Show PIONEER DAY DAT the entrance of the pioneers in salt lake valley on july 24 1847 will always be gratefully and reverently remembered in this region as one of the great events in the history of our country during this century it was waa but a small band men three women and two children hut but it was waa the advance guard of the hosts that under providence were destined to conquer an immense region for civilization and for the heaven born biorn principles of which the american constitution to Is the most perfect expression in existence the country upon which the pioneers looked that memorable day was in the language of the historian no garden of the hesperides with trees hearing golden apples only a barren plain hemmed in with mountains and burning under the rays of the sun sagebrush met the eve everywhere what a marvelous change in the brief period of 0 f half a century anyone who now for the first time comes 1 to this garden spot of the mountains and gazes upon the beautiful homes that have sprung sprang up here or upon the achievements in evidence in all can hardly believe that all this is the work of lifty fifty years in view of the blessings poured out upon this region it is well to rebern her ber that one of the first concerns of the pioneers was to dedicate this land to him who had so miraculously guided them ahring their wearisome wanderings in the desert he who is not content with looking upon the effects but who also seeks for causes will find in this fact a sufficient explanation of the present condition of this mountain region to the pioneers it was apparent that their arrival here was the work of their god they found that he had placed ahm upon the mountains and their mission was to bring good tidings of to publish salvation and proclaim the fact that i god ri ignath they applied to their situation the beautiful words of the prophet thy watchmen shall lift up the voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye when the lord shall bring again zion in that spirit dpn it the great leader of of the little 1 larid iral larl laid it 0 wn rules for the keeping of the sabbath day holy tor for indu industry Atry and diligence in the labor to redeem the country and for brotherly love and equality it is well to dwell on this feature of the entrance of the pioneers in utah it is so uncommon coiner on in the history of the westward march of civilization it accounts to a great extent if not entirely for the gigantic strides made here and it suggests the thought that as long as the inhabitants of these valleys are willing td build on the foundation laid by the noble pioneers as long as they fear god and endeavor to do right the hand of the almighty will be over akem for good utah bas passed through many vicissitudes since that day but sunshine has always torn the threatening clouds calm has succeeded sue aeed every storm and the general match march has been onward from triumph to triumph pioneer day this belar h has been made especially significant by being devoted to exercises in memory of the amer k ican sailors murdered it Is charged in im havana harbor by the destruction of them the maine they too were pig pioneers it seemed to be necessary to give to the american nation the shock the news of that calamity caused ln order to arouse it to consciousness of the fact that at the very threshold of the country thousands of human beings were sacrificed upon the altar of oppression to that fearful event was due the determination of a mighty nation to go forth upon a mission of mercy and break the chains of enslaved cuba the children of the ut utah ab pioneers know wherein lies the secret ot the successes of this war for humanity and whence must come the power to carry it out to the end to them th em it IS is most fit that their pioneer day should hould be devoted especially to the memory emory Ai of those other pioneers whose zhi mealon stion was laid in the valley of the abadom of death recognizing in alli all in we life ana an death the hand of the same t eternal father of mankind vain porto rico must be taken some more lives must be lost and some valuable property destroyed then perhaps spain must be attacked and her coast cities devastated before the leading spirits of that country will sacrifice their honor and their the pride tor for the benefit of their country an american hostile expedition to europe would be one of the great event of this century after the successes or 01 our navy and army now on record it is not probable that it would result in a european coalition against the united states as long as the object is known to be solely to compel spain to sue fox peace it is quite generally conceded now that spain deserves to be defeated atea and that she must be dealt a fatal blow before she realizes her position commodore watsons expedition may have to cross the atlantic in order to end the war with spain |