The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-06-28

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ing its strength at home and It's hold
abroad. Your Individual and selfish aims
have most disastrous bearing. You al
low the spirit OF business to enter into
the holiness Of legislating for people,
The men who made and adopted your
e1orious constitution In the hour OF need
and braveiy faced the consequences fail
to recognize their descendants. Time
and again has the agony and response
bity OF that stand for liberty been pro-
claimed. Yet you forgeti
-peopie gathering at corners.
Where they whispered each to each.
And the sweat stood on their temples
With the earnestness of speech.
VIII they do IT,. Dare they do it7'
Who f. speaxingr What's the newsT'
What OF AiamsT What OF Sherman
O. God grant they WON'T rafusei"
"And the anniversary What Is 1T No
more than Saturday half holiday. You
are sitting with patriotism. smothering
your moral nature. forgetting 90 do ns
you would be done by, leaving the spirit
Of remembrance and the dignity OF cele-
hration 10 the childrun'
"Awakei See. wiring my handst
bsseech you 20 attend this day with some
honest, earnest feeling, some circulation
Of thought BY heaven. IL you feel moth
ing else. put In your pleas OF ingrautude.
than which this silence and Indifference
could not lie more bitter 20 the spirit OF
liberty that lived here. died here. rose
here from the flames, and Is like-like
Americans. TO find its deathbed here
araini"
The voice ceased. Tho gray Dawn crept
Ia On the table lay tho remnants OF last
nights delicate yiands. the disconsoiate
stray corks. the bottles and the wine
stains. Each man lifted his head from
the table 20 eorroborate the vision In
hts nelghbor's eve. Among them were
old heroes and young admirers.
You saw herr
.Yes"
The ghos, OF some daughter Of the
Revolution
'she looked like the spirit OF liberty
her germents-her brow
'Ceme. b0ysl Dream or reality, we
must do as she saws. There Is no such
Thing I'm this world as accomplishment
ard resting on your laurels. We must
60 on"
And the eldest hero OF the past evening
led the way home.
The Identical marty Of witnesses and
the identical issue OF the seed sown by
Ire ghost at TIE feast have been lost long
since I'm the general harvest But here
you have a string OF thoughts from peo-
ne 81 accomplishment They were Sc
t5fco expressly as tuartb OF July Sth-
rfeation 20 this paper;
Senator Frye on civic Rights and Duties
In this busy land OF ours 70 Is well thu,
ere day In = year should be set apart
IN which 70 commemorate the patriotism
81 eur fathers and TO inculcats sts prin-
e1ples In our children. IL Is not eur rrivi-
ltge to create a republic, bat II is our
dnty 70 preserve g. Patriotism requires
" Us net only seaioGs support or cur
seantry's interest IN international AFFAIRS.
our also intelligent and persistent effort
N behalf OF good government. Every
Patriot should De a politician in the high
est sease q the word he who would
sntoy civic rights sheui3 net shrink from
civic duties. Very traly yours.
wM Z. FRYE.
Prom the Secretary OF Asrtcuiturc.
Fourth q July ought 90 ~ aprreciatiss-
" commeraorasca and made a useful an
nisersary. The hsrhaTtc display 81 Ere
eraekesS ana other Chinese psgsnisTn "a
eniy gorgeous and noisy savagery.
]. STERLING MORTON
Senator Vest on Destiny.
Or June e. ITgs. jefferson took hts seat
a. member 81 the continental oongrSss
ard In June. l5ss. wrote. with hts ewn
Hand. The Declaration q American In
dependence, the most sublime eD1neta'
ton save one ever made TO the human
race.
That al government derive their fus'
powers from the consent of the gov
srne2'' - but a corNlsAry from the divine
snienetton ~An things Whatsoever ~
would that men should do &c you eS
se even 50 10 tkeEa.
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