Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1875-09-23

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tested him, and now gave him her wealth,
title and everything.
They were married with great pomp, and
accompanied the Arch Duchess to Paris.
Napoleon to crown the happiness of his IA
vorite, made him at once a General of Division.
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GLOWING ELOQUENCE AND sCATI1.
ING INvECTIvE.
Extracts from the EulOgy Pronounced
by Hon. Thomas Fitch On the Character
Of the late William c. RalstOn, at the
Memorial Meeting in Union Hail, San
Francisco, September Sth.
Eulogy! What part of human speech can
fitly eulogiZe the man we have lost? What
brush OF artist, or pen of dramatst can depict
the benefactions of his generous life, and the
tragedy OF his heroic death? His deeds
speak for him in tones that sound like the
Dlare OF trumpets; his monuments rise from
every rood of ground in your city. His eulogy
is written on ten thousand hearts; Commerce
commentaries his deeds with her whitening
sails and her laden wharves; Philanthropy
chimes the bells of all public charities in at
testation of his iberality; Patriotism sings
peans for him who in the hour of the Ma
tion's struggle sent the ringing gold of mercy
to chime with the flashing steel of valor.
Applause. Unnumbered deeds of private
generosity attest his secret charities; sorrow
has found solace in his deeds; Despair has
been lifted into hope by his bounty; there
are charities whose heaven-kissing spires
chronicle his donations to the cause of relig-
ion; schools claim him as their patron hos
pitals own him as their benefactor; Art has
found IN him supporter; Science leaned on
him While her vision swept the infinite; the
feet of progress have been sandaled with his
silver. He has upheld Invention while she
has wrestled with the dead forces of Nature.
Tic was the life of all enterprise, the vigor of
all progress, the epitome and the representa-
tive OF all that is broadening and expansive
and uplifting in the life of California. GAp-
plauseJ Would you show honor and hospi-
tallty 10 travellers renowned in letters, arts or
arms halston was the ,princely host; did you
wish to forward public or 6 private charity.
Ralston headed the subscription list: would
you develop new industry, to enlarge the
resources OF the city, start new manufac-
ture, add wealth to the State and furnish
hundreds of husbands and fathers with con-
tented and well-paid toll, you went to Ralston
for advice and assistance.
He impressed you with his power; he in
fused you with his energy; he touched you
with his princely generosity; he conquered
you with his magnetism. His vitality was
like the flash of steel; his enduring energy
was like the steady and swift flow of cata-
ract; his beneticence was like the copious and
searching philanthropy of the summer rain.
lApplause.J OF all her possessions, the CON-
monwealth of California never owned any
more valuable than this mans life. TAp-
plause.] Of all public disasters she had none
than T A I Ill
her shrines there should be none more sacred
from desecration than his memory. TAp-
plause.
And the people of San Francisco will be
false to every impulse of justice and manly
honor if they allow the hounds of treachery,
cruelty and falsehood who ran hot upon his
trail while living, to now lay their ISLANDERS
upon his new-made grave. [Applause and
cries of 'Never!'] Isay with you, "Never!"
Rather let every honest hand grasp whip
to scourge these merciless dogs into their den |
Into the editorial rooms of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin and Call. [Applause.]
say, my fellow citizens, that William C. |
Ralston was stung to death by the blood |
sucking vermin of the press. am not here
to question the verdict of the Coroner's Jury;
but even if Mr.. Ralston had wrought his own |
destruction-if, denuded of all early posses
sions; if, bereft of house and home; if,
wounded in spirit; if, shorn of hope, his
great heart left the earth and sought the swift
current that should carry his life out through
the golden gate OF death into the peaceful
ocean whose shores are the confines of Eter-
nity-if this had been so, who shall gainsay
his right question his decision? [Appause.
OF all his vast possessions, he retained moth
ing, not even winding sheet. He went out
of the world as he came into it. He left
to his creditors. His creditors!"
do says? What man so presumptuous as
to call William g. Ralston his debtor? TAP
plause.] The people of California, collect
lively, owe him enough to offset all private
liabilities, and the balance to his credit in the
Eternal Ledger is large enough to acquit him
Of all the errors of princely life. [Applause
We have heard something tonight of
guarantee fund to enable the Bank of Cali
fornia to resume business. Many of our hon.
ored and wealthy citizens have, as your pre-
Vious speaker has told you, evinced COM
menable and liberal public spirit in contribu-
ing to that fund. Notably has Senator
from your neighboring State of Nevada en-
1eared himself to hundred thousand hearts
~ stripping the cloak from his own should
'rs to ,Valk backward with it to cover the
'ody of his friend. [Applause.
40 not doubt that the guarantee fund will
'e filled with ringing dollars and the great
'ank will 60 on. But where shall our guar :
'ntee fund be found? Who shall make up to
IS the loss OF our benefactor and our friend
" no snail guarantee the generous and the
'reat-nearted against the viperous assaults of ]
n infamous newspaper? Who can hope to 1
scape a1ter kalstOn: A star has been dim ,
ned and quenched by the tireless splatter of ,
be slums. The king of all the animals has ]
'een slain by the leper of the REPTILES ZAP 1
'lause. The life of William G. Ralston has T
een taken to crafty the sordidness, the envy J
nd the malignancY of connle of base