Show aix cu 2 UTAH SHALL 1 BE F free E tim THE celebration of the annia aunt of national independence in this city oil on monday wa nasf was as fine an affair as could be expected ext exi considering that it was no not j general etwas it was the first non mor m mon on IV fourth arth of july ce celebration lebrat loj iol over attempted in utah the tho groces sion slon was small but was witnessed by a large number of people k the gathering on washington square was meagre but many who tried to 1 l sta stay yand and listen to the proceedings din l were unable to hear and to enan endure tilo the burning rays of tile the sun and s so departed shortly after the opening in another column colum nwe we give in full the speech of gov ell eli H murray who presided on the we occasion and also the oration by the orator of the aday y f the V il governors effort was not adi adt ad mired by many of his big hearers and we ve v do not think atwill it will commend itself to too the general public when read its beginning and ending do not harmonize he commences by deprecating sectional feeling on such an occasion and closes with an attack on one section of our common country and after expatiating on liberty and its fruits he be proceeds to threaten and prophesy evil to utah because of the freedom which the majority of ius its it citizens exercise in matters that relate to their own i welfare socially and religiously every one who understands the situation in this territory and reads j the governor governors remarks can per cei cel through the speech allu glon lion s to what he mistakenly imagines to be conditions existing I 1 in a utah 4 Iti it is svery very evident that the governor is not acquainted with the majority of the people within his jurisdiction their faith their motives nor their acts like many others he has heard statements to their their thein disfavor and has credited these reports when he has been here awhile and learned something concerning them he will no doubt be more cautious and less rabid we attribute much of his ill feeling to lack of authentic information but at the same time we are of the opinion that all his true friends will be sorry that he has been so ill ili natured unwise and sectional as to take advantage of a time like the peoples peopled day to say things as un true as they are unkind and illiberal i against a portion of tile tiie people that i very portion too whom he ought to understand ana and so far as he can v protect and defend in their liberties we will say for his benefit that there are no shackles here except those chose which have llave been forged by the tile hands of men wen paid by the tile government to be servants of the people aud and who attempt to make themselves masters of the people his hia allusions to church and state 11 priestly dictation as superstitions p e r s t t 0 il of a dead past a t too 0 0 confiding 0 n 1 1 d people 0 pe etc are totally i c lapp inapplicable IS bp 1 1 in t the direction in which ta they a are aimeda aim alm d it is because flie flue ie lat tat r aay a saints bomm commonly only called mormons cormons Mor mons have thrown off and broken tile tiie bonds of state suite churches emerged from the gloom of dead super stations ions burst asunder the shae shackles suter les ies of civil religious and social bondage and ana have llave determined to be truly free that they occupy the anomalous position in which they stand today to day and aro arc the targets for the tiie shafts of priestly priestly dictators and office official autocrat autocrats who would deprive them of those liberties which they have ach achieved cleved ind euid prevent them from obtaining 0 others i to which they have all an in alienable night right before god aud and the wants young utah to 0 go 0 f forward 0 in ju unison with civilization za t tion 70 n ll 11 and that until sho sho she I 1 i do does tl there arc ere is no statehood for lio lie her tier r we say that it the tiie prim prin of statehood isan is an unholy alliance with the debasing aud and corrupt thing in this thi degenerate age called civilization rod lod god almighty k giant grant gi glant ant that 81 sho she I 1 0 pidy may remain in her iier present pres condition of spinsterhood civilization 1 what is the vie that thee chec chrls Chris chrisian Qan van vad u and holders wish to force upon us what have ave they introduced fostered and hept kept alive in our midst it was held heid up to our gaze in the tho procession on vii monday which was the special avora of those people cheek by jo jowl w linked in with federa federal a pank lank officials ial preachers reformers reforce rs pd and ch christian ristian regenerators ra of tho the deluded mormons cormons Mor ermons mons vere vero the most 0 of this tills western region I 1 in n open barouche placed in the iino line of invited guests between the carriages of those whom we have named and the vehicles of other well know citizens the off omm meers officers who wha represent this civilization ahead and in their wake a display of prostitutes beer drays draye liquor wagons cigar trucks etc a fitting illustration of the tile history of off omm lelal official work for th tha tho reformation of the tho 11 Mor mons sll atwall the prophecies of the govert gover ar e nor in lu relation to future fr free dom we assent discarding ill lii his 1 insinuations insinuation a and conditions utah under the name of desea deser deseret e will truly yet bo be free freeh freer ea from officials who wilo use the position to insul tand browbeat th the he people free from imported an autocrats forced upon them without their consent free from the superstitions stations ions lons of apostate christendom with its spurious arrogant and godforsaken priesthood free floii froma courts and officers that encourage 1 licentiousness I and put a premium on vice hice free from misrepresentation i buse abuse and calumny free to wor oli all phin god as her citizens desire blut bint una to magnify and maintain the aples principles of the glorious constitution tit ution which they gave have always reverenced reveren ced and to exercise the rights of civil and religious liberty for which many of their fathers bled but which are itow now denied by those who shout themselves hoarse over lip liberty and over that independence which consists but in fourth of july froth and pread spread eagle eagie orations we sincerely wish the he governor vernor petter letter etter ettor man mann nersa mere 9 kindly spirit frounder kho feo under discretion 1 re on a disposition fio I 1 learn facts e ins instead dof of fiction and wisdom to hear both loth sides of acon a con eon I 1 before lie he leaps to judgment and we gently remind him min that nv we have heard of scaffolds and coffins benore before from men who now lie I 1 in a thir their graves and whose memory is almost forgotten and while they have perished and passed from froh sight that which they assailed livest on stronger brighter and greater promise and will so live and increase and flourish till it extends from fron the mountains to the ends of the earth |