The record-union., 1895-07-05

dred, and the children from one hundred
thousand, until to-day fourteen million
children answer to the music of the daily
school bell, and are being educated
at an annual expense of over one
hundred and fifty millions. The GEN.
sus OF 1880 shows that eighty-s seven
per cent. OF our population over ten years
OF age can read or write. No other ma
ton Oh earth can make such showing.
European nations have done much to
educate their people, but we have left
them far behind, as will be seen by the
following table:
OUR FoREFATHERS BELIEVED IN EDU-
CATION.
Annual Dollars
COUNTRY. School Per Inhab-
Expenses. liant.
United States. s........S 81 So, 100000 So 40
Great Britain........ 4S,OO0,OOO 80
France. 81 100000 SO
Gernlany-............. 2C,0O0,0OO so
naitria. ltaiy .-...:.. 1s999,Soo s'999,Soo 90 80
Under our free institutions we have
added many illustrious names to the au-
thors OF the world, whose works are read
in all parts of the civilized globe. Our
system OF popular education has made us
the most enlightened people Oh earth.
Four years after the last British soldier
lett our shores the first cotton mill was
erected at Beverly, Mass. We now con-
troll the cotton supply of the world. 10
get a suit OF brOadcloth manufactured
here then was almost unheard of, while
to-day upward of 200,000,090 are an
nually made up in this country.
In 1907 Robert Fulton, an American,
solved the problem Of steam navigation,
and in 1919 the first steamer crossed the
Atlantic. Now ocean palaces steam all
over the world. In 1880 Peter Cooper
made the first locomotive built in Amer
lea for railroad purposes, and, during
the year twenty-three miles of railroad
were built. We have now in the I nited
States in operation 10000 miles built, at
cost OF nearly $500 100000.
The first message ever sent by re-
cording telegraph was in 1914, between
Washington and Baltimore, in these
sublime words, What has God
wrought" Fifty years later and the
aggregate mileage of telegraph lines
operated for business is 10000. A
printing press at great labor and ex-
pense would then print on one side only
30 sheets per hour, now upward of 15, 900
copies can be printed on both sides in the
same time with less labor. In journal
ism our progress has been especially
marked Ihirty-seven small sheets cir
culated in the colonies. There are now
THIRTEEN THOUSAND NEWSPAPERS
And periodicals published in the United
States. These are only few OF the many
facts that might be given to illustrate the
long series or mechanical and manufact
ing triumps that have excited the admir-
alton of the world, and are the pride and
boast of our country. We have also the
sewing machine. the reaper, the mower,
the tbresher, the sate the telephone, the
phonograph, the typewriter, the bicycle,
the linotype, the sleeping and dining
car, the elevator, the electric light and
the electric power, as we'll aS a thousand
more devices that minister 70 the comfort
of our lives and the progress of man
kind. The skill Of the American
mechanic has improved almost every
instrument of peace or war from
chiefly to these improvem ents made in
mechanical appliances, an ordinary farm
hand in the United States raises as much
grain as three in England four in France.
five in Germany and six in Austria.
Reviewing the vicissitudes, trials and
triumphs of the Nation. we cannot but
contemplate with pride its growth, its
glory, and its greatness. We are justly
proud OF its achievements. and prouder
still that we are citizens OF the grandest
Government on earth. Notwi. .hstandiug
all this, [ heartily indorse the resolution
Of the young native son ofthe Golden West
whom he proposed 10 congratulate the
Nation upon the admission OF California
into the Union, and | agree with Hon.
Tom Reed, who is reported TO have said
on his return to New England alter
visit to our coast, That if Plymouth
Rock had been located on the Pacific in
stead of the Atlantic Coast, civilization
never would have extended east of the
Rocky Mountains.' When we con-
slider we have the finest soil and
climate in the world, that we are peerless
in our resources, that we have mechanics
and workmen whose genius and skill
cannot be excelled, it would seem as if
our State was justly entitled to
TAKE THE LEAD.
In all the great enterprises of the
world. California has not been
lagsard III the great march OF prog
reSs The mechanics OF San Fran
cisco, guided Dy the master mind OF lrv-
ing NJ. Scott, gave TO the nation one of
the finest warshi ps that ever rode on the
bosom OF the ocean. / watched the con-
struction of the Charleston from the lay
ing OF her keel 10 her successful cotnple-
lion. l saw her glide into her home in
the sea, and under command of native
son OF this great common weath, the gall
liant Captain Goodall, | saw her steam
maestically through the Golden Gate
into the Pacific Ocean. l stood awe
stricken al the ingenuity of man. Here
i'll your own city you furnished the men
who built the first transcontinental rail-
road. The Crockers, Governor stanford,
Mark Hopkins and {. =. Huntington. all
OF whom got their start here, were the
men who inaugurated that great enter
prise and carried II through To success
tul completion.
With the cheap electric power soon to
be introduced, you will do the manufact-
uring for the coast. \ on must see that the
Government restores our rivers to their
former condition, 50 that deep-sea vessels
may again land at your doors. Then you
will be in q condition to realize the bene-
fits of the building of the Nicaragua
Canal, which Will unite the two oceans
and secure the grandest results yet
achieved in the commerce OF the world.
The delay in pushing this great enter
prise is = severe blow to the prosperity of
the Nation, and particularly to the Pacific
Coast. We would build it ourselves if
they would let us control IL.
It was left for a patriotic citizen of Cali
fornia to erect a monument to the author
OF the "Star-spang1ed Banner" II am
not firing you too much, l will give you
a brief history Of our flag and how our
national anthem came to be written. Our
flag, the glorious stars and stripes, was
first launched upon its patriotic career at
the battle of Saratoga. October I. III, and
a few days afterWdrO o,o0u Orltlsn troops
surrendered TO the American army. 1t
was baptized in glory and made sacred
by the blood Of our revolutionary SOL
diers.
1t was intended to be the standard of
republic and the symbol of a nation. Its
use was soon broadened and 1t became
the symbol of liberty and freedom the
world over, the beacon light to which the
downtrodden and oppressed of every
oI hoi nn1U hnna- a
guard of the human race.
NO NATION DARE
Insult it. and it has never suffered defeat.
In four wars it has been followed to VIC
tory by our brave and patriotic soldiers.
II red fha soldiara of the RaxalIl.