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Show NATIONAL G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. An important confereneo was held cslerda3 afternoon between the convention con-vention committee of tho (-onnuercial club and tho representatives of the j G. A. R. Posts in this citj 011 Ihc ques- j tion of working to get the National Encampment -of- the Grand Army for Salt. Lako Cyity in 1009. It, was brought out in the course of tho conference that perhaps the most difficult thing to arrange in the matter of obtaining that encampment would bo to rfssiiro the Grand Arny National officials that tho ci't.v is able to accommodate tho large crowds expected to come. It was represented rep-resented that the Grand Army ou- campmonts are in themselves the most numerously attended of ajl tho grtfit conventions that assemblo in tho coun-I coun-I tr3; not only are they attended by the greatest number of actual moiubors and participants, but the3" draw immense im-mense crowds-from tho country at I largo and from I ho surrounding re-I re-I gions to see the old soldiers. It was conceded at the meeting that tho capacity capa-city of Iho city to entertain the guosts 1 would be more severely taxed in case j tho Grand Amy .National encampment were held here than it has ever been taxed on aiy former occasion. There was a feeling that there would not bo much dillK'ully in raising the .funds necessary to assure the Grand Amy officials that all legitimate expenses, these being reckoned at $00,000, would bo raised to assure the location of. tho encampment here. j . A good deal- has been said about 1 the desirability of getting this encampment en-campment for S,nlfc hake, from the ! financial side of tho argument. Tho j amount of money that Iho Grand ' Army men would spend here, the ainounl thai oilier visitors., would spend,, has been dwell upon with much fervency; . .and undoubted ev-er3lhiug ev-er3lhiug that, has been said iu this respect would be mensuruby true: but I that is not, after all, the great object in getting the Grand Amy encampment encamp-ment for Salt Lako, or for aiy other ' city in the land. The Grand Amy j encaiiipinont is needed Iierc for Ihe. pur- j pose of the object lesson that, it would alto rd. If the eiicampmont is located j here thoro Avill be assembled in- this I city representatives of the old lighting j armies that preserved the Union, those I coming from evoiy Slate and Territory in the United States, and some perhaps from foreign lands whore they havo made their residence since fhi"war. Jt would be a great and brilliant assemblage assem-blage tff.. lighting patriots. The flanm of patriotism would be expected to ri6c' very high anil burn licrcuty wherever those old veterans meet logotlnjr in such numbers. The childron of this region could', see these old men; what they havo done would become their personal knowledge;' they woffld ask what it was all about, and would receive in repb" a baptism of patriotism and indoctrination indoctrina-tion of lo3'alty to the Union that would last .them all fhoii I i vest It wuuhl be good for this community, also, aF it is good for aiy community, lo receive tho impulsive- wave of patriotic fervor that would accompany tho coming of these veterans of the grent Avar. And 'this is the great object td be accomplished by and for Salt L'aJf.0 City in gotting hero this Grand Army encampment. It is the great thing that every cit' has in viow thai, struggles to havo tho cn-cnmpm'ont cn-cnmpm'ont placed within . ils border?. Tho Grand Amy men represent vehement vehe-ment Konlhnont; the.y show forth in themselves an oxainplc of patriotic duly lo tho utmost of human effort, such as cannot bo lost, on aiy community commu-nity in which these men assemble. The obtaining of the Grand Amy encampmont for 11)00 in this city is a. great prize to bo struggled for. Not because of the money that it will bring; nob b3 reason of the prcstigo that will como to the city in a commercial way; l.heso aro not tho "prizes lo bo sought in gotting these old veterans here. But tho great prize is to show that the country has these men, aud to illustrate' through and by them tho cxtromc dcvolion that men will by upon their counliy's shrjne. These men have offered their lives that the Nation might live, jrumanitj- can. offer of-fer no greater sacrifice thau theso men havo offered. It is the lesson of their lives, their devotion, their forvent spirit spir-it which is alwa3'S ly their presence impressed upon tho community where liny go, that is the great prizo to be sought for in getting the Grand Army encampmont. And it is for that prizo rather than for the commercial features of it that tho Grand Army encampiuont of 1900 is sought for and is desirable for Sail 1 vnko, as it is si dcsirablo prize for an3 city in the TJnilcd States. |