Show HONOR THE FOUNDERS One of the visitors to Conference who male made a Journey of af nearly a thousand miles from his bie home in Apache county Arizona is Charles over ninety years of age ge and one of the Utah Pioneers Pioneer For eighteen years past be has Jived lived in Arizona being one of the Ibe pioneer mi missionaries in establishing settle settle- settlements ettle ments of ot Utah people there for far years previous to bis his going south h he resided in Cache V Valley being an early settler of that region He lie was in attendance at the Fair Pair on an ChU- ChU drens dren's day and it is der deeply ply Interesting to listen to bis his comments comments because through his bis long absence from this city he be naturally contrasts the present with the vision which greeted his bie eyes in the Salt BaIt Lake valley on an the Twenty Twenty- L fourth of He told old o of tb the fruits the flowers dower the be vegetables the he manu manu- manufacture facture the display of art and aDd fancy fancywork work and aDd the exhibits of the schools and then of the barrenness and aDd desola- desola desolation valley which tion of the hued greyish-hued lay before his hla view on that memorable day seven forty years yearl ago with Its Ita great Lake glimmering and glistening under the be broiling July sun Then of othe the throng of f children he be exclaimed Oh the he thousands the thousands of o little boys and girls laughing shout shout- shouting shouting ing happy happy When I first looked over the valley from tram the mouth of Emigration Canyon there was no house bouse no garden no farm no DO chil- chil children dren Sage Sagebrush brush a few cottonwood trees to 0 the south and aDd some patches of green greeD willows willow I Far away a way I saw law two or three Indians skulking oft off to get out of our sight eight I could see lee leeDO se seno no DO other living thing But the chil- chil children dren dreD bow how they pushed and aDd crowded in 18 the Fair an old man maD like we me nearly blind Ob Oh how bow good a time it wall was You know when we get so old we be- be become be become come children again and we cannot help belp it I felt a child again Every Every- E Everybody Everybody body wasso kind to m mt me P The early settlers of Utah who be hold bold its scenes today can realize some something thing of the stupendous change wrought in these valleys by the band of at Industry under the Divine blessing and inspiration But with the younger members of our O great commonwealth It is II too 00 much to ask aak that they comprehend the full nature of the contrast between now and seven seven forty years yearl ago They can go to the yet uncultivated small aU mountaIn valley and from the dryness and deso deso- desolation desolation lation atlon there can oan obtain ocular dem dem- demonstration demonstration of the barrenness which once existed everywhere But they can oan not get a perfect idea of ot its loneliness loneliness ness nels any 11 more than one who views the rippling of at a mountain lake in a storm can caD realize the awful grandeur of the bound boundless lei ocean Yet Vet by learning of ot what has been and aDd see see- seeIng seeing seeing ing that which now exists the newer residents of ot the Territory may suf auf sufficiently sufficiently comprehend the transformation tion tion to be filled with gratitude to and honor bonor for or those who laid the foundations for tor progress made Everybody was wat kind said the Pioneer It that be the rule through out Utah to all aU its veteran blessed are the people and permanent their heritage tU 1 t Honor U thy father and thy mother that day days may be long inthe In Inthe the land which the Lord thy God thee inculcates a principle which h has been exemplified very many times in 10 the world worlds world's history since Ince the command was wae promulgated ed to Israel from Mount Sinai Where the rule has baa been followed good has resulted where it has bas been VIolated evil has come to IndIviduals families or nations as u the ca case e has baa been The Pioneers and early settlers ot of Utah are the fathers and mothers of this great commonwealth By them It was organized nurtured provided for and established in the path of cf prosperity To them as its pare parents tl is Is honor due in the kind and oon considerate treatment accorded those thOle who remain the veneration shown D for pr the works and memory of at those who have gone and the respect manifested for tor the In- In Integrity integrity In Integrity wisdom skill and unwavering and sublime faith of all aU the veterans in the destiny of those who should people these valleys When a community as al alwell aswell well as an individual gives give honor bonor to its worthy parentage its days shall shaH be belong belong b blong long in the land laDd which the Lord has bas given it So 80 may it be with those who dwell in Utah |