The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1903, Page 33

~, OIS ceatin] SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1908, e CELEBRATE NATION’S BIRTHDAY WITH APPROPRIATE CEREMONY Military March Through Streets, Literary Exercises Are Held, and City Resounds With the Thunder of Artillery, the Bursting of Bombs and the Cheers of Patriotic People | | | { POWDER IS USED FREELY Police, . Firemen and Physicians Are Kept Busy. Holiday Is Marked by a Series of Accidents. T ital and labor as existing to-day. The oration delivered by Mr. Sullivan was as follows: - When T was asked to deliver the oration on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independ- ence two weeks ago I felt as Chau Depew did when he had to prepare a speech on short notice. 1t reminded him, he said, of an inci- dent of his college days. when the sententious professor of rhetoric sald to him, ‘‘Depew, ur tme s three micutes; your subject, “The mmortality of the ** "My reverend and respected friends who horor us with their pres- | ence will apprectate and do full justice to Chauncey Depew's predicament. I am not so certain that I am far removed from his posi- tion. 1 ask you to bear kindly with me, and re- member that my theme is one that really de- mands time for thought and preparation. Noth- "y or a toast at a banquet. Charles Dickens, on being complimented on a brilllant reply at a dinner, said: “It ought to be good. It kept every one In my house awake for the last two months, It was, of course, fmpromptu.’” We have with us to-day ihe representatives of the United States army, the Federal offi- cials, the officers of t ate mititia and rep- | resentatives of all occupations in this y of | San Francisco. Religion {s_represented. The [ Mayor of our city ix here. But where are the T cannot sec them. Why are not e rties here? llecause on this d t away, and we are all one and all m the words of Jef ferson: “'Difference or opinion Is not difference of pri We have called by different names brethren of the came principie. ~ We &ll Republicans; we are all Federalists.” So 1 say we are all Dex we are all Repub- licans we are It was my pri tennial exe >ge 1o be present at *hiladeiphia on the ce our| while the majority of July, 15 were held in the park a. Jolning the old hall whore the Declastion of Independen slgned by the rapresentatives |of the American colonies. 1 remember how vividly the scen that celebrated Fourth of July, "1876, were impressed upon miy mind For the first time in history it was sopemn. | Iy declared that man as a man had certaimn | rights which vere inaliezable. The Declar | tien of Independence was intended for all [ Pices ana for American alone. Hence, of the fifty-six signers of the document wers native Americans, Jefferson, Frank: Hancock, the Adamee Li'm Tisol e Lee: . Gerry and Roger \i I:‘V;;:"l‘ mm’\vl who signed the | Declaration of In w . ol ‘ere not born in | RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. resentat) mith, tatives In Matthew G2orge Taylor and Scotland in Jokn Wither- s Wilson; England in Robert Gurnett and Francis Lewis: Mos n. as Lynch Jr.; £poen and James | Morris, Button eden in John Carroil of « 1. Others ke Charles in All shades | the wealthiest man | Irish-Americans. | of religious’ heller were repremen: members ¢f the body were animat 1| ®ieh, namely, to declans to the world {he TIED(S of man. - What, then, dlo. these mem de- In the first pls 1| —not certaiy mén political rights, > they daclared (hat all men equal In the right to earn a Bhe ared that all politic | | | comes froni the seople, | ‘[hat government {= made for {hes d that 4 they are made for the g \»~rllm(‘m" .Tn‘l,d in { the words of Rumbold, no one comes into the | world with a saddle on his b a another o booted and spurred to ride st here- | after they would be no subjects of any { crown, but frec citizens of a republic. They | i | struck do onee a1l the slavish doctrine P . L. s ‘3 gl that man Isted fq he use of one who called gln\solf lim:h Every ruler was made to un | ; F PAR . AS WITNES S 2 erstand that he was really a servant of the { 1E MILITARY PARADE AS WITNES T WHEN FEDER- people, and that when any governmens was o TE TROOPS MARCHED IN HONOR OF THE NATIONAL BIRTHDAY, AND PORTRAIT OF DIS- | |atistactory o ihem ‘" shouid e 4 R it wHiq ey sald there sha no more. slave H WHO DELIVERED ORATION. | more vassals and no more followers. Thew {un!u-h:m the master, the lord and the ruler, o1 i S50 = - and became masters, lopds and rulets them: o =k telves: 7 i » sed ves- | ersary ¢ he De: on_of Inde-| 3 % hese fifty-six men signed the gdeof oy ed ves anniversary of (’.r 1 ration Ix.‘h;r USIH song and spéech | with the ra “il"\nxr\d"(h.fr ’mm. hf.-“lv'fi{,'..-" ssiastic cele- = pendence was witnessed by large ¢ stirred the hearts of the | they were ready to meet their fate 'with grim . anniversary of | of enthusiastic men, women and children patriotic citizens who as- | ’p’f‘";f:.;.x "'\1':“1:"“‘ ::eprg_::;:::l "r"”a(:\(ul by rthday of the republic The morning was an fdeal one for tI sembled vesterd after. | vention.' He signed his name in bold. iarge / g fternoon and | procession and the coo! brecze was on'in the Alhambra The- | nre sanatun: “{',‘lm,‘,f",;;;’v_gj;’{:_}[';l',“fl,{:r;;';fj o thousands | comed by the marching troops that T to celebrate the annt- | lin eald, “We must hang together or surely we apon f citizens left the city | ticipated. The promptness with whi ver: Independence day. ‘]‘:,jf,'(,'};"';f";:*‘i{{‘;fi{ PR &ant Harrison, o vis amping places in | parade started reflected credit upon those 1€ thealer was comfortably filled and | will be all over with me in a moment, buf vou Lt o gson 114 not man- | who had the affalr in hand and th the programme provided was an excel- | I gy gone k"6 [0 the air haif an hour after ar = for two days the many | gram was carried out thout seri- | lent one and was epjoyed by all esel g + ' s held | OUS error or accident, though the poitce of % oA Eanl. A HEROIC ACT. e mmes of athletics hel " 5 T f the theater was lav e . « ity to | iTSt started on the wrong route and weve | j Bechratin : Tt was a brave act on the part of these thir- e e s ] O S IaT ety Siw Suru i ToDLe. ¢ E decorated with national flags and | teen colonles to Aéfy the great name and sail). ea . - y eacape the ! & 0 force of police e i Ak Ing. and the stage was also bright | tary rower of Great Britain. It was a noble H &= force of polic s E fortiti: ved. ik act 1o declare that governments @M inetiteie glant cracker. tafled to maintain order on the line of ' red. white and blue and the Stars | among all men to secure their happiness. and may have lacked march, but their work was easy, as the | 2nd Stripes, . that all governments derfve thelr just powers s regards population, it 4)d not | sightseers were not numerous enough o | Jeremiah Deasy. ciairman of the | Lo Mpconeent of the governed for thet LT Sei iotiem. | cause the guardians of the peace any | Fourth of July cominittee, and many | {ramework of the old feudal aystem ran oo | as = over the hillg | trouble. others of its members were scated on | PIeCe%, The ordinary man then had no right d¥ ushered In The nat flag was fiying | direc- tions snd shiy harbor were gay with bunting ar of tions ne . rge exercises at the Alham afterr were enjoyed by audie ry ban somce ce pi t of previous years. The aters were well at- yas mo overcrowding umusement. and firemen of the city protect life and property, not overburdened with t few alarms of fire na the reports from that the accidents those of previous celebra. jence day. | lays of fireworks were vening and were well at- | utes also burned gunpow- | of “the glorious_Fourth,” | a large evening a¥tendance | | polic res 2t Military Parade Is Greeted With | " Rounds of Cheers | il i HOUGH many thousands of citi- zens of S8an Francisco left the city vesterday to spend the Fourth at *the resorts, the military parade peld yesterdey morning in honor of the A1 10 a. m. the Federal and State troops marched from and posts to a low Battery. their respective point on Market The formation of armories ¢, be- itary and clvic bodies was well arranged and it was shortly after the hour of 10: that Grand Marshal Thecdore gave the order, “Forward, march.” fanfare The bugles rang out a merry and the procession started on avenue, where the parade was reviewed and dismissed. The field artiliery of Uncle S8am made | | The the best showing in the parade. 0 Lunstedt grim guns, rumbling calssons, champing horses and smart mounted soldiers wer: hailed all along the route with cheers. The field batierv was under command | of Captain J. V. White, aided by Captain C. A. Bennett and First Lieutenant P. K Ambulances from the Presidio (oUowedl An ovation greeted the vet- | sexican wars, | in lne. The veterans the artillery, erans of the Civil who were next and rode in gaily bedecked carriages and the white hair and faifling sight of the old | w | they had fought in order that the present | soldiers recalled the vivid story of independence of the Republic. Behind the carriages contalning veterans came the “minute men of 17 dressed in the costumec of that perfod. | | &eneration might fittingly celebrate the | They carried fiint-lock guns and received a warm weicome from the spectators. A float with dess of Liberty #ade of the National Guard of California commanded by Colonel Thomas O'Neil ‘nele Sam and the God- preceded the Second Bri- The First Infantry, of the Guard, ‘was commanded by Major George Filmer and | the citizen soldiery presented a good ap- pearance and pleased all by their martiz step. of the detachment of the coast artillery, 1 Major H. P. Bush was in command which, like the infantry, was preceded by its band, At the reviewing stand, erected on Van Ness avenue and Post*street, the parade countermarched and tendered a salute to General Warfield, after which the pro- cession disbanded. the ®iage, together with Mavor Schmits, % Frank J. Grand Marshal Th. the mil- | 0dore Lunstedt, G. B. Benham, J. A.| Vaughan, Rev. F. D. Bovard and Father J. P. MeQuaide. The exerci | rendition of patrio rs by | ng army, or a navy, without gold or sflye; gt ofibatriotle alre by the Lor- | means of any Kind, resolved that the Ceston stra. -after which arshal | Colonies “‘are and of right ought to be fres Lunstedt introduced the nan of | and independent states and that they are ab- the com ee, Jere 10 wasg | foivea from all alleglance with the Brit the sommittee, Jeremiah Deasy, who'whs | 8055 /"0 one in-the fusticn of their Ll b e and with firm rellance In the Drotection of Chairman Deasy ihanked all who had | Divine Providence, its members mutually assisted in making the celebration a | Pledged to each other their lives and their success, and dwelt upon the significance | [0rtunes, and their sacred honor. “They knew | of the anniversary of the nation's natal opened with an artistic to land or to property which the noble raspeet- ed. He was ground to earth by taxation. He was deprived of the rights to the f | his tabor and of his brain. He was Imprisone without trial. Ie passed wjth the land as the | beasts of burden. Political Tight he had nope. What then did the Continental Congress do to_change these conditions? This Continental Congress,” without a stand- that this Declaration meant a bitter, long and bloody war, but belleving they were right. they day. were willing to endure any eacrifice to obtain Rev. F. B. Bovard then delivered the | thelr independence. o ¥ o They saw that the principle of right I invocation. fl!'klnx the blessing of God l the base of independence. If tyranny me:-:: upon the people of the United States and | ages could have crushed this principle = we returning thanks for the many benefits glven to the nation. The singing sen-Roeckel with dramatic power, the audience made the rafters of tion. He read thg pendence in ceived with rapt attention. the receipient of unstinted plaudits. ORATION OF THE DAY. Frank J. Sullivan, the orator of the day, was then presented to the citizens, and he-had reason to feel proud of the reception given him. When the applause the orator proceeded to de- which was a schol- the deeds of the men who had founded the pnation and paid a tribute to the people of/France, who had rendered assistance subsided liver his addrees, arly composition. He dwelt upon to the struggling States in 1776. The of “The Star-Spangled Banher” by Mme. Ellen Coursen-Roeckel | and a chorus of young ladies aroused unlimited enthusiasm. THe solo of the national air was rendered by Mme. Cour- and the theater ring with applause, compelling | the lady to repeat the air. Mayor Schmitz was then introduced to the audience and he was given an ova- Declaration of Inde- forceful manner, and the words of the historic document were re- At the close of the reading Mayor Schmitz was again economic questions were alsa dealt with and the speaker clearly out- lined his views on the situation of cap- would be slaves to-day. Do you know where thie Declaration is strong? 1t is this. It clajms equality, life and liberty for all men. To de- mand liberty for America alone would have meant exciusion of all other races, and wou other lands. The world at larke would bay objected to thie indifference. The fathers saw this and demanded not only these rights for themselves, but for all men. They. tharefore, demanded telf government, home rule, and the individnal liberty of Remember, that these Atty-six representatives in the Continen. tal Congress did not originate the Declaration. The pen of Jefferson stated In good form. of English speech ideas that were allve in the minds of men the world over. As one of the members of the Continental Conkress he simply became the medium of the popular will. As the “ontinental Congress foresaw the War of Inde- pendence followed. A PRUDENT LEADER. Fortunately the Colonjes had a wise prudent leader in George Washington. Eversts “He was the greatest of good mes (‘)T:. of great men.”" The world h him ke 3 highest rank among its immiortal, knaw the history of that great war. Defeat after defeat was the lot of the patriotie armsy. Yet the fate of British power was settled at Saratoga and at Yorktown. Then. and then ity T8 the starry flag mean & free and I Lt ent union. “Bhile we applaud_our native commanders, like Washington, 'Green, Marion. Morga) | Wayre. Lincoln_and our own people for their bravery, lct ux ot forget the assistance given w0 us by herces of other nationalities. ere was the Englishman, Gates, the hero of Sarm- toga. There was the Iristman, Montgomery, There_were three ér\!nhfl.:m-'flglr—!ulll an of ew re. of Maine, Barry ot T R ing now is Impromptu, even a political speech | but, above zn,T Tart rreated equal—equal in | living.- equal in the mght to own properts. equal in the right of educating thelr whidren according to the dictatss of ther conscience | What next? Toey:dsclared ‘that every .man { should have the right to-his Iife, 1o his Jiberty | {and to the pursuit of ‘happiness—that s to say, | uld say, ““This i my house, this 1a | 11 these are the products of my nds, 1 the creatures of my brain.” | no one could be fmpris witho st cause | That e could wark when a0t for Wbt e | for what wages he pleased. That he breathe the air say. “Thia is ih i ntry, the air of ‘my h. my wife and the air of my N | have shut the door on the oppressed of aii ! IDEEDS OF HEROES ARE LLAUDED AND LIBERTY IS EXTOLLED With the Many | i | RIS ANNUAL CRACKER.. | I i1 | | i ! Hon. Frank J. Sullivan Delivers Stirring Address at the Aiham- bra, Pays Tribute to the Founders of the Republic and Deals Grave Economic Questions of the Present - — VN SO & : UNCLE SAM FIRED YOUNG AMERICA TAKING HIMSELF INTO TROUBLE, DELIGHT IN GIVING VENT TO HIS PATRIOTISM AND INCIDENTALLY GETTING ACCORDIN BRATING THE “GLORIOUS FOURTH"” IN SAN FRANCISCO. TO THE VIEWS OF THE CALL'S CARTOONIST, WHILE CELE- | RAC AL joking formed a feature of yesterday's cele- bration of the national holi- day. The old jokes were again carried out, and while many people were frightened ‘o injury was done. g A favorite trick was to display a mon- ster firecracker on the sidewalk of a size large enough to sound, were it genuine, like a long-range gun at the Prestdio. A small fuse would be Insertéd in the top of the bogus Lomb, and after it was light. ed every one would run for a safe spot. | Ladies and men would hold their fingers —and Paul Jones, the Scotchman, the hero of the most desperate sea fight in histor: There were the Germans, De Kalb and Von Steuben. There were the Poles, Kosclusio an Pulask!. The latter, you will remember, gave his lite | Blood at Savannah to our cause. There was last hut not least, Lafayette, the French hero, who at the early age of 20 served our country without pay. Wushington secured Lafayette and Lafayette secured the French alllance, without which we would be subject to Great Britain to-day. La- fayette raliled our troops at Brandywine and thwarted the designs of the traitor Lec at Mon- | mouth. (At the request of Washington hs rged the French King to give us money and troops. The condition of the cnlunle_u was then desperate. For this we bave Washing- | ton's own words: “If France delays a timely | and powerful aid in the critical posture of our aftairs it will avail us nothing should she at- {empt it hereafter. We are at this hour sus. »ended In the balance. In a word, we are at fthe end of tether, and now or never de- cerance must come. “‘l\el:*:nonly did France send her soldiers under | Rochambeau and a fleet under De Grasse, but, | bankrupt as she was, she lpaned large sums to the American cauge. These, nre the: noble words of France: “Of the 27,000,000 livres we | have loaned you we forgive you 9,000,000 as a | { | | Comes prosperity you can pay the balance with- interest.”” LAl ‘u; on this anniversary give thanks to the land of Lafayette, De Grasse and Rocbar- beau, and to the land of Von Sfeuben for serv- | ices rendered at Valley Forge. th the end of the War of Independence the trials of th {ndependent " States had oply begun. Th problem for the free men of America was this How could an indestructible union of ind structible States be formed? How could the Whole American people be represented by some body that could rightfully tax them? A VAIN THOUGHT. There was so much discontent that George U actueily thought that the men who had endured suffering in all its forms would re- nounce their independence and their ideas of the equality of man and would again become hix subjects, Vain thought! Thanks to Wash- ington, Jefferson, Hamilton, to Marshall, to Madison and to Benjemin Franklin &nd (o others that canpot now be named, a copstitu- tion was adopted on the twelfth year of Amer- independence. e ihatrument _contained many clauses which brought confidence, stability and pros- perity to the American union. But none were Thore effective than two clauses, one of which | guaranteed to every State a republican form of government and the other that no reli- ok test shall ever be required as a qualifi- cation to any office or public trust-under the United States. This constitution has been de- elared by Gladstone ‘‘the most wonderful work ever struck off at a '1 en time by the brain Gmd purpose of man De Tocqueville Writing in 1534 feared that the repubiic and the constitution could not ex- fat, " Yet it has survived, It has brought the American people unexampled prosperity. It | has made the starry flag en emblem of ]o‘ and hope to the of ail lands. Wit | Andrew Jackeon and Daniel Webster it met and defeateo nullification by u State. Witk Abraham Lincoln it weathered one of the most destructive of civil wars and with him 1t gift of friendship, and when with years there | — = - {ta their ears, expecting a deafening re- | panion would drink up the contents. | port, but when they found they had been| Tying a small firecracker to a man's fcoled they joined in the bearty laugh of | coat and lighting it was also another e Seey source of amusement to many citizens. A new method of scaring people was | EURChes of harmless firecrackers wers left in many places with a long lighted also put to ure throughout the city. Boys | fuse attached. The crowd would yell with as well as men would place detonating | glee when a passer-by attempted to get flat cartridges on the car tracks, and the |away from a threatened explosion. cable and electric cars would seem to be | There was room, however, for “the fool- in the midst of another Santiago. | Killer” to make an example of the reck: Around ‘the places “where men do con- | less men who flourished revolvers, whic gregate” many jokes were played. Just|in many cases were loaded with ball as a thirsty man would lift a foaming | cartridges. When a pane of glass was | beaker to his lips, bang, sizz, boom would | shattered by the use of the revolvers or a %o a firecracker under his heels, and as | companion was Injured the general excuse he set down the glass on the bar a com- | was, “I didn’t know it was loaded.” L e e e e e n s x r e ] ) { made good the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence that all men ara created equal. T» construe its words the blue and the &ray wasted blood and tredsure. The struggle was not in vain, It proved to the world that all Americans are herces whether they are led to battle by Grant ar Sherman or Sheridan or by Lee or Jackson. Those who wore the gray are mow proud of their brethren of the biue. I am glad to say the feeling is mutual To-day they Join In | for the stars ‘and str tower of strensth which stood four square to all the winds that blew.” Where is the tand more tolerant of religious ideas than free America? Where is there a land with mors facilities for education, with better public | schools than we enjoy? In this free land every one while demanding freedom for himself ad- mits full liberty in others. In other words, on every Fourth of July we make an act of independence for ourselves and for all men. With such a legacy from the past, what are our responsibllities and duties? Our principal duty as citizens of the great ing for and in dying s whether it be in sunny Cuba or in the distant isles of the .. Philppines, They were both with Schiey at | fpublic is to premerve in all their integrity Santiago. They were both with Dewey at |the fundamental rights of our fellow citizens Manila. To-day as Americans our Southern [!f thelr lives, in their liberty and in their methods of acquiring happiness. Equal fus- tice to all men is the inherent principle of the Declaration of Independence. MORAL ELEVATION. This equal justice means the moral elevation and happiness of the greatest number. It does not mean the triumphs of the intellect, of art, of sclence or of literature or the marvels of ipvention. It does not mean the acquisition of wealth or the extension of our possessions, but it Mmeans 10 render o each and every man his e. It means that as a free man each person is entitled to an equitable and fair hearing in the forum of pubiic opinfon and free and un- blased_trial befors the tribunals of his coun- try. Freedom is of no avall unless with the help of Its blessings we know how to be just The relation of employer and employe Is a c in point. The scripture tells us that the la borer is worthy of his hire, that is to say, he who toils shall receive a falr wage. A fair wage Is one which can support the toiler and his family and besides leave sufficient to meet the demands of old age. Recent investigations lave shown that capital, as such, can always take care of ttself. It has money and it can purchase brain to make out a good case before the world. Ex- perience has shown that unless it is curbed it will treat its employes as mere machines. It will not regard their health, their dependent familtes, but will force these poor men to work over hours and at'a low rate of wages on the pretense that competition and the law of sup- ply and demand compel such action to pre serve its property. in this free land no man can call property absolutely his own. The law says that he hoids it subject to the public wei- brethren know but one flag, the flag of the Union_ and but one country, the United States of America. It Is related ‘of General Robert E. Lee, a soldier as brave as ever died with Roland at Roncesvalles, and as noble as ever followed the chivalrous Bayard, at a banquet | held in Richmond immediately after the close of the Civil War, some one proposed the fallen fiag. General Lee, with choking voice and | hand on his heart said: “My friends, I can- not drink to that toast to-day, 1 know but one flag—the stars and stripes—and I will drink | to ne other.” COUNTRY WILL ENDURE. While American institytions can produce such men and sach sentiments then we proudly claim that our untry will endur This federal constitution is as ‘dear o forty- five States with over 70,000,000 of people as it was to thirteen States with a population of scarcely 4,000,000. It has given free homes, free hearts and free hands to the toller from | every part of she globe, Thanks to its influ- | ence our people are to-day better fed, better housed, better shod and better educated than any other people on earth. They are not sub- jacts. They are the Government, and if the Government does not give exact jgstice it is their fauit, ‘Where is the land llke America, with the orportunities for every ome to rise? Its laws and its free institutions teach that no man hould rely upon the deeds of his fathers. He should try to surpass them. He who relies on dead ancestors is lost. I can picture the tofler looking at bis little baby boy it les rocked in a cradle by the mother. and saying to it: *Child, you can one day aspire, If you please, to be President of the United States.”” In no part of the world can you find such conditions | fare. except here. Such conditions and such chances | The peonie, if they please, can take it on are only to be found In free America. Abra- [ PAYINg proper compensation and can jestriet | ham Lincoln. with scanty education, emulated | the power of awnerghio. No man can take the best authors in style and rose from a ralf- | Property with him When he dies. The law steps in and says how It shall descend and be distributed. It s a fallacy. therefors, to say that we own anything in the absolute sense of the term. The chief duty of capital in this republic, therefore, is to remember ihat man solitter to be the President of the United States, but his chief claim to fame is that he was the lover of his fellow man—the liberator of four millians of staves. In what land will e fng & verpliel. aqual to. \ . S 3 be free to work, to enjoy the benefiis dent James A. Garfleld, the canal boy, or to ::S.wa. to have his l‘MI-l\'Jen educated In the lite of -President Andrew Johnson. the | jeast the fundamental branches of learnin fallor? Nowhere, 1 say. except in these United | share in all the increased wealth of the coun- States. try %0 that hw may save som:thing for his old i _.No land, no people have received such bene- | sz¢ fits as our people have regeived from the Dec It is the duty of the citizen to jprevent laration of Independence and the Federal con. | manopoly or trust of any character and to ‘stitution. This constitution. has been | allow to each member of the community the productive of good resuits in wit ng the o e Continued on Page 37, Column 1. incessant attacks of political agitators and cor- rupt politicigns. It has been called “that