The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-13

but some shade flung from love-gids
it-gives II worth" Miss Kendall's ex-
preston was also in verse:
Though Love 10 Light
Oh wonderful the way
That leads from darkness 10 the perfect
day
From darkness and from sorrow Of the
night
To morning that comes singing DER the
sea.
The last speaker was Franklin H..
Wentworth. "Having shared the Joy
and sorrow, the trials and problems, Of
my two comrades here" he said, "it is
perhaps fitting that should say the last
word on this occasion, and that this
word should be word Of personal affec.
tion and comradeship. And yot must
confess that the feeling Of joy which
have tonight relates not 80 directly TO
them as to the cause, in the service
OF which we are all enlisted. IL seems
such a mighty triumph Of truth ami sim
cerity in the world that the cause must
be- helped by this union. believe that
the high service Of each will be helped
by the fact OF these two souls working
side by side In mutual sustainment.
umted-yet free. feel this strongly
because of the strength and uplift which
has come into my own life through my
comradship with my own true and
noble mate. In the very fact that 80
large a number OF persons as are here
assembled can be inspired by the same
ideal, | see a demonstration that the
truth is beginning 10 force its way and
dramatize itself in reference 10 every
human institution. There seems in the
gathering OF such company hint OF
the drawing of the day when the spirit
Of freedom shall rule the world.ireedom
OF the body, aud freedom OF the soul.
Now in conclusion, there is person
al woid | wish TO say; wish to pay Il
tribute of loving admiration to the wo.
man who was already standing for hu-
man freedom when most of us here were
children a woman who all her life long
has been far ahead of her time who has
steadiastly stood against all forms of
Hypocrisy aud organized wrong. In her
girlhood life this woman was scofied at
BECAUSE she was an abolitionist-then
the most bitterly hated Of all reformers.
In her middle life she was tested at first
as a free republican and aiterwMd as
free trader; and now in the time Of her
age we find her standing brayely toward
human freedom, namely the socialists.
In her girlhood she worked for the free
dom OF the chattel slave, and then lived
10 see the world come halting after her,
accepting the truth she saw And be-
lieve there is no moro fitting prayer
which can offer in her behalf tonight,
OF which will find more appreciative
response in the staunch soul Of Mrs.
Rand herself than that she may be
spared TO witness at least the beginnings
of the worlds industrial emancipation. ."
The gathering broke mp, aud fnally.as
a sweet benediotioa, the bride herself
took her seat at the piano and playel to
ms Tor while, pouring out her soul in
the Interpretation OF one OF Baethoyen's
sonatas. And as she played the memory
Of ghoulish press,of human vultures,
of slave marriage Of cruel capitalism, was
llotted out. We saw only the vision Of
the new life Of socialism, when the love
that made this union holy shall be- the
only basis OF marriage and when this
love, stretching out. shall embrace the
common life OF the world.