Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-18

all the days of their struggle for the
larger and better development of those
constitutional rights which practlcally
demanded the bitterness of civil war
in order to be fully written into the
political history of our nation.
1T is important for us from time to
time to stand face to face with those
moments of our cOuntry's history to
rehearse the deeds of patriots and
learn to estimate at their value the
principles that make and preserve us a
nation. We are in a busy commercial
age and commercial values are apt TO
confuse our Judgment on all questions.
We are in a current of great prosper
ity and we are apt to be carried along
by the waves of success and thus lose
sight of principles. The country is in
danger of becoming means to per-
sonal ends and government made
servant of selfishness. Private inter-
ests are apt to outweigh puglic inter-
ests are apt to outweigh public inter
may sometimes cost the success and
the labors and even the lives of the
multitude.
LEST WE FORGET
In our busy, material life we are
liable to forget the unselfishness which
country demands of us. We need to
he told over and over again that, as
zation is not in the census nor in the
size of the cities nor the crops. NO,
but in the kind of men that the coun-
try turns out
Goodness of life and unself1shness
of purpose are the elements of strength
in patriotic devotion to country. Rights
are best protected by fidelity to duty.
The brave men who died at Bunker
Hill have placed their honor in our
on nf fqrniSh
their good name, but let love of God
and of country make us true men and
women worthy of the liberty for which
our heroes have died. On each one OF
us individuals falls the responsibility
to guard the sacred treasure of human
liberty confded to the keeping of our
glorious republic.
This world depends on us-on you and me.
The power of the throng in which we live
Depends on what each one OF US will give
OF his own life, to make the whole world
sound.
The destiny of human kind is found IN you
and me.
Following Bishop Conaty, Mrs. Fred
L. Rossiter won herself instant pop
ularity with the banqueters, chiefly
because of the sentiment of the. song
she had chosen. The title of the song
was California for Mine" In it kind
ly shots were taken at nearly all local
in a fetching manner the thought was
expressed that after all is said ana
done and seen, California is first. The
theme of the song, although it might
seem that it's appeal would meet re-
sponsiVe chord only in the hearts or
the most native of native Cal1for-
mans, met with the hearty approval
of New Englanders, middle Westerners
and southerners alike.
In introducing Harry E. Andrews,
managing editor of the Times, DR.. Lee
adroitly included references to all Los
Angeles newspapers. He referred to
Mr., Andrews as the one man who
could be excused for being behind the
Times"
Mr.. Andrews subject was But All
CalifOrnians" That no one could dis
pute his right to claim allegiance to
New England as his native country
was the first statement. New Eng
land" said Mr.. Andrews, 'is the land
of which it may be said, to quote Arte-
mus Ward, the only objection is that
sleighing gets a little thin in July and
August. 800
1--WE came to California for different
reasons" said Mr.. Andrews further.
1--WE have staid here for different rea-
sons some of us because real estate
went up and some of us because real
estate went down.
california is the longest state in
the union," he continued. II hope that
it shall always be the broadest
Joseph Scott, who was to talk upon
1.-THE Chamber of Commerce" was not