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Show THE DESERT'S SPLENDORS. From the verdure, the flowers, the incomparable incompara-ble forests of the West coast, the desert must have come upon the eyes of the President with almost a shock. But the good Lord is just in his distributions, distribu-tions, and so it is a pity that the President could not have made a longer visit in our midst; that he could not have visited one mining camp, and witnessed wit-nessed the spoils which the seer hills, through all the rolling ages have held hidden within their adamantine treasure chambers. The thought would have dawned upon him, of how in the past very few yeais, it has been possible for our Republic Re-public to take on such attributes of splendor and of power, and he would have realized as never ' before, that the World's commerce and progress ' are due not to the tillers of the soil, not to the manufacturers and traders, but to the world's precious metal mines, mines the product of which coverted into new and sovereign money supply the lubricating fluid which sets all the wheels of industry rolling, and at the same timo measures the value of all that the land and the factories supply the substance that measures the strength of Nations, and upon the increase or decrease of which civilization itself, advances or recedes. It is a pity that this object lesson could not have been given the President. It would have given him a clear conception of how our country is able to lean upon itself, indifferent to the cares and troubles incident to other nations. How were all other Nations to close their ports against us, it would not matter, possessing as we do every needed thing. He would have realized, too, what hopes warm the hearts and light the way of miners, min-ers, and that as the ideals of men frame their characters, it is not strange that in fifty years, the men of the West have transformed more than half the continent, and covered the desert, even, with temples to Industry, to Justice, to Learning, and to Progress, until now as the exulting songs of our people, arising on the shores of Maine, and rolling westward, do not reach their full volume until they ring out in stately diapason where the miners of the West create annually of new wealth, enough to give to the Republic, a sum equal to the combined money production of all the world outside. out-side. It is a pity that the President could not have visited some of our great precious metal-bearing metal-bearing mines, but he may come again with more time at his command. Salt Lake Valley and City put on all their holiday holi-day garments in which to receive the President. The season is backward, but the verdure is all the fresher for that, the valley was smiling, the city( H had on all Its spring robes, the mountains were H white under their new fallen snows, the Jake was H jnjrrpr, hp punbeamB pajnted enchanting pic turos, on valley, mountain and lake, and the air struck (he lungs life a life-giving tonic. Altogether Altogeth-er on Nature's pait it was a reception that must have been a charm to the Chief Magistrate. The people supplemented Nature's welcome with a warmth and cordiality which must have completed complet-ed the charm. Utah can always be depended upon for her receptions. |
