| Show A LOST opportunity all the world is familiar with Shake tide in the affairs of men if f taken at the flood it will lead to fortune if neglected the ri neglect elect lect will bring disaster the fhe philosophy of it is of course that we should be watchful and wise enough to know when to act so as to take advant go ge of those influences that will favor us it is applicable alike to all schemes aspirations ambitions good and bad the management of president harrison during his very brief stay in salt lake convinces me that utah liberalism has lost the great opportunity of its life and that the cause for which it has lived and moved aud aad had its being has suffered defeat of course cour coursed seI 1 am pleased to believe that such is the case perhaps the wish la Is father to the thought no matter in october 1875 president grant came to salt rjake lake he had accepted the common misrepresentations concerning the mormon people as being the truth he was prejudiced against them his visit to this city undeceived him as he himself declared declare president harrison came with the eastern conception of the mormons cormons Mor mons in the crowded hours he had to remain he could use only his eyes to gain information he is an honest and a thinking man what be saw must have convinced him that thai there has been some terrible mistake in all his long journey it is ie safe to say that no city of the size of salt lake has given him so hearty and handsome a welcome of course utah liberalism has wished to make mr harrison feel that the welcome came from antl anti mormon utah it carried him away from the centre of the city and monopolized his time in such wise wine as to prevent him from coming in contact with the mormon features of the occasion as much as possible yet when he has time to think it over be will reflect that while three fourths of the people who welcomed him were mormons cormons Mor mons there was nowhere a lack jack of hearty good will and generous enthusiasm he will look over the route he be traveled through the city in retrospect and will remember that on mormon as well as on non mormon fronts bunting was lavishly displayed he will be reminded that the great mormon temple from whose towers fluttered hundreds of flags bore this precept fear god honor the president he will reflect that three fourths of the children who sang to him were mormons cormons Mor mons he will regret that be could not visit the tabernacle and hear the hundreds of mormon voices rolling in harmony through that vast auditorium and when he be sums it all up he will say as president grant did that he has been deceived in regard to the mormon people then too like grant he will come to the conclusion that harsh barsh s eastres are not needed in utah there is not in the united states and territories a place or people unto which and whom the president should give so much time and attention as to utah and the utah situation Stain standing ding so high that he should be above the reach of prejudice the president should have spent in salt lake even more time than he gave to boise in idaho and by using his eyes which are calm and judicial he could have learned much if he be was so the hands bands of committees that be could not do this that is an unfortunate thing yet his ride through salt lake will result in a more broad humane and american America nj judgment of odthe the mormon people he will understand utah better he will be better able to do what he be can to carry out here the thought he be expressed at the park that the will of the m majority arity expressed by constitutional and legal methods at the ballot box shall be the on supreme law of all our united states when he reflects upon the situation here he will realize that the majority has never attempted to do any other thing than this then when he considers that in deference to the supreme law of the united states state the vast majority of the people of utah have said that henceforth the utah home is where one mother sits in single uncrowned honor the queen of her home all he will if I 1 am not grievously mistaken in the man an say let us be patient as is becoming the strong and let us see if this action on the part of these people is not sincere sixty millions of people have no cause to fear that can do them harm the genius of our government is unhelpful helpful not hindering utah is a glorious land ovaun of sun bright vales filled with peaceful sober hardworking men and women let us give them the hand band of fellowship and believe them americans with us in all that makes for the greatness of our na n tion at least until by overt act they prove our judgment in the wrong 31 when president harrison says bays that or something like that as I 1 believe he i will when be has thought it all over of people will respond I 1 amen then utah liberalism having lived out the last hour of its day will disappear all the local strife and hate bate will die the flower of liberty will bloom menaced by the band of cunning up and down this mountain land aud we shall have on the crown of the continent a OP of UTAH that may become the glory of the union and the envy of the 5 world long enough have the hate i ful gibe the withering sneer and the hideous lie done their cruel work in utah upon the mountain tops all around fair peace and bright prosperity wait a welcome to the valleys but they will not come because they cannot dwell apart and because they die in strife in the glorious springtide spring tide let friendship spring also in our hearts and may 1891 be ever memorable in utah for the coming of the lord of equal rights and equal protection for all regardless of sect creed or party CHARLES |
