Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-22 | Page 4 | George Washington

t. t t II 1 GEORGE WASHINGTON WASHINGTON t tt 1 t t t MM t t M t t t I M M f MM M M I M I M M I M S While trumpets sound and drums beat and 5 1 cannon roar and arid our glorious colors are arc sal saluted S at a hundred forts ports and cantonments all in honor of the day we celel celebrate rate the ashes of the departed departed departed de de- de- de parted great re rest t peacefully in the thc simple mausoleum leum by the side of his loved home at Mount Vernon Ver- Ver non But his spirit perhaps freed from its earthly tabernacle of cia clay is looking down upon this fair fairland fairland fairland land and its brave progressive people who delight to venerate his memory and to call him him with undying undying undying un un- un- un dying affection the Father of His us Country S 'S If jf the soul of Washington is conscious of the mighty march of events which has transformed med S the weak little colonial State he left into one of the greatest if not the greatest of modern world powers pow f ers what satisfaction and glory it must be bc Vl el elt I t he be died the United Stat States was comprised within a narrow strip of Atlantic seaboard with the Alleghenies Alleghenies Alle- Alle I its western border bolder for the most part and I the tb after fter movement toward the setting sun su sun only represented by bJ the excursions of hardy frontiersmen frontiers frontiers- 4 5 men down the Ohio and Mississippi and into the S mountains and vales ales of Kentucky and Te Tennessee nes 5 N 2 w the whole continent has been won to Civilization civilization S tion the I st h ast and the flag has been carried across Pacific ocean to herald liberty and redemption from barbarism to millions of natives in our disI distant dis dis- dis- dis I tant Philippine possession We e have haye annexed HaS Hawaii Hawaii Ha Ha- S Guam and part of the Samoan group constituting constituting constituting them intermediary stations between San Francisco and Manila On the tile Atlantic side we have bac freed Cuba and she will soon be bc an autonomous S rilOUS State under American suzerainty We have haye e Porto Port Rico and t the lC Stars and ald Stripes Yer very soon will float over oyer the Danish West indi Indies Finally lr we are c abo about t to o dig g tl the gie gri at tt isthmian n cai ca- ca i the oce oceans ns and ind draw through it it the commerce of the round world In our pride over these magnificent accomplishments we should not noti i forget how much we owe to George Yash Washington j S for the patience self sacrifice and wisdom he lie displayed displayed dis- dis v played in helping to lay lar the firm and enduring foundations foun S'S of our present prosperity and power Once again the day which commemorates the birth of one of Earths Earth's grandest and best men nen r rolls around Sound we taps once more for th the hero who rj is ris gone who spurned the offer o of a kingly j. j I crown here below but as we trust and believe 1 wears now a glorious heavenly crown i in the radiant presence of his bis God and his Redeemer