Krifu and that j unity, property and pi ace resell out I before her people, making a vista that j if! far mora ioely, von. tiian!his broad t alley vm to tiiit Imagination of the home seeking pioneers of forty-fjur year ago. I -r. 1'IONKKK DAY. This is a great day in the history of Utah. Forty-four years ago the pioneers pio-neers landed in this valley. Thoy had .traveled a taousaud miles from their oid homes, traversing a vast waste to fouud a new settlement in the heart of the mountaias. Here they pitched their tents aud set about the work of building up homes for themselves aud thoir children after theiu. This was a doaolate region when their feet lirst pressed its soil onthatilth day of July, lt47, but, aided by ths bountiful waters which uaturo furnished from the mountain moun-tain canons, their industry soon made a garden of tiie desert and transformed the wilderness iuto a scmio of fruitful-nss fruitful-nss and plenty that will delight the eve as loner a the race k)i1! pvint The anniversary is one that should always bo observed; and it is being kept today in a spirit that Is creditably aliko to all classes of citizons. There are reasons why there should be a more earnest spirit manifested on this forty-fourth forty-fourth anniversary thau ever before iu the history of these Pioneer day cole-bratious, cole-bratious, aud we believe that every heart is stiried by tho peculiar coudi tions which cluster about the observance observ-ance in this year of grace ISM. Tho pioneers wtro followed l.itor ou by a class who weio not of their faith and who wor tint led hither by the motives ti t. (,1.. Ji 1 !,;. .i0( (f i2t0 Jrst ."UVrs a.'vo's th-1 plains ?id through thn ui!"p!.-rcd Ecrrief. This olhi-r clii.-s 5u.rca.Js4 la nmater. as the years sped on aud in time th -y cau.e iu conflict with ijo doctrines and practices of those who had preceded them. Toe conflict was one tnat could not be suppressed. sup-pressed. It deepened and deepened as I the times developed, and in the course of years it cams to shake the tiation froi:.i one end to the other. It made Utah at war with herse f and treated conditions that were detrimental to all her pt. pie. Hut it w- -t an irrepressible irrepressi-ble conllict aud it could not ceaso until the right had prevailed. Amidst it a'i, there was practically nothing (if violence, vio-lence, though unfortunate affairs marked mark-ed its progress, tho contest being con-dueled con-dueled in the courts under the laws of the couutry. Uut all this is changed. The welding |