Show WHY NOT MEN if the pioneer could make a home utah the young man of today can yeh here if the old man could make a living and provide for a family taking con editions as he found them aa the desert presented them then the descendant of that sire can make a fortune if the old man and h s wife could establish residence in utah and reclaim the land build irrigation d im prove his livestock furnish the hoase through all the years educate the children and pay their shale of the cost of church and civic establishment then there is no use for one of MS sons or his grandsons grand bons go ng nto another state to get a start from logan to st george there are scattered numberless little monuments to the ab 1 ty of the alj mn to make a living they have left substantial improvements on the land they have kowm and roads and churches and school houses they have planted and enjoyed the fruits they have helped their fellow men they have discharged every duty of the citizen and filled every obligation of the state maker their boys cannot in fairness fair nesa say there is no chance ahre in utah the work of the old man disproves it senator henry gardner tells of the family of young men who moved out of utah because they thought they would have a better chance than they could find in the valleys or on the hillsides of the state in which their father trumped it is the one thing of which the state need be afraid there is no other peril for utah but it is peril if the young men accept the doctrine that they can better their estate by leaving if those boys will use the same courage the same initiative the same industry and honesty and virtue that then fathers used and lived every hillside from bangham to kanab will become a field of plenty and every stream a vitalizing force for irrigation maybe they will have to do some things their father dian didn t do but thy should remember that their fathers were unused to the tasks that destiny set them in utah to tell the truth about that most of the pioneers of utah even those who went to the val leys and made farms never were far mers before they came here they were mechanics for the most part they dian didn t know what their boys know about seed time harvest and eyen those who were trained in ag found themselves on an untried soil they had to learn by experience what was the best treatment of the ground what the best crops and how to secure them why the problem for the boys isn t a thousandth part of what he old men confronted when they settled in utah and if those old fellows could make a living here and they did their children even to the third and fourth genera tion should be proud and glad to carry forward the frontiers of earth s con quest r here in the state which gave them birth make utah boys in no other way in the world can you so honor the father and the mother who here began their mighty work of state building herald republican |