Show A MASTERFUL TALK an oration filled with and burning mans touched in a vest manlier tlc alc oration in x ull word lint may 11 b careful lellow citizens it hiie seemed to me chrtt 1 ark city contains more treib more 1 love of country and booie rooie thorough oil g amena ans ali in any oil er city or town in I 1 he cleir pure ur tatt ou breata e here seems to make your beat f ister tor s etian beat tt e 1 carts or those of the lowlands mays ahen the valleys 1 u been eure distressed and vexed bv I 1 aras cit lems tin ave turned with confidence bonard you 1 ave looked tl e mat for lit sunlight th it you have never failed to bend down to u loping and glai cing on hii lugg d peaks you levei cured t of old and silver nilo lie of tie world day by d i dt d night ibur night they have tt tl e bony 11 irl of 11 e gnoun adin itil it 1 tit jalil 11 e n illion fit ft la tie lucky tickets 1 ne 1 ut aloi e h 13 tl e ie 1 l ui you fur 1 us of in love of w stood wl eie all our eyes could see and in a voice that all e ira bould 1 air you hav e nev er f to cinat country 11 ut h ewt lai dot liberti 01 U 1 1 u THE 01 SIK 00 bix years ago on independence day you bade me speak to you and among other things I 1 said 1 I have lo 10 g desired to visit this bright and bustling city L ii ive felt that aw ay iy up here feet lev el of the sea I 1 would fand men and women who loye their country and adore its institutions 1 felt sure that here I 1 would find the amencia flag flying at the masthead and I 1 have not been mistaken I 1 have found here true hearted and patriotic citizens such as the country needs ind such as bear upon their shoulders its grand and never dying institutions here in this city I 1 meet men who are producers I 1 see about me men vv ho day by day are giving to the world mil lions upon millions of dollars they are soldiers ot 1 eabe ties with forces vie lories are slen in the houses of plenty battles are not chronicled in his tory but day by day they w in from the world that make g a bbate as minstrels chronicle their debeus in song but underneath vine clad porches the merry vo ces of happy caul dren ull ot contentment and joy the leward of honest labor then I 1 hive ie arned to know iou belter ind willi eidi day ot each bear I 1 have felt more and 11 it it does us all good to maat A 1 up 1 ere once in a while 1 i climb up 1 ere 1 baher in the air u d a lilile nearer hearm A little closet to the everi lilting stars evl ich sang with joy on s mornine ind to bluke olt tl e dross of the hartli ind to tl ink onla of alie er 11 d brotherhood of as evi deuced by our areat nd atiee covern ment lub of A e aie celebrate cele bratu s to day tl e birth day of i A tsiun 11 e buralli g from tie chrysalis of ie of lit inanity through tl e centuries cen af 11 e and tie budding of pi rations into the full bloom of human freedom I 1 w ish I 1 could i in all its glory the greatness of tins coultry I 1 wish I 1 could paint to you in words glowing with the rainbow g colors the rivers and tho mountains spanned with bands of steel er which are moving long trains of cais laden with the products of firms mines and factories if I 1 could do so if could bewitch your senses until you could see this airth is god and man lita made it I 1 would show vou a panorama pano ramt such as never yet was seen ou would see tl e smoke and tt e fire of millions of forges lou would see thousands of miles of golden fields filled with the bending haada of ripening grain 1 ou would tl e wl lie winged fleets 1 low ing tie peaceful bums you would see sixty millions of busy ie toil ing aud working and berei active ou would see grait cities and bustling marts of commerce would ati myriads of hamlets ou would see rainee of wondrous wealth ton would see churches and ou would sie and woi g skill you would intelligence abounding ind to tie wall ou would see evi lenata of prosperity ui on every 1 afi d dud over an 1 above ill you would see proudly arto ailing 11 stars ibid gillies girlies tie ft ind of bigl t toul 1 I 1 canil you thi I 1 in rov il color I 1 then w say to ml till which v i see about vou ie toe result of intelligence kidded to industry daid il is the int perfect fruit of tl greit abich underlie tl e vry found illon ot these great united baates duliba ANU 11 chis is the government 0 man 1 in allegiance Is owed it by all who live beneath its n ig here the people rule politic are a necessity for they express by combination the wishes ot the misses in governmental agirs and eitai man in a country ruled by man himself and not by kings should take an active part in political affairs lich should make his influence felt in the selection ot public officers and in making of laws each mar should study the principles of our torn ot government and after a careful study 1 e should attach to thai political party which best represents his views ahe political duties resting upon the t tl e republic Pe public an of the I 1 iguest im parti ip is dangerous foi it causee us to forget our country ind only parly ae should never forget that political parties are the means and not the end tl e government existed before any ol 01 our political carlies came into life and w without our great and fre government political parties would have no place therefore while stav ing for i artisan advantage 1 t every patriot nail upon the m isal cad the motto country before p 1 ft us pit serve the government in all its purity I 1 et us i protect it from the jf bots and tie insidious ad maces of the corrupting I 1 kb must stcl his personal lers onal leitoi sivility lity it ie only by constant cue di d watchfulness tl it belf government cm be made to live through lie cui tunes ahe leople must abide b tl e both in letter ii d si int and it that be done there is no doubt as to tin future I 1 e fore us are of possibilities the story of our growth in the bial hill be foun I 1 to be but a preface to the great book of hie future t bo hatten lensia 1 i roil els in ill aes ot vl 11 d lull ave s nia it is 11 a gre uett s ell u the latent in suf government 1 believe tl it its destiny is onward and ui rd J hough dark days may come and daik clouds descend the anion will all storms and stand in die coming centuries as it stands to lauy the land of the free and alie homa of the brave I 1 confidently conf dently belies e that vi e can trust in the future of tl e 1 republic oh land of libertyn liber L nd of ash ington and jefferson and land of genius and of scholars land of warriors brave and statesmen wise on this thy natal day we salute thee As we p ause amid the cares of life and look bacic tl rough the smoke of battle and the tumult of war as we listen to the voice of tradition and read from the pages of history it seems but es berday since the eloquence of henry and adams aroused the people since prepared the immortal de charat on and since 1 ashington led tt e way to liberty with the sword vi e can almost hear rolling down tl e cen tury the deep tones of the bell that proclaimed liberty to ill the land and to all tl e inhabitants thereof TUL irise E V e must never forget that it was in america that the grand ideas of the rights of man now girdling the earth had their birth and nere the seed abts groan alms far our nation has been successful and it nill succeed and live so long as alie people are true mid so long as they remember the great funda mental of our form of gov into our ch irge a great trust las been placed aid we must see tl at it is transmitted to succeeding genera as it came to us na how humble in may be upon 1 im falls some share of tl burden I 1 et us tt en on this natal day turn r eyes toward the old hag let us turn from bellish purs its u d as its folds ire kissed and fondled by tl e brede let it awaken in ir hearts none but patriotic II 11 lugt Is V athin ila folds nestle all tl e t adi lions of thac nation since the days wan the union as rocked in the cradle of tl e linnol s its brigl t colors 1 itter in tl e and little by little it arouses thoughts of tie irly days wo bi come less beffel we bacome bet ter citizens and w e feel aliat tl ere are higher duties than those pertaining to the mere art of money retting e remember that tl e fathers did not con partisan success more to be de sired than alie preservation of our form of government in its purity and thit should impress us that first and above all else we should be loyal to our coun try THE N ever let us forget that this nation was born by alie fireside of the ameri can home where one father and one mother inculcated tl lessons of patri otisa fhe home is i minature nation with its laws ite blessings and its re the safety of alie nation depends upon the domestic life of air people our children learn the at chabet by their mother s knee let them also bo taught that strict code of mor als that go with tl e 1 antan bloc d and which Is the laisson which turns alt ua that come to us into citizens of inch we are proud let the chil 1 ran be t to love tl air country and to and tradition tl em of the beroe and states mm of tl e later w ir alie elnior was arc served 1 he lessons of home are never tor gotton I 1 he mothers silent influx ence ia felt through all the trials ot life her quiet words linger in memory like the sound of bells of lone ago and cannot be drowned by the applause of thousands TUB SCHOOL just across the way from the amer sail home at ands the american school intelligence is the foe of tyranny and of lawlessness tl e most intelligent men in tl tf most law g self and patriotic courage born of intelligence m tribes ahead though it knows that it walks into the bawa of i the great well spring of knowl in this land and the gre it foe of ignorance ance Is our common school as which has educated so many of great and good these st be fostered and the corn on school I 1 the peoples college ineat and institutions of arbing are needed but it alie masses re grounded in the common english branches of education we need have no tear of the future solle OF THE tl e pathway of man is beset with difficulties and the highway over which nations travel is filled with pitfalls ft e m among ot er thil ys strive to avoid 11 e penis which result froin tl e eternal ar d never andins conflict between labor ind 1 the ti mewl en the world beiran tl ere has been a struggle between tl e many and the few it Is i battle as old as tl e between power and wealth upon the onel and and the brawny inn of labor aion the oil er capital Is selfish and hind in hand with capital rapiel ra is also oppressive and it would if it could bind u d make of libor its captive through the inal bence of money and of lower laws n 1 customs 1 ave grown that are harah and oppressive there suit is that labor cries out ind sienes 0 lawless ess riot ind bloodshed have been enacted men should ill kemem her that labor and capital del end each ill on the other cm succeed alone and eacle will have its sl are it each will be but wrongs that 1 ave grown must be righted but tl ey cannot be righted by fone lach bomb that Is exploded P ich not that occurs every tune that labor interferes with alie rights of others the chains binding it to capital ire made tl e stronger sho lid recognize the fact tl at lawlessness will not secure their angl ts I 1 ock outs an I 1 lat or strikes and bomb throwing will not cure the evil hen men ire wronged let tl em secure justice by agitation and by means of the ballot ax and not by bloodied blood sed SOMETHING ON SIL 1 allon and the men who make the laws and 4 i t n ahlie anini should recall abit where tl ere is one man who is worth million there are thousands who are bot worth one dollar laws which build up monopolies and which tarn wealth into greit pools con strolled trolled by the immensely rich are not s aph as a free people want or deserve U hen god created the world lie lecog nihed that there must be some medium of exchange something indicative of tl e property of the world that could pass from hand to 1 and as the depre of value and so in the ever lasting lwills winding in ind out amid the crevices of the enduring rock lie created tl e streams of the yellow and the white the rivulets of gold and of dilver the money of the world they are twin sisters and each is the money of kiture the selfishness which seeks to debase the white metal robs the homes of the poor that the 0 tho rich be decorated govern ment his the right to oppress its peo pie tor the government exists tor the good 0 tl e governed and not the peo pie for the government the misses of america those wl toil tor their ex istance should never aeise agitating until silver is once more placed on an with gold there should not and tl ere must not be any j tion hen a man attempts to dispute the self evident tl at silver was as much intended for money as gold and disparages its v alue ask him to take A drill some day and til an ounce from the grasp of the rocks I 1 et biro try it an I 1 ie will be willing to testify that a dallai s worth of libor and caal tal is with each dollar of silver that tl e e irali yields up fhe demone tuition of silver was a wrong the boilers toilers and i reducers cers of this lind it was wrong tint time will surely right for in tl is land truth and justice tl tl ev kiy wilk walli kadai feet it times will surely come in tl e end 1111 alai M I 1 or my own part I 1 have faith in tho 1 have in abiding fifth in the leoila I 1 believe that I 1 stanlly advances I 1 am convinced tint I 1 all his aspirations tend to lift liliu up w ard L ery thought for a Ivan cement every longing for a belter condition helps to lift humanly to a higher plane here in these valleys and amid obese giant hills there has been waged and is now waging a fleat tint has filled many a soul with bitterness but I 1 hive arm faith eliat in the end it will be in accord with the best in teresta of man e cannot all think alike u cannot iu view things from tie stai but we can al know that aiom the d ly when god said I 1 et there be light and there was light hurbai constantly climbed the golden stairs of progression U e have conditions here peculiar to our own local surroundings aur brothers jn the list and the eat cannot find will not understand the problem which we are compelled to face and work out but in the end ill will bo right many of us hesitate to consent eliat tl e lau be placed upon the blow of utah u fell inac has not yet bem suir clent to permit us to cast oi the h and sail as a bbate out upon the perilous sei filled with shoal and rocks lint must be nd jit this is lion tint I 1 feel is about to te thrust upon us diio politicians of the union are bound to make utah a batte let us t in brej ire our 1 household ouse hold tor whit anty 1 tie same time let us 1 e and while to our convictions let us recognize recognise hon esty of purpose wherever we may find it 1 t ive not the feir have ills land vv a not destine 1 to be ruled by kings or 1 priests it is tl e promised and of and even though clouds kiy descend and darkness seem about to overwhelm the earth the rain bow of promise will yet be seen span ning the eist and the glad sunshine of freedom ind enlightenment will bleik into the souls of men and warm each he into love of our country and her institutions rutih in time will bo come the empire ot the rocky and no man sl doubt oi but what tl at which should be wilcoe i AS you sit upon the mountain a brow a crown of gold and silver for rutih w ork tl ereie peace for all her people mingle with it thread of yellow and white a love for i ur coun afy ll 11 it time itself can i ot destroy od grant tint out of the erce conduct of opinion ind tl e contention of oi posing systems has torn ibid distressed this queenly corn of tl e mountains tl ere kiy a i aurer patriotism and more devotion for tt e land we lore than cm bo found lre in tie union even tl e dross daid dregs are buniea ly froni tl e ID tie derbo lires of tie dornace e re r I 1 ere in this mountain crag piracies pi i sermon for 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