Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-07-06
THE SOCIABLE.

II. B. Summers, c. W. Lemon, ". II. 1 Benson; Misses Kate Foreman and Ella Whittemore. Reading the Declaration of Inde- pendence, by Geo. w. Brown Reading, The First Independence Day, by Miss Ella Whittemorc.
 The Starry Flag. with variations, harmonica solo, by Eugene A. Browne; piano accompaniment by Miss Ella Whittemore
 Reading, The American Flag, by Mrs. R. C. Brown.
 Song, God Speed the Right, by the Glee Club.
 Grafton, H. V. Jackson
 America, by the audience.
 The following is the full text of
 MIR. H. V. JACKsoN's ADDRESS.
 Ladies and gentlemen: That date which is the anniversary of day on which any race or any people began struggle against tyranny and oppres- sion, might well be celebrated by all m nkind, for tyranny and oppression are the common enemies of all peoples, O. all progress and all morality, but l. is doubly our duty as American citi- zens to remember and celebrate this, our nations birthday
 On the fourth of July, 1776, a new and greater nation than the world had known before, was created.
 On that day in the gool old quaker city of Philadelphia, the Continental Congress declared that all men were born equal; that governments exis ed only by the consent Of the governed, and that our nation was free and in dependent.
 These were new principles and were litly enunciated by the men of new country.
 When providence has any great work to be done for the welfare Of mankind he choses and trains great msn to do it.
 The fathers of our country seem to- have been thus chosen for their work. for they cast off all mouldy traditions of the past, of inherited and class priv ileges and inaugurated q period that can only end in universal democracy.
 They were not rash extremists, as expounders of new ideas generally are It was a period of moderation and good sense. It was the beginning of the organization Of a conservative re- public.
 They knew the difference between liberty and license.
 Other men and other races have enunciated the same principles, but nowhere were they carried to so sue cessful an end.
 Where will it end?
 Rome, after five hundred years as a republic, degenerated into q monarchy. We must learn from the experience of the past and avoid those evils that caused the fall of Rome.
 God grant that our republic may never end.
 Many little frontier town where the Fourth was celebrated one hun dred years ago, Is now great city Many wilderness, untraveled except by the hostile savage, Is now culti- vated field
 Vast empires have been occupied and great cities built and populated!
 Where will it end?
 1 see another celebration in this same town of Florence one hundred years from now.
 hear the whiz and whirl of a great city and see rows of ten story building; along the line of Main street.
 A spacious hall resounds with ap plause to the eloquence of one of you . grandsons.
 The streets are thronged and tht windows full of a crowd eagerly await ; ing the procession, and over there or the corner, leaning against granit pillar and surrounded by a motley crowd, is the oldest inhabitant; wea . sel-faced, drled-up, mummy-like ole man Gone of your children, aged oD |. hundred and tive) is recounting to tn - open mouthed crowd his scanty re collection of another celebration jus - one hundred years ago in littl } adobe town, when there was but on $ brick store on Main street, when hal the town was desert and when hi mother bought baskets of the Indian s now long since passed away. - But l hear the music of the aI s preaching procession, and the tickl l crowd have deserted the old man. $ And now walks thel streets 5 And he looks at all he meets > Sad and wan. q And he shakes his feeble head, Il And it seems as fl he said l. They gone. Il The messy marbles rest V. On the lips thai he has pressed, d In their bloom. IF And the names he loved to hear
 Have been carved for many year.
 On the tomb"
 Our fathers but began the work IS remains for us to cherish and mai Is tain our liberties. We have yet of solve the labor problem and many a 'h other social question. The great we Id has hitherto served as a safety val e. for ambitious but restless elemen
 and they have spent themselves
 redceming it from a mighty wilderne
 into group of prosperous states, b oh when the valve Is closed, as it mt h- be soon, then these evils will becoI 'ft more serious.
 l. was the privilege of our fathe
 to suffer the horrors of Valley For; at to fight for our country, but our q
 ties lie in our studies to solve the
 questions and endeavor to reach t D. happy medium in all things.