Show MORMON BATTALION ATTl MONUMENT IO By L L. L A. A Ho Hollenbeck ell The w writer iter first saw the statute of ot Brigham Young at the tho Yo Worlds World's Fan Fair at Chicago June 1893 and ag again in I Ion on Main street Salt Lake in Iii May I 1907 Brigham Young is admires admire by toy many people who did not and do donot doot pot not ot agree with his religion He was wasa a great leader leader- an ant ane s his biography Istl Is tl th the e history of the Mormon ch church and nd of or Utah and the Ule west from Nauvoo Nail Nau- Nau l to 1872 It was appropriate to toI I ll have VO his hiis' hiis statute world I can see it His personality personality- and local history are woven together The I biography y of Washington Is the he history history his his- tory of the Revolutionary war and andI of l later ter h history story And that of Lincoln I is the history of slavery and of the I great civil U war and Civic matters offar of offar I far fal reaching importance We at t their statutes and personal inc inc- teem into th the mind that lIn link themselves with hist history ry and land we are delighted at the unity of or the two You seldom see a monument to a aVal Val war or 01 a great battle or a prominent Idea The monument Is to the e man that stood head and shoulders as the mighty force of that great incident inci inci- dent The Colossus of Rhodes was the tho greatest monument ever made It stood in honorof honor honor- of the God Apollo There was no personality to Apollo Apolo It was one of the seven wonders of or orthe the world It was sold t to a Jew few woo wio loaded th the brass on camels and the monument and its Hs god per per shed About ten years ago the Utah legislature legislature leg leg- appropriated conditionally conditionally conditionally con con- that others would raise as 15 a much more for a monument to the Mormon Battalion A monument to be erected on the corner corner cor corM ner of ot the capitol grounds The Thc money is nearly all raised and soon they will be asking for from the state It was all right to honor honer the Mormon Battalion but the method of ot doing dt tit is wrong The Tho money spent is useless useless a. a waste It would have been much better to have erected a beautiful and useful building for tor- at the university university university sity or the agricultural college or over In Iii the basin for Cora fora a scientific scientific scientific hall liall as a place for study and investigation investigation In in- and called it the Mormon Battalion Hall or other similar name That would have been useful and ornamental as well as a com corn commemoration commemoration of the deeds of ot the Mor Mormon 1 r- r mon Battalion It would have made madea a more lasting and fitting impression impression sion son upon the youth and people of the country It would have been useful as well as ornamental ana anc a cr credit dit to 10 the state but as it is is It attracts me merely ely an idle thought thought to to see and forget and to pay a large I amount of money for without any ri n benefits and with a smaller impression of grand effort than would have been produced bya useful and elegant building build n |