Show POWERS TELLS t 0 F UTAH paints glowing picture of beehive state at the taft banquet orlando W powers responded to the toast utah as follows I 1 know in all truth I 1 boice the heartfelt sentiments of every man woman and child in utah when I 1 say au all ball bail to the distinguished 1 guest who has again honored by breaking bread with us thrice is he to utah utah la is a big state it deals la in bis big things one needs big we words to accurately cura tely ten tell its history whatever utah does is lone done on a big scale and tho the state has a 1 big future a future that hat only a dreamer ot of dreams whose xz dranis come true can fortell jod esty and discretion aa well as jack of time prevents a resident irom from tell iffet publicly all tn thiet at we could trutha fully tell about ourselves but no matter from what point the view dew Is the fort filth state ot or the aison acmon is ia a great state no state in the ost or ar in hi the middle west vest has so many square alles mlles of land within the some superficial area for much ot of our rao iad stands elands on edge and wo we are arc thus this ebed to use both sides those 7 who 0 read breid the tha magazines cannot but be 1 in ui aued with the idea that we are of Ir differences whose Is to fly at each othas throats and thus stifle tho the of at oular true sentiments nevertheless thyre is no place on eartly where H speech is moro more arc free e and ad aa to thie the freedom of 0 the press pres whoever attempts to 0 o throttle our ellfors is certain to ta color la in all ns its ful fullaway full lawas a cux car adval than that staged by the fades kilkenny Kil kenzy cats ono thing we 46 te sayla truth and aad that is that life in ill atah ta iq c and genor genei sprinkled with the spice of variety r Stati etka constitute the very soul ot trw oratory ora torr figures of speech tharo ro Is a something captivating in ili the observance or 0 a long lini ilai ot of figures bearing aloft a welt well rounded sen tence and if ifa I 1 chose chose so to do 1 I could ace more figures in a talk about utah aban ga aa insurgent p can sprinkle thru a ep epach h upon the I 1 ats ff figures arc ae abino alno th higia they diug to ia the tee intellect costly velvet ia to then agal again abeto n 0 o poi ponderous derous dry imd and uninteresting niber au n a speech stiff with figures that tho the speaker gains a great reat re reputation tor for learning and there thera are more able bodied statistics going abbat horo here declaring the greatness of utah uta h than can bo be found in any other section of the finian tinian union these statistics statIstic sf tell all who will listen that utah is forg forging ing ahead by leaps and bounds they express tersely the prosperity with which we have hava been uniformly blessed they weave a wand or of welcome to nien men and women who nho arc willing to work and make their homes among us help to develop our marvelous resources and thus reap real the reward that honest industry uniformly I 1 deceives ece ives vast mineral wealth ve have in utah the largest copper mine la in the world the utah copper mine which has blocked out over tons of copper ore and which in three years has paid nearly in dividends we have bavo in the south the largest deposit of iron ore known to exist in iron county in southern beah Is the wonderful iron mountain mo antala of which professor newberry says these deposits are arc probably not excelled in intrinsic value by any in ili the world mr john T jones an eastern export port says saya that he be found fauni la in iron county a abdy body of iron ore that will aggregate more than tons P have asphaltum and ancl mineral wax was and mineral miner jI rubber we have gold and silver and lead we have hare Il lumia alting oil and fuel oil I 1 we have hale sulphur in immense deposits and salt peter and alum we have hare mar blean 43 aws and alabaster we have soda and nitre ditre and the finest ft L st ot of we aye have almost overs tiling but cism diamonds on and we wa have money with which to buy diamonds lamonds fl our coal measures s are arc wonderful jones jou who Is an authority declares that a have bodies ot at coal of 0 sufficient breadth br e a and less to 0 o supply ay thew how holo bota united states for s ar annual output x coeds armm aoa our elros of orvious metals hive have rewarded added capital with esce beung we bave to in the great salt lae IA ke to load a i traia of ct cars pa times around the ard and d then leave a string of 0 cas cara upon th c ed alde amk ahdout desert therea Is a deposit of I 1 almost alwo st plire pv sait the val cef or wilh balge tr CI estimated mated at al fews fiby we 0 p marc than pou 8 of bf busar r an beally wi re hantover haf ceover tover sheep and d more mom th than cattle catoe arid and wo we raise mise 78 per cent at oi ot aur our wheat wheat crop that amounts to 4 bushels annually try by means c of what is ia knova b as dry tanning farmin fo for our farmers by effort aro are causing the desert aaste vaste s so called to produce v fcc ucc an Uv average avei arato age ot of ius liels 0 at wheat per ber acre betat is our climate and our beai ifal alleys held in the arms ot of ma I 1 mountains moua taina that are the most marvelous most ot of that ot of which I 1 have spoken is connected with the work ot of nan man climate is a gilt gift ot of G god 1 wa have days day of sunshine Z and I 1 da the balance of oc the year is bright aad fair air father Es calanc who laati take in september wrote in hla his aday bliefe tho the climate Ls la so BO the air so eo balmy alit it la is a pleasure to breathe baday and by night lie ile was waa absolutely correct god wry very few of the people in utah besim to foresti forego the pleasure thu that he be mentioned the air la is balmy ond and oui ap daa i ire arc it wo vo take tho coo b 01 0 our oar canyons w iffie nil them with the salted zephyrs of our inland sea we have an amb ambrosial rostal atmosphere as grateful to onos ones senses as the scented breath of 0 the mythical tooba tree after all the glory of our state does docs not consist in the fact act that nature has been kind to us that she has given us soil most ford leand leland stored the wealth of tho the ages in our mountains that the rigors of 0 winter are arc tempered by the most wonderful inland sea that Is stirred by the breezes of heaven that we can gaze with awe upon tho the largest and most majestic illustrations of 0 gods handiwork it Is the men and women that make a state the greatness of utah cod consists slAts in the fact that our bur arp peaceful honest Industrious 1 and lag ing much has haa been wf wr fitten eteri and spoken about us calculated to cauze people to believe that no good can caa come came from utah some ol of it was deserved some or of it did us grave injustice ja stice 1 I have lived here more than a quarter of a century I 1 have observed our people marching steadily onward caward in tho the fierce conflicts that have at times shaken the state as by an earthquake I 1 have been utah emerge each time a little more like the rest of the union and from the experience here in which I 1 hare been schooled I 1 declare and I 1 believe that utah can work out her own r salvation the mills of 0 the gods grind grina slowly but they abc grinding all the time arid and the grist Oft heso mills hero here will mcday someday be acceptable to th tho nation what we need now more than all el seis a spirit of toleration what we need to recognize is the fact that wo we are all children of 0 the same god actuated by the same impulses possessed by the same love the same passions and the same tho time mp h has a q c ome come for chose those who are called d gentiles t i es to condemn unsparingly among their own people the things that i people ought not to do the time has come for those who are called cormons mormons to condemn and to spare not those amon among the mormon people who do things that hat the nation says must not be done and the time has como come tor or us ili all to condemn the mis chief makers who paint us blacker thin than we really are for the state stands upon the threshold of 0 a cicat reformation that will draw aside the curtain and let in the sunlight of 0 a new day when the old will pass out ot of sight aej and tho the lexing que questions wons that have impeded our advancement adva will be buried never again to be resurrected out ot of the flames of the conflict that has caused us much sorrow ani filled our hearts with bitterness biU there them is s cerain berain to arise a new utah sins sing ins paeans to the re republic and jealously guarding those foundation principles winch which have made the american deop people le the greatest people in all history 1 I can find no language more fitted to conclude these remarks than the words that I 1 used upon another occasion and in another city when speaking for our state I 1 said if I 1 could make clear to you the vat amount of unclaimed wearth stored jn ia tia natures tures creaso which some danwill day will adorn the houses ot of utah it if I 1 unroll the pazo rama of the future whoa when utah shall comoto cometo her own if I 1 could show you the wonders of gods great tion beccue at evening by the great satt salt take late aa a tho the BUO bun slang behind pur pk 14 paK fl lights torch ot of crimson and orange orange sad and goldana gol sold dand and touch bouchea the sky with softener tints and tho the lovell et est shades ot of the IOV loveliest AUest colo colors ra 1 lt I you could watch the he shadows from mountain aln pe peak alt to mountain peak u imay i atal tho tho ashta of the chy of 0 ELY breaks dorthi in the valley belov below fr the possibilities when tae drop curtain ot of tomorrow shall by lifted you would say eay as aa aa Drig Br dright ishi hm young when nhen his eyes first recited nour wonderous wonder ons valley this s ts 19 the place drive ve orl on |