Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-04
TAMMANY PATRIOTIC
Annual Fourth Of July Cele-
bration in Gotham.
GOV. GLENN THE ORATOR
LETTER READ FROM FORMER
JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER.
Big Republican Gathering in the Bronx
knights of Columbus OBJ
served the Day.
GOV. GLENN THE ORATOR

NEW YORK, July 4.--The Tammany So
cety's annual Fourth of July celebration
in front of the wigwam in 14th street con-
stituted about the only public exercises In
observance of the Fourth in Manhattan.
The chief speakers of the Tammany pro-
gram were to be Gov. Robert B. Glenn of
North Carolina and Lieut.. Gov. Jared Y.
Sanders of louisiana and short talks
were planned by number of prominent
members of the society. After the cele-
bration the society held open house and
luncheon was served.
A big celebration was held in the Bronx
by the Mckinley Pole and Flag Association.
at which patriotic speeches were delivered
and the Knights of Columbus united in
big celebration, with speeches and music,
in Prospect Park, Brooklyn There were
innumerable picnics and the city was as
noisy and bedecked with flags and bunt-
ing as usual.
A letter from Alton B. Parker former
democratic candidate for President, in which
he advocated the divorce of business and
politics was read.
Alton B. Parker's Letter.
In the course of his letter Judge Parker
said:
TT is an interesting fact that great
political organization, nearly as old as our
government itself. should be almost the
only body which celebrates with regularity
and old-time enthusiasm the Anniversary
of the Declaration of Independence. In
doing this 1t has established and main
tanned patriotic conditions of the highest
Importance. Year by year. without inter-
ruption, and over a long period your So
ciety has been able to compare past with
present conditions and to mark the ad-
vance or retreats in the march of our ma
tional life. In doing so your members must
have noticed the suggestion, repeated again
and again, that old issues are dead and
that, a natural result, new ones must be
sought 1t would be difficult to find any
assumption more thoroughly gratlitous.
Unfortunately, we are not permitted, as
people, to take up and deal with new
problems. We sometimes fondly assert that
greed and overgovernment, those insep-
arabic evils, are new. However the small
est reflection forces the conclusion that
these perils have been so manifested from
the earliest days of history as to bring ruin
to governments and desolation to peoples.
And, curiously, the relations they bear have
been so close that overgovernment has
sometimes been suggested by we'll meaning
persons as an antidote to greed, with the
result of showing, in the end that their
interests and their effects are the same.
Thus, because greed, left to run riot,
has produced some bad conditions in cities
and in great corporations. we are advised
to run headlong into municipal or govern
ment ownership and operation This policy
is advocated in spite of the fact that, in
other countries and in the surroundings
far more favorable for these experiments
than our own, they have uniformly inter-
fered with development and curbed initia-
tive. In other words, the only alternative
thus presented for the curbing of greed is
that of rushing wildly into all the perils of
overgovernment.
1.-The fact that this incipient stage of So
cialisra finds advocacy ought not to excite
surprise. For nearly half a century we
have been preaching and practicing 1t on
larger scale than ever before tried. We
have thrown greed, organized as 1t never
was before, into an active partnership with
government In order to swell the public
revenues by one dollar, we have permitted
a small, exclusive, grasping class to put
into their own pockets at least three dol
lars drawn, in the form of inordinate and
extortionate profits, from the whole body
of consumers of every calling and employ
ment 1t is no cause for wonder II some
of the latter have reached the conclusion
that no formal socialism could be much
more dangerous or demoralfZlng than the
fiscal system which, producing such results,
grows by what 1t feeds on
Gov R. B. Glenn of North Carolina deliv-
cred an address entitled: Our Country
Gov. Glenn's Remarks.
Gov. Glenn said in part:
1.-THE subject you have assigned me to-
day-'Our Country'-is so vast and unlim-
tied that 1t can scarcely be touched upon
In my short space of forty-five minutes,
for to tell of it's advancements and success
would require ages and ill countless vol
uues Suffice to say, in area 1t extends
from the lakes to the gulf, from ocean to
ocean. to the gold fields amid the Klon-
dixie of Alaska, over part of the isles of
the West Indies, into the eastern hemis-
phere amid the land of the Philippines.
"Our past, telling of victories and
achievements can be studied and read In
story and history. Our present stands as
the fruits of the creative minds of our
great intellects. But with these mighty
| achievements and grand results there are
| forces today at work that unless checked
| will destroy our nation and bring shame
| and disgrace on our wonderful people.
Political Clouds now no larger. perhaps
| than ones hand are arising on the polti-
| cal horizon. What are these dangers, you
ask. First, the conflict between capital and
| labor. Another great danger is the concen-
tration of all wealth in the hands of a
| few-the few controlling the many. A
| third danger is, we are living too fast,
both as ration and as individuals. We
are trying too hard to keep up appearances;
| we are living beyond our means. 1t is
| making US a nation of gamblers and
| thieves. Let US Gail halt. Let right
| about face. Honesty Is the best policy, and
| we can live within our means and still be
| happy.
| "One more danger-and this is the danger
| of the great cities-unrest, anxiety. a never
ending, ceaselesS strain on body, mind and
| soul. No time for Sunday and rest God,
| not in the heavens. but in business in
money, in a nervous anxiety to grow ia
nous and rich; saloons at every corner de-
stroying the body, blighting the mind
| blackening the mind, vice stalking abroad
| IN the day and shame, without fear walk
! ing at night. For all these evils there is
| great and mighty remedy, simple but
! divine; and this great remedy is the mes
| sage of Christ the King-'As We would
| that men should do unto you, do We also
| to them likewise"