The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-07-07
ADDRESS OF FRANK HARRIS.
One of the Best Orations
Ever Heard in Weiser.
Sound Sense without any
Spread-Ea&le.

What mean these demonstrations, |
this assemblage, this bilarity and good
cheer? Has it any Specification, or is
it fleeting shadow, and idle dream,
a mere panorama, representation Of
delusions, without substance or formY
No, mol answer millions Of voices to-
day. This is the grandest day re-
corded in history, day teeming with
ideas and principles, implying far
more than humanity, with oil its tact
and ingenuity, can express. 1t is
the natal day of nation, founded on
the sacred rights of man. For nearly
eighteen hundred years did the ideas,
after they were expressed, which are
embodied in that immortal instrument
that has just been so ably read to US,
struggle for recognition in the coun-
ellis Of nations and the palaces Of
kings, but they were spuraed, as was
the the lowly Nazarene who first
echoed them to humanity and the
world when he proclaimed "That all
men are equal before God"
Here on the shores Of the new
world was planted the tree Of liberty,
and about it new civilization has
grown. This tree, like the immense
Gothic tree, became full of sap and
vigor, and while its roots and stems
were fostered in the hardy regions Of
the north, it extended by degrees its
wide branches over the south and
west, and to-day over sixty millions
of free people may gather from lake
to gulf and from ocean to ocean with
in its shadows and claim the protec-
ton of its branches. Time has de-
veloped its growth.
The development of nation and
the uprising Of new civilization, ol
great people, are not the work OF
day. Nearly eighteen centuries hae
passed away and yet the tyranou'
grasp of despotism was still clinginl
to the throat of humanity to sup
press its painting for liberty and equa
r rights.
d One hundred and sixteen years ago
: at this very hour, the grandest bod
!. of men that ever assembled on thi
earth were met within old Independ
a ence Hall. FranklliiRR Adams, Jeffei
n son, with their noble compeers, wer
: there, waiting with bated breasf
Outside was the silent multitude, an
n | can imagine that the great worl
and the angels above were listenin
= when, at two o'clock on that memol
{ able days. voice exclaimed, ''Passet
3 1t has passed. Ring! ringr an
o the old bell that hung in the belfr
= high rang forth to heaven such 10,
It GUS peal as was never heard befor,
Il The sceptre was wrested from ii
tyrant's hand. Let the names of thi
O noble band be engraved deep in Il
d hearts and memory of all who a
g lovers of civil liberty and religion
Il freedom. Let those names and Il
- history of their lives be taught to Il
e young and rising generations, tn
IS they, too, may know how liberty al
a freedom were born into the worl
u OF it the historian has said: 9Th
,f immortal state paper was the genui
If etfusion of the soul of the country
S the time; the revibration Of its min
III when in its youth, its enthusiasm,
- sublime confronting of danger, it 70
o. to the highest creative powers
which man is capable. The bill
IN rights which it promulgates is
Id rights which are older than hum
" institutions and spring from the ct,
of nal principles Of justice. Two pol
ical theories divided the world; 0
al founded the commonwealth on (
or advantages of the state, the policy
expediency; the other on the immu
BILE principles of morals. The n
gh republic, as it took its place amo
~ the powers of the earth, proclaim
of its faith in the truth, reality and l
to changableness of virtue, freedom a
lie, right. The heart Of Jefferson
SO writing the declaration, and congr
ist in adopting it, beat for all humani
on The assertion of right was made
the entire world of mankind and CO
ling generations without any exc