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Show I'lONKEK DAY. if the hardships and self-denials that a ople suffer in the settlement of a new Biutry deserve of special commemoration I'ah has a right to observe Pioneer day as sl: does, as a holiday. In these days of r.aij roads it ia getting ever harder to realize real-ize what a march across the des-i'T des-i'T plains from the Missouri river to these mountain fastnesses implied in faith, pluck and endurance. And on arrival what did the first settlers lind here but forbidding for-bidding rocks, a parched soil and deadly isolation? It required considerable courage cour-age under those circumstances to come to l"th; nor does the fact that this courage wa born of religious zeal detract anything frojv it. ,,... -Vbd out of this awful wilderness what a beautiful transformation has been . wrought within loss than half a century ! Indeed the pioneers who still survive and their children w ho prosecute the work where their fathers and mothers left it, and the new and sturdy elements that urged aud helped it on, have a riicht to observe the anniversary of the day when Utah's pilgrim fathers lirst set foot on Utah boil. |