The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-05
BELLrNaHAM BAY AND FOURTH.


a Great success-sports, Grafton by Mrs.
Saxton, and Poetry.
WHArcoN July 4--The joint celebration by
the pay cities today was grand success Fully
1900 people thronged the streets OF New What
com, and programme OF sports aud literary ex-
ercises which would have been creditabie TO
any community on the Coast was successfully
carried out. There was hose contest In which
the FIRE departments of Whatcom, Fairhayen
and New whstcom participated. canoe racing
between picked crews from the neighboring
Islands, yacht races, baseball games, log rolling
and foot-raees, while literary programme OF
marked excellence was enjoyed by vast assem-
b!aee The Grafton was Delivered By Mrs. Eliza
beth Lyle saxton, 8 lady OF national repufe, who
touched upon all the events descriptive OF our
progress during the past century. The Declare
ton of Independence was read by Judge J. p.
De Mattos, and original poems by Ella Higgin-
son and VIII L yisscher, which are as follows:
By MS. HIeeISsos.
Whore our new state rises, triumphant
And strong, to accept her sway,
We unite with varied emotions
To once more make glaa the day
That sent out the cry OF free dom
From the East TO the fetterless West
And faster each pulse is throbbing,
And lighter grows every breast
hut our blue sea sparkles beside US,
With her great heart beating strong,
And she mocks 1t our mao rejoicing
And reproaches our empty song:
HOh, foolish hearts, she Is moaning,
How dare you declare you are freey
You are fettered by sin and by passion
You are bound to the earth. like the SEA-
.AIl day laugh in the sunlight,
With never q want or care,
Aud dee away TO the ocean.
And the tide lands are bleak ana bare,
But ct night arise In my madness
And beat--and beat-on the shore;
Though my great heart bleeds for freedom,
am fettered forevermore!
$50, men, who rejoice In the sunlight,
And dare to proclaim you are free.
How oft in the terrible meningitis
Do you wrestle-aone-like the sea.
With the mighty passions that mold you
Casped tight in their maddenIng sway,
ill. worn with the struggle-and yanquished-
You shrink from the eyes OF dayY
80, when the heart has never passion,
And the soul has never care,
When gold has no longer temptations,
And honors no longer ensnare;
When your wants are as sweet and as simple
As the lilies that bloom on the lea,
When all men are honest, and aH women pure,
Then-then you may say you are free"
20, Sea- q tender voice answered,
That was strong with the strength OF truth,
That was clear with the clesrntss OF virtue,
And sweet with perpetual youth.
@Judge not by your unconquered passions
The hearts aud emotions OF men;
Judge only the workings of nature,
For souls are beyond your ken.
aThat sin, and crime, and temptation
Are abroad in our world, know;
That Ubiquitous men and women
Are found wherever we co.
But think of the ones that are honest,
And strong, and noble, and freel
Who stand firm In the face of temptation.
And are never bound down, like the seal
20, am the voice OF Freedoml
And answer your challenge to-day
In the name of our yirtuous women,
Who work. and who wait, and who pray;
In the name of our men who are loyal,
Who love honor, and justice, and right
Who press palm unto palm over evil.
And crush it down in their might
triumphant, we stand as e nation.
With our grand flag floating wide;
With those stars and those stripes above US
That are each true Americans pride,
Who dares to mock our rejoicing
Or say we are fettered by sin?
Why, the lowliest child in our country
The highest honors may wini
sAs long as the soul conQuers passion
And lives down Its burden Of cure;
Az long as our men may be trusted,
And cur women are pure and fair,
And as long as our flag floats above VI,
We will stand erect and alone,
For Liberty Ia our sovereign,
And America her thronei'