The San Francisco call., 1896-05-06

shepherd, the craftsman follows the farmer
ana the distri butter follows the craftsman.
That means trade and commerce. And Just as
surely as the industrial era demands National
democracy, and gets 1t, so will the commercial
era demand universal democracy-and will
get 1T. But the change in living always pre-
eedes the Change in g-naturally-the
governing is but one OF the outer forms OF liv-
ing and must be altered by the life inside after
1t Is strong enough. The people came to know
their power, their own aud each others, when
they became useful to each other through the
division of labor and the exchange OF product
Trade means close interdependence; commerce
means travel, knowledge, wider and more
slowly recognized inteIdependence. Interde-
pendence means organic unity in proportion
TO its degree of development
A people as an organic whole must have
government to administer their common in
tereSt. Those interests are no longer confined
to common action against a common foe; they
require a su bite balancing OF internal claims,
q management of many conflicting and yet
ultimately united forces, q representa- ton
from each and all of these forces. therefore
representative government
No single head can hold the concerns of an
industrial commonwealth, understand their
individual and relative rights, justly admins
ter their varied interests to the common good.
When the people come to be highly special
lied factors in elaborate industrial social
organism, they must rule, and they do. But
rule by the people is the youngest form of
government. therefore necessarily the least
perfect in degree, though the noblest in kind.
And the imperfect form of the higher thing is
always open to destruction by the more perfect
form of the lower thing.
The well-trained savage horde, with its
fierce one-idead leader, easily conquered the
more varied duties The nomad tribes under
q highly organized patriarchate easily con-
quered the large, weak agriculture kingdoms.
And the young industrial republics were
easily conquered by the solid old kingdoms, or
even the tribes and hordes below. A civilized
child is far more helpless than a savage child
but makes more vsluable man. Government
by the people is new yet in the world. 1t rests
on large faint lines of mutual love and for
bearance, of mutual usefulness and depend
ence. which our sturdy earlier individualistic
passions continually overstep and destroy. tits
the slow. triumph of the new tender child
world OF peace ana justice and love over
the brute force of the old world-savage,
barbaric and half civilized. 1t has come,
and come to stay: but it is by no means yet in
its diseases are those incident always to new
growth and changing conditions, and should
be tenderly guarded against and bettered with
out even failing TO recognize the divine idea
under the feeble outer expression. Let us rec
ognize the people as the real world-the one
thing to love and serve TO live and die for.
Let us listen to the voice of the people, because
in the very deepest sense the voice of the peo-
pie is the voice OF God. Let us strive to under
stand the needs of the people and to advance
them as once we strove TO carry out the high
est wish of the king. Here is room for all the
courage, the devotion, the splendid loyalty
that has place in the human heart.
NEW DUTY.
Once to God we owed 1t an-God alone;
Bowing in eternal thrall, giving, sacrificing ALL
Before the throne.
Once we owed it to the king-served the crown;
Life and love and everything, in allegiance to the
king,
Laying down.
Now we owe It to M ankind-to our race;
Fullest fruit of soul and mind. heart and hand and
Now in place.
Loving service wide and Free from the sod
UP In varying degree. through me and you,
through you and me,
Upto God.
| Mrs. Ste.son's paper was warmly ap-
plauded, and Mrs. Cooper declared the
| Miss Severance was op her feet again.
and was greeted with applause in anticipa-
tion of her bright remarks. She said:
when [ came to this State in 1862 heard
that the Chinese merchants were con-
sidered the best and most trustworthy
creditors, and yet Chinese could not get
protection. You used to see boys running
| through the streets and pulling China
| mems queues, but you never see it now,
and whyP Simply because about 1000
Chinese are native sons of the Golden
| West, and soon, as males to be given the
ballot. The ballot is a tremendous power,
and whoever are back of the ballot are
sure to be protected
| A resolution thanking Mrs. Stetson for
her two able papers, offered by Mrs. Swift
and seconded by Mrs. Van Pelt, was
| C1IIicQ anu a telegram
ordered sent to Mrs. Stetson notifying her
! of the fact.
| Mrs. Cooper expressed the gratitude of
the whole audience for the many beautiful
flowers sent each day by florists and pri-
vate individuals to make the stage and
hall particularly attractive. To-day the
prevailing color in the decorations and the
flowers will be red, Thursday it will be
white, Friday yellow, Saturday pink, and
Sunday, when the Rev. Anna Shaw will
speak, white.