The Fremont County record., 1881-07-16
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erhood OF man.
Maj. VIM. NJ. Lock was then intro
dpced and delivered the following
address:
YELLOW CITIZENS Assigned by
our honorable board of commission
ers to assist in these ceremonies, l
congratulate the people of Fremont
county upon the auspicious time
when they are to have q public build
ing devoted to the cause of the ad-
minlstration of the law.
Without fattery to our board of
county commissioners, without fat
teryto the people of the county, this
proposed structure will be an orna-
ment to the county and monument
to tie progressive spirit and enter
prise of the people, and of those who
are entrusted with the task of pre-
sentfng to our people structure
worthy of their admiration and pride.
In the religious world suitable tenn
pies are reared, dedicated to the
Divinity OF the universe, where all
who enter its sacred precincts bow in
reverence. respect and awe! In the
moral world it is the duty of the peo-
pie that the right of life and property
be sacredly guarded To effectually
protect them temples of justice should
be erected with an awe-inspiring in
fiuence. The mandatory authority of
the law must be welded with no
parsimonious hand. All its sur
roundings must be respected and
must be worthy of respect. To hold
court in q narrow, confined and disa-
greeable place, Is false system of
economy unworthy of the people of a
county with q taxable property
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Hardly thirty years ago the Arkan-
sas river washed the boundary of q
country-s republic only in name
with a history full of revolution and
discord. Here, where we stand, upon
the northern bank of the same river,
we can boast of redeemed desert
while the south side yies with us in
fertility and blossoms as the rose
redeemed, regenerated and disen-
thralied from the yoke and burden of
a bad government. Shall we not feel
proud of our progress Shall we
not glory in this prospective temple
of Justice Shall we not feel secure
for the future that in this building to
be erected, by wise, conservative
administration of the law, the true
definition of which is a rule of sction
prescribing what is right and pro-
hibiting what is wrong = the
right win be prescribed and the
wrong will be prohibited. The
wrong-doer will receive his just pun
ishment, and he who trampies upon
the rights of the helpless, the widow
and the orphan win be taught that
court houses are no empty shadows,
no glittering and pompous whited
sepulchers and decisions, but temples
where sit enshrined the Judge with
spotless ermine, and the incorruptible
jury of ancient times.
gain, fellow citizens, congratu-
late you upon this auspicious moment
and thank the Masonic fraternity and
other Organizations for the efficient
manner in which they have this day
laid the foundation corner stone of a
building to be devoted 10 the cause
of justice-the protection as well as
the pride of our people.
Hon. j. T. Cox was the next speak
er and made the following excellent
extemporaneous remarks:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN This
is q momentous occasion. We are
laying here to-day the corner stone
of n building that is to endure for
ages. Who can tell the scenes that
may uc euaCteNh WttDih Ito WahS
Who can tell what may occur around
it in the years to come? How often
will the wild notes of the bugle ring
through these streets, how often will
the thunder of hostile cannons echo
amid these mountains VIII these
walls be made to culver by the gal
lop of charging quadrons, will the
roof that is to cover them, ever be
torn by shot and shell No one can
know save he who rules the universe.
As little can we know OF the scenes
that the future may bring beneath the
shadow of this building, as Solomon
and his people could know, when
laying the corner stone of his temple.
that in the centuries to come the war
horse of the Moslem would trample
the ruins of that mighty building, and
that tho house of worship of 3 new
religion would rear its ponderous
arches, domes and minarets ON the
grounds where the great temple had
once stood.
We hope the day is many centuries
hence, If il ever comes, when poet
from foreign land, of . future and
now unknown race, shall have cause
while gazing on the ruins OF the great
buildings We are rearing al