The San Francisco call., 1904-07-05

led Banner" Conversation ceased and
the crowd maintained the silence of
deepest respect as those strains thNt
fire the blood of native and foreign
born alike rang clearly through the
hall. AS the last triumphant notes
swelled and died away the building
shook with cheers. The crowd would
not be quiet till Miss Rooney sang
Columbia for them.
Then Father Caraher introduced
Judge Frank Murasky, orator of the
day, and the audience listened gladly
to a speech that might we'll be num-
bered among the masterpieces of Amer
ican eloquence. Following are some
extracts:
May the time never comet when we shall
make commonplace and soullcss observance
of this day; when the momentoJ1s declaration
which marked an epoch. not for the people Of
this land alone. but for all the human race.
shall be forgotten; when the boldness the no
bility of spirit. the inspired purposes, the un-
conquerable manhood OF the signers OF that
great charter of freedom, and the patriotism.
the sacrifice. the heroism. the unfaltering
courage of the first soldiers of liberty to battle
upon this continent shall be but sounding and
futile phrases. touching in revibrant chord.
arousing enthusiasm, awakening no soul
moving impulses May the day never come when
the sight OF the star-spangled banner and the
sounds of the soul stirring militant music that
cheered our heroes upon so many CORY battle
fields shall have lost their power to the
sensitive springs of our emotions. When the
sun shall rise upon a Fourth Of July without
its paradee, its fireworks. its waving nags, its
beating drums and martial music, its patriotic
gatherings. It's universal jublation, ut will set
upon the death scene OF that Americanism
ton and the slopes of Bunker Hill.
BELIEVES IN AMERICA.
We shall not forget; nor shall we lose faith.
Whatever be the dangers that to
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tsanship the wall OF bilious pessimism may
fill the air. though wealth point with alarm to
anger at the growth of capital. though charge
and countcr-charge be made and the whole
fabric OF government seem to the nervous eye
to be topping to destruction. the great true
people OF this land will ever believe in her
power to breast every peril and TO solve every
difficulty We believe in America. We believe
she wifi remain faithful to the declarations
she made on the 4th day of July. 1T76. We
believe that she will continue to be a place
where the Individual no matter what may be
his station in life, his education his creed.
his race his abilities. may work out his life
in the way he may choose. restricted only by
such laws as will prevent his encroachment
upon the rights of his fellows.
We believe this nation will be what
she X now the first nation OF the world; first,
not because of her multttudinous sources of
wealth and power. her broad stretches OF
territory teeming with produce her great,
sweeping. commerce-laden rivers, her COM
manding frontage upon the two great oceans
of the globe her rich. active metropolises:
not because of her dominating influence over
a great continent: nor her secure isolation: nor
vet because of her victorious fleets fresh from
achievements that startled the world; nor her
mobile patriotic army sprnging spontaneously
at the note of danger from the farm the work
shop the foundry the store the professions
from every vocation of the people and return
ing with the coming of peace to the plain
duties of citizenship: first not because OF all
these but first among the powers of the earth
for her devotion to those principles which
marked and consecrated her BIRTH which pro-
claimed her not only nation but the
mother of new civilization. and which pledged
her forever to the cause Of human kind.
TRAMP OF MARTIAL FEET.
Touching examples of that American
patriotism born in '76 were shown in
the mornings parade. Veterans Of
three wars were in the line of march.
some of them, too feeble even to totter
to the music of the drum to which they
once stepped so lightly, rode in car
riages. These were the grizzled men
of the Mexican and Civil wars.
Before them on well-groomed steeds
rode the colored troopers Of the Ninth
Cavalry seasoned fighters who saw
service in Cuba and the Philippines;
and after the veterans of the older
wars marched later day heroes. the
First Regiment of the National Guard.
Then, with a rumble of wheels and