The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-16

cat the period of his birth there ex-
listed in Europe no political and less
religious liberty, in it's proper sense, in
. any large community. The church had
striven for recognition, but for the
most part vainly. The people of Eng
land we remember, in their revolution
of 1858 had made last grand, desper-
ate stand for freedom, and had lost
the cast. In the provinces of Holland
there existed certain semblance of
civil liberty, which dimly foreshadow-
ed the greater and higher freedom
which was to come. But everywhere
else despotic power was predominant
and the feudal and military principle
held its sway over the helpless and
hopeless mass OF mankind. One-half
of Europe was crushed beneath the
Bourbon scepter and no conception of
political liberty, no hope even of re-
ligious liberation, existed among that
nation, which afterward was to be
Americas first and strongest ally. The
king was the state; the king was the
country; the king was everything.
There was one king and the rest sub
jects with no real, personal, religious
or political privilege, but blind, unreal
soning, servile obedience. All above
was supreme, intangible powerful be-
low was crushed and subdued subjec-
tion.''-From Father MacCorry's lee
ture.
More than a century and half has
come and gone since the name and
fame of Washington first burst like the
blaze of day upon the earth. / use the
figure advisedly, because in a two
fold sense it fits the character of
thought l have in mind; in that every
thing that Washington was broke
upon the world with all the sudden
splendor of a sunburst, and with the
all-embracing universally of a glori-
Gus dawn. Not so much indeed that
he ushered in new era of science and
art and commerce; not that he gave
a new impetus to the progress of CIV
ilization by greater acuteness of in
genuity along the lines of enterprise
and trade; not that he dashed the
world tc an increased speed around the
old beaten circles of human thought
and human endeavor; bat greater than
all these-that like the life and light
and hope of a morning sun to the
flowers of the field, beaten to the
earth by whitening chill of long
and dreary night, he placed his hand
upon the heart of a deerepit world and
sent a new vitality bounding through
her veins. That he infused into her
breast a new spirit of liberty and hope;
that he elevated to another and higher
plane the individual man in his moral.
social and political character; that he
ments; that he ushered in an era
where every man, crowded with ire
mendous possibilities, Is recognized as
the unit in creations plan. When the
social principle has triumphed over the
principle of barbarous feudalism, and
where there is established on foun-
dations never in Gods providence to
be shaken-the right and capabilities of
people to govern itself."-From Faith
er MacCorry'S lecture
His name was power to rally ma
ton in the hour of her thick thronging
disasters and calamities. 1t shone like
a beacon light to cheer and guide his
country's friends 1t flashed like a
meteor to repel her foes. In the DAYS
of peace his personality was a magnet
attracting to itself the love and conf
dence of trusting people-the respect
and admiration of an observant word
From Father MacCorry's Lecture.