Show PIONEER DAY It Is I good for the people of Utah to celebrate the JMth of July It is a most memorable anniversary It sig nalg a day when some men who were poor and worn and filled with both sorrow and apprehension bad turned their backs on civilization by weary marches had crossed tho then tenantless tenant-less plans and stubborn mountains and planted their stakes in1 the desert and began the building up of a Stale That was but flCl three years ago but it has been sufilclcnt time in which to transform this region Save the mountains the lake and the summer air there is nothing here as it then was wasThat That band of men with but rude appliances ap-pliances went to work but the zeal of youth was upqn most of them They went to their work with songs and the smiles on their faces I were pen I clled by sunbeams Most of those faces have since grown withered and seamed and have disappeared disap-peared overborne by the Irresistible friction of toil and care and time But before they departed those smiles that they brought here went out and lighted the desert and what was the desert reflects them now in tree and flower and meadow and the waving gold of the harvest and thus the youth of those pioneers is made perpetual in the radiance of the beautiful valley I It is well to celebrate the day to I recall the old names to do reverence to their memories and to be sure to I do nothing that will grieve the old pioneers If their spirits are watching what may be done 1 |