The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-07-05
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get their rights under this declaration
till after one OF the greatest and blood
lest wars in the worlds history.
Ultimately, however. the great princi-
pie of justice embodied in this splendid
declaration triumphed over human
wrong. When supreme justice held aloft
the scales and declared that human
slavery had poisoned and blighted the
soul to every sense Of right-that no
longer shall the auction block separate
with tears and signs of longing the low
ing hearts of husband and wife, no
longer shall the poor mother be bereft
of her child to fill the masters Golfers
that no longer shall the nations gold be
put in the scales against human pain and
anguish,-then the monstrous crime of
which the north and the south were
alike responsible was blotted out and
the declaration of the fathers of our couu
try was carried out in its true spirit
In the grave of buried wrong lies also
sectional jealousy and hatred. Today
it is our country and our flag. The
heroes of the blue and the gray have
fought the battles of our country side
by side. In our country the declaration
and the pledges of our fathers have all
been fulfilled. So also will the father
and pledges Of our government be car
ried out with our new acquisitions let
us hope through the amiable avenues Of
peace. Then the starry flag for which
the fathers and these heroes fought
and died will be the emblem of all it
promised. or we hope it to be. Shelter
ed beneath it's folds the oppressed Of
these far off islands of the sea will share
our blessings and with us will develop
to the higher intellectual life and we to
the exalted standard of the true grand
uer Of nations.
Judge ]. S. Wines was presented to the
audience by Mr.. Horgan who acted as
master of ceremonies. The address of
the orator of the day was a mastery
effort. He spoke in part as follows:
In accepting the invitation of the COM
mittee to assist in this celebration did
not expect to be published as the orator.
nor that my effort would be designated
as an grafton. Therefore. your disap-
pointment will be greater and my fall
the harder. Time was when l had some
pride in that direction. but in recent
years I have considered it proper that
younger men should be benefited by TAX
ing an active part upon such an occa-
sion as this. However, l know Of no
true American who Is not always willing
to honor, even in an humble way, the
day which Is popularity considered the
birthday of the American nation.
But upon such an occasion as this
there are many things that may be
profitably remembered. While it is a
day of rejoicing. day upon which the
cannon belches forth it's thunder: upon
which the flag Is unfurled upon every
hand; upon which the Roman candle
gives forth it's glare. and upon which
mothers, fathers, sons and daughters
don their gala attire and greet the rising
sun with cheers as it sheds its rays
over happy and prosperous people
yet this is not all: we should take
thought not only of the past and pres
emit, Sut also the probable future. Our
forefathers, who boldly declared the in
dependence of the original colonies,
were men of humble birth and station;
they were unacquainted with the crafty
ways of the present day politician:
they dreamed not Of the immense
power which is being welded today by
one man, or by few; they did not in
their time dream of the wealth which
one man may now control; there were
in those days no Rockefellers. Morgans
nor Guilds; there were in those days
only plain unpretentious Washiingtons.
| Hancocks and JeffersOns. Let us in
quire why these changed conditions?
There We're then only 100000, while
now we have 100000 of people. The
opportunities for the aggregation Of
| wealth and power did not then exist
| as they do today. 1t is thought by
many that too much wealth and power
| united in one man is dangerous: that
| Is true, If not properly and justly ev-
pended and exercised. We ought. then,
| r.
grown and increased because the OPP
portunities for their acquisition have
increased. If there be danger from this
source-but let us indulge in the hope
/ that there is not-the remedy lies with
the people; the means Of redress. the
| power to arrest disaster. Is in the intel
! ligent exercise of the elective franchise.
! The inquiry, then. arises. How shall
| this right, in part at least be controlled
and exercised? The American youth
must wait until he is q years of age
! before he can vote. We allow the sub
jects of the old world who have been
reared under the influence OF a mon
| archy. with but information touching
the principles which underlie their own
governments, and much more ignorant
| concerning the institutions of our own,
to exercise this high prerogative. The ex-
| ercse of the elective franchise, when
! bestowed upon those not to the manor
born, should be so regulated as to in
| sure it's exercise only by those who have
SOME knowledge of our form OF govern
ment and it's institutions. Some have
| advocated property qualifications; this
would be disastrous. Intelligence is not
| necessarily confined to the rich A prop
erty qualification would result in increas-
ing the power of the strong and les
sening the strength of the weak. The
old world should not be allowed to dump
its ignorant and vicious classes upon our