The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-04
VICTORY is WELCOME.


Yankee Doodle" Tie crowd would have
marched 20 the very mouths OF cannon.
Il Sas almost fanatical in lis feeling.
''Anerina' came next and before the re-
sporsive cheers mad ceased TO reSound tns
aewsb.oys were on the street with the Post
fn'e.ligeDcer telling how a grea, fleet was
destroyed
Never i'm all tire years Of her history has
Seattle witnessed such scene - the one
IN Pioneer square ias- Dlgat. Never il ali
TIE years TO come will she witness suca
another. 4 is almost safe % predict. Th1r-
~ Thousand peop.e packed the square from
end 70 end and curb &c curb. and up the
atJaeent strsess while over them waved
thousand aags. Every fsw minutes they
went wild. yelled Til the very air shook
with e1nor.01. threw their hats into the
afr. wayei canes and acted generally as
sili :. VAST coTscourse drunk with entauSi-
aSm and the joy OF yici ogy-or1y such
crowd had never before gathered together
in the streets Of the city to cry aloud
their love Of country.
Long before dark tholsands CT people
had gathered around me grand stand in
the center Of the square whsTe was seated
the Frs Regiment band. During the con-
cert. from clock to 30 the crowd grew
constantly. until AT the latter hour, when
the relg o-paGrfoitc d.-EnorlSl rat ton proper
began. fully thirty thousand men. women
and children We're assembled in a closely
wedged mars OF hamani,y-ih which
II was almost an Impossible undertaking
20 squeeze. Few tried IT,
Sesne time before this hour a space was
cleared near the center OF the square 10
allow The firing Of Il number OF mortar
bombs. After each burst OF fame and
smoke and noisa cheer went up. Sud
denly there was louder report. and out
OF the mortars mouth shot a cylindrical
column OF sparks and flame while up up
INTO the blue space above few what looked
to The crowd far below like a tiny bali OF
Snoke. Forty thousand eager eyes fol-
bowed 80 upward flight. There was pause
Then from the crowd there broke
mighty cheer. Far w under the pale blue
dome or the evening sky, mid way between
the lew faint stars thai glimmered in the
fading light and the earth-a thousand
feet below there foated the crimson folds
OF the Stars and Stripes. II hung IN hun
dred F"et beneath - sWaying bakoon of
silk. red white and blue. Gracefully il
rlppied on the evening breeze then. swing
ing gently TO the south IL dr.fted. slow and
stately and magnificent OUT Of view.
whiie the same. breeze that tossed it's silk
en- folds bore aIoft from the throng below
the strains OF The Star-Spangled Ban
ner."
little after go all eyes were bent upon
TN" grand stand. where the speakers of
Ire evening had assembled With an hun
dred or 80 Of their friends and the more
eager once from the inner edge of the
crowd
Nr. liwyd's Grafton.
Mr.. Ll"yd's Grafton was in part - fol-
lows:
Alone among the nations America keeys
hcr hdthday. Other branches OF the great
Tree OF humanity celebrate anniversaries "
victories, or natal days Of the great and
iiltAtr Gus. but Columbia without forget
lIi's THESE, gives the place OF pre-eminence
70 me great day on which a nation WAS
born in freedom. Useful IL this Observance.
for a thousand temptations beset the path
Of a commercial people Once In every
twelvemonth the wheels Of Industry siis-
pend their motion In order that seventy
miiiions OF free people MAY measure the
fabric OF their upbuildng by the standard
or the traditions and their past. And as
In order to that end We hear the Dec,ara-
tion or Independence read. and follow In
imagination the steps OF our national pro-
witnessing the unfolding of one OF the
graadest thoughts ever realized in history
"A thought so distinctive Of our land and
SO deeply inwrought into our inspirations
thd' IT deserves to be appropriated by ex-
elusive right as the American idea
The Lord commissioned us with The task
o setting sister people free. The sacred
flame ~ patriotism was kindled again 10 n
war. waged to lihersta Cuba from oppres-
sion The story Is fresh in your memories.
and need reCapi' tilatc only the points OF
II, the lingering years NJ Cuban revolution.
the sending ~ Weyler the horrors Of the
reconcentra when human beings were
hFfd"d liz" SWINE In pen-with the spec
iefs Of p"stilence ana iamine stalking
among th"m, while their d"popuiated lands
afd homes fell into decay: In. los. of the
Maine which America in her deepest sou.
believes - He AZ the door OF the butcher
" eYlsr the declaration Of war and th. call
fla LON:
from every state Illinois alone Offering to
provide IN" first contingent OF lap men.
NoIia and South we're At on" la answering
that cali Mason and pixou's !lue Is onNt-
Grated forever. National unity * once more
a rOuefet" "a 2. Fighting side hy side are
the boys 81 blue and the hoys In gray. And
Toe 'wo gTaudrsi G~"i~ OF The war thus far
t'sVe he*D performed. one by a Nor herner
Dvwet III, man from Vermont vino swept
ihr S44fhsH N~es "a ur-fTu ton under the
very Guns Z Manila and H. SON. ne Ma
Mcrri1uav ia the laws - SANTIAGO hathor.
ana so bottled np CetKtra
''fessini>m has hooted TX hodlug owl
oNvr every extension II our territory Flor
tGt. Louis nH. Texas ! IL not myself be-
ite'n f. necessary FOR us 80 retain The Pai.-
ltllrs@ "F ''H}t If'r" sre othe~ ways If
fglft.in& ruF pos tNwstfttt. lies tow lf.es them
: .ss.ate republics under oar protectorate
n'isht sea- established But even . rrnyt-
drNcn sh1u!d or3a3n :htt expansion De th,.
order ~ the daft TN. war @Io.,d aha.,r,.
ou~ b Hey az isolation {rfn p policy nf mar
n irs'=aH la he affairs a. the great family
90 nRtsous-i stll nave sa.th in the rapu bin.
90 power 20 stand thc strain
Rev. ". II q Temple presided After =
fe~ opening remarks delivered IN a clear
penetrating Voice that carried AZ leas, n
the center - Tie, crow he i-t,o}.,.ort
Rev = N Randall i~. Who ofTere,! pray
sr :" par. aa fellows;
'Hlc<<S our arms cn 'a03 and 81. ana
ksN@ thsm continuous ana tsr1l,f. . viz