El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-05

way to every Quarter of the giobe and
we must be sufficiently alive To our In
terests to teach all nations that our
rights and our flag must be respec Jed
1t matters not where cur rights are
questioned nor where our flag flies.
ITO maintain our proper place
among the powers of the globe we
must have navy with which we can
meet every foe with assurances of sue
cess. We must have an army common
surate with our greatness, and ready al
all times to defend our rights wherever
and whenever they may be leopard
lied.
WAR is revolutlonizing our accept
ed policies, and the westward course
of empire Is revealing to US y new des-
tiny. The martial tread of Our soldiers
is heard in two hemlspheres, and the
inspiring strains of Yankee Doodle
world. This is a day when seventy
millions of people are remembering
the Maine.
What a glorious spectacle this
Fourth of July presents to us! We be.
hold q nation responding as one man
to the call to arms. The most i'm
pressive, the most imposing sight the
eyes of man can behold is the spectacle
OF free country and free people bat
thing with their lives and their trea-
sure for q sacred principle--meeting
the foe on the very soil where his
tyranny flourished and crushing him
from the earth--.braving the stosms of
the sea to sink his ships that liberty
might live, and the oppressed enjoy
their freedom.
Looking upon the graves of their
fathers and the cradles of their chill
dren, they resolve, upon this Fourth of
July, 1898. that though all things per-
ish, liberty must be the portion of this
western world"
During the course of Mr.. Kindrick's
speech q number of kilograms were
sent over from the HERALD Office to be
read aloud. The one which produced
the most enthusiasm was the one from
Sampson Offering to the nation as q
Fourth of July present the whole of
Cervera's fleet. During the reading
each sentence.was;punct with loud
cheering, until at the end, when Samp-
son told of the capture of 1900 prison
ers, including Admiral Cervera, the
of the crowd was uncon-
and they cheered Justify for
several minutes. Read it over" they
erie d; and Mr.. Kindrick read that
glorious message over four times, be-
fore he was permitted to go
on.
AS Mr. XII ndrick finished, amid
rounds of applause, the McGinty band
took up Yankee Doodle, and played it
over and over with q vim that caused
the crowd to yell itself hoarse. Then
DIR. Ysndell announced that the Hon.
Leigh Clark would read the Declare
tioy, If Tp6onop6an0a
Introducing Judge Clark, DR.. Yam
dell said: every true American
here present should now stand in re-
weren't attention and with uncovered
head, for Mr.. Clark will now read the
American Lords Prayer'-the Amer
lean Declaration of Independence"
At the close of the reading, Judge
Clark said: 'sThst was the declara-
ton adopted by the people of what is
now the United States on the Fourth
of July, 1916. To that declaration
they pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor.
time of war to uphold to the uttermost
the hands of those who are directing
the nations affairs. If there are dem
ocrats and republicans now, let US for
get that we have differences, and let
US all be, first, Americans. Mr.. Nc
Kinley deserves the praise, the thanks,
the esteem of every American citizen
for the gallant way in
which he is lupholding this declara-
tion-this declaration which was writ
ten in blood and sealed with the lives
of citizens of this country. Our graft
tude is also due to all those men of our
glorious army and navy, who are
and fighting and winning
= cd do ho folds
of that same banner which now floats
over our heads.
:'This il not a time for pickering or
discomfort. Let every man shake
hands with his brother, or better yet,
with some other fellows sister,
After Hail Columbia had been sung
by the chorus, Senior Esteban Gomez
del Campo delivered an address in
Spanish. 1t was brief and pointed,
and it was highly appreciated, espe-
cially the reference to Washington
and Hidalgo, linked together in his
tory as the great liberators OF the
west.
La Golondrina, beautifully played
ed forth bursts of applause from Mex
leans and Americans alike. Hon. w.
M. Colwell was then introduced by DR..
Yandell in a few graceful words.
Judge Colwell spoke in part follows:
"It was not by words that we obtain
ed our freedom. 1t was not by words
alone that we obtained the right to
that beautiful flag. 1t was not by
mere words that Dewey sank the Spa
nish fleet in Manila bay. 1t was not by
words that Sampson destroyed Cervera
yesterday at Santiago.