Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-23

charming HttIe MOTIFS sisters VINO sang
a favoritc. selection and We're promptly
encored. They were followed by E. A.
Davis, the well known Anaconda vocal
list and actor, who won the admiration
of the public during the rendition of the
Bells of Bonneville last month, in the
role of Gaspard. the miser. His song
last night called for an encore and he
was loudly applauded.
The first speaker of the evening was
G. j. Walsh, whose talk lasted for fully
Il half hour on the subject of Washing
ton. In the opening of his address Mr..
Walsh paid a high tribute to the first
president by saying: "Alone and sub
lime in greatness stands Washington,
the father of his countrs. No man made
such Il mark in history as he made; no
man has left such an impress upon the
history of the world as did Washington
from the time of the revolution to the
time of his DEATH
Mr. Walsh then told of the miseries
which the people of the colonies had to
endure under the tyranical rule of Eng
land. He told of the events which lead
up to the revolution and of the sufferings
of Washington and his army after the
struggle for liberty had begun. Then he
portrayed what happened at the close Of
tically without government, new one
had to be formed, the new nation then
sprung into existence was without mon
ey; it was bankrupt and had no credit
at home or abroad. Everything was in
chaos" the speaker said, "but Wash
ington the soldier became Washington
the statesman. Through his genius, his
earnestness, his devoted patriotism. his
untiring and unceasing efforts, WASH
ington bnilded the foundation of this
grand nation. which today leads all the
world. The success of the revolution, the
success Of the formation of the new re-
public, the success of his two adminis-
trations, are monument to the life OF
Washington and his marvellous ability"
Following the speech, Mr.. Walsh, Mrs.
r. S. Talon gave a character recitation
which was enthusiastically received and
brought an encore.
George f. Martz sang tenor solo n!
Oswald Cohen, entertained with an in
strumental selection, national airs in var
iations, which was highly enjoyed.
The executive committee was unable to
find a speaker to take the place of Hon.
Lee Mantle, who was kept away on ac-
count of his late bereavement, until late
yesterday afternoon, when Rev. Alfred
Brown. of St. Marks Episcopal church,
consented to fill in. Notwithstanding
he had little time to prepare, his address
was a treat and intensely interesting. He
said:
Nineteen hundred years ago man
toiled at the carpenters bench, one who
as he toiled, learned to sympathize with
the man who toiled for his daily bread,
earning it from the wreat Of his brow;
and when the time came when man.
hoods years We're right, He went forth
among his fellow men and taught them
to love the great God CT the universe, the
great God our Father in Heaven. And
when the world would not receive His
message as He delivered it to them of
the Fatherhood of God, and the brother
hood Of ma2. they crucified Him. But
He sent forth His disciples into the world
to teach the same prayer, and said that
he who earns his daily bread by the daily
sweat of his brow, might be encouraged
by the knowledge that he, too, is the
son OF God"
The years rolled by; eighteen hundred
years or more, as people moved west
ward in the development Of the new
world, there arose a man who toiled, and
he toiled with his axe, and as he toiled.
with his spirit growing within him, and
with his axe he split the rail and earned
his daily bread He said, as he struck the
wedge, Il will hit it some day and hit
it hard. The liberty that the new Naz-
ereth preached was believed in by the
man who split the rail. But he saw
that the great brotherhood of man was
not lived up to for thousands and thou
sands of his countrymen We're in bond
age. II will hit it, he said, land I
will hit it hard"
He knew Of the conditions of the
slaves in the south, he had been down
on the Mississippi and had seen the
slave market, seen them bought and
sold as they We're, and his spirit of
pride within him Waxed up. He saw
and heard laboring men of good judg-
ment and hard common sense, and saw
that in time this hit must be hit, and
hit hard, and he was getting right up
against it. So when experience came
along with knowledge that should give
him power to move his fellowmen, when
he had acquired by years the knowl-
edge necessary for one man to influence
another, he entered the legislature of
his state, and then commended for a seat
in the congress of the United States
About 1850 there had been some COM
promise affected between the legislators
of the north and those of the south, but
Abraham Lincoln knew the compromise
would not stand for any lasting good.
In Italy, near the city Of Naples, was
"a mountain up whose sides people had
built their homes. cultiyating their
farms and gardens. thinking nothing of
any danger. A few little tokens of
smoke had been seen issuing from the
mountain Mount Vesuvius, but "Oh,
that Is nothing" was all that was said
NO caution, no word of warning could
induce any man to leave his farm and
home. for anyone would so advise HIM
to do. But on one fair day that hot
fire burst forth, and the buried ruins
OF that city tells Of the destruction that
was wrought
So In 1850. when the lovers of liberty
a IN