The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-05
THE FOURTH ATWOODSTOCK
dNOIHER SOT1RLE DEMONsTRAs
 TIOS 1T HOMELAND PARK.

| 1NVf"EH NOTJELE DEWONSTRAs | TOS AT HOMELAND PARK.
 It Was the Mecca for Thousands of People | Who Went There in Carriages, Omni-
 busses and All Sorts of fConveynnces-sen-
 ator Plntts Address Read by Congress- man Russell.
 Putnam, Conn.,, July 4.-The meccA,
 for the holiday observing people oEf
 northern Connecticut and neighboringi
 borders of the Bay State. to-day, has I
 been Roseland Park, in Woodstock,
 where for the twenty-fourth time,
 Henry c. Bowen, of the New York In-
 dependent, provided celebration in-
 which speeches and powder have been
 bountifally served. Carriages, farm
 wagons and omnibusses, heavily laden, !!
 began to arrive at an early hour, andS
 when the guests and spectators arrived
 at 1O:30 they were greeted by large,i assembly. The park was profusely
 decorated.
 The address of welcome was given by! Congressman Charles A. Russell, ofd Killingly, who nominated pr. Franklin,, W. Fosk, of Chicago University, asI president of the day. He also read thea address of Senator Platt, who was de- tained by his public duties at Washing-t ton. It will be found in full on anothert page. |
 Congressman Charles A. Russell deX livered the address of welcome. He{ spoke of the national interest attachlng{ tothese annual fourth of July gatheringsj at Rose land Park. The public benefit of these occasions has been pationalized.i
 Continuing, MT. Russell said thef proper kind of citizenship was "loyalty to country every day the year round,j with little louder whistle of 'Yankeel Doodle once year on Independencsl day" He spoke of the evils of anarchyi and the business depression and con-l cluded by saying: "Look where wei will, the United States, with all it's! faults, more imaginary than real. is thei grandest nationality in the universe. Here the hearts are the lightest, thel brains the brightest, the men theI noblest. and the women the loveliest,l Here the children have the fullest op-t portunities and the possibilities of thel future are the greatest. Here Goda reigns and the people rule. There is g. fourth of July in the United States alone. Celebrate it with thanksgivingj and joy and reckon dear the privilegei which permits us to do business, to, build homes and rear children underd the protecting shield and the brillianti glory of the stars and stripes"
 MIR. ST. CLAIR M'KELwAY's ADDRESS.
 The address of St. Clair McKelway,. ! editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, was upon the "Sale of Law" He had been er- set down on the program to l SD eak on "Cities and Reforms" The worst evil this nation ever had to con-l tend with was the sale of human beings. When the wrong of slave holding be- came rank, it challenged divine justice.I The challenge was accepted. As the way of G cd with monster evils often is, this one was let to work out it's own de-( struction. The northern conscience{ was stirred
 The moral movement started, which eurled its course from New England} school houses and pulpits beyond the banks of Missouri to it's continuation att 
 The land was hillocked with graves.
 The years ran blood ahd the skies were blaokened with battle.
 A line of heroes and martyrs sprangI from the loins of the plain people to the. summit of achievement.
 The heroic age of America was lived.,l
 The other and unabolished and moi oreasing evil is the sale of law. Of the; sale of law, when being made, the evi- lence is not wanting, either at Wash- lngton or at many a state capital.
 If the contention of the trusts isa true, there is and can be no effectivej opposition by either party to the sale ofa law in the making, for each party, through its state organizations, where5 it is in majority, has locally taken1 money from those who in national ac-j ;ion will hold it to the bond. It isr claimed that by this process both par ;ies are bought, law is sold in the mak-. ng and the people are foreclosed fromd redress.
 A nation can ordinarily rely on it hat one party will promise to be hon- 'st when the other is convicted of bel ng dishonest. The other party has al--a ways been regarded as the national al-j ernative, but this system of oontribu-; ions to both parties leaves the nations with sense of having no such alterna-a i've. If contributions from trusts with.i 10 politics in them to each of the polit.3 cal organizations amount to mort-S age on both, then the sale of law isS against political agitation ass he sale ot human being never was.
 DIFFERENCES TO BE REaARDED,
 There is difference between the im-H