The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-05
TIE ELOQUENT ADDRESSES
or Mr.. Pollnck, Mayor caldwell and Rev.
william Uifert.

william UIfort.
When tho meeting was called to Of
der, Meister's band played beautifully
''The star.spanglcd Bunuor," aud then
tho chairman, Hon. Augustus Pollack,
formally opened tho exercises. He
said:
Appropriate to an occasion like this,
on which this assemblage will be favor
cd with tho interesting and merltorious
history and progress OF the Beethoven
Society by tho eminent orators OF tho
day, l may DO permitted to divert your
attention to tho Germans love OF liber-
~, OF country, OF home aud music. To-
dny German Americans extol in lam
guage and music our institutions OF
freedom and the dignity OF American
citizenship, almost unconscious OF tho
eddies into which American prosperity
has drifted.
They arc indebted TO their economic
pre.education in the fatherland for
their conservatism, and to senti.
mont aud idealism in their native char
acter for the buoyancy which almost de-
fies adyersity, and il these traits are
finally absorbed by tho formation OF
the race character Of tho American poo
pie the responsibilities and intimactes
OF denser population and its affection
and devotion for the institutions OF our
country will be most happily conserved,
Celebrating to-day tho independence
of nearly seventy millions Of people. OF
n nation still youthful, concluding. u
century OF stupendous development, in
possession OF unsurpassed natural re-
sources and climate and the best gov
eminent ever devised by man, our
country has, after period OF unparal-
lelled national prosperity, through over
exertions OF industrial aud financial on
orgies OF tho past, generation's frugal
ity, dissertations and mutations oil tho
economic system ftho present, yielded
TO sulon repression OF its normal ac-
tivity. Applause. 4,
II IN view OF past achievements and
future possibility OF our country, the
gloomy lessons taught by tho prevailing
conditions arc taken to heart by tho
people, then tho dawn Of better days
will proclaim n broader patriotic con-
ception oil American institutions and
American citizenship. 1t must pro-
claim higher responsibility Of public
men and'a more tranquil reciprocity OF
capital and labor as the national securi-
~ OF enduring prosperity, good govern
ment and peace, as it will also continue
TO proclaim the beautiful starry flag OF
our country tho symbol OF liberty. jus,
ticc and honor, and the emblem OF
rational civilization.
Indebted to your patient attention,
permit me the pleasure TO express the
hone that tho dawn OF better days may
DO as encouraging as the promised sue
coss OF this cClobration-7and tho honor.
ladies and gentlemen, to present to you
tho chiCf magistrate oil tho city oil
Wheeling, who distinguishes this occa:
sion by his presence aud tho gracOs OF
municipal hospitality.
MAYOR cALDwELL's Address OF WELCOME,
Mayor Caldwell was received with np'
plauso. He spoke rs follows:
MM CuArRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE
BEETHOVEN SOCIETY AND OUR VISITING
GUESTS, LADIES AND GESrLEMES:-
II sooms to DO my duty aud l assure
YOU 1t is to mo u pleasant duty to give
you brief address.
Fourth Of July, Independence day,
the day we celebrate, a day dcar to
every American, whether native, or by
adontion-What can DO said on an oC.
casion like this that has not already
beon said? Who can add additional
rlorics to this day? Who can give adj
ditional lustcr to tho namea OF tho men
that gave to us tho greatest state paper
that tho world has ever seen? The an
sWer is, no one.
Thon what can wo do? Why, VIZ car
tell the same old, old story, that from
tho Fourth day OF July seventeen hun
bred aud scvcnty-six TO the present
Fourth has been tho thomo OF speakers
in nil tho walks OF life. At every school
house, on every hill top and in every
valley it has bucn gloriGcd and its
praises have been sung. Tho music o.
that tho old Centennial Bell sent out OIL
that memorable day ono hundred and
eighteen years ago has kept up its echo
and YOU hear it coming over tho noun
ta.ng, down tho valleys and over the
plains. Westward It haa takon III
light, until it has reached every ham
let throughout our land; on it goes
through tho mountains, down tho great
Pacific slOpca, and still its echoes are
not checked, but out over tho groat
Pacific its sweet sounds eau DO heard
floating around tho islands OF Hawaii
aad with th0se sounds eau DO seen