Show PRESENT AND PAST EXCURSIONS Our excursionists are arc having a royal rpyal al time Itis It Itis Its is s a reminder to a few of us of another excursion that went vent over the state a few years ago in a special car under tinder the thc patronage of Hon 0 O. W W. Powers Powers Pow Pow- ers and the late Frank D Dyer er That special was not as cordially received as asa asa asa a rule as the thc present one no young ladies came Q out t to pin carnations in itt the buttonholes of the passengers passengers pas pas- on that train only in one or two places was a feast spread for them and they had difficulty difficulty culty in getting the audiences near enough eno gh to them lo tu hear the speaking Just think of the fact that the thc people fought shy of that special and of its speakers while now they cluster el close se to the train ind listen patiently to such speeches as HS Joe Caine Judge Colborn olborn and nd Glen Miller l can make Could anyone imagine a greater change in public scuLl scuLl- nent 1 But comparing the speakers can anyone truthfully truthfully truth truth- fully say that the state is improving In most t places the people seeni seem to have had the thc same apprehension hension of danger that the darkies in Port au an Prince have who are arc rushing to the voodoo doctor for pills t to stand stant off the comet v We Ve r are arc glad the change has come ho however and we are satisfied the excursion will make maIm good because be cause t times mes surely have changed in tWenty years ears earsin in n Utah The Thc people have learned to cheer the thc old flag lag they have learned to sing The Thc S Star lr Spangled Spangled Span Span- ged Banner they are arc re beginning to learn to discriminate discriminate dis dis- crimin criminate te between parties and m more re and more of f them hem cl c every year vote as their own consciences die die- tate atc And it is pleasanter to an ex excursion out omit id in Utah now to meet the welcomes and to greet the people of the different sections than it was twenty years ears ago when the people did not care for company com coin pany panr and had no not much use for the old flag but when their ideas on a good many thany 5 subjects led them to avoid association as much as possible with the bad m men n from Salt Lake such bad men menas menas menas as General cral Connor Jud Judge e Powers Clarence Allen Governor West West all all the Frank Dyer long arra array of those who went out crying in the the wilderness that redemption was nigh Thank God it is all changed |