Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-07-10

address yon on this memorable and in
mortal 4th of July, humbly ask your
kind and undivided attention and your
sympathy in my behalf, that the spirit
of the day may permeate this building
and like an electrical current flow from
heart TO heart and unite our souls as a
uuit in holy meditations and reverence
of those events and incidents that haYe
given this day name and fame that
stands prominently above any other
date in the calandar of our nation.
1t seems difficult for us at this time
of our lives when we are lrrounded by
luxury, ease, peace and plenty, to fully
understand and grasp the political and
civil situation as they existed in the
days Of the fathers of our nation. The
conditions of government and the deal.
;ngs between man and maj 1872 years
ago were SO much different and dis
similar to those conditions which now
obtain among us, that comparison
between the two is like the comparison
between wealthy, independent mag
nate and an INDECENT, dependent slave
or servant whose constant thought and
attention is required to keep >ul and
body together The magnate who from
his childhood, has lived in affiuence and
luxury and has never tasted the bitter
cup of want and hunger. incident to the
poor man, can form at best only vague
idea of the poor man s feelings. So it is
with us, we can form but vague idea
of those trying conditions that brought
to pass lasting political and civilrevo-
luton directly in our nation and in
directly to the nations of the world.
Friends, we are here TO celebrate the
anniversary of the day and to do honor
to those persons who were instrumental
in breaking down the inhuman and
unjust rule of despotism, oppression
aud tyranny and substituting in their
place principles of government that are
} natural and compatible with the gem
J JUS of man and in harmony with the
! eternal laws of God and fully adapted
in every particular to unity the divers
nationalities in an onward march tc-
ward the blessed mellenium. When
the lion will eat straw like the OK, and
} the bear play with the child and the
, wolf lie down with the lamb
Friends and citizens of one common
Cause, history is replete with mans in
humanity to man. From time immem-
7 orial we read that the fallen nature of
man has ever been prone to superceed
. his authority in ruling over his weaker
and less fortunate brother. TO verify
this statement beg leave to take your
minds back TO the pyramids and var
ious ruins of Egypt, Babylonia, Asia
Minor, Greece, Rome and soon, follow
ing from nation to nation till we come
to the arrogant tyrant, George III Kine
of England.
AS we gaze upon these cyclopear
monuments, and pass though the echo
ing halls Of decaying palaces we canno
help bnt recognize in it the dominan
mind of tyrant kings and the cycophan
hand of abject slaves. The false ide'
had become ingrafted and inculcatet
by the course of ages in the minds of tn
people that mankind divided itself lat
! two classes, the ruled and the ruling
class. That the ruling class were king
and potentates and that the balanc
with all their possessions and belong
ings were subjects and slaves unt
- them. The idea prevailed among then
all that in the King was vested dc
- vine power and right to life, limb an
' property, that he was subject and res
v ponsible to no one but himself, that b
= stood supreme and a one without pee
= or superior in the realm of his kingdom
= that his edicts and DEGREES we're Law
Z to be implicitly obeyed without quei
= tio1, murmur or hesitation,
II the king took notion to build
pyramid, COLOSSUS, or palace of loo
Y columns, rooms. courts or galleries
his glory and majesty, he would NAL
the proclamation from his throne
: 70 that effect and millions of his subjec
= would respond to the call to do his biz
= ding, and if his dignity was sighted
= insulted by another king or anoth
: nation, single decree would marsh
: in battle array a million of the choice
blool Of the nation to sacrifice theI
selves upon the ehambles of war,
maintain the honor of their ~soveril
king.
) AS the heart and brain is the cent
Of persons body unto whose joy al
- pleasure every other member of
.a1 body is tributary. SO IN like mann
q the king and queen were he centre,
8 heart and brain of the ration nj
6 whose joy, pleasure, honor and gle
3 all flesh and blood, brain and Draw
S gold, silver and precious stones, v