Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16


ton, and Bunker Hill, Brandywine,
Saratoga and yorktown are names to
conjure with, because our fathers
fought for the enthronement of a prin-
ciple. They did not desire freedom in
order that they might go off like the
prodigal son into harlotry md drunken
ness, but in order that they and their
children's children might be blest.
They discovered that independence was
necessary in order to obtain freedom.
1t may or may not lie. Canada is free,
but not inde4 .ndent. Cuba is trying to
ascertain whether she can secure
freedom by way of independence or
whether it is still necessary to be de-
pendent in order to be free; and as yet
the problem seems to be unSolved.
There was no question about 1t, how
ever, with the American colonists.
Without eXaggeration, it may be said
they died for us. Is there a man whose
moral sense is so obtuse, whose dis
cernment is so dull, who is so craven
hearted as to be Indifferent to the
privileges bought at such cost?
And once the dogs of war harried
the homeland, families were divided
and brother fought against brother
That is dark and bloody page in our
nations history, but the loyalty to con-
viction, the high and enthusiastic pur-
pose and the miracles of sacrifice and
suffering exhibited on both sides, are
peculiarly and are both alike-Ameri-
can.
Now the wounds of war are healed
in every heart and on every hill. We
are one nation, loved and loving, from
the lakes to the gudf.
Civic Conscience Awakened
1t is with the keenest pleasure 1 con-
gratulate you and with you all other
good citizens upon the awakening of
the civic conscience that marks the
past few years in our political history.
In Minnesota we see Johnson and his
friends; in Washington, La Toilette, the
peerless champion of popular rights
against vested interests; in Missouri
Joseph w. Folk, cleansing the augean
stables of corruption; in Philadelphia,
Mayor Weaver, and in other sections
men grouped together for the attain
ment of the highest political ideals,
making bright spots all over the map,
which are increasing from day to day
as patriotism triumphs over partyism,
knowledge over ignorance, right over
wrong, and who shall say how near at
hand is the day when the nation shall
be belted and bathed in light?
/ do not believe there is a man in
this audience who is not in entire SYM
pathy with the protest against Reed
Smoot the senatorial representative of
the polygamist Mormon church. You
stand for the purity of the home, that
relic of lost Eden, where one man
is the husband of one wife. Some of
you are from ST. Louis The vice
president of Simmons Hardware COM
pany, during the Spanish American
war, entertained some relatives who
had been living in London, England.
They had little boy who was just old
enough to be deeply interested in the
talk about the soldier, the regulars
and the volunteers But one day he
launched into the subject of matri-
mony, and said to his mother:
"If I get married when 1 grow up
and get tired of the girl, could 1 leave
her and go off and marry another?"
His mother answered: "Well, there are
wicked men who divorce a woman and
marry again, but l hope you won't
be that kind of a man." That satis-
fled him for moment, but presently
he said: "Then, mamma, if L should
get tired of the second one, could I
leave her and go back to the first?"
Evils of Divorce
WELL I guess the first one wouldn't
be sitting around waiting for YOU"
Then she proceeded to read him a
lecture on the evils of divorce and
much marriage, referring to Brigham
Young, with his numerous wives, by
way of illustration. At that he bright
ened up and said: "Why, mamma, 1
know Of a mantle Bible tells of a
man who had more wives than that
the Bible tells of a man who had
| who had-three hundred regulars and
seven hundred volunteers"
Maintain your integrity; keep an un-
sullied name; you do not want to lead
such a life that libertine is living
in your home. You do not want your
wife and children to associate with
such character. If you maintain
your own integrity then you can con-
sistently stand aggresslvely for the
purity and peace Of the home; you can
seize the writing serpents and vipers
! that would nest upon the American
hearthstone and hurl them from it,
In greater numbers than the Van
dals that overran Rome, foreign immi-
grants have poured In upon our shores.
We have welcomed mighty host who
have been quickly assimilated and In
every particular have become thor
oughly American. They love the land
of their adoption and enjoy all the
privileges of citizenship But among
them are dangerous classes; they are
! ignorant, they are besptted, they are
| superstitious, they are violent; the an
archist Is among them, and OCCASION
ally we see the flash of the stiletto
and hear the crack OF the revolver.
In many instances the privilege of cit
| izenship has been unwisely bestowed,
and now comes the president Of these
| United States with the suggestion that
a law be enacted making 1t possible
TO naturalize the Japanese. ! do not
believe there Is q man, certainly not