Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-21

choly should be hurled aside, and per
feet concentration of the mind should b
the characteristic by which We gain th'
benefits of true knowledge. In life's grea
battles they alone prevail who make every
effort to win and are honest and true.
Grafton" The Champion of Frenci
Liberty ed. s. johnson. Lancaster. II
the darkest epochs of history liberty has
made her greatest efforts By the dis
cords of warning nations creeds have beel
formulated and magma chartas have beef
secured. Great convulsions have beer
necessary deprive the pages Of history o
these and We rob from liberty the reason,
that have made men worship her. Tn.
cause of liberty has given to history ou
martyrs and our greatest benefactors. Or
the hills OF Scotland is yet cherished tn
memory of Bruce, and France still honor
the name OF her great men who hav'
listened to the wrongs of her suffering
people. Mirabeau was cited as the bright
star in the history of France, and the
speaker showed how he had labOred, and
fired by the wrongs of his countTymen be
sought to protect their sovereignty and
snatched from tho hands of kings their
symbols Of despotism, yet against all hi
great opposition Mirabeau failed, but b
will never be forgotten.
Oration-" Compulsory Education" -
Geo. K Musselman, New Mahoning, Pa.
In our country religion and intelligence
have made great progress, but notwith-
standing there is a class Of people who
have no desire for the acquisition OF
knowledge. The question is, how are they
to be checked? The law of compulsion at
present is the only remedy. 1t has been
tried with good effect. England has tried
it and has found it success. The word
"compulsion CRATES harshly upon Our
ears, but does not that law reign in
the family, and is not the republic a
family? The speaker argued that by the
enforcement of compulsory education great
would be the results obtained. The ignor-
ant are the ones who suffer; it will alle-
viate their misery. 1t is estimated that
every healthy and educated man is worth
$27, 600 to the state, and with compulsory
education in force we shall have this in
creased, and find in every way that the
attainments by its enforcement will be
incalculabie.
usic-March-''Der Fodler. - Rix-
ner.
Oration-"Our Political Dangers. -
Ezra II. HOttenstein, Kutztown, Pa. In
looking over the history of our country,
we see that We have gone through many
political dangers. The men who, inspired
with the zeal Of liberty and love of coun
try, founded the nation, have left an in
heritance which they would not have lost.
The orator then showed how, as the coun-
try widened and the population increased,
political parties arose and in course of
time became involved in partisan hostili
ties. 1t is from this that we have need to
fear for the safety of the country. There
IRE yet dangers being every day made ap
parent from which the country has much
to fear the still rife spirit of party is de
rOgatory to our welfare, ard it behooves
all to watch carefully the dangers that
beset us. 10 serve the country is an hon
orable ambition and should be the aspi
ration of every man.
Oration-" Robert Burns - Howard
Mitman, Hellertown, Pa. The orator
showed the benefits and beauties of the
poet, and said that Robert Burns, the
peasant poet of his country, has cns!lriDcd
himself in the hearts of his cOun;rymen.
Nothing was too humble, too weak for
aim to weave around it his genius, aud in
the songs which he sang he won the hearts
aud received the sincerest Difference of his
fellow citizens. lie was true to nature
and found his delights in that which she
offered for him. His letters do not show
the beauty and simplicity of bis poetry.
They are oft, L strained and affected but
his poems are the embodiment OF lowli-
ness, beauty and happiness. Tam O.
Shantcr and "The COtter's Saturday
Night - are the greatest Of his prOduc
tions, and in the whole English language
nothing can compare, said the orator.
with the former. The speaker then spoke
Of the ires;imab!e gifts Burns left his
country, in tho unadOrned pearls aati
paintings of his imagination.
Grafton" The Fatality Of Genius; -
John W. Blown, Lancaster. When we
remember how BY ron, Burns and Johnson
blasted their lives wc must come TO the
conclusion that there is fatality in geniu>,
and their !ailings touch our hearts ami
made lis feel for them and pity them. Ths
orator cited Others who have fallen vic
tins to their passions and from this fall
suffered untold miseries. De Quincy,
with his horrible appetite for opium,
Poe's career, cursed with this strange ia
tality. were mentioned rs prominent char
acters who had blasted their glorious
aspirations and weakened, perhaps, the
confidence of the world in them. Still We
cannot blame them. Let us forget their
failing let us pity them. They have
eiven us superb gifts and we can only let
them with their God.
Grafton n-"Roman Slavery Maurice
w. Maucb, IIellertown, Pa. Tho great
Icss and strength of tho Roman empire
were di!ated upon by the speaker, and the
growth Of slavery in the country portrayed.
This evil launched the Roman empire
into wars and their sufferings. Slavery
occupies the most prominent place among
tine luxurious, and brings most terrible
results Tho condition of tho Roman
slave was horrible indeed. In comparison
with them the slaves of the South il,
America, can nnhesitatipgly be called
gentlemen. The slaves of Rome We're
taken from her vanquished cnemies and
numbered among them bright men of these
peoples. But the time came when the iu
dignities, the sufferings and the death of
the slaves would no longer be brooked by
them, and they rose like wild beasts TO
overthrow their keepers. The speaker
drew a deplorable picture of slavery, aud
effects upon tho Roman empire, which at
length fell by its capt;ves.
Music-POlka-Leb
Grafton" The Duty of the Citizen. y
VIM. G. Mayburry, Philadelphia. In re-
viewing some of the socialistic outbreaks
that have disturbed the public it becomes
apparent what are the true and necessary
doctrines of the citizen Labor and capi
tai are two factors from which society has
much to apprehend The partyism of
political organizations has too much to do
with the settlement of the questions by
labor and capital, and should be eradica
ted. 1t is the monopolist who is also ono
of those of our citizens who are trying to