The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10

swept through mountain gorges and into the beautiful valleys. Not with banner and shield, not with helmet and plume, like knights of old, but with their own good hands building cities, cultivating fields, the giants of a new progress and new civilization. They made it possible to link California in the golden fate of union. With that band came the heroes who raised the bear flag. emblem of fraternity, which heralded the dawn of a new light over the ashes of once i'm gan the building of Anglo-Saxon institu- came inspired by their genius; cities were made psrmanent sIe ,n on and girdled the mountains; churches and school houses were built; and in few short years California became the empo. rum from which could be De draWn ad the the y' gold' and grain which paid commerce her great est tribute; while above all shone celes- tial light around men of letters, orators poets and statesmen. From the Joins of that race came the f1inty sons of war, for wherever the American flag has been planted there have been the sons Of Cali pia and Oregon have been fighting for a new glory and a new power; there nave been California boys, undaunted amid the signals and fires of war. They nave been heroes in one midnight battle, in the charge. before the trenches, under the forts of Moro, and from the early gray of morning till summers deWy eve they nave been steadfast under the fires that have lighted the world to new humanity, and the benighted children of occidental and oriental isles to a new liberty. Is 1t not proper. then. that the Californian should take pride in his native land, and seek to preserve the memory of its golden era while yet he can, and while yet the last symbols of that old life are not broken and covered with the aust or the deao ana silent years?
 The monuments of Egypt have outlived the vanity of her kings; they have seen erected them grow dim and flicker in the grey mist of a far off time. Let us, then, preserve the history of noble people, their exalted trials and sacrifices, for they present examples greater than monuments and pyramids of ancient time. They tell how people should live and build. and by the lives and the building & of h2s p2eople shall to keep alive the glories of the past let us stop for a moment to reflect upon our attitude to the future. The past ss spread before us and can be read like scroll; We can see across the bridge of time; we can measure it's piers, its arches, and under heath the depths of the rushing waters. Before us is the future. the great. the un- fathomable future Yet one thing is clear to us aye, as clear as the light that shines on summer flowers, it is the new destiny which must awaken the American people; a destiny which will command all their genius, their strength and their will.
 They have already overstepped the tra- ditional bounds within which the great fathers sought to hem them. They have reached and are reaching out over iliim- itable seas, bringing new peoples and new lands under their control, and with them new wealth, new commerce, and the glo- ries of an almost distinct and separate world. The survival of the fittest' has been the law of progress since the world began The American people have become the bearers of it's lance and shield; tribes have fled through the wilderness. scepters have fallen and the banners of q new iih- erty have been planted upon the walls of castles once dedicated to oppression. Shall we stop and rest forever by the waters that rush in and out and along by the western gate? Can we stop and slurnber by the changing tides as they bear men in and out, across the world and back agaiI, And what is this new destiny we have to cope withal? Ii is the destiny of war which perhaps never before presented SC many propositions for adjustment, involy . ing such a contrariety of social problems the destiny of so many distinct races, and the fate of so many fruitful lands, sepa- rated as they are by so many leagues of