Show ADDRESS TO THE CITIZENS OF UTAH FELLOW CITIZENS it is with pleasure and satisfaction that we address to you this our fourth annual appeal in behalf of the society we have the honor to represent perhaps no other similar institution ever passed through the variety of trying events and vicissitudes that lave fallen to our lot since our creation by legislative enactment but through all the society has steadily advanced in influence and usefulness we are now on the eve of our fourth annual festival or fair As we take a retrospect our hearts swell with gratitude to him who boeth all things wll will for the peaceful and smiling prospect before us in our view of the past our first attempt presents itself did we succeed yes most nobly and our first fair was a triumph h the angel of peace overshadowed us and all that participated were benefited oar our second exhibition now comes up before us but how tow unlike the first the circumstances that thit now surround us how chang chan gedl wedi the a angel ngel of peace no longer broods bloods over us Dar dark clouds are seen gathering in the east still we persevere and success crowns crowns our effort the people are benefited and our object abject is gained i As another year is ushered in in from the exhaustless haust less storehouse of the future the gloom first seen in the east thickens strange and dark things are whispered armed legions are seen looming up in the distance they threaten to drive the angel of peace from the mountains A vast lost are seen wending wending their way southward tens of thousands 0 of men women and children are aleein fleeing ts for safety but hark the voice oice of messengers are heard is is for crimes never committed and the people turn their faces towards their deserted homes peace smiles once more and again the din of industry resounds throughout our peace peaceful vales and the merry whistle of the plough boy and lowing of the peaceful herd is fittin fitting melody for the occasion our oar third annual fair takes place and stranger and citizen unite in pronouncing P it worthy of a free and enlightened people we are happy to be able to say bay that we sat sai fondly anticipate the coming echi exhibition tion will be an event of greater interest than ever before witnessed by the inhabitants inhabitant s of these mountains and we call upon every citizen to aid us in our endeavors to promote the arts of peace and to secure to ourselves the blessings of prosperity and commercial independence there is no other portion of the republic that pays the tax imposed upon this people or even a tithe of it goods are brought a great distance at vast expense expenses the speculative merchant not content with a reasonable profit must needs make a princely fortune in a year or two who is benefited perhaps half a dozen persons and a community impoverished to do it Is the traffic carried on on terms of equity we say it is not for whether it is is an individual state or nation that follows I 1 the practice of paying out without receiving 0 in return a fair equivalent it will most certainly bring bring them to poverty and want then IJ let iet us as a people reduce our desires to our actual necessities promote manufacturing interests encourage the skilful artiman art izan I 1 spread intelligence among amori the husbandmen and the tillers of the soil of every grade ade the above are some of the objects of Z the society very many are becoming careless and indifferent in respect to home manufactures this is a palpable error and one into which many have fallen but be not deceived goods are novy now plentiful but that they will alwa always S be so is is quite uncertain let your sheep ke be better cared for than ever take pains with everything in trusted to you that it may not diminish but rather that increase and progression gres sion accompany all that you do the fair will be held in this city on the third and fourth days of october next and we fondly anticipate that citizen who has the interest of our young territory at heart will aid ua us in rende rendering ring the coming fair one of unusual interest the terms of the society are liberal 2 only for initiation which pays for the first year and one dollar yearly afterwards which entitles the members to all of the privileges of the society and is used in promoting the objects for which the society was created think well act well and all will be well CHAS 11 OLIPHANT in behalf of the board of directors |