Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-05
GLORIOUS OLD TOM
TALKS FEELINGLY OF LOVE OF HOME
AND COUNTRY.

Too Much Legislation for WeaIth-The Ne
cessity for Self observation-disclosures
Immigrntion-Broad-A Smiths Contri-
bution-Georee EIphinstone, Esq, Winds
Up the Speech Making.
Mayor Gourley's announcement that
''Glorious Old Tom Marshall. whom every
body knows and is proud TO know, will now
address you," elected q whirlwind of ap-
plause. While Mr.. Marshall was on the
programme for speech, it was feared that
he would be unable TO attend, and after
thanking the Mayor for his introduction the
leader OF the Allegheny County Bar said:
lam glad that Mayor Gourley conceived the
idea of baptizing this beautiful park with an
old-time rustic celebration. am glad that the
Mayor of such a great city as this has in
augurated a reform in the celebration of
the glorious Fourth. Our country was bap-
tized by fire, and the baptism did her good, for
the od-time celebration seems a little out of
place after all. The people are too prosperous
now, too rich to enjoy the things that were good
enough years ago. Every woman must have,
silk dress nowadays, and every man broad
cloth suit or he is not happy. This is wrong,
think but then government is often wrong,
too. The Government legislates not for men,
but for wealth and material advantages. 1t is
the office of the State and nation TO protect her
people not to legislate for church or the ac-
at oft CIVILIZATION and through nS great
of the Government, that every thought
is how to acquire more money.
This is all wrong. Men should devote them
selves more to making themselves good men.
Any king can make duke or peer, but only
God can make man. God never made dude
he makes himself.
PLEA FOR SIMPLE FASHIONS.
am glad of one thing and that is that the
women were coming back to their old form.
They have been far away from it, but now even
though it is by decree of fashion, l am glad
they have returned to proper attire and look
like women, for like to look at woman at
distance, even though 1 am old.
There is one point / want particularly to i'm
press upon you, and that is that you must gov
ern yourselves. Every man must think for
you assert your freedom. and God forgive us
when we give up our freedom. A great fault
of our Government, and know am tramping
upon the toes of nine-tenths Of my audience
when say it, is that the men of our nation are
running too much into outside societies.
Scarcely man you meet nowadays who Goes
not belong to from one to a half dozen secret
societies There is only one society in my
opinion that man should belong to, and that
was his wife's society. There lay his happi-
ness present and future. The society of his
family is more to him, he has more at stake
there and will gain more in the end by court
ing his family than all the Others combined.
His family is better than the church, better
than the State-it is the nursery of both and
neither can exist without the family nursery.
If men gave their worship to their domestic
idol paid homage to the family tie to the ex-
clusion of outside societies. then the world
would be better. Teach your children so that
when they meet troubles in life they will go to
their mothers and ask her counsel and advice.
Teach your sons patriotism for country and