The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-27
BURNS THE ANTITHESIS OF WASHINGTON.
Rev. Frederic C. Lee Yvidy Contrasts the Noble Qualities
Of the Statesman and Patriot With the Political
Trickery Of the Senatorial Aspirant

though in possession of all the mines in
Great and good himself, pure in pur-
pose and in life, he could only live in pure
surroundings, and so he gathered around
him in the affairs of state the wisest and
the best.
with unerring instinct he made Ham
uton his Secretary of Treasury, and at
this hour we remember the words of Web
ster, He smote the rock of the national
resources and the abundant streams of
revenue gushed forth. He touched the
corpse of public credit and it sprang upon
it's feet
with wisest foresight he made Jeffer-
son Secretary of State, and when he placed
the ermine of the judicial robe upon the
shoulders of John Jay 1t rested upon a
man whose life and character was as pure
and spotless as itself.
This high standard, these lofty polit-
ical principles are as necessary and as
practical to-day as they were one hundred
years ago. BY them alone can this nation
go on to perfection and complete the ma
tional structure whose foundation was
laid by such men as Jay and JEFFERSON;
Hamilton and Washington. When national
character ceases to be upheld nation
may be regarded as in its dying hour. ana
when the time arrives in any country
when wealth has corrupted and enslaVed
the people. when vice has degraded or
luxury enfeebled them-a race 10 Wnom
honor virtue, justice. patriotism have
seemingly become traditions, things of the
past, then its only hope and salvafi93n IN as IS
vidual character for by that and that
alone can a nation be saved.
Ill fares the land, to fastening Ills a prey.
Where wealth accumulates and men decay
"The inelegant but expressive git there
is the motto OF our iateT oay po th am,
from Mexico. without regard to the means
or the men used.
.Have we not become a spectacle at
home and abroad while this political hold
UP is being carried out? The representa-
lives of the commonwealth, of California
standing hands up while they are tb riIleo
the vote intrusted to their care for safe
delivery at Sacramento by their electors.
send our boys 1000 miles across the ocean
to face a horde of savage Filipinos and
allow a gang of thugs to strange us at
to fight for freedom abroad while we are
being shackled and sold at our State capt.
toll?
"Are we Americans? Is there any of
the blood of Patrick Henry, Washington,
Lincoln running in our veins? Then their
patriotism should be ours! Shall we put
renegades and the tools of corrupt corpo-
rations into place and power. when our
fathers crowned only manhood and nobil-
ity of character and made the scholar and
the statesman ruler over them? Shall
we cringe like coward slaves when
our ancestors were giants In mind and
conscience?
ago said: The character of a city is de-
termined by the character of the men it
crowns Is 1t not true to-day that the
character of a State is determined by the
character of the men 1t elects to public
office?
"Can that man whose religion is singu-
lar, but whose wife is plural, reflect any
honor upon the State of Utah2 Can a de-
faulter, the consort of racetrack touts and
fellows of baser sort, shed any luster up
on our Golden State?
I'm the beautiful park of the soldiers
home in Washington there Is a spot where
through the trees glimpse of the capitol
can be obtained, crowned by the graceful
dome and framed in an oval wreath of
living green. Although two miles away
all intervening objects are hidden from
view, and when the sun of a summer
morning touches the white marble walls
causing them to glisten like polished sill
Yer, the Capitol Vista surpasses in refined
beauty anything to be seen in or around
Washington. On such morning not long
before his death Charles Sumner and a
friend were riding through the park The
driver suddenly refined up his horses and
called attention to the picture to be seen
through the opening in the forest An
exclamation of delight came from Mr..
Summers lips
The grandest public building in the
world, he said; a fitting home for the
greatest legislative assembly on the
globe Now, beneath the Capitol Vista
write, Quay! Roberts,, BURNS!!l
God give menl A time like this demands
Strong minds, great hearts. truth faith and
ready hands.