Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-31

and NJ streets, and when the speakers
reached there the hall was packed to over
| flowing, large portion of the audience
being composed of ladies. 1t was perhaps
the finest gathering of the kind that ever
assembled in this city, and few larger COM
munities have ever extended TO any per-
son more enthusiastic and datterlng ova-
ton.
Senator Stanford was escorted into the
hall and upon the stand by Major w. a.
Anderson, Chairman Of the meeting, &C.
compapied by Governor Waterman, DR..
Harvey and number OF prominent citi-
zens. The Senator marched with firm,
strong step, and his bearing indicated the
best of health and spirits.
The uniformed clubs made the circuit of
the vast hall, led by the First Artillery
Band and formed a square about the sides
of the hall.
| After music by the band, President Stef-
fens of the Markham Brigade called the
meeting to order, and read the following
list of officers:
| President, Major W. A. Anderson; Vice.
Presidents, Hon. Newton Booth, James
Stewart, Louis WsldroD, George B. Blue,
| Sol. FL. Davis, Nose Moose, W. J. Davis,
Charles T. Jones, Dwight Hollister. Dan.
| West, William Beard, Charles Kramer. w.
| E. Gerber, W. F. Knox, G. A. york, Ru-
dolph Wittenbrock, B. q. Steinmen, G.
| w. Chesley, B. G.. Brier, Felix Tracy, E. 81.
| Stevens, Hon. F. r. Dray, George Scuf, II.
| Bergman, A. A Van VOORHEES,, Harry Bay,
A. j. Gardiner, W. Coleman, A. Abbott,
D. ]. Davis, A Bornheim, Martin Stark,
Charles McOreary Matt. Flynn, A. 81.
Johnson, James Dunnigsn. Major ". e.
Ennis, E J. Gregory, HI. ]. Small, c. H.
| Cummings, L. P. Anderson. A. 8. Smith,
Frank Webb, Charles Day, Stephen Uren,
Charles Bartels. William Schaw, G. G.
Bonte, J. w. Todd, George L. Simmons,
| James Moore, Robert Jay. Joseph Wise
Johnston, Samuel Lavenson, Jabez Turner,
Benjamin WEIGH, August Hebron, Pro-
fessor Charles Winter, W. G. Fitch, A. a.
Redington. L. Minford Hon. Thomas Nc
Connell, D. J. Long, l.. Elkus, Isaac
Joseph. Hon. William Johnston, T. III.
LindleY, Ellis Kilgour, w. H. Sherburn,
H. d Gamble, David Lubin G. T. Wheeler,
Hon. Obed Harvey, W. II. Luther, Colonel
E. R. Hamilton, W. R. Knights, J. N. Mil
liken, P. S. Lawson E Robinson.
Secretaries. Charles Psarle, Jr, and Ed.
| F. Taylor.
Major Anderson, on coming forward,
said this grand concourse of people spoke
louder than words in devotion to Hon Le-
land Stanford [applsuse]- citizen, Gov
ernOr, Senator, statesman, and. above all,
| friend. This was no empty show, but q
grand tribute to great man. Ii was said
| that the Had of Homer was written on the
skins Of serpents, in letters of gold, but
the name of Leland Stanford is engrafted
upon the hearts ard upon the lips of the
people of Sacramento. Applause Sem
ator Stanford was with them, and they
would have the pleasure and. honor of
listening to him. There Yves another gen
tlenan present, the Hon. Thos. Fitch, one
of California's grand trio Of orators
Baker, Edgerton, Fitch-a man Of whom
| it might be said as was said OF Plndsr OF
old, 'the bees had lit upon his lips and
| left their honey there He took pleasure
in presenting to the audience the Hon.
Leland Stanford prolonged cheeringl, who
needed no Introduction to the people of
Sacramento. Long applause
SENATOR srANFoRD's SPEECH.
When the applause had ceased, Senator
Stanford stepped forward and said:
| Ladies and Gentleme,l-FriendS: use the word
advisedly. know that nothing but friendship
could induce this large crowd to turn out to
meet me. feel grateful-yery grateful-and
am proud of it, for l feel that It is not for my
merits nor for anything personal in me superior
to others that this crowd gathers, bat it is for
| old friendships sake. Although this gathering
| is here under the auspices of the Republican
committee, am advised, and know, there are
many Democrats present this evening; and
think it would be well If political meetings were
generally made up more largely OF both parties
| for while We are partisans we are always Ameri-
can citizens [applausel, and as such, think,
without distinction OF parties, may say we are
American patriots. [Applause.l However much
we may differ in opinion, those differences are
| honestly entertained. We a:e here tonight
| to consider matters thai vitality affect upwards
of sixty millions of American people. That is a
great thought-that We, all of us, the highest
and the humblest, can take part in the discus
sion and settlement OF those great questions
| that affect q nations welfare.
The great object of the crest parties is prin-
cipally to secure the welfare OF the country. To
appreciate what that welfare is and what is re-.
Quired the people must be well educated. For
my own part, one of the things that commends
the Republican party to me. specially, is that it
| has always been the advocate of common
| schools think more especially SO than our
| Democratic friends have BEEN. Applause.
When the Blair bill. which provided for some
| appropriations for various States, according to
| the illiteracy thereof. was before Congress, it
was generally supported by the Republicans in
| the Senate, but received few votes from the
| Democrats; therefore, l take 1t that this is one
of the evidences that the Republican party is
more particularly the friend OF the common
schools and of education.
| / think it is a party OF progress. It was
born under peculiar circumstances. 1t had
| its foundation IN the rights of man. 1t grew
1 up with that thought always with ii, and has
| continued 10 think of the welfare of the people
| ever since. Such parry, founded upon such
principles, could not do otherwise than busy
itself constantly with the possibilities OF hu-
mainly; snd, slthough shall repeat something
| that ] said before, / will refer to speech that
| made on what / consider to be the possibili.
ties to be obtained. consider that the possible
tiles of humanity and the beDevolence of the
Creator are one and the same. l have never
met with anybody who controverted that propo-
sition. l also declared that III my Judgment,
if the Creator had given Us rational wan with
out the means of gratifying them, that His be-
nefcence would be at fault. Now, what are
the facts The resources OF the earth are prsc-
tically inexhaustible. The earth has its for
ests, mines and quarrieS-the soil furnishes ev-
erything in inexhaustib,e quantities. and al
| though every person lived in an elegant house,
with all the comforts and luXuries accompany
ing 1t, yet the source from which the raw mate
rails came would not be affected 1t follows
| further, that the wealth OF one man in no man
nsr means the Impeachment of another.
| Now, then, whether we shall avail ourselves OF
these resources or rot depends upon ourselves.
| It depends altogether upan the intelligence
with which we apply our labor and make use
| of the source OF power-the forces that surround
us. The physical wants Of civilized meH are
not much above those Of the savage Food and
raiment are necessities to all, and only GER
tain amount can be appropriated. In our eoun-
try the provident, industrious man has to be as
|
person in the land; but the great wants OF civil
lied man are Intellectual the retinenents OF
lie, those that minister TO his Intellectual de
| sires; and these wants are as bOundleSs as his
| capacity to conceive. 1t is in the supplying OF
these wants that the mechanical arts
come into play. That which enables the
civilized man to rise superior to the
| savage is mostly to be found in the mechanical
| arts, and as we develop these and control the
forces of nature, and are able to apply our own
physical force to the greatest advantage. so will
the comforts of men be multiplied. Think for q
moment how our present condition-our power
| of acknowledgements with one hundred
| years ago. can remember when in the county
| of Albany, in the State of New York, the first
tanning mill was used l elso remember the
time when the sickle was used by nearly every
| one as used now in Europe. Compare the mode
of cutting grain with the sickle with one of opi
| great Mccormick reapers. was told the othel
day that they now had machine that cut 8
| swash forty-two feet wide: that the grain wa:
cut and put into the sack for less than one cen
per hundred pounds. Now. that makes chesI
| bread, and to day, here in California, whett
labor is better compensated than in any othe
portion of the world, food is cheaper than IL
almost any other place.
| High-priced labor does not necessarily NEAR
, hich9priced food Abundance of cheap FOOD
depends upon our power of production, and tn,
| value of a mans labor depends upon his pro
duction. The greater his production the bette
compensation he viii receive. But this Is no
confined TO our own country, where the powe
of production per capita is greater than else