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Show & I m i j vf k I Christmas Edition Westward ' IQ23 Expansion Section ' THE . CHRISTMAS NEWS, DECEMBER I 13 1&23 : 5 jr" N I BY FRANK BKCKER tic liglit of vivid fancy there is something world sout-- . do to achieve hi? heart's desire. It was a part of that resistless westward march in search of the Promised Land for which the race cver Sum It t ay that in Utah great souls found, thna :ouf,t' tuaryj and built here betler than they knew. Moved by a spirit that passes understanding they wrought mightily to1 carve a eom-r- ta "J frowning mountain. Way tt ' fr,0n homVf m,ni" happy being, athrob and prosperity, the complete .vindication of an aftd applied purposo. ? T TIIE- - TRl'IC TRKMi. "oof"thoso'profouid movements ' Tih?iYre l"" ? tlmo upn have ft the groat chapter of human advancement. Ive must not punctuated minimize the true trend of arfair the full ,0f. tnOt'ky M0unluin' of are now shaping themselves. In its significance largest mean, the beginning of another Simer it gyeal cycle. Hre birth rial era which will weld the. great western portion iof the North American Continent into one industrial entity to direjd the aolivl- n M1 l&nd borderln the Pacifie Orean. u"1 f Only with 6f rapidly growing millions and lay (he foundation for doming, mind reeoi live to this gigantic conception ran one achieve an stirring and stupendous in the historic movements of tho human race. The heart thrills as imagination travels with the shadowy hosts of the pajt, looking back through tho ages as from a mountain top viewing the portentous drama of tho centuries whilo hordes and armies swoop through the khining portals of existence from mighty conquest lo- oblivion, "He tween the cold and barren peaks of two eternities thoo puppet empire have tlmir day and aro hurried on, leaving hut sculptured ruins to mark U10 glory of their sojourn. "They say the lion and the lizard keep the courts where Jain hyd glorified ami drank deep," The sounding galleries that once echoed to tho troud of kings; gardens and fair queens, tho air aquiver with music and intrigue; tho field of rhivalry ativo with flashing armour and gay pennants Biroaming from the battle meats how like a book of brightly-colore- d pirlures as we turn thoughtfully back to the long ago. They too, moved and loved and yearned and. hated. They too, tossod Use bauble or lire In careless abandon or with deadly certainly as marks the players of alljUme Cu.ir"a seeking capricious pleasure or ambitious purpose. Some there were who counted the world a piano of Joyousnesa and light and left with We haj-- seen the growth of the krtcro JTillejt .Stale with its 4 a benediction of love that clings through the .years like faint and enmassiiig ,f wealth until today the balance,! world bower proclous incense. Olliers fed on lust and pomjious glory to wrerk swing from New iok. tho greatest city On the face of tin earth. 'Wo have the happiness of nations and leave a trail of blood along (ho valley P western trend and the 7! pn,,ial of Chicago, of death. great,.,, railroad confer in Hie woHdWe upbuilding have sec the onwani Those ore tho bright ami tlm sordid pirlures, but scan the hook sweep Of n Igrallon and lb subjugation of ihe Writ, bringing with closely lest its message escape you. It is indefinite and elusive. Tor it a m-enp.ro on Hie western eoa. rapidly assymibg induslrlnl whole centuries it is lost completely in tho darkness of Ignorance hidepenilen.1, rich and and so endowed 'wilh natural and war. Itut it reappears again' as tho children of men seem to wealth and resource that it will eventually direct a 'grrk pause in their mad work of destruction and the light of some great he worlds trade In this Ilkes a Pnrificempire Hah mind points Onco more they lake up quest, plico ns the slorohouVfroin which will sinews their fares turned toward the sotting sun and a new-ligof high for l int imiiistrial war that fur roal and resolve in their eyes. It js as though they would follow the effulgent lyto be waged. It will ,P dw,,n," in ,hi" I f'r irnl supremacy orb of day ever westward, on and on, 10 discover at list the home and and dictate policies upon U.o'hrond Pacific. of abiding plaro peace. A Do you not catch that all but obliterated theme, so like a ihin WTl RtL RRR1I.R. k ' Mountains have thread of gold running through all the woof and warp of the tapesalways rnslihited the natural harrier T,!K between the East and I fair West and try of lire? That restless stirring, constant striving for the more today they defmile beautiful and the better? It is the heritage of the centuries, and In. dividing line in the ej;onoiiiio development of two a,k - domflable will to h. go onward and upwanLrtlie ono priceless attriJUIH Ciiriou.ly bute of humanity. harrier on discovery of gold bnd built up a pi li glowing Took you to those dark ami bind before the first railroad Huniiels had pierced the ages In tho dawn of jrounlry continental divide, before that lime the tide of history when nomads swarmed from the htejtk steppes beyond tho paused Himalayas later to found the glittering dynasties of Persia. Trare upon the eastern slopes wilh the spectacular cmigrntmnhad cveepti uj f fhe cour1,10 sw'ccp or ageous Mormon trek and the Oregon expeditions. Novt empire through Greece and Homo, to Charlemagne J wd see a and his pinnacle of power. Picture the hordes startling chingo of front; as Hie coast stales grow in 'wealth and sweeping into western t Europe. Truly, It is an enthralling epertado when one stops to repopulation icy begin to beat back ogiinst Hie western Mop bringflect that though they were inspired by prinricvalTust and love ot ing their capital to develop Hie great, rommoowealt lis West of the Rockies win o levying tribute' in foodstuffs, limber ad conquest these pnoplcs of the past were insensibly driving to higher estate. They look (heir (urn at Iho helm of destiny as riv duration's That is tho great change we should hear in mind. I an armada ploughed steadily westward to the setting sun. henceforth chums us for its own to become an Pacific Empire a scinlillalmg jewel i, the crown integral of west, mi; PI i.mg present. and a vital itufL in. a vast field of so we turn the pages lapidly till tho picture of America artilitjT winch will k per capita wfallh, betler and finer personal ciifort and on our view. Wo have rorne to Hie New World to tho .and greater dividual intelligence than the world ha. greatest Republic of world history, founded in that insatiable quest ovht witness! for liberty and equality that has been man's unquenchable desiro These ai?. not unwanted claims or since serfdom's shackles first began to chafe. Wo fling the book empty the wen waj settled by the. best the Anglo-Saxon aside, for we are- living in the pulsing, throbbing present as world rarfprhduood I rom Hie of the Rockies to (he pacific capes here, forces movo pven more rapidly westward, adjusting themselves in reis so rugged and dean, so Inch and healthful that 'the , uis and bribe, arrangement,' of the garde. Perforce, we cast aside too, tho pomp it nurtures and panoply of romantic history, sinro ours is an industrial rpust pnrtAke in large measure of tho quaJiLv nr age, an ago of commercialism, when gold and balances of trade heroine 'the yironment. There has never l.c.en poverty ticro, nor has there measurement of a nation's greatness. But,' mind you. all ttie romance , beep slothful ease to foster lethargy- and discontent. Men here have lived clj-aand lure thought clean, preservinp is not carded rom the epic. It comes in different guise, 'tis true the but ' sturdy vii U.ed and ideal, of the romance it is, as cxhiliratmg and heart thrilling as nation's idllsTf founders. Herr any' of the quick eminent as w ,rked out by the American master strokes on field of old. people f.nd the lr best CMrpsst0n. Then come wilh rho and I will lead you down to the weslern sra Geographically, topographically, ecbnoniicallv an, where our eyes have been turned in quesling hope and our feel have unconsciously led us, down to the golden sands and the white ranks or the charging waters, down to the crimson outposts 'of our empire of today, tno long line of the Pacific shore that fringes tho portion of tha eastern hemisphere, domain of Hie rhosen children of Iho West. We of Utah will there to It partly as our own. for we stand in thejourney DOWN TlF TIIK PACIFIC. fore front of the westward march; with ail thermal S the river flow from the rontLei. d family of western narkbone or stales we pause at the barrier of the wide ocean casting " t0 ' the Pacific so shall our trodo How to the hil L to tho eyes Orient for the conquests to eome. along the coast centers that h.ve P0)i:laUo, sri un,V I would not weary you with the story of our lonacr'! sufficient unto themselves, but must.aT, v llTy journey hither. The epochal hegira of the Latter-da- y for Saints is a story of Itself, oft ih. UUTO ,t u,.!? SSSSSS' A, told and never too many times repealed in its lesson of what man will J jr on CoUnud Page Nine.) 'rr .T. t l - 1 roso-sconl- od r a. cIliT-maiidi- the-wa- d ht "1,".",' half-reveale- d, And - 'I -- - -- 1 pre-em- pt ii li r 4 ,f . A m,td 1 1 |
