Show = = = Virtuous Commonwealth The rc sDonse was extemporaneous and was listened with much interest the doctor proving himself to be a and fluent most able interesting speaker Ihe remarks were as follows fol-lows j M BENEDICT It Is nearly two bcurs that you have been to Ktandlng or sitting here listening that wnlch undoubtedly has been pleasing and instructive to jou Far be it from me then at the present time to delay jou much longer The toast that I am called upon to answer is one that any Amdrican should be proud 01 It il I one In whch the whole commonwealth com-monwealth tbb coun ry are interested It Is not a new question Nearly twentjtour hundred yean ago Zeno the founder oM be system of HOC ph iosophv made u remar timllar to this if not II mtheeame worjs Quit education was the foundation or every art and iho corner tone of all great institutions Tb 8 h1S been demon de-mon = trated not only m hs on country ut that time but throughout all the hstones of tne nations as they have pasea through this period of twentjlour centuries Ureece and I I HOme at tlw heignt of their power were I known as tho centres leruing bud when the timecame that their power finally lt > a them their learniug was one or those indelible indel-ible uionuuiuLts which did not leave thorn While they were biOieu up while their centres of leurulng were changed white their libraries were de strojed their educated men scattered too and fro almost oter the fate of the whole earth while these events trdnspired their learning continued wlih them It was like breaking up of a aiass or seed the seed was not de Btrojed the keruel was ripe the seed was carried and scattered about almost to lne four winds of heaven J his same education this same beginning this same ineent e to education Y edu-cation and learning was cjrried trt en by the barOarians from then = e And from that beginning be-ginning fol owing down through the ages for the next 2400 year this same cause has J ro duced the same effect twentythree ctmurles later and 68 men not through ignorance but by virtue of their educatun again opemd up a LOW era to this wend It remained f r ihote 55 mntn times then that tried wens goals Announce freedom unto the world aud to e ry man and woman wilhin it Wb trttS the first enunciation of the kiit ter made Inat ad men and Cheers are CLC i iree equal Twentiihrte centuries it had talieu to accomplish ac-complish thu but it m last arrived And today to-day we fee the remits and iruits of It No nation no peope no country can enjoy true freeJouij true liberty without education Ignorance and superstition go hand in han i ana like a pall cover the Intellect or the poo Die And it is only When education breaks through the clowds and sunshine of thought illumines thd intellect of wan that the clowds ara dispersed and truth and liberty shine forth In brightness Ifaese matters are as familiar to sou all as t hey are to me It seems but a repetition almost that I am saj log to you of what you have heard before be-fore from the speakers who have receded me for necessarily they were comjeled to give credit to education Where would our railroads rail-roads be whero would our telegraphs be what would become of that wonderful little Instrument ha telephone what wou d become be-come of our country as it stands today but foreduc tion Was it necessary that our first martyred President must split rat s to become resident cr was It necessary for hm to do ordinary manual labor was it necessary that he should pass through ail he did to fit him for the presidency He xatber absorbed the time such as could be spared to him In his work Itc and so well stored his mind that when the time came he would be the man for the place and obtain the position following dOi n was It necessary far Garfield to be a boy on the pathdrlving a team to propel a canal boat or was It the education that he had obtained Was It because he was a echolar cr or was it not became he had lived earnestly by endeavoring to train and develop the brains the Almighty liad given him Go ask the old mountain here jour snowcapped mountains moun-tains your rockribbed hills following them T down take your clUes and villages your sagebrush sage-brush plains your alkali fields and even from i east to west from the Atlantic to the Pacific slope and what do you find Everything T that you see everything jou can handle everything you can read everything really are the necessary products of education Theme are the alma mater of tins country They are they vho have peopled It they are they who will people It and will Etand by it These are they who will say with all educated educat-ed men We know our rights and knowing D them will maintain them A man without education knows not Its rIghts but he who Is educated he who has his mind trained whose Intellect has been brought I up in the proper channel who has been carried car-ried along step by step Jrim one point tots to-ts another Is 5ie who with the whole people and with one accord both day and night year after year shall say witi our country t JCis of thee sweet land of liberty cheers E The several bands Croxalls I Sixth Infantry and Beesleys inar I tiil played between the reponses iind added greatly to the enjoyment The proceedings were characterized by the best of order and good feeling 1h feel-ing and the slightest thing did not j occur to disturb the good nature and I OoI1 harmony of this most satisfactory event which seemed pleasing to nil alike It is therefore not a matter of surprise that the proposition of Gov Murray giving G a vote of thanks to the several committees com-mittees met with a universal and d to hearty response Benediction was pronounced fey Elder tf G Bywater and all dispersed The arrangements were perfect to the slightest detail FLE and reflect the greatest credit on all who had Anything to do with LET successfully carrying out the celebration cele-bration T In the evening the display of fireworks fire-works took place at Vashington JET Square It was witnessed by thousands thou-sands and thousands of persons The display like the other proceedings was a success in every particular P and was highly appreciated May there be just such another celebration on the Fourth of July 1883 |