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Show Socialist Column Conducted by members of the Manti Local. The "glorious Fourth" will soon be here. Like the time-honored Santa Clans, it comes around once a year to gladden the hearts of Uncle Sam's children. It is a day-well day-well adapted to give rise to various emotions in the mind of every thoughtful citizen, a day for pleasure pleas-ure and merry-making as well as for solemn reflections. Says the poet: .. ... . We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time; In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime. Our nation is making history fast. Old issues are being put aside and forgotten ; old institutions institu-tions are crumbling and going to pieces to give room for new and better ones, but the Declaration of Independence stands like a monument monu-ment to the names of its framers, a monument reared for immortality, immortali-ty, if the work of man may aspire to such a title. We may take it for granted that the advent of great men upon the world's stage is not by accident, but by design ; and must be attri- men will come forth in the hour of need. Necessity will bring them; in fact, they are already here, and their mission is to tell us that the day of humanity is at hand, and wake us up that we may witness the glory of its dawn. And thanks be to Providence, we may rest assured as-sured that amidst the turmoil of revolution and the conflict of nations, na-tions, the lips of the messenger of the people's power shall not be closed in silence until the last victory vic-tory is won for Liberty and for Man. When the truths of the new gospel of peace shall have found a lodging in the hearts of mankind, we may expect to see their ideas broadening and their patriotism expanding, until the latter shall become absorbed and swallowed up in the sentiment of universal brotherhood; bro-therhood; that sentiment which transcends the boundaries of nations na-tions and removes the barriers that separate peoples, to publish peace on earth and good will to all men. And in this connection we may recall the immortal words of Thomas Paine: "The world is my country, and to do good is my religion. CP. buted to that divine power which holds the key to the destiny of men and nations. It was said of the founders of this government, and Thomas Jefferson especially, that they loved liberty even to idolatry, and scarcely anything short of that could accomplish the object before them. They planted the seed of the new thought in the hearts of the people and gave the best of their lives to its growth. Question Ques-tion : What will the harvest be? More than a century has elapsed since the original Independence day, during which time many new emergencies have arisen, and today we are confronted with political problems fully as grave as those with which our forefathers were compelled to grapple a. hundred years ago. Clouds are gathering thick upon our horizon, and before many years we may expect to see a political cyclone sweep over our land; and what aspect the country shall present when the dust and smoke have cleared away no man can tell. Do we need a new Declaration of Independence? No, the old one is perfectly good, it serves every purpose, its truths have not diminished dimin-ished nor grown dim with age. What this nation needs is MEX. Men like Patrick Henry and Thomas Tho-mas Paine, to arouse us from our almost criminal carelessness and kindle anew the fire of '76. Such |