The San Francisco call., 1898-01-25

you and your associates make it.
 The field is broad and will yield readlly to intelligent culture Thirteen hunqred millions of gold extracted from the mines alone attest the trend and extent or our material progress in one pursuit lou should equal us in this respect and excel us in every other branch of human in- dustry. So, too, you should excel us in moral development and intellectual strength. Strive for excellence in all you undertake but do not seek to improve those devices which are already reason ably perfect. The Arabic numerals, cou- pied with the method of decimauon, can te made to express everything in num- bers from the infinite to the intinitesimal Do not seek to thrust Homer and Shakes peare. Phidias and Raphael, Demosthe- nes and Mozart from their thrones of pre-eminence.
 Your opportunities are great Our schools and universities are grand nur- series from which will come in the fu- ture, as in the recent past, coaduJutors Of mighty force in carrying on the work in hand
 May the grand correlation of the en- tire energy of the coast be exercised in the expulsion of ignorance and error, in promoting knowledge, virtue and happi- ness, until within the next half century California the Golden West, shall beam upon the world as the brightest star in the galaxy of States.
 Love her for what she Is, and bring her up to the high ideal of all that is lovely.
 But on this jubilee day. while we are gGfhyh g}h 9r adIFRi ad G6 E for the whoe S
 
 beloved nation, and let us all be ready ferventy to exclaim-
 Great God we thank thee for this home.
 This bounteous birthland of the free.
 Where strangers from afar may come
 And breathe the air of liberty
 Still may thy flowers untrampled spring,
 And yet, till time shall fold his wing,
 Remain earths loveliest paradise!
 A selection by the Harmony Quintet and poem written by Sister Anna Raphael of San Jose, and read by Miss Clara Wittenmeyer, entitled "Califor- nias Golden Jubilee" were next on the programme, and then followed some remarks by Eliza D. Keith.
 Miss Keith's words were principally devoted to the progress of the State in the past fifty years. and the attitude 1t now holds in comparison to that it held when the great discovery made California a household word She de- scribed the Pioneer and his strong, fear less character, and then she devoted some caustc criticism to those who delight in picturing the pioneer days as wild and lawless, the men fierce and ungovernable, making crime a pastime and robbery a business. She scored such writers in vigorous terms, and de- clared that such statements were a Justification of history. In conclusion, she spoke of the organizations of Ma tive Sons and Daughters, and closed as follows:
 It is not my place to speak of the good our order have done, nor my province to refute the charge that they may be urged to further some mans political ambition Suppose that charge were true. what harm were done? Who has the right to protest? Who has a clearer claim to the votes of Native Sons than a Native Son himself? That vote has already placed more than one man in the Mayors office in San Francisco, and yet another in the Governors chair, and that vote will ever block the way to the proposed cOnsum- mation of a great wrong the commission of a political crime-the division of Cali fornia. Divide our StateI Never while there is a Native Son to vote or a Native Daughter to protest, Divide California Never
 California. land flowing with milk and honey; California, fairer than any prom ised land; California, one indivisible. one glad, glorious stretch from Del Norte to San Diego; California "throned upon hills of beauty: California. California. cur heart, our hopes are all with thee
 4 silken flag was then brought down to the front of the platform where the children sat. and, while holding It aloft, Mrs. Martin Schultz sang the Star Spangled Banner" the children joining in the chorus.
 Hon. William c. Murphy was then introduced to tell the story of the ill., fated Bonner party, of which he was member, and although he. spoke briefly, he managed to bring home to his hearers the fact that there was not all gold and sunshine in the lives of the pathfinders to the western ocean. He told of their journey across the plains, of their progress barred by the blinding snows of the Sierras, how they lost their way among the frozen