Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-07
Yesterdays CELEBRATION.

remarkable tribute Of the people OF Sacra-
mento, and largely of the State, to Mrs. T.
r. Croker for her wise beneyolence, dis
eliminating charity and broad public
spirit. But we repress it. For 1t is more
fitting to call attention to yesterdays
scenes in the Capital City as facts, and TO
leave the preaching of sermons to them.
Columns of laudation would be pardonable,
but are wholly unnecessary. For the
charities of this Sacramento woman have
been transformations; her good deeds not
for public plaudits; her benefactions to art
and science and culture, for the satisfaction
that flows to the giver from all contribu-
tions TO the welfare and advancement of
mankind, and not to gain popular applause.
OF the acts Of such woman, that which is
best said is expressed in the words that
direct the thought to the deeds of perform
ance. They tell their own story; they
make their own comments and grave their
own record so deeply that time will not
efface it.
But there are lessons taught by the
Floral Festival to which suggestion may
now most appropriately and effectively in
vite thought. 4 chief of these is the one
ness of community interest, the falsity of
class distinctions drawn by other lines than
those of good lives, intelligence and cult
ure. This people has, unwittingly perhaps,
but irresistibly testified to the fact not only
that they are one in their manifestations
OF gratitude and in their recognition Of
unselfsh benevolence; but one in the gen
erous impulses that move them to accord
to merit credit due it; one in the common
religion of humanity; one in that broad
work of philanthropy that seeks to as
suage human woes with perfect blindness
to creed Or dogma of religion. 1t should
teach them tina. they may be one in ali
other interests that are material to pros
porous community, and that by union of
effort there is scarcely anything impossible
to united and determined public family
and community relations are those of
common family interests-in the direction
that leads up to the highest common good.
We should live for something beyond
the simple and passive pleasure Of living.
Community life has its demands, and sac
rifices, the price Of its compensations
Among these is the payment of the debt
every one owes to the place Of his resi-
dence. The thousands who yesterday
buried all divisions, and met upon COM
mon level to do honor to one of their own
citizens, in part discharged that debt-an
obligation, however, that is continuing.
The natural desire Of men to follow their
own will was yesterday most happily
seen to be in perfect accord with the
fitness Of things. 1t ran counter
to no prejudice, no doctrine, no creed and
no differences Of opinion as to public policy.
1t was, therefore, public acknowledgment
the wholeheartedness of which cannot be-
doubted, that at least one citizen has real
lied the truth that every one owes it to the
town in which he or she lives to do the
very best for the place. IN bearing this
testimony they practically pledged them
selves, each TO the measure of his or her
ability, 20 emulate her example, at the ey-
pense of the selfish desire to live for the |
mere pleasure of living, and at the sacrifice |
Of something of worldly possessions and
personal ease.
One whose life was an unending bepc- !
faction, poor though he was in store, once
said that no expenditure of treasures Of
time, vitality, ease and will, can ever be
made with earnest truthfulness Of purpose,
without securing compensation in some |
form at some time. ''God holds one OF two
boards Of treasure, man the other The |
two are mutually exchangeable, and this
law Of exchange, or this law of compensa- |
ton for expenditure, is instituted from |
eternity, and has no suspension and no
flaw" If by Yesterdays demonstrations.
these truths were brought home to the |
hearts of the people, then the Crocl,er
Floral Festival accomplished far more
than its projectors dreamed Of, born though
it was of the most praiseworthy and noble
Of impulses
The lady honored must have been graft
fed by Yesterdays expressions of love and
esteem. She must have felt that life is
worth living, and that wealth has its high
est and best uses in enabling lis possessors
to do good with it, to lessen human woe,
mitigate human suffering, to augment hu-
man Intelligence, to enlarge the human
10 contribute momentum
and ease to the wheels Of commerce, to
enlarge the possibilities Of labor, to develop
the capacities Of country and people.
But we have mistaken the purpose of her
and the spirit that has actua-
ted her, if she felt any such depth Of salts
faction or sincere pleasure at the ocean of
Aorai gifts that rolled ut her feet yesterday,
at the songs of praise and the sounding
tributes of the multitude, as she did, when,
in the quiet Of her own soul she resolved
upon any one deed for which her name
Has yesterday honored in chants and songs
and spectacle. Her supremest compensa-
ton was immediate; ii was that which
always follows quick upon the heels Of the
of good performance. Ne
outward tributes, no floral gifts, no crown
of bays, no wordcd praise can equal the
reward which The heart bestoas when the
inward mentor whispers in the silent
watches Of the soul, Well done. =.
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