Year: 1875

turning settled principles at the bid
ding of Casters, and rendering our ju-
risprudence as uncertain as the COM
mon law was secure!


Look at our cabinet officers! Openly
and notoriously chosen and confirmed
after standing for years convicted of
being the enemies of the people!


Look at our financial department!
Managed for the interest of those who
give us serpents for meat, and stones
for bread, and who ask us and the
world to accept for money the prom
ises to pay of q government whose
credit they have destroyed, whose
honor they have debauched!


Look at our public land system!
That grand area which it was the
boast of our fathers should remain for
ever the property of the nation, (only
as it might be given for homes to the
lovers of freedom who sought to live
beneath the shadow of our tree), tra-
ded to corporations in quantities large
as empires, to be transferred through
the indirect channel of railroad bond
and mortgage to the capitalists of the
old world!


Is there liberty of conscience? Or is
there not to-day sounded from the
very head of our government the toe
sin of religious war? And is it not
true that the banner of sectarian strife
is waving in every school district in
the land?


Look at the general prosperity of
the country! Why is it that your
grapes are rottlng upon your vines;
that your grain and wool find no mar
ket; that the miners of Pennsylvania
are warning for bread; the factory
hands of New England dying for sus-
tenance; and the laborers of the great
metropolis of our nation, the empire
city of the world, mad with famine
and want? Why is it that virtue, ed
ucation and honesty, when placed in
the social scale with ill-gotten wealth,
kick the beam? and character and pa
triotic truth are feather weight with
coin? 1t is because our Temple is no
longer carefully watched and guarded
as the home of freedom. 1t is because
our people are no longer true to that
elevated governmental liberty anchor
ed in justice, grounded in equality,
furnishing security. Brethren, the
remedy is with the people, with us,
and those who believe with us. 1t
needs Drawer hearts and stronger arms
to-day to maintain our edifice than it
did to found and erect it. The cry is
to the front, and restore our govern
ment to its pristine glory!


Standing in this presence to-day not
as an alarmist, viewing the immedi-
ate past, and alive to the Indications
Of the present, / solemnly assert that
unless the people are fully aroused
and with firm and honest purpose, q
broad sense of their responsibility and
an universal unanimity rally to the
support of the governmental principles
Red Men cherish, the setting sun of
the nineteenth century will cast its last
sOrrowing beam upon republic over
thrown.


But, sir, if all honest men who love
our country for what it was, and be-
lieve in American liberty as it was
christened, will join upon the broad
platform of our order, we may trans
nit to posterity our Temple unim-
paired, a government loved by it's citi-
zens, honored by the world, and pro-
tected by the approval of the Everlast-
ing God!


The eloquent orator closed amid con-
siderable applause, after which the
Quartette Club sung "Lightn in a
creditable manner. The band gave q
fine selection, benediction was pro-
nounced by Rev. VIM. III. Hill, and
the Tribe marched back to the Wig
wam.


Iii the evening Turner hall was a
scene of great gayety. About one
hundred couples Joined in the light
fantastic, and the dance was kept up
until u late hour. The supper, fur
nished by Mr.. Gehring, of the st.
Charles, was one of the best ever given
in Los Angeles. Taken altogether the
celebration was success highly cred
liable to Shominac Tribe.