Show 0 1 J I r Jfl Lr r 1t t 7 r nF rA111r + ti I L l r l BL 11Y 1 I rl t i a I r Ili IiT r I 1 Ill tl G 1 I r1 I yr ti I di e rr J I I J 1 I r 1t l 1 s l I I I I t l I P 1f If2 tiff c II Ill w x I I r 1 4 ll 1 t5 + 1 1 I11 r y r f t rs r I Ill r r I I cN ti r I I I t 1 < UI CLE SAMS MOST rj1fjfl fJflj0 I Prosperity H1a5 Advanced Wearing TenLeague Boots While the World Looked on j and WonderedA Look Backward and a Few PredictionsOur Commerce > i tl t > Reaching Out to Capture the Earth and Our Ships r I FV I J to Own the Sea HIS VANS > OFFICE j o Z < > ChL ji r of Jesus Christ r sr Latterday 8aintslI New York Juno 27Time that great healer of pounds has softened tho sting oC tho many acts < of injustice that arc enumerated In the document prepared by the Continental l Congress at Philadelphia Phila-delphia July 1 177G and known to every American school boy as the Decimation Dec-imation of Independence The marvelous mar-velous prosperity of the United States and the fact that the people of this country are so certain of themselves as to entertain no Jealousy of other nations have combined lo deaden the Gense of resentment of tyrannous acts under which Americans once smarted But lest we forget It Is well that a retrospective glance be taken once a year at to the benefits that the people have received at the hands of that supreme judge of the world to whom the signers of the Declaration of Independence Inde-pendence appealed for the rectitude of their Intentions At the time of George Ilf described by Thackeray as a splendid suit of clothes with nothing inside them America was overrun with armed I troops who dominated the country and against whom there was no possibility of redress for any complaints against the prime favorites of the monarch were lightly treated When the straightshooting farmers of colonial days swept this horde of Hessians an 1 Billlsh from the land and began to lay the foundation for the present wonderful won-derful condltio of prosperity there were many voices raised to point out dangers rocks and pitfalls and to predict pre-dict that the new craft would speedily founder In the unknown and untried sea on which it was trimming its sails for a Voyage Great Britain baffled and beaten predicted that in a few years the colonies would be pleading to be allowed to come under the flag again The Old World nations looked with sympathetic eyes on the new na V lion but could not find much cause for encouragement In the signs of the times To any but Americans born with the Indomitable spirit that knows no such word as Impossible It might well have looked a hopeless tasty to build up such n structure ay that whlcji Is now the wonder anent of the world But the day of oppression and tyranny tyr-anny was over The irrevocable dec laiatlon had passed Into history that these United Colonies are and of right I ought to be free and Independent States that they are absolved front all allegiance to lhr Biltlsh crown and that all pqllllcal connection between them nnd the state of Great Britain Brit-ain Is and ought to bo totally I dissolved and that as free and Independent States they have full paver I pav-er to levy war conclude peace 1 contract con-tract aHialces establish commerce and I to do all other acts and things whloh independent States may of light do Thenceforth It remained only for the emancipated people to stand firmly together to-gether for the right and the power that had given them freedom would bring them prosperity I What a marvelous story of successful success-ful energy and thrIft the history or the Uylted States has been since then Again at war with the Billlsh torn by Internal dissensions that threatened to I undo all the work of American patriotism patriot-Ism with Jealous rivals watching for opportunities to assist In the dismemberment I dismem-berment of a country that began lire firmly united In the face of diflleultlSg and dangers that might well appall j people less sine of themselves the United States have gone from Indcv penitence to substantial success and I then on to ablebodied prosperity and In due time to wealth that the sturdy I pic necrs of the fortunes of this country coun-try never dreamed of In their wildcat moments of Imaginativeness r i Tine the merchant marina of the I country Is not what it once was but there are signs of an awakening In this I Important direction and those who look with a prophetic eye on the future are confident that In a few years the Stars tend Stripes will have regained their 1 I former proud position on tho seas of commerce The sound of the steam hammer and the glow of the blast furnace fur-nace aie heard and item In all the Shipyards Ship-yards of the country the need of establishing es-tablishing American ship lints to carry the immense and cveigrowing exports of the United States Is Delnif forced homo on our capitalists and thft air vi 1 > orates with Projects for founding w yards and nov lines whose Vessels will iy Old GJory Soon the flag will bi seen In every foreign port of impoitiucy and will be as familial to the natlonn anvi peoples of the world an the lap of Great BritaIn mistress of the seas has been for so long In fact it will be well for that same Mistress of the Seas to look to her maritime laurels for the cxtrabrdlndry way in which the products 01 this coqn tiy arc being sought by the nations of the world Russia China Japan Gcv mnny France and even England herself her-self makes It certain that a Fast fleet of ships must In the ordinary course of things spring up before long to carry our commerce 19 Its destination The reproach that the American Nation must depend upon foreign carriers to dellve the goods that she sella abroad is one under which the Nation Jias lived for many years but the Indications are that the humiliation seeing the Immense Im-mense prollls of the carrying trade of this country go Into the pockets of foreigners will not much longer be Suffered suf-fered by the Nation Tit fact that foreign labor has been able to reduce Ithe profits of this carrying trade to a figure with which American capital has not cared to compete has long enough kept J the flag from the seas American patriotism Is coming to the rescUe of I American prIde and the ship yards are resounding with the activity of the builders When the merchant marine Is what It should be there will be no lack of l protection pro-tection for IL The magnificent shlpq I that ate built and building American from keel to topmast guns armor and ammunition and which astonished the world In the recent war with Spain are aheady a fleet ol which we feel proud When the new ships la course construction arc added and the vessels ves-sels that are planned by the department are finished and In commission tho sight of the whlto fleets of the United States will be one to excite admiration I a wherever naval men gather They will not be show ships either Ameilcan warships are built for business as our 1 enemies have found out in more than tone t-one great war I i I retrospective glance would show t A t that the progress made by this country i Is not aptly described by the term W steady It has been phenomenally < j swift and steady withal The resources of the country are so enormous that the people can no longer consumo their own products Foreign markets are an absolute necessity In order that the jf great overproduction of tho United I 1 r States may find an outlet Without K tho markets of the Orient and of Europe > Eu-rope In which our products find favor < It the factories of the country must be < t 4 overstocked with vast quantities of ivlr goods that would simply rot In storage > r f for the activity and wonderful energy TJ of the American people has outstripped tr the consuming power of even this rapid rr lygiowing 1 population ofgencrousllv > Ing people We have not only the means of feeding clothing and supplying v supply-Ing ourselves wlCh everything In the line of necessaries but we arc able to Y i r send a ready answer to the plea of the Old Vorld that we furnish them with i1i food and machinery r Tho tourist In France Russia Germany I Ger-many Japan China and even conscr vatlve England may ilde In a train L i drawn by an engine that looks so far jd as pattern and general appearance go x f exactly the same as any other locomo live in that country but the chances are that It was made In an American workshop It Is also extremely probable ij proba-ble that the steel lllLlls I along which the train moves wore made of metal t rr mIned In America and beaten into r shape In an American workshop The < J bread tho tourist eats will probably I V have been made from American flour and the beef he consumes with so much relish may be the product of the r i Western packinghouses of this re fi I markable country f1 I These facts will be brought out In I many patriotic orations today and 1 from the small boy who squibs off a firecracker to the President who dig SJ nlfledly assists In the celebration of > t the day the air will breathe peace and I prosperity It is well to remember A amid the rejoicing that the wonderful r J ftir energy and original genius of the peo rffi pie of this country has helped forward t the wave of success that the patriotic r and master minds of 177C started on Its Y I successful career So hurrah for them and far us and ourselves every on this glorious Fourth d E trX I I I 4 J f t t 1 t r i s I I 4 II I I i f s I t Il I yY y I f I I I 1 1 t r I I j I I I l I t I rr llr i 1 1l y I I r I I tf F I r t II l p c > n t I J I rvi 1 1111 y rdt t r 1 t tl I ut 1 t1 r I 111 T r I r t K r g r I r 1 1 4 i y Ci C i |