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AXY 31. 1908.
THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
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For tlnmc who have not yielded to
(lie allurements of a trip to Portland
to participate lit the celebration of the
Rose show the charm of being in
one's home for rest and quiet remains
us potent as ever. As for dances, par
ties .or in fact iiiiythitig in the social
line in the pant seven days one must
uoe a magnifying glass to find them
There arc a great many who arc look'
iug, 0rward to attending the festivi-
tci in Portland where this town is to
be elaborately represented while oth
eri are to dispense with the trials
and tribulation of trunk-packing and
remain at home or to enjoy a quiet
outing at the end of tlx- week at the
beach.
Thorwald I'redcriksen's pupils' or
cheotra gave a very successful concert
last evening at the A. O. U. W. hall
the program was as follows: "Joyful
Summcrtidc" C. Shumaun, by the or
chesira; piano solo, selection, by
Mint Canipboll; Obcrlander, I. Oungl,
by the orchestra; Symphony ?sa. 2, C.
DaucjiLjplayed by Miss Lois Parker
ml Maude Rosi with Mis hthel
KIMworth a accompanist; Hallata, (.
Papini, by the orchestra; violin solo,
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la MMlirKS, II. wicniwy, vj
Mrs. J. T. Allen, accompanied by Miss
Campbell; Nocturne, llico. Frederic
sen, by orchestra; Trio No. 18, J
Haydcn, Mrs. J. T. Allen, piano, Mist
Campbell, cello, Mr, T, Frederikscn;
Turkish March, VV. A. Mozart, by the
orchestra. The members of the or
chestra are: Mrs. J, T. Allen. Miss
Lois Parker, Miss Lenna Parker, Mis
Maude Ross, Miss Laura JcfTcrs,
Mis Ruby llanimerstrom, Miss
Dorothy Montgomery, Miss Barbara
Kakin, Mr. Carl I'ranseen, Mr. Iver
Ross and Miss Kthcl Ellsworth
pianist.
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The members of the popular I). M.
C. D. Club were entertained in a very
charming manner by the Misses Ut
xinger at their comfortable home on
Bond sect on Tuesday, Five hundred
wr .He game of the afternoon, the
l-iky winner being Mrs. Leonard
jfansur. Among those present were
the Misses F.va and Alma Holmes.
Jessie Sands, Bess and Nan Reed.
Mamie Fossctt, Lucy Morton, Nellie.
Mattic and May Utzingcr, Mrs. Iulith
Lowe, Mrs. Nelson Troyer, Anna
Campbell, Mrs. Anna Knight, Mrs.
Larle Clark and Mrs. Leonard
Mansur.
The many friends of Lawrence Hol
man in this city will be pleased to
hear of his marriage to Miss Grace
Nicholson of Portland which will take
place in the near future in Portland,
Mr. Holman is a prominent young
Portlander and has an interest in a
nice little steamer running between
Portland and St. Helens. The young
couple will make their home in St.
Helens.
Miss Amy Rannals gave a pleasant
N little evening at home to a tew oi nor
lirl friends on Friday evening at her
ptfasant home in East Astoria. Music
was the principal enjoyment of the
evening and a delicious little luncheon
was served which was thoroughly en
joyed by all.
The W. C. T. U. held a called meet
ing on last Friday afternoon with
Mrs. R. M. Gaston at her cozy home
on Commercial street near Sixth.
Twelve ladies wore present and after
the business meeting refreshments
were served by Mrs. Gaston and the
remaining hours of the afternoon
were happily spent in conversation.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Troyer are
going to give a, house party at their I
mttatre at Seaside the last ot
the !
week among those who will enjoy;
Mrs. Troyer's hospitality are the ,
Misses Bess and Nan Reed, Nellie,
May and Hattie Utzmger, Mr. Don
M alter and Mr. Geo. Beatty of Fort
Stevens and Merwyn Troyer.
About 40 people were present at
the Dorcas Society social which was
given at the parsonage on Friday
evening. Rev. Gustave E. Rydquist
and Mrs. Rydquist entertained the
guests in a charming manner. It was
decided to give a moonlight excur
sion on the 12th of June and the
steamer General Washington will
-ikc the party on the trip and they
'will stop at Flavel and have
lunch.
On last Saturday evening an enter
tainment was given in Soumi Hall by
some ladies of the Temperance So
ciety of Uniontown for the benefit of
the Taylor School piano fund. A good
program was rendered and the stun
of $70 was raised, The special fea
tures of the program were: A piano
solo by Miss Shistadt; red, white and
blue drill by Miss Goddard's pupils;
vocal solo by Misi Anderson accom
panied by Miss Maunola; recitation
by Miss Karinen and music by the
Uniontown band.
On last Saturday evening, an cn.er-'
tainiucnt was given in Solum Hall by
some Ladies of the Temperance So
ciety of Uniontown for the benefit of
the Taylor School Piano fund. A good
program was rendered and the sum
of seventy-two dollars was raised.
The special features of the pro
gram were:
A Piano Solo by Miss Shistadt;
Red White and Blue Drill by Miss
Goddard's pupils; Vocal Solo by Miss
Anderson accompanied by Miss Mau
nolo; Recitation by Miss Ella Kar
inen; Music by the Uniontown Band.
Mis Hattie Wise gave a very suc
cessful piano recital at Filers' hall in
Portland on last Thursday evening to
a large and appreciative audience and
she received many beautiful flowers.
Miss Nona Lawler, assisted Miss
Wise with the Nella Calma Gounod's
waltz song from Romeo and Juliet
and Lohr's A Chain of Roses. Miss
Wise showed her great ability as a
pianist by rendering in a skillful man
ner masterpieces from some of the
greatest composers.
The members of the Reading Club
entertained their friends at the home
of Mrs. C. A. Gearhart last Saturday
Evening. Miss Alwinc KirchofI
please everyone by her rendition of
two instrumental selections. These
were followed by vocal solos by Miss
Rcba llobson and Mr. Zeigler, who
were both in not excellent voice.
Mr. W, S. Gilbert then gave a most
interesting and instructive talk on
'The Pen of the Darkey; or, the Ne
gro in Literature."
After the refreshments all enjoyed
social hour and were unanimous m
wishing that they might be invited to
the next "Greet Night of the dub.
The Reading Club of the Presby
tcrian Church held a meeting on last
Monday evening and the following
officers were elected: Miss J. Ger
trude Hulse; president, Mrs. Emma
Watts Trullinger; vice-president,
Miss Dora Badollct; secretary, Miss
Emma C. Warren.
The officers and their wives at Ft.
Columbia arc going to give a little
dancing party on Monday evening at
the Fort. Several Astorians have re
ceived invitations and the Major Guy
Howard will convey the guests to the
pretty place.
At the regular meeting of the Read
ing club on Monday evening, the fol
lowing ollkcrs were elected to serve
the ensuing year: President, Miss J.
Gertrude Hulse; Vice-President Mrs.
P. A. Trullinger; Secretary, Miss
Dora Dadollet; Treasurer, Miss E. C.
Warren.
Miss Maude Van Dusen gave a
piano recital on last Saturday after
noon at her home on Harrison ave
nue. Besides her pupils there were a
great many friends present and a nice
musical program was enjoyed by
those present.
On next Saturday evening the letter
carriers will give a social dance for
the purpose of raising expense money
for the letter carriers entertainment
of the letter carriers' association of the
State of Oregon who will meet here
on Saturday, June 27.
A great many Astorians are to at-
tend the New York Sympothy Con-
certs given during the rose show and
also to attend the ball given on Fri-
;y evening ot next weeK ai me ar
mory hall in Portland
Mrs. Grace Inman and Floyd In
man of Portland were visitors in As
toria during the week.
The members of the Clover Club
met at the home of Mrs. J. J. Wyard
on Seventh street this week.
i Mrs. S. Joyce, 180 Sullivan St.,
Claremont, N. H., writes: "About a
year ago I bought two bottles of
Foley's Kidney Cure. It cured me of
a severe case of Kidney trouble of
several years standing. It certainly
is a grand, good medicine, and I
heartily recommend it"
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MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS
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nineteenth century. Another series
of facts were preparing in which Na
poleon had no place. The ill will of
events had long been announced.
"It was time that this vast man
should fall.
"The excessive weight of this man
in human destiny disturbed the equil
ibrium. This individual counted of
himself alone more than the universe
besides. These plethoras of all hu
man vitality concentrated in a single
head, the world mounting to the brain
of one man would be fatal to civiliza
tion if they should endure. The mo
ment had come for incorruptable su
preme equity to look to it. Probably
the principles and elements upon
which regular gravitations in the
moral order as well as in the mater
ial depend, began to murmur. Reek
ing blood, overcrowded cemeteries,
weeping mothersthese are formid
able pleaders. When the earth is suf
fering from a surcharge there are
mysterious meanings from the deeps
which heavens hear.
"Napoleon had been impeached be
fore the Infinite and his fall was
decreed.
"He vexed God.
"Waterloo is not. a battle; it is the
change of front of the universe."
And so at the battle of Waterloo,
Napolcuti on the one side in opposi
tion to the incorruptible and supreme
equity must go down before the great
ethical law, which destroyed him be
cause by his ambition and his power
he was disturbing the equilibrium of
the moral world. Napoleon and the
despotic empire were crushed to liber
alize monarchy and to establish con
stitutional order through the counter
revolution which followed Waterloo.
Just' such a crisis forty-four years
ago came into the life of tkis nation
upon this field, and it was just as in
evitable and necessary as Waterloo.
Our forefathers had set forth in the
Declaration of Independence in 1776
that:
All men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Crea
tor with certain inalienable rights,
that amtong these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness."
Fighting for the establishment of
this princiole the Revolutionists were
successful and the nation was born.
In 1787, forgetting this principle of
universal liberty, the founders and
the people of this nation, while they
declared in the Preamble to their Con
stitution that their purpose was to
secure the "blessings of liberty to our
selves and our posterity." recognized
and permitted the enslavement of hu
man beings.
The soldiers of the Union met the
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forces of disunion for almost two
years on many battlefields and be
cause the guiding minds of the nation
were endeavoring to save the nation
and at the same time save the favor
ed institution of those who were in
rebellion against the nation, God so
prevented the triumph of the Union
arms that the cause of the Union was
well nigh lost.
Man in his weakness thought that
this government, founded on the
eternal principle of freeedom to all,
could exist half free and half slave.
But the Almighty, guiding the des
tinies of the nation, frustrated the
weak plans of man, and as the God of
battles brought those entrusted with
the nation's life to see that the nation
could only survive wholly free. And
so Abraham Lincoln, realizing that
the time had come to bow to the Su
preme will to that Divine power
which had been so ordering the af
fairs of this nation that the crisis must
come, issued the Emancipation Proc
lamation, declaring that all should be
free.
Then the nation took on new life,
then her warriors, "thrice armed be
cause they had their quarrel just,"
inspired by their holy cause, that of
union in which every man was free,
fought on the side of eternal justice
and supreme equity and became an
invincible host.
What inspired the four score and
ten thousand men of the Union Army
to meet in the dreadful shock of bat
tle the hosts of disunion?
What inspired them to rush into
the "imminent deadly breach?" What
sustained them, as they met the on
rush of the enemy? What but that
love of country that made it glorious
to die, that love of. liberty that made
the patriots grave his country's
shrine?
And so there died upon this field
of battle twenty-three thousand de
fenders of the Union-'twenty-three
thousand patriots twenty-three thou
sand heroes,-who offered up their lives
a willing sacrifice that this country
might be in fact, as in theory, wholly
free.
The great victory was won. Eter
nal justice prevailed. Supreme equity
reigned.
Today we survey this field and see
with clarfied vision all that its traged
ies meant. We see the Union saved,
the nation established upon the im
movable rock of freedom.
Splendid and terrible were the con
comitants of the mighty struggle.
They were fit accessories to the stu
pendous issues involved.
It may seem at times that the over
throw of some particularly vicious
manifestation of evil threatening the
national life marks the ultimate vic
tory. This is not true. The conflict never
ends. It is going on now. We are
in the ranks and shadowy hosts and
forces are contending all about us.
On one side or the other of these
bloodless battles all of us must be.
We are either supinely submitting to,
or courageously combatting, insid
ious assults upon our national life.
Armageddon is a present fight which
will be waged until the end of this
world and then will culminate. Ath
ens and Greece won the glories of
Salamis and Marathon and perished
miserably and enslaved because Hel
lenism no longer meant vigilance, pa
triotism and righteousness.
It may be said with truth that for
a nation the dangers of peace may be
worse than the dangers of war and
this is peculiarly true of our nation.
Our governmental system has
secured certain advantages which
could not have been obtained with
out making it complex, and for that
reason more liable to become disar
ranged than are simple democracies
and simple monarchies or autocracies.
If we are to retain these advantages
and prevent dangerous disarrange
ments of our plan we must jealously
guard its distinctive characteristics
against the natural tendency towards
their elimination and a reversion to
the rejected but simpler types. The
simplest form of government is ab
solute autocracy and it is the worst.
All power is centered in one man, his
will is the supreme law, he rules with
undisputed sway.
Our governmental plan was con
structed so as to resemble in a way
the solar system where the finger of
God spins the planets in perpetual
harmony; but our system is the work
of human wisdom and must depend
upon human wisdom for its success.
Recently this tendency seems to me
to have threatened seriously to dis
turb the just relations between the
State and Federal governments. Im
patient of the difficulties and delays
which must attend the action of sep
arate States in the accomplishment
of their objects, some of the people
have seemed to feel that by an as
sumption of Federal power, or by
ignoring State power, their aims
could be speedily and fully obtained.
But the genius of our Constitution,
the supreme equity of our form of
government, the balance wheel of our
system is that each of the dual gov
ernments shall keep within its own
sphere, untrammeled and uncontrol
led by the other.
Let us guard against dangerous
encroachment upon this system; let
us stand courageously, persistently
and eternally by our ancient rights.
In this way shall we show our grat
itude to those who perished here and
preserve the principles for which they
died.
If this Union is to survive it must
be maintained as constituted or as
modified in the way provided by those
who constituted it.
If it is to survive it is necessary
now and always, that wisdom, vigil
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ance and courage should abide in the
halls of legislation, the chambers of
judicial decision, the centers of execu
tive power and with the dominating
mass of the people as that sons of the
Union should have bathed with their
blood these fertile fields.
The strength and power of this
Nation does not rest upon the fact
that it is a federation of States, but
that it is a Union of States, based up
on a Constitution formulated by the
people, adopted by the people, de
fended and preserved here by the peo
ple. No object is so important that
we should sacrifice the very nature
and glory of our systems to accom
plish it.
It cost us nearly a million lives,
untold millions of treasure and un
speakable anguish, to prevent the
States from destroying the Unios
created by the Constitution.
This Government is not seriously
threatend by anarchy, which is the
cause espoused by the wicked, malic
ious and envious and by ignorance
and perverted degeneracy.
The highest and most patriotic am
bition you and I can entertain is t
seek to understand the fundamental
principles in American National life
and understanding them to defend
and protect them. Defend them
alike against those who would nar
rowly restrict them and those who
would destructively expand them.
The individual skirmisher out alone
the far-flung Union line beyond this
crest served the cause as well as the
commander of crops orarrriy directing
aggregate movements from head
quarters. And often the private sol- ,
dier has saved the day and retrieved
a disaster due to a commander's folly
or perversity, dying an inconspicuous
hero. In that spirit of vigilance and
devotion, let us serve in this army of
the Union, which is always in the
field. We may not be able to make
our service conspicuous, we can cer
tainly make it useful.
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