The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1897, Page 4

NATAL-DAY PATRIOTISM IN CALIFORNIA CITIES With Fireworks and Oratory America’s Jubilee s Observed. ROUTINE CARES GIVE WAY TO JOYOUS REVELS. Throughout the State Is Heard From Mom- ing Until Night the Boom of the "Cracker and the Fanfare of Brass. VALLEJO, CAL., July 5.—All Vallejo entered with hearty accord into to-day’s celebration. Work was suspended at Mare Island, and the navy-yard employes, sev- eral hunared strong, joined with the Vallejoans. There were fireworks and oratory, music and athletic contests. Samue! M. Shortridge, the orator of the day, was never more eloquent. His speech follows: Fellow Citizens- Grateful for the manifoldand inestimable blessings we enjoy as children of a free country, and duly mindful, I trust, of the sacred duties and grave responsibilities rest- ing on us as heirs ana guardiaus of & Nation born of a just and righteous revolution, we come again lo-day to reaffirm our devotion, to rededicate and reconsecrate our minds and hearts to the fiag and the Union of Washington. Standing in ths suniight ot liberty, an example of what a frae people, led by wise counse. and moved by intelligent and self-denying patriotism can accomplish, we, the children of immortal men and inneritors of their works and glory. come to celebrate our Nation’s birth and to rekindle the fires of loyalty in our hearts, to recall and recount the heroic sacrifices and the willing martyrdom of our ancestars, who upon a hundred fields, in snow and ice and rain and storm, in heat of noon and cnill of uight, gal- lentiy st-ove and grand!y died to make this new world of promise the resting-place and home of freedom forever. A Heritage of Peace. A mighty pation, conscious of its ength, proud of its past and hopeful of its future, reposes and rejoices in peace. Business is suspended, the noisy marts of trade are silent. The music of the anvil has died away, the throbbing heart of th: enzine is at rest, the white winged sails of commerce are furled, while from all over our ocean girt and imperial domain— from mansion and cottage, from hamlet and melropolis, from valley and mountain-top— ascencs to God, to the heavens that have smiled upon and blessed our cause, the prayers, the gratitude, the exultant, joyful song of seventy miltion frez men. All hail the spirit of inde. pendence! All hail to the truest and greatest republic that ever blessed the world! All hail 10 the land of free thought, free lips, free hands! The star of libarty is fixed in the firmament. Its beams chase darknmess to the uttermost parts of the earth; its ight remains to cheer, to inspire, to lead you up the toilsome ascent from bondage into freedom. In High Resolve. Itisa dsy when hope animates and pride exalts and gratitude softens the American heart, a day of all the year most sacred and most holy, a day when we taink seriously of our country ber dangers and her difficulties, when gonservative and cautious age and hopeful and enthusi. astic youtb—matron and maid and sire and Jad—reverently draw near to the altar of their country, and humbly bowea low resolve again to stand or fall, to live or die, as it may please God, under tie smple, sheltering foids of that dear and venerated flag. Above all, my coun- | trymen, it is the day when that beloved and only banner of the loyal heart, born of the blood | and the tears of the Revolutionary siruggle, and carried aloft unsullied and ever triumphant on land and wave, seems most glorlous; when lofty and Jowly, white and b.ack. native and naturalized, all who share its protection, look up to and gaze upon it with pr:de and joy; when its every star and stripe and fiber seems most precious and sacred, and awakensemotions in the patriot breast that strive in vain for utterance. Under the Uaion, We mect to-day not as blinded partisans, not as members of & torn and discordant Union, | not as strangers, but as brotaers—as chldren of one common country, our hearts stirred Wwith the same emotions, our eyes fixed upor the one and only flag of freedom. The clouds that lowered over us have long siuce litted; the old-time dangers that threatened us have years ago passed away; the passions and animosities that once divided our people hava hap- pily given way to sentiments of mutual edmiration and regard, and the flag we behoid is emblematic of tae Union of our fathers, cemented and bound indissolubly together with love and hope, and in defense of which every American breast would be-bared, every American arm wouid be raised, cvery American heart would shed its utmost drop of blood. An Honored Flag. “We know but one section, one Union, one flag, ove Government. That section embraces | every State; that Union is the Union sealcd with the blood and consecrated by the tears of the | Revolutionaty struggle at flag is the flag known and honored on every sea under heaven, which has borne off glorious viciory from many & bloody batilefield, and yet stirs with warmer and quicker pulsations the heart's blood of every true American when he looks upon its'stars and stripes wherever it waves; that Government is the Government of Washington and Adams and Jefferson and Jackson—a Government which hasshielded God's oppressed children who have gathered under its wings fcom every portion of the globe.” Yes, we know aud acknowl- edge allegiance to but one Government, the Government of Abraham Lincoln, “of the people, | by the people and for the people,” “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the propositiou that all nen are created equal.” American Citizenship. Above the passions and civil conflicts of the hour, above local interests and party predi- lections, above the dust and fog that warp our judgment and distort our vision, we rise to-day to a broader plane, & serener height, and stand upon the proud eminence of American citizensnip; and, standing there, let us take an honest survey of our surroundings, let us gather up the lessons of the past, consider the dangers and the duties of the present and indulge ourselves in pleasurable anticipation of the glory that awaits us if we are faithful to ourinheritance, true to our mission ana cqual to our trust. Our fathers believed in law and order; they believed in organized goverament; but, sbove and over all, they believed in individual liberty. Thearrogance and tyranny of Eng- land, borne patiently and meckly for geaerations, at last drove the colonists to revolution. The crisis had arrived which was to determine whether they should remain slaves or become freemen; whether they shounld continue dependent suppliants for the common rights guar- anteed to every Englishman by Magna Charta, wrested from King John at Runnymede, or assume a iree a::d independent station among the nations of the earth; whether the patriotic leaders of the people should be transported to Englana to be tried for treason in English courts, to die ignominiously on English scaffolds, or remain to incite their countrymen to righteous resistance, and ultimately, under God, to lead them to glorfous independence. Com- mon dangers, common suffering and common hopes bound their hearts together. The Immortal Declaration. Great and sincere, devout and earnest, loving liberty with a passion that made them for- rFetful of all else save honor, they assembied in the Continental Congress, in old Independence Hall, and, on & day thenceforth enshrined in the grateful heart of man, reverently and hero:c- | ally put forth the immortal declaration, “in words the memory of which can never die,” & | document which was a beacon light, » siar of the morning toour fathers and mothers through the thick gloom of that long night, and which is desiined to lead other nations out of Egyp- tian bondege; a document 5o just, 80 brave, so infmitable in style, so lofty in conception, £o | full of statesmanship and righteousness that it awakened kings in their luxurious palaces | and made “monarchs tremble in their capitals”; a dscument which was and 1s, and ever will be, the Magna Charta of our liberty, to be cherished with our hearts, to bo defended with our srms; & document which has received the homage of the great and good of every land, and should be written in letters of ‘imperishable light to serve as a guide and an inspiration to every people struggling upward into freedom; a document which *should be hung up in the nursery of every king and emblazoned on the portico of every royal palace.” Heroically Sustained. But that declaration had to be sustained; and how nobly, how galiantly, with what high and holy reserve, did our fathers gather round and uphold it! They felt their great responsi- bility; they felt that the cause ot humanity, the cause of universal freedom, was in their keep- ing, and with a heroism thit rivaied that of Sparts, with an unconauerable courage that laughed at death and faced unflinchingly the dangers of the scalping-knife, the pitiless storms of winter, poverty and starvation; with hearts that cowed not in the presence of superior strength and numbers, our fathers drew the sword in freedom’s cause, and sustained ana cheered by the words of Franklin and Adams and Paine, and marshaled and led by Washing- ton and Putnam and Gates, by Montgomery and Stark snd Greene, sheathed it not till at York- town's “cloudless day” the stars and stripes floated in triumph over the humbled banner of England and the thirteen colonies were acknowledged, as they nad declared themselves to be, “free and independent states.” I.ove 10 thiak thatit was then—then if ever—‘the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” The Glorious Dead. The patriots who fixed their names to that Declaration, who fought to maintain it, will be cherished as long as there is an American heart to die for the Americin flag. Their venerable forms rise belore us to-day and utter words of warning and encouragement. From wilderness and swamp, from bloodstained snow and entrenchment of death, they seem to speak to us, their children. For your sake we drove the redcoats back to Boston; for your sake we (oughl. and the galiant, dauntless Warren feli on Bunker Hill; for your sake we braved the perils o‘l the wildernessand the storms of Quebec; for your sake we risked our lives amid the driftiing 1ce of the Delaware and left our biond upon the snows at Valley Forte. That you mightenjoy the blessings of freedom tne brave Steuben and the immortal Lafayette unsheathed their swords, and we sucrificed all thet was dear to us; that liberty might uot perish on this conti- nent we joyfully died. We ask only that you emulate our example and excel us in wisdom. We demand only that you reverence the constitution of your fathers, love truth and practice justice; that you guard jealously your rich inheritance, which, be it remembered, you merely hoid in trust, and transmit it improved and unimpaired to those who shall come after you. ‘We enjoin you to show yourselves worthy of freedom by preserving inviolate the precious fruits of the Revolutionary siruggle and guiding in the path of justice and righteousness the Nation at whose birth we shed tears of joy, and to sustain which in its infancy we willingly enconntered death. O great beroes, patriots, martyrs, we hear your words to-day, and, under the same flag you placed in the sky and bore to victory, on the same soil by you dedicated to freedom we renew our allegiance to the cause made sacred by your sacrifices and your blood. The Admonition of History. Not only do cur fathers admonich us—tne heroes of a thousand battle-fielns where liberty has strugeled with tyranny look down to-day from their portals of efernal light and beseech us 1o be true to the prii.ciples in vindication of which they died. Nay, more; from every land made sacred by heroism, {rom every dungeon of agony and death where truth hassuf- fered on the rack for copscience’ sake, from the ashes of the martyr and the blood of the patriot, from Marathon and Thermopy @, irom Runnymede und Bannockburn, from the graves of Kosciusko and Hampden, from the scaffolds of Sydney and Emmet comes a voice u:ging us to be true to our missioi, to guard jealously the citadel of our liberty and to vin- dicate by our wisdom and moderation and justice the cause of freedom. Amer.ca’s Mission. My countrymen, can we stand unmoved v hen thus admonished? Can we be unmindful JOHN o LIVERNASHT | ALEXANDER! ! VALLEY | FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 6 189 i /// SEPH LUsT X fyLare S7 Gl Voo Ovsogcund / Eloquent Californians Who Delivered Patriotic Orations at Celebrations in Intetior Cities. of mankind; we should be ignoble, degenerate children of the patriotic and immortal deed if we thought lightly of tieir sacrifices, if by sloth and indolence and negiect we jeopardizea orlost our heritage, if we failed to appreciate and prize the, all-important position in which Provideace has placed us. Great, greit and sublime is our mission, my countrymen—an example of seli-government for the whole earth—Liberty enlightening the world! A Solid Foundation, In laying the foundation-stones of the fconstitutionfunder which we live our fathers builaed wiser than they knew. They were animated by no sordid motives, no sectionalr hatreds, no party animosities. They strove to embody in constitutional form and to perpetuate the principles for which they fought, and their work waszZone of lofty and disinterested patriotism, marked by concession and compromise. Under, its protection the dreams of the most sanguine patriot have been more than reslized. Our infancy is passed and in the man- hood and strength of freedom we invite the scrutiny of the worid. We have encountered dan- gers; we have gone through struggles; we have drunk deep of the bitter cup of Natioral sor- row; but in the darkest hour and wildest storm we have borne aioft asa thing sacred, as the ark of the covenant, the constitution of our fathers, until the returniug and radiant morn of pence and promise has blessed and hallowed it. Guarded by Loave. That cons:itution, purged and parified and rededicated, without blot or stain, freed from dishonor and sname, sustained by deathless vaior and heroic devotion; that constitu- tion, to which'we owe whatever makes us proud of our country, or great or respected among the nations of the earth, stands to-day firmset and strong in the hearts of & patriotic and united psople. And, sir, whatever storms may gather, whntever dangers, internal or external, may menace; whatever difficult questions may arise (as we have cause to believe will arise), caliing for profonnd statesmansnip; whatever soziel problems, charged with restlessness and discontent, may develop and require solution, be assured. be assured, that w th the love of the people, that constitution is safe—safe beyond th: frantic biow of Nihilism; safe beyond the msiled and fron hand of Cesarism; safe beyond the strangling grasp of corporate wealth and greedy trusts. Fellow Citizens: Let me notincur the reproach of overconfidence or National boasting. Letme not seem 10 arrogaté to my country virtuss anl exceliences she does not possess. Alas! tis true, we canio: resall the past to-day without a blush, without a tear. For three- quarters of a century there was adark blot upon our country’s shield and her flag was not the symbo. of universai freedom. But her light, though at times obscured, has been as the star of Bethletiem to all mankind. In the fierce fire of civ1 confiict her sins “were burnt and purged away.” Onland and on sea, in war and in peace, in art and in science, ner eareer has excited the wonder and admiration, if not the envy, of the world. To Liberty and Light. She has trod the higher paths of fame. For, whatever may have be:n her military tri- umnbs, whatever of great glory has been achieved on the many battlefields where the stars and stripes were endaugered, whatever of {mperishable renowa isinscparably united with the names of her choten miiitary chieftains—in the Ravolutionary siruggle, in the war of 1812, in the briiliant successes in Mexico, in the dark and unhappy days of 186 greatest and grandest conquests have been those of peacs, and her eyes have ever been directed, ner footsteps haya ever led to a higher piane of national life, toward equality, lib- erty and light. The story of her haroic birth—the unparalieled rapidity of her development, her struggles and triumphs, her sorrows and magnanimiiy—fills the most illustrious pages in the anuals of mi puges over which future generations and a grateful posterity will linger with delight. A Realization Undreamed 0" Think you the Pilgrim Fathers, asthey knelt down upon the icy rock of Plymouth to give tnanks to God for their deliverance; think you the patriots who subseribed to the deciaration that has again thrilled our hearis dreamed of this glorious day, or cleariy foresaw the great- ness of the Nation they were privileged to fonnd? Taink you the enthusia:ts of the Revolu- tion—the Warrens, the Allens and the Franklins—forecast the majestic strides their country would take, her deeds of valor and glory, her mighty schievements in the name of peace? What was at most & patriotic hope, an undefined dream, is now, by the blessing of heaven, a glorious reality, a sunlit fact. ‘We have a Nation, ‘‘one and inseparahle,” 8 constitution vindicated and supreme; a Nation strong enough to protect the humblest, lowilest man entitled to its care; a Nation dear enough to the American heart to call to its defense the sublimest examples of modern patriotism; a corstitutioz grand and generous enough in scope and design to receive the admiration of maukind and be a model for all self-governments; a constitution under whose wise adjust- ment of powers and divine proiection a people ot 70,000,000 hearts are marching forward hopefully and proudly, bearing aloft the banner of Heaven's stars and keepin ; step to the glad and soul-stirring music of union and liberty. Yes, we have a Nation, one supreme Nagion, not a m serable conf:deracy of States bound together with rojes of sand—a Nativn spanning & continent, to be proud of and to be cherished, dearer at this hour because of the sacrifices of precious blood and treasure made in its behalf, stronger and more enduring than the bayonet- supported thrones and monarchies of the Old World. Yes, we have a Nation thatstands to- day clad in the gorgeous robes of freedom, the wreath of past achievemen: on her brow, the light of future glory in her eye; a Nailon beneath whose barrer—prai<e forever be to im- mortal and celestial Lincoin—no siaye crouches, no human being toils uarequited, no serf wears the degrading, galling yoke of caste; a mighty Nation, Dear for her reputetion through the world. Great, powerlul, intelligent, free, the flowering of man’s highest aspirations, the hope of the earth. Wise in Prescience. £ But let us not unduly indulge ourselves in sell-laudation. Let us not be blind or indiff:r- ent to the dangers that threaten. Letus realize our weakness as well as our strength. Let us see the wrong that it may be righted. Let us cbs:rve the rock, that it may be avolded. Is he ‘alone the patriot who flatters and boasts and fawns, who sees evils and Jare not attack them, who sees vices but dare notexpose them? Our Governmant has defects—ne work of fimite or fallible man is perfect; naught save the direct emanation of divine wisdom is without fiaw; but where upon the face of the earth is there a form or system of government that vouchsafes to its children more of the rewards of labor, more of the blessings of peace, thun our own constitution molded and fashioved into symmetry and utility by the immortal fathers of the Republic? Fellow-citizens, in spite of the ills and imperfections and burdens necessarily incident to all forms and systems o government we have abundant cause to rejoice, to give thanks to God that we are Americans and nre permitted to share in the protettion and glory of that of the priceless blessing of a land bequeathed «0 us by our ancestors?:Can we close our eyes to the rocks and storms of the futuze and, nursed to slumber by assurances of perpetual peace, have 1o solici(ude for the uitimste destiny of our country?- We should deserve the execration blessed banner. Let the Italian be proud of the land where Cicero spake and Horatio fought, and in latter days the patriot, Garibaldl, strove for equality and liberty. Let the German love the Rhine and the Frenchman the Eetue and each recount his country's deeds of valor and glory. Let the Swiizer exuit among -his native hills, where liberty has gathered her children sbout her, lo! these many centurtes. Let the Euglishman recall the mighty names that adorn and shed nunfading luster on his couniry and fondly dwell upon Britain’s triumphs on land and sea. Let the Irishman cling sifectionately to his own Green Isle—:he victim of misrepresentation and tyranny, but valiant and undaunted— end glory in her immortal sons, who in roetry, oratory and science, in camp, in forum and on the -caffold, have achievel undying honor for their unhappy country. But let not the chil- dren of Americe—of Columbia—forget thut they are the inheritors of heroic and immortal men and women who died for principle, who gave up life for liberty; that they,livein aland which in its short career, has championed every great struggle for human equality and filled the eighteenth and nineteenih centuries with & blrz2 of true glors ; a country which has produced and given to the world and fame forever some of nature’s grandest and loftiest types of char- acter, some of the greatest though uncrowned noblemen, some of The few immortal names (hat were not born to die. Our Country’s Record. Recognizing great worth and exalted virtue, bowing before masterful genius and subiime attachment to duty and country in whatever land it has pleased heaven that they should dignify and uplift the human race, let the children of America on this, the jubilee of liberty, proudly remember thet their country has produccd men great in all realms of intel- lectual activity, great in literature, in scientific pursuits and in the useful arts, great in entightened charity and in humanitarian philanthropy; great in war and surpassingly great 1n peace, and great in a comprehensive and prophetic statesmanship that has steadily fore- seen and accurately forecast the high destiny of this republic. Let us proudly remember that onr annals are covered all over with names that houor the land of their birth and the human race—with inventors, poets, painters; with orators, patriots, statesmen. Let us proudly remember that our polcy has tesn upward and onward toward in- dividual freedom, the policy of peace aud ultimate righteousness. Let us remember and as ani Inspiration to our youth recall that America has lifted up the fallen, dignified labor and crowned honest toil with highest honors. Let us remember that sne has not only preserved liberty of conscience and of speech; thatshe hasnot only opened wide the doors of vrefer- ment to the deserving ambitious; thatshe has not only taught great political truths and ex- emplified principles all important to the happiness of man; thatshe has not only enriched the intellectual and materinl world, but that she has stood, and now stands, calm, hopeful, puissant, un exampie and an iaspicration 1o all the stfuggiing and asjiring and liberty-loving sons of man. 8ir, this and more America has done; this and more she is, and her future holds in store triumphe and glory unequaled by her marv:lous past. A Rebuke to Pessimists. Ye who sneer at our institutions and call us a nation of boasters; ye who say our constitu- tion is all sail and no ballast and our vaunted liberty the unbrid.ed lic:use of a mob; ye who magaify present ills aud forget our many blessings, can ye show us a Jand where the:e is more poiitical equality, more comfort and happiness among the people, mora justice dispensed, more charity bestowed? Can ye poiut us to a nation where labor receives & better reward or higher honor, where there is more toleiation, more freedom of conscience, more liberty to think, to speuk, to act, more protection tolife and property? Ye of my own land, ye pessi- mistic philosopher, doubting the present and distrusting the future; ye inflamed and be- wildered toiler, the dupe of the demagogue and so-called reformer; ye ungrateful refugee from 1iyranny coming hitier to this land of opportunity and plenty to raise the red flag of anarchy; ye recreant Americans, fawning upon foreign royalty, disparaging your own country, apologizing for her untrammeled freedom and cringing before decaying and tottering thrones—can ye think to-day of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln without emotion? Can ye think of Webster, Marshall, Ciay and Chase without pride? Can ye recall tt e names of Warren, Wayne, 8cot: and Grant without patriotic fervor? Cau yo pronounce the names of Jones, Perry, Luwrence and Fuarragut witaout gratitude and exultation? Can ye consider tne gifts of Fuiton, Whitney, Howe and Edison without thanks- giving? Can ye think of Francis Scott Key, whose harp ‘‘strung with Apollo’s golden hair" and touchea by the hand of genius, wakened music that can never die, without a throbbing heart? Caun ye look around and about you and se2 on every hand poor boys rising to high and honorable stations, a people on the whole well fed and comfortably clothed, art and science united with peace and prosperity, our industries fostered and multiplying, our commerce ex- panding, millions of acres of our fertile dcmain waiting the hands of labor—cau ye think of all this and contemplate all this and then faiter, o1 doubt, or denounce, or disp irage, or feel otherwise than grateful to God that yo are A sharer in all this glorious past, a pariaker of all this fruitful present? Sing hosannas to Victoria, greatest and best’ of Queens; butsing ho- saunas in the highest to Columbia, daughter and protector of liberty. A Grea: Patriot’s Words. “Ah,” we may justly exclaim in the eloguent words of Danisl Stevens Dickenson, “what Government has so protected its children, sv ennobled man, so elevated woman, so inspired youth, so given hope and promise o budding childhood, s0 smoothed the descent of dreary age; has so guarded the frecdom of couscience, so d.fused intellig nce, so fostered letters and arts, so secured to all “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ "7 But se.f-g vernment, feilow-citizens, is no new system aud is subject to the dangers that threaten all organiz:d society. Antiquity, burdened with tears and woe, is sir-wn with the ruins of republics, und over the fallen, crumbling monuments of ancient liberty grow the moss and trailing vine. Nor is freedom in itself euough; ireelom, (o be & blessing, must briug about organizzd goverameut, law, order, justice, means of defense from without, means of security from within; otherwise freedom means anerchy, where physical might tramples ruthlessly and with impunity upon right, and weakness and innoceuce fall a prey to the rapacity and greed ot strength and avaric>. In the beautiful and thoughtful .words of the great Charles Sumuer, *‘gaining liberiy is not an end, but a. means only, a means of securivg justice and happiness, the real end and aim of States 65 of every human heart.” Let us, therefore, upon this thrice-hallowed occusion, when every true American should seek his country’s good, let us bear in wind and cherish this grest truth, attested by the ex- perience of vges, that sel.-government 1s impossible, yes, undesirable, where ignorance and lieentiousness and moral depravity rule; that inteiligence, justico to all before the law and absolute equality of public burdens can a'one preserve to a people its liberty and lead it in the pleasant puths of peace and prosperity. This truth, also, let us bear in our minds and write in our hearts, that liberty without just and equal laws, fairly and honest'y administered, degen- erates futo licznse worse than slavery, inio anarcoy worse than despousim, sud that liberty without inteilizence and characier can secure no blessing, no permaneucy, no glory for our beloved country. Remembering that from the different races of the earth we are forming one society, one National characier, oue set of laws, and bearing in miud that under our system the peopie are thesource of power, the fountain of all authority, the only sovercign, I do ' most potently Le.ieve that our stabilty, our greatness, our perpetuity, our glory. depend not upon standing armies, not upon navies, not cities proua with spires aud turrets cmwnep. but upon the general diffusion of intelligence and poliiieal Inowledd‘xsn:lruu - our people, upon a right understan o ol corresponding appreciation and discl o the duties and responsibilities of citizensiip: A Magnificent School fystem. g Ignorance.is Eeypt; knowledge, A"\‘thfefi:. Ignorance 1s carknes: knowledge,” | 'n‘{ Ignorance is weakness; koowledge, sUePEih Ignorance binds the shackles of siavers around the limbs of men; knowledge P &EEE on his brow a kingly crown and in his hand : scepter of a couqueror’s power. So baliev :z and so feeling, I cannot refrain jrom uigh g upon you, as worihy of your jealous care anc anxious solicitude, that magnificent system. Of public school education which, thouzh l'mpeure fect and susceptible of improvement, is ? pride of our country, the crowning glory od our republican fustitutions, the safeguat better than standipg. armies around .the cons:itution and liberties of this great people —schools where the rich ana poor meet 00°8 common level and daily learn the needful m; sons of equality of rights and equality o privileges—schools out of which have gone and will go the Natiow’s sturdy strength -ni unfaltering hope—sehools wherein are tiained: the soldiers to march and win battles and bo crowned with laure’s of vi“tory in the rapks of peace. In these schoois let not only abstract truth, morality and the various handicrafts De taught; let love for that biessed banner, pat- riotism, loyaity be inculeated; let the fundd- mental and eternal and realiz.d peinciples and truths of the Deciaration of Independence be written on the heart and engraved un the mind of youth; let our form and system of goverument be made a leading branch of- 11~ struction, and the opportunities it sffords to deserving industry and laudable smbition e pointed out, so that the rising generation proud of their country and grateful for the heritage, may come more fervently to love.the’ 1and of their birth or adoption, and to practice those virtues in the administration of ‘publie affairs which alone can render their coun- try respectable umong the nations of the earih. In Young Hearts, g Fellow-citizens: The hope of this blessed land, this garden spot of iiberty, rests with the young hearts that beat to-day with.deep and unutterable emotion. Astheystand upon the threshold of the-future over which heaven has placed the bright bow of promise, fct them be taught the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, the rights of honest labor, the' rights of honestly acquired capital, and let the awful dangers be vividly portrayed thet must inevitably befall this country, their country, by the development of opposing and antag- onistic classes, from the lnck of homogeneity— the lack of common hopes and lofty, pure, welf-denying and disinterested patriofism. Teach your children, O patriotic fathers.and mothers of Americal that it is fur easier to be aslave than a free man; that & republic is no natural system, “exempt from mutability. and decay”; tba$ they who would preserye a- government must love it. Read to them the sad and melancholy epitaphs on the tombs of Greece, Rome and Carthage and other re- pubtics that rese to splendor and glery to sink iuto degradation and ruin—and teach them the lessons aad philosophy of his- tory. Letthem be taught thatin thiscountry labor is honorable; that white and delicate bands are not the sign of a manly soul, and that uprightness of character and purpose, devotion to truth and justice, make & man and a woman, as well as a nation, worthy of freedom. Teach them that beneath that flag all men are free; that in this land there shall be absolute freedom of religious opinion; that no siave shall toil on Columbia’s soilj that the loftiest mansion and the lowliest hut must be vprotected; that hunest labot must receive its just reward; that homest capital must be secure in all its rights. - Teach them that this is a land of liberty and order, not of license and anarchy; that American cit.zenship is & badze of honor, a shield of pro- tection, and should be couferr«d upon only those who are worthy of it. Teach them that our only master, our only superior, is the law, of which it has been grandly said: “Her séat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feoling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power.” Teach them that an honest and uncorrupted ballot-oox iIs the pal- ladium of our iiberties, and that he who defiles and pollutes it is recreant to his trust, faise to his herftage and & traitor to his ceuntry. In ) culcate and nourish and foster in the hearts oi youth a filial reverence for the constitution of their fathers, s the sheet anchor of their hope as the perennial fountain of all their blessin; and inspire them with even a ifvelier and pro- founder appreciation of the liberty and gov- ernment bequeatbed to them by the immortal patriots whose virtues and achievements we recall and celebrate to-day with gratitude and . Joy. Character and Justice. Feliow-citizens; A nation’s enduring strength and lasting fsme are based on character, anation’s truest grandeur and highest glory. rest on justice. Hathitnot been said by in- spired lips: “Righteousness exalteth a na-. tion”? A government of the people and by the people must receive from the people whai- ever makes it respected at home or honored abroad. & A decay of individual character precedes and is inevitably followed by & decay of tne Stafe. “Woe to the country,” sald Metternich, the Austrian siatesman, ‘“woe to the country whose conditions and institutions no longer produce great men to manage its affairs.”’ The grave and far-reaching probiems thatconiront us to-day call for the highest order of states- man ship. And, sir, what this Nation needs is great men—men great in truth, in private nonor, in public virtue, great in their attach- ment to auty wherever it leads, great and con- stant in their patriotism, and great in their devotion to that cherished banner and to the principles of liberty and uaion of which it 1s the glorious symbol. I repeat that what'this Nation needs and willever need, is men, high. minded men— o Men whom the lust of office does not ki1, Men whom the spo Is of office caunot buy, Men who possess opinions aud a will, Men who have honor, men who will not lie, Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous fateries wi.houg wining, % Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the tog . In public duty and in private thinking. - Men with no higher aim, no loftier purpos: than to serve their country and in their day - and generation contribute something to has stability and her glory. Thankfulness, L Let us rejoice, O my countrymen; let us-.- lift up our voices in thanksgiving. Peéega biesses our Nation. From lakes to gulf, from Piymouth Rock, where frerdom's weary foot found rest, to Golden Gate, upon whose shores the truitful sea chants an eternal hymn to 1ib:rty, all is peace. In the mouth of cannon - - doves have bu 1: their nesis; the swords that ! NEW TO-DAY. Nor printer’s ink, nor fluent tongue Too forcibly the praise has sung Of “Trophy”’ Baking. Powder. Still some people insist that “Tillmann’s” Spices and Flavoring Extracts are even finer goods—as if tfiat were possible | ) Tillmann & Bendet, M. -