| Show TEUT FOURTH again tho the revolving wheel of time brings around the day of all days for the american citizen native or naturalized the anniversary of that declaration arat ion of inde 1 pend enco I 1 the tile I 1 courage and manhood still strikes terror into the hearts of all tyrants while it litts lim up tho the downtrodden down trodden and oppressed of all the world with a hope of ultimate salvation from serfdom bondage bou dage and slavery although in the territories that grand and eternal announcement that all men arc are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are a lift life liberty and the pursuit of happiness h appin esar hai only a faraway soun dand is is far more a promise of the future than a truth of the present still the people of the territories ri commemorate the natal day of the nations freedom as Ps heartily as ws do their privileged brethren in ih the states and in none more warmly though perhaps not so noisily than in the territory of utah the hardy pioneers who first act settled this then desert and desolate valley of the tile great salt lake had no sooner halted from a thousand miles march through the wilderness and through the savages than tb they ey reared the stars and stripes and unfolded to tho the bracing breezes of these everlasting hills that flag fla 9 which had bad failed to protect them I 1 I 1 agai against persecution and expulsion X from four states but was still as dear to them as it had bad been before the death dealing bullets of carthage and nauvoo had rent the sacred symbol of liberty and equal rights this flar flag had bad led many of their forefathers to bloody battle and triumphant victory under it their ancestors had overthrown despotism spot ism tyranny and bigotry and instill it still was and continues to them the emblem of the dearest principles of every free soul hence they erected the standard standa rd of liberty on this free soil when it did not form a part of the dominion donini of tile united states when mexican rule still swayed this part of the country to this standard of liberty they clun clung 9 ever since with fuith faithful ful loyalty though often goaded on almost beyond the limit of human endurance by persons who with the tile milk of human kindness on their lips but the tho bitter gall of hatred in their hearts tried to oppress them to despoil them yea to exterminate them many ingenious measures i es havo have been passed by th the e very legislators who had sworn to uphold that august yea divine document which solemnly pro provides yides that Gon congress gress shall make no laws respecting 43 tho tile establishment of religion ortro hi biting the exercise thereof politicians itic ians who with bated batea breath will listen to the solemn announcement that governments are instituted among men deriving c their just powers from tho the consent of the governed have plotted and planned to rule utah with the iron hand band of arbitrary power not only without the consent of the governed but in of the intent in tent of the governed as often expressed by overwhelming majorities atthe at the ballot box X the declaration of fu depend ence aswell is well known to the people of utah yea they know many passages of it by heart for have they nota ruler who hag has refused hid his assent to lawa laws mhd most whole some and necessary for the public good has not the power at washington ashington W sent hither swarms of officers to bar harass our people and eat out their substance I have ravo we no grievance against the powers that bo be for depriving us in many cases of the benefits by jury there is more in that great docu ment which will be read from thousands of flagged be ro strums tos morrow morro w i of which the people of utah feel the truth with galling sensitiveness and yet they remain mails 83 altrue atie to the laws as loyal to the constitution of tho the united states as they have proven through trials and tribulations ever si since nce the writing of paragraph 6 5 sec doctrines and covenants wherein it is said we believe that all allgren ar to 10 su staid a uphold tile res respective v governments in ill which they reside while protected in ill their inherent and an inalienable li rights by the laws of such i gove governments rn menth and that nil all governments have a right to enact such lawa laws as its in their own JU judgment are best beat calculated to secure tho the public interest at the same fame time however Ji sacred the tile freedom free Join of conscience loyalty and patriotism with the great majority of the people of utah are not matters of mere poli convenience they are stern duties imposed on their consciences by the faith ali which ich they have embraced and to which they cling with unswerving fide ity because in its calendar the fourth of july 13 is a sacred red letter day as commemorating mem meni orating ing the d document ac ament which through the ministrations a of providence and the loyal courage of true patriots made it possible for this continent to become the tile asylum of freedom tho the harbor of liberty the unsullied sanctuary of religious independence I 1 which it is destined to be and will be as ag soon as all citi zena zeus and politicians recognize the true ine meaning aning and comprehend the full scope of the FOURTH OF JULY |
