| Show OF THE TIME j ath til impatient youth could not wait forthe for the advent of the memoria ble bie ath to commence its celebration for hours b before the ad had glided into the ocean 0 of f the past the usual sounds hounds that are heard on mornings of the were stirring the drowsy atmosphere of early night the detonating of firecrackers and miniature torpedoes mingled 11 with the louder reports of fire arms and both ware were kept up probably all night at sunrise the celebration proper began according to pro gramme with a salute of one gun for each territory by the artillery which was immediately followed by a display of bunting as tile the city threw throw its starry standards to the morning breeze at 5 am captain Crox alls and captain Park mans brass bands and captain beesleys Bee martial band band treated tile the citizens to beautiful musie music executed in a very excellent style extending their favors to the principal apal parts of the city alter later laten on and the whole city seemed moving around the streets were lined pleasure seekers and pretty juveniles tastefully attired were speeding inato to their various school houses to take their places in the ranks as members of sunday district or select schools when boom bang went the artillery as thirteen guns were fired fird announcing that nine the hour appointed for the assembling of the schools had come all were agog to see the procession of the schools and a most interesting sight it was as they filed along towards the temple block with banners and bann erets flags and flage lets plain fancy artistically painted and decorated and bearing mottoes expressive of the faith hopes feelings and sentiments of the people of the various wards represented As they filed into the new tabernacle and took their seats the moving picture was in tensey interesting the thousands of beaming faces ever chang ing dg and sparkling with joy life and buoyancy the multitude of little national flags fanning loyalty to and veneration ne ration for the dear old oid stars and stripes the mixture of adult adul and tand childish animation as teachers and scholars manifested their interest in the celebration in which they were active participants aud and the banners and mottoes borne in and placed iu in conspicuous positions around the building carried the mind away from the past and the present to the future in which these same little ones mighty in their honesty virtue patriotism and union may bear aloft the stars and stripes shape the destinies of millions and carry liberty to groaning nations afar we tried to make a copy of the mott mottoes oes but the task was interminable such as these meribe me be eye at every turn love at home our aur atour god and aud our country we alvor worship ahle the darst and nai ngi defend the lat lasts th the e lord shall shull judge the people with equity equal rights eights the flowers of utah virtue aua and innocence borne by young ladies the maidens maidas bf t utah modesty and virtue ar their adornments toe the stands were occupied by presidents tung nung ung and aud wells elder orson pratt chaplain P n of the day elder john bayjor tayao who 11 arfi hrdi dd been named as chap chad lan ian lau being north colonel F H head orator dr governor durkee gent geni general rai rat challain Ch ellain hon geo A smith and hon geo Q cannon speakers on the occasion ca 1 D mcdenzie decoration J 11 handie hardie eq singer sinner nger the antl 4 gen H R T ba tati isaae isaac groo eq esq E q col S W richards warren hussey V eq al gen A A TJ clie cile col H s vintie B tie tle and H 1 W tahiti Nals naib bitt esq J DT die dle me allister adlist r blar marshal marshai shah horm horn wilford wood ruffo ruff 1 treatment TreaT tresi dent joseph sen ben and pre alid edt dan daniel 4 spencer eucer eucen the tbt front of the stand and the shafts aupp supporting rtin the canopy ovar it were draped with the national flag flan while the flowers and evergreens ever greens which de borated some bome of the school banners added variety and beauty to the scene the general stand gave seats to a large number of influential gentlemen aap tain Crox alls brass band having a position on the left and captain Park mans brass band with captain beesleys Bee Becs leya ieya martial band on the right of the principal stand captain nd executed some music for the opening and marshal mcallister called the vast assemblage to order when the exercises on the pro ogra gramme nime vero were vere commenced with hail hall columbia by captain Crox alls band the chaplain prayed and the choir under the leadership of R sands bands esq sang a song written for the by H W Na Nals naisbitt labItt bitt esq col D mckenzie Mc Kenzle kenzie then read the declaration cl la of independence in an effective manner with sonorous and distinct elocution followed by mu bic blo by captain Park mans mahs band the marshai marshal anno announced his excellency governor durkee for a speech who spoke as ag follows GOVERNOR dunkee DURKEE ladies and gentlemen I 1 have seen it announced through the press that I 1 would deliver an address here acuay to day let me we disabuse your minds on jeet A committee called upon me and requested me to make some remarks I 1 did not promise to do so but I 1 promised to be here and I 1 view it as a privilege to briefly utter 6 a fewox my sentiments we have orators here prepared to enlighten you on the condition of the country on the history of its past and on other topics of interest suitable to the occasion what I 1 may deslie desire to say is with regard to our glorious fourth of july the anniversary of our nations birth YOU have just heard read the declaration of independence it was a liberal war which followed it a progressive element in the british people rising against the aristocratic idea they threw tyranny and declared their independence this thia was a great era in american history his tofy in adi ad i avancing civilization and in A the cause of christianity for it delivered the masses and gave freedom of speech and of the press and to the people the right to govern themselves where they were capable of exercising such a right I 1 do not wish to eulogize this government overall others I 1 believe itis the best where the people are enlightened and prepared to sustain it there may be other governments more despotic better suited to the people where they prevail here the people are sovereigns eloms this is an idea that it would be well for all ali adlof of us to fully comprehend and we should understand the duties and responsibilities of sovereigns to meet together once a year and have a celebration and let that be all there would be of our citizenship would amount to no more inore than to have a little religion which we kept in a bandbox band box through the week and brought out on sunday to air applause we must study to understand our duties and responsibilities as sovereigns and as citizen citizens sand vand band as parts of the great machinery of government ern ment we must have practical democracy in our lives applause we must understand the objects and principles of government and the object of government as we understand it Is to protect the rights of the people king george would not do this he practically said you must go to my mill go to my church and pay my tax we believe in going to what church we please and in going to what mill we please this is what is set forth in the declaration of independence the only necessity there is for go gov v is because some would infringe upon the rights of others if every nian would do right there would be no need for civil government gods government would govern us all what is the principle of civil government to restrain those abose people who will not govern themselves not to treat them cruelly but to restrain them the principles of government are to some people mysteries when it is their very simplicity which which troubles them the way to make good government is to be kind industrious good citizens and to respect the rights of others as we wish our own eted we might have a republican government all over the world and it would not be the form it would be the administration of just principles that would makela make ik a good government in the immortal words lust just read we hold these truths self evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their with certain unalienable right rights that among these are life liberty and and the pursuit of happiness ness that to secure these rights governments ern ments are instituted among men deriVi deriving Dg their just powers from theaon the consent of the governer go governed vernei verneN 11 and that when e eyer ever ei K ny lorm borm form of gover government ament becomes destructive of these ends it is the r ight right of the people to alter or abolish it there is a great mission for the people of the united states there is a great and glorious mission assigned to us as american amerlean people if it we will discharge our duty by others faithfully all the duties of our lives as good citizens and honor the principles that have been committed to us we may become the liberators of nations it is a duty as asi signed up us and we should discharge it we need not compare ourselves with the people of other countries great blessings have been bestowed upon us great privileges conferred upon us and if we will wili be true to those principles we will exert an influence beneficial to ourselves to the truth and to our country 3 1 hope i we will dedicate ourselves anew on this thi s interesting occasion to the great principles of civil and religious ll berty liberty same say that political duties haye have nothing to do with religion but we must fait falt faithfully hully perform every duty religious social and political day b by y day to act the part of good citizens and we must be conscientious in the discharge of our duties and consistent in our political conduct as well as in our our religious let lef us resolve today to day in the sight bight of cl god od our C everlasting ver lasting father to b be e more united in the cause of duty of benevolence of charity of industry and the maintenance of the principles of civil and religious liberty and no matter who the man may be whether methodist baptist mormon or anything any thing else who lives according to these principles he is a true man those who live them are true saints and doers of the al might ys will and they have revelation joy and peace I 1 have spoken longer than I 1 intended I 1 thank you for your attention applause this was followed by the astar star spangled banner sung by marshai marshal mcallister ueail McAll lster ister capt Crox alls band blind sn in chorus after col F H head orator odthe of the day delivered the follow j I 1 I 1 I 1 ing i I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 Thou thousands sands of men yet dwell upon the earth who were vere living oil on the ath day of july 1776 ninety two years ago this day dav less than the span of a single mortal life has passed away since the sun rose upon the group of states men at philadelphia I 1 independence dependence u hall who were affixing their names to that declaration of independence which been read in your hearing and which announce announced a to the nations the birth of anew a new empire I 1 have often pictured to myself what must have been the thoughts and feelings I 1 n gs of hancock and his associates as t hey they signed that 1 great spat historic document they were englishmen one and all born upon then english soil english lish by prejudice and education proud of the historic greatness of their mother land glorying in her we wealth althof of illustrious names and heroic memories claiming as their own the words and works of bacon and milton and peare the victories of cressy and agin court and the national traditions of a i thousand years for them had alfred laid the foundation of english greatness for them had the barons wrested the magna charta from a reluctant king at runnymede runny Bunny mede for them had richard the lionhearted lion hearted made the anglo saxon name feared even to the gates of jerusalem for them had hampden and cromwell taught crowned monarchs that they were but of odthe had sidney perish freedom die dle fort fori em hack raleigh lived a chiva life anaf died ak a knightly death for their heir endowment had ben been wrought thai that long series perles of provide nees pees by which through means unseen by mortal meni men I 1 incomprehensible to our weak erring vision god exalts his favored nations As they signed their declaration of independence for them all the historic past was J blotted out put they relinquished ailed their nationality they deenie outlaws and aliens hurled burled upon them and prices ices lees set upon their lives hp and this t that at they might build up and bind together thirteen feeble discordant struggling provinces into an independent nation n with what heroo heroic perseverance they wrought out their faith I 1 v need eed not recall it is is the brightest page hi in our na dional antl auti annals annais als ais I 1 and sefor forn nearly earlyn a century havea grate fu I 1 pe opley commemorated pa ip m orate d this an 1 niver sary yearly met together and with i waving banners and tiie ilie soui boul i lant music musie borne their testimony that not in vain did our fathers put in pledge their lives ilves their fortunes and their sacred honor this observance is most fitting and most mosi just the child ren come forth to learn through what perils and trials the nation sought and won its right of life the middle aged and the old to indulge in mutual felici lations upon our national progress and to discuss together the means to make such progress perpetual the ladies to cheer by their gracious presence to garland the scene with flowers and to impress upon their children the value of that trust soon to be confided to their charge in no other nation or age have women exercised so potential or BO so beneficent an influence as among ourselves that mancho does not upon such buch oa occasions as this and upon all suitable occasions and all occasions aro are give utterance to the time honored sentiment the ladies god bless them is but nit ifft fit for treason stratagems and spoils P i our american ladies are the queens of the world upon them ha have nil nii all the seasons showered their most beneficent and costly gifts winter has given to them the brilliancy and purity of its snows and ice the spring the beauty and freshness of its fields and flowers and the summer the genial warmth of their kind and loving hearts it was a custom among the anc ancients lents to place in a seat at their tables on occasions of great festivity a skeleton that in the tife midst of their revelry when wit and wine had bad done their wor work kand and bacchanals became as gods they thy might raight be constantly reminded that they were but mortal men in illk like manner it baynot may not be amIs amisa ifor us when we today to day contemplate with pardonable pride our national prosperity 0 to o glance for a moment at the nation in its early and convulsive struggle for life it thirteen small colonies dotted the coast of the atlantic at scarcely any point were settlements more ilian than miles distant from the sea board the entire population was wa less than theare sent population of the state of newyork New York the colonies were without credit with outa outs navy or foreign commerce without that community of interests which springs from compact nationality jealous of each other and of forel kni kui pow ers they had won their independence through the aid of france and more because of their great distance from england than because of their prowess in arms i each sep separate burato itrato state slate aimed to be the head of the new now confederacy each sought to shirk its proportion of the public burdens anarchy bade fair to take the 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