Show FOURTH OF JUL1 Before Tun DEMOCS issues again the Nation will have heart and soul in the celebration of the one hundrodand eleventh anniversary of its birth a day which always has been and always will be honored so long as there is a true American left on earth It is not necessary neces-sary to indulge in sentimentality over an occasion of this kindthe day has made its own record it has its own memories its own influences its own inspirations and it needs no words to bring up the proper thoughts in the minds of the Nations Hons and daughters The day we celebrate now is the same day our ancestors celebrated a hundred years ago the same day that will be celebrated cele-brated a hundred and a thousand years hence and in this fact alone there is ample material for thought It is not merely the small boy with his toy cannon his torpedoes and his tire crackers who fells the patriotic influence in-fluence of this day j it is not only the impetuous youth who bavins read his countrys history and rejoiced in its great past catches the inspiration from the reverberations of the celebrating gun j it is not only the old man carried back in memory to the grand old celebrations cele-brations of an earlier day who n filled f on this occasion with reverence for his nation and its dead heroes but it la everyone man and woman boy and girl all catch the spirit of the day and all rejoice in a unity which smothers petty spites and lays aside all feelings and thoughts that are not as noble and unselfish as the patriotism that conceived the Republics birth It is customary at such a time to review re-view the work which lead up to the materialization ma-terialization of what had always been a mythical ideal an aircastle of State The history of this work is too familiar to need especial mention men-tion Every boy who has reached his teens knows by heartor should know the whole story from Lexington to Yorktown York-town thp etory of hardships oj deieats of temporary successes and of the final grand triumph It is not a story of brilliantly brill-iantly planned battles or of wellen gineered campaigns it is a simple tale of nard work of courage rather than bravery of perseverance rather than skill And it was not the mental or even the physical work that counted so much in that struggle it was the moral force the stamina and the determination determina-tion that led to success and under the circumstances which brought on the war it was only natural that thisand nothing noth-ing but thisshould be triumphant It was not the ventinz of a single days anger it was not the resentment of a single insult it was not the vindication of a single sin-gle wrong It was the bursting forth of a just indignation for years pent up anger the determination to avenge the wrongs of half a century the desire to end forever the strife which made slaves of the best class of men on earth and as such 1 it was only natural that it should I come as it did with aH the the moral force that God gives good men at its back Then when the strife was ended there was cause for rejoicing there was justification for the pride which filled the hearts of the heroes and there was a grateful acknowledgement of J Gods goodness in the praises which went up to heaven It is good that the men who gaiped Americas liberty did rejoice on the Nations natal day and it is good that their children have rejoiced on every anniversary an-niversary since The day has always been held sacred and while the celebration is one of rejoicing re-joicing it is also one of thanksgiving and one of prayer The Fourth of July has been celebrated in the later history of the country It was on that day that Grant gained his overwhelming victory at Vicksburg the greatest triumph of 4 the campaign in the west tho victory which placed its leader where he could finally end the war It was on that day that the Confederate forces were obliged to retreat from Gettysburg the field where the greatest battle of the war and one of the greatest battles I of all history was fought It was then the lay of days in our civil strife as well as in tho Revolution and as such there is a double glory in it It was the day when after the hard fight at Gettysburg the Confederacy began to wane but in spite of that it is still celebrated by South as well as North and should therefore by all means be a day for forgetting our great internal conflict Let it be celebrated in this city as in all the land as a day of salvation for saint and sinner a time for rejoicing for good and bad a day with no other sentiment than Long life to the Union borrowing borrow-ing from Christmas those sacred words 1 I Peace on earth good will to man 1 |