The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-07-05
bour OF darkness and despair light came

hereditary enemy of England, permeated
With a love OF liberty which the writings
Of Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot and
Rousseau hail aroused in her breast, and
with the Colonists. sent
forces to our assistance, and the glorious
memories OF this day, ladies and gentle
men. would not be complete without the
name of the pure and faithful friend OF
Washington, the Marquis De Lafayette.
At length the British government, real
izing that it would be folly to longer
strive to conquer men, who, for their |
country. suffered in patience the hor-
rors of war, and who, half shod, with
out a lnurmur, left on the frozen snow |
the bloody prints of their mangled feet, |
determined to abandon the further pros !
ecution OF the war, and accordingly, at
Paris, in the year 1888. after eight years
of hostility, treaty was signed by the.l
contending powers, recognizing the IN
dependence of the United States.
Peace having been established, the
government of the United States was
continued under the Articles OF Fedora
ton; but this government, after years
of lamentable failure, was found to be
Inadequate to cope with the eXigencles
of the times. The want of q strong and
vigorously centralized national govern
ment was keenly felt. Under such
favorable circumstances the constitution
al convention met and framed a consti-
tuition, that from the first, received al
most universal approval, and having
been formally ratified by all the original
thirteen states, our present government,
with the inauguration OF Washington,
April Both, 1889 entered upon career OF
prosperity and glory, a career, let us
hope, destined to eclipse the splendors
of Greece aud Rome. and to become the
brightest star in the armament OF the
modern world.
1t has been the felicity of our beloved
| country to have had in the chair OF the
chief executive, Washington and Jeffer-
Lincoln; it has been our happy lot
! that the spotless ermine of the Judiciary
dropped upon the shoulders of Marshall, /,
Taney and Waite the treasury depart
ment has been adorned by the genius OF
Hamilton, GallatIn and Chase; and in
the hour of peril, Taylor and Scott,
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan drew
their swords to defend and preserve the
nation.
The prosperity of the United States
during the century of their existence is
at once the source both OF surprise and
congratUlation. The first census, that
of 1870, showed population of over
4, ,OOO, GOO of souls; the last census, that
of 1890, disclosed the fact that 65 ,000, ,000
OF people rest content under the pro-
lection of the stars and stripes, and oul
glorious flag, instead OF only thirteen
stars, now sparkles with forty-four
But if we have prospered in the past
what must be our prosperity in the
future. We should always repembel
ladies and gentlemen, that other nation:
and other empires have also achieved
greatness, and yet have fallen ''Witf
hideous ruin and combustion never t.
rise again Egypt, Ninevah, and Garth
age, Babylon, Persia and Rome, eacl
attained to almost fabulous greatness
= nevertheless, they have passed away
leaving nought but ruins to tell tha
once they existed. And shall this b
p our lot? Having reached the consum
nation of human greatness, will ou
country ''fall like bright exhaiatio
r in the evening and no man see it more?
p 1t seems to me that there are infiu
: ences, political, social, moral and relie
G ious, at work among US, experienced b
no other nation, ancient or moderr
r But eternal vigilance being the price {
n liberty, we should always relnembe
). that our duty to preserve intact I'll
s declaration of independence and til
constitution of the United States is g
d imperative, and almost as arduoue {
e that of our fathers in resisting tyrann
p even unto death.
= The time has been when it was e.
If pedient to encourage unrestricted foreie
IN immigration. Statistics, however, sho
10 that within the last twenty-five yea
A. the better class of immigration, name
- that of France, Holland, Germany, En-
40 land, Scotland and Ireland has been pc
ceptibly diminished; while on the 9th
an hand immigration made up of the crii
IN inal and pauper classes of Russia, Ital
=. Poland and Hungary has greatly
~ creased. But happily for the republ
MT this crying evil of the day can be rel
,ss led by timely and intelligent legislatie
L. Again our welfare is threatened
40 vast corporate powers, that aim only
,,a enrich themselves at the expense Of
Ito people. The problem, how to deal VI
.fs these powerful corporations, can
I'D easily solved, if congress and the st