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Show THE PRESIDENT. During the coming week, the President of the United States will visit Utah. It goes without saying that he will be welcomed with all honors, and all cordially. It will, inr.eed, be a double welcome. Fire I, on account of the office he holds; .n office higher and more honorable thani any earthly sovereign holds, and second, a welcome to the man, as the most typical of Americans; a man closer, perhaps, to all the people than ever was President before. One who in his own person l represents everything that is high and true among ' ' "lus ""countrymen. Among scholars, statesmen, authors, au-thors, he is at home; when war came, he was among the first to respond.- When tho battle was set in array, he was at the front. Then is an old story, that when Thomas Jefferson Jef-ferson was to De inaugurated as President, he rode ' his horse to the capitol, dismounted, took the oath of office, then returned to his horse and rode Had that become a custom, it would have suited the present Cnief Executive better than the modern way. He served an apprenticeship on the frontier. He knows all the hardships and fatigue3 of border bor-der life; he knows amia what privations and sorrows sor-rows the foundations of States are laid, he knows the sweetness of sleep to aio weary; when his couch is spread on the bosom of mother earth and when above him are only a saddle blanket and the watch of the sentinel starE. He has sounded every note in the gamut of life, he has gone to the ! starting point of every hunr.an effort; knows on what lines every industry has been led up to its , present plane; he knows the hopes, the fears, the anxiety of all classes of his countrymen; sympathizes sym-pathizes with all tneir sonows, and is thrilled with all their high resolves. But there is more than this to this President of ours; more than is seen by careless eyes. He came to his prosent office through a tragedy, which made the whole Nation a house of mourn-1 mourn-1 ing. Besides his predecessor's bier, he prom ised the American people that the policies of their late President should be carried out. The people believed him, but they wondered hew, with his impetuous, dominant and, in sone ways, imperious temperament, the pledge was to be kept, thinking 1 all the time as they did, ot the gentle, calmly- V poised, but quietly resolute President who had b.i assass'iatcd Hut ihy adml r;w that the pledge has been kept; that he has done not only all his predecessor could have done, but all he would have desired to have done. The secret of his success is in the moral as well as the physical physi-cal courage of the man -nd in that? wisdom- and self-control which impels him to do right, even when it seems to be against hip own personal interest, in-terest, and when the act seems to be a fatal thrust at his own high ambition. In this respect, not one of his predecessors was his equal. Some of them have performed great things, but as we read the history, we see that at best they were but by a single stop in advance of public opinion. But President Pres-ident Roosevelt has not seeme.l to consider public pub-lic opinion, but merely to peilorm his duty, as God gave him to see hi' duty; all tho time believing be-lieving that to be the course that Gcl would approve ap-prove and the American people would finally appreciate. ap-preciate. His handling oi the strike in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania last autumn, his way of leading up to a settlement, was unprecedented. The Trusts have been the anxiety of naif a dozen Presidents. With the directness of his nature, he caused the machinery ma-chinery of the law to be set in motion, and In 3 months accomplished more thar had been accomplished accom-plished in 20 years. He did ii, knowing that it would array against nim the great controlling money powers of the Nation, buc it did not matter. It was duty. Well, this President n to come to Salt Lake. His reception, we are sure, will make his heart glad. All men of all parties will welcome him; the all hails and acclaims of the childien will be sweeter to him than all other manifestations. We are sure that the sunlight will do its part and paint in golden letters, welcomes on the mountains east and west and that the valley, like the people, will be ail smiles. His high office deserves fullest recognition. The man himself Is fully worthy of the great office, of-fice, so we are sure this greeting here will be of a kind that will fill his memory with joy long after he has gone back to his strenuous work. |