Show i 35 esau S J what the 22 day of october la to america generally the day of july is to utah particularly it occurs tomorrow and alie fear that some of TIIE readers may have forgotten or overlooked it causes me to place it conspicuously before them I 1 will also make it the occasion for indulging in a few remarks peculiar to myself and suitable to the occasion forty six years ago a lone indian accompanied by alie of his joys sorrows and labors especially the latter and two offspring of the bame color had their local habitation near the very spot where this is being written proud denizens of the desert were old man afraid of work and muskrat camly anco the pampered paup ered bello of tho and around whoso form some of alio flavor of early associations ciati ons still lingered I 1 will not undertake to describe the children those scions of a noble race which had in days agon shed blood and wrath and fire upon the land shed everything but perspiration anat they not become on the day before the elder of the two had slain a snake with seven rattles and a button in a single handed combat and did lie then do as many of our boasted offshoots of civilization do run off with it alone not any lie skinned the prize and divided the dainty flesh with his little brother would that I 1 had the pen of a fennemore cooper or the vivid imagination coupled with the sleeping conscience of a J wesley hill that I 1 might properio depict to a waiting world the measure of fraternal regard which reposed within that little tawny breast a breast which still bore the original element out of which it was created and which began to colonize thereon when it the breast was only one hour and seven minutes in the vale of tears time speeds along and wo speed with it the of the savage is removed to where the loafing is better because less disturbed the juveniles of the race are no longer models of beauty unadorned but wear calico pants paint with tar from off the spindles of civilized wagons and occasionally defile alie babbling brooks by washing their little faces therein they no longcr demand as a right from he washed and ironed intruder they u as a favor fine combs bave even been introduced among the aborigines causing losses of life compared with which the ravages of firewater mild and seldom and when a blooded it not bloody old ellow now tumbles nant at the place where the latter overtakes librn lie awakens to the clangor of the locomotive the hurly burly of flying trains and tho loud hiss of escaping steam then perhaps the panorama of alie past elides swiftly before mil and he s enabled to put the present and past together at a glance producing no doubt such a condition of mental dislocation as makes him call out frantically to the wife bosom who still does all alie work of the family where am I 1 at alas old man and respected sir you have been caught up by the cyclone of mortal progress and whirled into the midst of whoso glow and glare are a reflex of the rising sun of the twentieth century you cannot realize where you are at but you are there all the looking abroad we find ourselves confronted by six or eight oilier things each and all showing how the times have altered the people havo grown tho places are made glad the genius of progress hand iii hand with science the enchantress and labor the wizard has driven alie lazy demon of desolation from his throne has banished the idlers who walked over mines of hidden wealth and would not bid alie offspring of one of them enter into the glorious sunlight has stormed the flinty gates guarding those treasures and pounded and battered and blasted and persevered until a conquest was made has the sullen and listless genii of the desert and by tearing its surface asunder and diverting upon it the life giving element of the mountains has made the means of life and lifa itself to come and thrive where before not eo much ag a made of grass was ever seen The emiling fields alie fruitful gardens the blossoming orchards modern highways connecting villages towns and cities all teeming with life intelligence and thrift the sound of alie churchgoing church going bell and the lowing herd winding slowly oer the lea what a transformation is it eliat we behold perhaps alio reader may have read or heard something of tills kind before somewhere no doubt he has but it must have been told in a different way we authors frequently refer to the same circumstance or set of circumstances but the difference in our way of telling it relieves it measurably of monotony besides an old song well sung is better than a new one vocalized after the fashion of an editor after his work is I 1 done this lias no reference to tho editor of THE DAnn or anybody that been on alio staff thereof with one possible exception we all bo two legged nightingales now what lias brought all this about why is it that instead of the ruddy hued aborigines running all ahinga and accomplishing nothing wo now confront so many things that are in full accord with abo times and in a few are a long ways ahead j we are now confronted with a physical panorama which chowe that as soon aa you lea va one town you enter another we have railroad and passes thereon are bard to get as they were over the old stage lines there is a newspaper or what passes for one wherever there ie a saloon and a last years circus poster everything in nature has improved but our girls we dont pretend to accomplish impossibilities bili ties and really believe that utah is the biggest place of its aizo sizo in the world wo who are now hero did but very little in the direction indicated the roads were made the plains wrestled with and the houses built for us when we were able to help and led help we added to the situation and made it desirable disi rable for others but we did more than they and those who preceded us did more than anybody else I 1 dont know and dont care whether those of them who are left are democrats republicans populists or independents whether they believe in a gold standard or free silver whether they favor statehood or remaining in uncle samuels national kindergarten whether they are cut and influential and popular or poor with no pull anywhere and destitute of prospects as a hard working and deserving democrat under the present administration matters not at all they labored and persevered that what wo have might be that it might be ours I 1 hope we are giving a good account of the trust but sometimes fear that all of us are not but wo can at least tomorrow stand in on tho general proposition and give the day which the discoverers of the territory made red on the nations calendar euch remembrance as will show that if neglectful now and then we are not forgetful at all stand in young utah and show yourself worthy of your birthright have a good time and if you cant do anything better have it all charged to the undersigner undersigned under signed it be charged to one more willing or less able to pay then let us all both big and small and short and tall i those who walk and chose who crawl those who talk and those who squall timid folks and folks of gall those where called on who call all get theether toe ether and ere the morning sun arises give the sluggards some surprises let those who deep in slumber sleep be made to peep and then to leap into the weather and let all shout As they turn oaf let not the kid then be to make such noise may avail him and d the cop on him drop and for each proper fan assail him with flags unfurled well greeta the wo rid kihana allday aa fie and the honor gilld th cheers in memory of the brave evangels patriotic pioneers 1 copyright 1893 by the keeley institute zip bang boam rah ah h h IL ESSAT |