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because you have exemplified a doctrine which it 

 seems to me all-essential for our people ever to 

 keep fresh in their minds the fact that though nat- 

 ural resources can do a good deal, though the law 

 can do a good deal, the fundamental requisite in 

 building up prosperity and civilization is the requi- 

 site of individual character in the individual man 

 or woman. Here in this State the pioneers and 

 those who came after them took not the land that 

 would ordinarily be chosen as land that would yield 

 return with little effort. You took territory which 

 at the outset was called after the desert, and you 

 literally not figuratively you literally made the 

 wilderness blossom as the rose. The fundamental 

 element in building up Utah has been the work of 

 the citizens of Utah. And you did it because your 

 people entered in to possess the land and to leave 

 it after them to their children and their children's 

 children. You here whom I am addressing and 

 your predecessors did not come in to exploit the 

 land and then go somewhere else. You came in, 

 as the Governor has said, as homemakers, to make 

 homes for yourselves and those who should come 

 after you; and that is the only way in which a 

 State can be built up, in which the Nation can be 

 built up. You have built up this great community 

 because you came here with the purpose of making 

 this your abiding home, and of leaving to your 

 children not an impoverished, but an enriched herit- 

 age; and I ask that all our people from one ocean 

 to the other, but especially the people of the arid 



