The San Francisco call., 1897-07-06

flashed victory in the morning light hang
rustlng III their scabbards and over the
fields once red with fratricidal carnage creep
and bloom the vines and flowers Splendid
ms has been our progress, our golden age is
before US. We are marching forward with
glganuc steps. Bright and dazzling visions
OF iuture glory cheer US. The eye OF the
world is upon US, the hope of mankind
IS in our keeping. Wheresoever to-day
there is wounded and bleeding heart;
wheresoever there is broken and oppressed
spirit; wheresoever there is a patriot, a lover
OF his native land, crushed beneath the des-
potic heel of arbitrary tyraunic power:
wheresoever man, weary and heavy burdened,
gTopes in darkness and pines for liberty;
wheresoever there is falling and longing
eye looking away TO this dear and thrice
blessed land of peace and promise; where
soever on the face OF the earth there is
man who loves liberty under law and believes
III constitutional govern ment. ascends to-day
PRAYER Tor us, for US and for our children.
Heaven has blessed us with land OF SEEM
ingly inexhaustible resources; but WISE
patriotic and far-seeing policy will preserve,
strengthen and adorn-not squander-this
rich heritage OF freedom. Our cause is
peece-peace at home, peace with all nations
but not peace at the sacrifice of National dig
nifty or honor-not peace without protection
in all his rights to the poorest, lowlest cit
izen who seeks the shelter of that banner
wherever it waves.
Great problems of government, OF admins
tration, involving the proper development and
preservation of our natural resources, the ju-
dlcious fostering and encouragement OF our
already varied indus tries, the revival of do
mestic trade and the expansion of our foreign
commerce, the prosperity and happiness and
perhaps the perpetuity of our country, are
pressing upon us. Oh, let not fail! Let not the
struggles of our ancestors be in vain. Let
not the holy cause of freed ON suffer in our
hands. Oh, let not the sacred shades OF the
immortal dead censure US; let not the sad lips
OF disinherited posterity reproach US for
derellctlon of our high duty 10 God, TO truth
ano 10 country. Rather let il be proclaimed in
distant ages: They excelled their fathers in
love OF liberty and IN fidelity to the constitu-
ilon, and transmitted 10 grateful children the
flag and the Union of Washington. 1.-THE past
at least is secure" and as for one l face the
present with confidence, 1 turn my eyes to the
future with unfaltering hope, with hope
born OF an unwaverlng trust in the patriotism
OF the people, and an abiding faith in the
genius oil American statesmanship
II IS time, tellow-citiZens, this humble and
unworthy put loving tribute to our ancestors.
and to free government were spoken. II, in
contemplating her material grandeur and
AtHCNtAHS upOu WIG COuHllSSS DRESSINGS SDe II as
conferred on man. have spoken of my coun-
try, not with the ''cold neutrality of an i'm
partial Judge" but in the warm language OF the
enthusiast; II in again presenting her claims
TO your affections and your loyalty 1 have
seemed unconscious of the blots that may have
marred or dimmed her true glory, unmiudful
of her faults or Indifferent to her shortcom-
ings, il is because, upon this hallowed day,
when recounting her struggles and triumphs
and gifts al love 10 forget the accuracy of q
judge in the veneration OF a worshiper and
the gratitude OF a child"
Patrioti sm Is Not Dead
No, my couhtrymen, patriotism is not dead.
The mighty voices of other and heroic times
are heard to-day. The glad and inspiring music
OF old independence bell is still ringing The
cannon OF Lexington and Bunker Hill re-
vertebrate throughout the land. The anxious
eye, the heaving breast, the universal joy the
myriad lips that make the vault of heaven
vocal with songs of gratitude and praise, ALL all
attest. all proclaim that patriotism neither
slumbers nor grows cold in the American
heart.
Yes. yes, intrepid and venera ted Adams, you
and your illustrious compatriots did make
the Fourth of July "a glorious and immortal
day" We do celebrate ii with thanksgiving,
with festivty, with oonfires and illumina-
tions." We do ''shed tears, copious, gushing
Tears, not OF suDIectlon ana slavery, not OF
agony and distress. but Of exultatton, of graf
itUds and Of JOY.
And SO long az the heavens bend above the
earth; so long as the sun in his sinking
furnishes yonder waves with crimson gold SO
long as man has aspirations lor light and
liberty and eioiees in the works OF peace and
virtue; so long there shall survive an
American heart TO beat to the transports of
pure and lofty patriotism or reverently 10 ap-
nrOaCl g temDle where shall he
enshrined; SO long may the declaration you
made be revered; so long may the flag you
raised to the sky float over united, happy,
a righteous people; SO long may the constitu-
tion you framed be held sacred; so long may
the Union you founded be cherished and re-
main, under God undivided, unshaken, tri-
umphant the home and refuge OF freedom for