Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-05

all lands. We can only do what W,
can to alleviate it, And why shoulC
we, because we are poor, revile the rich
rather wish always that the poor may
be rich, than idly wish that the ricf
may be poor. Sin is as old as Satar
and we can only help reform it. So tC
an extent these things are necessary
evils. We cannot eradicate them. They
seem natural part of the organization
of the universe. The solution of then
is to do our individual duty and for the
rest be philosophical and happy in spite
of them.
And withall our country will endure
&Come what, come may, it will go or
keeping pace in progress and greatness
with the fight of time. When there
comes a crisis in affairs at home OF
abroad, American manhood will furnish
champions equal to the task of meeting
it. For thus it has ever been upon al
momentous occasions.
When the heroes we have been eulo.
! gizing had declared and won their indie.
pendence and the formation of stable
| government was the issue, there came
Madison and Monroe, Hamilton, Ran
dolph and the other fathers of our un-
paralleled constitution and this problem
was solved.
When, as time advanced and the fix
ing of the financial policy was the issue
of paramount Importance, there came
"Old Hickory" Jackson, who cut this
/ gordian knot.
| When our country reached that su-
preme crisis-when it was rent asunder
and precip;tated into the unwise and
| deplorable civil strife-laid waste with
fire and sword, and brother battling
against brother, and father against son,
and the house that was SO strongly
built was divided against itself and was
about to fall; when the country's union
trembled in the balance, America e
manhood came again to the rescue of it's
own and gave us the immortal Lincoln
Lincoln! AT that name all reverence
goes out OF us and our invocation is May
great Jehovah forever keep green the
memory of this noble man. When
look through the pantheon of the great
OF America there stands out in front of
all the rest and towers above them, the
honest, homely figure of Abraham Lin
coin, the foremost American and
greatest OF them all, because he was the
embodiment of American manhood and
American principle. 1t is with pride
that this humble token is placed to his
memory by one whose father sleeps in
an unknown Confederate grave in the
valley of the Shenandoah.
And there will continue to be furn-
ished such minute men," and master
minds for every emergency so long as
our government is tby the people and
for the people," So long as the people
preserve their Reimbursement it matters
not what political faction or party may
be in the ascendency or whether there
be any party at all so long as the people
continue in command the old ship of
state will go on to its destiny whether
there be Republican or Democratic
president at the helm.
In the beginning oflthe Revolutionary
war, when Lord Dunsmore, Virginia's
colonial governor, was issuing proclama-
tions to suppress the uprising of the
people, he invariably concluded them
with the words, "God save the kingn ~
When council of some of the Virginia's
colonists assembled to consider the stu
alton, they returned thanks to the peo-
pie for the readiness they evinced to
take arms against the tyrant, and con-
cluded their address with the words,
'God save the liberties Of America l''
We repeat that sentiment now, and so
long as the peoples liberty is preserved
so long will that flag there. we all love
30 we'll, float over the land of the free
and the home of the brave.
The children next sang Columbia, and
then Mr.. w. d. Townsend recited
Fourth of July poem, which was fol-
lowed by the singing OF America by the
children and the immense concourse of
auditors. Rev, Abraham Blum pro-
nounced the benediction, and to grand
air militaire the audience was dis
missed.
The Fireworks.
At Westlake park, last evening, the
programme of pyrotechnics was carried
out as advertised. AS early as 6 O'Clock
the electric and cable cars began carry
ing enormous crowds to the lake, and,
as the night grew, the number OF people
increased. On the Second street line
the cars had great difficulty in carrying
their passengers on account OF the enor-
nous grades to be encountered. At the
park itself the walks were jammed with
people at o'clock, and an hour
later every approach to the park was
crowded. The scene was one of rare
beauty and thoroughly deserving of the
appreciation which was manifested on
every side. The pyrotechnic display
opened with a general illumination of
the lake, festoons of Japanese lanterns
having been arranged on the banks.
The first set pieces were portraits of
Harrison and Cleveland, and the specta-
tors went wild with enthusiasm. A
number of allegorical pieces were dis
played, the set pieces being separated
by the conventional rockets. One of
the chief features was the contest be-
tween two men of-war, ending with the
destruction of the two vessels.
Interested as the people were, many
of them made preparations to return to
the city, as soon as the programme ap-
preached it's end. At 9 O'Clock there
were eleven cable trains in line on
Seventh street, and all were crowded to
the utmost limit. 1t took several hours
after that to transport the crowds back
to the city, and Immediately after the
last piece was set, the people even
climbed to the roofs OF the cars in order
to reach civilization.
PROFESSOR MOSES.
He Will Begin His Historical Lecture