Telegram-herald., 1889-07-06
A GLORIOUS FOURTH.
Al ABLE ADDRESS Bf JUDGE BVRCH.
Perfect " e4theF asaa . Sreaitsbls crowd
The Program Successfully .sfFt~a
Police, Military. ofhsssts
eR1 ~ AsoEs AZ Lac.


could noJ have t.een msde ~ order.
Large croSds came a. sac eity from al
directions. waite Not fsw citizens pre-
Ierred 10 ss,ek rest and recreation IA
the country or neig4boTmg towns.
Reeds Lake MAS ghe popular resort, a.
was eXluced by tie iact that tie Grand
Rapids street Halfway 1ompAn az alone
carried between l00e0 and } ,oeo pas
sengers over the dummy lae. The
great center OF interest Tor IA .4y, was,
OF course, Ia the laying OF Ia corner
stone of the new court h9 ~ The
program OF exercises a. previously gwen
IN the TELEGKAA- HERALD WAS carried
out III the presence oi a lars assem-
blage The parade was hssded by
Lieutenant Hurley on horseback, fol-
lowed by Officers McCulloch, Worden,
Williams, j. Il. Johnson, slattcry. Be
ment, Brown and French. Then came
shattuck's band, followed suocrssively
by the Innes Rifles IN their nsW uni
forms, county officials, ex-county OH
Gals and masonic bodies.
After the procession had reached the
court house site and all had taken their
assigned places Col. &. g. Briggs, presi
dent of the day, addressed the an
dience briefly. He said the corner
stone about 10 he land would be mon
ument from winch future historians
would take their bearings. Is "A
county we were but little over nifty
wears old, but within that time our
population has grown from few hun
dreds Ia 10000. The associations of
the day were IN happy accord with the
present duty.
The band played The Star Spangled
Banner" Rev. X. Il. Tupper, ID. D., Of
fered PRAYER, the Schubert Club sang
"On the March, and then Col. Briggs
introduced Judge NJ. c. Burch, the ora
tor of the day.
Judge Burch, whose left knee is still
in plaster east, IN consequence of the
fracture of the patella, arose to his
feet, and, setting one of his crutches
one side, delivered the following able
address:
eve assemble in the centennial year
Of our constitutional government on
W i'idiit III llttboill
soil the corner stone of a temple TO JUS
tice. The DAYS elected is sngularlv
appropriate, the purpose an elevated
one, and the occasion and environ
| ments are alike inspiring. We may
| congratulate ourselves that We have a
distinct national holiday, and that it
does not commemorate the birth of
some monarch, made such by hercdi-
IL
rather the initlatory step III the forma-
| ton of a great nation.
"One OF the principles of the philos-
| ophy OF history is that each of the
peoples of the world has been intrusted
| by the overrullng power with the dem
| onstratlon of some beneficent result for
| humanity, and IN this connection il
may be cOnIectured that the problem
| gwen tins country for solution is that
! OF civil and religious liberty. Attempts
ut popular government had been made
many times before that of our fore
fathers, but none had ever achieved a
! full measure of success. Standing
here today we can plainly discern how,
| through process of political evolu-
| ton, lines from these attempts gradu-
/ ally converged toward one local point
of final great effort made IN q wilder
ness by the descendants of many differ
! ont peoples secured from ulterior dan
/ gers by poverty, isolation and oceanic
/ boundaries. Its uneXampled success
needs no oratorical demonstration; Its
/ bcneficent results have been felt IN
every cline and have encouraged and
enriched the cause OF patriotic endeav-
or in many lands.
LAS often aS we renew our faith IN
the cause of our fathers, and rcklndlc
patriotic fires upon our hearthstones-
: that faith and those fires without which
the term country l. but a SOiecism and
'iatherland' an unmcanlng expression
1T is we'll 10 consider the situation rs
it was. in l776. The cncroach-
! mcnts upon the rights and just PRIV
| lcgcs OF the colonies Of Great Britain
! had been most marked IN the cases OF
! those planted in tins western world. IL
Was life-absorbing policy, taking pat
tern from that of Rome preceding the
dictatorship of Cesar. Taxed out
rageously and without representation
depressed III their business and indus
trial interests, harassed and mlSruieo
by imported governors, menaced 10y
guns towering from the open port-hOlei
Of ships OF war IN every important mar
bpr, with a hlreling Soldiery quartereC
IN every populous town to execute the
unjust mandates of a rcactOnary torl
ministry, their rights disregardcd, thea
Liberties wrested violently from them
their citizens massacrcd by daylight II
the open streets. with 20oh miles o
coast lines - defend from the mistres
and ruler OF the seas. and On thc west
orn frontier a border land inf sted witt
race OF savages wild ay nature an'
rendered furious hv Brit sh intrgu'
and gold. the small band OF compatro
representatives of thirteen colonies
with no senblance OF a national gov
smmcnt, without adequate resources
without cred {. without knowledge O
the arts ct war without diplomatic ~
lat Ons with other nations and stron
Ollv n their love for liberty. pledge,
g. each other and the common cause
their lives. their fortunes ald the
sacred honor: and published tine Declsl
aron Of independence, a manifest
which since That time has been halle
openly or revertd secretly ~ prOms
az freedom o. au mark I'D and TIM
tncv did Weil knowing that before then
they must find liberty or fcN0Wn
them would come u ath-
1T IS also proper. as ola a. "
meet on these Occas ons. remn
ourselves 0f the principal evea.s n tha
, seven wears struggle. when wac fl
; forge n which the nation was a on1l'
Although. perhaps .the 8chfTen
feare. coming without The Joss o3 $3.50
. or tac serous disruption II o9mest
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