Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-05
CHILDREN HEAR
JUDGE WILBUR
IS PRINCIPAL ORATOR AT ECHO
PARK
Talks to Young People on Lessons
Drawn from Address Of Wash-
inston--Says We Are Far
from Ideal


people. This is the great playground
of the Second ward and Councilman e.
| A. Clampitt had arranged a fine pro-
gram for the day. Cooperating with
the Fourth of JUL committee Judge
Curtis D. Wilbur vas asked to be the
orator of the day. He spoke IF "The
Lessons of Washington's Address," say
ing:
I'VE can we'll feel that we are far
from what we ought to be as a religious
and moral nation, a Christian nation.
Yet we may justly remind ourselves
that we have a free church supported
entirely from voluntary contributions,
a church separated absolutely from the
state.
Yet where will so man. churches be
found? So many temple in which to
worship God according to the dictates
of our conscience?
This untried experiment so essential
to the success of our government has
proved a marvellous success. OF all the
dispositions and habits which lead to
political prosperity, religion and moral
ity are Indispensable supports The
mere politician equally with the pious
man ought to respect and enrich them.
And let US with caution indulge the
supposition that morality can be MAIN
tanned without religion.
vi euuCdllOl washington SdlQ. fTO-
mote them, as an object of primary
Importance, institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge and today
| Washington can look down on our edu-
cational system as the great and most
| wonderful institution modern times.
ITO our public schools we owe a
debt of gratitude we can not realize.
What a startling invasion the world
has seen in our island possessions; an
invasion of school teachers by the gov
| ernment for the people.
ITO one man more than any other we
| owe our existence as a nation. This
man by his skill and his faith not only
| carried us through an eight .-ears war,
but at its close assisted in the forma-
| ton of a new constitution and for
found? So many temples in which to
its chief executive.
THE nation has grown from a strug-
| Cling dependency of Great Britain Of
| 100000 people to a people 10000, COO
in number the best and most powerful
in the world. A land on which the sun
| never sets.
"Our territory spans the continent
and leaps across the Pacific.
I'VE have solved some problems and
others there are before us.
washington with the eye of the
prophet looked down the long vistas of
time and warned of dangers to come.
These dangers have come III on us and
some have been overcome.
"Oh, that we could are leeded his
words:
" The unity of government which
constitutes you one people is also
now dear to you. 1t is justly so,
for it is main pillar in the edifice
of your real independency, the sup
port Of your tranquility at home,
your peace abroad, of your safety,
Of your prosperity, of that very
| liberty which you SO highly prize
Cannon Voices Spoke
"Rivers of blood millions of lives and
| billions of money were expended in
preaching this doctrine. Words alone
did not suffice. 1t took the voice of
cannon and the roar of musketry. But
the lesson is now learned.
"The union Is until death do us part,
and the marriage, now that we have
settled down to it, is a happy one and
| thank God growing happier every day."
Referring to unions and trusts Judge
Wilbur again quoted the immortal
| Washington:
"All obstruction to the execution
of the laws, all combinations and
associations, under whatsoever
plausible character, with the real
|
act or awe the regular distribution
and action of the constituted
authorities, are destructive of this
fundamental principle (the right of
the people to govern), and of fatal
tendency. -. However, combi-
nations or associations of the above
description may now and then
answer popular ends, they are likely
in the course of time and things to
become fatal engines by which cum
ming, ambitious and unprincipled
men will be enabled to subvert the
power of the people, and to usurp
for themselves the reins OF govern
ment, destroying afterward the
very engines which have lifted
them to unjust dominion
"Does it seem possible that these
prophetic words were written before
the locomotive was invented, before
railroad Hobbies or conventions were
thought Of; before the steel industry
was either thought OF or developed.
before petroleum was discovered; before
the Gould and Fill and Hartman in
terests; before Wall street; before the
United States Steel corporation; before
the complete unionizing of labor; be-
fore Schrnitz and Ruef" No wonder the
man who wrote this warnins, looked to
God as his leader and guide"