Show A FEW FACTS FOR FOB THE thoughtful it is difficult for fo a stranger coming into this city today to day to realize that less than eighteen years ago the place where it stands was a sage plain and a wilderness like those he has recently passed through the barren aspect of the region through which he has traveled to come here the rugged kenyons kan the gaunt and bleak ni mountains and the whole air alt of desert desert deca dica dreariness around I 1 him a as aej he journeys ou orneys oil on with a see seemingly bingly endless continuation of mountain and desert lead him fo to expect anything but the picture ure of beauty and aud lo 10 loveliness that bursts upon ills his vision as he ie hat gains a view of bf our mountain home but a feja days have passed sin since db the face of nature around us wore vore ai a bard bare and chilling air the trees veme were jea leafless t iad he orchards sleeping tuttle tut out the la last st few hours of a loik lone and tedious winter ry thing is ellee eilee r atul q d pleasant our oui city presents the appearance oti OB large tractor tract of rich land dotted with lov iov lovely it illas nestling in a setting of green friia foliage 1 9 e bursting 1 and blooming fruit trees yet it is buta few ye years ar s since this lovely see seene scene was a wilderness wildern cs barren of all but the gnarled and stun stunted ft i a sage and its its kindred growths its only tenants being the ithe wandering redman red man the prowling wolf or the shaggy 1 grizzly but a people came here led by a leader whom they had learned to love through many trying seft seasons sons of perse cut n and adversity not seeking for gole gok nor silver but for the rights and privileges inalle inalienable nabla nabie to all the le leg to lo live in peace the right to worship god according to the dictates of their own consciences which in had d been denied to them baso by o called eio elo libation and modern chris chrls tia llvy tiVy they them came here and by untiring industry unaided for the cold coid world gouid gould lend no helping hand but bot mocked them in their sufferings by perseverance and unequalled unequal led energy they huilt built up this city ity made it what it is under the provi dences of god and h have ave extended their settlements north and south east and west for tile the same purpose that the desert may be made to bloom and bring forth it its s bounteous harvests I 1 wherever their footsteps have fallen the marks of industry are to tobe tote be seen go back to the cast and in the midst of the havoc made by fierce internecine war while the government of our country has been crushing out an unholy rebellion tile the monuments of their the f ir toil toll their industry and perseverance are yet to be seen here in this far of region they have done a work for the nation pioneered the way in the face of every obstacle for the ment of one of tile the greatest objects of the age the binding together the east and the west the opening a highway between the atlantic and pacific the full value of which will not be realized realize dby by the nation for years to come kenyons thought to be impassable have been opened roads made bridges built commerce encouraged and in shor short the settlement of this whole western region rich in the elements of exhaust exhaustless lens ions s wealth been pioneered and by whom would you believe it by a people who are neither industrious energetic persevering righteous nor good they cannot bo be industrious for they are voluptuous and sensual they cannot be persevering for they are vacillating they cannot be energetic for their habits are enervating they cannot be righteous and good for for th they ey exercise the tile privilege of thinking for themselves and actually serve god however unfashionable it may be with the rest of mankind Is it not surprising that they have accomplished what they have and reared monuments of taste and industry such as we see around us truly wonders have not ceased though all men may judge us by the particular standards of right and wrong which they have made for themselves yet all ali do not think thin kofus of us nor speak of us alike there are many vilo who have sympathized with our sufferings who nybo have admired the heroic patriotism which has characterized us as a people i under the most trying circumstances and who while professing no faith in our religious I 1 belief see ee in mormonism a great political moral and social renovator there are others who judging our motives and an d actions by their own endeavor to make the world believe that we are the mass maag of corruption they represent us to be ignorant of practical purity themselves given overto over to the worst thoughts and desires that t take ike ake possession of human being beings sj they are unable to detect the difference between I 1 rampant danili int ant hypocrisy and assumed righteousness cou and the practical work vork working bigoff of that purity and consistent rectitude that have their existence in the inner man moved upon by b the spirit it of life they try ary to hide bide their corruption by y coundi sounding n g words assuming the appearance of vir the f 1 ues aes thy do not possess thus unconsciously selous ly bowing before the majesty of righteousness and glossing over the vilest depravity with the flimsiest flims iest covering of hypocritical virtuous indignation strong only in the number of adjectives employed like lite the tinsel of the itinerant showman or the gaudy motley of the clown their words fail to tto hide th the e tatters beneath and the tile burning misery which consumes the unrighteous we have no comparisons to make truth and virtue cannot descend to institute comparisons with falsehood and vice what this people are their labors and works declare and tile the inane ravings of the maliciously most wicked opponent of haruth uth cannot alter the record in n tile the hours of 0 their bitterest trials their faith falth in G god od stood the test and their loyalty to their country its institutions i tu eions and constitution bore unflinchingly demands from which any other portion of its citizens would have recoiled what they have done tile the records of our times will shew show and an 4 the voice of all honorable and right minded men will bear testimony to we have baye learned that the path we have chosen brings blessings peace and life therefore it is that w we so lio steadfastly pursue it sandwith and with the aid of theAl the almighty mie bolty we will continue in it to the end the results of our labors to bless mankind and do good to all will live in all time and the work for tile the redemption of the earth and the regeneration of mankind continue till the purposes of bf heaven are consummated |