| Show THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC'S GREAT TRIBUTE TO THE STATE OF UTAH AND SALT LAKE Despite the statement of the Salt Lake Tribune and the Ministerial that the people of Utah and Salt Lake are un-American traitors and do not respect that Salt Lake is a community of and that the Gentiles are helpless in the hands of unscrupulous the Grand Army of the Republic at the close of their great convention held here flung falsehoods back to those arch Utah-haters in the following resolution The forty-third annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in session in Salt Lake resolves as forty-third annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic is unable in words to express its appreciation of the boundless and lavish courtesy and kindness bestowed its old soldier guests by Salt Lake City and the state of before in the history of our never before since the great war have we experienced or felt in a greater degree the warmth of the respect and reverence which go out from the citizens of the American nation to its We aro grateful to Salt Lake City and to the State of do not know how ro express our gratitude in Their citizens have poured out their wealth like water to greet and entertain but the matchless charm of their and the substantial heartiness with which they have entertained us during our stay are dearer to us than gold poured out like were invidious to mention of individuals or of civic or religious All efforts are blended for us in a May you ever be the gem of that desert made into a garden in a royal setting of matchless bathed in an atmosphere of light and shade as magical as envelop May good fortune and be say we all of |
