Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-13
CITY HAS GLAD
HAND FOR ELKS
CEREMONIES OF WEEK BEGIN
AT AUDITORIUM
GRAND EXALTED RULER MAKES
ADDRESS
Bio Building Crowded to Remotest
Corners by Thrones Of Elks, Wives
and Sweethearts-Mayor
Among Speakers
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and whose battle cry is an echo
from the Sermon of the Mount.
This is indeed a most happy and
suspicious occasion. we are
pleased to come here and meet you
people of the east in your far west
ern home. We are glad of the OPP
portunity to learn by actual OBJ
servation what degree of credence
may safely be placed in the reports
which you have sent back to US OF
this land pictured more wonderful
by far than that tabled land OF old
which flowed with honey, milk and
with wine. We are not all from
Missouri; we all possess, however,
that characteristic which has mace
the Missourian famous. l congratu-
late you on the manner IN WhiGn
Won have SHOWN u.s. up to the
present time, and no fears are en-
tertained as to what the succeeding
DAYS of the week may hold in store.
Satisfied by Proof
It is indeed gratifying to be con-
WINGED in this practical way that
you still worship the household gods
you brought with you across PLAIN
and mountain and desert to TINS
Garden of Eden, where l am fully
persuaded the tempter cometh not,
and where the avenging sword of
flame shall never be unsheathed.
We are ready to believe of this land
all you claim for it, and as Its beau
ties and grandeur unfold before our
wondering gaze, the mistake OF
Moses in locating the Promised
Land assumes the proportions OF an
egregious blunder
Though one thing for Moses might be
said:
That he, as well as the Israelites, was
led;
For had he but seen California's shore.
Canaan would have looked good to him
no more.
l understand that you have quite
a fiourishing society out here, the
members of which boast that they
are native sons of California. Why,
bless your soul, you cannot trace
your lineage back of one generation
without running into 1.-THE fust fam
lilies of Virginia, sah," or into the
Dutch of Pennsylvania or the Yam
kee of New England, to say moth
ing of the Scotch, nor yet of the
Irish who, so far as have been able
to learn, are people claiming no per-
manent abiding place.
Native sons, I glory in your pride
ashamed of your ancestors nor the
states from which they came OF
course, it is a bit difficult at times,
out in this western country, to trace
family names back very far. Be
ing a western man myself, l have
experienced the embarrassment at
tendant on the suggestive and alto
gether impertinent inquiry as to
what my name was before sought
refuge in the wilds of Colorado.
Hewing Out Empire
Our friends of the east some
times delight to jibe us in this way,
but all that is neither here nor there.
While they have been peacefully
dreaming their lives away, uncon-
scious that there are still new
worlds to conquer, we of the west
have been building empire upon en-
pire, and the people of no state have
builded wiser and better than have
you in this land of mystery and
magic.
While state lines divide our lands,
thank God no state lines divide our
hearts and sympathies. East, west,
north and south we are one people
bound together by the golden chain
of fraternity more securely than if
held in letters of iron. We are one
people; we worship one God; we
have one common country, and we
know one, and but one, allegiance.
Yes, we are glad to be in Cali
fornia tonight and we are especially
glad to be in Los Angeles. l have
understood that your name trans
lated somewhat literally perhaps
signifies the city of the Angels
AS I look about me tonight l am
convinced. You must not, however,
forget that we brought some of
them along with us.
No Keys Are Needed
1t may be thought by some heart
less individuals that, looking to the
uncertainties of the hereafter, so
many Elks having succeeded in get
ting into the "City of the Angels"
it might be we'll to see that the
gates are securely locked. Speak
ing for myself, you are privileged
to lock them, bolt and bar them, and
then lose the key. If l should ever
wish to depart which now seems to
me highly improbable, | know that
I would only have to appeal to your
generosity, which also would pro-
tect me from an invitation to de-
part.
1t was Pericles, I think, who said
of Athens that she alone Of all her
contemporaries was better thar the
report of her. These are the words
and this the sentiment woven into
the garland which I tonight place
upon the brow of this fair city as I
kneel to kiss her proffered hand in
token of an Elk's appreciation.
Governor Speaks
The speech of the grand exalted rule
was frequently interrupted by applause
and the speaker was loudly cheered.
Governor James N. Gillett also spoke
The program in full was as follows:
Overture, "Auld Lang Syne," (Muller).
Invocation, Brother Rev. John Dysart
grand chaplain.
Selection, Lost Chord" Elks' quartet.
Address of welcome in behalf of the Elks
reunion committee and lodge No. 3d. u. L
D. Il. Elxs, Motley ii. Flint.
ContraitO solo, Miss Lillian Seaman.
Address of welcome in behalf of city O
Los Angeles, Mayor George Alexander.
Song, quartet, Charles +. Eaton, Jake Hill
George w. Chant, win Clark, of SpOkan
Odge No. 228
Address in behalf of state of California
Governor Brother James n. Gillett.
Response on behalf of grand lodge, Bro
her Rush L. Holland, grand exalted rule
B. p o. Elks.
Finale, America" orchestra.
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