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Show PEACH DAY. This is Peach day at Brigham City. In one of the fairest valleys of the world a feast day of peace and plenty will be celebrated. Free from war's alarms, ruin" and ravage, a. prosperous ami contented people are onjoying the superabundant blessings of the Creator and giving thanks for His bounty. 'We were reading only the other day the story of a battle north of Paris. A Cruesot gun was concealed in an orchard or-chard and was firing at tho Germans on the heights three miles away. The heavy Krupp guns ware replying and were searching the orchard in an effort ef-fort to locate the troublesome French cannon. The shells and the shrapnel desolated the orchard, rending the limbs and destroying the fruit. That was peach day near Paris. What a different scene is presented at Brigham City. All the nations now at war are represented among the people peo-ple who will gather in the fruit center of Utah to celebrate in a brotherly fashion the rich harvest of a region where peace has reigned since the first settlement. Free from the dangers of arbitrary power and from the yoke of war lord or autocrat, the people pursue lives of comfortable domesticity. Xot for them the false glories of war, the braggart airs of kaiser or of czar. It would be difficult to persuade such a people that war promotes the noblest and loftiest sentiments among men and that out of its horrors come great moral and material progress, aud yet that argument ar-gument was used only the other day by the Bishop of Armagh in making an appeal for recruits for the British army. War is pauperizing Europe and peace is enriching America. Because we have adhered to a policy of peace we are able to celebrate the blessings of peace every day in the year, and no dav is dearer to the hearts of Utahns than Peach day in Brigham City. |