---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 10
published: 1915-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "A Tribute to Utah," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915): 925–926.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera18010unse
start_page: 925
end_page: 926
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse
  publication_year: 1915
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# A Tribute to Utah

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Tribute to Utah.
                                                          during four
    The Liberty Bell was exhibited in Salt Lake City
                                                    that 100,000 peo-
 hours on Sunday, July 11, 1915. It is estimated
                              paid  homage    to the  famous revolu-
 ple in Salt Lake City alone
               The morning hour    after its arrival at eleven o clock
 tionary relic.
                                              of whom marched
  was devoted to the children, many thousands          Sunday
                                                 relic.   The
  bv the Bell taking a glance at the historic
                                        children the opportunity.
  Schools were adjourned to give the

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 The streets were gaily decorated for this patriotic occasion, and
there was a great parade. It was said by the Philadelphia com-
mittee, who had the Bell in charge, that no such reception, so far
 on the way to San Francisco, had been given to them and the
 Bell since they left Philadelphia. The local committee in charge
had everything well in hand, and among the items of entertain-
ment was an organ recital in the Tabernacle, especially permit-
ted by the Presidency of the Church.
      In Ogden, also, and in other Utah cities, the Bell and its ac-
companying contingent were given an ovation. On its way north
a member of the Philadelphia Councilmanic committee said to
D. S. Spencer, Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Oregon
Short Line, according to a news report
      "The farther west we come with the historic bell, the more
patriotism and more enthusiasm we find.       Today's reception in
Utah surpassed any ever accorded the relic. It was a tribute such
as was never expected by us.           We
                                     never will forget what Utah
did** Somewhere I have seen a picture of 'Utah's best crop.'       I
saw the crop itself today, 30,000 strong in one city, Salt Lake I;

believe I have seen 100,000 children in Utah today. Utah ought
to be proud of its children they are among the brightest looking
                           ;

children I have ever seen."
     To another member of the Utah party the Philadelphia coun-
cilman said:
    "Philadelphia is known as the 'City of Brotherly Love.' After
seeing the children of Utah today, I would like to change the
motto of Utah, whatever it may be, to 'The State of Motherly and
Fatherly Love.' "

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