Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1889.

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THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1880.

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LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL Washington, d. a-itifjfi nous and rwtt Telephone Calls. XSaalce Office 238 Editorial Booms 242 The procession in New York outnumbered ours, but. they commenced before -wo did. Jnst wait till next centennial. Whittier's poem was entirely worthy of the occasion, and contains some noblo Btanzns and lines. , The fires of the old man's genius still burn. Take it all in all, the celebration in New York was a well-managed affair, and one fully equal to the requirements of the occasion, great as they were. The local celebration was entirely luiccessful. The street parade was handsome and well handled, and tho evening exercises at Tomlinson Hall wero appropriate and interesting. TnE Hendricks Club made a very creditable appearance in yesterday's procession, and. their contribution in the way of a fine picture of General Washington was a striking and patriotic feat ure. Ir any of the Journal's readers are displeased because so much space is given to centennial matters, they can comfort themselves with the reflection that it is not likely to occur again for a hundred years. Tf President Harrison's inauguration had come on the 30th of April, how much better weather he would have had! The celebration of yesterday emphasizes the desirability of changing the date of inauguration day. Mr. Richard Smith, of Cincinnati, telegraphs to an Eastern paper that Mr. Halstcad is now out of danger, and improving steadily. The country will be the gainer by Mr. Halstead's recovery, and the assurance conveyed by Mr. Smith will be received with pleasure by a very large number of people. For a city which had not so much as been thought of in Washington's day; Indianapolis took a creditable part in tho centennial celebration, both at home and by a very distinguished representation in New York. Tho Hoosier town is as glad as any that Washington was General Harrison's predecessor in office. It was eminently appropriate that religious services should occupy a prominent place in the celebration yesterday, as they did everywhere. President Harrison and his party attended services in tho church where Washington attended on the day of his inauguration, and everywhere throughout tho country divine favor was invoked for national preservation. TnE content of to-day's Journal indicate that yesterday was a day saered to patriotism. The ad dresses, responses to toa'sts, etc., occupy a great deal of space, but they are worth reading. Tho spirit of patriotism animates all, and the reading of them will be profitable to every man who honors tho name of Washington and hopes for a continuance of the Republic. Mr. CnACXCET Depew may as well xetiro from the railroad business and enter the oratorical field once for all. Having demonstrated the fact that he is as good at "set" speeches as he is at offhand after-dinner talkinghe will henceforth be in demand at all important doings the country over, and will not have time for anything else. Such a man cannot be permitted to hide his light under a bushel, or, as in his case, under a freight car. A great many people came out and expressed their gladness yesterday that the Nation had one hundredyears of presidential rule. Except in campaign.times Americana aro apt to bo economical of patriotic sentiment; but it pnly needs a proper provocation to bring out proof of iheir love for and loyalty to homo institutions. There hro no Kepublicans or Democrats, Prohibitionists or mugwumps when it comes to celebrating a national anniversary. The "scare" report that it was tho purpose of Republicans to turn tho Metropolitan police forco into a partisan body evidently emanated from tho brain of one of thoso geniuses who helped to pass the lamented but frazzled police and board-of-conhol bills. Ho expected to have a hand in reconstructing the police force and other departments of the city government himself, and naturally suspects others of a similar design. He should be informed that tho present force is quito satisfactory, and equal to all demands. It is said that Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey, late Prohibition candidate for President, is on the point of returning to the Republican party, of which ho was formerly a member. He is reported to have said to cx-Senator Sewell that lib was done with the third-party movement to far as New Jersey was con-

cerned He said the Republicans had

been consistent on the temperance question and had done all they could to promote local option, which is only another name for prohibition in localities. The Democrats were firmly wedded to the saloon, and if the Prohibitionists ever expected to accomplish anything like what they desired they must look to tho Republican party and the Republican party only for it. This information is furnished by a Trenton correspondent of the New York Press, who seems to speak by authority. If true it means the end of the Prohibition third-party movement in New Jersey, at least. A PATRIOTIC DEMOSSTHi.yiOJ. American patriotism is not dead. It is a live and vital principle, and only needs suitable occasion to call it into action. Whether it be a Fourth of July celebration or a holiday parade, a foreign war or a Samoan difficulty, the sentiment responds readily to every call and is equal to every occasion. In its hours of case it may be somewhat uncertain, and in the piping times of in action may become somewhat encrusted with the selfish barnacles of tradoor overweighted with the rubbish of profit and loss, but it always comes to the front when called upon. American patriotism is not dead. There is one notable difference be tween tho celebration of national holi days and anniversaries in this country and others. In all other countries such celebrations are mainly government affairs, gotten up and managed by the government primarily for its own glori fication, and, secondarily, to please and interest the people. The people attend more as invited guests than as princi pals or participants. They enjoy public demonstrations as spectacles gotten up by the government for their amusement, in which they have no other part than that of interested sight-seers. It is one of the approved methods in European governments of amusing and paci fying the people reviewing armies which the people have to sup port, and spending for fire-works and other spectacles a little of the money extorted from them by governments not of their own choice. This is the European style, but here all is very different. Our national celebra tions and holiday parades are not gov ernment affairs. They aro gotten up by the people themselves, paid for by pri vate subscription, managed and mar shaled by private citizens. Instead of the government inviting the people to wit ness a spectaclo gotten up by itself, the people invite the government to partici pate in a celebration gotten up by them. It follows that national celebrations and holiday parades have a different signifi cance from those of other countries. In other countries they are mainly displays of government strength and liberality. With us they aro spontaneous expressions of popular feeling. Tho celebrations yesterday illustrated this idea, and wero great object-lessons of patriotism. We say celebrations, for they were almost without number. The great overshadowing demonstration in New York was only one of thou sands. From Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacific the people in their various ways commemorated the birth of the government and the inaugu ration of the first President. It was people's day, and right grandly they cel ebrated it. Wherever the government. participated it wasfon their invitation, and everywhere the observances be spoke the willing loyalty of a free peo ple and their unswerving devotion to the principles on which our government was founded and still rests. American patriotism is not dead. wasbtkqios and foreigners. It is related that at a critical stage during the Revolutionary war, and on a certain night when the situation was peculiarly hazardous, Washington said toouoof his 6taff officers: "Put none but Americans on cruard to-night." We doubt if he ever said it. The idea, of course, is that the situation was so grave and critical that he thought none but native-born Americans could be trusted on guard or picket duty. But if they cou'd not bo trusted that' night, how could they be trusted any other night. and if they could not be trusted on guard how could they be trusted in action! Washington had no special reason for distrusting foreigners. Benedict Arnold was not a foreigner. Tho biOerest Tories of that day were Americans. Some of Washington's best officers and most trusted friends, like Lafayette, Baron Steuben and others, were foreign ers. Some of the best patriots of that day were Irishmen. It was an Irishman, Charles Thompson, who, some years later, was appointed to notify Washing ton of his electiou as President. And, r by the way, this same Thompson mar ried a sister of Benjamin Harrison, one of tho signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence and an ancestor of President Harrison. But it Washington ever did use the expression which tradition imputes to him, we can only say the conditions have changed wonderfully since that time. Now a considerable proportion of Amer ican citizens are of foreign birth, and their loyalty is as unquestioned as that of native-born citizens. In all the celebrations yesterday they were fully represented, and bore an honorable and conspicuous part. A good foreigner makes a good American, and a bad Anieiican is no better than a bad for eigner. If Washington were alive now he would not have to a;iy "Put none but Aniericaus on guard." The New York World, in an editorial entitled "Mr. Cleveland's Opportunity, " admits that he has been a failure as a political leader and as a Democratic President, but thinks ho is still a presi dential possibility for the same reason he was before, viz., tho lack of conspicu ous Democratic leaders f national reputation. "His strength," says the World, "conies from the grave-yard of Demo cratic statesmen." The streugth that comes from a gravo-yard is neither nat ural nor healthy. Yesterday's proceedings in New York reached tho culminating point of interest in the great celebration. Tho

ceremonies at tho sub-treasury, located on the site of the old "Fed

eral Building," where Washington was inaugurated, were very impressive. The oration by Hon. Chauncey M. Depew was a masterly and eloquent pre sentation of the great events and thoughts suggested by the occasion, and the brief remarks by President Harrison were exceedingly appropriate. Tnmr 17X0 in 1fifc is a loner time. And frnm HoorirA Washington in lieniamin Har rison is a long distance. Indianapolis beniinei. But not so far as from George Wash ington to G rover Cleveland. CniCAGO gas companies, like gas com panies everywhere, exact from their pa trons a ten-dollar deposit as an evidence of good faith, as if the payment of big monthly bills were not sufficient protection to the light furnishers. A prying Chicagoan has discovered a State law which requires the company to pay five per cent, interest ou all such deposits, and this person unkindly urges the citizens to demand their own. The companies having had the free use of many thousands of dollars for years can afford to pay interest, but the exist ence of so many depositors will necessitate vexatious calculations and cause much trouble. Still, the gas consumers in that city are just inconsiderate enough to call for a settlement. The Boston Herald makes editorial an nouncement of the starting of a new child's periodical. If this statement had appeared elsewhere the puzzled Western reader might humbly inquire -if a child's new periodical was meant, hut, of course, it's all right. . ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mr.R.11. Stoddard has bad a cataract re moved from one of his eyes, and is making rapid progress toward entire recovery. Abeam 8. Hkwitt, who Is now in London, has a suite of rooms directly over those of General Boolanger. It is said that the two have already dined together, and that they are indangerof becoming fast friends. Miss Scsanjja M. DrsKLEE, of Newton. Mass.,' tho first woman to be bank treasurer in the United States, with the help of a cleric, now handles about $500,000 in money each year. In tne mtcen years or ner experience sne naa out twice taken in a counterfeit bill In each case a $10 one. CniBF-jrsTiCK Fuller and Judge Harlan are almost always together, and are daily seen walking to and from the Capitol, in Washington. Judge Field and Judge Bradley are very close friends, and are at each others' houses frequently. Judge Blatchford and Judge Lamar walk or drive in company every pleasant afternoon. Judge MUler, In his walks or drives, "goes it alone," but he Is the friend of every Justice, and his society is gladly welcomed by any of them at all times. SrsAKixo of Mrs. John Chanler, formerly known as MUs Amelie Rives, the Richmond Dispatch critically observes: "Her eyes have been compared to two great double blue violets, so indescribable is their hue between purple and blue, and the color of her hair can be only described as tnat of burnished cold. Her voice is verv sweet, and her unsDoiled and nerfectlv natural grace could only be the reflection of a warm and generous heart, which those who know ner best accord to her' A citizen of Carthage, Mo., has In his posses- , sion an original price list of slaves, the property of Jeff Davis's brother before the war. The list embraces 106 names of both sexes, ranging from infants to the aged patriarch. Babies are quoted at $100, children of twelve years $t00, ablebodied women $800, and thrifty farm hands at $1,100. A man fifty years of age was worth but . r i x yk L j B i i a. - 9ouu, wciie an om oiina woman was set uown ai rero. Husband and wife are quoted separately. The document is queer reading to the present generation. "William Deaw IIowells is one of the neatest men in the world of letters," says Current Liter ature. "i-Tis study is as daintily ordered as a lady's boudoir, and his dress is immaculate; but he cannot Induce his thick, grayish-brown hair to remain in the state of smoothness to which he endeavors to reduce It, &ud, rumpled over his broad forehead, it gives him a singularly youthful appearance. He is rather un-American look ing, on tha whole; dark, with heavy features and very deep eyes beneath drooping lids, but which light up wonderfully, as Indeed the whole face docs when he is conversing." SCB-TRKABCRER ROBERTS, of New York, Who has the custody of $183,000,000 of the govern ment's money,has devised additional safeguards for guarding the treasure. Two men alone know the secret of the lock in the vault one knowing one-half of the combination, the other the second half. These men will be known to their associates, but to avoid complication in case of death, air. lloberts has given another two the combinations. These latter two are not known to their associates, and are not even known to each other. Further, to guard against mishaps, the two men known to have the combinations have written, in separate sealed envelopes, each bis half of the secret, and Mr. Foberts put these envelopes in a big envelope, plasterod it with sealing wax from end to end, and locked ltln the safe. This is for his own benetlt. in case the holders of one undivided half of the secret should be sick or die. Mr. Roberts would then break the great clamp of wax on the big envelope, and for the first vime know the secret himself. COMMENT AND OPINION. No roan can be so hieh that a lawyer will not assail him or so low that a lawyer will not defend him. Lawyers deal with the atfairsof every other clnf8, but their profession is hostile to none. lie nee. when important omces arato be filled it is easy to escape difficulties by selecting lawyers. Chic a co Tribune. With the suffrage free and the ballot sacred theio can be no Justification for appeals to forco. Tbe Nation enters itivsecond century with lib erty, peace, prosperity, ana progress well as sured, but in the drink evil and the debasement of the suffrage it still has great questions to soive. cmcago iTiuune. Exclusion of colored voters from Republican or protectionist councils will not hastcu the solution of the race question. Far otherwise is true. The inexorable economies and the inevitable industries may be depended upon to make great area of the South protectionist In senti ment. Chicago inter Ocean. There are no fears now for the work of those who framed the Constitution. Theirwisdom has been grandly demonstrated. Let thos whose duty it is to maintain tne rignts thus (riven them do their work equally well and this great fabric, the government of the United States of America, will last, let us hope, to the end of time. Chicago News. We do not alone draw the profit from the foundation and continuance of a free government, for the Inspiration, which only liberty can give, cannot be conaneu witnin our own borders. Our neighbor will come to us for knowl edge, and the truest patftot is he who shall teach mm that to all mm ie lours the right of governing themselves. Louisville Courier-Journal. Tue lofty sense of duty ?hleh inapiied Capt. Murrell is not nearly so scarce as we are apt to suppose, it is never wanting in an emergency that calls for splendid servloe. The heroes are always on band where they are needed; and It is easier for them to improve than to neglect their opportunities even when life must be sacrificed in the undertaking. St, Louis Globe-Democrat. At the present time the only national menace is the determination of a large class at the South to override and trample in the dust the rights of the majority. That is the only cloud row in the heavens of this Republic. The situation is serious but not critical. The first century grappled with and destroyed slavery, and the second has a comparatively trivial task before it in th obliteration of the eolor line from politics. Chicago Inter Ocean. PimsoxAL interviews on the matter of appointments must l abandoned, and the lresident will have to delegate to the Cabinet and heads of departments the responsibility of seeing candidates and receiving the indorsements of Senators, vrho wUl, in turn, communicate their lmpiesions to the Frciddent. who will have to use them for his eyes and ears to a greater extent than has beeu heretofore customary. Otherwise he will be simply crushed by the weight of detail work. Nebraska Stato Journal. It has lxcoine proverbial in these modem times that if you want to find the effete thought and teaching of a discarded aee you must go to the colleges of the rime to find it. And it is too true that if you want to know what this age is doinjr aud what its newer flelds of knowledge are, you must go to the laboratory of the discoverer or the workshop of the inventor. Sometimes you may hear them discussed in a convention of teachers or professors as a sort of intellectual dissipation, but they never find a place on tho blackboard of the recitation-room. Kansas City Journal. Don't Forget John llrown's Soul. Detroit Tribune. And while to-day yon are singing your songs of glad joy, don't forget that John Brown's soul goca inarching on. It was all, for liberty.

GREAT DAY FOR TIIE NATION

A Centennial JIarked by Thanksgiving and Patriotic Response of the People. The Holiday Spirit Prevails and Strengthens Loyalty and Pride in the American Nation's Great Men and Grand Achievements. A Century's Progress Told by Orators in the Pulpits and on the Rostrum. Patriotic Songs Swell the Rejoicing as It Comes from Hearts of Thousands Gathered Together for Devotion. A Parade of Military and Civic Organizations Witnessed by Thousands. The Great Meeting at Tomlinson Hall, Where Music and Speeches Complete a Day Given Over to the Nation's Best Sentiment. A DAY FOR PATRIOTS. Evidence the Fcople Gave of Their Loyal Interest in the Event. The weather might have been more inviting for the out-door observances of the centennial, hut it was not too chilly or threatening to diminish the patriotic ardor that was present everywhere throughout the city. The fitful and brief periods of sunshine alternating with those of eky overcast and of longer duration were cheering, hut the weather conditions, as a whole, were not what could be considered altogether promising. But the vast majority that did not go to church and saved their expressions of patriotic interest for the parade were in holiday attire early on the streets. The afternoon was not a half-hour old before the people began to come down town from all directions. Men, women and children in groups of three, four and a times a half-dozen were hurrying to points in the central pari of the city where they could obtain a view of the parade. An hour before a drum was heard or a bugle sounded, for squares Washington, Pennsylvania and others of the principal streets were crowded with sight-seers. In the morning many of these people had been to church, for in every place where services were held the congregations were largor than on Sunday. A deep religious feeling, mingled with the ardent patriotism that gives the Fourth of July its importance in the Nation's calendar, seemod to prevail. It was a quiet holiday, with nothing to disturb its orderliness or lessen the dignity of its observance. While business was not altogether suspended, the stores that were open during the afternoon had but few customers. Nobody had much thought about buying except through necessity, and if the machinery in factories did not stop it was on the same accouut. As it was, thousands of workmen had the day to themselves after 12 o'clock, and swelled the throngs that one had to push his way through anywhere between Delaware aud Illinois, and Washington, and New York streets. Outside of that district, though, crowds gathered wherever there was a promise of seeing anything that belonged to the day.' In a word, the time waa suggestive of a Thanksgiving Sunday and 4th of July blended, lint there was an absence of decoration. : A few stores had the Nation's Hug hanging before them, the windows of residences here and there were dotted with the stars and stripes of the modern pattern, and occasionally one could catch a glimpse of tho Washington features through this halo of red, white and blue, but beyond this there was no attempt at decoratiou. The patriotic sentiment was in the hearts of the people, and it responded to everything suggestive of tribute to Washington's memory. SERVICES AT THE CHURCHES. Large Union Meeting at the First Presbyterian Church. The services in celebration of the inauguration of the first President of tho Republic held yesterday morning from 9 to 11 o'clock at the First Presbyterian Church were participated in by the congregations of the First, Second, Fourth and Tabernacle Presbyterian, tho First Baptist, Meridianstreet M. . and Plymouth Congregational churches. The house was tilled, added interest being given to the occasion by reason of the fact that the present President of tho United States, Benjamin Harrison, is an elder of the church in which this union service was held. Iiev. Dr. Nathaniel, Alden Hyde, a lineal descendant of John Alden, of the Plymouth colony, presided at the meeting. After an anthem by tho choir, Rev. Dr. Ilentf Day offered prayer. The congregation then sung tho hymn "Before the Lord we how," which was followed by a Scripture reading by Rev. Oscar C. McCulloch. This reading consisted of passages from Deuteronomy relating to the promise of national life, ant from the Psalms, expressive of thanksgiving for national blessings. Rev. Dr. H. A. Cleveland being absent by reason of sickness, the prayer which was assigned to him on the programme was made by Rev. Dr. S. A. Keen. Hon. John M. Butler, who had been selected as the orator for the occasion, was introdnced to the audience. Mr. Butler said it was peculiarly fitting that people of Indianapolis should with gratitude obey the proclamation to make this a day of thanksgiving. Knowing him as the people here do they cannot but feel that his words mean far more than the mere perfunctory performance of an official act. The orator then said, in part: We have just cause for profound gratitude for the trreat and good men who founded our government, aud for those who nursed and nurtured it through the three score and ten years that elapsed after its formation before it became in fact what it professed in name to be. It is a great thing for a neighborhood, a town, a city, a state, a natidn, to have a good start to be rounded by good men. Heredity manifests itself in the commuulty, the state, the nation, with almost the same certainty that it does in the individual members of a family. Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Jay, Madison it was these men of imperishable fame and blessed memory, with a host of brave, pure and true men who followed where these leaders of leaders led, who forged our ConstituUon aud molded our institutions. One hundred years ago to-day these men inaugurated the government of the Lnltsd States as a Nation. The value of Washington to his country transcends that of any other man to any land. Ly the Eentlcness, unselfishness, purity aud majesty of is character, and the magnetism of his influence, he made national unity by the adoption of the Constitution a possibility. lie was an inspiring and sustaining power in every movement toward union and national existence, just as he had been in every weary step toward independence. It has been well said by another: "Take him frtm the revolution and all the fervsr of the sons of liberty would seem to have been a wasteful flame; take him from the constitutional epoch, and the essentia! condition of nnion personal confidence in a leader would have been wanting." A recent Kngllh writer, whose volumes on "The American Commonwealth have created no small sensation in England, says: "Washington Mands alone and unupirechable, like a snow-peak rising above its fellows into the clear air of morning, with a diirnitv. constancy and purity which have made Lini the ideal t jh' f civic virtue to succeeding generations. Nocirater benefit could have befallen the Keuul.lic thau to have Mich a type set rtoiu the lirst he lore the eye and mind of the ieople." Our government, as established one hundred years ago to-day, had its one cancerous spot wbicn Doaeu ui to its perputulty and peace. With his clear vision Washington saw that, sooner or later, this cancer mut be cut out or the Union then formed must perish. Shortly before

leaving Mt. Vernoo to take his position as first I

lTesiueni or. ma united states, he said to an Englishman, then his guest: 4iNot only do I pray for it on the score of huuisu dignity, but 1 cau clearly foresee that nofhmg but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our Union by consolidating it in a common bond of principle." Nearly seventy years later, Abraham Lincoln our second Washington reiterated this sentiment in the memorable words: "A nation divided against itself cannot stand. The Union cannot continue half slave, and half free; it must be aU free, or it must perish. When the crucial test came, the people, true to the traditions and faith of the Illustrious fathers of our country, chose the better part, and the Nation still Uves. But gratitude for the founders of our commonwealth should not exclude from memory the deep gratitude we owe for the great and good men who have been raised np from time to time during this pnt century whenever our country's needs demanded great men. The men have always been ready when the emergency came. When the Constitution was to be construed and its powers defined. Chief Justice Marshall the greatest Jurist of the century presided over the Supreme Court, and Webster, the peerless constitutional lawyer and debater, practiced at its bar. When the time came to solve once and forever the question whether the State or Nation should be sovereign and supreme, Lincoln, ftrant, Sherman, Stanton. Humner, Howard, Chase and and a host of worthy coinpeers, were here, the question was definitely settled, and the Nation cati forth from the black storms of battle and the tempest of war stronger, freer, fuller than ever lfore. Verily, we have cause or thanksgiving for the great men God has given to our Nation during its first hundred years. There Is cause for deep gratitude in the fact that our forefathers were so guided and inspired that they gave its a national Constitution so broad aud comprehensive, so massive in its foundations, so perfectly adjusted, so firmly based upon the immutable principles of liberty, equality, fraternity and Justice, that neither increase of territory nor multiplication of population hare strained or cramped it. The fact that the success of the independent republican government of the United States has had, and is now having, a powerful influence on the governments of the old world in behalf of freedom and the rights of man, is a most worthy cause for special gratitude and thanksgiving. The American Idea of government is rapidly becoming dominant. At first the source of jest, and gibe, and ridicule, it is to-day the ideal government of earth, the guiding star of hope and promise to nations that were old when ours was born. Kvery act of toleration, every disenthralhnent granted by tho kings and emperors of Europe since the succes&lul establishment and maintenance of our free reImblican government, has been a tribute to the nfluence of the United States. Every revolution in Europe during the century now closed has found its underlying cause iu the abiding faith of the people of Europe in the American idea of government, and has tended toward the practical adoption of that idea. The priceless boons of liberty and equal rights gave inspiration to genius, hope to ambition, wings to Imagination and faith to Intellectual endeavor, invention, thrift, self-culture and manly struggle for advancement thrived as never before, until in an incredibly short space of time our young Republic stood at the head in almost every department of human endeavor. In December, 1802, when we were undergoing the last and supreme test of national strength aud endurance, when the storm cloudsof internal war were busing upon us, when England, as a nation, was freely giving her influence and aid to those who were striving to destroy our Union and disrupt our NaUon, the voice of that most eloquent Englishman, John Bright, the great commoner, rang out above the storm with words of hope oud cheer. He said: 'l have a far other and brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision, but 1 will cherish it. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main, and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime." John Bright lived to see what he thought might be but a vision fully realized. Our independent Re public is no longer an ex periment, it is an established fact. Look at it, think of its history, and you will be ready with bowed head and uplifted hand to say: What hath God wrought? This proclamation calls us to frayer as well as to thanksgiving. Prayer is an die ceremony unless coupled with an earnest devotion of our labor, our influence, ourselves, to the doing of our full part in working out the fulfillment of the prayer we offer. For what ate we, as Integral parts of this great Nation, to prayt Here again we shonld resort to the concrete rather tbrm the abstract. The great exam ple of prayer given for all time and all people is made up of concise petitions for particular blessings. The fact that every change of policy is care fully watched and freely criticised by an opposing political party is a valuable safeguard against any great and sudden deviation from the course that has led our Nation up to its phenomenal success. But when devotion to party is permitted to overshadow demotion to country, when fealty to party is made superior to fealty to country. Benefit and safety end and heresy and danger begin. ' We were told of old that there is danger to a nation when its king is a child. We are persuaded that there is grave danger toarepublio when money becomes its idol. Again we should pray, and legislate, and labor for full and final release from monopolies, combinations and joint conspiracies. wnetaer or capital or laoor. xne mau in this free land, where the race for success is open to aU, who by word, or pen, or act, incites, or seeks to incite hostility and strife between labor and capital, is an enemy to labor, an enemy to capital, an enemy to his country, an enemy to mankind. Labor is helpless and foodless without capital to furnish it employment. Capital is dead and worthless without the aid of labor to make it Remunerative. Labor and capital are complements of each other together they form the perfect arch; complete in symmetry and strength: separated, each is only the broken, weak and useless fragment of the arch. From the creation of man down to the present time competition has been the life of trade and the soul of progress. It gives inspiration to effort, arousss ambition, quickens inven tion and nerves a man for endurance in life struggles. Combinations and aggregations of either capital or Labor formed for the purpose of throttling competition, and controlling the price of either labor or the commodities and rod nets produced by labor, are hurt mi, and urtful not only to the individuals immediately affected, but to the community at large and to the nation. We hold in our keeping priceless Institutions. hallowed by the bravery, tho sacrifice, the toil, the blood of the fathers. iJowe love ami prize these institutions as we ought! It is weU that on this hundredth anniversary of the birth of our Nation as an Indissoluble union of States we . should recount our na tional blessings with devout thanksgiving aud earnestly pray for continued guidance, con tinued protection ana continued prosperity in the future. If by these services we are quick ened in lovo of our country, in reverence for constitutional liberty, in thankfulness for past mercies and deliverances, and in courage, faith and hope for the future, our meeting will not have been in vain. "Lord of the universe! shield us and guide ns. Trusting Thee always, through shadow and sun; Thou hast united us, who shall divide uel Keep us, O keep us the many in one. At the close of the address the choir and congregation sang the national hymn "America," and preparatory to it Dr. llyde said that the venerable author ot thehvmn. Rev. tf. F. Smith, who had been spared to pee the hundredth anniversary of the Nation, had composed what he designates the "centenary stanza." "This," said Dr. Hvde. "has come too late to be printed upon the programme, but the choir will sing it." In lines of the new stanza are as follows: "Our Joyful hosts to-day. Their grateful tribute pay - flappy and free . After our toils and fears, After our blood and tearsStrong with our hundred years O lx)rd, to Thee," This was sung by the choir, after which the benediction was pronounced by Kev. J. A. Kondthaler, which couciuded the services. Observances of the Catholics. All the churches of the Roman Catholic diocese of Vincennca celebrated the cen tennial of the inauguration of George Washington. In this city the bells began at 8:30 o'clock, yesterday morning, and rung joyful peals, ushering in the solemn high mass, which commenced at 9 o'clock. At St. John's Church the sanctuary was covered with flowers, tho display being as profuse as upon the great feast days of the church Easter and Christmas. A largo number of lights were burning upon the altar during the service. Pontifical high mass was celebrated by tho Rt. Rev. Frau cis Silas Chatard, Bishop of Viucennes, assisted Monsignor Bessonics; Very Rev. Father Francis, Father Angelus and Father Maximilian, all of the order of St. Francis; Rev. Francis B. Dowd, with Rev. F. IT. Gavisk. being master of ceremonies. There were twenty altar boys, and the service was a very impressive one. The sermon was bv Bishop Chatard. As an introduction to it he said he was glad to bee tho church so well idled; had the fnc tories granted a full instead of but a half holidav ni most of them had done he had no doubt but the church would have been crowded to overflowing, as Catholics never take second idnce with any people in love. of country. The Catholic is taucbt, he continued, to be a good citizen, and the better Catholic he is the better citizen he must be. The Bishop quoted the words of Cardinal l'aliarieiiii. as used in th Cardi nal's history ot the Council of I rent, witero he said that "a citizen is what his educa tion makes him:" and. as Catholics aro taught in a special manner obedience and respect for authority, cousiderinc that au thority cornea from God and that those who hold the power are to be respected, it

naturally follows that a good Catholic made a good citizen.

me liisnoptnen dwelt upon the duties of good citizenship, saying that to vote for base considerations of interest, or to barter one's vote, is treason to one's country an act ho disgraceful, so dishonorable, so unworthy of a freeman that only one with the disposition of a pariah and a slave would be guilty of it; an act which, he said, be did not hesitate to say was mortally sinful. Those who supinely neglect to cast their votes uo ihh uiscnarge xneir nuiy to lueir country, and are responsible to a great extent 'for tbo eviU that result from such omission. In like manner, the neglect of duties incumbent npon a citizen, of tribute, of aid to authority of conscientious discharge of duty as a juryman is a violation of charity to the community apct the iertlie source of disorder leading to anarchy. Legislators aro most solemnly bound to make use of their position for the public good: to look lirst and last to the good of the people: to mako wise and just laws and only such as are called for by the good of the community. For in the teaching ot all theologians a law that is not for the cood of the com munity is no law at all. Tho judge that decides must do so according to law. aud ho must take it as bis guide, taking care to judge, always a just judgment L very jrrade ami walk ot lite." tho Bishop said, "has its duties toward tho community. To discharge tUetn rightly is the part of Christian morality. We know that the sound principles of morality of tho Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church surpass all others, and as the sacraments, especially that of penance, bring about faithful obedience to those Principles, we are justified in concluding that her influence in doing good to our country is permanent and that no religious body is of such advantage to our country ns the Cathoito Church. Men are only too re cently throwing of the shackles of prejudice to realize this. In fact there are many who will concede it; not a lew who still regard her as the intolerable persecutor of all liberty, religions as well as civil. These men are unwilling to give us credit for sincerity. May it not he that they are judging us by their own spirit of intolerance? Whether so or not we can tell them that they misjudge ns. We are sin cere in our professions of loyalty to the principles ot religious freedom. "As incumbent as it is on a catholic nation not to permit the spread of antiCatholic ideaa among Catholic people, so the same principle of charity dictates that in a country where there are people in good taith possessing not only creuus not Catholic, but evea paganism, no vio lence or persecution should be used against such persons. Pone Leo has officially in his encycical said: of the free will of the believer,' and he quotes St. Augustine, no ono can believe save by an act of his own will.' A fact exiRts to show the disposition of the church in this regard. While the Puritans and tho Cavaliers wore persecuting Dissenters and Quakers, the Catholics of Maryland wero enaeting a constitutional law of freedom of worship giving liberty to worship God- according to conscience to all professing Christians without regard to denomination. Another fact exists. As seen as the nonCatholics gained power in Maryland they immediately ostracised catholicity, imposing disabilities, pains and penalties on account of their faith. These facts 1 mention in no hostile spirit, but simply to put the truth before rou." iheliishop closed by urging ail to become good citizens here as a preparation for the citizenship hereafter. At St. Joseph's Church high mass was celebrated at 9 oclok by v ery Rev. H. Alerding, who, f ollowin g the mass, preached a sermon upon the anniversary that was celebrated. This was replete with comment upon the characteristics of good citizenship, and showed that the Catholic Church was a factor in tho upbuilding of the Republic. The church was crowded, and the musical programme, as arranged by ProL iiinnsz, was especially good. Episcopal Services. The congregations of the several Episco pal churches held a union meeting at St. Paul's at 9 o'clock. Before the time for the services nearly every seat in the large auditorium was occupied. -The oaly decora tions were about the altar, where pot flow ers were placed in profusion. The order of exercises was the saine as that in Christ's Episcopal Church in New York just following the taking of the oath of office by George Washington, one hundred years ago. It was compiled from the records of the church by the Dean of Davenport at the request of the Bishop of Iowa, and was kindly furnished by that prelate to tho Bishop of Indiana. The services were bogun by the reading of the following scriptural selections: "The Lord has been mindful of us, and He shall bless us. lie shall bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great." Pa. cxv, l'J-13. "Oh that men would therefore praise the Lord for His goodness, and declare the wonders that He oeth for the children of men." Ps. cvii, 21. Then the minister aud congregation iu concern onereu praisa to me loru, alter which the anthem, "Misericordias Domini." was sung. After that came scriptural read ing as follows: My song shall bo alway of the loving kindness of the Lord; with my mouth will I ever be show ing Thy truth from one generation to another. Pi., lxxxlx, 1. The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done His marvelous works that they ought to be had in remembrance. Ps., cxl, 4. Who can express tho noble acts of the Lord or how forth all His praise tPs., cxl, 2. The works of the Lord aro great: sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. Ps., cxi, 2. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our wickednesses. For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth: so great is His mercy also toward them that fear Him. Ps., ciil, 10. 11. The 118th Psalm was then sung, followed by the reading of the day's lef3ou, from Deut. viii. This lesson completed, the choir rendered the Te Deum, following which the Apostles' Creed was fervently recited, and after that the prayer was said, all in the large congregation devoutly kneeling. Senator David Turpie, the orator for the occasion, after the religious services, spoke briefly of the progress of one hundredyears. In his remarks the Senator said that in 1778 were framed tbo Articles of Confederation, which might be called the first Constitution of the United States. In those articles the country assumed its name, and the framers, iu naming the country that was to be the home of the free, said: "These shall be the United States of America." That declaration would endure forever. When Washington became President a vast part of the territory that is now embraced in the United States wts a great unknown wilderness. The Mississipdi river was an unknown stream in a distant country, and tho Gulf of Mexico was a body of water that bordered on a far-off laud. The two distinguishing features of the century's progress, he said, were the extension of territory and of suffrage to the colored man, acts that were without parallel in the history of the world. The development in every direction had been wonderful, and, indeed, it had been a century crowded with progrv&sive events and actions. "Should the country acquire more land! ' was a great problem. The characteristics of the people of one age are not always like tho.ne of another, and the progress during tho coming century depended upon the people. The Senator then reminded his auditors that in this time of prayer and rejoicing it should be remembered that for all w enioy we 9we much to Washington. In the beginnitig was Washington, ami he would ever retnain Vrirst in war. first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." In concluding his remarks he recalled how Washington wan elected President on April 0, itj, how a messencer was sent to Mount Vernon to notiliy him of his election, and bow be set off immediately for New York, and reached there on April 23. The ceremony attending the first inauguration was then described, and as tho closing feature of the exercises the uator read the inaugural of tho first President. The congregation then joined in singing the song "America, and following that tho hymn "Coronation" was -ting, and then the benediction was pronounced by Dr. Jenckes. At Fletcher -Place Churclu The services at Fletcher-place Church yesterday morning were attended by a fair congregation. Dr. Tevis, the pastor, conducted tho opening exercises, reading Psalm xxxiii asa scripture lesson. Selections from the Christian Advocate were also read, in which an account was given of tho congratulations sent to Geueral Washington by the Methodist General Conference in New York city. The speeches of Francis Asbury and of Washington in reply, were given in full. CoL John W,

Ray then addressed the audience on th subject, "The Day we Celebrate." His re marks were listened to throughout with marked attention and at times thry branched otf from the line of patriotic sentiment and partook of well-timed humor. The celebration of an anniversary of any kind, he said, is but the prompting of tho heart. It is intended that anniversaries should be observed. God commanded the people of Israel to observe the Passover, and even to-day we celebrate the event, because it has been merged into a reality. Tbo speaker very appropriately likened thts growth of the American Nation to that of a human being. This ideal character, pictured as a man. was born iu 1770; bis first youthful dress was the Articlesof Coufederntiqn, which concent rated the powers of the executive and legislative divisions of government m Congress, and made no provision for the judicial. After a century of experience we have learned wherein this policy was defective, for as such it is not constructed to please American genius. A brief historical sketch of the? constitutional convention was then given. In it two parties prevailed one which favored centralized government, and the other favored the looser system of individual power. The first was the Federalist, of which Washington was a member, aud which, has merged into the modern Republican party, while the other, the Republican, then and now the Democratic, was typified by Thomas Jefferson. Pat ies were as necessary then as now, but it is not the domination of their leaders which we celebrate. Ve are grateful to Washington not because he was a Federalist, but because ho crystallized the thought of the peoph and gave prosperity and lite to the en tiro Nation. Following this tho Constitution of tho United States was taken np and discussed with fitting application, liio whole system of our government, it was claimed. lies embodied, in tho ojR'niug words of the preamble "We, the people, Mate boundaries or distinctions of sex and color did not draw the line of dcmarkation between those who were embraced in those three words. It was the people of the United States, exerting their rights a unpeople They asked for a national voice, that could be heard the world over ns the voice of a free people, for national justice, for domestic tranquillity, for the provision of a common defense, and for the promotion of the geueral welfare, as well as the blessings of liberty. This doctrine has its prototype in the (iolden Rule, and is based directly on l'iblc truth. Resuming the application of his metaphor, tho 8jeaker considered the warp of the Nation's new suit of cou stitutional clothes as the words "We. the People;" for, he said, it is necessary to have the warp firm, if the fabric ir expected to stand. In the woof were three factors, liberty, equality, and common tense. As; the Nation grew the necessity for ether clothing was apparent, and lorcoat. vest and trousers, the fathers constituted tb executive, legislative and judicial departments. ly some men attempts were made to insert some States rights' stitches, and in Virginia and Kentucky, iu 179S, others tried to unravel them; but irom 1708 until 15V these attempts were in vain, for it was found that tho Union stitches were stronger. In confirming this Constitution the Federalists wero in favor of adopting it as it if now, while the Republicans were opposed to that policy, headed by 'I homas Jetlersou. But in a short time, alter tho victory of thq Federalists, we find Jefferson in "Washing, ton's Cabinet, and herein, the speaker! thought, is sufheient ground for calli-nuj that man a simple fool who thinks thaO members of opposite parties cannot unite. "We may have dift'ereut views," he said "but we all aro striving for one and the same purpose, namely, our ideal oO a perfect system of government, ami that is what wo have assembled for to-day. We are not ouly hero to thank God for Washington, Adams. J e fie r son. Franklin. Randolph and all those patriots, but we are here because we are worthy to be a free people and to enjoy the government they aided in founding. The inauguration of General Washington was a great event, but far greater was it that tho Goi of our fathers gave his children the power of saying W'e. the people. The equal o the United States has never been aeeu iu history, and probably never will, and thi day awakens a memory of our beginning. We do not celebrate the inauguration of a man, but of a principle. The whole Nation is assembled because a hundred years ago one man took a stand and represented the concentration of tho individual powers oft his people. A hundred year ajio to-dayi the spot where we aie now was inhabited; by savages, but to-day, thank lod, we aroj blessed with a civilized population, lndi-j ana is but an equal part of the Union, ami just so tho flag we follow is not our highest national banner. It is the Bible. God's nama is not in the Constitution, but His influence is behind it. It forms the unwritteni law of its provisions. I thank God to-day that through the efforts of our revolutionary fathers, we are enabled to realize this.". At the close of Colonel Ray's address tho congregation was dismissed. , Memorial Presbyterian. At the Memorial Presbyterian Church; yesterday morning the services were ap propriato to the day, the congregations of the North-street Baptist, Ccntral-avenucj Methodist. Mayflower Congregational Halt Place and Seventh-street Methodist and Third Christian churches uniting therein. Flowers and flaga decorated the pulpit and pillars on the in terior, while every available pew was filled, Patriotic airs were rendered by tho choio and congregation. On the platform wera seated Revs. Drs. Edson, Ford, Lynch and Evans, Hyde, Tincher and Van Buskirk.' Dr. Ford, pastor of Central-avenue Methodist Church, delivered the address ot the day, in which he said that, the dawn of each epoch in the progress o ages casts its aureolo about sorae distin-. ' guished genius who, catching the inspira-( tion of present emergencies and future possibilities, arises to stem a torrent or turn a tide in theatlairs of men and nations. It is a fact in history that always in some grave national crisis, or when th fortunes of the human family havo seemvd. to be touching an unknown boundary, ' some Philip, or Frederick, or Napoleou ha arisen to sever the gordian knot and stamp t the genius of his own individuality upon a ( movement that becomes epochal in its character and benefactious. The people stand this morniug in the iU luminatcdshadow of an individuality whosq presence and influence in this Nation is as immortal as the patriotic thoughts h breathed, and the name of whose personal ity stands before the world asa very synonym for national genius and symmetrical greatness. One can scarcely think of the pauses, births and upheavd in the great, sea of thought and purposes without breathintr the name of our Washington. Whatever the name of Hannibal may have been toCarthagc, MilitiadestoGrcece, Lnonidas to Sparta, or Cincinnattis ta Rome, the Doctor continued, all this and more than all this is the namo of Washing ton to the American. They all lived fof the clorv of achievement, and to them the

state was but an instrumentality to the end. Ho lived for the glory of his God and. the interests of humanity, and Iiis nam became the instrument ef "his Nation's glorv, Their lives were regulated by polity, hif by public utility. The celebration of thin hour is unique in the history o the word. The proclamation of that Christian statesman sent from this city, to re ciive upon his shoulders the mantlo of tin illustrious Washington, sounds the keynote of our national life and prosperity. Nearly years ago an eviiuent statesman said: "Blessed is that Nation whoso Jod is the Lord." and the appeal of our President that "the people of our entire, country repair to their places of divine worship to iniplorr: the. favor of Uod that) the blessing f liberty, prosperity and jH-aee may ahide with ns as a people," dis. closes that the inner springs of national life arise from the religious sentiment that permeates the entire political fabric. It is not too much to say that this religious sentiment, the Doctor continued, M largely due to the Christian principles aud .examples of the great man whose inaugural wei celebrate to-dav. Rocktd in thg cradle of necessity, and standing iu the very center of the fierce storm of revolution that swept around him with the furv of Horebic toruadrc, lie heard the "still small voico" of (iod, and became greaj enough to send it revrrbrating down the ages. His almost incessant prayers for di vine guidance seem like an echo front the rocky vaults of ancient CalU lee. His prayers were the; pent-nr th robbings of his own quivering heart, and; they touched the -heart of lntiuita Love, Washington performed many great and noble deeds, but none greater or nobler thaa that which reveals him kneeling in the open air with that Presbyterian congregation near Morristown, and receiving tht

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