Show Invitation Inv tat on Issued to President McKinley To Attend the Pioneer Jubilee o the tho President Your 1011 Excellency we are oro conic come n J commis commission TO slon sion In behalf of ot and In tho the name or of thu tho people of Utah Indeed of ot the tho whole country to invite and to urge your ex cx excellency to tu visit our nul tate stale It Il will bo be 50 yenta on the tho day cia of ot next July since the tho first band of pr If pioneers pioneer entered tho the valley valle of C the Great Salt Lake Naked almost and am nl 01 most In despair they the blazed lazed tho the weary wear trail from Crom tho the river to In the shores of ot our OUI Dead Sea only to bo he tainted saluted 1 on an arrival by tine tho been Such a Journey journe made to a home amid such auch desolation was before undertaken leer Tor I ol years ears therefore their wore poverty and hardship their lot Li all gnarly requited toll Uncomplainingly they thoy bore bor up against their Iron trot fortune slowly aero acre by arm nt rr n wn sv ns reclaimed from tho rho waste until lower and roll fruit took look limo tho taco place ot or tho the garments of oC sago clothed the Hid dwelt desert Strong men and delicate women thus thull wore out nut their 11 1101 von The Tho dreams of or youth were repressed eI thoy put their youthful hopes If It songs hong were wora In ht II then their souls Bouls they thoy Wore never sung stung From l Tom the time regular I path puth they thuy till trod Iod ono one by IJ one foil fell out ut until now only remnant of or the tho bawl remains Upon tho the metered I gravos ot of lr those nn on lands land enriched by hy their tears our slates foundations harp han been hoon laid In It July In III n honor of those thoro who Mill still IIvo mid of or the tho of those who have u IL Jubilee IK is I to bo ho given ml n I To Donn snug Then Theil the tho story will twill bo be told of or how tilt the frown rown at of dissolution was chased away how ho tho the smiles of lIt wore wora Into Inlo natural 1111 II giving life Ufa to tho the loll HOP how the tho desert deHert relented nt Insl and smiles grow grew on Its 1111 savage HI ngo face through und amid golden harvests how at nt time till minors III IJ IS eum tho the sterile mountains opened their 11 1 1111 II II rl and brought forum forth rth their Jewels until Utah became ono omo of at time thu ot of naming mining mill In states how howIn howIn iI In time the mist temples to religion to III education to order and to law were up reared how the th toiler miler while subduing Iu the 1 nt at the tho canto nimo J limo time their own awn prejudice until when statehood l came It wins WM greeted by peo PlO t i pIn ne III loving laving as loyal as us true trim and nn nil devoted to oui our Institutions us I ever lived ti V Will you not nut Mr accept the Invitation of oC the thu whole people of or Utah mend and time tho I Will you not atone and listen lUton and swell the tha acclaims of ot our OUI Wo promise o you OU All nil courtesy all II hospitality wo rya P I that shall HI II bo bu everywhere eIn In tho the sunlight In tho at or thu th 1 nn on the tho th great ll Inland can 1011 In to tho limo dowers in lit h the thu vyta and in tho thu words ot of our lur anti and wo VII believe the Die will w hil add 1111 to your pride In lit landI land I nod mid Intensify your OUI determination lo to with nil all this thin great groat na un nation oj lion tion and If It possible lI to give now nou majesty to her ter lag dug tiu J Wo So hArp the honor to tl he be Your J J i i Your mast obedient t Q CANON CANNON w f II 1 I k i P H 1 t THANK FRANK J J CANNON t it JOSEPH U I tAM H U KINO JUNO Bait 8 Jt Lake City Utah April 30 JO HOT un s Ae 1 r |