Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-05
OUT OF TOWN.
HOW THE FOURTH WAS OBSERVED
IN OTHER PLACES.
A Procession and Literary Exercises at
Pasadena-The People of Downey Gel
ebrate Enthusiastically.

IdSdueud CltlzSllS CtleDrdteu NtSttIudN
in an enthusiastic manner. The process
sion, which formed in the morning al
s So'clock, moved along Dayton street to
Raymond avenue, north on Raymond
avenue to Colorado street, west on Colo
RADIO street to De Lacy street, north on
De Lacy street to Union street, east on
Union street to Fair Oaks avenue, south
on Fair Oaks avenue to Colorado street,
east on Colorado street to Euclid avenue,
counterrnarch to Marengo avenue, south
on Marengo avenue to tabernacle, where
it disbanded. The exercises took place
in the tabernacle Immediately after the
procession, which was made up as fol-
lows: Pasadena band of twelve pieces,
Carl Frese, leader; grand marshal,
Capt. j. d. Gilchrist; staff; Capt. Geo.
f. Peabody, chief aid and members OF
uniform rank, X. of P, mounted; COM
pany B, 9TH infantry; Markham Guards
Lieut.. Hamilton commanding first COM
pany; Lieut.. Cambell commanding sec
ond company first carriage, FL. w. Ma
gee, president of the day; II. q. Osborne,
orator; t. 2. l.ukens, mayor; George T
Kernaghan, Manager Star; second car
riage, Capt. G.. M. Simpson, t. Banbury
James Clark, A. X. McQuiling, council
men; fire department, Chief Turbett in
command Valley Hunt Club, mounted
butchers, mounted citizens in carriages
plug uglies and ragmuffins; burro cara
van, Clayton Raymond in command.
The orator of the day was Capt. H. u.
Osborne, of the Express. He spoke as
follows:
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
In accordance with the customs of our
forefathers and in obedience to their
solemn injunctions to guard against the
human infirmity OF forgetfulness, the
people of America today, throughout the
length and breadth OF the land, cele-
brate the signing OF that historic docu-
ment which was the declaration OF their
liberty and independence, and which
created nation unique among the ma
tions of the earth.
Broad and comprehensive as was the
mental vision of the signers of the decla-
ration of independence, they could not
have foreseen the magnificent results OF
their act without the gift of prophecy.
They were the outlawed representa-
tives of thirteen sparsely populated colo
nies scattered along the Atlantic sea-
board. Behind them was a vast
wilderness, peopled with race
of fierce savages. They were con-
fronted with the certainty of a war with
the most formidable nation Of the world,
and history gave them no assurance OF
the success of republican form of gov
ernment. Smarting, however, under
the wrongs inflicted bya foreign ruling
power, animated with splendid
courage and firm determination to
snhmit to those wrongs no longer, they
severed the ties which bound them as
provinces to Great Britain, and to that
grand cause they pledged to each other
''their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor"
Surrounded as we are today by the
blessings Of freedom which were confer
red upon us by the sacrifices of the fore
fathers, and familiarized to them by the
absence of all irksome restraint, the
American people do not sufficiently ap-
preciate the age and country in which
they live.
The story OF the human species is but
imperfectly told in history and tradi-
ton. Races and peoples had birth, life
and death before the commencement OF
recorded history. OF them we have no
knowledge save a few imperfect relics OF
their works in stone or metal. The vast
oceans of the earth which, during those
convulsions of nature which the passing
centuries doubtless bring about, may
have covered cities, nations and peoples
of whom we have no record. The far
distant sun, fixed in immeasurable
grandeur in the center OF its allotment OF
illimitable space, watching through the
ages the revolutions of the planets, has
probably witnessed upon the earth re-
publics like ours before the dawn of his
tory. But during the thousands of
years of which, we have knowledge
more or less definite, no nation has ex-
listed which combined in itself so many
of the elements of true greatness, and in
which the inherent rights OF manhood
to ''life, liberty and the pursuit OF hap
piness" have been to the same degree
recognized and respected, as that in
which it is our good fortune to live.
England, from which America is
proud to claim paternity, is a grand ma
ton, but it's history from the days OF
King Arthur and the council OF the
Round Table to those of Queen Victoria,
has been sprinkled with blood in defence
of royal prerogative, and contests be-
tween rival claimants for the honor of
wearing the British crown. While
England today enjoys representative
and constitutional government, she has
as yet failed to strip off the mask of roy
atty as a symbol of nationality and law.
SO far is she from doing this in fact that
the imperial crown and title has il. re-
cent years been assumed over two hun
dred millions of voiceless and unwilling
subjects in India.
s. hundred million Russians bow in
humble submission to the absolute au-
tocracy of the Gar, while six Thousand
miles of the road to the remotest parts
. OF frozen Siberia are marked and lined
Sby the graves of men and women whose
sole crime was an aspiration for some de-
gree of personal liberty.
OF the thousand millions OF human
beings that inhabit the earth, four hun
dred millions struggle for existence
within the limits of China, with an area
a third less than the United States. The
inexorable labor demanded of them to
acquire sufficient food to sustain life
affords no opportunity for anything be-
vond physical existence for those un-
fortunate creatures, and the acquire
ment of an ability to live upon terms so
inconsistent with the habits OF the
Caucasian race, that like a horde oi
hungry rats, they are not unjustiy the
dread of any nation and people among
x,,hono tbev have unrestricted inter-