Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-07
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tore when l see city, with all Its citizen
its children and its school people. til
young ladies and the young gentlemen, til
: bankers and the business men of your con
munity, closing up your stores, sendln
your flags at full mast, meeting here your
selves, and inviting from all parts of tn
State others to do honor to this lady fo
| her munifcence and her bounty-to youan
yours it does you, in my judgment, infinit
credit, because, as | say, appreciation an
gratitude are rarer virtues III their eXhibl
ton than generosity that gives from III
rich to the people.
Now, then. this is the idea that has file
me in sitting to-day in your very elegan
hall, that | never saw before grea
! many things have struck me. In the frs
place is the fact that we have been brough
together, all of us-men of all parties, al
religions, all classes all orders of society
10 do honor to this lady in recognition 0
her virtue and her generosity.
| have seen here to-day the represent
atives, as | say, of all religions. There
bedecked in flowers, was the type of the
Catholic Church side by side with the EN-
blem of the Protestant community | saw
the Jew, the Catholic and the Irish, foreign
born and American. l saw everything thai
is typical OF the community. represented
!
common purpose, 10 do honor 10 g common
virtue. tApplause.l
The colored girl, black as the ace O
spades, and shiningin her blackness, enters
that hall side by side with the fair-haircG
and blue-eyed lnaidens born OF your val
ley and when | was a boy that child would
have been an outcast Your committee
would have said this child of prescribed
race cannot come in here and associate
| with our people; and, if she had been adj
mitted, it would have been with q snccr on
| the part of the audience as intelligent as
was this. But said to myself, il marks
the advancement of the age; it marks the
education of the new people, it marks q
new era that has dawned upon this Ameri-
can commonwealth of ours that recognizes
no distinction that is born of mere color
| And thought at the same time, gentle
men, looking at this great crowd Of chill
| dren, $500 i'll number, and all of the same
age nearly, that if among the products of
| Sacramento can be numbered so many chill
dren, nearly of the same age, we do not
need any foreign immigration daughter I
This event of to-day is marked indelibly
upon the age every child that was there
to-day will mark this as red-letter day in
his history, and the lesson that will be
| taught him will be this This lady, for
her bounty, her generosity, has been hon
| Ored as no other man or woman has been
honored in this Republic
And hope, too, that it will teach a les
son to the wealthy men of this State-Tap-
plausel who have great accommodations.
l hope 1t will teach them, or at least recall
to them the fact, that they have no pocket
i'll their shrOud, and cannot carry it up on
golden wires to the other world | would
like to see these wealthy men the admins
traitors of their own estates | would like
TO see Governor Stanford carry out the be-
neticent ideas that he has foreshadowed in
laying broad and deep the foundations of a
great seminary ofleaIning- [applauscl till
II shall grow to be pride and ornament to
our State, and that he may live to see it ac-
complished, in order that the executors of
his estate may not. as most executors do,
steal it away from the object for which it
was intended.
These are the lessons that grow out of
just such q pleasant day as has been en-
Joved by US to-day, and now, if you will
permit me, will say a word for the press.
The ideal press is the fulcrum upon which
the world is moved. The press as ii ought
to be 1t is the place of the pulpit; it is
the place of the rostrum. The editor as he
ought to be 1t is the place that when
was boy was held by the eloquent law
yer, and further back was held by the elo-
quent priest. 1t ought to bet is not. but
it ought to be-the schooImaster and the
preacher-to elevate and perfect the morals
and advance everything that is good in a
commonwealth Ike ours.
We felt that when we met in Wonder Pa
vilion to-day and saw those little ones pa
rade before US, with virtue stamped upon |
every liniament of their Countenanccs, their |
characters all to be nodded. those little girls |
to grow up honored and virtuous women, |
those boys to be good citizens, that it should |
teach every gentleman here who holds the |
pen and wields the power of the press, that |
every line that drops from him and every |
sentiment he sheds from ink. is liable to |
bend these twigs TO grow up in the proper
direction or in the wrong direction J
make too little money out of my paper,
and care too little for the fame that is
connected with it, not to admOnish me to
suggest to you younger gentlemen that
upon you, more than upon any other class
N this community or in the world de-
wolves the responsibility of giving direction
to the boys and girls that are to form the
greatness and glory OF this magnificent
commonwealth. [Applause.l
Gentlemen, when | arose | promised to
talk three quarters Of an hour but won't
do it.
y VOlCc-tIO on.
Mr.. P.-No, / won't. Gentlemen, ban
Quet is Il banquet; and Cooking at his
watch Il man that talks over about twelve
minutes IS AN idiot laughter and am
not an idiot. | thank you. gentlemen of
sacramento, for the pleasure you have af-
IOrded Us strangers. | anu sure speak for
all OF us Applause
Judge turtiS-Wc have heard from q vet
eran editor, and | now suggest that we lis
en- 70 ore from some other portion of the
State, from the foothills where the vines
5row-some editor, such as Senator J. A.
rilcher.
REMARKS OF SENATOR ruCHER
Mr.. Filcher, being called for, said: Gen
Iemen of the Board Of Trade, friends Of
he press ! will say that | am almost too
ull for utteranCe. Were this not q decided
Y pressing occasion, | should demonstrate
igainst being pressed into service; but still
Flowed the latitude set by the venerable
ditor from san Francisco. Laughter
4 yoice-Nencrabe is good
Mr.. F. think that is good Venerable
$ always appropriate when applied to gray Z
lairs. J may be permitted 10 branch ont
Omewhat and refer to matters not entirely
pertinent to the press There is. l admit,
much to say on behalf Of the press. and
PARTICULARLY, perhaps. on behalf of the
ountry press, which | have the honor to J
epresenti and ! wish now. having this !
piendld opportunity. 20 administer g re-
luke TO the city press. | wish to avail :
myself Of II to say To those gentlemen that
ometlmes We think they are DISPOSED to /
5nOre the country press 10 decree which z
actually harmful to their own interests. /
Laughter have known this in my lin
ed experience OF fifteen years that when a