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Show DELIRIOUS WITH JOY. Yesterday was a day of rejoicing throughout the civilized world, for it marked i the ,end of autocracy and the beginning of the reign of democracy. The patriotic people of Salt Lake closed their places of business aud gave vent to their poy that the great victory had been won and that the blood of the sons of the commonwealth had not been shed in vain. Nothing like it had ever before occurred in the history of the oit-ir nnA no one now living will ever celebrate a like event. It was a day to rejoice and bo glad, for now we know that the bravo boys who went forth at the call of Presideut Wilson, a vast majority of them at least, will come home to be crowned with the laurels of victory, and if all goes well never again will the young manhood of America be compelled com-pelled to cross the seas to fight against a would-be conqueror. So there was much reason for ringing the bells, firing fir-ing the guns and flinging the starry banners ban-ners out. The stroets of Salt Lake presented pre-sented a spectacle rarely witnessed and never to "be forgotten. Old men and women, who remembered the dark days of the civil war aud built bonfires at its close, joined with the young men and women aud the boys and girls who are yet to mature, and paraded up and down the main thoroughfares, shouting, cheering and in some cases crying to relieve their pent-up feelings. The people peo-ple of Utah and the capital have nobly responded to every call for men and monoy since the United States entered the war and the part they took in the great struggle while the cannon were thundering on the western front entitled them to celebrate the return of peace with all the fervor of true patriots. The next outburst of joy will be when "Johnny comes marching home." |