Show X THE GARLAND GARLAND TIMES uhyA These JAMES MONROE Died July 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T WAS the Fourth of July 1 82ft In Quincy Muss ancestral home of the Adams family John Adams second Fresldent of the United From States lay dying D Ct John Washington Quincy Adams sixth President of the United States was harrying — If that Word can be applied to the laborious progress of a stage coach over the inof that day— to adequate highways bis father's bedside About noon the dying man opened his eyes at the Sound of ringing bells and booming cannon which drifted Into the open Window lira Clark his bent over him and In answer to the unspoken Inquiry In his eyes re- him that It was the Fourth of Jilnded fiftieth anniversary of American independence “It la a great day" be said “it is a good day” About one o'clock In the afternoon be spoke again “Thomas Jefferson survive he said but the last word was indistinctly and Imperfectly uttered After that he spoke no more Be could not know that at the very moment when he was saying “Thomas Jefferson survives" the sage of was breathing his last In far off Virginia The death of these two men on the day which they helped make famous also ended a most unusual friendship and a famous correspondence This and this correspondence friendship Is also one of the unique and most human bits of American In history those stirring days of 1770 they as members of the Continental Congress were associated closely In one of the greatest adventures of history— that of a document which would producing either result In the establishment of new nation or in case military force failed to make good that document in their becoming unsuccessful rebels hud perhaps ending their careers on The choice of drafting the gallows that document lay between them and Adams In his autobiography gives the following reasons why Jefferson was chosen for that work “Ur Jefferson had been now about a year a member of congress but had attended his duty In the house a very small part of the time “It will naturally be Inquired how it that he was appointed on happened of such a committee Importance There were more reasons than one Ir Jefferson bad the reputation of a masterly pen he had been chosen a In Virginia In consequence delegate of a very handsome public paper which be had written for the Ilouse of Burgesses which had given him the character of a very fine writer Another reason was that Ur Richard Henry Lee was not beloved by the most of his colleagues from Virginia and Ur Jefferson was sent up to rival and This could be dons only supplant him by the pen for Ur Jefferson could Stand no competition with him or JAMES A U4 Stricken 1831 olmJUI4“SoOUDGE 41872 — Born anyone else in elocution and public debate “The committee had several meetings In which were proposed the articles of which the Declaration was to consist and minutes made of them The committee then appointed Mr Jefferson and me to draw them np in form and clothe them In proper dress Ibe subcommittee met and considered the minutes making such observations on them as then occurred when Mr Jefferson desired me to take them to my lodgings and make the This I draft declined and gave several reasons for doing so: “1 That he was a Virginian and 2 I a Massachusettenlan That he was a southern man and I a northern one S That I had been so obnoxious for my early and constant seal in promoting the measure that every draft of mine would undergo a more severe scrutiny and criticism in congress than one of his composition A And lastly and that would be reason enough if there were no other I had a great opinion of the elegance of his pen I thereand none at all of my own fore insisted that no hesitation should He accordingly be made on his part took the minutes and in a day or two produced to me hia draft" When the Revolution ended successfully and the Republic was established they became political enemies —Adams the Federalist and Jefferson the Republican In the Presidential to select a successor to campaign Adams came out victoWashington rious only to be swept aside by the people In favor of Jefferson four years later In 1812 through the entreaty of their mutual friend Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia a correspondence began between them in which their warm mutual esteem was evident In this correspondence they unburdened their hearts and minds to each other And what an amazing correspond GARFIELD fc4 an assassin JuIlj 41881 ence It was Some of Adams’ letters to Jefferson run to 3000 and even reA 000 words and to these Jefferson One of the most sponded In kind touching of them all is Jefferson's last letter to bis colleague Deploring the interruption but asking permission for his grandson Thomas to to pay his respect Randolph Adams on a visit to Boston he said: Like other yonng people he wishes to be able in the winter nights of old age to recount to those around him what he has beard and learnt of the his birth and heroic age preceding which of the Argonauts Individually It he was In time to have seen was the lot of our early years to witness nothing but the dull monotony and of our of a colonial subservience riper years to breast the perils and labors of working out of 1L Theirs are the halcyon calms succeeding the storm which our Argosy bad so stoutly weathered Gratify his ambition then by receiving bis best bow Five years later It was the Fourth of July 1831 Again the bella were But pealing and the cannon booming in New York city they were suddenly stilled for James Monroe fifth President of the United States lay dead la his home on Prince street far from the scenes of bis youth In the hills of and far from his beold Virginia loved home “Ash Lawn” neaf Charlottesville It was from the Univerthere that he had sity of Virginia marched away as a young lieutenant to win the approval of his fellow Viron revoginian George Washington And when at lutionary battle fields last he had retired from a long and distinguished public career as an ambassador to foreign lands as a member of two President's cabinets and he had finally as President himself come back to Ash Lawn to spend his to be forced by declining years only to sell It and make his home at debt last la New York city Fifty years later It was the Fourth of July 1881 In a darkened room In the White Ilouse James A Garfield President of the United States lay stricken by the bullet of an assassin Two days previously on July 2 while he was standing In the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station Charles J Gulteau a disappointed office seeker whose diseased brain was responsible for his terrible act had shot down the President For several weeks Garfield lingered between life and death until It waa thought best to move him to Elberon Long Branch N J where It was felt that he might regain strength more rapidly At first the change seemed to benefit the t but bis strength had been so sapped by the prolonged Illness that the end came at last on September 19 1881 But July 4 has not always been a day of deaths for Presidents On July A 1872 there was born in a farm house near Plymouth Vermont a boy destined for occupancy of the Whlti Howe Calvin CooUdge was his na A fete a UTAII Intermountain News —Briefly Told by Busy Apostle of Liberty Readers VACATION AT SMKL1EK LEW BOYS PLAN TRIP H Y CROP SHORTAGE POLICE BROADCAST PESTS WILL FIGIIT BRYUM UT— A drive has been and atarteil against grasshoppers pests A camother crop eating thistle ia paign against Canada being planned UT— The Lehl LEI1 chapter of the future farmers of America for Its plans jo now completing vacation summer trip through Yellowstone National park will is make It stated boys Twenty the trip N'EPHI UT— The war to eliminate noxious weeds In Junb county will be continued during the summer UT — Beaver BEAVER valley will be short thousands of tons of hsy this farming season on account waters of shoitage of irrigation The greuter part of the hay is grown on the bench lands and watered by high water No water has been available this year for this land Early in the season heavy rains would huve saved the crop hut as very little moisture has fallen the lucerne has not even started growth ami the ground is baked LAKE UT— The CITY SALT Suit Lake police department filed with the federal radio application commission to Install a police radio station In police headbroadcasting quarters here The proposed station for which funds have not yet been appropriated by the city comwill be similar to radio mission systems operating In large eastern cities police authorities said The unit would be operated on short ware lengths MURRAY UT — Lead smelters of the American Smelting and Refining company here and East Helena Mont will be closed down for the summer months of July August and September TWIN FALLS IDA— H Harp who will be 103 years of uge July has the distinction of being 20th the oldest member of the G A R in attendance at the state G A R in this city encampment UT— The SALT LAKE CITY Btute building commission called for bids to be opened June 30 on the of the physical science remodeling building at the University of Utah of plans for remodeling approved the administration building of the state industrial school plans for a menlaundry building at the state and plans for the contal hospltul struction of a state armory building at Richfield — The Idaho potato IDA BOISE dealers association asked the Interstate commerce commission to revise freight rates on potatoes from Idaho and the Greeley district of Colorado The Idaho organization claims that the rates from Idaho Falls Twin Falls and Caldwell districts of Idaho and the Greeley district In Colorado are too high The rates to all parts of the United States are 27 per cent of first class rates SALT LAKE CITY UT— Total real estate valuations as made by the county assessors of Utah decreased from $239812400 In 1921 to $189208799 a cut of 2107 per cent Valuations on Improvements showed an Increase from $121540-08to $149000708 an Increase of 2313 per cent Livestock valuations decreased from $23547200 to $22408000 a decrease of 483 per cent SPRINGV1LLE UT— Due to late frosts the cherry orop In tlda vicinity will tie considerably below normal this season growers report reduced the harvest force being in some of the nearly larger orchards BOISE IDA — The proposed reservoir in Swan valley will furnish Irrigation wuter sufficient for acres of land The cost of construction has been estimated at six million dollars to close UT —Decision dance balls in Ttah county at midnight with the exception of July S eve Year’ mnde was at and New a meeting of mayors and peace officers of Utah county UT — GrasshopMONT1CELLO in such vast pers have arrived hordes that they promise to be a real menace to berries and the smaller crops UT— Utah FORK AMERICAN State Woolgrowers Assn will hold its summer meeting here July 21 Aa “Eat More Lamb” project will be launched It Is announced BOISE IDA— The game warden Is authorized by board of examinof feasibility ers to investigate lanncbing an extensive building program to provide rearing ponds that will permit holding trout until they are yearlings before planting PROVO OGDEN UT— The epidemic outburst of mountain pine beetle w hicb threatened the entire forest stand In the Black Fork district of Summit county Is now well In hand and with the treatment of about $00 more trees should be under rontroL This Is the report of A G of the Wasatch supervisor Nord National forest Some 16 men are now engaged In burning the afflicted trees to destroy the beetle larvae before it takes wing and infests other trees Over 2000 trees baTe been burned JEFFERSON AND PATRIOT STATESMAN The nation celebrates ths birthday of the goddess who holds the torch that lights freedom’s way Her flame still burns Though wars have dimmed its rays and sorrows shaken her uplifted arm and veiled ths land in shadow from her sight her hope lives on May her pure light yet shine through all the earth! Tomb of Thomas Jefferson Third President of the Uniteu States He Was Born April 13 1743 and Died July 4 1826 the Same Day as John Adams His Presidential Predecessor Jefferson and Time’s Change Thomas Jefferson was distinguished among his contemporaries for an uncanny capacity to plumb the future Times without number the foresight of Jefferson enabled him to predict the course of history And yet it Is doubtful If even his prophetic vision could have ennbled him to imagine the offspring of the national government In the creation of which he played so large a part A sturdy Individualism was the Ideal of Jefferson IIis beliefs and those of his party were the doctrines of agriculturists and partlcularlsts devoted to their own localities their own states and their individual rights and liberties The power of the state In any form was a thing of evil and to be resisted “That country Is governed best which is governed least” aptly summarized their code Out of such sentiments there emerged the foundations of the national character Men felt that “the law swept around each citizen a wide circle of Individual Into which no rights government state or federal could Intrude except at its political philosophers but one of America’s most practical and successful statesmen It is seldom In the history of mea or nations that the same lofty Idealism Is combined with the sound realism he brought to bear In the consideration of government affairs When modem statesmanship focuses upon economic problems the Intellect and Ideals that Jefferson directed to the solution of political difficulties the "rights of men” will acquire a new meaning and Industrial society achieve a form more hospitable to human happiness and progress than it has In the past — St Paul Pioneer Press ! Monmouth f Record of Victory That Inspired Patriots of the Revolution peril” Feared Centralization Such was the political faith of a rural In Its habits and country thought Jefferson mistrusted large centers of population and esteemed a farmers society composed of planters and small traders as the bulwark of republican government Jefferson may have foreseen that the Colonies could not forever remain essentially agricultural in Industry or But It Is doubtful If he Or society the others who labored with him Imagined that Industry would ever so largely predominate the Interests of the United States To cope with this condition the functions of the state have been multiplied and rights and liberties of the Individual citizen have been successively narrowed to conform to a new condition of society These changes the Incidence of which has been confined largely to the years after the Civil war have so altered American government as to make It hardly recognizable as the same fabric that waa once so frequently and plainly marked by Jeffersonian Individualism and opposition to centralized authority The difficulties of unemployment and depression multiplied la our large centers of population and peculiar to an Industrialized community confirm Jefferson's apprehensions as to the evils of urban society But however the transformation from a rural to an instate may be deplored dustrial Its are not to be solved by reproblems The change gretting their existence has been inevitable and the colonies of the Atlantic coast with their thirteen million people could not have been expanded Into a nation stretching across the continent and populated by one hundred and twenty millions without abandoning the social structure of an agricultural community Justified Philosophy And tremendous as the revolution has been it by no means has outlawed the political philosophy of the Sage of Montlcello There la need today as there was In 1776 for men who esteem the sovereignty of the people freedom of thought and speech local self rule and economy In government And If time has altered the social structure he believed In It has confirmed his lassion for human liberty his faith In lemocratlc principles his program of lational expansion and has proved him not only one of the world’s greatest j Monmouth county In New Jersej In 1928 the 150th annlver celebrated Thli sary of the Battle of Monmouth severe and critical engagement of th was Revolution In a pag ennt which showed how the fight wai waged from Monmouth Courthouse t Old Tennent and also the heroU part played that day by Molly Pitcher writes May W Mount In the New York Times The victory of Monmouth strength ened the morale of the army won by their winter at Valley Forge and the Colonies in encouraged tbeli It made their commander is struggle chief more heroic than ever aa they pictured him constantly exposed to fire rallying bis troops In dead wounded and missing ths British lost 8C2 and the Americans 860 Included among these were four British and eight American officers British and many Americana died of fatigue and sunstroke The banks of Molly Pitcher's brook were strewn with dead and wounded soldiers who had dragged themselves to the water The British dead and not a few of the Americans were burled on the field At some period after the War of the Revolution the village of Monmouth Courthouse changed Its name to Freehold But the old Scotch settlement whose first church was the Scots’ meeting house at Topanemus (now In the borders of Freehold) centered about the courthouse and all roada led to Its sq’sara |